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Indian woman who discovers the son she thought was dead is not I read a book about 15 20 years ago. I can't remember the title or the author, except that the author was either an Indian woman or an American of Indian descendant. In the novel, the main character is a young woman in India who ends up having a child out of wedlock. Her brother urges her to place the baby for adoption, fearing no one will want to marry her if she has a child and was never married. Her delivery is difficult and she loses consciousness. When she wakes up, her brother tells her that the baby died. Later he arranges a marriage with a man who is divorced and rather than telling him the truth, the prospective husband is told she is a recovering cancer survivor. It works and they marry. They move to America (tempted to say New Jersey but it's definitely somewhere on the East Coast) and have a daughter. Many years later, the main character gets a letter from a woman back in India that she has never met saying she adopted the main character's son and he is ill and needs maybe a kidney or some organ. Now the woman must come clean to her husband and daughter, confront her brother and meet a son she never knew she had. I can't believe I remember all these details and not the name of the book or the author. If it helps, I read another book by this same author also about an Indian mother with a daughter who is pregnant and whose husband dies and she is living with her in laws. Does anyone know this author or the name of either of these books?

scifi 1960s man has message imprinted in his bones. 2 years to deliver the message. I have been looking for this book for some time. I read it as a boy in the 1960s, so it was published between 1955 and 1968. I anyone can help me find it, I'd be very grateful! Thanks! Gary Smith

sci fi book about two princesses who have to pretend to be the same person about three or four years ago i read this book about these two twins who were both princesses of their kingdom, except the kingdom only thought there was one of them. one of them was trained to be the public face of the princess and was taught social skills and stuff, and the other one was trained to fight so that whenever the princess had to go out in public they'd just send the fighting one instead so she can't get assassinated or whatever. then, some rival kingdom or something wants to make a peace treaty, i believe involving marriage, which requires the princess to be sent away to that kingdom to stay for a while. however, both of them can't go, so they send the one who knows how to fight (the main character btw) even though im not sure why. she ends up actually falling in love with the prince of the other kingdom and her dad and sister back home are angry (but mostly her dad) the book ended with the main character and the prince breaking back into the castle to try and save the main characters sister because the dad is holding her hostage or something, i think they kill the dad, and then they reveal to the public that they are two different people. the thing about this book though is im pretty sure it wasn't the authors first book, and while it was not part of the previous series the author has written, it was in the same universe, and i remember that confusing me because i didn't actually realize that when i read it. ive been looking for this book ever since i remembered it like two months ago and i found this subreddit and i hope you guys can help cause i really want to read this book again. i believe the book was sci fi, because it was set really far in the future and had a bunch of like futuristic technology and stuff

Pride and Prejudice variation where there's a girl on the roof of the carriage in the rain So I've read an obnoxious amount of PP variations that they can start to blend together. There's one where Elizabeth and Darcy are married, but I believe it's a forced marriage variation. Darcy saves a girl in London from a rogue (I'm pretty sure it's Wickham) and takes her into the household. Elizabeth become jealous because she doesn't know what's going on. The thing hat I remember the most is that, while travelling to Pemberly, the girl is riding on the top of the carriage with the driver in the rain. Darcy remembers her, stops the carriage, and her ride in the carriage, thus making Elizabeth more jealous suspicious.

book about pickpocketer in Chicago before the fire, looking for the name of the book ok so basically I m trying to remember this book I read a while ago it was about this kid who was a pickpocketer in Chicago and he was going to steal this girls fathers safe because it had jewels in it this took place before the Chicago fire and the girl in the pickpocker end up becoming friends and then the fire of Chicago starts and while everyone is trying to get away the boy in the girl get separated but end up finding each other again and then at the end of the story I remember a shooting star, if anyone has any information it would be much appreciated!

Sci fi book where two astronauts discover teleportation and run away from the government trying to censor their discovery, in a septic tank spaceship I remember a lot of key plot points, such as the two being a couple, going back to Earth after their original spaceship getting laser beamed by the USSR so they can make a new one, and broadcasting their discovery which resulted in them being wanted dead. I also know they befriended a butterfly hive mind alien on a planet with sentient trees. Towards the end they get nuked, but they somehow manage to survive and cause world peace by sending threatening to send a bunch of meteorites down to Earth. Reading back on what I've just wrote, I've now just realized how absurd this storyline is. I'm just hoping this is an adequate enough amount of info for identifying this book. Thanks in advance.

Book about instant travel portals Looking for a book about instant travel portals. I heard about it on NPR a few years ago, they interviewed the author.

Book I Read as a Kid That's Scifi??? Thank you u NoNotChad for finding the book!!! (Not sure if I'm acknowledging you correctly, I'm relatively new to reddit) Unfortunately I don't recall alot of the details and I do apologize if I mis remember or no one can solve this with me. But I recently recalled a vague memory of a book I read when I was between 8 10 years old. Which was at least 13 years ago now. It's a book focused on 2 kids who live practically alone or with a relative while their scientists parents are at work. One day their parents don't come home so they decide to go looking for them. When they arrive at the building they discover this extremely advanced technology and possibly alien life. I remember the mention of floating stairs? (Not sure if that helps) I want to say it's a Sci Fi Dystopia novel for younger kids but the dystopia part might be wrong. But these kids(brother and sister) are put in a position to save their mom? I hope someone can help me solve this or just let me know this is a crazy fevered dream from when I was a kid. (BTW it's not A Wrinkle in Time) some of my friends suggested that to me. little more detail the cover of the book looks like a futuristic curved building.

A book placed in the 18th century about a girl who is trying to solve her father's death case I think it's mystery romance These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly Ok so it's about this high class girl Josephone Montfort (18th or so century I'd say) who was just about to go into like the dating world but her father mysteriously dies and everyone is telling her and her family it was a suicide but it was super obviously murder and like she saw a weird guy looking into his office window (where her father was found) she ends up meeting this like same age boy who is like lower class Eddie Gallagher and is an inspiring journalist like she is (also they both love this one journalist who goes by a pen name and is actually a girl so the high class girl sees her as sort of a role model Nellie Bly ) (except she's a girl so it probably won't happen) and he helps her try to solve her father's murder and she finds out he (the boy not her father) works for this weird guy who like takes in kids and has then work for him so she then meets this girl that works for him who like pick pockets and she teaches her to pick pocket and that's like most of that i can remember without going into massive detail unfortunately i have no info on whe i read this or the age i was or names from the book or literally probably any little details that would help but literally anything helps (Edit) I also remember she was really close to this other high class guy Abraham Aldrich and everyone basically thought they were going to be married but they'd still have to go through like all the normal things like courting and they'd still need to see the other options of the town

Kids SF ish book, An intelligence absorbing slime Hey fellas, I am here to find a book, and ask your help for that. Please excuse me that I am not so sure the way I write in here is appropriate or not, but at least I will try in detail. Background I was born and grown up in Korea. 20y ago, my school had a big library and I was one of the most frequently seen boy there. One day, I found a series of books which were quite gold. Recently, I started trying to find my childhood things and I reminded the books, but have no idea how to find them. I just remember a plot of one book, and I will describe it as below. It was 20 years ago, and English was not my native language so that there will be some errors. Description It seemed a book for kids with short story, simple characters and an easy plot. The main character, a boy, was grown up in the family which loved science a lot. His older sister had a smart cat, and he had an old stupid dog. One day he made something slime like thing, which absorbs the intelligence of others so it started absorbs others'. At the end it absorbed the intelligence of the dog, which was very low, and was destroyed for that reason. Recently I visited the school, but they rebuilt the library so that I could not find the things I had in my childhood. I hope at least I could find the books with your help. Thank you for your interest.

Book about girl who grew up in a cult where the children sleep with the lights on. If I remember correctly, the book's main character had a mother named Esmeralda ( she didn't know that Esme was the mother) and the MC gets tossed out of the cult building. bc of legal problems with the father suing the cult. All the cultists wear white including the children and all the lights are on all the time. The entire time the character keeps thinking that after all the good things are over (she's with her father at this time) darkness will come or something like that. (it doesn't get revealed that it's a cult 'till the end)

1970s witchcraft spell book for kids Hello! I ve been searching for this book for years. Here s what I remember I checked this book out a ton of times from the York Central Library in York, PA children s section. I lived there from 1976 to 1981 so it can t have been published later than that. Physically it was longer than it was tall. I think the illustrations were watercolors or at least painted. Cover probably was mostly purple with title in yellow, but I m not too sure about that. These were actual spells, presented as real, not much narrative or history. The one I remember involved putting honey and some other things in a hollowed out apple tied with a white ribbon, then burying it in the yard, then digging up the ribbon to (I think) sleep with it under your pillow to dream about your husband. I ve tried a few we can find your book websites with no luck. Any help appreciated!

A novel, fiction. I believe the word "family" might or might have not been in the title The book is about a kid who was left in a door step as a baby and the family in that house (husband and wife) decided to take care of him until the husband house got into an accident at work and they had to sell the only cow they had to pay for court. After losing the court the husband decides to sell the boy to an old men who had 3 dogs and a monkey who would perform plays on the street with them for money. He takes the boy and trains him to be a street actor and they both go on a journey.

Cosmic horror anthology book set in Canada that appeared in a Reddit ad A few months ago I saw this book in a Reddit ad. It was a set of cosmic horror Lovecraftian stories set in Canada. One in particular I believe may have been set in northern Saskatchewan. From what I remember the cover had green, and it may have had Cthulhu on the cover.

Children s chapter book series read btwn 1990 1995 about a girl with brown hair amp glasses on the cover. Everything she seems to do backfires. In one book she makes lunches for other kids at school amp sells them, which the kids end up hating. In another book she has to write about her family tree, but she thinks her family is boring so she makes up elaborate stories, including having a great grandma that was a notorious pirate. Her teacher realizes it s made up amp makes her redo the assignment.

3rd grade level fictional mystery series where two kids, a boy and a girl, happen upon mysteries wherever they go. So I'm not entirely sure if this is possible, I've been looking for a while and haven't found anything so I thought I would come here and see if anyone could help me. There is a series I used to read in elementary school. It was a mystery series that took place in around the 1800 1900s (date might be a bit off) from what I remember. It was about these two children I believe were sister and brother or cousins. As the genre states,they would go on little mysteries. I remember there being a certain spiritual fictional tone to the books though I can't remember if by the end of the stories it was actually something like a ghost or something fictional, or if it was your usual "nothing weird going on it was just someone sneaking around" type thing (if that makes any sense at all). I've been trying to look it up and see if anything sticks out but I haven't been lucky. The closest book that resembles the series is The Bobbsey Twins. The cover style as well as the titles seemed to stick out to me, though closer inspection told me otherwise. The ones I remember reading were hardcover. The spines and base color of the cover were beige and or gray ish, then there was a picture that correlated to the title plot of the specific book in a grainy, almost painted style. Each book in the series was about 30 40 chapters long. The original language I english, but more of an older english than more modern language. I can for sure say it's not any of the following The Boxcar Children (sadly was never able to get into those, I distinctly remember this series books sitting next to the books I read) A Z Mysteries (this one showed promise but as I looked into it discovered that these books have pictures while the books I read did not) The Babysitter's Club (the series wasnt necessarily named after the main characters, nor did the main characters have anything distinct about them such as Nancy Drew or The Babysitter's Club do. They were just two children who stumbled upon mysteries) The Bobbsey Twins (at a quick glance cover art and titles seemed to be it but looking deeper into it, the cover art wasn't on point and it didn't have the same feel in story as the series I'm looking for) I do partially remember the plot of one book. It was a continuation (or seemed to be) of the book before it. The children and their guardian (aunt mother whatever she was to them I cant remember) were driving their carriage away from the place they previously were, if I'm not mistaken it was winter snowing. They stumbled upon a vet (I think) who needed help. I remember the boy running back to wherever they just left (or to the home of the person needing help) to gather others and get more people to help. Seeing as the kids and their guardian stayed to help, the family (vet and his wife?) invited them for dinner and to stay the night so they weren't travelling home at night. It was then that the children found themselves in the middle of a mystery. I believe there were people sneaking around, and something about a letter? In the end they solved the mystery residing in wherever they stayed and went home. Obviously some of those details might be a little off (nothing big just small details like why they stayed and who needed help) but that is the overall gist of it. I read the books when I was in second grade, (2010 2011), however they were set for a 3rd grade reading level and seemed appropriate for a curious 7 8 year old just startimg out on chapter books. I checked them out from my schools library and they seemed to have been there a while, looking a bit faded and used. I don't exactly know when they were published but I assume they have to have been around at least since 2000 (maybe earlier but I don't want to over estimate). I hope this was enough information but if there are any questions I am more than happy to answer to the best of my abilities. Thank you all! EDIT Found the book series finally. Thank you all for helping me search for this series. It was something that has been on my mind for a long while. I apprecoate you guys!

YA novel magical sinister boarding school Ominous onimous or similarly named character, belladonna used as a poison, clairvoyance, clairaudio, sentient animals, a mystical cafe, I read it in middle school would have been 2006 08

Illustrations could be looked at from any orientation of the book children's I came across this children's book between 1995 and 2007, I think in around 2004 but I'm not sure when it was published. The standout feature was the beautiful intricate illustrations. Each page or double page spread was all in a single color, and the illustrations represented the apartment building or the block or the city or something. The illustrations could be looked at from any orientation. The plot is very fuzzy to me but I believe it was about a girl who went around and met her neighbors from different cultures. I think the MC was white. I've googled everything I can think of but no results. My only hope is that one of you just knows instantly what book I'm talking about.

Christmas Book From Childhood (90s). Reindeer get inside the house. I'm trying to find a Christmas book from my childhood (90s), but so far have had no luck. The only thing I can remember about it is that it was beautifully illustrated, and at one point the reindeer get inside the house. It may have come from a Scholastic Book Fair, but I'm not sure of that. I know that's not much to go on, but if anyone would know, it would be you fine people.

Book about three girls in New York who meet in a photography class This serious was my favorite when I was younger , but I lost the books I had in a house fire years ago. I can t remember the title of the book, but I do remember one of the girls had just moved from down south. They met in a photography class and became best friends. I don t know their names for sure, I think I remember two names maya and joy.. and maya had a friend named shana. My memory is so bad but it s bothering me that I cannot remember the names of this book series.

Young adult boy lives in dystopian future where feeling emotion is not allowed, goes back in time Read this 15 years ago so details might be fudged. This teenage boy lives in some dystopian future, similar to the concept of the film equilibrium, in which emotion is not allowed and there is some daily procedure or substance the citizens partake in using to suppress feeling. The kid decides one day not to do this anymore and ends up getting into an altercation with a peer. He is then punished by being unwillingly sent either into the past or a simulation of the past during the Holocaust era,I believe, in order to help him understand why emotion is dangerous to humanity. Anyone remember this?

I m trying to find a book about the American dream I read in English class. The plot is about a guy who works for an old man as a nurse who later turns out to be his grandfather. The old man always brags about how rich he is but later the reader will be told that he s spend most of his money. Afterwards the guy decides to travel the American West in search of the remains of a cave in the desert which the old man said he d filled with pictures, for he was an artist once. Somehow the guy meets his father who is named Salomon (?) also without knowing that it is his father. The father worked as a professor at a university in the middle west and the guys mother was one of his students, whom he had a relationship with later impregnated and therefore lost his job, continuing to life in poverty. Later on the father inherits the money of the grandfather but dies shortly afterwards. Various topics of the American dream and crossing new borders are discussed but I can t remember the symbolism of said topics. If I remember correctly the book is considered something like a classic. We read it along the lines of Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow.

Weird teen zombie novel??? SOLVED Okay this is a long shot, but here goes. I read a book, mustve been about 2016, but it couldve been published anytime. It was about a girl that was on a field trip w her class. They stopped, most of them filed off the bus, and they never came back. It was her, some basic popular girl character, and a cool ass punk kid. They end up leaving the bus and going inside and no one is there, so they go for a walk, and find a fair skinned white haired character from their class in a bathroom at I think it was a gas station? That's all I remember but I remember loving it. J think the cover was the girl from behind with a knife in her hand but I could be wrong

Book about a ghost who fights demons and malicious spirits while trying to find why he can t speak with his dad This was part of a series that only had a couple books out at the time so I ll do my best to try to only include what was in the first book but i might accidentally include things from later books. I read this book maybe a year or two ago on kindle unlimited, it was fiction relatively new at the time and I was 23 or 24 at the time not really sure if it qualified as a young adult novel or not. What I remember of the plot is the book started with a young man driving to pickup his girlfriend in his mustang when he his suddenly hit by a semi and killed. He becomes a ghost and for a while he watches over both his mother and younger brother as well as his girlfriend. Eventually he travels to a place where his family used to vacation a lot where he meets another friendly spirit who helps explain some things to him and he runs into another spirit at a historically haunted hotel in the area possibly from colonial times but I can t quite remember exactly but I do remember that he and this ghost become romantically involved even though that is frowned upon by the spirit world. I remember this area was definitely coastal possibly Maine or South Carolina but not 100 on that. If I m remembering correctly the boys name was Michael and he was trying to find his dads ghost. They very briefly interact in either the first or second book and that s when he learns that someone or something is trying to keep him and his dad apart.

Sci fi shifters in space, almost a Firefly vibe, down on their luck smugglers So I read this book within the last five years. It s a crew of shifters who were created by science. Most of those who can shift only have one form, the captain shifts into several different animals. I know they meet a young pair who they then escort. Not everyone in the book is a shifter. They also have crazy raiders who the captain s exwives husband is a part of. I remember at one point they put a ton of nukes in orbit so no one messes with them. Any help would be greatly appreciated! It s been bothering me for weeks

Green boogeyman comic book style story of the boogeyman, but this boogeyman has boogers and a lot of hair in his ears and poor hygiene. Trying to remember find this comic book style book i had as a kid. All i remember is he was green and had tufts of hair(i think) coming out of his ears. A lot of gross non hygienic things he did too but i don't remember the details.

Fiction book with Whisper in the title takes place in the 50s This book was required to be read in one of my English classes in school, I was either in Middle School or High School when I read the book in a regular English class not honors. The book was yellow. The book takes place in the 50s and in a suburban neighborhood and there is a kidnapper taking little girls in the community, and people start locking their doors. In the synopsis is mentions that this neighborhood used to leave their doors unlocked but it changed when disappearences started happening. Please help! Thank you!

young adult book that might have some sci fi fantasy elements I found this book 2 3 years ago in a Borders bookstore. The book is paperback and the cover has a starry night sky and a silhouette of a boy two boys (I don't remember much) I don't remember the genre but I think the subgenre is romance. The book is in English. The mc is male and has a boyfriend guy that he likes. I think the plot is about escaping running away. I'm not sure if my mind is making this up but I think one of the characters is named Max.

Pre 2010 YA(?) horror novel with white cover, maybe a red handprint. Followed a young boy, after his father dies early on, trying to protect himself from vampire monsters. I took this book out from my school library before 2010 when I was around 12, I think. I remember the beginning of the novel, but I think I was so terrified that I never finished it. The cover was white, and I think there was a bloody (clawed?) handprint on it. I think the book had been in the library for at least a year as it wasn't in particularly good condition, and a friend who had read it already warned me about it. I believe it was written sometime between 1990 2010, but I'm not sure. The story begins with a young teenage boy and his father, who warns the boy about the horrors outside. The father ends up dying (from disease or by the hands of the monsters, I'm not sure). The boy then tries to protect himself from these monsters, which seem to be painted as feral vampires. It was sent in a time around the 15th Century I think, although I don't remember the date being specifed. The language used was fairly archaic for a 'children's' novel, and the boy lived in a fairly rudimentary cabin with his father. I belive large wooden spikes adorned the house or protected the land. It was definitely set somewhere cold, as the snow was a large factor for both the cover and the opening story.

Young Adult Fiction about Florida Everglades There was a book I read several times as a teenager, and I cannot remember the name of it, but I want to read it again. It took place in the Florida everglades, and the protagonist was a teenaged boy. He went off on his own in the cypress swamps, and met an old man who lived in the swamp, and I know the major plotline involved a Florida panther or mountain lion, the old man always referred to it as a lion. I do not believe there were any scenes in the book involving the boy's parents, siblings, or other people, but I could be wrong. The cover had a drawn image of the swamp, but I don't remember if there was the lion or boy on the cover. I was a teenager in the mid to late 80s and early 90s, I believe I read this book the first time in the mid 80s. I have done several searches, but nothing suggested is correct, and Goodreads has not been helpful. This is killing me!!

Fantasy book about two friends (and maybe a dog?), read in mid 2000's From what little I can remember, this book involved two young male characters who came from different backgrounds and somehow ended up on an adventure to stop... something? I recall the main antagonist being an evil woman whose lair the boys ended up at near the culmination of the novel. At one point I think I remember them being on the open sea, and there may or may not have been a dog travelling with them (I might be mixing up books). One of the boys possessed a supernatural power of sorts to see through people. I read this book in my Junior High library in the mid 2000's, so it's most likely a bit older than that. Any help figuring out what this is would be much appreciated, it's been driving me bonkers for years. Thank you.

Fantasy, has a character who is something akin to a brownie (I think) I don't remember much about the actual plot points of the story, but There is a girl who is really connected with the environment, to the point where she can t jump because she has to be touching it at all times. There was a scene (could've been a memory or flashback) where there was some sort of four legged animal (possibly a deer or something) who was trying to get her to jump, but she said that she couldn't because then she wouldn't be touching any plants. There was another scene where she was making her way through a pipe for some reason and she was trailing her hand along the side because there was algae or moss there for her to touch. I remember that she wasn't human, and as the post title says, I have a feeling that she was something like a brownie. I read the book probably 4 or 5 years ago. I remember it being a hardcover book with a relatively simple design in a maroon colour, but it's possible I'm thinking of a different book.

Main Character was falsely charger for a crime( I think it was murder) and sent to a prison on a sea. He manages to escape the prison and is stranded in the sea but a ship or a pirate ship manages to save him. Main Character demonstrate his skill in sailing ship and manages to become a crew of that ship. He wants to go back to his home to get revenge for being framed.

Acclaimed novel concerning a man's evening recalling life with chapters broken into time of the night. Hopefully this doesn't pose too hard a query but it is driving me mad. I was looking at purchasing a book that I recall had won or was nominated for an award (doesn't narrow it I know!) that from memory was concerned with a man in and out of sleep or consciousness over an evening recalling memories of his life loves. Perhaps connected with music too. I also remember part of the premise was the story chaptered in a way of being time of the night. The cover had a traditional spire on a sloped angle like a russian clock or something of sorts, graphic image not a picture or realistic. Edit a tower in with this bulbous shape on the cover. The illustration is mostly yellows and oranges from memory. amp x200B Any help greatly appreciated!!!!

Clean (maybe Christian?) fiction book that follows young girl through the civil rights era, the free love movement, and into the 80s or 90s she has a rich grandma, and doesn t get along with her non. Towards the end of book she has a daughter whose name might be Claire or starts with a C . Young girl has a rich grandma whom she loves. Doesn t get a long with her mother, but dotes on baby sister (I think half sister). Meets and falls for young black man, who returns her affection, but refuses to pursue her because mixed race relationships are still considered taboo during this time period. He falls for and dates her school friend instead. I think she goes off to college. She gets a little caught up in the free love culture, and ends up being caught up in a riot, loses her friend. She meets a cop during the search for her friend, falls for him. They eventually get engaged, but he s shot on the job shortly before the wedding. A few years later she works on a campaign for maybe a presidential campaign? Meets person in charge of campaign, and has a one night stand. She finds out he s married the next day, and leaves. She finds out she s pregnant. I believe she moves to New York and has the baby there. That s all I really remember with any clarity. I read this book maybe in the late 90 s, early 00 s. I m not sure if it was new or old, or even how I found it. There were a lot of themes about Grace and forgiveness. I think it was a part of a larger series of books that followed a woman from each generation of the same family.

Murder book told from the perspective of the ghost of the murdered person. Killer is revealed in the first chapter (identified inside post). Set in Ireland or elsewhere in UK. Very long book, hardcover. Spends a lot of time detailing the victim's childhood on a farm amp relationship w the killer. I read it in college, I think before 2015? There were a few scenes involving crossing playing in the river, described as very cold. There might have been a swing next to the river? The victim was the daughter of the owners of the estate, while the killer was a farmhand with some sort of mental developmental problem. She is killed with a shovel. I'm 90 sure the author is a woman. I had to stop reading it because I think it was making my depression worse. The identity of the killer is in my opinion not a spoiler because it is revealed in the first chapter, however I marked it as a spoiler anyway because some people are extra sensitive. The narrator describes their ghostly existence as "out of time" in that they are constantly existing in their entire life and can re experience any moment at will. I think they even end up explaining certain supernatural events in their own childhood by the fact that they were haunting themselves.

Looking for an early 2000's Little Golden Book about the daily routine of an anthropomorphic kitten and his family The style is quite realistic, with the whole town being various breeds of cat (mostly shorthair) that walk on two feet. The environment takes on more creative freedom and is painted as your average neighborhood in a children's book. There's a strawberry ice cream cone clock as well. I think he went to various places such as the toy store, the clothing store, etc. I think he ate chocolate ice cream at the bakery and that's where the clock comes in. At the end of the day, he comes home to take a bath where he plays with a big brown pirate ship. I know for sure that the main kitten is a ginger tabby with yellow green eyes in a red hoodie and khaki Jean pants. The mom was a tuxedo cat with a flower print maid dress and apron. I'm not for sure but think his dad was a white and grey tabby in a suit. Could've had a younger sibling as well but iirc, he might be an only child.

Early 2000s YA fantasy novel It had a red cover with some gold, took place in Russia or had Russian character names, I don t recall much of the plot, but it had a dark fairy tale feel. I believe there was a polar bear and the main character was a female teen young women. I m fairly certain it was not golden compass, but for some reason I feel like compass or looking glass was in the title. I also feel memories of this book when I looked at the cover for night circus. I read this sometime between 2002 2007. Ugh please help, it s driving me crazy!

Matchmaker who can tell how close you are to your match (Fiction Fantasy Modern Day) Main character is an Adult Female who owns her own Matchmaking business. I belive shes mid 20 to early 30s. Starts off with her taking on a new client who thinks finding love is hopeless because she sucks at dating. Matchmaker gives her a makeover and sets her up on a 'mock' date to help her learn to date with out all the stress. There's a new hot guy in town, a musician that all the ladys in town seem to be falling for, and it just so happens he is at the bar the night of the mock date, and the client thinks he is her match (shockingly hes not!). He has a guitar.. something about the guitar is important. Besides that one of her other clients who is in the process of getting married to the match she found him thinks his match is having cold feet or cheating. (only thing i remeber about this couple is they both have weird last names his is food related?) Turns out his match had been at one of the shows the new guy played at and seems to be obsessed with him even though she is in love and still 'matched' with the guy she had plans to marry. I think there was something about her getting a tattoo of the musicain(?) Turns out there is something magical going on around the new guy, and to save her clients she has to figure it out. Set in modern day, I read it with in the last 5 years. It was out in paperback, but I believe audiobook as well. I want to say I read it from my library online, or kinda unlimited (when I had access to it for a short while).

A greek childrens young adults book involving a cyclops, some other greek creatures and the greek gods I don't think there are humans but I may be wrong there I believe there is a character named Vekran and I think the series follows a cyclops. I believe there is mention of Hera's golden apples, and the cyclops from odysseus definitely makes an appearance.. which may be why I think there is a cyclops in the cast.

adult book about dog detective SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED I read this book about eight years ago. This book is told from the perspective of a dog whose owner is an unobservant good natured guy who just went through a breakup. The dog figured out that a woman his owner met killed her husband and staged it as an accident (he died sitting on the toilet). At one point the dog tries to communicate with his owner by lying out letters from a cereal or something. Thanks in advance for any help )

Two boys are sent on a quest to find three magic threads (YA, read in 90s, 4th grade) Like so many of us, I've been looking for this book forever. My 4th grade teacher read it aloud, and it was about two boys who were fighting in class. They're sent to the principal's office and end up going on a quest in a magical land to find three magic threads, one from a character I remember as "the Countess Adure of Arcod" or something like that they mix her name up and almost get tricked into taking a fake thread. In the end, they succeed and when they return to the principal's office, they're offered a bunch of treasure or the chance to remain friends, and choose the latter. Any ideas?

90 s Kids Encyclopedia Books Does anyone know of these books. These were books you ordered by mail in the mid 90 s. They were hardcover books that covered a specific subject. The ones I remember had to do with bugs and the human body. They featured chibi styled characters in between the pictures. They were in English.

LGBT Fantasy Book (I think is High Fantasy) about a prince (or king) that has a lover that is a man and will have to marry a woman (or ir already married to her). Okay, I know this is kinda confusing, but its because I neither remember a lot or have english as my mother lenguage, but I'll try to describe the plot the best I can. I found this book in a LBGT fantasy reddit list Mark II last year (2020) and I remember a few things, but only of reviews that I read in Bookreads . It seams to be about a man who is either gay or bi and has a male lover. But he has a mother (?) who makes him marry a woman. Other thing that I saw in a review and remember very cleary is that the world was very "woke", like, titles of nobility and things like that had no gender (like lady and lord) and some people said it was even confunsing. That's all I remember, but I'm in total despair because out of the blue my brain decided that was a good ideia do read it, but I looked at the entire list and coundn't find it. I don't think the book is "age appropriate", i think it might me adult, but since i did not read it, i can't tell for sure. The cover was blue or black, I think, but I might be wrong. It was very minimalist. It was in English. Thanks and, please, even if you are not sure if the book that you think this is the the one I'm looking for, anything is good, especialy since I don't remenber a lot. lt 3 )

a world where dragons are bonded to people during a big festival, and usually only rich important people are allowed to try, but a peasant kid accidentally gets chosen by one. i never actually read this one it was recommended to me by a woman i worked for a little over 10 years ago. she said that the dragon eggs would be put in this large sand field, and the people who could afford the privilege would be allowed to come and touch the eggs. during the festival, the eggs would hatch, and the dragons would go to the person they bonded with. well, for some reason, this kid took a shortcut through the field, and accidentally touches i think she said the smallest egg in the whole field like, tripped, or something. well, day comes and it hatches for him everyone's really upset, but there's nothing they can do about it at that point. i THINK she said the dragon was white, but that's really all i remember.... SOLVED. SOLVED. SOLVED. "The Dragon Riders of Pern."

Old book i remembered scrolling through this sub, very vague memory, wouldnt be surprised if its too vague to get an idea of it. Pretty sure its a dystopian future, with a class system in which people are given a position in society,( its not the giver) and maybe even under mind control? One scene I sort of remember is the protagonist is not under the influence of said control. And is sweeping the streets because he's one of the lower class, attempting to imitate the ones who are not there mentally, and perhaps comes across someone else in the same predicament. There may have been a term for this lower class in which there only objective is to clean. That's all i got. Can't remember anything else other than this vague recollection

Post apocalyptic story almost everyone in the world has disappeared, the rest are being hunt down by a monster pretending to be a scared little girl Hero wakes up in the morning and finds a strange changed world there is no sun and empty town is lit by a pale light without apparent source. He finds a couple of survivors, everyone gets eaten by a "girl" in the ending.

YA book rebellious boy mid 2000s SOLVED, SOLVED, SOLVED This is driving me crazy and unfortunately the details I remember are probably too specific. A boy was staying with a family, (doing community service maybe?). I think he had an eyebrow ring and he smoked. He befriended the girl who lived there. I remember the family ate spicy food with yogurt and Kool Aid. I probably read it in the mid 2000s, middle schoolish I think.

Kids book series first book plot Teenager with amnesia wakes up in a western town, ends up having to fight a robot rhinoceros I read this book when I was about 10 11 came out around 2010 I would imagine. It was a whole book series written in the style of an explorers journal where the character would document animals and plants he saw along the way. It was a pretty long series from what I remember with some insidious force responsible for the robots this kid had to fight.

YA or "all ages" historical fantasy novel set in ancient China with young female protagonist, written by a female writer of Chinese descent. I'm so sorry that it's vague, but I only read a chapter or two of this book, and this was a while ago. Read within the last 15 years. Like in the title, the protagonist is a young Chinese girl, probably a teenager. I think her name was translated, like "Peony", instead of a Romanized name. The beginning of the story followed a pretty clear "hero's journey" where she leaves home to answer the call to adventure or duty. The adventure had something to do with a dragon, maybe she had to save it? There might have also been something to do with a magical pearl or gem? I'm 75 sure that the author had an English first name and a Chinese surname, and I think it followed Pinyin spelling, so "Deng" instead of "Teng" as an example. I don't think the book is a translation, because it follows closer to Western style story telling. The book had I think a light green cover, with Asian style cover art. There might have been a dragon on it. Reading level was YA or middle high school and not adult, because I definitely remember taking it out of that section.

YA Sci Fi or Historical Fiction about a group of kids that time travel in their sleep to keep historical events accurate against evil, big bad guy was named something like marduk I read this when I was in middle school high school about 15 years ago. Book and or series is about a kid or group of kids that time travel in their sleep to keep historical events accurate. They're sent on these missions by some sort of gods angels, maybe greek? When they go back in time, they inhabit the bodies of other people, except their eyes are their own. I think the big bad guy was named marduk, or something along those lines. One of the big plot points I remember is that when they're travelling, they can't be woken up in the real world. One of the kid's dad used to be a "time cop" or whatever when he was younger and figured out his kid was doing the same thing by trying to wake them up. Also, not sure, but I think I remember the books being set in Australia. Don't quote me on that. Thanks!

Kid YA fiction about a boy who wanted a wolf dog as a pet, lives with his dad. The main character is the boy. The book isn't about him wanting a wolf dog, it's just one of the few details I remember. He's resentful that he can't have a wolf dog hybrid. Either his mom died or they divorced and he's living with his dad. I think in the book they have just moved to a new home. Pretty sure the boy uses the word "davenport" to refer to the couch or a chair in the livingroom. They meet a woman who either comes over to make dinner or they go to her house for dinner. She's wearing a dress (or maybe an apron) that the dad compliments. She says it's good at hiding grease splatters while she's cooking. I remember literally nothing else about the book, it's plot or when I read it. I was probably middle school aged and in the early to mid 90s. I don't even remember if it was my book or the schools. Thank you in advance for any help.

girl hides out at a cottage with a old woman, then the girl leaves and when she comes back, the villagers are burning the woman by a tree Basically the girl had to hide there and the old woman was helping girls from this village to remove unwanted babies. The girl also helped the woman to do these procedures. The old woman seemed cold but she actually did like the girl. One day (idk why?) the girl leaves and when she comes back, the villagers are burning the old woman by the tree next to her cottage. Please help me, I have no idea what book this is

Early 90's book about teens (late teens) who go on a hike and a landslide separates and injures them. Two of the friends are lifelong friends (boy and a girl) and the boy is named Neil (or Neal). He is injured badly in a landslide and requires his leg amputated once rescued. Basic things I can recall They leave with a cell phone (this was a back in the day "only for emergencies" cell phone). I think there are 4 total that leave on the trip. The main character is a female. She has to figure out how to make a bow and arrow to catch a rabbit for food, but ends up using a snare. Neil (the other main character) injures his leg quite badly early on in the trip (due to a landslide I think), causing the other main character to separate from the group and find help. Main characters are very good friends and are possibly crushing on one another. There is someone hunting the characters at one point. There is a second novel at least but not sure if there was a third.

A few books where a family is born again throughout time. I used to read these books, they were by a famous author but if I remember correctly they were outside of his genre. Each book followed a family that was born throughout time. It would start off as cavemen, and they would progress throughout the centuries. They didn't remember each other in their new lives, there was nothing mystical about it. It just followed the characters journey through the different time periods. I was young when I read them but they were adult books. I remember being very disturbed by how much rape was involved.

Nightshade (i think) is the name of the book. Its about 35 50 years old in publication. Where a person is sought by a killer who is getting revenge from their first past life together. A scientist has an anti aging youth elixer. Reincarnation and karma are real in this universe... I had a dream last night, my gf told me that my dream was almost exactly the plot of one of her fav books called nightshade (she thinks)

YA book about immortal power, can be passed to others? I read this book in junior high, so 2014 2015ish. YA book about the kid, he's in high school I think. I remember he was like an orphan or something because his dad uncle grandpa passed the Immortal power to him during a car crash so he would survive. In the book, the kid meets a girl and tells her about the power and gives it to her, and I think she goes crazy, trying to end her life in multiple ways in order to test the power out or something. I think the main character has a best friend that's also interested in the power but isn't crazy like the girl. I remember there being something about how they shouldn't pass the power around too much cuz it hurts or something? Idk I just really wanna know what this damn book is.

YA book where girl dates a ghost Looking for a tilte of a book that I read between 2007 2011. It takes place in the early to mid 2000s and is about a girl who is dating a ghost who lived in her house. The details I remember are super random but she saved up for Jimmy choos and got crazy blisters and he cared for her because his sister had that happen with boots when she was alive. This ghost guy is super protective. Also I vaguely remember a scene where this hall of doors and this guy is encouraging her to direct ghosts through these doors. I started the first book in the Mediator series and not quite sure that's the one. Appreciate any ideas!

Fantasy book about some teens who had been experimented on and now have superpowers? I can't remember the plot too great, but it was something along the lines of there were 5 kids who were experimented on at a very young age and got superpowers or something from it. The book is set in a kind of dystopian future (I think it takes place after a nuclear war) and there is a big city which is a "utopia" of sorts. One detail I can remember is that any child from the city wasn't born but instead created, with their parents picking out the traits to make their "perfect" child, but there was one girl who was properly born and was an "experiment" by her parents, and it was frowned upon I think. Also, around the city is a large slum of people who weren't allowed into the city before the war (possibly something along the lines of only the rich being let in? Sounds about right), and the aforementioned girl snuck out into the slum for reasons I can't quite remember. It switched back and forth perspectives between this girl and one of the kids with superpowers. That's about all I can remember about the book, I read it a couple of years back at my school's library, was around 14 15 at the time, and it wasn't new

very vague but a fantasy book for young teens with a white cover and i think an illustration of a path through mountains in brown (or something in brown) i m sorry i can t remember a lot of the plot but i m pretty sure it involved a group of teenagers, who lived on a normal earth but then adventured through some fantasy land. and at the end the group celebrated with hugs?? pretty sure there was some romance love triangle with the male main character who played basketball. i know this sounds kinda dumb so i m not sure which of it is real or which parts i made up in my head lol. pretty sure i read it around 2015 2016 and that it was the first book in a series! thanks!!

Mystery Action book about a retired enforcer for cops turned housesitter protecting a woman trying to be murdered by fixers in LA, first book in a trilogy The book starts out with the woman who is an actress driving in LA, she gets rearended into another car, they try to overdose her but she escapes and hides out in a house. The main character, whose name is Charlie I believe, arrives at the house to house sit, has to climb over the roof to get in, she ends up stabbing him with a mic stand. He ends up helping defend her against a trio who are trying to kill her to cover up that her and her superstar ex boyfriend committed a hit and run that killed a child. She dies later in the book by strangling, and he realizes there is a second target, the family of the child, and he rushes over and manages to kill the last of the fixers still alive. As you can see, I'm a little frustrated that I can remember everything but the title, the author's last name is European sounding, it starts with a S, and he has been a comic book writer.

YA horror fantasy book about a strange rite of passage involving heavy stones. I don't remember much about this book because I check it out from the library but never read it. The basic plot was about a group of teenagers young adults, who have a strange rite of passage. They have to place large stones over a certain location in order to keep a monster entity from escaping. I believe they somehow mess up this up and the monster entity escapes. I checked it out from the library sometime in the early 90s so it would have been published before that. I know that isn't much to go on, but any help would be appreciated.

Female protagonist and boxer who is hiding her powerful "telekinetic?" powers in order to protect her siblings. THIS HAS BEEN SOLVED!!! This is a fantasy book that I read in 2016 2017. I would classify it as YA. The basic plot is that the mc and her siblings (I think she had two sisters) get expelled from their normal school after her sister starts a fire when she's angry. Since they have nowhere else to go, their aunt (who they didn't know about until now) takes them in. All three siblings have powers of some sort, though the mc will not tell her aunt what her powers actually are. They enroll in this special school with their new cousin and the mc lies and says that she has enhanced senses, abilities, etc. She is really into boxing and martial arts, so she joins the boxing club and becomes close to a guy there. She slowly begins to pull away from her siblings and get hooked on pain pills (I think) to cope with something. Her and her friend (love interest) eventually go to this boxing tournament where she meets some important people. She gets a phone call while there saying that her siblings are in trouble and ends up getting kidnapped (or something similar) by a bad guys (they might be vampires, not sure though). One ends up torturing her to get her to reveal her powers and carves swirling lines into her skin until she finally snaps when they threaten to hurt her sister, reveals her powers, and kills all the guys. Her telekinesis is rare and coveted, and the book ends with the reveal. It is a series and I believe that the second one wasn't out when I finished the first one in 2016 or 2017. Please help, this is killing me.

MG novel with a girl named Ant This is really vague, but, there s a girl named Ant, and she has an aunt, and they go to a zoo at some point in the book. I read it in the 2016 17 school year. (I was 9 when I read it, and it was age appropriate.)

Paperback romance novel possibly 80s or 90s set in Paris. Remembering an old romance I read many years ago (maybe in the 90s) with the following details. However, I'm not sure about the order of them. A woman goes to Paris but travels to Basque with her romantic partner. He talks about the Basque separatists and they have a meal featuring meat with chocolate sauce. The main character's mother died before the book began, leaving her designer dresses. I want to say they were Balenciaga but could have been another designer. One of the things the mother of the heroine said was that she couldn't consider herself an adult until she crossed the Champs Elysee in heels. It's her rite of passage. I also think the word columbine, either the flower, perfume, or the story of Columbine and Perriot, was used in either the title or as a part of the plot. Please help!

Sci fi book I read about 40 years ago. Humans go to a planet that is colonised by a "master race" with ginger hair and golden skin Looking for this Sci fi book that contained humans going to a new planet that had a master race with golden skin and ginger hair. I remember it being extremely descriptive. But I can't remember anything else about it or the author. Thanks for any help!

Book about the attitudes of Germans in the Third Reich I read a book a few years ago that was about the myths and realities of the attitudes of people in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich and WWII. It was a nonfiction book that had a title that was something like "Good Germans" or "Good people on both sides" and it was basically dispelling the myth that the people who followed hitler had been brainwashed or fooled by him that they were "just following orders" and didn't really want to participate in the atrocities committed against humanity. The book posited that Hitler and the political attitudes of the time basically just played into prejudices and societal resentment that already existed within people and that they were just fine committing the atrocities they did bc they largely felt justified in their hatred. It had first person accounts, interviews and letters, from people who had either participated in or witnessed the crimes being committed. The format was kind of like Max Brooks' World War Z, but for real.

Electronic story maker from the 90 s SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED was a plastic book that was blue that opened into two halves the book had buttons on both sides that you could click to make a story up the buttons were rainbow colored the voice was a mans the pages on the side where the book opened were bright yellow I can picture it and hear it in my head but no matter what I google I can t find it. Want to try and get for my baby that s on the way please help!!!

About 10 to 15 Mazes, Childrens book in the 90s for 10 yo and younger. 1 page had a Beehive maze. Hi All, if anyone recognizes any maze book that is remotely similar, pls pls pls comment ) Childrens book, I had in mid to late 90's, as I would have been atleast 6 yo to 10yo then) It was a paperback, with about 10 to 15 mazes. It was a good quality colored pages. I remember the images being in high quality. I don't remember the front cover but I remember 2 of the pages maze 1st (I think it might even be 1st page) was a 2d house, where you can see the inside of the house, the different levels and path to go up and down the house. 2nd is a maze of Beehives. It was a gift from my Aunt (who would have been in her late 40s, early 50s at the time) (book was bought in Australia) but the book could have been a British or American. It is in English language though. The book had to be marketted for children under 10. I don't remember it being too difficult, but more of an activity with beautiful drawings. The book size must have been A4 size (21 x 30 cm or 8 1 4 x 11 3 4 inches). Thanks All! Been thinking about this book for a while and now I want a copy again to eventually give to my little one in few years. Unfortunately my mum no longer has the book and Aunt can't remember what could be the title. Thanks All!

SciFi YA New Adult Book involving teenagers with various powers I read a book around 2012 2014 that I picked up from my local library that I read not very much from, but I loved it. It involved a gang of 6 (I think?) teenagers (could ve been early 20s but I m almost certain it was teens) who have powers (which I ll discuss later) trying to stop a rebellion of other powerful people with abilities. It s set at least several decades in the future, and power ability enabled people are commonplace. I believe it s also pretty dystopian (I m almost 100 sure New York is a crater due to acid rain a detail I remember clearly). The powers I remember are A boy who can manipulate fire, but can t produce it. He has a gas expelling mechanism on his arm and metal embedded in his fingers that create a spark when snapping. The main villain is a powerful as hell telekenetic (might be mind control but I remember reading telekenetic). There was probably somebody with control production of lightning. A healer I think?? The protagonist was a girl I think. There was a classing system as well to describe how dangerous power enabled people were. Again, I read the book around 2012 2014, and it seemed pretty new at the time (the language seemed modern). It was a hard cover if I remember clearly. Oh, and I m pretty sure the book was in first person. If y all know what this is, let me know! I really want to read this one. Edit 1 I also now remember that the heroes were on the government s side, and the antagonist(s) were rebels of some kind.

Illustrated children's book of poems, probably 1970s or 1960s Poetry, compilation of various authors I think, hard cover, probably about 20 pages long, whimsically illustrated children's book of poems, each poem 1 poem per page or a 2 page spread. Included puff the magic dragon a 2 pg spread of a dragon at a party with a large cake and many guests , a poem about peanut butter sandwiches called 'the peanut butter knight' or something similar which featured a young boy with a pot on his head as a helmet and a tied on bedsheet cape , the old lady who lived in a shoe featured many whimsical shoes including a lace up lacy boot and a sneaker , something about lemonade, something about a teddy bear possibly also a knight? , something about orcs or goblins who couldn't fit into their shoes featuring a very pained goblin in a helicopter hat with his feet crammed into too small shoes . Based on the state of the book when I read it as a kid, and on the illustrations, I'd guess it was published in the 60s or possibly the 70s.

Manga graphic novel series about Japanese american girl solving mysteries Read it around 2017 in a high school library. Illustrated, thin but large books. Book 1 Book begins with a dude looking down a telescope into the concrete of a town square. The MC, a half japanese teen girl with black hair, and a freckled, red haired friend (guy named Polly?) uncover a mystery where a young girl is preserved by her scientist uncle (?) in a laboratory underneath the city, after being hit by bombs a decade ago. They discover the place underneath the city by finding a tiny model of it. Ends with everyone happy and the young girl alive, but in a wheelchair. MC's other friend may be in love with the young girl's aunt. Book 2 MC goes on a trip in the mountains (?) and her car breaks down. She goes to a nearby castle where the inhabitants welcome her. Turns out to be a plot involving a fake ghost, fake rooms and one daughter who turns out to be two people taking turns. MC narrowly avoids being murdered via huge pit in the courtyard floor but her friends catch her with a net. Book 3 MC goes to somewhere in Japan, and finds her old friend and martial arts teacher in the midst of some companies developing torpedo warfare. Ends with her old friend flying anti torpedo bomb into the heart of the storm. There are more books in the series, but all I remember is something about nuclear warfare and time travel so it isn't very helpful. I have more details but I've probably written too much already, so I'll stop. Would greatly appreciate any clue.

Short horror story involving small town cult members transforming into giant worms? Can't remember name of short horror story I heard about and wanted to read something about an anthropologist or maybe journalist visiting a small rural American town celebrating a strange holiday. Ends with cult members in the town transforming into worms after a ritual main character witnesses. Hoping someone might know the name of this, thanks!

The protagonist was an otter, and I THINK he was wearing a detective hat on the cover I remember owning this book when I was young (about 2010) and then giving it away to a friend. It had a picture of an otter on the cover, and I think it was about fighting or war? All the characters were some type of animal, and the book itself was hardcover and quite thick. The language was really hard to understand, the characters always spoke with a Yorkshire accent lots of apostrophes and missing letters Now that I'm older, I want to give it a try again to see if I can understand what it was about. I remember picking it up to read several times, getting half way through and still not understanding bat shit. (Any books with otters will be helpful, thank you!) Edit THANKS GUYS! IT'S THE REDWALL SERIES!

An orphanage run by a robot, the main character, a girl, the mc, dies after being crushed by an apple press This book was a fiction book, but I m not sure what the genre was. It had a dystopian type of feel. Basically, there is a robot who was taking care of these kids at an orphanage, they thought that he was a good robot, as he was very kind. Eventually, the robot starts to do weird things the mc eventually gets crushed by an apple press and she gets put into a robot. My memory is muddy on the chronological order to the events and what book it happens in. Eventually she escapes I think and meets this woman who rides a motorcycle or a robotic horse. It was a group of people, not just her, but that women and the girl bond a little. It also deals with the girls trauma of being crushed by an apple press and is mention a fair bit. That is the extent of the plot that I remember. I m not sure what the genre was, but it was a dystopian type of series. I think it was set in a desert. I think it might have been scifi. I read it somewhere in 2018 2019, when I was a freshman in high school. I found the book in my school library and I think it was for young adults.

YA Romance with a boy who is a Gypsy Hi! I can't figure out the title of a book I read as a teen around 2010 2014. I vaguely remember that it was YA, involved a girl on holiday I think who meets a boy around her age outside nearby, and it's then revealed that he's been living in a truck with his family on her family's property and they've been trying to make them leave, but she continues to pursue a relationship with him. (Sorry I can't edit out the title! I didn't realise this was a slur, as it was how he was referred to in the book)

awesome kids book with bald forest people and evil frogs My memories are kinda vague and every time I describe the book to people they look at me funny, but here goes... It's a big picture book like one of those I Spy ones where you have to spot things in the pictures, but it also has a plot. It's about these miniature people like elves or something with long hair who go on an adventure to save their kingdom from the evil frogs who wear crowns (I think). At the end of the book, there's a picture of the 3 heroes two dudes and a chick all sitting there bald but victorious. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? It's been an itch I can't scratch for 20 years... Cheers

Adult Fiction. Narrator is a lonely boy who keeps a secret underground museum with numbered exhibits. I read this book in paperback in the late 90 s The cover had a red checked pattern. The boy lives with his parents but has this creepy space underneath something? Where he has little numbered exhibits. The last exhibit revealed to us is a skeleton. It is the skeleton of his brother.

Children YA fiction book relating to magic about a boy reuniting with his family after a long time, but then bad magicians cause chaos and it s up to him and his dog to fix things. My edition had a bright orange rubbery cover. Details include the book having a visit to the amusement park with a ride named the Juggernaut Further details include his family having a self driving car that he uses. Something along the lines of a ministry of magic, but I may be mixing that up from Harry Potter. Thanks!

!!TRIGGER WARNING!! Book about a young teen who got sexually assaulted by her uncle (or dads friend). She wrote her secrets in a journal I am pretty sure the main characters name is Kat Katie? She has a younger sister and an older brother. She notices her uncle is making the same type of gestures on her younger sister as her uncle did to her growing up. One day the main character comes home and notices her journal is moved either off her bed or out of her special spot in her tree house she panics wondering who has it.

Fantasy book with possibly a dragon on the cover. Early in the book a group of men (possibly mercenaries I'm not entirely sure) are in a obsidian field I think? And they find a girl with red hair. After a while she shaves her head and trains with a morning star until her hands bleed. I read this almost 10 years ago and gave up on it pretty fast because I was way too young to be reading it.

Fiction (children's ya) Book about girl who volunteers at a blind school Things I am sure of Main character is preteen or early teens. She has a little sister and a single mom She volunteers at a school for the blind, often recording books. Her best friend says BFD and says it means big furry deal. Something about a field trip to the tar pit She goes to be in the audience of a talk show and then gets invited to be a guest on said show Things I think I remember Talk show host had a necklace with a "kiss" on it Talk show host's name started with a K (K for kiss being a phrase used?) A blue dress with stars on it for main character's guest gig on the show. I probably read this in the mid to late 90s, but it could easily have been something from the late 70s to 80s, based on the age of a lot of my books at that point.

Looking for a red kids book which was a collection of short stories with morals at the end of them Hello! I'm trying to remember a book from my childhood these are all the details I can remember It had a red cover, and was a collection of short stories Each story had a moral to it, like to be kind and stand up for what is right etc One story I remember involved two boxes one box was big, the other was small. When presented with the boxes as gifts, the kind girl chose the small box and the greedy girl chose the big box. when the greedy girl opened the big box, I'm pretty sure she ended up getting chased by locusts and bugs and whatnot There was another story about a boy moving a mountain I think I would've read this between 2000 2008? But there's no telling when it would've been published. Any help would be greatly appreciated, this has been driving me nuts!

Story about a girl who's got her little sister kidnapped by fairies. I began reading this book in Kindle and I've tried hard to recover it back but I haven't been lucky. This book's genre is fiction and fantasy. The title I think was Twin House or something like that. I remember in the cover there was a house surrounded by trees and bushes. I read the first few chapters, it started with this girl dreaming about the past where she recalls her father giving her little sister a ride in a wagon through the park. Suddenly this girl's sister dissapears when fairies showed up and this girl believes her little sister got kidnapped by fairies. Another chapter I recall was when this girl goes to a costumes college party with a friend and the guy she likes, I believe his name was Chuck. What's important about this chapter is while waiting in the line to the restroom, she believes the girl in front of her is her sister because of the costume. That's all I remember, hopefully you can help me find the name.

Looking for a graphic novel series about teenagers who find aliens through a portal. I read this graphic novel back when I was in elementary school and I loved it so much but my library didn't carry the full series. I remember it being called "The Chronicles" or something similar sounding. The main cast was made up of three kids, two boys and one girl. One boy had dark hair and another was a ginger. They were wandering around some woods and found a house I believe, they ended up discovering some sort of portal. One of the main characters got kidnapped by some aliens or something like that? They have to try to rescue their friend. I can't really remember anything besides that. I would really appreciate if someone would tell me if they remember any other details or if they recognize which book I am talking about!

Short story about a murder Hello, I'm searching for the title of a short story I've read more than 10 years ago. I don't know who the author is. The plot one guy goes to the house of his friend (or boss?) and kills him, I don't know why. Then he starts cleaning the scene to cover the murder, but he gets more and more crazy about the cleaning. In the end, he is cleaning the attic when someone (maybe the police ?) knocks at the door. It was in a short story collection and at that time, I was reading a lot of short fantastic horror stories, from Stephen King, Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury... I was sure it was from Ray Bradbury but I searched through a lot of his books and I can't find it. Thanks, I hope someone will find it, it's been a long time since it's on my mind

Book about live in enemies to lovers I read it on epub.pub and it s about this girl whos mom is a cleaning lady. The girl is a babysitter for this kid and she is enemies with the kid s older brother (pretty sure his name is hunter? It might not) her mom gets a job as a live in cleaning lady for the brothers family, so the girl is like ugh hes my enemy but now i live with him . They also go to the same preppy private school and are competing for some sort of scholarship? They end up dating but the book ends on a cliffhanger when the girl overhears her bf s dad saying that he sabotaged the scholarship process in his favor for his son. But anyways i need this book. Ive spent like 3 hrs trying to find it. Its also got some smut in it if that helps

Romance book about a chronic thief who is sent back in time by an angel to when where she was supposed to be born Yeah, so, please don't make fun of me for looking for a romance. ( I was a naive little girl. But I still want to find this. The female lead's name is Lacey Garder. The male lead is a sheriff. Um... after being sent back in time, she's lodged by the pair who should have been her parents, an elderly, childless couple. What else, what else... oh! The sheriff is engaged to marry the town schoolteacher! Mostly it's lumberjacks there or something. Oh, and her "mission" is to save the town by helping the sheriff catch a gang that stole all of its money. So. Yeah. Sorry for the rambling description! xD Edit SOLVED! Thank you so much, expert awesome googler u wonkyjaw!

Young Adult, 4 Teens with Superpowers are Clones, Read 2005 2007 Solved Regeneration by L.J. Singleton Four teenagers develop superpowers (hearing, vision, strength, memory) and it turns out they are clones. One of the girls (with perfect memory) doesn't realize she is a clone like the rest, because each of them has the same birthday, same year, except hers is one year off. She was adopted, I think, and her birth year was changed on the paperwork. I believe each of the characters was 16 when they developed their superhuman traits. I checked this book out of the public library between 2005 and 2007 though I have no idea when it was actually published. It was close on the shelf to the book Welcome to the Ark by Stephanie Tolan, but whether that's because the books were divided by genre (they are both sci fi) or because the author's last names are close (starting with T or U?), I don't know. Thanks for any help anyone can give!

YA coming of age book with two black twin sisters and super religious family. I ve asked for this book several times, but I think my descriptions of the story were pretty disjointed and hard to understand I m trying to be organized and concise with this post, but I haven t read this book in years. I read this book in middle school, so possibly published during or before 2012 2015, but it felt like an early 2000 s book. It was pretty mature, too mature for a middle school library. It s themes included religious trauma, discussions about family, being a young teenage girl, being black, sex, and more. I don t think racism was a huge theme but it was fleetingly mentioned. The main character was a twin named Eve, who had an identical twin named Eve. Her sister had a different middle or last name, so their family called them Eve P. or Eve M. (Not exact but an example.) The girl were teenagers, possible 15 16 years old. Their family was super religious, which is why the girls were named biblical names. I think an absentee parent may have been a theme. Eve and her sister didn t get along very well, and liked the same boy. The biggest twist I can remember is that Eve finally got with the guy she liked, and had sex with him. He later mentioned the last time they had sex which confused her because this was her first time, he had actually had sex with her sister who had pretended to be her because she also liked him. It was only found out because he said Eve had been wearing a specific hat? that her sister owned and wore. It may have been a church hat. I m not sure as to how this conflict was resolved or if it even was but please help me find this book! I was too young to understand it then but I d love to reread it now.

Children's book about a man hunting a tiger This is a beautifully drawn book that documents a tiger being "hunted" and the happy ending is that the hunter is a photographer. Solved!

YA trilogy about a girl in a EXTREMELY small town (spoilers) the girl was part mountain lion? and it turns out the town was just full of labrats (they were all basically a big ass science experiment). The girl was also adopted? In the first book was with the girl's best friend dying (who turned out to be a siren. she was killed by another siren because she (the other siren) was jealous) the girl dated her bsf's ex in the end bc it turned out he was into her, not the bsf. He was gonna ask her out but she told him to ask out the bsf. The girl also dated a dude who's sister was the same as her. She also has a secret (maybe twin) brother. She lived in a house that opened out into the woods. The dude (bsf's ex) was part something too but I forgot what. The bsf and the other girl who killed her could also sing hella well.

kids book about a time space traveling orphan girl (with a pug) SOLVED It's the Molly Moon series! there was this book that i read when i was like 10ish in around 2010 it s a fiction book, and the main character was a (maybe) redhead girl and she had a pet pug. she lived in an orphanage (i think) with a guardian who was very mean. i m not sure whether the main character was able to time travel or space travel, but after traveling for long periods of time, her skin would start to flake off behind her ear. there are two scenes i vividly remember from near the beginning of the book. 1) the girl faked being sick by putting her thermometer in hot tea and 2) the girl wanted to take a bath but she was only allowed 20cm of water in the tub. lmk if this book rings any bells! i miss it )

1980s fantasy book Female warrior who blacks out amp slaughters party Shadow thorn creature tormenting town Apologies for the long title and likely to be sparse details. I remember reading this book about 15 20 years ago but for the life of my I cannot remember it's name and only patches of what the book was about. I weirdly had a dream about it the other day and have been racking my brain trying to find the book! Classic 1980 90's sword and sorcery book. There is an evil that must be defeated (and for the life of me I can't remember if it was a person, thing, dark tower, big black orb etc). I think it's maybe an evil sorcerer? There is a female warrior paladin with him who's history in the past was that she tried to defeat the big bad with a group, and she blacked out and slaughtered most of the the group before she regained consciousness. Now she's struggling with going back again to fight it. The main protagonist of the book is a mage wizard who works spells by imagining them as beads on a thread within a tapestry in his mind which was his version of a grimoire. Has to really concentrate to prepare before using any. He's not the most charismatic of characters Part of the plot involves the mage wizard being recruited to clear out a 'curse' on a towns well and then finds out there is some shadow invisible big thorny evil that he has to fight which has been plaguing the town. That is about all I remember and I'm really hoping someone here might have read it too.

Fantasy series early 2000's? Partners control elements, Male character chooses female in a ceremony The FMC was chosen by the MMC in a ceremony after FMC completed schooling, they had to work together to control earthquakes (maybe other pairs controlled other elements?). FMC didn't want the MMC to choose her, he wasn't thought to be a strong serious partner. They end up in love by the end of the series. Possibly had "Hero" in one or more title or the series title. Published probably sometime between 2000 2010, 5 or 6 books in the series

Creepy kids book, evil woman drinks the blood of girls to stay young My 14 year old daughter is looking for this book. She thinks she read it maybe 2016 17 ish, probaly from school library. Middle grade, she remembers it as very dark and scary reading it as a 10 ish yr old but thinks it might not be a scary as she remembers from an adult perspective. Details are vauge but here's what she remembers Evil woman adopts orphans, maybe also kidnaps, in order to drink their blood to stay young. But she is NOT a vampire. She may do something to the blood before drinking it that makes the blood look silver. She doesn't kill the girls she takes, or at least they don't die right away. She has a dungeon she keeps them in. Main character isn't the one adopted or kidnapped, it's her friend who is taken and she goes to find her. At the end the evil woman is either arrested or the mc kills her. Main character is spunky 10 ish year old girl, may have short hair. Companions are a younger boy, and an older girl who is the one who gets taken. They probably lived in an orphanage. Book has an old fashioned, maybe Victorian vibe. She thinks the cover is a dark picture of a girl in an ally, but she's also not sure she isn't mixing that memory up with the cover of Coraline. Edit More info Most of the book is the main character's search for her friend. The really dark intent ism't clear until at least halfway through, the details about the evil woman's wanting the orphan girl's blood is a late reveal. There's also an adult man who is another mysterious character who turns out to be an undercover cop detective investigating the evil woman. Edit typos

Issac Newton was an immortal alchemist with the Philospher's Stone Now I'll be fully honest, it might not have been Newton, but I'm fairly certain it was Newton or some other famous scientist of old who obtained immortality. I think it was tied to him being close to his wife, but she got kidnapped to Alcatraz at some point early on. The two main characters were young kids who got roped up in the whole magic thing after Villain attacked Newton in his bookshop with green magic, I'm fairly sure they were a boy and a girl and the girl liked the smell of coffee but not the taste. Also there was a scene inside a giant tree with the classic "whatever you hear at night don't go onto the landing" thing. Sorry this is just a bunch of random details, but it's all that I can remember of these books, I got some of them for free on an E Reader as a kid and I can't remember their name but want to read them again, if anybody else knows what the hell I'm on about that'd be a huge help.

Fictio book about a girl who had an unrequited love with someone she barely knows. She named him"Robot" Its about a girl who like this guy so much she struggles. She barely knows the guy. Even the real name of the guy. And so she named him "Robot". She struggles fighting off her feelings bcos even she doesnt know if its real since Robot is a stranger to her. Then there's this quote on the book "Was i wrong? How can i command myself to stop loving when it is embedded in me? I would always and forever find reasons to go on loving... maybe all because my love is true..."

Twin brothers, one blind. Main character is a red haired girl. I remember very little from this book, there are twin brothers and one is blind. Both are in love with the protagonist, a red haired girl. There is a scene where she kisses the sighted brother in a cave, the blind brother is there a but doesn t know. I believe they live by the sea. All characters are teens. It s a novel I read in the mid 90s.

There is a court setting where they have a person with gifts bring back or let the murder victims tell how they died and who killed them Edit I found out which book I was thinking of. I asked the smartest person I know, my grandpa. He was able to help me figure it out. It s called Through Violet Eyes. It s a series by Steven Woodworth. Thanks for all the other tips on books. I ll be checking them all out. There was a serial killer and one of these gifted people was lying on the stand about who the killer was or what they did. It s about and girl and her mom was also gifted. She either died or went crazy. Also this may be in the book or I m thinking of a different one but the serial killer like sews into the bodies of his victims like he creates artwork with thread but on the bodies, maybe the stomach. I wanna say I read this like maybe 10 15 years ago so I could have mashed up two books by mistake oops. Anyways I always thought this would be a really cool movie, if it isn t one already.