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So I thought the title was China Blue but it's not. Young woman moves with her ambassador parents from England to the Hong Kong area. Her father trusts a young man who is part of the royal family but he is blind. I remember there being a war of some type and the family needs to evacuate the area since they represent th... | 2014-05-07T00:00:00 | 6032738 | [
"Macao, China in 1839 is an exciting, exotic locale, but is being violently torn up by the ultimate clash of East and West, of godly corruption and heathen pride: the Opium Wars. Caught amid this upheaval is Kathleen Bellamy, blinded by fate but sensitive to the world around her. Even if she cannot see it, she can ... |
The other day I randomly remembered reading a book where some sort of gem (or some similar object) was directly sewn into the necks/throats of at least one character. The gem may have had some connection to magic, but I'm not sure. I probably read this within the past 5-6 years, so I'm 98% sure it's either a YA or midd... | 2013-12-24T00:00:00 | 2986865 | [
"Also Known As: Two Pearls of Wisdom, Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye, and Eon (All the same book just published with different publishers)Swordplay, dragon magic--and a hero with a desperate secretTwelve-year-old Eon has been in training for years. His intensive study of Dragon Magic, based on East Asian astrology, inv... |
I think the genre is fantasy’s/horror. | 2018-06-18T00:00:00 | 43889 | [
"In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than me... |
Former thief called ten because she had all her fingers, and once stole a tiger but she now works in queens elite guard and goes to town on job for the queen and find the leader of the family there but the father died and his son took over. Rest of the story is about how they both get kidnapped, escape and get to grow ... | 2019-05-23T00:00:00 | 35796008 | [
"When the patriarch of the Ballenger empire dies, his son, Jase, becomes its new leader. Even nearby kingdoms bow to the strength of this outlaw family, who have always governed by their own rules. But a new era looms on the horizon, set in motion by a young queen, which makes her the target of the dynasty's resent... |
I used to read this as a bedtime story with my dad when I was very young, around 2002-2007 (I am a teenager). It was an old-fashioned children's book.It was a picture book about a little girl.It had illustrations with very minimal color, mainly black and white with occasional primary colors, in a sketchy style. Overall... | 2019-11-03T00:00:00 | 1025560 | [
"Samantha (known as Sam) is a fisherman's daughter who dreams rich and lovely dreams--moonshine, her father says. But when her tall stories bring disaster to her friend Thomas and her cat Bangs, Sam learns to distinguish between moonshine and reality.Sam, Bangs & Moonshine is the winner of the 1967 Caldecott Medal.... |
I read it within the last 5 years on Scribd. I think the cover had two girls holding hands, I remember one of them may have been wearing yellow? I am not 100% on if this is the same book though.The story was about a young woman who has a sister who I think had either a syndrome or brain injury that left her nonverbal a... | 2022-01-05T00:00:00 | 1427086 | [
"Ten years after leaving her troubled family behind, unable to cope with life with a disabled sister, Nicole Hunter is drawn back home by tragedy to care for her pregnant sister and to mend her estranged relationship with her mother. Original."
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Read free via kindle unlimited within the past 3-4 years. I believe this was a series, this is book 1. Her mother was grooming her to take over her position on the counsel once she got her powers. But when the FMC got her powers she actually took her mom's power's away (turning her human) because of this her mom got ki... | 2021-07-01T00:00:00 | 56597202 | [
"I was born of nothing. I’m a Void, a rare supernatural capable of absorbing powers at the brush of my skin. Feared. Hated. Untouchable. Thibault Academy is full of supernaturals that want me dead, and the most powerful of them, the Paragons, will stop at nothing to ensure I go back to the hell I came from. They... |
Looking for a YA fiction about the daughter of a female president who is struggling with feeling like her mother's second priority. She finds Alice Roosevelt's diary/journal under slats somewhere in the white house, along with a pack of cigarettes (and a hankerchief?).I remember specific scenes from this book. MC reads... | 2018-12-14T00:00:00 | 17814086 | [
"First daughter Audrey Rhodes re-creates Alice Roosevelt's infamous antics in this fun, smart middle-grade debutFirst daughter Audrey Rhodes can't wait for the party she has planned for Friday night. The decorations are all set and the pizza is on its way. But the Secret Service must be out to ruin her life, becaus... |
I read this around 2012. A boy had cancer when he was a little kid and he used to have golden curly hair but after the chemo it grew back straight and brown. He is now in middle school and the chemo made it harder for his brain to function and he struggles with math. He needs to pass a math test to go on to the next gr... | 2020-11-10T00:00:00 | 6693329 | [
"Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but life still feels fragile. The aftereffects of treatment have left Jeffrey with an inability to be a great student, or to walk without limping. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, lost it and took off to Af... |
I read a book about a woman that was kidnapped and had to work on some sort of farm, I believe it was an MC that saved her. I know it was part of a series and another book was about a man who ran a bar that was with her at the farm. He had a tattoo of a woman's name but doesn't remember her (trauma I believe made him l... | 2017-12-28T00:00:00 | 25281368 | [
"PippaThe girl you all know as damaged. Quiet. Broken.She doesn’t fit in. Nothing in her world feels right. She’s trapped in a spiral of darkness that seem to be consuming her day by day, until she sees nothing but an empty, black hole.Her world is a dark place she can’t escape.She has people around her who matter.... |
The book i read was a hardback with no cover, so no help there. I say 1940's-1970's because it seemed like an older book if you know what i mean, but it wasn't truly ancient.Memory synopsis-Initially unknown to the two married couples who are crew of the spaceship, the solar system they are sent to has no planets. They... | 2013-09-27T00:00:00 | 451203 | [
"The crew of the Constitution--scientists cum astronauts--had been carefully screened for extremely high intelligence and superb physical qualities. They were to be the first explorers sent to another stellar system. There they would explore the planet Alpha-Aleph and then return. They were the toast of the world p... |
Old book I think but read just a few years ago....multiple story lines all about a select group hiding the fact that earth was only one of multiple worlds ruled by an Emperor and that some kind of purge happened every so often. One of the threads is about an artist who can not remember much beyond 10 years, he falls in... | 2018-05-08T00:00:00 | 567704 | [
"Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, a... |
The book i am looking for is a ghost story set in a manor during Victorian Era.The main character is a girl from a poor family who is sent by her mom to be a maid in the manor. One of the quotes she says is "if you smell honey in the air there is a ghost nearby" There is also a chapter in which the lake is frozen. The ... | 2021-03-14T00:00:00 | 17846874 | [
"'The gates to Frost Hollow Hall loomed before us. They were great tall things, the ironwork all twisted leaves and queer-looking flowers. And they were very definitely shut.'Tilly's heart sinks. Will's at the door of their cottage, daring her to come ice-skating up at Frost Hollow Hall. No one goes near the place ... |
i read a YA book between 2011-2013 about a teenage girl that was from a poor european family. i think she used to work in a market with her grandmother? a lady approaches her while she is working, at a fruit/vegetable stall i think, and suggests that she go to the USA. she ends up going to america to babysit. the wages... | 2014-02-21T00:00:00 | 11699182 | [
"A 17-year-old Moldovan girl whose parents have been killed is brought to the United States to work as a slave for a family in Los Angeles.Hannah believes she’s being brought from Moldova to Los Angeles to become a nanny for a Russian family. But her American dream quickly spirals into a nightmare. The Platonovs fo... |
I'm looking for a book I read as a child or teen, so it would have to have been written in the 80s at the latest, but I suspect it is older than that. The story at least partly revolved around a girl who came to live with her cousins--I think she was orphaned--and the story was told by one of the cousins as they realiz... | 2017-04-03T00:00:00 | 2701410 | [
"Barbie's ambition to develop her talent on the violin seems hopeless in the small English town where she lives until her cousin Simon comes up with a plan. Barbie's ambition to develop her talent on the violin seems hopeless in the small English town where she lives until her cousin Simon comes up with a plan. ...... |
A little boy either visits his grandparents or lives with his grandparents in a place where mysteriously no flowers grow. The flowers are being stolen by creatures from another world who (I think but not sure) only come out at night, because there are no flowers in their land, and they are considered precious and highl... | 2013-01-31T00:00:00 | 1766689 | [
"The break-out literary novel from Michael Molloy, who has achieved great commercial success with his WITCH TRADE and TIME WITCHES books.When Tim moves to his grandparent's village, everything seems mysterious. Why are there no flowers anywhere? Who is the weeping woman wandering through midnight streets? And what ... |
This will be hard to find, I imagine, because I never had the chance to read the book. I was in a bookstore looking around because it was going to be closing soon when I came across a book I thought was interesting. I left without buying it, thinking I could buy it the next day. Obviously, this is not what happened--wh... | 2017-03-20T00:00:00 | 12913059 | [
"A compelling new series about Dr Dody McCleland, the first female autopsy surgeon. Murder treats everyone equally...A woman. A doctor. A beastly science. At the turn of the twentieth century, London's political climate is in turmoil, as women fight for the right to vote. Dody McCleland has her own battles to fight... |
-Fiction-Her family whole family gets killed so she sets out to kill the person who murdered her family-I read it in 2014, 2015, 2016.- For older kids maybe even teens/tweens- Read on Kindle fire was on the setting kids on the age 10, 9 years old so more on the younger audince even though some of the stuff was more for... | 2020-07-22T00:00:00 | 21416935 | [
"Grace Milton's peaceful life with her family on a horse ranch outside Tombstone, Arizona is shattered in one devastating night. Her family is brutally murdered by the notorious Guiltless Gang, leaving Grace the only survivor. Trekking into the wilderness on her stallion, Grace falls ill from the elements. A young ... |
I read this book 2016-2018. It is possibly part of a series. It is about 2 girlfriends that live together (possibly Chicago) and work in a diner. The one girl is hiding her identity (possible MOB father) and the other girl goes missing after going to a club one night. The identity girl goes searching for her and meets ... | 2021-02-17T00:00:00 | 30041681 | [
"I have lost those who I have loved. I have bled for those I hate. I have lied to those who are honest. What am I? You're a sinner dressed in white. You’re a ghost in the night. You're the demons that I fight. Who are you? Both of us were sinners. She was hell-bent on revenge, and I was determined to let her have... |
I must have read this between 2011-2014 and don’t think it was much older than that. It was very cute, maybe around 200 pages but without a ton of content, since the pages (though black and white) where designed to look like chat messages where each girl has their own username. Sometimes you saw a groupchat, other time... | 2021-03-08T00:00:00 | 6439641 | [
"What do Katie-Rose, Yasaman, Milla, and Violet all have in common? Other than being named after flowers, practically nothing. Katie-Rose is a film director in training. Yasaman is a computer whiz. Milla is third in command of the A list. And Violet is the new girl in school. They’re fab girls, all of them, but the... |
I'm looking for a detective western (w/ a lot of humour) where 2 brothers (Swedish?) get hired as railroad detectives (even though they loathe the RRs).The inventor of peanut butter is on board(& the oily, disgusting mess it originally was) is humorously referenced a few times within. | 2015-01-15T00:00:00 | 1044746 | [
"It might be 1893 and the modern world may in full-swing, but cowboy Gustav \"Old Red\" Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: he prefers a long trail ride even when a train could get him where he's going in one-tenth the time. His brother Otto (\"Big Red\"), on the other hand, wouldn't mind climbing down fro... |
I'm sorry, Aminanimator, I don't understand what you are asking. | 2011-08-25T00:00:00 | 7081189 | [
"Agnes and Honey have always been best friends, but they haven't always been so different. Agnes loves being a Believer. She knows the rules at the Mount Blessing religious commune are there to make her a better person. Honey hates Mount Blessing and the control Emmanuel, their leader, has over her life. The only b... |
This book is a historical romance about a fortune hunter who meets an oil tycoons daughter. The heroine is named Princess I believe and there are sub-stories involving Princesses father and his mistress as well as her best friend and an arranged marriage. The book starts off with the hero involved with a card game.That... | 2013-02-27T00:00:00 | 264002 | [
"Pamela Morsi writes romance directly from the heart! Set in turn-of-the-century Texas, King Calhoun is a wildcatter with big dreams. His daughter, Princess, is just ordinary; not pretty, not smart, she's just a good-hearted woman with a whole lot of spunk. Quite a romantic, Princess falls in love at first sight wi... |
My friend is looking for it. He read it a long time ago and gave me a list of some details. He couldn't remember the characters' names apart from their sexualities, which tended to blur throughout the story. It was the easiest way to differentiate the characters.Here's his list:+ straight girl and gay guy regularly sle... | 2015-12-25T00:00:00 | 709685 | [
"Brie is in love with Lancôme Juicy Tubes, Louis Vuitton accessories, and her gay best friend Charlie, who is in love with 1960s pop art, 1980s teen movies, and serial heartbreaker Walker, who has ever only been in love with his VW Bug, until he meets Daisy . . . who is too busy hating everyone to know what love is... |
So I read this series about five years ago.Each book focuses on a different kid until they all end up meeting and possibly saving the world together, there is a big battle scene in the last book. The first book focuses on a boy who has to go and live with a woman in rural England, i believe, only to find that everythin... | 2021-03-23T00:00:00 | 107664 | [
"He always knew he was different.First there were the dreams.Then the deaths began. When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he's sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not long before he senses there's something wrong with his guardian; with the whole village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and be... |
It takes place on Halloween night. There are witches in it, possibly a family of them. There are (5?) cats each with a hex at the end. The closest I can come to it is Nate the Great Halloween, but that is not it. | 2014-09-03T00:00:00 | 252815 | [
"Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries! It is Halloween night, and all the kids are dressed up to go trick-or-treating. But Nate's friend Rosamond needs his he... |
This book from the late 80's/early 90's is about a girl who starts hanging around with another girl who is more wild and left to her own devices, but also has to watch her little sister who she calls "Hairball" (I think). Mild mannered girl also has a little brother. Hairball drags around a ratty stuffed bunny. Wild gi... | 2018-03-10T00:00:00 | 646682 | [
"Forthright, domineering Sara shows Emily how to speak up for herself and what she likes, but as a result Emily finds herself having to take a stand against Sara."
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This book is Christian fiction, the setting is the 1960s. I believe the book begins in Colorado with a mother and daughter traveling in a car. They later travel again, I believe to Arizona. They run out of money and end up living and working at a funeral home. In this book the daughter is the "responsible" character. T... | 2014-07-09T00:00:00 | 2981010 | [
"En route to college in the summer of 1975, sensible seventeen-year-old Amy gets stuck in smalltown Colorado when the 1958 Pontiac Bonneville Sports Coupe driven by her insufferable tiara-toting mom, Francie—former Queen of the Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, Corn Festival—surrenders to a mortally wounded transmission.It do... |
I'm looking for a strange outer-space romance I read a while back. All I remember is the heroine was locked away in a spaceship (under the flooring perhaps) by the captain. Then this alien guy appears to exchange cargo with the captain and the woman sneaks off and hides onto the alien's ship where she spends a week in ... | 2015-10-17T00:00:00 | 17286656 | [
"From USA Today bestselling author Kiersten Fay comes this devilishly passionate tale of a fierce demon captain and the vulnerable young princess he vows to protect. Their passion will ignite the stars.As captain of the merchant ship Marada, Sebastian has only one goal: keep his family and his crew safe while they ... |
Okay, so I read a book series about 3 years ago and I CAN'T REMEMBER THE TITLE! Or the author. Ugh. The cover of the book is like a dark black-green backdrop, with a green leaf in the center I'm pretty sure. It was about an 18-ish year old girl named Ryan who lived in a more rural area. She lived with her mom and grand... | 2021-06-20T00:00:00 | 25203121 | [
"Give in to the Glamour…Sixteen-year-old Ryann Carroll has just run into the guy who saved her life ten years ago. You might think she'd be happy to see him again. Not exactly. She's a bit underdressed (as in skinny-dipping) and he's not supposed to exist. After her father's affair, all Ryann wants is to escape the... |
Hi, I am looking for the title of a paperback horror novel from the late 70's early 80's.Plot is many decades early there was a troubled wealthy family living in a house in this rich vacation community. One night they are all murdered.Many decades later in the present day a family (husband and wife and two kids - Daugh... | 2020-08-19T00:00:00 | 40588155 | [
"WHAT DREAMS MAY COME... Mulberry is a three-story Victorian in the Hamptons, the perfect summer retreat for the Bradley family. Forty years ago a family was murdered in the house. Now, the bloodstains have been washed away, and the grisly killings are just a chilling local legend. But something unseen still waits... |
Read this around 2013-2014. No idea about year of publication or author, but remeber a good chunk of the story.MC witnessed her morther's murder at the hands of her father as a child. They were both actors. In the aftermath she makes friends with the detective working on the case. Later on she lives with her uncle and ... | 2021-09-27T00:00:00 | 59805 | [
"Olivia's parents were among Hollywood's golden couples…until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father...Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror—but her recurring nightmares make her realize she must piece together the ... |
i read this when i lived in the uk, that was 2017 so it was published a few years before that i guess. it’s about a poor boy who mother and father isn’t aware of his state of live (i think). he visits the homeless often. one day there was a murder near the river, near bridge in his small town and that’s the only thing ... | 2021-09-02T00:00:00 | 21471613 | [
"There's been a murder, but the police don't care.It was only a homeless old man after all.Kieran cares. He's going to find out what really happened.But being a detective is difficult when you're Kieran Woods. When you're amazing at drawing but terrible at fitting in. And when there are dangerous secrets everywhere... |
I read a book in 2018 (adult contemporary fiction, not romance) that was published in 2017 or 2018 about a woman who leaves her husband and daughter at the beach while they're on vacation and becomes a waitress in a small town on the East Coast (US). **spoilers ahead** she was abused by a previous husband and has a ric... | 2018-12-07T00:00:00 | 35207298 | [
"One is playing a long game. But which one?They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through.Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a pu... |
The first book starts off with a talking four legged animal walking down the street and then tells of how 4 siblings, 3 girls one boy (one girl many have been named jane and skipped a grade) (one girl was a lot younger than the rest and could like talk to animals or something) go to a magical world where morgana Le Fay... | 2020-10-16T00:00:00 | 1178862 | [
"Four children set out to rescue a sorceress held captive in a parallel world."
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Hello guys, I'm searching for a dark contemporary RH novel (no paranormal or high school bully stuff) and exhausted my search methods so I thought I'd ask the good people of the GR community. Unfortunately I don't remember many details but anyway, here it goes.The harem consists of the heroine and 3 or 4 guys (there ar... | 2021-12-29T00:00:00 | 58271854 | [
"What if the reflection staring back at you had become a stranger?Inside, I was dying—empty, dark, alone.Keeping it all together was exhausting and the ‘perfect’ mask I wore was beginning to slip. Pretending to have it all together wasn’t working anymore as the lies I had to tell weighed heavier each day. I’d done ... |
This was a series of books based in NYC. The main character was a member of the Fey working with other Fey to police the Fey and make sure there aren’t any recognizable interactions between the Fey and humans. I read the series sometime between 2010 and 2016. They were new at that time. The name of the group created a ... | 2018-08-12T00:00:00 | 7303068 | [
"Welcome to P.U.P.I.—Private, Unaffiliated, Paranormal InvestigationsA handpicked team trained to solve crimes the regular police can't touch—crimes of magic.My name's Bonnie Torres. Recent college grad, magic user and severely unemployed. Until I got a call out of nowhere to interview for a job I hadn't applied fo... |
I remember reading a book in the late 80s or early 90s about a group of pilots brought to the Middle East. I don't remember if the group was brought together as mercenaries or on loan from their respective parent air forces. They flew a hodgepodge of fighters and ground attack aircraft. I recall A-10s, Tornadoes, and F... | 2015-12-27T00:00:00 | 268384 | [
"Iran obliterates Baghdad with a pirated nuclear bomb. The Soviets invade Tehran. MiG fighters appear from nowhere to ravage American paratroopers over the Straits of Hormuz. Only one thing can save the U.S. soldiers trapped in Iran: the First Air Regiment, a private corporation of collected pilots and planes hired... |
This book is about black women going on a cruise I believe to the Bahamas. I know the name of the book is Cruising or Cruisin'Help! | 2019-04-23T00:00:00 | 220591 | [
"FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRAZY LOVE COMES AN OH-NO-YOU-DIDN'T NEW NOVEL ABOUT FOUR FRIENDS ON THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME -- A CARIBBEAN CRUISE FULL OF SUN, FUN, AND MORE SEXY ESCAPADES THAN THEY EVER DREAMED OF! At first all they have in common is yoga class. Then Blair, Lauren, Madison, and LaShawn start having dinn... |
It is a small hardcover book with just one short story in it. There is a young lady who is gifted, I don't remember the extent of her gift. But she helps a river horse (a pooka?) and he feels indebted to her. Something happens to her and he does something about it. I believe it was published sometime in the 1990s. Ther... | 2014-02-21T00:00:00 | 14003 | [
"Fifteen-year-old Ariella, lady-to-be of medieval Swan Manor, possesses magical healing abilities that she practices on the animals in the forest adjacent to her father's lands. One day a magnificent black horse emerges from the nearby river in need of her ministry. The horse is Merod, and he is a more-than-mortal ... |
Basically, there is some event. A murder or bomb threat or something. I do not remember.The administration puts in place new safety rules. No gang colors, no this no that. They send emails out to parents.Rules gradually get weirder and stricter and you think the administration is just doing this because they can. It be... | 2013-04-23T00:00:00 | 39936 | [
"School has become a prison.No one knows why.There's no way to stop it. School has become a prison.No one knows why.There's no way to stop it. ...more"
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The cover of this book had a prep school uniform jacket, that was burned. I think the plot may have been about someone setting a fire at the school. It is recently at least in the 2000- present. This book was in my recommended on Amazon, because I was reading coming of age novels. The author had written several books. | 2020-10-25T00:00:00 | 23014822 | [
"Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of bullies and zealots, and a faculty that's even worse in Anthony Breznican's Brutal YouthWith a plunging reputation and enrollment rate, Saint Michael’s has become a crumbling dumping ground for ... |
This is a Fantasy book either Children's or YA. The cover has a picture of a girl of East Asian descent surrounded by water and maybe tentacles and the title had Water in it.The summary had something about a mysterious stranger, a girl , and a talking horse. The author of the book is a woman and I believe this came out... | 2021-02-28T00:00:00 | 6940211 | [
"Her first new novel since The Margarets, The Waters Rising marks the glorious return of the extraordinary Sheri S. Tepper, the award-winning contemporary master whom Locus has called, “one of sf’s most distinctive voices.” The Waters Rising tells a gripping story of a future already ravaged and now in even graver ... |
I read it when I was younger, it makes you feel bad for captain hook and there's all these nannys looking for the children on boats and peterpan is really evil and kills people, a fire fairy is guiding the two(?) people through neverland and they're trying to return I think | 2014-05-28T00:00:00 | 34264 | [
"The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan!In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright in Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a writer to create a sequel to J. M. Barrie's timeless masterpiece. Renowned and multi award-winning Engl... |
I remember reading this book in the 1980's it was a Children's or YA book about a teenage girl who I think bought an unusual alarm clock from a junk shop which made her time travel. She saw her future self and discovered that her boyfriend was going to be violent and oppressive to her in the future so she dumped him. | 2014-11-16T00:00:00 | 1928435 | [
"The strange alarm clock Victoria chooses as her fifteenth birthday present rearranges time and gives her the power to discover the cause of her parents' neglect and her mother's desperate unhappiness. The strange alarm clock Victoria chooses as her fifteenth birthday present rearranges time and gives her the power... |
Hello! This is a children's chapter book (presumably - I read it some years ago). What I remember from the plot is, a girl is living with her aunt until one day somebody from this other world/universe finds them after searching for her aunt for some time. This person is able to find the girl's aunt because the aunt has... | 2017-12-15T00:00:00 | 2344745 | [
"On Copper Beech’s 10th birthday, her whole world changes. Her dear Aunt Ruby, who has raised her since she was a little girl, sends her away to the Marble Mountains saying she’ll be safe there. Safe? Safe from what? And why do the Marble Mountains feel so familiar? Why does living in an enormous Spindle Tree, with... |
Read this book a few years ago. It's a modern-day thriller set in France, and revolves around three characters: a mentally-challenged man who lives in a church, rings the bells, and has delusions of angels; a young American woman who goes to Europe to be an escort and ends up getting drugged and involved in some kind o... | 2021-03-05T00:00:00 | 13159052 | [
"Meet Marc Rochat, a man-child who has devoted his life to being the bell ringer at the Gothic Lausanne Cathedral, one of the greatest architectural structures in the world. Eerie things have been going on in and around his church, including tremblings in the underground crypt and a variety of gruesomely murdered b... |
Read this in the early to mid-80s, about a girl who has sex with her boyfriend and then thinks she might be pregnant, one detail that always stood out to me is she used a pregnancy test branded "Quick as a Bunny" which I thought was hilarious. | 2020-08-24T00:00:00 | 1040040 | [
"Fourteen-year-old Jessie becomes romantically and sexually involved with her eighteen-year-old guitar teacher Michael."
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Warning for suicide, self harm, and over dosing.Spoilers aheadI think I read some of this book a few years ago, maybe around 2019. It begins with the main character taking a bottle of sleeping pills in hopes of offing themselves. They wake up in a hospital with a tube running down their throat before quickly falling ba... | 2021-05-25T00:00:00 | 25665016 | [
"16-year-old Vicky Cruz wakes up in a hospital's mental ward after a failed suicide attempt. Now she must find a path to recovery - and perhaps rescue some others along the way.When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: After her suicide attempt, she shouldn't be a... |
First of, I need to apologize if my English might be a little bit confusing. I'm not a native speaker, so some words might come out a bit wrong and weird. I didn't have a chance to finish a book, so I will try to cover all the details as much as I can.This is a contemporary romance. The book begins with h drives a car ... | 2017-09-17T00:00:00 | 25297293 | [
"Alex Stewart has been roped into playing wedding coordinator for his older brother Ethan’s, wedding; and nothing is going right today. And to make matters worse, he gets off on the wrong foot with the bride’s smokin’ hot sister! Before he knows it, Alex is suffering from a raging case of Scarlet Fever, and is dete... |
This was a series of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books- I can remember there being maybe four or five, although there were probably more. I read them sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s... they're large, paperback books designed for children.Details throughout the whole series: each scene took up a two-page layout ... | 2015-01-08T00:00:00 | 1448635 | [
"Welcome to the Fairground of Dread -- and the evil pranks of Professor Killjoy. Your task is to find him and stop him from releasing his deadly antilaughing gas. But beware -- many dangers await you! Each page presents a new challenge and a choice: which way to go? There is only one true path -- do you have the sk... |
Going out of a my mind looking for a book I'm 90% sure was called "Confessions of a Teenage Psycho" I read when I was young. The title is misleading - its about a girl who wants to become an actress in NYC. I think its written in Diary format, it starts off with her on vacation with her family in the mountains, she som... | 2013-04-26T00:00:00 | 1576932 | [
"Sixteen-year-old Laura who feels like the family misfit returns early from the family vacation in the Catskill Mountains and pursues her own adventures in New York City.Laura hates the mountain cottage where she is spending the summer, so when she gets a chance to go back to New York City she does, and accidentall... |
I have read this book maybe 5 years ago and can't remember title or author. Book is fake marriage romance book, adult. It's written in English and plot is in the US. Book is part of series about 3 sisters. So she needs money to pay off her loan for spa, 2 million dollars and hero will give her the money if she marries ... | 2021-08-22T00:00:00 | 4812017 | [
"Heiress Engaged To Marry Playboy!Lexi Titan can just see the headlines. All of Titanville will be buzzing. Not that she has any other choice. Faced with exactly thirty days to come up with two million dollars, she is out of options. Marry Cruz Rodriguez or lose everything - the successful day spa she built herself... |
this book is fairly recent, came out this year I think and saw it last July. I remember the cover being dark, with stars. Possibly on the New York Time's best seller list. (I tried looking there to no avail). Don't think it is set during modern times. The boy and girl reunite or maybe find each other years later? I wou... | 2017-09-03T00:00:00 | 30201327 | [
"With echoes of The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans in love with each other since they can remember whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future. The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance pa... |
I think this book may have been written in the 1990s. Possibly 2000s. Possibly set in the southwestern U.S. Plot concerns a lawyer who defends someone, who I think might be in a motorcycle gang/club in a murder case. I remember thinking the book made me think of Scott Turow books. The author could be Scott Turow, but I... | 2022-01-25T00:00:00 | 206757 | [
"In a novel that races along like a hot desert wind, Freedman unleashes \"one of the most extravagantly entertaining thrillers of the year\" (Kirkus). Justice is blind--especially for criminal attorney Will Alexander who's trying the most hopeless case of his career. Convinced that his two motorcycle gang member-cl... |
Please help me find it my little sister wanted a good book to read and I remembered this one.In a future time on a different planet a girl has had bad dreams since she was small as if in someone else’s eyes. Recently she has woke up with buses and cuts after. Her parents put her on meds but the dreams come back. The dr... | 2014-12-15T00:00:00 | 14999965 | [
"Elissa used to have it all: looks, popularity, and a bright future. But for the last three years, she’s been struggling with terrifying visions, phantom pains, and mysterious bruises that appear out of nowhere. Finally, she’s promised a cure: minor surgery to burn out the overactive area of her brain. But on the e... |
Girl works as a kind of accountant for some mob(illegal dealers). She is the ine who always pays the assassin when he finishes a job. She is fired from her job and he is betrayed by the mob. The Girl asks him to teach her to kill in his place since he is so injured he can't do it much anymore. She has a younger brother... | 2018-07-20T00:00:00 | 15748203 | [
"Note: This book is no longer being sold on Amazon in this self-published edition. It's been replaced by Real Dangerous Girl (Lincoln Square Books, 2018), which actually includes both this book and the original second series book, Real Dangerous Job. All of the series books now have Lincoln Square editions, but the... |
This was a children's picture book that was available during the late 1970s / early 1980s in the UK. I remember the title as being something like "The Man Who Took (or Brought) the Inside Out", but this could be wrong. It was about about a man living in a house who took all his furniture out and put it on the lawn. I r... | 2013-10-20T00:00:00 | 3085992 | [
"Relates the events that occur when Bellwood Bouse invites the inside of his house to come outside."
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I remember having the librarian at school read this to my class in 1st grade (around 2006-2008). I know the illustrations had lots of yellow and oranges in the background. I think the pictures of the glass house had teal and green in it. I think the house also had windchimes made from stuff the old woman found in the j... | 2021-09-13T00:00:00 | 1463543 | [
"Being inside one of Grandma Prisbrey's houses was like being inside a rainbow or a kaleidoscope or a jewel.A vibrant portrait of American visionary artist Grandma PrisbreyThe walls of Grandma Prisbrey's houses glowed and glittered with color because she made them out of bottles. Large and small, fancy and plain, G... |
This basic storyline is about a group of friends and strangers thrown together as they travel in a pouring rain. It is raining everywhere and there are no signs of it letting up. Unknown to the group one of their members knows exactly why it is raining and why it won't stop. He was part of a scientific team that pulled... | 2012-11-13T00:00:00 | 15535 | [
"'Zena and the boys went ice-ring planing, Boys fouled up and Earth got a raining!' Gus and Thatch were desperately trying to drive the big mobile home up into the mountains, high above the floods rapidly drowning out the rest of the world. They even had some crazy notion about saving civilization from the waters -... |
I rmeber there was this girl who a doll and she took her everywhere and one day she took her to a supermarket and accidentally dropped her into the freezer, I rmeber the description describing the doll as like sitting next to a bag of frozen peas and things like that but that’s all. I don’t rly remember the cover eithe... | 2021-09-26T00:00:00 | 6119093 | [
"The tiny doll is so miserable; her only friends are the packets of frozen food. Living in a supermarket deep freeze wasn't very nice for the tiny doll until one day a very special little girl came along, and thought of ways to make her happier. The tiny doll is so miserable; her only friends are the packets of fro... |
I cannot find this book or any others by the same author because I forgot the author's name! I know it was a woman who wrote a whole bunch of historical romances. The specific one I remember is that the heroine was named Althea or Athena or something close to that. She was tied up in a brothel while still a virgin, and... | 2017-08-26T00:00:00 | 6427578 | [
"Rakish Matthew Dane is out on the Town for a bit of adventure and variety. Visiting a new brothel he has never tried before, he is presented with the most delectable woman he has ever seen, who is tied to the bed and blindfolded.Thinking it is no more than an erotic game, Matthew and the alluring young woman share... |
I read this book in the mid to late 80's about 5 children who were orphans. Each child had a different set of "skills" One had an affinity to the plants and grass, one an affinity with the very colorful birds, another with animals, storms and weather and the last was a precog. One character was born a hermaphrodite. Th... | 2014-01-26T00:00:00 | 1739610 | [
"The children of catastrophe, they were humankind's greatest threat -and only hope! The children of catastrophe, they were humankind's greatest threat -and only hope! ...more"
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A boy (12-15ish) and his drifter mom get pulled into a cult. The cult does not educate children and is very strict about all sorts of things (diet, habits, nicknames, etc.). The boy gets into very serious trouble when he's caught (with another girl he's befriended) teaching a young child to read on the sly. He escapes ... | 2015-12-02T00:00:00 | 386942 | [
"14-year-old Ty Rainey''s mom has found heaven on earth at a religious commune called the Kingdom. But Ty soon discovers that the children of the Kingdom are virtually slaves, and he realises that he must find the courage to rebel.' 14-year-old Ty Rainey''s mom has found heaven on earth at a religious commune calle... |
¤¤¤Spoilers contained in book description below¤¤¤This book is a historical romance novel which takes place in the 1700s or 1800s. The male lead is a soldier working abroad in spain or portugual. Not exactly sure which country. He is charged with helping a Young woman escape the country to return to england. During the... | 2014-10-05T00:00:00 | 785136 | [
"would she be his bride?Hebe Carlton had little idea of her own charm until Major Alex Beresford arrived on the island of Malta. She made no attempt to cast out lures and treated him with warm practicality, showing an insight and ability to read him that few others had managed. His attentions made Hebe blossom, and... |
I can't remember the name of this book! I read this book a year ago about a girl who can take power from the sun. She got the power from her mom who is either missing or dead. The girl has a sister and a brother. She goes to live with someone else for a while and learns things about her mom and other things about herse... | 2015-07-20T00:00:00 | 20344642 | [
"A romantic, suspenseful, genre-bending debut set in Edwardian London.Amid the sumptuous backdrop of the London season in 1905, headstrong Katherine Sinclair must join the ranks of debutantes vying for suitors. Unfortunately for Katherine, she cannot imagine anything more loathsome—or dangerous. To help ease her en... |
Fantasy possibly YA read around 2010 about a young girl with a painting (or photo print) of a foggy forest that she sees come to life. She stares at the foggy forest and can see flamesOf a fire flickering and figures moving around. I remember there is a character that isn’t much older than her but she calls him Uncle T... | 2021-09-03T00:00:00 | 367158 | [
"Polly has two sets of memories...One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she emba... |
This was a fictional novel written at about an early middle school reading level.The book was set in an apartment building. The main character (a boy) had a pet rodent (I think it was a hamster or maybe a guinea pig?). The rodent kept escaping, and it is discovered that the rodent has joined a community of escaped rode... | 2021-03-16T00:00:00 | 11124622 | [
"A boy and his friends rescue their rodent pets from probable extermination and build a zoo where the animals can live safely."
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I was pretty sure of the title but can’t find evidence that this book ever existed! It must be out of print. The cover was a young girl and her fabulous rockstar mom who looked a little like Betty Boop. I think she may have had a feather boa. The plot details are hazy but I think it was set in NYC during the holidays. ... | 2018-08-21T00:00:00 | 3472984 | [
"Cassandra, misfit daughter of a famous rock star, finds her own measure for success in this funny, honest novel by the author of more than a dozen novels for teenagers."
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I read this book in 2012-2014 when I was middle school. The cover was white or cream and covered in black and red curly connected illustrations o magic things like mannequins and a mask person wearing a top hat (these were really small illustrations) the back cover had the main character (the irish boy with i think red... | 2018-12-23T00:00:00 | 12329486 | [
"A crossroads can be a place of great power.So begins this deliciously spine-tingling prequel to Kate Milford’s The Boneshaker, set in the colorful world of nineteenth-century Coney Island and New York City. Few crossroads compare to the one being formed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the East River, and as the bridge’... |
Historical romance: girl moves west to be teacher, lives with Scandinavian (?) family, marries the widower with teenage son, brutal winter, at some point someone survives a storm by sitting inside a horse’s corpse | 2019-04-05T00:00:00 | 772716 | [
"The sweeping plains held the promise of a lifetime.Linnea Eager to begin her first teaching position, lovely Linnea Brandonberg stepped off the train looking as grown up and worldly as her eighteen years would allow. The golden fields and fragrant wheat of Alamo, North Dakota, were as new and different as the West... |
I have been searching for this book series for about 2 years now and I still can't find it. All I remember about the book is that in the end of the series the king and queen die and because they don't have any children, the kingdom crumbles under the rule of some new guy. This happens in he last few pages of the last b... | 2014-08-12T00:00:00 | 444380 | [
"Princess Irene's great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. He will not go alone though, as she provides him with a companion -- the oddest and ugliest creature Curdie has ever seen, but one who turns out to be the most loyal friend he could have hoped for. Princess Irene's great-grandmother has a testing ta... |
This was a youth or young adult book I read sometime in the 90s. It featured aliens, a father and daughter, who come to earth and try to assimilate. The father falls in love with an earth woman and the daughter is desperately in love with an alien named "floop?" who is back on their home planet. Normally on their home ... | 2011-06-26T00:00:00 | 815221 | [
"In the heart-warming style of Barbara Park and Bruce Coville, former children's librarian and well-reviewed author Francess Lantz brings to life a funny and accessible story filled with compassionate insights about growing up. Meet two girls who are galaxies apart--Megan, an insecure young girl and Ariel, a beauti... |
I think the book came out this year. If not, it came out pretty recently (within the last 3 years). It’s about a widow, she had just lost her husband although she wasn’t super in love with him, and is on vacation with her 4 kids. They’re about age 6, 5, 3 and 2. I remember one is named Charlie, Jack and i think Gracie.... | 2019-07-27T00:00:00 | 22075732 | [
"The McKinney Brothers, Book 1 They meet on a beach. . . . Abby Davis isn’t wearing a skimpy bikini or sipping umbrella drinks, not when she’s busy chasing around four little ones. And Matt McKinney isn’t looking for fun—he’s a Navy SEAL, a grown man with a long list of missions . . . and fallen brothers. They on... |
So i read this good book a while back and i just can't find the name anymore. It was about an Italian girl who came back to where she grew up with her 2 sisters. She ended up bumping into her ex and finding out that the kid she gave up for adoption was adopted by him, although he thinks she just abandoned the baby. It ... | 2013-05-13T00:00:00 | 128163 | [
"Josefina 'Jo' Marconi's world just shifted out of orbit. Both of her sisters are pregnant, she's facing finals in her quest to at last get her college degree, the man who traumatized her in college is running for a Senate seat, and she has to move back into the family home and watch over the boy whose very existen... |
I read this book probably between 1991-93, so when I was 10-12 years old, and it was definitely for young readers. Short novel. It was written from the perspective of the younger sister of a teenager who ran away from home. It describes the fear and grief the rest of the family goes through not knowing where their daug... | 2013-04-02T00:00:00 | 2418883 | [
"Amy's sister Carrie has run away from home, but Amy is the one who feels that everything is falling apart. She struggles with anger, jealousy, and fear as she faces the truth that she may never see her sister again. Amy's sister Carrie has run away from home, but Amy is the one who feels that everything is falling... |
Mod Abigail and company -- You can bump your book every month or so to keep this thread at the top of the folder. This lets new eyes see it and older eyes reflect on it again.Good luck! | 2018-03-19T00:00:00 | 32847819 | [
"THE STAGE IS SETA hapless young man is released from prison with nothing to his name, but he knows exactly what he wants: to train in the art of rakugo comedic storytelling. After seeing an unforgettable performance from one of Japan's greatest masters, Yakumo Yurakutei VIII, during his time in jail, he will settl... |
Hi. I am looking for a book I read as a kid about a grandfather who takes his granddaughter to the theatre. She drops her toy from balcony onto the stage by mistake and he has to fetch it. He ends up on stage and the sctress who is playing the wicked witch helps him get it back. Ive googled it and cant find anything an... | 2021-07-05T00:00:00 | 1490328 | [
"When Angela takes her teddy bear Fergus to the pantomime, he and Grandpa become part of the show."
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I loved this book and can vaguely picture the cover - a girl playing with her dolls, looking sad possibly - but can't remember the title or author for the life of me. I read the book probably anywhere between 1994 and 1998.It's set in the US, I think New York state or city. I think her parents had split up. She has the... | 2020-05-10T00:00:00 | 6377461 | [
"Miranda Tagliotti is a 12-year-old girl whose world is turned upside down when her parents decide to divorce. Everyone wants Miranda to be in the family that makes her feel happy, but Miranda turns more and more to the \"secret family\" of dolls kept in the drawer. Miranda Tagliotti is a 12-year-old girl whose wor... |
Does anyone know of a teen book that is about a young gal who starts off not liking a boy name Bram... she or he rescues a scotty dog and she really tries not to like the boy Bram... she works in a vet hospital (i think) and it seems that he likes her best friend Cindy (natural pretty blonde) but in the end, he ends up... | 2013-06-25T00:00:00 | 3266464 | [
"Janna, a zealous fourteen-year-old animal lover, is determined to reform her new neighbor, Bram, when she notices how he mistreats his dog."
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I'm trying to find a book I read and loved when I was younger! It was a short anthology (i think it was short, at least; the version I had was paperback, less than an inch thick, and for children. i'm not sure if it mentioned "collection" or "anthology" in the title--i don't think it did, though i could be wrong). It w... | 2017-12-12T00:00:00 | 2231949 | [
"The acclaimed illustrator has selected twenty-two fairy tales from all around the world. Includes the works of Hans Christian Andersen, Edna O'Brien, Kiri Te Kanawa, Brian Alderson, and traditional tales. The acclaimed illustrator has selected twenty-two fairy tales from all around the world. Includes the works of... |
Read this book recently but completely forgot to write down the details. I'm on meds that mess with my memory so please bear with me.Set in USA and modern times.So a girl ends up staying in a rich guys apartment (can't remember why) and he owns the apartment block. It's an older property which he has split into about 3... | 2018-08-09T00:00:00 | 36157987 | [
"After facing a truth she never imagined, Beulah has to find a new path. Build a life without help and take care of her sister alone. Or does she…"
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I read this book in either 2018 or 2019 I'm pretty sure. The cover was bright blue with yellow and pink butterflies on and I think the title had the word butterfly/butterflies in it. It is written in a 'now - then' alternating format. **Spoilers ahead** The main character is a girl whose mother was a world renowned ope... | 2021-01-20T00:00:00 | 25752154 | [
"Wild meets The Breakfast Club in this story of a girl who must survive an extreme wilderness experience to prove to her mother that she has the strength to pursue her dreams. Then Ingrid traveled all over Europe with her opera star mother, Margot-Sophia. Life was beautiful and bright, and every day soared with mus... |
This book came out 1980-2000 The story starts out in a town (1880s maybe) where the orphan train has stopped. There are two brothers the oldest is named Jamie (I think). The younger brother doesn’t speak so a couple wants to adopt Jamie but not the younger brother. The brothers don’t want to be separated so they run aw... | 2021-11-20T00:00:00 | 2838751 | [
"SHE NEEDED A HUSBANDAnna Thomas loved riding the Orphan Train and finding decent families for her charges. But when a Texas judge tried to separate two young brothers, the dedicated beauty went beyond the call of duty. She proposed to handsome, blue-eyed Mark Gates, planning to adopt the boys herself! Although Ann... |
Hi, I read this book years ago and it was about this young girl who was slightly insane and she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She would space out and she would drift off into this other world and there was this Queen/ruler of that world with an odd name. She would space out and talk to the imaginary characte... | 2015-01-31T00:00:00 | 45220 | [
"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity.Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own ... |
help find a book title/author ... turn of the century 18th or 19th century American Romance Story ... Hero showed up in first book (possible sequel but read alone) ... At the beginning of the story:Scene remember: Woman driven by a suitor in his carriage, this man is having a hard time handling his horses and I believ... | 2021-10-26T00:00:00 | 748330 | [
"Although he owns half of Starlight, Colorado, devilishly handsome Rhys Davies is determined to add the beautiful daughter of the town's First Family to his list of possessions. Original. Although he owns half of Starlight, Colorado, devilishly handsome Rhys Davies is determined to add the beautiful daughter of the... |
I'm pretty sure the book I'm looking for is a series but I only ever read the first book. anyways, girl moves around and is involved in many sports and she is always the best but everywhere she goes she follows the name of a boy who is just as good. she sees his name on trophies and things like that. she finds out that... | 2013-12-04T00:00:00 | 478625 | [
"I'm the Idea Girl, the one who can always think of something to do. Angel Eastland knows she's different. It's not just her violet eyes that set her apart. She's smarter than her classmates and more athletically gifted. Her only real competition is Michael Vallant, who also has violet eyes -- eyes that tell her th... |
A woman realizes that this teen girl is missing, and she searches all over and speaks to her guardians several times. I remember one scene in which the female guardian comes to the door and the lady searcher/narrator points out that her manicure is so perfect that her own nails feel like they are popping out with hangn... | 2010-07-26T00:00:00 | 1258608 | [
"A teenage girl has been missing from her Montgomery, Alabama, home for six weeks. She may be a runaway, a crime victim, or both. What’s amazing is other people’s lack of concern. Just one person cares that she’s gone: a spunky amateur sleuth on the sunset end of sixty. Armed with razor-sharp insight, a salty wit, ... |
The magic, paranormal beings are trying to co-exist with humans. Very stressful. The woman is a police woman who can detect magic or the presence of paranormal beings and she is helping solve a murder. She meets a werewolf in human form. They bond, like Jacob in the Twilight series. Only they discover they can't get to... | 2011-04-21T00:00:00 | 81617 | [
"The USA Today bestselling author tempts success in this stunning debut novel. National bestselling author Eileen Wilks draws readers into a bold new world where the magical and mundane co-exist in an uneasy alliance--and a cop balanced on her own knife-edged struggle is their only hope against a cold-blooded kill... |
It was a book I read at least 4 years ago, It was about a man who finds himself trapped in a fox's body, and it is all told from his perspective, that's about all I can remember! It would be greatly appreciated if someone could please help me find out the name or author of this novel | 2014-06-30T00:00:00 | 1493619 | [
"Two lives run in parallel: The life of a girl, Karen, as she lies in coma in hospital, and the life of a fox in an ancient and dark world. A brilliant fantasy for ages 10 and up."
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Trigger warnings for sexual assault and underage drug use.I read this between 1998-2004. I got it off a library bookshelf. It's YA, specifically older teens. I remember when I finished it, thinking I was waaaay too young to have read it, considering the subject content. The protagonist was between the ages of sixteen t... | 2021-10-08T00:00:00 | 1028170 | [
"Juliet meets her Juliets in this raw look at punk, young love and the sometimes cloudy road to adulthood. Mosh Pit, a compelling story of rebel girls in the modern city, stars Simone - torn between her loyalty to her rebellious heart - throb Cherry and her feelings for Carol, streetwise and distant enough to be al... |
Hi, sorta new at this. I need help finding this book I remember reading in 4th or 5th grade. It had a closeup of an apple on a tree on the cover, and I dont necessarily remember the title; the plot consisted of a girl who was an only child and she would go down to this creek in the forest. Other than this, I cant remem... | 2014-08-06T00:00:00 | 207802 | [
"Ida B. Applewood believes there is never enough time for fun.That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook.Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that Place of Slow but Sure Body-Cramping, Mind-Numbing, Fun-Killi... |
Hello, this is my first time posting on good reads so please be gentle. The book been on my mind for a long time but can't seem to recall the name.The Hero is in love with the heroine but she doesn't know this. Heroine thinks he is in love with her neighbour (could be a friend too, not sure). I think she likes him a li... | 2015-05-15T00:00:00 | 6290413 | [
"He's on the hunt for a bride... Adam Faramond, Earl of Rothbury, needs to find a wife—immediately!—or his beloved grandmother will leave him penniless. But Adam, an unrepentant rake, would reform for only one woman, the woman he's lusted after—and loved—for years. It's rather unfortunate, then, that Miss Charlotte... |
I read this book probably 20+ years ago and it wad older than too. It is set in England some time after the French revolution ibelieve. A young girl is sent to live with relatives after she causes some kind of scandal at home and they hope to refine her a little. Hero cousin hates her because she is beautiful and easy ... | 2018-08-10T00:00:00 | 586169 | [
"Set in an era of violent upheaval, Wild Summer Rose is a sweeping romance about the power of love to change two people's lives. When his grandfather dies, Phillipe inherits his beloved ancestral home, but no money. To find a wealthy wife, he travels to England, where he meets Victoria, a country lass. As the flame... |
I read this in the mid-late 2000s. This was a Christmas book I believe, about a young orphaned girl and her younger sister. The elder became a worker for a doll shop, which was significant as she sewed the hearts on all the dolls made. At night, she snuck her sister in so she could sleep in a warm place. | 2022-01-16T00:00:00 | 1061004 | [
"In a heartwarming novel that is destined to become a Christmas classic, acclaimed author Elvira Woodruff tells the story of two orphaned sisters whose lives are forever changed by a magical doll.Lucy and Glory are orphaned sisters with no real place to call home. Only their memories of a beautiful doll named Morni... |
I read an ebook within the last year and I don't remember much, but I think I remember that the main male character was somehow involved with a professional hockey team. This part, I honestly could be getting mixed up with Hammer and Nails by Andria Large, but I think that I remember that the hero had a good friend who... | 2015-06-24T00:00:00 | 23235210 | [
"I know what you’re thinking. It’s unconventional to want a man nine years older than you. It’s inconvenient to crush on your dearest friend’s older brother. It’s silly to pine after a man for six years. It’s cliché to lust after a celebrity. It’s pathetic to fall in love with a man who barely knows you exist.I kno... |
This book had a female protagonist that has the ability to go to different time periods (maybe with the help of an artifact? I can't remember) and she is working for a professor of some sort in the present day. The main conflict is that a group that is anti magic made it so that anyone who passes into Manhattan Island ... | 2018-10-23T00:00:00 | 30312855 | [
"Stop the Magician. Steal the book. Save the future.In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the is... |
When I was on a caravan holiday once there was a collection of Ghost stories. I would have been 10 or 12 at the time but the stories where adult ones. One particular story stuck in my mind and I haven't been able to track it down since. It was a kind of Hound of the Baskervilles where people were being killed by an ani... | 2008-04-06T00:00:00 | 5974828 | [
"This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable – and untameable – essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different perspectives, the story focuses on a freak fatal accident that is written off as a wild animal attack. But does that description get at the truth of t... |
Read around 1995-2002I think it was based around the Eastern part of the U.S. (VA?)Book cover had a house and possibly a fox ? I think it had something to do with horses and hounds/fox hunting...Heroine witnesses a crime (not sure what) and goes blind from the trauma. Her husband sends her to a type of institution wher... | 2020-06-20T00:00:00 | 230803 | [
"In Fox River, Emilie Richards has created a powerful, multilayered story of a troubled family - and the power of truth. Julia Warwick grew up amid wealth and privilege, the beautiful daughter of a legendary Virginia hunt master. A talented artist, Julia is devastated when she loses her sight after a fall from a ho... |
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