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A family goes to a tropical island resort for fathers work (with birds, maybe?) but there's actually some kind of crazy secret going on so the kids try and find their dad to protect him I actually don't remember a greater deal about this book. I remember the dad is some kind of scientist who goes to some island to study something there. The family is staying at the resort there and I think the dad goes missing or just disappears for a while so the two?? kids go out venturing in the woods and start growing suspicious. There was some kind of plot twist or something with the people who hired the dad. The ending had something to do inside a building where there was a party going on? Then some things started going down. The island was full of crazy fauna. There was a pool. That's all I can remember. I think it was even classified as juvenile reading or something. Not quite YA age.

Please help me find this book! It s a children s book along the lines of when I grow up I have been searching endlessly for a book I remember reading as a kid. I have so many memories of it and it s blowing my mind that I can t find ANYTHING on the internet about it no matter what I search. If you can help me that would be amazing! Here s the bits I remember The general premise of the book was a kid mad at his parents for all the rules so he s imagining what life is going to be like when he is an adult. All I remember is little illustrations and things. I remember he is up late at night making toast from a fishing pole or something?? There s also a scene of him swimming and another of him on a motorcycle. If I remember it correctly I think he has crazy hair and wears a coat the whole time. I know it s not a lot to go off of but I hope someone out there recognizes the book I m talking about. Thanks!!

Young adult book about a secret underground city Some children find a secret underground railway that leads into an underground city unknown to the world above. Edit was published before 1995 Solved!

Book about a boy where in the first chapter (maybe first few) he listens to the radio where they talk about an atom dying and be fixates on the atom dying (in Texas?) For the whole book. He has a scientific watch maybe that is exactly to the second. His parents don't seem to get his fascination I think I read it around 2010 or 12 I can't remember if it was paper back or hard back. Young adult or even a kids book

Young Adult Teen Sci Fi about a group of genius teens using their wits and inventions to rescue a kidnapped scientist Hi people. This was a book I read somewhere around 2009, and was probably written between 2000 2008. I read the paperback version from the school library, maybe 200 300 pages long. Here's what I remember amp x200B A group of children and young teens are the collective protagonists. They are all geniuses but no superpowers. The main plotline was to rescue this kidnapped scientist, who I believe was the father of one of the girls. The scientist is trying to escape his cell. One of his attempts involve setting a piece of paper on fire by concentrating sunlight with his glasses. I don't remember if he succeeds in his attempt, but I do think he ends up moved to a different location (a military base esque place) because of the fire caused by his stunt. The kids track him to the new location and prepare to break him out. One of them invents flying dragonfly sized robot that can digest leaves as an alternate source of energy but it cannot run fully from it. In the story, because it's winter, the robot could only eat pine needles and run out of battery soon after due to insufficient energy extracted. Another girl is an explosive expert. She manages to make a homemade bomb using (among other things) heart medication. The explosive is an unstable liquid I think it was nitroglycerin but I don't remember if the book explicitly names it. In any case, she ends up needing to make a stabilizer for it out of a vegetable oil (olive oil?) by shocking it with electricity from an old TV set. She made too much stabilizer, so the explosive fails to detonate. She is forced to literally hit the bomb with a baseball bat to try to make it explode. It does. I think she survives the explosion. In the story, they mention a handful of times that solar flares were interfering with communications. Because of this cycle, I think the events are happening in 2011 (set at the then near future). I think they succeed in their quest to save this scientist. As you can tell, 12 year old me was mostly interested in the science and technology described, but I want to revisit the book for other themes. There might also be sequels.

Webtoon about a genderless character who is happy wears rainbows and pastels and has a reluctant goth best friend(the best friend is a girl). They are in a high school or college, and the character is new Solved Acception It was a fiction comic, cartoony art style, probably like a slice of life comic. I feel like the title had something about stars in it(?). The title was hot pink as well I believe. It was English, I probably read it 2 4 years ago if that helps. It was a teen maybe older teen comic. I think it was semi new when I read it. It may have been an LGBTQ alphabet mafia story. Any suggestions are helpful and appreciated, thank you!

90s teen mystery on a lake Ok I m aware I m giving almost zero details so I m not expecting much lol. I just remember reading a mystery that revolved around a house by a lake. I think it was a male teen as the main character and he was driving back to the cabin in the middle of the night where there was a murder or something. It had a really dark cover with a dock on the lake. This was when I read a lot of Joan lowery nixon and had that vibe. ...thanks for your help in advance if we solve this somehow!

Young Adult fiction novel about a girl training to be a geisha geiko (maiko) She would cut herself with her hairpin and when it heals, she would go over it again. She ends up meeting this foreign boy from a boat ship, everyone on the boat has dark skin and covered in scars. I think the boy also had a bird? An eagle, hawk or another big bird with large talons. From what I can remember, she was either an orphan or was thrown out by her biological mom and the geisha house "mother" took her in.

Fantasy novel about a girl and a unicorn magic horse I remember this book I enjoyed reading but never finished because I didn't have a card to the library it was at. From what I can remember, it is set in medieval times and focuses on this young girl, preteen probably, who lives in a very strict household with other women. I think they were raising her to being a woman like them, but of course she's a free spirit, and longs to find this magical horse she's heard about. One day when she's in trouble with the elders, when they aren't looking, and she runs away. She stops and hides under a tree trunk and is crying. I think she's hiding from calvary outside. When she thinks they're gone, she comes out and finds the glowing magical white horse, and I think it carries her away somewhere, and that's where I left off. It seems like a YA novel, and I think it was written by a woman in the 80s.

Mystery. Book series. Woman s fianc disappears and she dedicates herself to finding him. Ends up finding him in Mexico but he doesn t remember her. The first book I believe is her searching through the family drama to see why he even left and then trying to figure out what happened to him when everyone tells her that he s dead. She ends up finding him... he was shot and knocked off the back of the boat by a family member. He lost his memory and washes up on shore a John Doe in Mexico. He falls in love with the nurse taking care of him. They marry and have two boys. His wife dies. But the heroine, his fianc , goes to the end of the earth to find him. And he doesn t remember her at all when she shows up in tears asking about who he used to be (because he has no idea who that was). I remember that she has blue eyes. He s an artist, and is trying to make the perfect shade of blue, and when he meets her, she explains it s the color of her eyes. I also remember the guys mom finds him first and buys a house next door down in Mexico to be near him his memory loss means he can love and trust her finally and she gets to be near her grandkids. The second book is when the amnesia wears off and he wakes up having no memory of his life and his boys down in Mexico. His fianc at this point has moved on, and he has to rediscover himself and who he made himself into after the accident. I think I read this about 5 years ago, but I don t really remember, and Google is no help. Thanks.

Kid's book (from the 90s?) about someone hiding in their attic I don't remember much but protagonist (a kid, don't remember gender) moves into a house with an attic and thinks its haunted by a ghost. Turns out another kid has been living and hiding there but pretends to be a ghost to avoid detection. The kid in hiding bases the ghost off of a diary in the attic belonging to a girl who might've mentioned hating needlepoint. The book included a diagram of the attic to show the specific nook in which the kid hid when someone came into the attic. Would guess I read it in the late 90s or early 2000s.

Book about a kid who goes to live with distant family on a farm. The family has a kid about the protagonist's age. The young male protaganonist does not want to be there. About elementary school level book. My class read this book together in elementary school, and it was 2008 2009. I believe it was a 6th grade class. I remember so little about this book, but I've thought about it off and on for years but can never remember enough to search for it on my own. From what I can remember, I believe it was about a boy around the age of 11 who for some reason goes to live with some distant family he doesn't know on a farm. I don't believe it was a situation where his parents pass away, but I don't remember why he went to live with the family. Its possible he may have only stayed with them over the summer, but I don't remember for sure. He really didn't like that he was there and had a really bad and angry attitude for a while. The other boy that lived there always wanted to play with him, but he didn't want to. I think by the end he finally starts to like it and enjoys it while finally accepting them as part of his family. I'm sorry I can't remember much more, but it was a very long time ago and it didn't stick in my mind as well as the other dramatic books that we read that year did. The Cay and Where The Red Fern Grows was a lot easier for my 11 year old brain to remember than this farm book that I've been trying to remember in my adult years was.

girl is on the run from some type of people (or organization) she also does magic voodoo, one day a boy comes to investigate the apartment she lives in, and she proceeds to trap him. and by trap him I mean that he goes into the bathroom? but she had placed.. some kind of trap there, and then (I think) she begins asking him what he is doing there, but he answers something along the lines of ''I thought this apartment was abandoned empty'' And while he is trapped, she does some kind of.. ritual?? I don't know, it might have been a harmful one, or some kind of protection spell. This is probably a really bad description, but I can't really remember a whole lot. Kid's book (I think?) I read it around... 2012 2013?? I don't think it was that new?

Thriller Fiction. Man gets kidnapped. Wife tries to get him back. Read in 1998. Had a gold cover The book was quite long. It was for adults. I think the husband may have died in it. The FBI agent or detective launched a rescue mission in a SAAB jet. Remember a scene when he was pointing a laser sighted gun through a window. The husband may have been a hacker computer wiz. There was a charachter called declan or Devereux, something beginning with D.

Adult romance porn novel from the seventies. I think there s a bikini lady on the cover. Starts with a man being tied in the desert. He is rescued by an Arab princess who then brings him back to her tent and has sex with him. End of the book the guy is in prison and has sex through the bars. The guy is tied to stakes in the desert with wet leather straps which contract as they dry and pull the guy to pieces. Before rhis happens, he is rescued by an arab princess who brings him to her tent and uses a clear oil or liquid on his wounds. She stands over him as he is unconscious and lowers herself on to him. He wakes up gets hard and they do the feed. Towards the end of the book the guy has sex with another character possibly called Sasha through the bars of a prison cell. He comments that the bars of the cell have imprinted marks on sashas butt. Can anyone remember what this book is called?

Horror book about a monster with a Latin name(the monsters name is in Latin, not sure about the title) That s pretty much all I remember, besides the monster resembling the rake somewhat, and a scene where they were hiding in a crawl space and the monster was outside trying to get in. I know this is not a lot to go on, but if anyone has read this book and sees this, PLEASE tell me the title. I ve been trying to remember this books name for years.

Book about a Princess with one grey eye and one blue eye, her father leaves her mother while she is pregnant to hunt and kill a dragon, but the princess ends up talking to the dragon I read this book about 3 years ago and I've started to think about it again. So the main character is this princess who has one grey eye and one blue eye. I remember a specific part in the story where her eyes are compared to the stormy grey skies and the light blue ocean. Her mother has complications with birth and every baby that she has ever gave birth to died shortly after birth. The only baby who survived was the princess and I remember that the princess has feelings of disappointment because she wasn't the child that her parents wanted. Going back to the main plot of the story, her father decides to leave them in order to catch and kill this dragon that has been reported by people to have seen. And while he is out looking for the dragon, the mother goes into labor and I think both her and the baby end up dying or maybe it was just the baby. Anyways, the princess somehow ends up talking to the dragon that her father is looking for but she doesn't tell her father about it. The one last thing that I remember is this wall that is mentioned in the story. The princess finds a secret room in the castle and the walls of the room are covered in paintings of dragon with no pupils, just the whites of their eyes. I got kind of creeped out by that so I stopped reading it, but I really am interested in picking it up again and continuing the story.

Rocking Chairs, Flying Houses, and Hans Christian Andersen? Okay, so I read this book around 2008 2009, and can't really recall much from it. It was a collection of short (often scary) stories. I think Hans Christian Andersen was mentioned? All the illustrations were in black and white. One featured a house flying up from the neighborhood. As far as the stories go, I can only remember details from two of them. One of them was centered around a twisted, deformed rocking chair with a clock counting down on its arm. The other was about a family's house and a mishap with the wires caused it to fly. I think the cover was brown and black, with gold writing across the front.

vaguely private detective y man does a lot of driving around whilst on drugs, and very fast, while looking for something for an old lady The Book Fiction Plot Man is a jobber for hire of some kind, possibly a private detective. He is hired by an old lady for something, possibly looking for her pet but not sure. He does a lot of recreational drugs, and a lot of the book is spent with him eluding the cops in his car, whilst on drugs and or in possession of drugs, and driving really fast. gt ! Then at the end a magic man shows up and makes the old lady young again, because ironic punishments are cool, and then he kills her. The protagonist and his even more of a druggie friend then beat the magic man by being on so much drugs that he cannot influence their minds.! lt Genre Crime? Physical Book Paperback, Yellow Orange cover Setting Modern ish, not super sure exact period, they're using modern cars to drive, and modern ish drugs to do drugs with. Length Not sure, probably 10 of the Count of Monte Cristo or less. I.E not super long. Language English amp x200B Me I was about 12 15 years old, approx, I'd guess. I'm 33 now, so this would have been 2000 2003 ish. I got it from the Ocean Grove branch of the Geelong Library Service, unfortunately through enquiries made by me something like 10 years ago I found out my old library account, and its history, had been deleted. My guesstimation would be it was a Young Adult or Teen book, despite the drugs and the crime and the infrequent murders. That's about all I can remember, if anyone can remember this, or can help somehow, that'd be amazing, but thank you for reading even if you cannot, I know I wrote a lot.

YA book series about a girl descended from the Grimm brothers, goes on adventures and fights off evil culminating in The Mirror being evil I read this book series when I was younger about a teen girl growing up in small town. She was descended from the brothers Grimm and discovered all the stories were true. From what I recall the orginal version of the little mermaid was a plot point in one book.

Looking for English detective novel played in monastery, read roughly 10 15 years ago I keep thinking about a book I read as a teenager about a (I think female) detective who is tasked to solve some sort of crime. Part of the book plays out in a monastery and part of the clue twist of the story has to do with some conserved bodies creatures. Some unexplained magical creatures (e.g. mermaid) were then explained by these species with deformaties kept stored in jars (e.g. babies with legs grown together). I don't think it was a very famous book, but I hope some of you might still recognise it. It just haunts me not knowing which book it was!

Villagers dress alike to save girl from witch In the early to mid 1980's our school librarian read us this story. Basically, Girls stepmother trades her to a witch and this was overheard by one of the characters. Witch was told girl would be at the well at a particular time in a specific colored dress. The eavesdropper gets teen boys and girls alike to all wear said colored dress and be at the well with Girl Witch is confused and leaves. This repeats with different colored dresses until witch takes stepmom instead. I have been searching for years for this book as I originally wanted to have it for my kids, its a little late for that now but I would still love to know the name. TIA

Book About Tree and Missing Kids I ve been searching for a this one book for about 2 days and i ve come to a complete roadblock since i m the only one who reads in my firmed group. The book is about a kid who moves into a new place and notices his home has a tree. He was told to make friends so he went and made some friends but down the story he realizes (Spoiler alert?) that the kids have been dead before. I don t remember much but one kid was found in a chimney and another found in the tree.

A storey about a young girl, she can move faster than people can see. Some event disaster happened. Seems there is a shortage on food supplies. There is an ice cloud object that freezes people. It is determined the cloud feeds on sound EEEEEEE. There is some sort of vortex funnel cloud that gets Anchored near a church and the cloud is lured near it(I think). Some frozen dude thawing in the church basement. The funnel is making him thaw faster. Read approx 5 years ago(I think), on an ereading app. Possibly turned into a series. Fiction. The girl is teenish. References memories of her mom keeping her in a dog crate when younger due to her speed.

The book isn't supposed to be read serially but randomly switching between different pages. I cane across this book back in school, where the reader wasn't supposed to read the book serially. Instead, after every page a line directed the reader to a random page. I don't remember its significance, neither do I remember the name of the book.

Comic Book Graphic Novel About Two Friends Visiting an Evil Christmas World I am trying to remember an old comic book graphic novel I liked. It was pretty much a Rick and Morty episode but in a comic book. I remember it being about two friends and I think it starts out with a guy hunting them because they have an overdue Alien vs. Predator video game. They later use some sort of portal gun and go to crazy places. The one place I remember the most is when they went to an evil Christmas world and at one point had to fight an evil Rudolph in an arena fight. Another world they went to I remember them going to a fast food place that sold burgers with live rats as the meat and I think there was a female character that helped them throughout this story. I also remember it ending with them getting on a space ship. I looked up every thing I could on google but found nothing.

A short horror story about a family being replaced by doppelgangers I need help finding out where I read this story! This short story is about a girl and her brother and baby sibling(?) getting a babysitter for a night, but the girl notices something off about the babysitter. Like the babysitter is letting them eat junk food for dinner, and how the babysitter is normally clumsy but can now catch anything thrown at her. They figure out the babysitter was replaced by a doppelganger. At one point, the parents come home and the babysitter convinces them to go with her and she turns them into doppelgangers as well. The brother is forced into a room and gets turned too. The story ends with the girl running outside and hiding.

Book about a guy who cheats on his wife with a woman who is diagnosed with MS I remember reading a book a long time ago which is about this guy who develops a relationship with this woman and has sex with her multiple times, and one time she pees on him, and he thinks it's because she thought it was some sort of kinky thing, but it's actually because she was developing MS. In the end (spoilers) he ends up staying with his wife, who finds out about the whole thing, but bringing meals and stuff to the woman he cheated with.

An illustrated children's book about a girl made of wood who lives in a clock tower (read to me in 2008?) From what I can remember the book was about a girl made of wood who lives in a clock tower with talking animals, she falls in love with a human boy who cleans the clock. I cant recall the middle of the story but she becomes human in the end. I also remember that most of the illustrations were purple themed.

Previous question about children's book with moose saying "MOOOK" Someone had posted a question about a children's book which had a moose saying "MOOOK!" I found the book, and it is "It's Not Easy Being A Bunny".

Fantasy book of girl slowing her heart to communicate with nature Some plot I remember was a girl who had powers or a connection with nature and could communicate with it. But she had to be very still to get a good connection. Once, she slowed her heart beat and her breathing so much she almost died. A different character had to break her out of her trance. She was annoyed with them until she learned she almost died. The other character was protecting her for or from something. The book was a paperback with a orange and brown pallet. There was a girl surrounded by different animals like a large four legged animal maybe a horse. A bird, an owl or hawk. I don't want to misremember any more so I'll leave it there. I barely remember this book but I've been searching for it for years. Any suggestions are welcome!

Surreal book with a world ending monster fight at the end? It's been a while since I read this book, so take some of the details here with a grain of salt... The book was following a group of several kids that all have something strange about them, I can't quite remember how many there were, but every chapter switched perspectives, and sometimes it even showed the same event from multiple character's POV, and the main plotline was that all of the main protagonists could hear a distant scream or yell, which slowly got louder over the course of the book, and eventually they learn through a vision that the screams are coming from a world eating monster coming for the earth, I want to say they called it "The Hunter" or "The Screamer"? anyway, when the book was nearing the climax, eventually the screams got loud enough that everyone could hear them instead of just the main characters, and the finale was a big fight between the protagonists and the monster, and I specifically remember they beat the monster by cutting open the monster's poison sacks so it poisons itself to death... Apart from this I remember a few random details too, at some point I think one of the characters transforms into a giant telepathic gold statue, and another different character turned into a sword that would eventually be used to fight the monster, and one other character walked around like a crab.

Dark mirror and crochet needle? I have only a vague recollection of reading this book when I was in school (in the early to mid 2000s), but if memory serves, the main villain was an old lady who ran a small shop in town. She had some sort of dark mirror that she would use to spy on town residents and could influence(?) them by reaching a crochet or knitting needle through the mirror. Unfortunately for my hunt, the web loves to serve me 'how to knit crochet' books instead of anything useful.

YA unpopular girl gets close to popular guy cause he broke his leg Book published around 2000 2008 Cover art alot of browns and pinks, shows legs of a girl wearing socks and shows. I think the title is related to her being unpopular Premise Girl whose unpopular gets close to unpopular guy cause he broke his leg. They get close during the summer and she starts to fall for but doesnt know he also falls for her. She has alot going on in her life and is trying to figure stuff out.

Mystery Series, Hereditary Peer, Set post House of Lord's Act Trying to find a book (series?) that had a hereditary peer as one of the characters. The book was published pre 2014, and mentioned the House of Lord's Act when discussing why the character was n't a peer. Fairly sure this character was single and not a police officer. Character was possibly in his 40's.

Need help trying to remember Fantasy Sci fi Book series Unfortunately I can't remember any names but I do recall the premise of the first book. Basically Earth sends outs special agents know as "actors" to other worlds, filled with magic specials powers, to influence those worlds. The first books starts off with our protagonist, an actor, fighting in a castle, in another world, and after getting stabbed in the stomach during his mission, he is sent back to Earth. amp x200B Was so long ago I listened to this book so if anyone has any clue to the description I gave, I would greatly appreciate it.

Modern Greek Mythology Series starting with the realm of Hades, don't recall much except for the nature of the Antagonist's attempt to take over the underworld and working around exact words. The antagonist attempts to overthrow Hades using (blood?) to spur the dead to life. (Those that are dead do not feel alive and are settled into their fate but can be energized by this, but only for a time.) The plan fails as the effect wears off and Hades banishes the antagonist to "never set foot" in his kingdom again. The antagonist works around this by being carried into Hades when he tries to take over, thus avoiding the restriction. When he is knocked off of whatever is carrying him it does burn his feet. Hades nearly banishes him the same way again but remembers the error in wording. The protagonists come from a more modern setting, the real world. I don't recall their exact involvement. I do remember there being a door leading to Hades that redirects most people away from it, but this is a common enough idea I don't think it narrows it down much. I think it was just a couple of kids. The trope of not eating anything in the underworld to avoid being trapped there still held. Hades casually tries to trick the protagonists into eating there after they save his kingdom, considering it worth a shot, but they do not fall for it and leave on pleasant enough terms. I believe the next book of the series would have Poseidon be the focused mythological god to focus on, like Hades was in this book. I don't think I knew that until a good chunk of time after reading the first book, discovering there were more books. The protagonists would have to deal with the same antagonist from before, apparently he had some kind of relationship with the Sea God. That's the summary I seem to recall stumbling across at some point anyways. This would have been read around 10 years ago, probably a kid's series, written in English. Apologies for being so short on details again.

Horror that takes place in the American southwest? Resolved! Horror book I read about 13 years ago, all I remember is there were archeological artifacts found that were phallic in nature and these artifacts were I think magically moving on their own towards town and also the dogs in this town were going crazy. Ring any bells for anyone?

Book about a young black woman with white hair who fights with a stick and has some magic SOLVED Children of Blood and Bone I only started the book about a year ago, but I had to return it and life got away from me. I seem to remember there being a village that was under the rule of some monarchy, and the king feared magic users and had them put to death, including the mother of the protagonist. She was a young black woman with white hair and the young women of the village were being taught a style of stick staff fighting in secret to defend themselves. Soldiers would come to check the village and they would have to pretend to be just seamstresses weavers. The last thing I remember is the protagonist was given a special collapsing metal staff by the matron who taught her. Any help would be appreciated!

Does anyone remember 90's storybook set in a castle? This is not really about a book but more a story book collection. I am trying to find a storybook set which used to come in a cardboard castle. It used to have 12 tiny story books with fairy tales in it. I remember it also used to have cards with characters drawn on them, king, queen, princesses. It also had sticker sheets with their costumes on them. I can't find anything related to it on the internet and its picking my brains. All the stories books were lined up on three shelves made inside of the cardboard castle. Sorry if this is not the right place to ask. I am very new to reddit, this is actually my first post.

Young Adult Fic About a Teenager Discovering his Connections to Nazca Lines and Powers This was a book that I read and reread frequently from the library in my high school in the mid 1980s, in Northern NYState. There is very little that I remember about the book. At the time I was very into reading anything that had any supernatural elements to it. I remember that the protagonist was a young person I think a young teenage boy. I think the protagonist had family tragedy pre story. The Nazca Lines are a big point in the story and are connected to the main character. He heads to figure it out to deal with whatever the antagonist was. I don t remember for sure but I think the main character discovers he s inherited traits from ancient connections. I m sorry I don t remember more. I m watching a documentary on Peru which is what got me thinking about it. I remember one bit of a scene where he s in school, in class, and something goes on outside.

Illustrated book about a blue bird When I was a child I used to read this illustrated book about a blue bird. I remember a few images and part of the story. I remember the bird was a friend of Venus (yes, the planet) and it would fly to space to spend time with her (which shocked me as a child, it just made no sense lol). I remember the bird flying to a steeple to see the city. I remember the bird would come across a little girl that couldn't go out to play with the others kids because she had an illness. And I think the bird decides to accompany her until she's recovered. I'm not sure about the end though. I have this vague idea that the bird gives one of its feathers to the girl every single day to cheer her up and that the bird dies at the end. I'm pretty sure Venus was shaped like the Sun of May. The book was in Spanish and it may have been edited in South America but I really don't know.

A book about a guy who is the god of nothing? or his oracle? The guy wakes up with no memories and he has a staff that is a special color that normally only people who are chosen by the gods get like... a badge in that color. No matter where he leaves the staff it always seems to come to him. The guy runs into a small group of people chosen by various gods and they are all confused about the staff situation too. I used to have this book FOREVER ago. A guy at a ren faire was selling and signing copies. He said his publisher said it was a good way to get people interested? Anyway if anyone has a clue what in the world this book was I would appreciate it. It popped into my head today and it is driving me nuts.

Psychological thriller from the 80 s? I thought it was Dean Koontz or Robins Cook but I can t find it. It was about a school for brilliant children. I think they started to go missing or dying and they realized they were inserting their brains into the internet. I think I remember the main character taking an IQ test at the beginning. I ve been trying to remember the name of this book for decades!

A sci fi novel about a middle manager with a dying kid and while NASA discovers a alien message from 25 million years ago I read this book in 2016ish and I don't remember the author, title. But I remember a much odd bits such as 3 word title The something something I over heard the title on a NPR broadcast fresh air with Terry Gross the book was purchased at a Barnes and noble The cover I had was black, softcover, and had a silver satellite probe thingy against a space back drop with tiny white stars The main character is a NASA middle manager Is named Henry maybe? middle aged, like late 30s Is white married with one kid Works in a office not actually interested in space nor a astronomer back is sometimes sore soft spoken drinks alcohol, mostly beer I think? Grumpy but lovable just normal Some plot points I remember A alien transmission is overheard and captured by space agencies the Aliens never actually show up public takes the news of aliens mostly OK his kid gets cancer the aliens are like spiders??? the transmission is like 25 30 million years old a friend accidentally blows himself up with a Maxwell's demon device thingy, is tragic a divorce between Henry and his wife is discussed by the whole thing is resolved b c love? Somebody crashes a BMW? I know one is mentioned set in like late 80's early 90s maybe B c of the Maxwell's demon thing, there is a whole discussion whether or not to release the full transmission there is 2 funerals set in either Houston or Goddard space center That s all I remember. Thank you in advance!

A book where somone kills death himself and then becomes the new death. He then has to do death's job and collect dead people. there are also other incarnations of time for example. There are also more books in that universe that tell the story of other incarnations. Sorry, i don't know more. I think i read it around 5 years ago.

Fiction, A girl uses a key to open doors that she finds in the walls at night I've been on the hunt for this book for 5 years. I read it while in high school and can't remember the title or author. I remember that this book is about a girl whose parents bought a hotel to renovate. I think they either live in the hotel or a house nearby it. I also remember that she has acquired a key (maybe from her grandfather). She sees the impression of a door in the wall paper, and she uses the key to carve it out. Sometime in the process she meets a boy and they become friends (maybe there is romance, I can't remember). When she enters the door, she can only do it at night, and the boy ends up being an enemy I think?? I also remember some sort of battle or fight that happens when she's in the dark hallway that's behind the door. I also remember that she keeps this secret life from her parents.

Sci fi book with a gadget to control orgasms. I only ever read the beginning few chapters, and it was over 20 years ago, so this is maybe a long shot. It was a large science fiction novel in which the male captain (?) of a space ship discovers the woman (passenger or prisoner?) he has been sleeping with has a gadget installed that controls her orgasms. I guess he feels betrayed by this and takes the remote control. I think there was a bunch of other stuff happening too.... That's as far as I read and I want to read more. Thanks.

YA science fiction. There is an alien robot invasion and a young boy lives in these sewage tunnels who then finds a group of similarly aged people and it turns out they have these nanobots in their blood and it allows them to have this sort of connection to the alien robot things. EDIT SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED Thank you u aeth3na I read it in about 2014 2015 I think? There was some biomechanical alien things that took over the earth, I'm pretty sure that's what happened, and there was this boy who managed to escape the main attacking force and survives in sewers and underground tunnels. He eventually finds similar aged people and a doctor or scientist or something like that who reveals that they were "experimented" on and given these nanobots or some chip or something in their blood. It allows them to have some sort of connection to the alien robot things and even control them to an extent. Eventually they get to the hive mind or something alike and it turns out that the hive was taken over by some other enemy thing but the boy's blood can fix it and then the robot aliens are now allied in this large quadrant. Iirc the book ends there but it's definitely set up for another. If anyone has any guess, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

YA Teen with Wind Controlling powers Read this book around 2014 1016, the main character is a teenage girl who is a part of a group of people who can control the winds, there is a bodyguard assigned to protect her as she is important, she can control the big four winds (northerly, southerly etc) each wind they use can have a personality can be playful etc, the antagonists break the winds they use instead of coercing them, the winds scream and blow around them all the time, the main character lives in a small desert town in the middle of knowhere, and the place she hangs out all the time has a bunch of dead insects on the ground (she mentions they crunch under her feet alot) protagonist has a younger brother, and one of the main plot points is main character is captured and a small breeze that is friendly and followers her all the time helps her escape as it is like a companion Solved Let the Sky Fall by Shannon Messenger

YA fantasy with illustrated cover Looking for a specific book... There s a book I picked up one time last year, but ended up putting down... and now I m desperate to find it again. So I thought I d come to Reddit to see if anyone can help me figure it out what it was.... It was a YA Teen fantasy book that had a BEAUTIFUL cover, illustrated with characters on the front. The style of the cover was similar to Midnight Twins by Holly Race I believe. Possibly a U.K. small time author as there was a signed copy available. I remember warm colours but that could be my brain tricking me. There are certain story things I vaguely remember like a magical tournament or battle, but that could be me making things up as I only read the blurb. I also remember that the author was female.

A book about passing away in peace I remember this book when I saw it on a post in some subreddit. If I remember correctly the book is about passing away dying. The book is only less than 100 pages, white cover with maybe a small picture of a sailing ship. The book is said to be given from a hospital to the family of the patient. I don't remember the title, thanks if anyone found the book

Children's book about a man who has to find 3 golden scales. I remember reading this book as a child, so sometime in the 90s. There is a man who doesn't love, very brusque and such. He meets a woman and she tasks him with finding 3 golden scales. I cant remember why, but he does it. He ends up finding a fish with golden scales, a beautiful song (musical scale) and I think the 3rd one was the scales used to measure weight? Not sure on that one. In the end he falls in love with the girl who gave him the task and is much happier.

Imposter Syndrome Non Fiction Hello! So I go on goodreads and enter their giveaways and I believe this is where I saw the book, maybe 1 month back. There was a Non Fiction book on feeling like an imposter imposter syndrome but for women or POC I can t remember which since I am both. I think it was POC imposter syndrome though. Anyone know of the book I m talking about?

Young boy enters dangerous magical forest I read a book when I was young (maybe 15 years ago) that I can t find anywhere online. I don t remember much, but I do remember that it was a boy who was in a magical fantasy forest. It was dangerous but early on he encountered what I remember to be a magical bird or some type of fantastical flying creature. Something happened and this creature agreed to appear to save him when he absolutely needed him most. Throughout the story there were times when the boy thought the creature would appear because he was about to die, but the creature didn t appear and the boy ended up surviving. Then, at the end, he was falling off a cliff and there really was no way out. That is when the creature came and saved him. Pretty sure it was a hard cover book, and was partially brown on the cover with maybe branches? But I m not sure. So if you know one that matches the description of the plot but doesn t match this cover it could still be it! Thank you!

Series about Healers son becoming a gladiator by using magic healing ability and girl who marries immortal Emperor The book starts off with the male mc at school, where he ends up getting expelled for being out after dark. Mc's dad goes and picks mc and takes mc home to live with father, little sister and house keeper. Dad tries to teach mc to be a healer, but mc doesn't want to be like father. Some weeks later their home is raided and father is killed, little sister runs to an ice cave she found to hide and mc is taken into slavery and becomes a gladiator. He uses his healing ability to win his matches and becomes the number one fighter. Female mc's part begins with her travelling to the capital to bece the wife of the emperor, who is immortal and was once married to one of her distant relatives. When she gets there, male mc becomes her private bodyguard and falls in love with her. All the while some bad guy is plotting with a rival nation to invade using magic. When they do, the mc's have to flee using the shadow realm and make their way to make mc's house, where he finds his sister still alive.

Name of book about magic wizards? I remember reading a book about magic when i was wayy younger. It was about a boy that learned magic, and if he showed it to anyone, he would have to erase his memories. I think it was a series of books, but i cant really remember, i think he lived with his parents, and had to sneak away to get taughtthe magic by his wizard teacher, i also remember something about some tea that made him better or something. Do you have any idea what book book series this could be?

Graphic Novel About Light vs Darkness I read this children's graphic novel series about ten years ago. I only remember three books in it, but it ended on a cliff hanger, so there could definitely be more. It was about this group of friends, i think it was three boys and one girl. The girl had an eccentric family member, an uncle, iirc, and these friends decided to explore the uncle's house. In the attic, they accidentally uncovered a portal into another dimension, and the girl gets pulled in. The other kids decide to rescue her, and go through the portal after her. The other dimension is basically uninhabited, and there's not much to look out for, except at night. When the sun sets, these phantasm things come out. The only way to fight them is with light. The uncle had apparently been researching this shady place, and had developed some weapons light guns, light grenades (looked like pokeballs), and really powerful lanterns. I can't remember any other specifics of the story, other than the last panel (I think) of the third book it had this guy in all black looking through a "mirror" and saying the name of the girl. I also remember a piece of artwork in the books three kids were precariously positioned on these really tall, skinny, unstable tower things. The whole thing was pretty creepy to a 10 year old, and definitely contributed to my fear of the dark. What graphic novel is this?

Recent YA Fantasy with untamed girl and a new visitor to the closed off village I started reading a book that I can t remember the name of now. It began with a girl at night seeing a person in a cloak outside her window, but no outsiders new people have been seen in the village for a long time, or maybe aren t allowed, and so she s very taken aback. In the morning she goes down to breakfast and is talked into going with her uncle (I think her father has passed away) to the village, as her uncle knows or has heard word of the new person. Her mother and uncle both lament her wild untamed behaviors... she hides a dagger in her dress before going to the village. I know this is not much to work with, but I m hoping someone who has read it will recognize the beginning. I think it s written by a well known YA fantasy author, but I m having trouble tracking it down again to read fully. Thanks.

Book about someone who goes through a ghost portal near a lake? I'm about 90 sure the protagonist was a girl so I'm going to refer to them as such but there's a little inkling of doubt in my mind about even that so if you think you got it but it's about a boy please still say it because I might be wrong lol Anyways this person just moved to a new house in a foresty area and there's this lake nearby and somehow she winds up next to the lake and this portal opens up? And I remember something about glowing but idk if that's the portal or something coming out of it or the lake or what. Anyways I feel like she passes out and then winds up going through the portal and she ends up in this ghost world. I remember there being a lake on the other side too like she has to use a boat at some point. I remember her hiding from certain ghosts. I remember her looking down into this abandoned village (the phrase ghost town seems very fitting lol) from on top of a hill. There may have been ghost characters named Jasper and Christina. I know that's not a whole lot but if anyone's got something please it's bothering me so much amp x200B Edit I think I read it when I was like 12? 13? It was definitely aimed at teenagers.

The main character wears red Keds I loved this book in middle school. The main character s dad is unemployed and her mom is a traveling pharmaceutical rep. They are in 8th grade? There s a mean girl named Liesel (like weasel) who the main character is friends with until they are working on a group project and Liesel comes over to see that the mc isn t rich and begins to bully her. The dad buys food in bulk and starts projects around the house but doesn t finish them. MC has an older brother whose girlfriend tries to help out but doesn t get much done. Please what is this called??

Book with cities in Britain as characters, London as an extremely tall man I read this book about 10 years ago and all I can remember is that it was based in Britain, and that villages towns cities were represented by people who interacted with the book characters. These people represented characteristics of the towns cities themselves eg. London was an extremely tall, towering man, basically a giant. That's the only detail I remember though.

Choose Your Own Adventure Children's Picture Book Hello! I'd like some helping finding this choose your adventure book I had as a kid. I had this book in 1998, I think it was new at the time. Things I remember about the book It's a children's book with mostly pictures. The only text on the page was the task you had to complete and then a few 'flip to this page' notes All of the pages had to do with the nature the outdoors One of the pages was a lava maze One of the pages was quicksand I think one of the pages was a watermelon maze?? Unfortunately that's all I can remember. Thank you so much in advance for any help! I really appreciate it! Thanks!

Children's Scifi book with mutant mice mega monster Hi, I read this book around 15 years ago when I was in late primary school early high school. The main bits of plot that I can remember is a boy found some abandoned baby mouse in a shed and raised it. He noticed that the mouse had an extra claw thing on it's foot. Later on its discovered that there are loads of these mutant mice that use the claw to form a mega organism and try and terroriser the town. Can't really remember much else. I would very much appreciate your thoughts!

A girl is cursed and every Husband she has dies everytime her siblings get married A girl is cursed that every man that she will wed will die after their wedding, powerful families from her kingdom hear about this and send word to the king to order her to marry the emperor his name is azul? (I think), so that she will maybe curse and kill him, I really hope someone.can help me find this book because I ve been searching for it for months and I can t sleep.

YA book about racism. Two different narrators. One from 1920s and one from modern day. I am still looking for this book but for whatever reason I cannot find it. It starts off with one of the main characters, she s Black or possibly mixed raced teenager and they re doing construction on or outside her house when they find a skeleton buried. She tries to look into it with her friend who I remember was asexual and they got into a fight after she pretended to be his girlfriend at some point. Besides that I don t remember much about her perspective. The other perspective was of a teenage boy who had a white dad and a native mom. He worked at a piano store or possibly a phonograph store. He made his first sale to a black family which was unusual for the store. He made friends with the kids of the family I think. There was also a man that worked at a tobacco store that would talk to the boy and brag about how he was in the klan and would insult the boy about not being able to join because he wasn t fully white. Eventually there was some kind of riot or outbreak of violence caused by the klan in the black neighborhood. Some how the boy and the man from the tobacco store get in a fight because he is trying to hurt one of the members of the family he sold the phonograph to. The man from the tobacco store ends up dead and they bury him but not before discovering he was secretly half black and was hiding it so he could join the klan. Edit SOLVED, title is Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

Fantasy novel with a tank land crawler thing on the cover. Late 90s early 2000s. I really don't ave much more to work with apart from it was in British book stores in the 90s. Maybe had a science fantasy vibe.

Fictional, about a girl at college? I read this book in 2011 I remember the cover was purple. It was about a girl starting college and she became good friends with her roommates who were kind of weird, but at one point bought her an iPhone? She got into a relationship with a guy but the romance wasn t a main focus I don t think. I do remember there being a scene where they do a ouija board and talk to a little boy so I feel like it was more of a thriller paranormal book any help would really be appreciated!!

Creepy thriller book about a painter going insane and having to cover up his artwork because he can't bring himself to look at it anymore Fiction, not sure if thriller is the right word or if it's more psychological, but I have no better idea. The story is set in the past, around 1800s I think (basically no modern stuff, but don't quote me on that date). There was this painter that I think was commissioned to paint the perfect painting and he started going insane because of it, having to resort to covering up the canvas and locking it in a dark room. There were long, drawn out descriptions of him painting a female model in the book. I think there might have been something like a murder he had to cover up and discuss with his wife at the end of the book, but I'm not sure. Another detail is that the painter's character might have been an allusion to him being gay. I read this story some 5 years ago, as a teen, for an English contest. It was a thin, soft cover book that I borrowed from a library, written in English and iirc, by an English writer. It might have been a compact version of a full story, the booklet was 100 pages or so. This last one might be a complete miss, but it might have been published by Penguin Books.

60s or 70s Pictogram Book of Black and White Rebus Type Illustrations With Wise Answers Not Children s Book My mom had this little book of pictures. They were black and white illustrations. Somewhat like rebus puzzles that s the best way I can think to describe them. If I remember correctly one page would show the drawing to solve and the next page was the answer. But the answers weren t just silly little sayings. They definitively were very thought provoking and wise. It was an old book though. I want to say at least from the 70s or 60s if not older. The title did not have anything to do with puzzles or rebus or pictograms. It was something like Buddha Smiles or Laugh Make Happy. I ve looked on internet for years. Mom passed away and I have turned the house upside down. She mite have given it away cause she was doing that with lots of things towards the end. It s very hard to search for because the results are always children book oriented. If I have the word picture or pictograph all I get are children s books. It had a white cover with a black drawing on the front I believe. Thank you for any help.

I m looking for a book. The hard cover version was blue with a gold plane in the center and in the book a scientist is abducted and taken to the Arctic. There is also a girl who is drugged and taken on a plane at one point. I know it s not much to go off of but please help me. I read this book a lot as a kid and seem to have lost the hard copy but I would like to buy it on my kobo. EDIT I now remember that there was a scientist who was abducted along with a few others who were brought to the Arctic and they were saved by kids. The story follows the kids perspective and at one point they read an incomplete letter from the main scientist.

Early 1990s book of fairy tales from around the world, including specific Japanese story about cats Hi everyone, So glad this sub exists! I've been trying to find the name of a book of fairy tales from around the world, translated to English. I read a new copy of the book as a child in the early 1990s in Canada, so I guess it was published in the early 1990s or late 1980s. It is not one of the books by Andrew Lang (red blue green etc. fairy books). I believe it was a larger hard cover book, and I remember it had these very strange and vivid illustrations. One picture really stuck with me because I was frightened of it it was a woman with a pointy nose and black hair, and her skin was in some unusual colour (I think blue or green), and some of her features (eyes and lips?) had been replaced with drawings of something else maybe flowers. Specifically, I'm curious about one fairy tale, which I'm pretty sure was in that book. It's a Japanese fairy tale about a young woman who works as a servant for a rich woman, and she goes to visit her old cat. The cat is a talking cat who has gone to live with a bunch of cat demons (an internet search suggests that these are nekomata?), possibly in a traditional inn. The young woman is kind and treats the cats with respect, and she leaves after a few days with a present given to her by her old cat. The present is money or something valuable, and she shows it to the rich woman who she works for. The rich woman also wants a present, so she goes to visit the cat, even though she never really liked the cat. However, she is disrespectful to the cats. As a result, the cat demons either eat her or give her a present that kills her somehow can't recall which. When I tried to look this up, I found a very similar story involving a sparrow ( but the story I read definitely involved cats. Otherwise, I can't remember much about the fairy tales in that book... I think it had the story of Aladdin, but am not 100 sure. There was also one story involving young women who transformed into peonies because they were under a curse (?), and one transformed into a jade peony and the other was a pink peony. Sadly, there is also a book called "The Jade Peony", and this is making it extremely hard to find on the internet. Thanks so much in advance!

Kids book about a girl in a cult that gets kickedout? I read this book anywhere from 2006 to 2009, I think it had four books in the series and they were surprisingly children's book. I know that the main character was a preteen young teenager that was considered a "troublemaker" in a cult she was in. One of the first chapters in the first book depicts her and her friend going ice skating when they're not supposed to. Her friend falls through the ice and almost drowns and the main character gets blamed for it. The series follows her getting either kicked out or escaping from the cult and adjusting to city life after that. I remember a lot about the cover, the books definitely had a smooth texture to it. I don't know if any of you have read the Dear America books, but if you have think that type of texture. The spines of the books were always a different color than the rest of the cover which almost always looked like a watercolor painting. I'm pretty sure the first book had olive green spine and a muted blue cover with a long haired brunette standing by water. I can remember all of these details, but my searches never result in anything. I know I bought the books from Half Price books and I think the first book could have been named Glory or Gloria.

A Girl Runs to the Desert After her Sister Dies Years ago I found this book at Ollie's and fell in love. It would have been published pre 2017 It's written in prose, first person POV centered around a teen YA girl who, after a (I believe at this point unnamed) catastrophe, runs away to the desert. She eats some awful chili at the diner, and finds a deserted house to settle into for a while. Gets the outhouse cleared, sweeps out all the dust, and gets the water running. She bought a box of old postcards at the antique shop, and it reminded her of her distant mother who would send postcards while she traveled. Later it's revealed that her sister, a wild child and a damn good swimmer, drowned. She explores the desert, meets rockhounds, and gets a job balancing books for a company that ships Native American pottery. She learns to throw on the wheel, to take care of herself, and heals a little too. At some point she is accused of stealing from the company, and storms off until they determine it wasn't her and apologize. Notable excerpt (paraphrased due to memory) "I am full of mashed potatoes and betrayal and I don't fucking feel like washing the dishes" Thank you for any and all help!! I miss this book dearly and want to reread it and share it with others.

A science fiction book set in a post apocalyptic world. Humanity lives inside a walled city believing that any and all life outside the walls has gone rabid, and there are two distinct levels of living. I believe I read the book sometime around 2013? It was a paperback adorned with mostly dark colors, but had a streak of red where the title was. The letter "R" stands out in my mind when I try to remember the title, but I could be wrong. The book takes place in a stacked city. A boy lives in the lower city slums, but he is extremely talented in flight video games. A girl who is extremely smart lives secluded in the highest peaks of the upper city, and I think she gets a pet monkey at some point? I could be wrong about that part. Everyone has been told that life outside the walls cannot thrive, because there is a disease that had turned every animal completely rabid and they will kill humans on sight, but no one has ever seen an animal. The children by some twist of fate end up with a chance to partake in a flight simulation where their skills and intelligence are put together to see if they could fight for their city, but the girl realizes it isn't a flight simulation, but remote control of an unmanned drone, and in the end realizes that there may be life outside the walls, and that it's most likely a government cover up to stay in power. I don't remember a lot of the story in the middle, but I hope this is enough information to get somewhere. EDIT Solved in one comment. Thanks!

Crime Thriller. Rural USA. Antagonist was an Arachnophile. I read this book around 5 years ago. The main character was on a case looking for a missing girl (or girls) I think. The antagonist had a love obsession with spiders. It was set in the USA. I m sure it was more of a rural area than a big city as I recall there being forests and lakes. Sorry I can t remember any more. Thanks in advance!

A girl always films her daily life. She meets a man but when she shows her friend's the video, the man is not there The title probably doesn't make any sense but I'm not sure. I remember that the main character is a girl, I think she's out of high school but I'm not sure. She walks around with a button sewed in her clothes that has a camera built into it. I don't remember her reason for always filming. I remember that she went to show her friend's the recording because of a man she met, but I don't remember exactly why she wanted to show them but he's not there. That's literally all of the details I remember.

Fantasy young adult novel characters travel to various planets including futuristic water world EDIT SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED The series is the Pendragon series, by D.J MacHale Vague title, but the only part I remember was one or two characters landing on a water planet where they either grew crops on top of the ocean or harvested water itself. Might ve been stranded or there to help can t remember. There were some kind of pirates who attacked and the characters had to help the natives fight them off using futuristic aquatic weapons and aquatic hovercraft. Also they used some kind of rebreather technology I believe. I m pretty sure it was part of a series of books released around 2009 2015 but don t quote me on that. these novels were designed for early teens and i have a fond memory of them from what I can recall. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Children's horror short story with a librarian that eats(?) people Hey, I'm looking for this short story that's probably from a book with a collection of horror short stories for 10 12 year olds. I don't remember any of the other stories. The main character is a boy in middle school. His grandma's a bit crazy, maybe because her little sister went missing when she was younger, and keeps telling him not to go to the library. He of course doesn't listen, and goes anyways with his best friend to work on their project. That day, there was a heavy storm so the power went out. The librarian got everyone to sit together, lit up some candles, and offered cookies. The mc thought he saw shadows moving on the wall out of the corner of his eye, and they were getting creeped out, but it was raining heavily outside so they couldn't leave. Not sure exactly what happens here(maybe the cookies had some effect?) but the mc and his friend "wake up" in a forest and get chased by a lot of something it's probably the people the librarian has eaten in the past. The mc maybe sees his grandma's sister here. Later, they see the librarian in his true form, some kind of cat like monster, and he's sitting on a pile of bones, licking his lips. The mc climbs up the pile of bones to fight the librarian to get some time for his friend to run away. Any help would be appreciated, thanks for your time!

Romance smut book where women is at her best friends house and climbs over into the neighbors yard and saves the guys drowning son I read this book in 2018. I can t remember the main character s name, but I believe she refers to her best friend as Olive. She is at her house (Olive s) when she notices the handsome neighbor and begins spying on him and his son. She watches him do push ups while his little son cheers him on. Fast forward and she is spying on the house and notices that the nanny isn t paying attention to the son and he falls into the pool. The nanny still doesn t notice that the little boy is struggling so she jumps over into the neighbors yard to save the drowning boy. The handsome neighbor comes out of the house and instead of thanking her for saving his son he calls the cops on her.

A book with a kind of creepy cover and story that I read in middle school once The cover background is a window and it has this orange yellow vintage tinge. A girl with short black hair is standing near it in sideways and outstretched her one leg as trying to dance walk gracefully. I think there was a black cat too but maybe I m just associating it with sabrina lol We had what we call DEAR (drop everything and read) time in my school every monday where we had to go to the library for 1 2 hours to go and read something. And I remember stumbling upon this creepy looking book, it was kinda old (maybe published in early 2000s) but it wasn t battered or anything so I picked it up for the period. I remember the story being about this girl named Theodora (or something beginning with the letter T) and opening lines being about her looking at a fruit that was not opened yet and counting the seeds inside of it. The writing was eerie and I had the impression that she was a witch or something because she was speaking as if she knew the future and could accurately guess the number inside that fruit. I couldn t remember much after that but I could recall that she lived with her broken family (her drunkard dad always flaking out on them, i think) and that she was 12 or close to that. I kinda thought that her household was abusive because of the way that she describe things. The last passage scene that I remember was something about sleeping or hanging out under a bridge. I know this is freakin vague but I didn t finish the whole book that period and when I tried finding it the next time I was in the library it was gone or maybe someone borrowed it. I ve read it maybe about 5 years ago and I honestly want to know what happened next. I tried commissioning my little sis to find it (since she practically lives in the school library and she goes there) but covid hit before she could ever disturb the arrangements. Hope u guys could help!

A kids book about a detective and an elephant So my mom has been looking for this book for a few decades. She read this back in the late 70's around 78 79. She was around 4 at the time. It was a children's book and she doesnt know where she read it. there was a detective hired at a zoo because the elephant went missing and it was the elephant's birthday. Thats all she remembers please help me find this book

y a Russian inspired fantasy where the girl has magical powers and there s a king and a guard dude (not shadow and bone grishaverse ) published between 2010 2015 The inciting incident is the main girl setting the place she s staying at on fire (and killing everyone?) so she has to leave and ends up at the castle for some reason She has some sort of magical affinity The king and the guard dude might be brothers. Guard dude is very stoic protective. The king takes an interest in her and he s mad sus. Like suuuuuper shady. Most likely toxic. I think he spends most of his time trying to seduce her The fact that he s crazy might have actually been a plot point There might have been a hidden door or room where she was being spied on in the room the girl was staying at in the castle. There was something weird about her room. There s this one specific scene where the king is in the throne room with a bunch of other people and he makes the girl sit on the floor beside his throne because they re not equals so she can t sit on the throne next to him I read it in the 8th grade around 2014 2015 on the school s overdrive library

Fantasy book about revenge and gladiators There's a book I read a few years ago and I can't for the life of me remember the title or find it on my Goodreads shelf. It's a fantasy book in a world with a caste system. The protagonist's father is killed at the beginning by a member of a higher caste and he either gets revenge or swears revenge and has to go into hiding. He becomes a gladiator and dominates by learning to train in a otherworld of sorts in some kind of process that's dangerous bad for his health. The gladiator system is split into two groups by the caste system and the protagonist's group continually beats the other when they've never done before. It reminded me a lot of Empire of Silence if that helps.

Fantasy Sci Fi book set in a port city at sea, has to do with harnessing electricity, maybe with lightning spirits elementals Hi, I'm looking for a book I heard of but forgot to add to my TBR list. It's speculative fiction, I think more fantasy than sci fi, but possibly one of those books that falls somewhere in between. I think it was published recently, probably in the past 5 years. It definitely isn't a YA book. I think had something to do with harnessing electricity (or power?) from lightning spirits. It's either set in a port city or at sea, and there may be a city that floats on the water. The setting is a fantasy world, but not at all your typical fantasy world (the uniqueness is what drew me to it). It is NOT The Scar by China Mieville, which has all those elements but isn't the right book. The book I'm looking for sounded similar to The Scar, and it's possible I'm getting interference on some of the details. I don't remember much about the main character, but I think probably he's either a mechanic or a pirate. The author is not someone I've heard of before, and this might be his debut book. I'd really appreciate any suggestions you think are close, even if they don't match all the details, as I might have misremembered something.

A pig that believed eating grapefruit would guarantee him a long life. Hi again! I had a flashback and remembered in elementary school where I had read a story in a textbook of a pig eating a ton of grapefruit because somewhere said eating it would cause you to live a long time. Towards the end of the story, a small mice, who lived to a 100 years old, told him the trick to living such a long life, in which his answer was, friends. All help appreciated.

Classic Sci Fi about AI controlling world So I read this a few years ago and am thinking it s classic sci fi as I read some Heinlein, Assimov and others at the same time. But for the life of me I can t find this book through a search engine. So the world is completely globalized and I d say is governed from a central position. Different regions of the world produce different resources (Africa and Asia foodstuffs? Some sectors with industry, etc. ) and what is to be produced where in which manner is decided by a super computer AI which is continuously fed data and spits out plans. The computer sometimes spits out data and things go wrong, but when fed the same data again later a different plan is output. Problems such as over and underproduction, some rebel attacks not being foreseen, I can t remember much more. The government is worried that a group of rebels which are against the globalization is sabotaging the computer. So a computer technician is organized and should find the issue with this computer. In the end it turns out the computer is actually leading the rebels as the only way humanity could live in peace in such a society is if there is also an alternative to the global structure. It s a bit vague I guess. I don t want to go into more detail as I may have twisted it in my mind over the years. I hope you can help and would be very happy to get my hands on it. I have read a few other good books in my search for it.

Modern Fantasy and apocalyptic events 3 part series with New York, a tower, a sinister viking and a parallel universe. Hi all. I read two of these books around 2007 and got them from the library in California. Book 3 hadn't been released yet when I read the first to novels in the series. They were in English and hardback. I believe they were written by a man. There were 3 books in total I think. The story was a dark, modern fantasy where a man stumbled into a dark apocalyptic parallel universe. There was a viking with one eye who had a spear working for some kind of dark force in this alternate shadow reality where the whole city (new York I think) was a ruin full of dark creatures. There was a towering structure which was important and it was possibly described in the name as crooked or winding. There was also a safe haven reached by climbing a large tree into the heavens. There was a scene on a tube I think where the norse fellow showed up and dragged the carriage into the alternate universe. Or possibly pulled the city in to the ruined space. The tale involved a journey to a place and the trope of the unwilling unwitting hero. The titles of the books had reference to the twisted or crooked structure. Also the third book referenced a sea in the title I believe. There may also have been reference to a leviathan. The cover of the first book was very brown sepia and had a tower on a crumbling plateau (I think). Apologies that this feels super vague but hopefully there's something in it that speaks to someone as Google has failed me. It's definitely not The Crooked Staircase or The Crooked Spire (Koontz and Nickson respectively). I read a fair amount of scifi and fantasy and hadn't heard of this author at the time. Any thoughts or info would be super welcome. Thank you in advance

Main character was a seventh son of a seventh son Fantasy medieval setting, first book started with this guy called Silas adopting a girl who ends up being the princess, he had 6 sons but his seventh son who he thought was dead(maybe) ends up being alive and in the hands of the evil dude. The main character goes back in time in one book. That's all I remember unfortunately.

Young adult short story collection possibly titled Crosswinds There's this hardcover young adult fiction short story collection I read in my school library in the late 1990s to early 2000s. I think the title is Crossroads or Crosswinds but I can't find it anywhere on the internet. I only remember the stories as being weird. They were age appropriate for 12 year olds and above, but many of stories had unhappy endings and were just...strange. One story I remember vaguely was about two young women meeting up or something, and 1 traps 2 into living 1's life, which was miserable, I think. 1 now lives a free life pretending to be 2, while 2 is taken away.

YA Teen Fantasy book read in 2011 with a trio of friends (2 boys 1 girl) who transform into their halloween costumes when they stumble into another world. They struggle finding their way back. They were at a party when the girl punched the host (her long time crush) after she caught him kissing another classmate. The indian (?) host then gets the whole party to beat them up as they're running away. After running down some weird steps, they walk through this big door (?) and end up in another world where the girl turns into her pirate costume and one of the two boys (blonde) turns into a knight from his armour costume. She pulls at her beard and can't get it off. However, pirates are criminals in that world and she's hunted down straight away. The third boy might be a wizard? This was the beginning of the book and all that I can remember. The book was in a primary school library, with the three main characters illustrated on the cover in their costumes looking as if they're falling through the sky. The background was light blue turquoise. I've been trying to find this book since I read it in one night when I was 11. It was really thick paperback too.

Children s magical recipes activities book This book was quite large with very elaborate illustrations on every page. It consisted of many magical activities and recipes. One of these was building a mold diorama display, in which one is instructed to arrange a variety of foods and other organic matter that mold, especially cheese, under a bell jar to create a kind of mold garden. I read this book between 2002 2005, and believe it was fairly new at the time.

Southern girl running away from abusive life I never read the book but I did listen to the audiobook about 8 or 10 years ago. It's about a girl woman who was in an abusive father or marriage (can't remember if it was one of them or both of them) and then she runs away to find her mom. Her father was the one who raised her and he was abusive that's why the mom left them when she was young. So now she's trying to find her mom and she finally does find her. She used a bus I think to try to go to another state to find her and she finally does but it's not how she expected her mom to be. I listened to the audiobook and the book was spoken with a southern accent. I remember it being a really sad book and suspenseful. I know it's a long shot but if this does ring a bell to anyone please let me know. Thanks!

YA fantasy about kid taken to the Imagi nation. I read this book in middle school but I can't remember much except a few details of plot and that it was really really good. As far as I remember it was about a kid teen who had some sort of imagination powers, like he could create things from his thoughts I think. He was taken to this country literally called the Imagination (Imagi nation). There were some big bad armored dude and the leader turned out to actually be his future self. I do remember there was a character named Lorem Ipsum who only spoke in that weird Lorem Ipsum way but helped him out on his mission. Oh and something about some kind of purple red gem in the chest of the big bad guy? Sorry it was a long time ago haha.

Dystopian fiction book about a boy and glasses that teleport him in another version of earth Hello, I really hope you guys can help me! I read this book which I know is part of a series when I was in Canada during my exchange year. I remembered I really liked it but I never finished the series so I was hoping to finally do it. I also have fond memories of my exchange year and I remember reading this book as a project we had to write an essay about it every few chapters I believe and I m feeling quite nostalgic. About the plot Before I begin I d like to add that I read the book in 2016 so I might have fuzzy memories. Also I read a lot so I hope I don t get anything mixed up! I distinctly remember that the protagonist was a boy. I believe he argued with his parents one night and he decides to leave and start walking down the side of a road. He gets approached by a man, who abducts him. The boy wakes up tied to a bed (I don t think I hope raping wasn t involved? Can t remember) but manages to flee. I don t recall if he called the police or not but I remember he was hesitating because he was so embarrassed about the situation. He finds a pair of glasses (I think in that wretched man s house) that allow him to visit a dystopian version of earth (I don t think it s earth in the future but just another version of it). In this dystopian version he s in danger. Also he s very fond of the glasses, sort of like Gollum with the ring in the lord of the rings. I honestly wish I could remember more. I think I liked it because it was a fiction book with a morbid disturbing ambiance and I never read books like that before. I really hope you guys can help me!!

Illustrated fairy tale book, probably from the 80s, but the stories are not the usual fairy tales. I remember reading this book in the mid 1980s in hardback, although I can't remember if it was new or good secondhand. It was beautifully illustrated and all the stories were slightly different from the usual versions. I remember two of the tales. One was like Cinderella, except she was called Giselle or Griselda. She meets a Prince (who I think was called Maximillion) at her cottage in the woods and he invites her to the ball. Only, instead of a glass slipper, she wears a dress decorated with wildflowers. In the heat of the ballroom, the flowers wilt and fall off, so she leaves embarrassed at her plain dress. The illustrations for this one were very beautiful, like detailed watercolour. The girl had wavy blonde hair and I think the dress was blue. (I know this sounds a bit like the Clerk's Tale Poor Griselda but it isn't, it has just borrowed from it a little). The second take I remember less well, but it was like a retelling if Beauty and the Beast crossed with the myth of Eros and Psyche. A girl in a tower, living with a monster but she has to wear a blindfold and not look at him. The illustrations were different, very bold silhouettes in strong colours, mostly red, grey and black. I really hope someone can help because I have had no luck finding what this book was, or even finding these versions of the fairy tales anywhere else.

Children's Picture Book Year on a Farm? Hello, I am looking for a child's picture book my dad used to read to me all the time at night. We had to toss it out a few years back 9pages were falling apart and now I can't remember the title. I remember this much It chronicled a year on a farm or similar rural area. The main focus was on the Baxter family Notable quotes include "the cows eat the sweet green grass" and "September means its back to school for the Baxters" ( or something similar) The last page had an owl on it staring at the read (possibly saying goodnight) The art style for the book looked hand painted or at least close to it. That's all I can remember at the moment. Any help would be great.

Young reader series about boy who lives in a hotel A boy lives in a hotel with his family (his parents might own the hotel?) and his older sister. There s a cast of characters that include hotel regulars basically people who live in the hotel like an apartment, the boy, and his family. I remember that this was a series I read in late elementary school, and it was definitely a series even though I can only really remember one of the books. The one book that made the most impression was the one where the boy discovers the hotel is haunted. I think the ghost was a boy the same age as the main character who had fallen down the main staircase and broke his neck. They figured out the ghost boy showed up at a certain spot each night by wrapping someone up in a rug and rolling them down the staircase to see where they stopped rolling. Could have been the same book, or a different book in the same series, but there was a scene where the older sister and her boyfriend come back from a date. She takes off her shoes and he takes off his jacket, and one of the older regulars tut tuts and says in my day, we didn t take anything off on the first date or something like that. I remember that just being really weird in a kid s book haha

1980's era Children's novel about an overweight girl and her secret shame eating Ok it's been a very long time, I would have read this in the mid 90's but I do not believe the book was new at that point. Plot points I can remember main character is approximately 12 years old, moves to new neighbourhood and meets an overweight girl who is bullied and shunned for being fat the overweight girl likes to buy "licorice whips" on the way home from school and hides it from her mom who regularly shames her for being fat. Mom might be quite thin and snobby in the end, the overweight girl loses weight and is amazed the day she can look down and see her own shoes I don't think this is "Blubber" by Judy Bloom, I read the synopsis and reviewed some of the book covers online and it didn't trigger anything for me Thanks!

Humorous Informative Book About Appalachian Southern Remedies, Sayings, and Superstitions With Black and White Cartoon Illustrations This was a paperback book I remember getting at a big box store between maybe 2007 2010. It was a Humorous book about Appalachian (or maybe southern, but I think specifically Appalachian) remedies, some of which obviously wouldn't work, like drinking from an old boot to cure a sore throat. I'm fairly certain that remedy in particular is somehow involved in the title. The cover was in black and white with a cartoon of a stereotypical appalachian man drawn in this style. There was also a section about superstitions and wives tales relating to the weather. For example, a cat sitting with it's back to the fireplace means that the coming winter will be harsh. I think there was also an almanac section for weather farming. Every other page or so was a cartoon in that same style as above acting out whatever the page was about in a humorous way. Any suggestions help, thanks!