I sometimes hid the Frosted Flakes from Daddy at the back of the very top shelf. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In haste, I slid them out and attempted to place them on the shelves with the others, all but scorching my hand. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Teresa was leaning against a stack of shelves, reading a single sheet of paper. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Books on shelves that rose to the high ceiling, books in stacks on the floor, books holding up a potted violet in desperate need of water. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I were home already or at the bookstore rearranging the shelves, anywhere but here, next to Phil and this painful reminder of everything that I can’t have. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She opened the door of her locker and pointed to the row of boxes and labelled phials on the upper shelf. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dove went to the shelves where the crucibles for melting silver were kept. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They finished, left the cans on a shelf, and took a few books to the circulation desk. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Gilly nearly tripped over herself, leaping down and grabbing up “Sarsaparilla to Sorcery” from the chair seat, stretching her guts out to tip the book into its place on the shelf. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Half of the vials on the shelf are labeled with the three-lined X: T. Filoviridae Virus Mutations. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t used to seeing him look so small now, reaching with his fingertips for the book at the far edge of the shelf. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He lights a candle he found near the register, and the light flickers across his face as he carries it from shelf to shelf and trails his fingers along the spines of the books. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even things I had completely forgotten—the lamp on my small desk, the way the middle shelf of my bookcase sagged—suddenly came back into clear focus. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She reached up and put the blue jar on the top shelf. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He put his face close, looking intently at this shelf and that, from top to bottom. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were books on the tables too, and there were shelves filled not with pans and dishes, but with books. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could you please reach two tins of milk from that shelf there?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The store is a small single room with floor-to-ceiling shelves, each overflowing with books. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed the bag back as far as she could on the highest shelf in the closet, behind the towels and a humidifier. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Books lined the three shelves in descending height order, flanked by a gold-framed photo on either side. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Up a few steps and along the back wall is a wood-paneled bar with tuxedoed bartenders and hundreds of bottles lined up on shelves in front of a smoky mirror. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Its first and second shelves were filled with tomes, scrolls, and other unremarkable documents, but she stopped when she reached the bottom one. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

From my window I saw the books pulled from my father’s shelves. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They lay in rolls on the top shelf. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Alex went over to the shelf that the librarian had shown him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And there was no way that he was going to just dump the textbooks on the wrong shelf. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She bathed her face and washed out the sink and put the mustard back on the shelf. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of nurses jumped up, and I had a confused impression of shelves and medicine cabinets. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And I've found some good books on Dad's shelves—Richard Feynman especially. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands, with long tapered fingers and wide nails, grasped pots and cooking spoons from shelves above the stove and placed them soundlessly on the glowing hot-plate burner. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The books were already stacked on shelves for the summer. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was small, with shelves fixed above a dark wood desk and a floral-patterned armchair in one corner. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I blinked, disoriented and scared, but I managed to tumble off of my shelf. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the first night of our trek in the hamlet of Phakding, a collection of a half dozen homes and lodges crowded onto a shelf of level ground on a slope above the river. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Finally his father took from the shelf a flat oak slab, bigger than any of the pans or dishes, and put it on the table. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His white-walled room was bare except for a bed with a gray blanket, a toilet without a cover, a shelf for clothes, a cement table, and a barred window facing onto the center group area. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Soon, food labeled as mine fills two of the three shelves. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then there was Mirabelle’s playroom, a whole enormous bedroom devoted to her toys: wooden blocks in all colors of the rainbow, a rocking elephant made from velvet, an entire shelf of dolls. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she pours a little something from a bottle on the shelf and dabs that on my lip. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Gladys's gaze wandered around the room, taking in the clutter of new toys before alighting fondly on the shelf. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He has dictionaries of several kinds on the top shelf to the left of the fireplace. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back to the wires, counted them, corrected the inventory slip, initialed it, and moved down to the next shelf. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are lined with shelves of photos, awards, medals, and other things. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the blue vase, on the shelf in the bedroom, is a key. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By dawn the luggage was gone from his shelves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the chair Hugo had been sitting on, stood on it, and checked the top shelves, but still found nothing. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I pause in front of a shelf, frowning, and kneel down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, no one would notice we’d bought the off-brand sodas and chips, no dip, and liquor so bottom shelf it was practically on the floor. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was better than straightening shelves because I got to use the sticker gun. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Molly thinks back to that moment: pulling each copy of the novel off the shelf, turning them over in her hands, returning the hardcover and the newer paperback, tucking the other one under her shirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Books balanced precariously on top of shelves, and there was a tall stack with bright, frayed covers next to her desk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s an inch thick, double-spaced, and starting to look like something that can sit on a shelf. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Vries has walked to one of those shelves and is looking back at me with irritation, waiting for me to help her push it aside. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as she was gone I pushed a chair over to the stack of shelves, hopped up, and opened the jar. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass bottles of vinegar and hot sauce that my mom kept on the shelves inside the refrigerator door rattled. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

Likewise, he smeared dust off the half-empty ammo shelf, unconsciously slapping his palm on his pants to clean it, then shook his head. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On narrow shelves made of wood, hundreds of naked men and boys lay chained together, wrists, necks, and legs held tightly by iron shackles. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bartender pretended to be looking for something on his shelves. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light had become the putrid green of necrosis, reflected in the bottles of amber tinctures cluttering the shelves. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week the mantel had still not been dusted; it had, however, come to serve as the display shelf for a sizable collection of Christian paraphernalia. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, she got so mad at me for bouncing around she threw everything out of the refrigerator and yanked out the shelves and flung them across the floor. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The books held their same places on the shelves. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lingered before the open doors, staring at the shelves of food. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“That Yossarian,” the two officers laughed, shaking their heads, and got another ball from the box on the shelf. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s play,” he said, sliding his chair back from the table and reaching for a deck of cards on the shelf behind him. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be in some sort of storage room, with shelves along all the walls and straps or chain-link doors to keep everything in place. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Hermione took out a list of subjects and titles she had decided to search while Ron strode off down a row of books and started pulling them off the shelves at random. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Like spokes on a wheel, rows and rows of wooden shelves surround me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cecilia’s enthusiasm, for example, seemed a little overstated, tainted with condescension perhaps, and intrusive too; her big sister wanted each bound story catalogued and placed on the library shelves, between Rabindranath Tagore and Quintus Tertullian. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Eight library carts—three tiers of slanted shelves on wheels—were lined up in front of the door to the 000s room. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I bought one a week from the bookstore near Cinema Park, and stored them in cardboard boxes when I ran out of shelf room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

High up, almost level with the tops of forest-trees, there was a shelf under a cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I pluck one of the novels from the shelf and fan its yellowed pages open. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A paintbrush and a can splattered with red paint sat on a shelf. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lorren went to one of the shelves and pulled out a small book. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Good,” I say, knocking a few things off his shelves. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Beyond the first crypt they found a passage lined with stone shelves. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I found the book on the shelf in the living room and carried it upstairs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

All along one side of it were shelves full of colored prints and calicos. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bottles were lined up on the same shelves in the hospital; the pumpkins were heaped in the corner of the cookhouse where they belonged. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The patched and ragged Sorting Hat was standing on a shelf. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She hoots like a monkey and pulls me back onto a shelf in the tub. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But Mami was one to always notice the stain on one's placemat at the table or the bruise accidentally punched on a little cousin's arm or the empty space on the bedroom toy shelf. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He turns to his lowest shelf and grabs two trays, tilting them forward to reveal their contents. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting on my hands in her cramped, sweltering office that has shelves covering every wall, each stuffed with piles of books and loose papers looking ready to whip around the room in a windstorm. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It still sat under the shelf near the window, facing the back of the library across the street. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Amaze me!” cried Mr. Lemoncello as he dashed toward the towering fiction bookshelves and disappeared through another secret door that whooshed sideways in the shelves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I brace my feet on the rug, sliding the shelf over. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The pine shelves smelled sweet and clean, like they were fresh cut, and were filled with bottles and jars of roots and dried flowers. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I turn away from the soldiers long enough to see the doctor pointing at the top shelf in the fridge. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He put the magazines and journals on his shelves; he put the newspaper articles in a drawer and Parslow or the children glued them into leather-bound albums when they had the time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught my breath then quickly got the tube patch kit from the shelf and went up to the cash register. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter are cigarettes and shelves of beer and wine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He walks along the shelves on the right side of the room, running his fingers over the book spines. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A large shelf took up most of the wall, with various trophies, championship plates, and photos enshrined behind glass. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I took the books off to the library and found room for them on the shelves. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of them locked herself in the pantry-storeroom, where she had cleared off a shelf for a desk among the food. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That baseball book was the first cover on the second shelf in the display case and had given Charles a card with the classic pose of an umpire calling an out. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Above the shelf hung a number of paintings. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I braced a hand on the shelf to keep from doubling over. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The books sit crooked on shelves, like rows of neglected teeth. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A shelf held an African sculpture of a human hand holding an egg on the tips of its fingers, as if the egg contained something interesting about to hatch. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a decent-sized room, with a row of shelves along one wall holding different cleaning supplies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I ran my hands over the books on my shelf, looking with pride at the dioramas I’d made of scenes from my favorite stories. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Justin surveys the row of hats lined up on my closet shelf. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of magazines on the very edge of the shelf, just above the fire. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Director clears his throat and takes a step away from us, into the shadow of a large shelf of supplies. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I pull out a book from Chantal’s shelf to read—something about a brown girl who wants blue eyes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Turner looked up and down the shelves of his father’s study—the first room in the house that had been readied. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Grandpa reached up on the shelf back of him, but the comb box was empty. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I swept the whole store and then dusted some of the shelves. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She climbs the ladder and restores the heavy Audubon volumes to their shelf one at a time, as though putting away something irritating. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m just checking for hidden shelves. This building could be filled with secrets we haven’t even imagined, you know?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Where there was a morsel of food on a shelf, there was someone standing in front of it, often with a club in his hand. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

That night I stopped in a liquor store and bought a half gallon of the cheapest rotgut on the shelf, just as Dad had requested, then took a taxi down to the Lower East Side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d counted that morning, and memorized where they were—tall square cases made of dark wood, with glass sides and fronts and velvet-covered shelves, made for displaying valuable objects of porcelain or ivory or gold. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But our end held only rows of cages on shelves, each cage with a tag on it, and each separated from its neighbors by wooden partitions on both sides. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But Natalie would never see that picture, because it was tucked away in a shoebox on the very top shelf of Chess’s closet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the drugstore, he was behind the counter, placing cigarettes on the shelf. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It looks like a regular store— shelves of DVDs and old VHS tapes and a rack of magazines, all under this harsh fluorescent glow. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Before I could ask for another she put the jar up on the top shelf. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bunks weren’t beds but shelves, stacked three tall on top of one another, and they stuffed us in again as they had on the trains. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I tiptoed back to where I’d found the tin and put it on the shelf again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I glanced behind him and noticed a bottle of amber liquid tucked up on a shelf. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He pushed his glasses up to his forehead again and reached for a book on the shelf in back of him. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses were stacked on the pantry shelves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look closer—what I took to be closet shelves are just the front layer of a complex construction. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sprang forward into the sea of empty metal shelves, half of which were knocked flat on their backs or leaning against others in slanted lines, their shelves buckling under some invisible weight. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And so it was that in the first week of March, Lexie found herself in the drugstore, contemplating the shelf of pregnancy tests. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I walked up and down the shelves, staring at book titles until my eyes blurred. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Stalls were arranged along aisles, the merchandise on deep shelves that slanted down. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

With fumbling hands, the old man lit a candle and carried it to the workroom beneath the rookery stair, where his ointments, potions, and medicines stood neatly on their shelves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And do you know which of her thousands of shelves that bookmad woman put it on?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After I glued both wings on, the plane got too big to stick back in its box, so I had to hide it under a pillowcase on the top shelf in my closet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The pigeon hit a shelf with a loud smack and slumped to the floor. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He scanned the shelves and headed to his right. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I face him, a shelf stacked with paper at my back. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael left his kerosene and his camera there on the shelf above his coat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of them are as large as bricks, but each one gets progressively smaller and lighter, until I finally see the first edition of the official glasses propped up at the end of the shelves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The walls of both rooms were lined with shelves, and on most of the shelves were hundreds of packets of pages. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can set panels on the shelves and lean them against the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughters would giggle over the odd doodles they found in kitchen drawers or on the back shelf of the downstairs toilet. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Holding the green marker, I look between David waiting in my doorway and Kristi choosing a CD from my shelf. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves were stuffed with books of all sizes, shapes, and colors. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She pulled all three books off the shelf, weighed them in her hand. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The other boys were already engaged making shelves of their small hands and peering under them toward the seven-foot stone banks of the canal, watching for Martians. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rubbing his eyes, Matt saw Maria’s present on a shelf, and the birthday party came back with hideous clearness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tradesmen simply lowered their shutters onto the streets, making a kind of shelf from which they marketed their goods. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bull turned his attention toward the closet, inspecting the arrangement of shoes, the hanging clothes, and the shelves. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing beside a steaming pot on a grimy black stove, and was fiddling around with the shelf of squalid-looking pots and pans above it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The books on the shelf all look old and smell kind of musty. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he finished, he tucked the notepad with the address onto a shelf under the counter and turned to Emily and James. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She pulled a slim book off a shelf at random. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she turns on the light, the first thing to greet me are the shelves and shelves of books and more books. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere over there,” said Ron, pointing along the shelves. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Everything from silk robes to chopsticks to packages of hand laundry littered the shelves and chairs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls one book off the shelf and hands it to me. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Newton crossed the room and took down a copy of the bylaws from a shelf. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I set the box on the shelf by the window and opened it up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There’s a shelf of glasses along a wall and I grab one, twisting the handle above the spigot. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I’d like something on the top shelf. Maybe right under the hologram statue of that guy hanging out with the Cat in the Hat.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

So he went to the wife store, where endless women lined enormous shelves. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We have a boy who is thirteen today,” a man on my shelf said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was at the end of the aisle, pretending to look at bunion pads to hide myself behind the corner shelf unit, but I saw that the bandage on her cheek was not small. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In the close darkness of the Honeycomb, Hazel pushed past three or four of his rabbits crouching among the tree roots and reached the higher shelf where Speedwell lay listening for sounds from above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, Mr. Full of Marbles, give me a hand here. Can you reach that top shelf?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Toby jumped up and grabbed Thoth down off the shelf and dusted him off. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We put the books back on his shelves and pick up some little trinkets off the floor. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I pull A Wizard of Earthsea back off the shelf and cradle it in my hands. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou found the pictures of her mother in an old shoe box on the high shelf. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of her was even more whiteness, a ring of it, and in the center a low shelf of land almost hidden in the glare of sunlight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she was gone, I would sweep and clean up and even arrange some of Otis’s shelves, because he did not have an eye for arranging things and I did. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each holiday meant taking all the dishes down from the shelves, even the ones we never used, and carefully washing and drying them, as well as the windows of the dish cabinet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Above her head is her one box on a shelf. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I choose a book off the shelf about a raccoon named Bingo. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She spotted Brandon sitting against a shelf with his knees pressed up to his chest. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was empty until he started packing shelf after shelf. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A trunk tumbled off a shelf and hit the scar-faced man on the head. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled Breaking the Maya Code off the shelf and handed it to James, then gestured for them to follow him back up to the front of the store. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One of them mimed reaching up high, as though to grope for something on a shelf, and his companion laughed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They constructed rickety shelves from packing crates, and hung their gear from tent poles or stored it in empty cans. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“These are house shoes,” Mama said, handing Ophie a pair made of soft cloth that she took from off a small shelf. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I climbed up on the porch and lifted the bowl off the the shelf. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a collection of math and engineering textbooks on the top shelf of my desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Incense was burning all around the botanica and the shelves were crowded with teas and potions and smaller saints. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

So l was in the cereal aisle trying to slide this box of Corn Puffs out from the shelf with my foot. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Stock is just flying off the shelves at prices so low you won’t believe your feed! Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hesitates—she has to feel that something is going on—then she takes her sculpture off the shelf and sits at the table next to me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head back, looking up at the shelves that stretched toward the ceiling. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the narrow shelf, the magazine I'd noticed earlier, an old issue, from before the war. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She picked up a pebble from the shelf and, with a grin, dropped it into the wagon. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He went to his bunk and put his hat on his shelf. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bottom shelf stood a curly, bone-white conch shell with a delicate rosy interior. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything on the shelves cost much more than fifty-one cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

So just at the right moment, at the top of my swing, I let go with my tail and went soaring clear across the kitchen and made a perfect landing on the middle shelf! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

And did she dig out a whole other part of our basement and build these walls and shelves in that time, too? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He did the same thing with about three other candy bars until he finally just grabbed a random one from the shelf, walked up, and set it on the counter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The books on the shelf rise up in solid lines of singing color, the world drops out, and its hidden shapes snap forward to meet my eyes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even took his .22 rifle down from the shelf, cleaned it, and put it back up before he went. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, he studied the map for a long moment, then replaced the atlas on the shelf. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The light comes on, and I still can’t see very well, but I can tell we’ve stepped into a big room filled with a labyrinth of metal shelves. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Standing on his toes and straining upward, he man-aged to pull & small dusty bottle off the high shelf. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then—though everything starts to blur now in my mind—she lunged away from him into the closet, away from his grabbing hands, scrambling for something high on a shelf. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes took in every shelf, all the glittering bottles and big jars of candy. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flash of something else on one of the shelves caught her eye, and she stopped. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s a hidden storage closet back here,” Minho explained, walking past some shelves into a dark corner. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Every little mauve detail matches, including the house-shaped shelf that holds spare toilet paper. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Not a book in sight, not a single book, not on the shelves or beneath the broken glass of the display cases. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Smith crunched him against a wall, and a shelf of the inmate’s books came tumbling down in the process. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a neat stack of dark bags on the shelf. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used these shelves to file his notes, his notebooks, and pages of books that he tore out. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room had been his father’s when he’d been a boy, but aside from a few books on a shelf, it was clear his grandfather had cleaned all his things out. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She pulls a photo album off my shelf and starts to flip through it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A new small brass oval frame was tucked to one side of Conner’s shelf. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the titles I can’t help but pull off the shelves. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not quite sure you can. You see, that shelf of stone juts out so far and goes down so steeply. Can you manage to reach it?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I bend carefully as I tuck the books into the bottom shelves. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Found it,” said Miguel, reaching up to pull a book off a shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I took the slim book off the shelf and opened the cover. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is a welter of fallen shelves and pots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I sat on the tile and she sat on the shelf behind me like some fairy queen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw’s glance flew to the jigsaw puzzle on the second shelf of the bookcase. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The one that attracts Celia’s attention rests on a table rather than hanging on the wall or sitting on a shelf. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I grabbed up the book and took it back to my room and placed it in its place, alphabetically on my shelf. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelf slammed to a stop two inches in front of Kyle’s feet. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Art supplies sat in organized piles on tall shelves—paint, colored pencils, construction paper, glue, and a myriad of other things he didn’t recognize but couldn’t wait to inspect. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Along one side was a wide shelf of rock, which ran out to the sea through a narrow opening. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dirt was in the baseboard that John scrubbed every Saturday, and roughened the cupboard shelves that held the cracked and gleaming dishes. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” I say, and move on to the next row of products on the shelf. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I brace my legs and pull in the rope as fast as I can, but I am still nearly yanked off the rock shelf by the force of Helene's weight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Chester ended his song and sat on the shelf, looking at Mario. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shelves along the walls, with framed pictures of people Mariam did not recognize. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The guard crossed the room, took a bowl down from a shelf, and used a spoon to dish the rice pudding from the bucket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lola has a shelf of Filipino movies that look the same, but these have blank labels, so I’m not sure what they are. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

One night I asked her about the three dolls on her shelf. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swept a large coffee can from a shelf. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Chairs overturned, a cabinet door hanging from its hinges, the shelves inside dusty and bare. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I save some shelf space for toiletries, since the sink barely has room for a small cup and my toothbrush. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Merchandise still lined the shelves: snow globes, pencils, postcards, and racks of— “Clothes,” Annabeth said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Jumping to her feet, she seized from the shelf the small rough stone and held it in her hand. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There are long aisles and shelves piled high with boxes and cans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Familiar shelves: the ones they’d been so surprised to see that Mom had stocked with cans of food and shoeboxes full of cash. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One day his father takes him to the university library, and shows him, on a shelf well beyond his reach, a row of Gogol spines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few moldering shelves may be its only physical remains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the small device up on a shelf that was about eye level and began to fuss with its buttons, searching for the ON switch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She drove to the bookstore in the Inner Harbor, took down copies of the different women’s magazines from the display shelf, and led the way to the cafe. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I reached up and tapped the stack of textbooks on the locker’s top shelf and they vanished, then reappeared in my avatar’s item inventory. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I can barely get the words out as she re-latches the secret shelf, closes the pantry door, and leads me back to the table. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The steep, red sandstone sides were terraced halfway around into long flat shelves. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had built special shelves and cabinets to hold them all. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Jam tried not to look over at Pet, who was wandering around, looking at the shelves. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Dill watched Lydia as she moved along the shelves, gently dragging her hand behind her along the books, touching each one, as if she were reading the titles with her fingers. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The curved piece supported the shelf underneath, and it was carved beautifully, too. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night as we lay on our shelf, I whispered to him that he had to get better. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I unpacked my nice dresses, hung them in the closet, and placed some shorts and shirts on a shelf. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They knelt before an alcove at the back of the room and contemplated a shelf on which small bowls of uncooked rice had been neatly arranged. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A wealthy family may only further blur the picture by shopping for wine at Costco and bath towels at Target, which for years has stocked its shelves with high-quality goods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Communing with the spirits is a privilege. I have ointment on the top shelf, just behind the baking soda, above the icebox. But I will get it myself.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the back of the store, there’s a whole shelf filled with boxes full of all kinds of toys. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"I don't know. We were under a shelf of rock," I reply. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the walls were lined from the floor to the high ceiling with shelves of books. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He put the can of paint on the ladder's little shelf and raked the brush against the rim. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I glance at the shelves and shrug, feeling awkward. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I go to the supply shelves at the back of the room and select some paints. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The upper shelf was loaded with unlabeled cans of a bewildering variety of sizes and shapes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden partition separating the entryway from the rest of the house, with shelves covered in pictures and candles and phone chargers. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Underneath it says, Mission-style chest with two shelves and one door. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom is always on a diet,” Julia said, pulling a book from the shelf. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The best table Grandma could find was a fairly narrow stone shelf near the mouth of the cave. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I was getting so short of space downstairs with all those shelves, and anyway my grandchildren were always pulling them around.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some of the shelves held the textbooks Mother used for teaching seventh-grade English and for the night classes she took to get her master’s degree. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place had been bought out, the shelves nearly bare. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Each row of shelves held men—human beings—chained like animals and stacked like logs for the fire, row after row, shelf after shelf. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and I move toward and away from the shelves, like hopping bugs, trying to make a buffer of space between us and other shoppers. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I stood on tiptoe and my fingers were barely able to reach the shelf at all. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I rushed to the fridge, and sure enough, there was a big brown box on one of the shelves. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately opposite the door, on a broad wooden shelf—a kind of platform—stood a wire-fronted hutch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the background were the shelves with the shredded books, the rolls of parchment, and the clean and orderly worktable with the ink still fresh in the inkwells. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Although food was scarce, Mama often brought Neewo a little something saved from her own bowl and placed it on the shelf with tobacco. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There he untied his packet, and leaving the loaves scattered on a shelf, broke the seal on the barrel of dried fish, extracted two and put them on an earthen plate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were brown too, beneath a heavy shelf of brow, her cheeks smooth and flushed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The top shelf had a soot-colored blanket on it; the bottom shelf was empty. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I closed the book and slowly slid it back onto the shelf. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I upturned about five shelves: all revealed the charred remains of classic books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holly riffled through the shelf of patterns, leaving me alone to think. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

A pile of cans and jars lay beneath the shelves, all of them dented and squashed and broken, scattered across the floor. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear put the lid of the large box down on the shelf and picked up one of the curved containers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She glanced in the window of the Small Items shop, where Doon’s father was reaching for something on a shelf, and then she dashed up the stairs and knocked on the door of Doon’s apartment. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I throw these books across the room and even kick some of my favorites off their shelves because the line between favorites and books that will never be favorites doesn’t matter anymore. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The stairway walls had peepholes and shelves cut into them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Swinging her legs carefully over the side of the shelf, she eased nerself onto the floor, aware that the bellowing horn had stopped. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think Bluie can sleep on the shelf tonight,” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘I collect them,’ the BFG said, waving an arm towards all the rows and rows of bottles on the shelves. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that April took a very special book off the shelf. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shower of matches fell around the shelf and onto the cement floor. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like a promise, a present someone had shown her, then stowed away on a high closet shelf for later. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There is hardly room for both of us on the shelf, and she grabs my shoulders to anchor herself. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I decided that the miniature turret that I had built in the city room and since moved up here to my bedroom was better off on a higher shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

From under her sleeping shelf, Rivka pulled out a pile of shoes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the year, until the next frost, we took our meals from the smokehouse, the little garden that lay cousin-close to the Store and from the shelves of canned foods. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ranged over a bunch of shelves, and then pulled out three smallish, darkish books. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the shelves were one-pound blocks of butter tightly wrapped in protective paper, and rows of marmalade jars. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of it are just low enough to the ground that it makes a kind of shelf for your butt. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He jumped up and started to dance around the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelves were the books bound in a cardboard-like material, pale, like tanned human skin, and the manuscripts were intact. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The paper bag with the mittens was sitting on the shelf. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She ran her hand along the empty shelves, mumbling, “Nineteen fifty-five was the year where they killed her.... I want them records I know it wasn’t good. ... Why else would they get rid of them?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“At the end of this shelf there’s a big cabinet—they keep the mouse cages in it. It has wire mesh doors. You can climb up and down them like a ladder.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other end of the room boasts the concessions: glass-paneled and red-topped popcorn machines, shelves stacked with boxes of candy, empty plastic cups piled between the cash registers and soda fountains. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finn shoved the box back on the shelf and slapped a bandage on the split eyebrow, which was stubbornly weeping blood. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the Tiffany & Co. box on my top shelf. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Glass jars of green oil— Greek fire—lined one shelf. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But I have kept the book, through many years and many moves, always on a prominent shelf, and have never once held it in my hands without thinking of Volpe and rereading his words. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The laboratory shelves were crammed with scores of bottles, the inspiring—or depressing—results of years of work, depending on your point of view. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mama started at the lowest layer, polishing both the shelf and the figurines. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were shelves upon the walls where loaves of bread and trenchers lay. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we met him at one of his stores he always had a sundry basket of treats for her, trifles from his shelves, bars of dark chocolate, exotic tropical fruits, tissue-wrapped biscotti. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey puts the cork back in the bottle and returns it to its shelf. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She sat up abruptly and just missed smacking her head on the upper shelf. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moms are sitting on the couch, jumping up every few minutes to pull a favorite book off the shelves, laughing and impressing each other with their deep mutual love of literature. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a glass jar on a shelf my mother kept a big brown hand with pointed claws stewing in alcohol and herbs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He placed his goods on shelves that felt right. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So Kyle kept his right hand firmly planted on the right wall of shelves and started inching his way forward. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Above a massive shelf of brow he was bald. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She would show the clerk by the cash register the box when she paid for it, and he would never know she'd taken it off the shelf herself. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He rummaged along the shelves and found a shoebox. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I swept the floors and wrapped parcels and dusted the shelves, and Mrs. Diamant said I was a quick learner. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She fastened her leather sandals over the warm socks and watched as the old woman gathered things from the shelves in the corner. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Where were the knickknacks, the jukebox, the glowing shelf of pies, the deep maroon booths? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I was right behind her, throwing the backpack over my shoulders as I ran past the shelves. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The ironing shelves had been taken down, along with everything else. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm dusting shelves and mopping the tiled floor. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled down the coffins, one by one, from their shelves, and let them clatter onto the ground, shattering the old wood, spilling their contents onto the mausoleum floor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She went over to the shelf and picked up the book. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There was a fire in the fireplace, shelves upon shelves of books, and two side-by-side reading chairs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I checked the tiny writing on the shelf. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From this shelf, Edward could see the whole shop: Lucius Clarke’s workbench and the windows to the outside world and the door that the customers used to enter and leave. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I walked up to the glass display cases and looked over the rows of gum and candy bars laid out on the shelves. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was packed with customers; Harry could not get near the shelves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But when Mia entered, he swiveled around in his chair and swung the typewriter shelf down and under, where it folded into a cabinet in the desk as neatly as if it had been swallowed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For he had taken his petal the next day and secretly substituted it for another among those drying on Min’s shelf. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There is gentle company and books on shelves. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dad built shelves all along the upper walls to store Mom’s art supplies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On our first day, Jimmy spent about five entire minutes pointing to a plastic bank shaped like Fred Flintstone that he had up on a shelf in the back room. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ranofer thrust the scroll onto the shelf and hurried back to his work, filled again with the hope that he had thought almost quenched yesterday. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Miss Susan would wake up, furious, and reach for the whip she kept on a little shelf behind her bed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Me!’ shouted the Giant, his mighty voice making the glass jars rattle on their shelves. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t find any water shoes on the shelves, so my old pair will have to do. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Under the picture of the man with the burning heart there is a shelf with a red glass holding a flickering candle and next to it a small statue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He walks over the new rug that’s still too fluffy and pulls his book from the shelf under the bench that his dad made. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Tumbled shelves of rock often overhung the trail, fringed with hanging icicles that looked like long white teeth from a distance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Boys are always hungry,” she mutters before taking a jar of peanut butter off the shelf. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She props the legs up on a chair and that’s where he stays the rest of the night reading the paper or a book from the shelf above his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She passed the time with a game she had found on a shelf in the attic—a triangular board with fifteen holes and fourteen pegs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“To win this game, your team must be the first to complete four laps of the second-floor balcony without spilling any of the three dozen books stacked on your rolling shelves, no matter the obstacles.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Inside were a bunch of shelves holding cardboard boxes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I put the frame back on the shelf. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The tidy basket, with the bit of work she left unfinished when the needle grew ‘so heavy’, was still on its accustomed shelf. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sit in lab freezers, on shelves, or in industrial vats of liquid nitrogen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a waterfall dropping off a high shelf of rock and falling eighty feet through a gray shroud of mist into the pool below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She gets banished to bras, which is terra incognita for us—huge banks of shelves bearing barely distinguishable bi-coned objects—for a three-hour stretch. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good,” she said, and stomped off among the shelves, searching for pickled eggs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A shelf at the head of her bed was crammed with videotapes of infomercials: for a Jacuzzi, an RV, a trip to Disneyland. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a shelf of children’s videos. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ben’s footsteps drum away in the direction of his shelf full of librex. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Crowds are still getting thicker, and things are vanishing from the shelves at an alarming rate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Clancy went flying back into the shelves, hard enough that there was an audible crack as his head connected with the back wall. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s a relief to be free,” he said, jumping around the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pretty blue vase on the highest shelf. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wall had dropped away, leaving a curved gap with two shelves. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Each shelf was partitioned off into square sections, and in each section rested a skull. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

About six cages down from me, on the same shelf, I saw them put a collar on Jenner; but once he was back in his cage, I could see him no longer. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped to browse through the shelf of role-playing game supplements. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To his left, on a high shelf of rock, crouched an enormous wolf with golden eyes and lolling red tongue. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

All around him were crates and trunks and bags neatly stacked on shelves and lined up on the floor. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

He fixed up the room just the way he wanted it, with wooden shelves built in an alcove. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my script from my nightstand. cast a guilty look at the binder on the shelf, and climbed onto my bed to sit cross-legged. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then he walks over to the shelf, grabs some charcoal. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Once Southside moved to our neighborhood, I’d pass whole afternoons at his house, pulling albums from the shelf at random and putting them on his stereo, each one its own immersing adventure. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson went to the teachers’ room, got his empty lunch bag off the shelf, and went straight from there out the back door of the school to the staff parking lot. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then I take a copy of Feed off the shelves and try to remember where I left off reading, a number of bodies ago. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Behind him he left unlocked the office of the Review—three rooms that had once housed a book and magazine shop and still contained its many wall shelves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She points to the piles of books on the back shelf. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wynn still hadn’t fastened the cabinet doors back on, and all the contents of the shelves were visible. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But sure enough, one night my little brother Johnny, he pulled our Bible off the shelf. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my business transactions happen in the small cubicle located behind a shelf at the far end of the library. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I found some shelf fungus growing on a dead tree and ate it after washing it in the pool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She set it before the picture of the Virgin Mary on the corner altar shelf between vases of pink paper roses. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

A large pyramid-shaped skylight looked down on what seemed to be a training room, its floor emblazoned with the drüskelle wolf s head, the shelves lined with weapons. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she picks up the remote control for the shelf radio, punches it, and the room fills up with graceful music, Mozart or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are shelves beneath the window with stacks of paper bags and small cardboard boxes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was a super position, and I began working my way along the shelf until I was directly above the big empty silver basin they were going to pour the soup into. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The shelves of plumbing equip-ment, and there seem to be acres of them, contain not a single item I can name, which gives me an idea of what it feels like to be aphasic. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know who my opponent is,” Marco says, pulling armfuls of books down from their shelves and spreading them out haphazardly over tables, leaving several in messy piles on the floor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She picked up the A-Z phone book from the shelf and flicked through it with her eyebrows pulled together. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He retrieved a full set of plates and crystal goblets from the shelves and cabinets around the room and carefully set the table. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He reached up to a top shelf and took down a box containing a little bottle of medicine and a spoon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I remember the musty living room, full of those old Christ pictures, prayers woven into tapestries, statuettes of the crucifixion, other religious objects on the mantel, shelves, table tops, walls, everywhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate lunch there, from a can on the shelf, opening it with one of the can openers Mr. Klein had sold for forty-nine cents. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A minute later, I watch as he walks slowly down the aisle examining the shelves. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But just the idea scared me so bad I made up that Papa had told me to build a shelf on the back porch for Mama’s flower-potting stuff. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I look back into the emptiness of the library “They’re hardly jumping off the shelves, now, are they? I don’t think anyone else wants them just now.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of Fang was missing, tipped back, lying flat on top of the safe, dark shelf. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The walls on either side were lined with shelves, and on the shelves there stood row upon row of glass jars. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached up to the top shelf and pulled out the shoe box that held his 9mm Beretta and a few full clips. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I pushed my bladder aside and went straight for the Christmas cactus on a metal shelf with a dozen other plants. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Somewhere along the way, Lazlo had accepted that the answers weren’t here, not in all these tomes on all these great, vast shelves. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"Well, we'd have to change the name of this place," Simeon said, accidentally bumping bags of chips off the shelves behind him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I stand on tiptoe to see what’s on the high shelf. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

No children, no pets, no houseplants, few books on the shelves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I approached the shelf and extended my hand. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were shelves and shelves of them, on every wall from the floor to the ceiling, and separate shelves and shelves of them in the middle of the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I had to smile—she was still the same old Dedd, who stocked the shelves of the family store so neatly I always regretted having to sell anything. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little shelf of books, a magazine on the table, a couple of photographs in frames. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His short flight across the junkyard ended with a bone-shattering crash as the crane deposited the car on the iron shelves of the crusher. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Holly got up and walked around the classroom, pulling books off the shelves and then putting them back again. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I read out the list I’d made, of all the labels on the bottles on Doc’s shelves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those remaining on the shelves collapse, a few volumes falling, but Marco does not seem to notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She reaches to the edge of the spice shelf and unlatches a small hook I hadn’t noticed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Meggie stroked the spines of the books crammed close together on the shelves. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The little shed was lined to the ceiling with shelves full of nuts and bolts, wires, tools, jars filled with shards of glass and broken bits of sheet metal. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Small children and babies perched on every lap available and men leaned on the shelves or on each other. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Craig and I were very young, we pulled a brand-new carton of Newports from a shelf and set about destroying them, snapping them like beans over the kitchen sink. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She looked again through the hanging coats and through the folded sheets and clothes on the lower shelves. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Expensive electronic equipment sat unmolested on the shelves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But at least half of the shelves were empty. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“They are. But if you string together the first or last word of each game title…” He tapped the glass in front of the first box on the bottom shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Since we had no refrigerator, we left the ham on a kitchen shelf. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through the shelf, pushing books this way and that, removing small wooden boxes and grunting when she opened them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The shelf on which the cup reposed was out of reach for any of them, even Ron, who was tallest. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

While he spoke the larger man stood and shot his cuffs, then calmly opened Fujiko’s glass case and picked up the stack of shakuhachi sheet music she kept on the bottom shelf. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Etienne stood on his toes, pulled the book off the shelf, and handed it to Hugo, who sat right where he was and opened it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Behind them were shelves stacked with supplies and goods. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lelia removed the dozen or so shoeboxes of pictures from the top shelves and lined them up between us on the white shag carpet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a bottle for special occasions on the top shelf in the corner,” he said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat sprang up and landed on the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other book on the shelf is Mama Ya-Ya’s Bible. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She felt along the back of the shelf. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The others watched her grab a can of peaches from a shelf and wedge it into the doorway. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She stood in the bathroom and combed her hair, then she padded to the kitchen pantry and pulled out a dime-sized lump of brown sugar from the sack on the shelf. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I set my slightly battered copy of Rhetoric and Logic on the shelf over the desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The shelves along the sandblasted mirror behind the bar were empty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was wandering around between shelves of nuts, bolts, hubcaps, chrome, and heaven knew what else checking other people’s work. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A woman removed two more from a special shelf in the wall of the cave. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Several of them lay thrown off the shelves, open on the floor or the wide dusty tables, and others had been thrust back higgledy-piggledy. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kissed her throat, forcing back her head against the shelves, she pulled his hair and pushed his face down against her breasts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Standing on my tiptoes to reach the top shelf, I feel my apron fall loose, the tie at my waist coming undone. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I prop it up on the shelf next to the mirror. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The shelf faced southward and eastward; but only on the east was the view open. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In front of the picture is a small shelf with a vase full of blue hydrangeas. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He hustled to a shelf and brought down a single sheet of paper. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The shelf above the coatrack was just as crammed as the space below, mostly with old clothes that were full of moth holes and eaten away by mildew. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That shelf always squeaks when the latch is open.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I poked at a shelf crammed with fossils and old bits of bone. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

All the shelves streamed back into their orderly church pew positions. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Back then the shelves had been crowded with colored glass jars, wooden boxes, casks, and bags, all labeled with the spidery handwriting of Mr. Barrett. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By mid-December, Haldar cleared all the unsold merchandise off the shelves of his beauty shop and hauled them in boxes up to the storage room. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She kept this collection on shelves of pale, honey-colored wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Yishan, standing on a storage box, was already sweeping the bowls and cups off the shelves above the gang, letting them smash to pieces on the floor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the lowest shelf, at least, purification straws are stacked neatly. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Alex ducked behind a shelf as two technicians walked past, talking together. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He reaches for his brother's novels, pulls them from the shelf. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once he came down to the library while Francis and I were playing cards, but he refused our invitation to join in and poked listlessly through the shelves, finally meandering upstairs without choosing a book. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He pulled another comic book off his shelf and started leafing through it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then, as if something were not quite right, she removed the cans from one shelf and switched them with the cans on another. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I was fast asleep on my shelf, slotted in with all the other prisoners in my barrack, when shouts startled me out of my sleep. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine wrestled a massive photo album down from a shelf and set it before me on the desk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, just someone to log inventory and keep the storeroom and display shelves clean and organized.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Stretching away into the darkness were shelf on shelf of books. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I decide to walk the aisles instead, but they’re too narrow, and I keep knocking things off the shelves. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile my gaze was drawn to the topmost shelf of the cupboard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As we was fixing to leave, the cap’n went back and took the Bible off the shelf. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Any kind of book you want,” I whisper to myself, and I take a few down from the shelf and pull a chair up to a table. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were long, dark wooden tables, with gas jets and taps and sinks built in to them, and there were dark wooden shelves upon which were displayed a selection of things in large bottles. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

No paintings have been hung yet and the shelves wait empty and cardboard boxes stand open on the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She would always remember Miss Susan and the whip that she kept on the little shelf behind her bed, always remember how desperately tired she got because she never had enough sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has saved her dead parents’ letters on the top shelf of her closet, in a large white purse she used to carry in the seventies until the strap broke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I would like to see it, thought Meggie, just once, before it’s put on one of those shelves I’m supposed to stay three paces away from. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Teeth burst from his mouth as he sailed into our shelf of syrup jars. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Alex looked at the cans of spinach on the shelf behind the counter. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He closed the tin and put it back on the shelf. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, shelves. I suppose we could fit more shelves somewhere, perhaps in the corridor. I will speak to somebody at the works department.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the shelves had fallen like dominoes, but we shoved them aside and searched through the books spilled across the floor, crouching low. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“You girls getting ice cream?” she asked, sliding a stack of Pall Malls into its place on the shelf. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The colorful laminated spines along the shelves shine white with the glare, making me squint as I push my cart of books down the aisle. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She set her dress down and retrieved the book from the shelf, flipping pages until she found a map. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Fang coughed up a lungful of smoke and shook his head, staring at the empty shelf in disgust. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When this was done, the large piece was a beautifully carved back for a smooth little shelf across its middle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back wall has built-in shelves filled with dusty textbooks and a few bottles of bleach. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since Mom had more paintings than we had wall space, Dad nailed long shelf brackets to the wall, and she hung one picture in front of another until they were three or four deep. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were battered magazines and a few dirty books on a special shelf over his bunk. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of white prayer candles illuminated the stonework of its worship hall—one hundred ninety-two at a quick count—arranged on built-in shelves that reached all the way up to its vaulted ceilings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On a shelf behind the counter is a basket of yellow stars and spools of thread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hauptmann lifts an hourglass from a shelf and sets it in a crate, and his pale silver-tipped fingers hang in the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even the shed and the porch and the lawn chairs and the canning jars lined up on that shelf in my room made me sad. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Killing, ice-pick-wielding Hagar, who, shortly after a Christmas thank-you note, found herself each month searching the barrels and cupboards and basement shelves for some comfortably portable weapon with which to murder her true love. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old clock began ringing so wildly it shook itself around the shelf in a mad dance. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me a startled look like the hoot owl at the Amish farm, then backed off toward a shelf of Beanie Babies. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fresh flowers on the nightstand, and candles on all the shelves. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The floor is layered with dry splotches of paint, the walls plastered with sketches of tormented teenagers and fat puppies, the shelves crowded with clay pots. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Sen wore shoes; Eliot noticed several pairs lined on the shelves of a small bookcase by the front door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just before he stepped out, he bent down and grabbed a can of green beans from the nearest shelf. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I think it must be another building like the building, filled with long creaky corridors and shelves of pickled lizards and ox eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she had guessed, a thick hairbrush with a wooden handle lay on the shelf beside the sink. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he stood in the darkness, clinging to the gritty edge of a shelf and breathing fast with joy. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A jazz album roared from the home-built stereo shelves in the dining room, and we dined on a potluck brought by loved ones—baked ham, Jell-O molds, and casseroles. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We slid off the nice, safe shelf and back into the sea. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The shelves were filled with everything from baseballs to car tires. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Akira had his own shelf too, filled with “Japanese” rocks and “special” dirt and “nice” grass that he collected during the day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Willie was making his way down the long shadowed aisle between the shelves and the counter—hand over hand, like a man climbing out of a dream. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls a few shirts and some shorts off a shelf and tosses them onto a glass counter. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He looked into his box shelf and then picked a small yellow can from it. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laila found him standing in his study, a rueful expression on his face as he surveyed his shelves. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She grabbed hold of me and pulled me through a maze of shelves until we came to one of the reading holes scattered throughout the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pull cocoa and then sugar from the shelves. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The light grew dim, and the floor of the cave rose upward in a series of shelves coated with green slime. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The products on his shelves showed many of the ways sugar was Unking the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Malcolm ran to the shelf and found a box of matches there as well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Before I left I saw him lean back on the shelves of Garret Snuff, Prince Albert and Spark Plug chewing tobacco. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ceramic plates and platters are displayed on open shelves, along with what seem to be hundreds of cookbooks, food encyclopedias, and volumes of essays about eating. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kyle shouted as he reached for a book on the shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I set our bags down beneath a shelf on which I saw a plastic image of Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, seated on a pink lotus. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Block out the little aristocratic professor pacing in front of the hearth and the late hour and the dogs and the shelves brimming with interesting things. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His desk is mahogany, with cubbies and shelves. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We get books off the shelf and pull up the sites Ms. Tannenbaum tells us to use. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She watched her mother walk around their flat, collecting all the Catholic objects, the crucifixes hung on walls, the rosaries nested in drawers, the missals propped on shelves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hugo followed him to the shelf and waited while he looked through the books. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Hanako pictured her father’s brain like a bunch of shelves with boxes on them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Muqtada has a tired pair of pants on the bottom shelf. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The young Mr. Gitney possessing a not inconsiderable shelf of books, I surveyed their titles for one which might engage me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Librarians always flip out when books and encyclopedias mysteriously disappear off their shelves.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The small key that fitted all the glass cases was kept inside a Bible on one of the lower shelves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Steps led to more tables at the edges of the room, where caramel-colored wooden shelves reached up to balconies furnished with velvet couches and more alcoves of bookshelves behind. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Three covers were lined up on each of the case’s four shelves. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She reached onto the shelf and pulled out a book on dogs. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first she was wildly industrious, cleaning out closets and scrubbing the insides of kitchen cupboards and scraping the shelves of the refrigerator, rinsing out the vegetable bins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing that they were not so brown as those on the shelves, I returned them to the heat. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves of bookstores are stuffed with books on the subject, and almost every newspaper publishes a daily horoscope. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bottom shelf behind a row of salves in squat clay jars he found a vial of indigo glass, no larger than his little finger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mean to take that A-10 Thunderbolt down off the closet shelf. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The young scholar has stepped up to the counter and is gazing at the shelves behind Dede. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I move the magic things aside to dust off the shelf with my hand. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not only did the tenants have to restock their bare shelves, they had to add Westing Paper Products by the gross to their orders. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, on the shelf next to my basketball trophies, I have a whole city of cardboard buildings that I carved out with my X-Acto knife. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My eyes skim other shelves—they only have plague suppressants and various painkillers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe a shelf for food and dishes, an armoire for the bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A lorry loaded with sofas and shelves and tables was parked by the side, and a man stood beside it talking to a young female civil defender wearing khaki jeans and canvas shoes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I get to the kitchen pantry, the box of Lipton is empty, much like the rest of the shelves. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their names marched in a row across the shelves: cinnamon—cloves—ginger—all-spice—ball nutmeg—curry—peppercorns—sage—thyme—marjoram. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shop was dark with the blinds down, but I could see framed portraits, film canisters, and camera parts on the shelves. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, the lunch on the shelf was for you! It was a good lunch.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a modest library, the creep of moisture had bowed the shelves into crooked smiles. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

These shelves hold books bound with red leather. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They had with them tools and scraps of lumber, and they were prepared, they said, to build for the Imadas whatever was wanted: shelves, a chest of drawers, chairs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I give her a one-armed hug and return the book to its spot on the shelf. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I think there are a few raisins left in the jar,” Mama called out, pointing to a high shelf. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Heaps of them filled the shelves and cluttered the comers. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly set it back on the shelf and approached the counter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a small assortment of trinkets on the shelf, wooden figurines of animals, quills that looked expensive, but what she was looking at was easily most impressive. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He put on his glasses, tilted his head back, and took a bottle from the top shelf. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I found these on a back shelf at the market. What a surprise, huh? You can keep those.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I sat wondering and waiting in Mr. Jaggers’s close room, until I really could not bear the two casts on the shelf above Mr. Jaggers’s chair, and got up and went out. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

After he passed through the tunnel behind the fiction shelves and hit the doors to the 300s room, he was in the lead. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Brady II is pulling down another book from his shelf and handing it to me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You’d better put it back then, and mind you put it on the right shelves.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass briskly reached up and took down an object from the bottom shelf and dropped it, with a muffled, tinny bang, into the wastebasket. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Master gestured vaguely before he grabbed the car keys from the shelf. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mark noticed something tucked away in the corner of the farthest shelf. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ophie gnawed on her bottom lip and stared at the empty shelf. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There must have been fifty thousand dreams altogether up there on the shelves, but he seemed to know almost exactly where every one of them was. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spacious, clean, and bright, the long room had a pair of beds, shelves crowded with children’s books, freestanding wardrobes, tidy dressers, a unicorn rocking horse, multiple toy chests, and a hen in a cage. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

So instead of leaving her toothbrush on the bathroom shelf she kept it in a glass, also. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The BFG’s house was to have a special dream-storing room with hundreds of shelves in it where he could put his beloved bottles. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put the book back on the shelf and was about to leave when the door of the library opened, and Lina Mayfleet came in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I drag my desk chair over to my closet and stand on it so that I can reach the top shelf. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days went by, and Elinor’s shelves filled up with wonderful new books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I saw in the corner of an upper shelf a small glass vial lying on its side. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He pats at his pockets until he finds his glasses and peers at the bottles on the shelf. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I search through card catalogues and scan the shelves, but find nothing about domestic workers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“A frindle,” and this time Nick pointed at the ballpoint pens behind her on the shelf. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have shelves of books waiting to be read. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one container of fuchsia on the shelf, so we asked a stock boy to go find more. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the cereal shelf there needed to be five of every kind of cereal, even the nasty ones that taste like dirt until you put sugar on it. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I went to the shelves next and started looking over the books. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom also built rows of shelves in the windows and arranged brightly colored bottles to catch the light. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He put the cover of the toilet down, climbed on top of it, and surveyed the narrow glass shelf over the sink which held Miranda’s toothbrush and makeup. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the Special Sticks weren’t on their shelf. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood on the edge of the sandrock shelf that underlay Laguna and looked east across the river before dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he finished, he tucked the notepad with the address onto a shelf under the counter and turned to Emily and James. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We went down the hill and started out along the reef shelf. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stack the leftover jars on the shelf behind the display. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Banks settled her load of literature onto a nearby shelf, crossed her arms over her chest and leaned up against the book stack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This one she set up on a shelf that was above the reach of the dogs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danny caught his father in a misquote, ran to get a Talmud from a shelf, and triumphantly showed his father where he had been wrong. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As the First Craftsman moved away, scowling as usual, to set a finished collar upon the shelf, Ranofer hurried to the low worktable. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She turned a corner and found Brooke sitting on the floor in one aisle, staring at a robust yellow frog on a low shelf. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Carefully, I open the door to the janitor’s closet, grabbing the paper towels from a packed shelf of cleaning supplies and trying not to wake her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“If you’re not enjoying the opera,” said Werfel, “there is no reason to keep sitting here like a couple of grapefruits rotted to the shelf.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Then he spots a book on the shelf that makes him frown. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

We sort through the old magazines, the stash of differentsized cardboard boxes, the shelves of clean jars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what, but as surely as one feels the sting of shards when an hourglass tips off a shelf and smashes, he knew that something was happening. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Before putting his late friend on his shelf again, Wemmick touched the largest of his mourning rings and said, “Sent out to buy it for me, only the day before.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Which doesn’t even hit the shelves for another week. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She would wear a red cloth over her head until she sat beside the ceremonial pot shelf in her new home. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman hands us a list of the items that go in each box and sends us off to the canned-food shelves. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The shelves over her bed held rocks and seashells and stuffed animals and books. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Both girls read voraciously, pulling book after book off the Maer library shelves. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I surveyed the room briefly, then returned to the car, retrieved my Tiffany box, and placed it on a shelf in the bedroom. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The shop’s shelves were empty except for a few stacks of used paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To distract the beast in my gullet, I tried to read the names of the books on the shelves without turning my head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

To line things up in rows—jars on shelves at canning, peach pits on the step, sticks, stones, leaves—and the members of her family let these arrangements be. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The dishes are supposed to be back on the shelves. I take them out again for lunch. I set out lunch at one, but first the dishes have to be back on the shelves.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He got up from his workbench and went to Edward’s shelf and picked him up and held him so that Bryce could see him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Next he pulled a piece of Kleenex out of the Kleenex box and dragged it back and forth across the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t see Charlie cleaning or restocking any of the shelves, so I figure he must be slacking off in the stockroom in the back. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some shelves had rows of untouched chip bags and candy bars, all priced like they were endangered, precious goods. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then I dust the shelves in the hunting room, vacuum the bear while he stares at me like I’m a snack. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

From floor to ceiling the shelves are crammed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was already a shelf on part of the wall. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the top shelf was that bulky instrument with the brass rings: he’d made a point of noticing that. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since she couldn’t, she lost a couple of moments grabbing the stools, restacking them, and climbing to the top shelf. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Owner set it back on the shelf with the others, then pulled a new jar from his pocket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She looked into the cracked cup on the shelf. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To decide on a menu, to make a list and shop in the supermarket and fill the refrigerator shelves with food. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ignored us as he inspected jars filled with dark disgusting liquids and dirty sprigs of herbs on the shelves behind the cauldron, deciding what else to throw in the concoction simmering within. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her gaze was again drawn to the objects on the shelves: A rusty iron key. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you could find useful things just by choosing randomly from the shelves. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mother goes to a high shelf, bringing back Father’s portrait. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her shelves were loaded with porcelain figurines we weren’t allowed to touch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And everybody knows that...Well, not to brag, but dance is kind of my thing, and I have a bunch of huge trophies on my shelf that prove it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

An idea started to form in my head, and I walked over to the shelf of books of military history next to my desk. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regina accompanied Bobby to the club, but as soon as he began to play she left to browse at the nearby Strand Bookstore, whose shelves contained millions of used books. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we shook onto the shelf of the road the car nearly stalled and I stamped both feet again on the pedal and clutch. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the whole set of shelves swings out, revealing a dark space behind the pantry, long and narrow, big enough to walk into, too dark to see much. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed two green plantains from a high shelf and brought them to the table. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

And he plucked the doll from the shelf. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“And to think,” said his uncle, “Luigi’s unraveling really started with one book. The one you plucked off the shelf for me, Marjory. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She unpacked the trunk — some housecoats, a framed portrait of her father, sewing supplies, and an assortment of fabrics — and arranged her things on a few empty shelves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pretended to fumble with something on the shelf. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t explain it: a fat and short key, in a little envelope, in a blue vase, on the highest shelf in his closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes fixed on the shelf behind his head, the one full of metal spoons and mixing bowls. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had it all in a small box from the A&P, stuffed on the shelf above the coats. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The western wall was completely covered with shelf after shelf of CDs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed with a laugh to his avowed library—to the shelves of books, the rack full of reading-machine bobbins and sound-track rolls. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lit up Frightful’s falcon hood on a shelf and threw light on a stack of library books. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hanako placed the abacus on a shelf that had been cleared off just for her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But there they were—still on the shelf. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He told how the teacher could read and that there were lots of books on shelves in the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swept his way out among the shelves. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then I saw the red, unwavering light of a sympathy lamp approaching through the shelves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The last piece on the shelf was the least interesting—a rectangular lidded box as large as his two hands. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They made themselves as comfortable as they could on a rock formation that jutted out like a shelf from a hip-high mass of stone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The etagere had three shelves of delicate glass, and each one held beige ballet-dancing figurines. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the exhibits, on the shelves of our museums are the fragments of distant worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A balcony, to which one ascended via a spiral staircase made of wrought iron, took the place of the second story of shelves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That scroll on the lower shelf, the plan of the judge's tomb. Fetch it. Hurry.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. Petrelli put flashing colored lights around his door and a menorah with orange light bulbs on his window shelf. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were shops here and there, but the shelves were mostly empty. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He gave it to a gray-haired lady, who put it on a shelf above a long row of coats on hangers. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They waxed the floor, took down curtains to wash and arranged books on the shelves. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the meal we lay on our shelves, trying to gather strength for the next day. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I—I—I’m sort of straightening up the book shelves.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

All of his books were on the shelves. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I lifted my foot to give my leg a scratch and managed to knock a book off the bottom shelf. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It cracked the top shelf, swept the beige, finger-size ceramic figurines of ballet dancers in various contorted postures to the hard floor and then landed after them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the pretty wrapped chocolates went toppling from the shelves to the floor, and Mrs. Diamant laughed and laughed, mopping between the folds of her neck. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When she thought she was nearly finished, she noticed that the next shelf started up again with Browne. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves on which they stood smelled of freshly sawn wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He stared rather vacuously into it for a few seconds, as though he had forgotten why he opened it, then put his undried razor in its place on one of the shelves. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

And books—so many books, they seemed to burst from the shelves. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Leaving Starry chatting with the librarian, I decide to browse the teen shelves first. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The kind of women who put papers on shelves and had little towels like that instinctively distrusted and disliked Mack and the boys. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She motioned to a large shelf in the middle of the store. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I upturned more shelves, found nothing and was about to leave when the urge to turn over all shelves overtook me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood for a while and then started to pick up books and put them back on the shelves. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tide was full and yet the shelf was out of the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master was at the dining table, finishing up breakfast, and would come in any minute now to pull on his socks and shoes and take the files on the shelf and leave for work. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I knew I couldn’t throw them away either, so I tied them together with a red hair ribbon and set them on the shelf by the fan. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the last one off the shelf and opened it across my lap, thumbing through the pictures. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves were filled from floor to ceiling with books and objets d’art. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the banks were lined with a jagged shelf of frozen over-flow, no ice bridges spanned the channel of open water, so he was forced to wade. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ducked through a Troll Hole and made my way back to the library, walking again through the abandoned metal shelves. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A boring place for a mouse, Ralph decided, until he discovered something interesting on a bottom shelf behind a big desk. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were shelves of paperbacks; there were encyclopedias, histories, novels, philosophies, and textbooks of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and others, more than I can name. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night they camped on a stony shelf with a rock-wall behind them, in which there was a shallow cave, a mere scoop in the cliff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then they were above the shelves, peering over the top. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Joe stands from her seat with difficulty, since the books are everywhere, teetering on the edge of her desk and their shelves and threatening to fall to the floor. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He asked other scientists to send him their barnacle collections, and over the next days, weeks, and months he pulled down more bottles of barnacles from his shelves. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that what people learned at their churches on Sundays about unity and love they placed on the shelf during the remainder of the week. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I placed my toiletries on a glass shelf above the sink. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The vertical pane goes from my knees to my waist, three glass shelves of items piled on top of each other behind it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room—the library, Nicodemus had called it—had, in addition to its shelves of books, several tables with benches beside them, and on these were stacked more books, some of them open. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The room beyond is small, with a shelf along one wall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, hi,” I said as I scanned the shelves for “Pirate Medley.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a final breath, Cole opened his eyes and slid off the shelf. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

My grandmother keeps her Bible on a shelf beside her bed. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Brian’s reading the titles on the spines of books on the shelves like he’s going to be tested on it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Above it was a shelf where you could put soap and toothpaste. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout my formative years, the set remained on our library shelves, weighty and regal-looking with its gold spines. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She dragged a heavy stuffed chair backward to the shelf and climbed up on the very top of its back. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland took down the white china dishes from the shelf and began to wrap them in newspaper. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The shelf always squeaks when the latch is open. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He took it down from a top shelf, where it was pushed all the way back. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once, Mother found a whole shelf of matchboxes in his closet, stacked by year. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They lined the shelves and filled the corners and dangled from wires. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I saw our attackers clearly now, climbing over the mangled heaps of white shelves. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I enter the cool mosque, slip off my sandals on the marble floor by the women’s entrance, and put them neatly onto the shelves. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, here’s the book at least,” said Sierra, who had found 598.367 on the shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She said university women kept framed photos of their student days in Ibadan and Britain and America on their shelves. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But she’s hung our clothes on the hooks in the bedroom, put the ugly rugs that were over our windows on the floor, and stacked the dishes on the shelf beside the sink. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I took my sleeping bag and a blanket up to the shelf where I had been building the fire wall. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There’s a still, tight moment in the room with just the sound of the brown Timex clock ticking on the shelf. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The fan on the little wall shelf rotated around and blew her collar, making it flap around her neck. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she let Gitl lead her to an unoccupied shelf, where she rolled herself onto it and, without even minding the rough surface, fell asleep. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basement is the storeroom with shelves, shelves clear to the ceiling loaded with jars of preserved animals. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, we scanned the metal shelves for anything that we recognized. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

David thought of the small box on the shelf below. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelf from which it had come, she proceeded to remove, one by one, all the other books, wiping carefully behind each one to the dark-stained wood at the back of the case. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She opened its mirror-faced door and surveyed the congested shelves with the eye—or, rather, the masterly squint—of a dedicated medicine-cabinet gardener. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He would have to know that the shelf swung open with a latch. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two more months passed, and the shelf brought many customers into the crystal shop. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he nodded discreetly in the direction of the couple of tourists that were still standing by the shelves, whispering to each other. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shelf just over the desk emptied of its row of reference books and tables, as he referred to one after the other. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then she dusted the shelves and arranged the leftover potions and lotions, selling Haldar’s old inventory at half price. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She calmly placed the needle on a shelf, then walked to the door of the laboratory and pushed a button on the wall near it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A person could get lost among the shelves for a long time. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Then I tacked a towel over the shelves to hide those jars. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The back door is open on shelves of steaming newly baked bread. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sidled over to a shelf along the wall and picked up what looked like a solid gold staff with rubies encrusted on the handle. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

How satisfying to have another one to add to the small library accumulating on the shelf above my bed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But now there wasn’t an opening anymore, just row after row of solid shelves blocking the way out. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the north side, it was different There were submerged coral reefs and great shelves. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are lined with portraits and with shelves of books—pristine early editions—neatly organized and artfully arranged. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wiped the shelves with a wet rag. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I move in closer on silent feet, then peek through the shelves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Aloe kept a comprehensive first aid kit in the house, accordioned shelves of supplies layered inside, and Jam dragged it out from under the bathroom sink. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Although the syrupy golden rings sat in their exotic cans on our shelves year round, we only tasted them during Christmas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had known the last copy of Flora and Ulysses wouldn’t be on the shelf, because she’d already removed it. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A third wall looked like a pharmacist’s shelf, and the fourth wall held more archaic objects. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He had two mismatched turntables plus a rickety old reel-to-reel tape player and shelves packed with records he’d collected over many years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He went over to the kitchen area and began poking around on the shelves. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

On shelves around the TV monitor were books of all sizes, and on the wall were signed photographs of actors. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At Norfolk, we could actually go into the library, with permission—walk up and down the shelves, pick books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to a shelf and pushed aside a cardboard filing box to reveal a small safe. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“They will, Joseph. The house needs to be tended to, cooked for, cleaned, washed, scrubbed. It needs to be loved. It’s not like a book you can just close and put back on a shelf.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We called it a cafetín ambulante, a small truck with compartments and shelves in the back, a refrigerated section, and a hot plate. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Each family member had their own shelf to put photos on. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were shelves on either side of the stove, filled with crockery, pots, and linens. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am not like the kids I see at the supermarket who are eating their free cookie with one hand and grabbing Oreos off the shelf with the other. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body tore down the shelves of pasta and flour, landing in a messy pile on the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Each evening she has tackled a drawer, a closet, a set of shelves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was stacked so full of leftovers, the light up top didn’t hit anything below the first shelf. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

‘I has dillions of dreams on my shelfs, right or left?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I pull the light cord, I see a stack of Mom’s nursing uniforms on a shelf, perfectly folded into neat Dad-squares, with one of her plastic name-tag pins resting on top. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was only a second between when we first heard the rattling in the nearby shelves and when Liam jumped in front of me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Can’t exactly say which one. I thumb over to Welch every Saturday to the county library. I tend to pick out random shelves and just read every book on it until I’m done.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the library I would literally tremble as I came upon whole shelves of books I hadn’t read. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi wandered through the stuffed animal shelves, amazed at how lifelike they were. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

By the third of fourth shelf my eyes popped out: books! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Storefronts had had their heavy metal shutters pried off; their windows were gaping, their shelves empty. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In one leap, he sprang down all the way from the shelf to the floor and dashed over to his drain pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She jammed her body between the shelf and the wall. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Given my fairly light holiday reading schedule, I had to go to the library and grab the first thing that fell off a shelf. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Some of the shelves were so tall they were only accessible by ladders and catwalks, which ran across the ceiling like theater scaffolding. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” I say to the stranger, emboldened by the comforting shelves of canning jars and bins of nails and feed. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My ears missed the snap of apple pancakes in the pan and my eyes missed the rainbow of fruits and vegetables sealed in jars on the shelves. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I go through the shelves and the remaining clothes, the ones he didn’t take with him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She put her typewriters under another window, with shelves for her manuscripts and works in progress, and she immediately started thumbtacking index cards with story ideas to the walls. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I found a more or less flat place, a shelf, on the hillside a few yards up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the top shelf of a tall cabinet, Mom kept a jug made from a hollowed-out gourd, much like the ones that she used back in the mountains of South Kivu. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Carefully, she took a book off the shelf. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As Tree-ear looked over the shelves, an idea came to him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was a Graphophone record kept on a shelf for thirty years and getting played again now. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I began sticking my hands deeper into the shelves and over the ledges near the bottom. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are carpenters’ shops, taxidermists’ studios, acres of shelves and specimen drawers, whole museums within the museum. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I keep my mother’s things on a special shelf in my room, and I let Becca look at them but not touch. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over all the books on the shelves in her study. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Blink disappeared into the shelves for a moment before returning with an encyclopedia. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Natalie collapsed against the broken wall and splintered shelves, her face buried in her arms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the musty hole, Poppy discovered secret shelves and shallow corridors dug into its sides above the water level. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the car, large planks of wood approximately six feet deep had been installed as shelves. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She pulled clothes off hangers and unfurled them from shelves to show Ginika. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I begin going through the shelves, and I'm surprised to find a pair of track shoes that actually fit well. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now I'm picking my way around the heaps and piles and sagging shelves. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was small and contained a few lockers along one wall, some shelves, and a mirror over a sink. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at a jumble of Star Wars action figures piled up on the shelf over his bed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Since the children had been present at the fumigation, Úrsula figured that Fernanda had put the ring in the only place where they could not reach it: the shelf. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Before him, tall wooden shelves rose up into dimness, crammed with leatherbound books and bins of ancient scrolls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, she has to use a ladder even to get to the higher shelves. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the books on his shelf were in Armenian. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were shelves lined with small, inscrutable tools and pieces of clockwork. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Groping along the shelf he found half a bread loaf and several onions. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“She died on opening night of The King and I. Now she haunts the Cape Playhouse. If there aren’t fresh hydrangeas for opening night on that shelf, tragedy will occur.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He stood on a chair and took down a little box from the top cupboard shelf. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They installed shelves and perforated the ceiling for ventilation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, Neville had no sooner reached the shelf of teacups when there was a tinkle of breaking china. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then I climbed up and reached for the small green strongbox on the top shelf. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He went into the kitchen and got the step stool so he could go through the shoe boxes on the top shelf of their closet. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He spied the raven, dark in the dawn sky, and turned briskly toward the maze of shelves at the far end of the room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kyle would be in charge of running real fast and slamming the books into the shelves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She takes me stealthily into her mother’s bedroom, saying that she’ll really get it if we’re caught, and shows me the twin set, folded on a shelf. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Isobel picks up a potted violet that has toppled in the wake of the falling books and places it back upon its shelf. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I scan the shelves impatiently, but I can see nothing useful. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After the baby died, my mother fell apart, not all at once, but piece by piece, like plates falling off a shelf one by one. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shelves along the wall, and a refrigerator. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I unscrewed the top and crept to the edge of the shelf and quickly poured what was in it straight into the silver basin below. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Holding the hobbits gently but firmly, one in the crook of each arm, Treebeard lifted up first one large foot and then the other, and moved them to the edge of the shelf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But it was merely an office with a desk, a couple of filing cabinets, shelves full of papers and books. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Granger kept a full set of thirty dictionaries on a shelf at the back of the room. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holes in the walls were plugged up and the shelves of books dusted off. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Against another wall there was a shelf, presumably for preparing food, and there was a single cupboard above the shelf. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves are stuffed with thousands of different items. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was beautiful, standing on the shelf with flowers and leaves and birds and moons carved all around her, and the large star at the very top. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I start pulling the food out of the trash, putting it back on the shelf, trying to match her pace. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At the Army-Navy store, Dicey studied the shelves of goods before she made her purchases. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched, his eyes heavy with exhaustion, as she took his bowl to the sink, placed it there, and then, leaning on her stick, gathered some stakes from a shelf, and a ball of twine. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When Captain Prince laughed he rattled the instruments on the shelves! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love to walk down the aisles, half expecting I’ll find Chucha with the big feather duster the stock boy uses to clean the shelves. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As though Chacko had been using her shelves for his clothes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then she ran over to Victor's shelf and stuffed a few books under, her pullover. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she saw him come up the alley, she would pick up a basket of mending, or scrub the pots, or reorganize the canned goods on the shelves of the kitchen area. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She kept the box hidden in her closet on a shelf under some sweaters. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Mark of the Vampire sits, its usefulness obsolete, on its shelf. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for an old hat on the shelf over the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the fridge, and I opened it and found the white box on a shelf. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were choices on the shelves that could set a hungry child’s mouth to watering. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a wife who suffers his absences without complaint, and who arranges porcelain kittens by color, lightest to darkest, on two different shelves in their drawing room in Stuttgart. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Used chess books were everywhere, hidden in every conceivable crevice, many stacked from floor to ceiling or on top of chairs, or weighing down and bending the shelves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lalitha took me by the hand and led me to a shelf full of painting supplies. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My old black noise-canceling headphones are stashed in a box on the top shelf of my closet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The customer jerked his head on his spindly neck, indicating the various sections of the store—the racks of clothing, the shelves of books, the electronics, the appliances, and, of course, the suitcases. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Thomas, returning his carved piece to the shelf, agreed with a grin. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk down a stack of shelves away from Madge, looking for a fresh spine, a new title, a new world. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“No, you don’t. Go to the shelf beside the desk and bring me the Bible.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At Dan’s Supermarket, Mami asks me to translate into Spanish the labels of everything she sees for sale on the shelves. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He took my cage from the shelf and carried it to another room, similar to the first one but with more equipment in it, and no shelves of cages. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Aunt Loma happened along, carrying the baby, she stared at Miss Love a minute, then flounced into the store and came over where I stood putting bars of Octagon soap on a shelf. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Upstairs in Kenyon’s room, on a shelf above his bed, the lenses of the dead boy’s spectacles gleamed with reflected light. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biff tiptoed across the kitchen to a shelf which held a basket of tea olive and two water pitchers full of zinnias. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Conant had advised Bush to put the uranium project on the shelf for the duration of the war, but that advice had been based on his impression that a bomb was purely conjectural. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She would grab the box, flip it over, read the price tag and toss the box back onto the shelf. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She went about picking tools off the shelf, holding them in the air so the sunlight bisected them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I get it to the edge of that shelf and heft it to my shoulder. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

He dumped them out and kneaded them in his hand and looked at them and then scooped them back into the jar along with the hardware and put the jar back on the shelf. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly she sees it herself, sitting in plain view, on a shelf she’d scanned a minute ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to end on such an experience, he places the strange little bottle back on its shelf and decides to choose one more before leaving to catch up with Poppet and Widget again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The post office, Harry! About two hundred owls, all sitting on shelves, all color-coded depending on how fast you want your letter to get there!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Just as I would climb up to the shelf to take one look after another at the hand, I would hear my mother’s monkey story. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms were tiny, and it had dirt floors, but in the kitchen we found shelves lined with rows of canned food. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bottle on the shelf behind the bar was still full, but I supposed it was like any craving. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We’d open up the store at seven a.m. and Sam would saw lumber, cut ice, stack the meats out, stock the shelves, feed the cow in the backyard, all before we Ieft for school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opens a cupboard, the shelves lined with a grimy yellow-and-white-checkered paper she’s been meaning to replace, and reaches for another onion, frowning again as she pulls at its crisp magenta skin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the hardware shelves and looked at the knives, pans, fishing rods and nets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a book from the shelf where Victor kept his well-thumbed crime novels. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Coats hung from polished brass hooks in the foyer, and his father’s books, arranged by size, stood neatly along the glassed-in shelves of two vaultlike oak bookcases. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Byrne leads me over to a section filled with bolts of fabric, directing me to the shelf with the cheaper ones. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He stalked off to a dark corner of the room, put the notebook down on a shelf, and buried his head in his hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Every bit of the walls was lined with shelves and every bit of the shelves was full of books. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the Silk Room, all the shelves are empty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pulls the book from the shelf it pulls back, ALBUS/RON is consumed by the bookcase. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Then she put the cheese on a shelf in the pantry. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood there undl something fell off the shelf inside her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The desk drawers, the closets, the shelves...anything connected to the dead man’s work had been taken. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Obscure at the time they were spoken, the words were now as clear to Ranofer as the shape of the shelves in front of him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“So, who swiped the book off the shelf?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then she started sliding books around on the shelf. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Instead I scooped it off the floor and put the box on the top shelf of my closet and put five towels on top of it so I couldn’t see it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the rear shelf a hole had been cut and was covered with that same stuff that’s on a screen door. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always knew where to find exactly what I wanted, and what I wanted was normally in the back of the store, where Arletta Paisley’s housewares lined the shelves. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Pulling from different shelves, I begin to assemble a stack of supplies to take out front. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The shelves were laden with snacks and sweets, which we were not allowed to touch. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All around, on haphazardly aligned shelves the boys had fastened to the walls themselves, amidst the model cars and their made-up superhero drawings, were souvenirs from all the adventures they’d experienced throughout the season. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They bought us a dictionary and a full Encyclopaedia Britannica set, which lived on a shelf in the stairwell to our apartment, its titles etched in gold. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The box with Owen’s ashes was still on the shelf to his right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ollie paces around the apartment, looking at my father's books, craning closer to see the titles but not removing any of them from the shelves. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At times the spell would be broken suddenly: on shelves or in hallways of my mother’s cave, large old shapes with smouldering eyes sat watching me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelf of the rolltop desk, like a mantel under the grandparents’ photos, there were bowls of plastic tangerines and oranges, crepe-paper flowers, plastic vases, porcelain vases filled with sand and incense sticks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached behind me, his arm sliding over my shoulders, to grab something else off the shelf. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Bedi Ma'am takes down a tiny box from the highest shelf. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There are nine perfect yogurt containers lined up on the refrigerator shelf. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She went toward the larger shelf to the right of the door, but she felt strangely shy about actually touching the books. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

She moved beyond the light, down past the shelves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘These here is all girls’ dreams on this shelf,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opposite the fireplace were shelves made of logs split in half and nailed against the wall to hold the books that Shadrach had brought with him from college. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spotted a faint red light bobbing in the distant shelves and pointed towards it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Faded loops of coloured paper hung in the windows, and on the shelves were shabby little boxes of Sherbet, old Liquorice Sticks, and very withered, very hard Apples-on-a-stick. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her things were in his house; her favorite books were in the shelves in his study. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She handed Lina the bean seed, took a little pot from a shelf, scooped some dirt into it, and handed the pot to Lina, too. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a container of cooked spaghetti from the shelf and shoveled the tangled nest into his mouth with his fingers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Gotta be some potion here to get rid of that thing,” I said, searching through drawers and on shelves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the parts of the wall that had no hooks and no shelves, she had pinned up some of her pictures. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A dishpan of coffee was on the stove and iced cakes filled a shelf in the cupboard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, after Christmas, a couple of jolts prompted him to take the accelerator off the shelf. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

From a shelf he took a tiny automobile, about six inches long—the most perfect miniature automobile Stuart had ever seen. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

They crept under the window and stood up just enough to peek over the display shelves. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Above my bed, there is a shelf with two objects balanced on it. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I tiptoe across the space until I reach the shelves. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He let go of her then and searched the cupboard, even running his hands over the shelves, though he must have been able to see there was no rice. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the countless shelves retreating off into the darkness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She got her red tights from a box on the shelf, slipped into a warm shirt, and put on her wedding parka and pants. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I look up, I see cured hams hanging from the ceiling and shelves and shelves of dry goods. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But in the next second the scissors clinked onto the shelf. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But there was still no sign of the potter, so Tree-ear tiptoed the last few steps to stand before the shelves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Hurrah for the perfect world,” Fela said sarcastically, then turned and began leading me through the shelves again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His rosary beads hung from a corner of the shelf, and in between a pile of sweaters and a stack of spineless books was a framed plastic ID card. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Around him, the leather-bound tomes of the Temple of Lkossa’s library seemed to reach into the heavens, stacked so high that some shelves required ladders to reach. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It's got a sort of big shelf too, ten foot up and as wide as the back room. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

So there are shelves at this end of the tunnel now? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The hippie shrugged and took a little bottle off the shelf. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She wanders around his living room, looks at the books he is beginning to organize on his plywood shelves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope the stuff we need en’t on the low shelves,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She passes by Poppet and Widget, where Poppet is teaching the marmalade kittens to climb onto her shoulders and Widget is pulling book after book from the library’s well-stocked shelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The butcher takes the pig’s head off a shelf and when Malachy says, Ooh, look at the dead dog, the butcher and Mam burst out laughing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Armed with garbage bags we proceeded grimly through the house, emptying shelves and cabinets and crawl spaces, discovering geometries of dust beneath objects unmoved for years. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She reached behind the pantry curtains and began to rearrange the jars of peaches and apricots on the shelves, and he knew she was finished talking to him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

About ten of my Lego kits came down off my shelves. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The shelves were jammed full of books and stacks of scrolls, but tidily—a neat kind of clutter. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

If you give her a wrapped gift, she takes it and puts it on her shelf that way. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny Tim, on a shelf nearby, heard me and crawled out of his newspaper nest, so I let him sniff my finger, then I gave him a few sunflower seeds. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She’s still sitting on the top shelf of my closet with a few other precious memories. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I went to the closet, checked the shelf, checked the floor. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

When the shelf was dusted, he picked up the tissue in his two front legs and polished the cricket cage so its bars shone. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the tree went over it pulled earth, balled in its roots, with it, and made a large hole back in, under the shelf of rocks. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She asked him to clean out the store and line the shelves with old newspapers, and as he worked she stood by and asked him about his family. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I got mugs down from the shelf and filled them, and served them around, including one for Father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olly pulls his hands out of his pockets, plucks the book from the shelf and reads. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took my toiletry case into the bathroom and put it on the shelf. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Crawling on her hands and knees, Hannah made it back across the room to her sleeping shelf. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the shade of blue he wears in the baby picture that’s framed and sitting on the shelves of Robert and Trade’s bonus room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He looked around at the shelf and clock and everything. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves in this room were stacked with cages containing live animals. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But the one constant was this little TV/DVD combo that we toted around with us and an old DVD from the library free shelf: The Mysterious and Fascinating World of the Octopus. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Dragging the useless leg, she took a thick earthen bowl from a shelf and went to the fire, where a large pot simmered and smelled of herbs and vegetables. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I put my extra set of clothing on one of the far shelves, then follow the Duchess down a back staircase. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Owens walked inside, looking dubiously at the shelves, and at the old wooden pews tipped up against a wall. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It soared through the air, spinning and glistening until it slammed down onto a tall shelf of rock. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The shelf above the sink is full of different creams for her neck, her throat, her eyes, her feet, daytime, nighttime, sun and shade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Additional blank canvases leaned against the wall nearby, beside shelves stocked with jars of paint. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I noticed that high up near the ceiling, above the side-bench, there was a long shelf crammed with saucepans and frying-pans. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I told you. I found them on a back shelf at the market. Let go of my scarf.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, shelves at the commissary were bare long before day's end, leaving hundreds to walk away with nothing. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Book of Three, the heavy tome filled with Dallben’s deepest secrets, had been set carefully at the top of a shelf. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the new term opened at Berkeley, Ernest kept the spiral accelerator on the shelf, as there were numerous other projects to keep him distracted. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Heat and smoke, flames so bright they nearly blinded him, and a lone figure treading into the fire, pulling smoldering books from the shelves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She kept getting up to pull reference books off the shelves and flip through their pages. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she forced herself to put it back on the shelf. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat was lying on the shelf with his tail drooping over the edge, and Chester himself was relaxing in the matchbox. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once the money runs low, we resort to the cans we have left on our pantry shelves. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And where better could she learn that trade than in a house full of magical creatures, where fairies built their nests in the garden and books whispered on the shelves by night? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Empty plant seedling trays and irrigation tubes lie stacked on floating shelves. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the crowded storefronts were dark spaces and empty shelves. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Without turning around, she motioned to a shelf above the counter. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

About half the spaces are taken up with extra sets of clothing, and the Duchess points to the shelves. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was filled with unusual pieces of sculpture and pretty collections in glass jars: buttons, marbles, and rhinestones displayed on shelves so they caught the light. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She’d sat among sword ferns six feet tall or on a shelf above a vale of trilliums and opened her eyes to the place. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were dog photos tacked behind his computer, and some of the same editing books Emily recognized from her dad’s shelves sat next to a bobblehead collection. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Several days later, in the store stocking shelves in the canned food aisle, I hear a man’s voice I recognize but can’t place. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The lower shelves contain smaller boxes and open trays of fireworks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they were finished with me, I was dragged back to the barracks and dumped onto one of the shelves, where I passed out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted a tasteful yellow, antique shelves filled with bolts of doth in every color lined the walls. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Shuttling sideways, it carried Charles over to a shelf displaying all the Anne books. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I put my licorice laces and my Milky Bar in my special food box on the shelf, which Father is not allowed to touch because it is mine. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the shelf, she grouped the baking powder, a box of salt, the mostly empty sack of flour, and the tin of lard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light was always dim, and the shelves were packed so high that you couldn't see over them. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He takes a deck of playing cards off of a shelf, unsure if she will be willing to humor him but too curious not to try. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Farther down the shelf are a pair of shiny purple Sky Sprints in a glass case. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“What about that one?” she asked, turning quickly away to point at a big book on a higher shelf. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His shelves were covered in books, and he had many souvenirs from the Paris World’s Fair, which he and Isabelle had attended a month earlier. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I take one of the tree books down from the shelf and go to the table by the window. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I fought the temptation to reach for the adventures of Mr. Crusoe on the shelf. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

David wedged the small box he held onto a shelf above it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks to the far shelf where the heavy weapons are kept and picks up the porcupine, a weighted wooden club with fierce metal spikes embedded in the rounded end. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Hollister stepped away from the counter and fiddled with books on a nearby shelf, straightening some, pulling a title off one shelf and moving it to the row below. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The shelves are mountains scaling the walls, tapering toward a sky of stained glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then Ma wrapped each cheese in paper and laid it away on the high shelf. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dimly flickering light, they saw rows of shelves, with coffins neatly placed on them, and the wood of the coffins was perfectly dry, as he found when he touched one. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this might once have been a little bookstore, although it’s been decades since these shelves held anything but dust. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now she goes to the closet shelves and pulls out a well-worn box of Chutes and Ladders. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She seems like the type who would actually wear her retainer at night instead of letting it collect dust on some bathroom shelf. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As Jenner had predicted, there was a big freezer, well stocked—bread, meat, vegetables, everything—and a whole room full of shelves covered with canned food. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The pile of tried wands was mounting higher and higher on the spindly chair, but the more wands Mr. Ollivander pulled from the shelves, the happier he seemed to become. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Hideo looks up from his book when he hears me approach, then notices me studying his shelves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Emma had started searching along the next two shelves of the bookshelf, and Natalie was feeling along the wall immediately above the shelves. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dropping their bikes on the curb, they stepped inside the brightly lit store, where endless junky shelves were crammed with all the stuff you never knew you needed. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the topmost shelf, above a rail of threadbare clothes, a small cardboard box was shaking and rattling as though there were several frantic mice trapped inside it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They line the shelves, quiet, waiting, like her. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dusty wagon was lined with shelves full of curious boxes and jars of a kind found in old apothecary shops. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once you pushed it, the hover ladder randomly flitted in front of the shelves, using advanced biofeedback technology, heart-rate monitors, and complex algorithms to figure out what sort of story you might be interested in. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I step behind the tall metal shelves with cans of pickles and ketchup and relish that are bigger than my head. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Snape had acquired a few more slimy horrible things in jars since last time, all standing on shelves behind his desk, glinting in the firelight and adding to the threatening atmosphere. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Thirsty lined up the sparkling glasses on a shelf and arranged the brass trays behind them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gone to plantation schools and served in the houses of men who had shelves full of books. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then you could write books that’ll be on the shelves of the new library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I slipped it off the shelf and carried it to a nearby empty table. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Director clears his throat and takes a step away from us, into the shadow of a large shelf of supplies. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with shelves of polished mahogany except on either side of the fireplace, where there were two glass cases filled with marble ana hard stones from the Orient. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following him they descended quickly from the high shelf and made their way back through the forest, down the bank of the Entwash. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Gerhard sets the radio on the middle shelf in the closet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The essentials appeared to be present: stove, coffeepot, bread pans, skillet, and such, plus a few rough and splintery shelves for storage. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Turning to look at me as she reached for some dishes on a high shelf, Miss Love almost smiled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On her way out of his bedroom, she grabbed a stack of books off one of his shelves and put them into the empty moving box she had left in his room earlier that day. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The mouse got to his feet and began the long climb down from the shelf. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He went to a shelf above the table where he kept his tools and took down a piece of light-colored pine small enough to fit into the palm of his hand. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bottle of Agua Florida was on the bathroom shelf and he touched the stopper to his temples. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The librarian walked down a row of videos, pulled a white box from the shelf, and handed it to her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He scoops some rice or beans out of buckets of food left in the pantry or eats from a can of food he plucks off the shelves. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

From this shelf, Edward saw Bryce open the door one day and stand in the threshold, the silver harmonica in his left hand flashing brilliantly in the sunlight flooding in through the windows. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Using a stool, Kendra had reached even the higher shelves, but so far the search had been in vain. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

All summer I have spent every free evening at home, holed up in my room with my laptop and my summer reading looming on my shelves. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I closed the book and put it back on the shelf A breeze moved through the room from the open window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brick walls, wooden bracing and support posts, shelves filled with dusty contents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I pull a book off the shelf and hand it to her. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On the lower shelves, Min placed two prunus vases, a tall jug ribbed like a melon, and a water pot in its matching bowl. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She looks like a doll that you see in a box on a shelf, except she’s prettier. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She wandered through the store, studying shelves lined with unlabeled packets and tins. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was nothing at all on the storeroom shelves except empty crocks and baskets, and a dish containing the crumbs of last night’s loaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

On the wall there were shelves filled with small boxes—boxes of shoes—so that you would never guess that the wall actually opened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working up the nerve to actually take the book off the shelf took a few minutes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Thomas folded his arms and leaned against the shelves next to Teresa. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Ishtar picked a small rag doll from a shelf. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until 1 A.M. that we had our uniforms prepared, toiletries displayed on our tiny closet shelves, and extra stuff stashed away in lockers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next Moon Orchid removed all the photographs, except for those of the grandmother and grandfather, from the shelves, dressers, and walls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

These I cut out and smoothed to make shelves where I could store my food and the mice could not reach it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Adulthood starts with the letter A, so let’s see if the shelves are alphabetical.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A bright fireplace sends light dancing over the shelves and shelves of books stacked every possible way. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Through to Block C—research—past a library with endless shelves of books and hard drives. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I walk back toward the closet, past Tuerto, who is napping on a shelf, curled inside a basket of fabric scraps. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He picked up the scroll and carried it to a shelf where it would dry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, as I recall, I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the wall he had shelves with books and sporting trophies. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He turned away from me, and began perusing the volumes upon the shelf, selecting some, drawing them out, and laying them in the crook of his arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw Griggs wiping glass shelves in the jewelry store and I beckoned to him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kid groaned and made a big show of slowly closing the freezer case and cleaning his hands before slouching over to a wall of shelves packed with dry goods. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Setting the lamp down carefully on the floor, he looked along the bottom shelf for an interesting- looking book. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t fondle the clothes, the way customers do; I slap them into place, commanding them to hang straight, at attention, or lie subdued on the shelves in perfect order. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Souvenirs, like Las Vegas snow globes, cram the shelves, and plastic shields everything—the carpet, the lamps, even the TV. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He has already transmitted the location of one air-defense battery: a cannon on a shelf of rampart beside the Hotel of Bees. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He caught glimpses of Min’s work—a fine teapot on a shelf, an inscribed jar that held cooking tools. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Woodcraft for Boys's on my shelf between real books. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the top shelf were two cans of motor oil and he put the pistol in his belt and reached and got them and set them on the bench. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Naomi went over her list, and Mr. Mason brought down the items she asked for from his shelves and cabinets. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the library a moment later, Mr Cardinal was wandering around the shelves, scrutinizing spines. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a real classroom now, with desks arranged in a row and a chalkboard in one corner and books dusted and organized on the shelves. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I spent the summer restocking shelves and walking elderly ladies to their cars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her bed was a rag-stuffed mattress on a shelf of cold stone, and she was always stiff and tight when she awakened. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The land suddenly dropped away, going down in shelves and ravines, and changed in color from green to brown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stops in the doorway of what I assume is the twins' playroom; two rocking horses sit in the corner, and child-size shelves are lined with books and toys. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On one occasion Fernanda had the whole house upset because she had lost her wedding ring, and Úrsula found it on a shelf in the children’s bedroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Candles—on the shelf over there,” said Alice, scooping up Lyra and the bottle and looking around for anything that would give them away, but there was too much to pick up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Two stacks of seven solar cells on the roof of the rover; another seven on the trailer, then two per shelf. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a visit there, Elizebeth was shocked to find an important collection of papers “scattered higgledy-piggledy over those iron shelves....I went home and told my husband. We sort of cried on each other's shoulders.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Calm down, Minerva. Here,” Dede said, pulling down Gandhi from the shelf. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There I buried the ashes of my fires and threw sand over the shelves and the floor. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to reach a low shelf, where he ensconced himself in a crack. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe there’s something hidden behind these shelves,” Natalie said, tugging on the wood frame of one that held boxes of granola bars. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“With these”—he rushes to slide a book back on the shelf, but again, he glitches and his hand passes right through it—“you are bringing stories to a new world.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rows of shoes lined the shelves, and a painted track on the floor circled the entire department. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I run over to the shelf with the videos and stop. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afraid to risk eating or sleeping in the house, he emptied the rice into a plastic bag and spooned in some soybean paste he found on a shelf. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Goldfish don’t have such a great track record at our house,” Maya pointed out, then watched as her dad stood on his tiptoes to reach the books from the highest shelf. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then I take my box of art supplies off my shelf and get planning. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He leaned back on his stool and grabbed a pair off a shelf behind him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His movements, as he peered through the brightly lighted shelves of pastry, were those of a lively small animal, a fyce, interested in detecting only the target cut of cake. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his favorite model cars, lined up on the shelves in the corner, bothered him today. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He points underneath, and when I bend down to look, the table has a shelf, person-sized, just a few inches from the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was a cart of books, as clean and modern as the ones on Ben’s shelves. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

When my daughter found me, I was stocking shelves in a Bag ’n Go market. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Two more framed pictures of her are on the shelf by his bed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But when it came time to put new sheets on, Ophie found the shelf in the hallway linen closet empty. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Braids of dried garlic and chili peppers hung beside the shelf. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was still standing beside the shelves near the door and seemed entirely absorbed in looking at the books, but Meggie sensed he had missed none of what was said behind his back. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I saw my father look at his rifle on the shelf, then dismissing it he walked calmly to the door. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bookstore is narrow and dark, a wall of magazines on one side, shelves of books, a table and chairs, an empty counter where coffee and sweet things are sold during working hours. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was clean linen on the chair next to the stove, and on the shelf there was water, atole meal, sugar, milk, kerosene, and other things. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I wonder if that volume is still on the prison library shelf. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a deep breath and began emptying the shelves. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stalked away between the lofty shelves and returned several minutes later carrying a large and moldy-looking book. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Her mother had too many bottles of perfume; they lined her dresser like a store shelf: stunted bottles, tapering bottles, rounded bottles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It would have been cluttered if there had been more than the few sticks of furniture: a small desk with a wooden chair and a single shelf above it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She stood and began digging her fingers into the dirt trickling through the broken shelves. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Small children and babies perched on every lap available and men leaned on the shelves or on each other. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the shelves of the shops were bare, I went to the homes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There was a shelf with a mirror over it filled with cosmetics. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had it back on the shelf in two days. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was lying at the back of a shelf with some woollen jumpers I had not worn for a long time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There are cheeses with a longer shelf life. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On a shelf I find a book of landscapes filled with illustrations of every stinking tree that grows: sycamore, linden, aspen, willow, fir, tulip poplar, chestnut, elm, spruce, pine. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Its brow shelf was thick and heavy, its jaw massive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There’s no dust on the shelves, but I get the feeling these books haven’t been read in a mighty long time. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She knew where they sat on the shelf. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They came at length to the steep abrupt end of Treebeard’s Hill, and looked up at the rock-wall with its rough steps leading to the high shelf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The sofas and curtains and carpet and shelves were gone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All her clothes wait patiently on hangers, organized by type—skirts together, pants hanging by their cuffs, her sweaters stacked in plastic bags on shelves. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the third book on the top shelf of the Staff Picks display. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

As I worked, the shelves slowly filled, and by the time night rolled around, I had a feeling that maybe this truly was it; maybe this place could be different than all the others. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And things that cannot—that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways-staring eyes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cramped cabin was lit by several bright lanterns and a stash of clean bandages had been laid out on a shelf beside a bottle of camphor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Glancing at the bookcases, I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick’s British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver’s Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Patients, with accompanying nurses, made their rounds of the stocked shelves, conversing in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna of the asylum herself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As you went up, carved into the column itself, would be shelves, where books were stacked by the dynasty in which they were made. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nearby, garden tools hung on the wall and lay on a long shelf, clippers in four different sizes, shovels, hoes, stiff metal rakes and long-fingered leaf rakes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadowy walls were lined with shelves of large glass jars, in which floated all manner of revolting things Harry didn’t really want to know the name of at the moment. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I told her about the four maps, and she threw a box of lard onto the shelf. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

High on top of the shelves stocked with closed cartons of games of every sort was a display of jigsaw puzzles. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

As if by magic, sitting on a shelf were containers of hotel shampoo, conditioner, and soap. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

The big sheets of poster paper are rolled up on the top shelf. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A shelf along the wall contained a kerosene lantern, spare wicks, matches, and oil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She pulled a ledger book off the shelf. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nero stretched out on the shelf, and Grandma showed Kendra and Seth how to massage his legs and feet. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Hollister pulled out a notepad from the shelf under his counter and flipped through the pages until he found the one he was looking for. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, let me show you my Lego shelves,” I said to Rose. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There were no wash things, like a toothbrush, because these were still in the bathroom, I remembered, on the shelf over the basin. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeping out from a piece of tissue paper on a shelf above was an ostrich feather fan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In one corner are bags of clay stacked on shelves. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My favorite sketchbook is on the shelf above my desk now: a leather-bound planner that holds the almost-finished biography of the Prophet Muhammad. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In sections, display case after display case sits vacant, little shapes on their felted shelves marking the silhouettes of whatever has been removed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I go inside and Ma’s putting the dishes away in the kitchen, lifting them out of the drain rack and stacking the plates on the shelf. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucked in the back of one of the shelves is a small bottle, rounded with a short neck and closed with a matching glass stopper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Pycelle’s chambers were beneath the rookery, a spacious suite of rooms cluttered with racks of herbs and salves and potions and shelves jammed full of books and scrolls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On one of the shelves, Mariam saw a collection of identical wooden dolls, arranged in a line in order of decreasing size. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the music books you'll find on the shelf are about Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

As everyone stirred in their sleeping shelves, we looked around at one another, wondering where our jailers were. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with book shelves up to the ceiling. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some of the shelves the books were propping up glass display cases of beetles pinned to cardboard, which only made Meggie dislike Elinor all the more. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Muddy paw tracks in all shapes and sizes created dizzying patterns on the floor, cutting over sticky patches of red and brown to the shelves of food. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Build shelves and use those solid boxes canned goods were shipped in for drawers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The shelves are sunset orange against a peacock-blue wall. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead it had a desk, some shelves, and an examining table, where he laid Helena. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

During recess the teachers locked themselves up in their office with the shelves of books, copybooks, inks from China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newer paperback, too, she returned to the shelf. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

When they got home from the grocery store, Gerald sat on the floor and watched Mama stack the boxes and cans on the shelf. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a couple shelves where I keep porcelain animals, and Micro Machines cars, and a La-Z-Boy chair we got when the people in the apartment next door left it outside. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As I pull my goggles down, I scan each shelf for something which could render the toxin useless. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered to shut the outer pantry door when Tessa Koster came in, but I don’t think I locked the secret shelf inside. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Isaac kicked the chair again, until it bounced against Gus’s bed, and then he grabbed one of the pillows and started slamming it against the wall between the bed and the trophy shelf above. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Celia helps him move Poppet to one of the velvet benches by the table, while on a nearby shelf a cup of tea pours itself, steaming and brewing instantly in a flowered china cup. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And there were odd little shelves that looked like they’d been made for fairies to sit on. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s even a shelf dedicated to face masks in all colors and patterns, an accessory I’ve seen worn all over Tokyo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled dried leaves and clouded liquids from the shelves, all the while gushing about Mother’s exploits, finishing with the confrontation in the hospital. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She took a two-pack of EPTs off the bottom shelf and, tucking them under her purse, brought them to the register. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The books lined up in his bookcase had been lined up on Mike’s and Curtis’s shelves, except for the ones Kyle got each year for Christmas from his grandmother. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Emily pulled a textbook from the shelf Mr. Quisling had indicated and slid into the seat James had saved for her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"I imagine, daddy," Matilda said quietly, "that you weren't looking very hard and you simply took mummy's bottle of hair stuff off the shelf instead of your own." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel had a great black book on an available shelf and it had gold letters on the cover—Dr. Gunn's Family Medicine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there stood those jars of corn whiskey on our closet shelf. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Harry Cat leaped up to the shelf just in time to keep his tail from being burned. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Etienne helped Hugo navigate the card catalog so he could find the book he needed and then brought him to the correct shelf. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The shelves are in fact the ends of wooden bunk beds, three tiers high, seven beds deep. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But it was also that the neat stacks of dishes on the high shelves and the smell of Pine-Sol made me feel weirdly safe, or warm, or just normal, I guess. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The room is lined with shelves stocked with cans and boxes of food—donations to help feed migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Helped my hand reach out to a shelf holding a book with my name, and it saved me from the pain of losing her and from a city I hated. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

As I proudly stack everything on the empty shelves, I announce, “It’s like Christmas came early!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Feeling guilty, I said, “I put them on the shelf.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He arranges the spices in alphabetical order, on a special shelf in the kitchen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He studied the photograph surreptitiously and then closed the magazine and put it back where it belonged, on the top shelf. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left the office, ducking through a Troll Hole into the room with the labyrinthine shelves. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had been on the bridge with the captain for an hour at that point, watching him pilot the ship through the many islands, avoiding high shelves and sandbars, other ships and countless unseen dangers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Fadi stood on his toes and felt along the top shelf of his locker. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Pet started walking around and looking through the rest of Bitter’s work—piles of drawings stacked on every flat surface, canvases layered and leaning against the walls, shelves full of small sculptures. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I could come in and sweep the floors and dust the shelves and take out the trash. I could do that.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everything in this room reminded me of Clancy, from the smell to the way he had organized the books by color on the shelves. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I kept my church hat on a shelf in a hatbox, and every Sunday when I’d pick it up to take my hat out, roaches would crawl out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demon girl slid the book back into the shelf. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems better than putting it back on the shelf. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She didn't say anything, just shifted some books onto the shelf and took down a few others. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Available on the prison library’s shelves were books on just about every general subject. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The BFG stood up and walked over to one of the many shelves and placed the latest jar among the thousands of others. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered a cell with a plank bed, a sort of shelf sticking out from the wall, and a tin washbasin, and meals of hot soup and bread and sometimes coffee. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He started by going to bookstores in Pasadena, and when he’d depleted their shelves, he took the bus into downtown Los Angeles and scoured the shelves of every bookstore he could find. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had noticed them on the kitchen shelf when she came home from the funeral and had put them in her breast pocket. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I took our family photo from the shelf and placed the gold frame faceup in the bottom of the empty suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You can take it, or this ugly thing can gather dust on a high shelf for the next ten years.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with racks of rifles—very expensive rifles—and Jesper assumed the boxes on the shelves were filled with ammunition. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The boy pointed to a lamp base on the second shelf, and then to himself. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We were looking for books about white sharks to help with the field guide. And Fred found a bunch of her papers on the shelf,” I said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Not to mention there were open boxes on the shelves, though they appeared to be empty. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

That shelf would have the tea glass and the tray with paper clips and rubber bands, because literature has not been the focus of this dynasty. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then there are shelves displaying vintage video games and consoles, as well as prototypes of what look like the earliest versions of the NeuroLink glasses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had not looked through those volumes for many years, until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a really big photo with VanQuish on a shelf next to his medals. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But you would climb up and reach the Pahlavi, then the first big shelf of American dynasty writers like Stan Lee. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’d looked right past the slim volume on the bottom shelf, wedged between two yearbooks. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He clinked a few bottles together as he rummaged around on its shelves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had entrusted it to friends who were hiding it in a coffee can on a shelf in their kitchen pantry. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A real house with curtains and proper shelves for my books and actual chairs to sit on, not old lard buckets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the western end of each little house, they carefully framed a small windowlike opening, and built beneath it a shelf for spirit offerings. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Styx led us to a shelf stocked with dozens of lawn mower motors. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On a shelf in one of the laboratories is the cockpit voice and data recorder—the so-called black box—from the devastating Valujet crash in Florida in 1996, in which 110 people were killed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The priest reached across to the shelf beside his chair and took down a bottle and two small glasses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because I knew that if Lori never got out of Welch, neither would I. I went back to G. C. Murphy the next day and stared at the shelf of piggy banks. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She followed her mother into the stinky store crowded with stacked shelves of crooked stick and wire cages. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Gobstopper jar’s gone! It’s not on the shelf! There’s a gap where it used to be!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one I pulled off the shelf was called The House on Mango Street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Doc reached up on a high shelf to grab something; as he did, he nudged aside the box I saw there on our first rootwork lesson, the one that had been full of Devil’s Shoestrings. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Besides his workbench and chair there was a heavy safe in the corner, a lavatory with a greenish mirror, and shelves full of boxes and worn-out clocks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We were in the library after school, where I flipped through a book I’d pulled from the display shelf while he finished the flyer for our talent show. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Next to the desk is a tiny round metal sink; in the corner is a closet full of shelves with a clear plastic curtain serving as a door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It is long and narrow, the walls covered with shelves that bear identical blue- gray books, thick and heavy as dictionaries. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Soldiers move in and out, knapsacks on their backs, tanks are driving through, and there are bare shelves in the shops. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Always judge a person by their shelves. To fold or not to fold the pages.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So there she was, in the library on her knees in the narrow fiction stacks, with three copies of the novel, two paperbacks and one hardcover, on the shelf in front of her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Kate could see her rummaging through the cabin, dumping drawers and knocking things from the shelves of cabinets. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

A granite shelf juts out from a fissure a few feet away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There’s practically nothing even in the room; it’s mostly open space, exempting the shelves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a long desk up front, and shelves of books. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Against the wall was a set of shelves holding a few of Min’s latest creations. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I have a lot more on my mind than the challenge of organizing the Faded Glory jeans shelves. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those sections might not have had shelves. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She knocks books around on the shelf, picking one up, dropping it, flipping through another. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Poisons were abundantly available in products found on the shelves of apothecaries and grocery stores, and unlike a gunshot they could be administered without a sound. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was a real dump except for the table and shelves at the far end of it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He grabbed her hair with his left hand and stretched toward the shelf without straightening and pulled out the book. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

On the shelves against the wall there was no bread at all, only a single, sad round roll. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Then he picked a pulp magazine from his shelf and brought it to the light over the table. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Place them on the shelf by the windows. The cool air will keep them from getting soggy.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Then just take stuff from the shelves you can reach,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He turns to me and points to the empty shelf in the shed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was already trying to climb up the shelves toward the lever. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The electric lights, the various mechanical pieces spread across the worktable, the shelf of neatly labeled solvents—the tinkerers laboratory is a completely different world than the one I was used to. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Without thinking, she began to straighten out the shelves as she read the titles. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He waved his hand at his windows, his desk, his shelves of books. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barracks they were assigned had a long brick oven along one end and deep trenches on the sides in which sleeping shelves were placed, like triple bunk beds, at impossibly narrow intervals. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was old-fashioned, with heavy wooden drawers and shelves for holding jams and pickles, back when the house was built. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

To boost his competitiveness Bobby spent hours after school at the Grand Army Plaza library reading almost every chess book on the shelves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The bottled beast you see there on the shelf.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Boards had been propped against one wall for the day when Father would build shelves. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is pointing to a long shelf ahead of us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He scanned the walls and shelves and floors, stepping deliberately. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Plenty of books on the shelves, some of their spines worn down from rereading. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His fingers were stiff on the cash register keys, and every time he looked up, Griffin was flopping off a shelf of canned goods. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all the visitors engaged in playtime pursuits, however, Apples to Apples is the only game left on the shelf, and Mackenzie grabs it, not knowing the sordid history. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He stalked off to a dark corner of the room, put the notebook down on a shelf, and buried his head in his hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux was laid out on a toppled nonfiction shelf. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There were my shelves, heavy with books and stacks of note paper filled with the calculations that had defined our rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And so Edward Tulane was mended, put together again, cleaned and polished, dressed in an elegant suit and placed on a high shelf for display. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He took the albums from the shelves, the three photo albums Olanna so carefully put together, and ran out to the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And our Decoy Detonators are just walking off the shelves, look,” said Fred, pointing at a number of weird-looking black horn-type objects that were indeed attempting to scurry out of sight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

No Mo. The books stood ranged tidily on their shelves, except in one place where there was a wide, dark gap. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Rummaging around in some lower shelves, they dug out several, filled them with food, then sat on the floor between the computer and the TV. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my closet, on the top shelf behind stacks of books and shirts, I find Dad’s dollhouse. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re not stocking the shelves in the store! Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull a book from the shelf and open the pages just to smell them. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I take it from the shelf, looking around to make sure it’s okay. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She had taken the Florence Nightingale book from him and brought it home and put it on her shelf. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I saved those writings—they now sit in a box on a closet shelf—and to this day it still hurts me to read them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At such times the ridge came down, and the continental shelf, so to speak, stretched out, and the algae along the shore became so slack that I tended to catch my feet in it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on top of it, I could see where more shelves had been lined up in front of the other exit. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“No, that wouldn’t show up,” I agreed, scanning the shelves. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My job is to stack shelves and help with inventory. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Pearl glanced at the shelves above the stove and pushed a box under them; she took down bread, cheeses, dried fruits, meats, and a bag of oats and sugar. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go back to dusting and arranging the shoe polish on the shelf. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She put some change in a basket on a shelf above the candles. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It goes well right next to the shelf with my vintage 1950s Kodak Medallion 8 camera. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It looks like a storage closet, just one bare lightbulb glowing over shelves of suitcases. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even her shelf in the bathroom was a wondrous sight—a skyline of bottles, tubes, and jars of all shapes and hues. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The bookshop was dimly cool, its air moody and eclectic, books, CDs, and magazines spread out on low shelves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Canning jars, stacked three deep, gleamed like a rainbow of liquid jewels along the length of the shelf. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of answering he stood, and started searching the shelves with his eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Slowly I place the books back in the shelves. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the napkin to the shelves and look them all up again, in order. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“The linen,” Mrs. Dudley said, “belongs in the linen drawers in the dining room. The silver belongs in the silver chest. The glasses belong on the shelves.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A picture arose in her mind’s eye—the shelves at Mrs. Murdo’s house stocked with good things, and the three of them happier and safer than other people. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Have you seen the books on these shelves? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And the little vine ran around the edge of the shelf. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A list of all the titles currently missing from the library shelves. Dr. Zinchenko asked us to put one together after that last Flora and Ulysses book disappeared from the fiction wall.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the end of each day, Tree-ear always tried to check Min’s shelves, to see what progress had been made. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Upon reaching the bottom we came into a large, enclosed room with many shelves and two large tables. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The pantry door stood wide open, giving the sight and smell of goodies on the shelves, and Black Susan came purring down the stairs from the attic, where she had been taking a nap. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear wiped out the bowls, stacked them neatly on their rock shelf, and finally asked, “What happened to the old one?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I pulled a random book off the shelf and turned around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They sat on the rock shelf for a while, eating the food Doon had brought. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered perilously close to where Penelope was hidden, but merely to pull a book off the shelf. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see any signs of the dart boxes we saw on the other Berg,” Alec said, pointing his light at a row of empty shelves. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Gitl began reciting the Kaddish, rocking back and forth on the sleeping shelf with the sonorous words, and the prayer was like the tolling of a death bell. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wallet-size photos of my grandparents’ nieces and nephews line the shelf in the hallway, along with the little baby Jesus and praying-hands statues that Grandma collects. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I laughed and walked up to him and the popcorn machine and grabbed a bottle from the lower shelf. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Along the south part of the fence where the sun shone most of the day, I built long shelves out of branches and put the meat up to dry. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no red marks on my carefully chosen words and sentences and quotes from books on Chantal’s shelves and from the internet. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On this day, she stood in front of the dining room cabinet and put the radio on the highest shelf she could reach, moving it around as she held a wire connected to it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Finally he found the bird in the closet, on the high shelf. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The boy felt the brown paper bag of walnut kernels on the shelf behind the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gray desk began to fill up with papers and my shelves with books as I learned more and more about all these problems. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, you didn’t eat it. You put it up high on a shelf so you could just look at it.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Hollister pulled out a notepad from the shelf under his counter and flipped through the pages until he found the one he was looking for. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wander past the shelves, my attention shifting from table to table. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The children crawled over the shelves and into the potato and onion bins, twanging all the time in their sharp voices like cigar-box guitars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the bed, on a shelf, is a book. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the book bag on the library shelf, he discovered an interesting contraption, something like a metal snail. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how it was at first: dazzling warehouses buzzing with light, where entire shelves boast nothing but hair spray, tooth-whitening cream, and foot powders. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head was too large for his body, with a brute's squashed-in face beneath a swollen shelf of brow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Without knowing precisely why, Zane removed one of the empty jars from the shelf. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

One wall was lined with shelves and on the shelves were boxes and boxes of letters. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Gertrude rose to fetch a small book from a high shelf and returned to a cushioned settee, motioning for me to sit at her feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I browsed the shelves while Mr. Hanson worked with the older woman. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Below it twenty fathoms or more, there was a wide and rugged shelf which ended suddenly in the brink of a sheer cliff: the East Wall of Rohan. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I grab our mics from the shelf next to the modem. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I slipped inside, walked up to a shelf, and traced my fingers along the spines. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, as a thank-you, the great man sent me the bottled beast you see on the shelf next to the armadillo. It is my most prized possession.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Alba spent two days walking around the house in circles in a state of sheer despair, going through the books in Jaime’s tunnel and on her own shelves and destroying anything that might be compromising. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then pointed to a new can of paint on the bottom shelf. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I stood and peeked over the shelves to find a boy and girl had sneaked two sodas into the library. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

When she had finished, she put the small cake on the top shelf of the dish cupboard. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fin levered herself up from the stool, reaching for a long leather case on the shelf bolted to the wall above her head. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Against the other wall were shelves neatly stacked with jars of fruit preserves. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She has a whole shelf full of them. Surely she won’t miss one or two.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She climbed down several flights of stairs and through a maze of corridors and shelves to find the only section of stone wall in the entire building that wasn’t lined with books. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra lifted the sleeping dragonflies up to a shelf in a dark corner, where Tialys said they would rest till daylight, and then the Gallivespians joined them on the table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He removed his tunic, hung it carefully on a wall hook, and put on the volunteer’s smock that was folded on a shelf. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Albums line a shelf above an old record player. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Unfazed, she turned around and began stalking the aisles, indiscriminately pulling candy bars and bags of chips off the shelves. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As we pass the little library, one of my favorite parts of the Islamic Center, I see that the books have been knocked off the shelves and many are in shreds. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I enter Morrie’s large office and notice the seemingly countless books that line the wall, shelf after shelf. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no one who needs reminding that the forgotten book on his or her shelf belongs to me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they all stood once more on the flat shelf at the head of the steep slope where they had felt the first flakes of snow the night before. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We passed four different spice stores, each with turmeric and chilies lining the shelves and spices in colors and with names I had never seen before. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The packaging on the products lining these shelves was more subdued. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mom reaches toward a top shelf and I go over to help. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was at the top tier of the very tall shelves, along the northern wall beyond which the shark-fin ridge fell away in a sheer cliff all the way to the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I set the bowl back on the shelf. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

August repaired the shelves for me when he was home. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were lined with shelves from floor to ceiling, and on the shelves stood—Mrs. Frisby dredged in her memory. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He fastens the lock on the knob for good measure, then wedges the book on a high shelf between two volumes of the Hardy Boys. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the bottom shelf of the nearest one, which was just at his eye level. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I took one last look at the little bird before closing the book and placing it back on the shelf. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I slid his favorite book back in the shelf over his bed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much to the narrow room: a clothes cupboard, some shelves, and a bed of tidy, tightly packed feather mattresses covered with hand-embroidered quilts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Harry shone his lit wand around the vault: Its beam fell upon glittering jewels; he saw the fake sword of Gryffindor lying on a high shelf amongst a jumble of chains. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I made shelves in the side of the rock as I had done in the other house, and gathered shellfish and seeds to store there. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

While a great deal of its walls are composed of frosted glass, most of it is obscured by cabinets and shelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tile floor and rows of shelves and on the shelves several dozen quart jars. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Liars and fools,” she said, rearranging the Mason jars full of peaches on the shelf, pushing them hard against each other until he thought the glass might break. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

On my next day off, I took Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl off my shelf and reread it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the shelf in the middle, where Sir Charles had placed the alethiometer, there was a space. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shower stall led into a bathroom, where there was a shelf that held some clean white socks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge had noticed the cat ears earlier that morning, on the shelf above her desk, where they’d been sitting since the previous Halloween. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He removed his dark shades, put on his reading glasses, and took the bedtime book from the shelf. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I saw it was more of the same that was there for me on the shelf. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just to see .. . just to make sure it had put him in the right House — He walked quietly around the desk, lifted the hat from its shelf, and lowered it slowly onto his head. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

First thing I saw when May switched on the light were those shelves and shelves—seemed every wall was covered with them—of whirligigs. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few shelves lined with jars of food hung next to it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Something forced Hannah to bend down and stare into the shelf. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last shelf of rotting stone the stream gurgled and fell down into a brown bog and was lost. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On the shelves stood glass bottles filled with preserved animals: snakes, lizards, toads, and many creatures Jule could not identify. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Here she is reaching up, without resorting to tiptoes, to put it on the top shelf. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed one of our day care teachers opening the closet where our bright blue “Kids R Kids” T-shirts were neatly folded on a shelf. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ele was sitting on a bag of flour high atop a shelf in the pantry, crying for what he had lost. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I put the other poems up on a shelf, but he can climb. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He stood for a moment looking at the shelf filled with copies of The Water of Meribah, his most successful novel—the novel that had bought us this house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He rose from his chair and put his stringed instrument on the shelf where he kept it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was an opening in the bars with a flat, iron shelf attached on the inside. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it looked great perched on a little shelf just above the altar of. the evil god. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned back to the shelves, ran her finger along a row of spines. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was a low wooden kitchen shelf on which covered terra-cotta pots, ladles made of coconut shells and three chipped enamel plates with dark-blue rims were arranged. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You got shelves and shelves of history books, Steve. Sociology. Race and politics. How come you still think racism's in the past?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Anne put the books on the reserved shelf and pressed a buzzer, which would sound in the senior assistant’s office. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I took a basket from a high shelf and loaded it with bread, hard cheese, and a piece of dried beef I cut from the slab that hung in the pantry. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out one of the copies on the shelf and turn to a random page. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A little radio was up on a shelf blaring out some song in Spanish, but their voices drowned it out as they sang along. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Herr Thiessen has a constant stream of custom work and tells Mr. Barris as much, indicating a shelf of variants on the traditional cuckoo clock that range from simple to ornate. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

From what Aru could see, they held a combination of shelves, displays, small shops, and tents. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look around my white room at my white couch and shelves, my white walls, all of it safe and familiar and unchanging. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then he went to his box shelf and laid the magazine carefully in. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me try one more thing. Look over there, to the bookcase. Do you see the very top row of books, the ones behind the table, on the top shelf?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cupping a hand in front of my candle, I made my flickering way through the shelves, savoring the moment, soaking everything in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All afternoon I pottered about in my study with my housekeeping chores, and by the time I finished, there were six new box files on the shelves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The cricket had been sitting next to the edge of the shelf. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There should always be at least one copy on the shelves in any library.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He would miss the shelves of books he'd left behind in the castle. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

But even more dazzling to Joseph were the dozens of small blue-and-white Chinese vases and porcelain figures, each one sitting on its own little gold shelf, that covered the wall above the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I pick up the colorful jar, place it back on the shelf, and walk away. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Rows of colored liquid—green, red, blue—lined the shelf beneath a great mirror. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

From my perch on the cushioned chair I see the wooden footrest with its floral needlepoint cover in front of her rocker, the small shelf of books— prayer books and poetry, mainly—by the stairs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hauled it over to the trailer and lashed it to the shelf I'd made for it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stayed there for years, second shelf of the medicine cabinet—milky-white bottle with the iconic line drawing of a sailing ship, a totem of our exotic visitor. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Adele had arrived at that point, and as we looked at the shelves of musty clothes, arranged by category—shirts, jeans, shoes—we couldn’t help but giggle. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom Mami showed me her Kotex, hidden on a high shelf under towels. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The girl smiled and then she stood on her tiptoes and took Edward off the shelf. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Then she bustled around the room, muttering, sweeping the windowsill with her short-handled broom, straightening the bags of rice and flour and sugar on her shelves. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A bottle of ink was on the same shelf that held the poison. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

High on the top shelf was “Sarsaparilla to Sorcery.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tateh threw a counter and some shelves in there, an old cash register, tacked up a sign outside that said “Shilsky’s Grocery Store” or something to that effect, and we were in business. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared blankly at the things that had once been her daily companions—the teacher’s desk, the stacks of paper, The Book of the City of Ember on its special shelf. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas got the small carved piece from its high shelf, and put it into his pocket. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plucks a book from the shelf, Geist und Tat, Spirit and Action, by Heinrich Mann, who criticized Germany's growing fascism so loudly that he was forced to flee after Hitler became chancellor. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He walks into the small pantry just off the kitchen where the washing machine rumbles and canned goods that never get eaten line the shelves. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was much easier for him, now that he was smaller, to negotiate his way through his crammed shop, but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

His back is to me, his left hand stretched out to hold on to a shelf, his right hand dangling at his side. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sensing a business opportunity, Hank escorted us into the back room and grabbed a couple beat-up boxes from a top shelf loaded with similar-looking cardboard refugees. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I were supposed to be putting fresh paper on the lower kitchen cabinet shelves, so that the canned goods could be brought down once more from upstairs and put away. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the bathroom and took the jeweled box from the shelf. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was still up on the highest shelf. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes blurred and there swam before him a vast array of red and blue and green and yellow cans stacked high upon shelves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the shelf itself there stood a Primus stove, a saucepan and a half-full bottle of milk. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

My heart radiates badoom, so I stand and shuffle into the living room and pick a book off my parents’ shelf. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Boo soared down to help Mini, leaving Aru on the shelf. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nick swung out from behind the counter, ambling across the store to his ammo shelves. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mermaid teapot is sitting on the shelf in front of me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Men in gray robes rode upon wheeled ladders, seeming to float through the air, scrolls flapping behind them like wings as they rolled from shelf to shelf. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He took a glass from a narrow shelf and filled it from a faucet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The candy lady's small living room is filled with shelves and shelves of chocolate bars and gumdrops, Good & Plenty and Jujubes, Moon Pies and Necco Wafers, lollipops and long red licorice strings. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And she liked pranking people by waiting until they pulled out a book, only to see her making strange faces in the empty space on the shelf. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, she pulled a box off a shelf, flung back its lid, and stopped. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was the kind makeup artists used, with shelves of little trays that folded out to reveal more layers of shelves. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

This time when he looked at me, he chose another candle from the shelf behind him and anointed it with oil. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The old doll and Edward sat on their shelf and stared straight ahead. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Bookshelves, the books inside them, and models of ships standing on the top of the shelves. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I said, seeing him go over and take a thermos bottle from a shelf near one of the furnaces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, it'll be near evening and Daddy and I will walk slow back into the house where I'll pull the Epsom salt from the shelf fill the dishpan with warm water, massage his swelling hands. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then he looked at the clock on the shelf over the refrigerator. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a real phone booth, but a kind of cubicle hung up on the wall, with an open shelf underneath to hold the directory. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to the Internet and then to the shelves, where I exchanged the books of the second wave for those that preceded the first—Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t want to be found by the policeman and be taken to Father, so I stayed on the shelf and didn’t move, and no one saw me this time. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Books cluttered the shelves, but they were so covered in dust that when Ophie tried to pull one down to check the title, she had a sneezing fit. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her first thought was to pick a young teenager's romance of the kind that is written for fifteen-year-old schoolgirls, but for some reason she found herself instinctively walking past that particular shelf. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly we all climbed down from our shelves and looked out the windows and doors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On his chest, rising and falling with the deep, regular breaths of a solid sleeper, lay a thick book about tropical plant life that he’d taken from a shelf. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every shelf and table were covered with knickknacks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He chose the high shelf of his closet, which he could not reach without standing on his chair. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

There are too many books and not enough shelves to hold them, so they sit piled on antique Chinese chairs and sari-wrapped cushions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And then the train stopped again, and I thought about getting off the shelf and going to get my bag and get off the train. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One elbow was resting on the shelves, and she seemed to slide along them, as though about to disappear between the books. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had a glass to drink from, and it sat with Miss Glory’s on a separate shelf from the others. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had not recommended it, he had merely left it on the shelf, next to a pile of other books he had finished but meant to go back to. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I closed the book and put it on the shelf and turned around. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We walk through each row of shelves, finding nothing but a few copies of Reader’s Digest from the 1970s lying on the floor. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A return to clay and plaster followed, and ghostly casts of her acquaintances haunted corners of the house, or tumbled off closet shelves onto people’s heads. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racks of clothes, shelves of books, shoes, tennis rackets. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I rode down four levels to my armory, a massive vault filled with storage shelves, display cases, and weapon racks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even remember taking it off the shelf. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was also an enormous, claw-footed desk, and, sitting on a shelf behind it, a shabby, tattered wizard’s hat —- the Sorting Hat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Alex pushed open the heavy swing door and went into a room with a tiled chessboard floor and about fifty shelves fanning out from a central reception area. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Baby pulled down a doll from a low shelf and turned it upside down, and it let out a crying sound. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wings of palaces were devoted to the marvels, and shelves of libraries to the stories. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He sighed as he took a mug from the row of them on a shelf. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jars clink and crash in the kitchen as they’re knocked from pantry shelves, or fall from overloaded arms. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Liter and half liter—that’s all we serve. There’s the glasses on the shelf in front of you.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It had two sleeping cots, a wooden table, two straight-backed chairs, a window, and shelves nailed to the walls where Nana placed clay pots and her beloved Chinese tea set. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Up high on a shelf, there was a box. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Inside, there were shelves and shelves of books. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The shelves running around the circular walls were crammed with dusty-looking feathers, stubs of candles, many packs of tattered playing cards, countless silvery crystal balls, and a huge array of teacups. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The shower, with its patterned tiles and clear doors; the small bottle of serum sitting on a shelf inside. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I turned to look at my picture sitting on Conner’s shelf. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

This time all her parents have had to do is bring down the boxes from a closet shelf, retrieve the jewels from the safety deposit box, find the itemized list for the caterer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

James bent to a low shelf and slid aside books to create a tiny window. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a thesaurus off the shelf, because there were only so many ways I knew to say “I’m sorry” without help. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him up the side of the cage to the shelf above. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bottles, cans, and boxes line shelves along one wall, and the horse stalls are like market booths with goods piled inside them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had pushed his body against hers, pushing her dress right up above her knee and had trapped her where the shelves met at right angles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Between meals, if his mother did not stand guard, he was constantly pilfering at the wretched store of food on the shelf. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I neatly refold all my clothes and place them on the shelves. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

On the second floor there are corridors leading into other corridors, lined with shelves that contain jars full of dead lizards or pickled ox eyeballs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But, as always, he heard nothing, and continued to the shelves beyond. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The morning sunlight was already filtering through the cracks of the shutters, but it was as silent in the big house as if even the books on the shelves were sleeping. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Er, no, first I tried to dig my toes in to keep from falling. And that’s when the shelf moved and I did fall.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Carla’s eyes sweep over a high shelf where toys and trinkets are stored out of the way. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness emerged a wall of shelves lined with glass jars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

On the next shelf are paint bottles and stacks of paper, everything from thick watercolor paper to filmy sheets of jewel-colored tissue paper. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as the wind sweeps everything off the shelves: knickknacks, books, a vase of purple flowers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The very history of the world, it had seemed to him, was all bound into covers or rolled into scrolls and archived on the shelves of this wondrous place. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s small and crammed with rows of metal shelves overflowing with plastic bottles promising that their secret formula is best for your hair, skin, etc. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We walked to the back of the store and there was a short shelf of books on pets and pet care. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Rotunda Reading Room, patrons were happily hover-browsing the fiction shelves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Luckily, there was even one of those small ladders-on-wheels they use in some libraries to get to the top shelves. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the Lemoncello Library had eight copies of the book on its shelves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

We picked up the knocked down chairs and table, cleaned the glass from the broken lanterns, and put the books back on the shelf. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Towering shelves lined the room, filled with ancient scrolls and dusty spellbooks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For a long time I stare at the floral wallpaper and shelves full of books, then I notice a framed photograph of a boy in uniform. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I walked past shelf after shelf of dog food. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A hog’s head sat on the back shelf like a trophy. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at the Bambi video and put it back on the shelf because it’s giving me a recess feeling in my stomach and I don’t know why. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dim room, lit by two dusty windows, shelves lined the walls, and on those shelves were all the things a person might need on an island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

By then we’d gone into the small six-bed dorms over in the separate huts, and in ours we had a portable cassette player up on the shelf above the radiator. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finished, he glanced over at the shelf with his bucket of tools, and his heart pounded. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

In the morning he found a dish of stewed lentils on the storeroom shelf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh, take it,” his mother said angrily, reaching for her cracked vinyl purse on the shelf above the stove. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first thing he did was to put up a shelf. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve known Old Mike, the owner of the store, since we were tall enough to reach the candy shelf. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Now that I was thawed out a bit and the little shack lit up by my trusty kerosene lamp, I could see that every shelf and surface was covered with books, newspapers, and old magazines. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Above the fireplace on a wooden shelf was a beautiful, dusty model ship, its sails billowing in an imaginary wind. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She dusted the space and then moved “Sarsaparilla” down to the shelf that held the rest of the encyclopedia set. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Alfred pushed the book into the shelf, and dropped back into one of Spoon's overstuffed living-room chairs. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panicking, he heard footsteps coming down the corridor outside — stuffing the shrieking book back on the shelf, he ran for it. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Let her chew one of these,” said the pharmacist, taking a box of hard biscuits from a shelf just above where the water had reached. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dudley’s eyes moved to the clock on the shelf over the stove. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

This is where the library’s new arrivals are put on display, the freshly laminated hardcovers facing out; they stand tall on their top shelves, their pages crisp and unread, their bindings flexible yet strong. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were five scrolls on the lower shelf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Books fell off the shelves and scattered around them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was clean and orderly with rows of perfectly placed shelves, which seemed untouchable. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Everyone’s different,” she says, sticking my chart on a crowded shelf. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

On tiptoe, leaning against the rickety lower shelves to keep from toppling, she could barely reach the book. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

His garage was filled with shelves stacked with samples, and after each new season Glen's dad let him sell the samples to his friends. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But today when I ask Mom for a box to put my dreadlocks in, she tells me to take one of her Sunday hat boxes from the top shelf of her closet. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He was standing erect behind the counter, not leaning forward or resting on the small shelf that had been built for him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I could read the tiniest print on any book on the shelves. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He pulls a big black and white tub from a shelf and hands it to Natasha. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Electric lights shine overhead, and low shelves are filled with books. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, Alys found a comb carved of bone on the shelf nearby, and began to unsnarl and smooth the wet, salt-stiffened hair. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then she smiles in the darkness and puts the memory up on a shelf in the place for old, sentimental, impossible things. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was an odd assembly that gathered that night, under the dimmed lights in the echoing laboratory, on the shelf where Justin and I had talked. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I paused at the thick black dictionary on the bottom shelf. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I lean against the shelves, close my eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cora missed the white stores and their abundant shelves, but she still had her evening walks home, and her game with the changing window displays. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A carved wooden box stood on a shelf pushed back behind a round basket woven from black and green telephone wires. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Metal shelves stretched into the darkness of a vast gray hall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I go back to the shelf and back to the book with the words from my heart. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

So I got off the shelf and I looked through the door, but the policeman wasn’t there. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was not much more than a tall man’s height now, and at its base there were wide flat shelves of dry stone; the water ran in a channel on the other side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I follow the shelves around and let my fingers graze a big golden Medal of Honor. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now it languished on a high shelf, under a box full of cash register tapes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she could find work here, dusting the shelves and washing the windows and making the place look brighter, cleaner, more like someplace where you wanted to buy groceries. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eitri took a pigskin from a shelf and placed it into the forge. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He selected a small vial from the shelf and removed the electronic contact lens from a fluid capsule. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had discovered them on a shelf in the workshop in the barn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was really something to see the shelf that had their books on it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her shelf had to do with a religion she’d made up for herself, a mixture of nature and ancestor worship. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some slept on the ironing tables, and the small children slept on the shelves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One book had been bound in white, and it stood out prominently on a shelf among the black-bound books around it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Alex finds himself wedged between Henry’s side and a shelf of what smells like industrial-strength floor cleaner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Kang eyed his work critically, then stood and replaced the tools on a shelf. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I gasp and run my hands over the closest shelf. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jinny wasn’t sure what had happened to her rock from when she was little, but there were a few stones, on a high shelf in the book cabin, painted with flowers and stars. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Little souvenir cups stood on the small shelves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shop was nothing but shelves and shelves of books, hundreds, perhaps thousands of books. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, it seemed to Milkman, she walked over to a shelf that hung over the dry sink, put the geography book on it, and removed a knife. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The lever was above the peanut butter shelf, right?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Frustrated, I slam the book shut and stash it back in the bookcase, glaring at the shelves of books like locked boxes holding secrets. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was more like a stack of shelves stuffed full of pattern envelopes, some so old they’d yellowed along the edges. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Most academic analyses of this sort tend to languish, unread, on a dusty library shelf. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Connor and I looked around at the stacks of boxes, the piles of junk, the shelves stuffed with old books and papers and props. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My father glanced at the clock on the shelf over the refrigerator. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her labeled mason jars lined the shelves of the kitchen, in sealed pyramids, enough, they’d agreed, to last for their grandchildren to taste. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with metal shelves six stories high, decorated with war banners, painted shields, and the stuffed heads of dragons, hydras, giant lions, and wild boars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He turned back to face the shelves, hiding his face, but I saw his hands clench at his side, bunching up the fabric of his pants. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lavender, looking relieved, stood up, took an enormous teapot from the shelf, and put it down on the table in front of Professor Trelawney. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And here, at the back of a shelf near the ceiling, two small miracles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I carefully put the cookbooks back on the shelf and checked the time on my phone. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Eggs hung in the door, bottles with colored fluids stood on a shelf. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He rests the broom he was holding against a shelf and saunters down the aisle toward us. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could see dust-covered jars pushed toward the back of the top shelf. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She pulled a newspaper from the shelf and brought it over to me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just three objects stood on this shelf, three identical celadon wine bowls—inlaid with chrysanthemums. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Thousands of his books were on the shelves, and in the back were boxes and crates full, for which there wasn’t space on the shelves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sickly child, he made the family library his playground, poring over volumes he struggled to lift from the shelves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, it is hard to care much about set theory when there are twelve trays of brown, light, perfect cream puffs cooling deliciously on a shelf back in your own classroom. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Savage meanwhile wandered restlessly round the room, peering with a vague superficial inquisitiveness at the books in the shelves, at the sound-track rolls and reading machine bobbins in their numbered pigeon-holes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grocery shelves were empty, grocers unable to restock. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rats, for some reason, had got on the shelf. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

None of them had had what he’d needed, so he’d have to go back to the shelves as soon as possible. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Before the travellers lay a wide ravine, with great rocky sides to which clung, upon shelves and in narrow crevices, a few thrawn trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Toby placed a book on the shelf between its brothers. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The jars of hard candy sticks lined up on a shelf hold dazzling combinations of colors and flavors. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He even rearranged the shelves of the kitchen downstairs and removed the gaily colored crêpe streamers from the electric fans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I made a shelf for it just under the solar panel shelves. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the coffee tin was not on the shelf where I’d left it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The instrument closet door is open, and I can see all the cases on the shelves. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Cans of food line a built-in wooden shelf. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I pull it off the shelf and start thumbing through it. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Doc took a jar full of cloudy water out of his bag and placed it high up on a shelf. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A large, long table filled the opposite wall, while shelves covered the other two walls. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I went to the supermarket, I couldn’t believe the amount of food that lined the shelves. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with shelves of bottles, jars, pots, pestles and mortars, and chemists’ balances. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My skin and bones will not age—my Bio Gel will simply reach the end of its shelf life and cease to operate. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"All their desks were at the back,” their grandmother said, "and there was a display shelf right by the window. I didn’t aim to hurt anyone.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One shelf featured nothing but large jars of homemade preserves. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Above the refrigerator were shelves holding more pots and jars, more spoons and knives, a wind-up clock that Granny always forgot to wind, and a long row of cans. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She sat up suddenly and hit her head with a loud crack on the shelf above her. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a book from my shelf, placed a tissue over it, and pulled my right hand on top of it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A bookshelf packed with hardcover books, with an entire shelf of comics in plastic sleeves. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They unrolled small blue prayer rugs from a shelf, then knelt, stood, and knelt again, touching foreheads to the ground, saying their prayers in low voices. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dallas washed the last pan and tossed it on the shelf. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was illustrated with a cartoony-looking detective in a checkered hat who was holding up a magnifying glass to examine books on a shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She closed her book, put it back on the shelf together again with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps you did teach her. Perhaps she was lying. Perhaps you have shelves full of books all over the house. I wouldn't know. Perhaps you are both great readers." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I may have been too old for them, but I had a million different Lego kits—space ones, dinosaurs, trucks and cars—all lining the walls of my bedroom on shelves. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The girl is still inside, mechanically lifting books from a pile and placing them on shelves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z