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Finding a Book When You've Forgotten Its Title by Gwen Glazer, CommunicationsNovember 22, 2017

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Library books lined up on a shelfCheck out selected results from NYPL Title Quest 2019, held August 2, 2019, as well as Title Quest 2018.

This is an update of a previous post by Sharon Rickson.

It can be tough to remember the title and author of a book you read a long time ago—even if it was a book that was really important to you. Fiction is cataloged by author and title, not by subject or plot line, which makes identifying books by just their storyline difficult.

Readers often ask librarians for help finding these kinds of books. And we can’t figure out the mystery every single time, but we do have a few tricks to help find the answer.

First, pin down everything you can remember about the book, plot, character names, time period in which the book may have been published, genre, etc. All these details are clues in identifying the title and author of the book.

Online resources can help with your search for a half-remembered book, even if all you have is a basic plot line. Searching yourself is a good place to start; then, you can post to a listserv or discussion forum, where someone might recognize it. Or, last but not least, leave a comment on this post!

Before You Start

Try Google! Type in everything you can remember about the book — as in, “picture book rabbi animals advice yiddish” — and scroll through the results. (That’s a real-life example of a book a patron was asking for: It Could Always Be Worse by Margot Zemach.)

You can also try googling one key detail you remember from a book. One of our librarians solved a book mystery by searching “USS You-Know-Who” — the name of a boat in the story that the patron happened to remember. (Another real-life example: She Flew No Flags by Joan Manley.)

Crowdsourcing

  • What’s the Name of That Book?
    A Goodreads group with searchable discussion posts and thousands of questions and answers.

  • Name That Book
    A LibraryThing group of ~3K members — many of whom are librarians or library-adjacent — who help solve book mysteries via threaded discussions.  

  • The Fiction_L listserv
    Stumpers! Search archives of past questions, answered by an intense book-ish community, or subscribe and post a new one. 

  • Reddit’s whatsthatbook thread
    A nearly endless thread of users trying to help other users remember book titles, including several frequently requested books. Especially good for science fiction and fantasy.

  • "Stump the Bookseller" blog
    A cool indie bookstore in Ohio that maintains extensive, searchable archives — and offers a $4 service for personalized help. Lots of children’s books here.

  • Big Book Search
    If you can only remember what the cover looks like, try this cover-search tool.

Library Databases (log in with your library card)

More Suggestions

  • If you can remember just one word, use the search function on Goodreads or Library Thing to find long lists of titles with a particular word.

  • Goodreads’ browse-able lists of titles that readers have shelved in unique categories, such as authors’ professions or decades of publication, is also be helpful.

  • For recently published books, the reviews in Booklist Online are broken down by detailed genre.

How to Move On

Sometimes, it's just not going to happen, and you can't find that elusive book you've been searching for. It's okay! Great news: The world is full of great books! Here are a few ways to find more...

Feel free to leave a comment and tell us about a book you’re trying to remember! Our library staff members will pop in and check it periodically, and readers of this post are welcome to make guesses and suggestions.

View all posts by Gwen Glazer

Comments

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I am having trouble

Submitted by Bilal (not verified) on February 20, 2018 - 9:40pm

I am having trouble remembering the title of the story book . Although I remember the story : A man lived in a village in an island who had a servicing shop and was a determined gentleman . One day a rich man meets him and impressed by him offers him to marry her daughter . He accepts the offer and when he had to leave his village all the things reminds him of the memories of village and its people .

Science Fiction Trilogy

Submitted by Lynda in Oregon (not verified) on February 20, 2018 - 11:51pm

Okay, that narrows it down to about 20,000. Seems like the author's first name was Michael. In the very first book, a young man and woman watch a meteor flare through the sky. Over the rest of the book, it developes that she becomes very wealthy & powerful and is obsessed with colonizing the Moon and ultimately other planets so that if a meteor / asteroid should destroy Earth, mankind would continue. The second and third books describe the processes used to make this effort become real. The scene I particularly remember was a description of how to weld metals in an airless, zero-grav environment. Titles? Author name?

science fiction? fantasy? post-apocalypse?

Submitted by Els (not verified) on February 21, 2018 - 8:49am

I am looking for a book, where due to a sickness/plaque most of the population has died. Especially women. The protagonist thinks she's the only women left on the planet. Together with two men, she qoes on a quest searching for a cure. However, the men both have their own reasons for helping her. I think the book is quite new, form 2016, 2017 or maybe even 2018.

haven't actually read it, but...

Submitted by heather (not verified) on June 5, 2018 - 4:23am

that kind of sounds like sleeping beauties by stephen and owen king.

I think this is your book

Submitted by Keri (not verified) on March 8, 2019 - 1:46am

The last woman by Jacqueline Druga. It's a great read, hope it's your book!!

That sounds like "She" on

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 24, 2019 - 8:41am

That sounds like "She" on wattpad

The book of the unnamed midwife

Submitted by Wizz (not verified) on April 5, 2019 - 1:10am

This sounds like a Philip K Dick winner as well, by Meg Elison. It was a great read with two sequels, The Book of Eta and another.

That book has to be Dead of

Submitted by Jess (not verified) on May 14, 2019 - 1:48am

That book has to be Dead of Eve by Pam Godwin. Loved it!

Teen Book.About Pyschic Girl Solves Murder?

Submitted by Melanie (not verified) on February 21, 2018 - 11:44pm

I read a book when I was.just entering my teen years, early 2000s, and it was about a psychic teen girl I believe. She had these clairvoyant powers that she didn't seem fond of. I only remember very random things about this book, so bare with me, but I would love to find the title of it so I can read it again! So she has these powers to contact the dead or something and there is a local murder. I remember her sneaking into a house and looking for clues and she gets scared of an evil presence or something?? She is trying to help solve the murder and I think she lives with her dad? Not entirely sure. I also remember her having this hair clip or barrette that she was hesitant about wearing. I cannot remember where she got it. I will try to remember more but this was from so long ago! The memory is so fuzzy

The old Willis Place maybe?

Submitted by Savannah (not verified) on February 28, 2019 - 1:58pm

The old Willis Place maybe?

That book is called jade

Submitted by Dessa Clark (not verified) on March 1, 2019 - 3:38pm

That book is called jade green

Sounds like something by Lois

Submitted by K (not verified) on March 1, 2019 - 11:16pm

Sounds like something by Lois Duncan!

You might be thinking about a

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 8, 2019 - 2:36am

You might be thinking about a book from the Gilda Joyce series?

Do you mean the Lily Dale

Submitted by Mary (not verified) on March 9, 2019 - 11:35pm

Do you mean the Lily Dale books by Wendy Corsi Staub? I love that series!

Is it the Abhorsen trilogy

Submitted by Deb (not verified) on March 14, 2019 - 7:11pm

Is it the Abhorsen trilogy/series by Garth Nix ("Lirael," "Sabriel", and "Abhorson")?

Psychic Girl Solves Murder

Submitted by Brooke (not verified) on March 18, 2019 - 1:17pm

I am searching for the same type of story. It might be called "Premonitions" by Jude Watson..?.. I loved that series growing up. But then I gave it away as I got older. It's got suspense and thriller-type actioney stuff. Remind me a lot of "Odd Thomas" series. I only have one book by him. "Brother Odd". Oh! and "Odd Hours".

Ghost of fossil glenn

Submitted by Abby (not verified) on March 21, 2019 - 12:21am

I belive the book you are talking about is ghost of fossil glenn

Sound a little like

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 23, 2019 - 10:54pm

Sound a little like Fingerprints by Melinda Metz

The Third Eye by Lois Duncan!

Submitted by Kitty Grant (not verified) on April 17, 2021 - 2:02pm

The Third Eye by Lois Duncan!

The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp

Submitted by Sarah Norton (not verified) on January 29, 2022 - 1:01pm

I think this is maybe the book you're thinking of? I really enjoyed it when i was young.

Books

Submitted by Elayna (not verified) on February 22, 2018 - 3:33pm

Gaah, I can't remember this book. It's about a girl who finds a blue ghost in the woods, then travels to another world (the land of the dead?) with her hairless cat? Think the main character's name was May. And there was a dead girl searching for her mother.

May bird and the ever after

Submitted by Kianna Sellers (not verified) on May 10, 2018 - 10:49pm

May bird and the ever after

Married couple revealed to be siblings in 2nd of two part series

Submitted by Deanna (not verified) on February 22, 2018 - 8:08pm

Book with sequel that reveals that married couple are actually siblings. Page-turner. Female mystery author. Late 1990s or early 2000s. Thank you for any help.

not sure, but...

Submitted by heather (not verified) on June 5, 2018 - 4:25am

that sounds like one of v.c. andrews books. she really seems to have a thing for incest...

If There be Thorns by VC

Submitted by Willy (not verified) on March 19, 2019 - 3:38pm

If There be Thorns by VC Andrews

It is Flowers in the Attic

Submitted by Amy (not verified) on June 16, 2019 - 6:31pm

It is Flowers in the Attic and If there Be Thorns, by vC Andrews. She has some great books!

Can't recall anything.

Submitted by Robyn (not verified) on February 23, 2018 - 1:57am

So it's an audio tape that I haven't seen or heard for 17 years. It's the perspective of a bear in the forest and I believe over the course of hibernation either a forest fire or construction destroyed the forest and he woke up devastated and cried out 'no' in despair. I believe there was dialogue between some animals and I believe it was two sides. Please help.

Bear Novel

Submitted by Auriette (not verified) on February 18, 2019 - 10:23pm

The description reminded me of "Shardik" by Richard Adams (author of "Watership Down") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shardik.

Would love a re-read

Submitted by Norma (not verified) on February 23, 2018 - 3:07pm

A woman drinks herself to sleep every night until she gets abducted from her own apartment. She wakes up in a bare room with nothing but a jug of water and a camera concealed in an overhead light. After x amount of time, another "victim" shows up, a man. The couple slowly start trusting eachother and try to escape the room. Only the "kidnappers" start taking away their senses (their ability to talk one day, the ability to hear the next day, etc) They eventually escape find out that a "company" has taken them in order to give them a new spark for life. (I dont know of this helps, but I believe the author is a woman from Quebec, and the book was translated into english)

Sounds similar to Quitters

Submitted by Cecilie (not verified) on September 13, 2019 - 6:53am

Sounds similar to Quitters Anonymous...

Trying to find a children princess type book!

Submitted by Mariana (not verified) on February 23, 2018 - 9:16pm

I read this two books when I was younger about a girl that lived in sort of a castle and she had maids and everything, and I think she went to school and was bullied. In the middle of this she starts wondering her position in society because apparently her parents are queen and king of something or they are just really important people, and then she just goes for an adventure and meets elfs and witches and wierd houses in order to understand what she is (I remember one in particular that was described as really small but once you entered it, it was huge), and then something related to fashion happened as well and she tried to save some jimmy choos I think!!! Oh, also, she was in love with some guy, and the first book cover was in pink and the second in lilac, I guess. If you know the name of the book please tell me, I am dying to know!!

All I remember is the cover

Submitted by Beth (not verified) on February 24, 2018 - 11:27am

All I remember is the cover is of a young teen girl with long lashes and she is pouting her lips which are bright pink. It's a bright cover.

maybe it's "The Secret

Submitted by Cassandra (not verified) on March 24, 2019 - 11:51am

maybe it's "The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney"?

If you could help .. please

Submitted by Shaina (not verified) on February 24, 2018 - 1:56pm

The story started with a boy who was upset with his life And suddenly one day finds a magical stone (green colour) and its power changed his life. Then the story brought many people who found different pieces of stone and all were struggling. The teenage boy ran in the woods because some people were searching him. I don't remember how but everybody met each other one by one . Then they spent so much Time in woods . One of them had the knowledge of forests and biological things. One girl worked in a salon and was really exhausted with the stone thing. One man was very old . And one more guy there was. But when they all knew what they have to do with the stone, they all essembled their stones. Aim was to save a drowning ship of armymen and they did it successfully and the stones were I think destroyed . And last chapter was like after 1 year he thought of the same powers. Please help me. This is making me desperate as hell. I want to read it again.

Omg I ready this!

Submitted by Quinn (not verified) on March 14, 2019 - 1:35pm

Hey, I know this was like a year ago, but I've read this too lol. If you still haven't found the book, I think it's in my school library. I should be able to check the title and author for you tomorrow :)

I think you're thinking of

Submitted by Chris William (not verified) on June 22, 2019 - 10:58am

I think you're thinking of Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda. If you are, there's also an anime based on it.

Looking for book: Clone or Cloned

Submitted by Nita (not verified) on February 24, 2018 - 7:48pm

In the early 70s I read a book called Clone or Cloned. I don't know the author. It states that in the 60s a cloned child was born in Africa whose existence was to one day rule world government or something similar. I am very interested in rereading it.

Do you know this book?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on February 24, 2018 - 11:14pm

I didn’t even read this book, but I had a girl explain it to me. It’s essentially two books in one, because there’s a main narrative that is complemented by written notes in the margin. Two different people had borrowed the book from the library and were writing each other messages, trying to solve a mystery about the book. If you know what it’s called, I would be much obliged!

S.

Submitted by Arielle m (not verified) on December 20, 2018 - 8:25pm

The book you’re looking for is called “S.” By JJ Abram and Doug Dorst

A regency book

Submitted by Roxanne (not verified) on March 2, 2019 - 5:19pm

I read this book when I was 17 it's about a soldier who came home and married a girl it was an arrange marriage. The girl was plus size and ashamed because her cousins use to tease her. She brought a wedding dress that was too small, she had to wrap herself with cloths to fit in it when in the church and she was about to kiss her husband she fainted. Back at her house while taking part in the wedding feast her dress split. The wedding night she was so self-conscious while trying to light the candle she set the curtains on fire. When she went to live with her husband some one keeps trying to kill her turns out it was her husband cousin who wanted to marry him and was jealous of her

The perfect wife by Lynsay

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 9, 2019 - 5:07am

The perfect wife by Lynsay sands

I’ve been looking for this book for 5 years

Submitted by Nash (not verified) on February 25, 2018 - 12:04am

I haven’t had much luck since I can’t remember the authors name or any characters names but the gist of the book was it took place on like an island of some kind and it was separated into sections by walls and the main character gets some device or something that lets him or her escape some thugs who were chasing them down. They eventually go through to the capital of this place and see the government trying to fight these creatures that used to be people (and I remember specifically one of the main characters say they destroy buildings and go for the government building first always). Anyways they get tangled up somehow in the governments actions and they go on a raid on the oldest building on the island in the capital area and find it is making these creatures and the main character finds out that a machine or something inside is designed to create these things and other problems for the people who live on the island to fix or else they’ll go crazy or something. I remember there was like a hologram or something of the creator of the machine the main character talks to and they eventually get on a boat to escape the island. Some more random specific details I remember are that around the island is a sea wall that used to be manned but isn’t defended anymore because the government is in pretty bad shape and the guns that were used by the government only desintegrated organic matter so they don’t break walls and stuff. Any help would be appreciated since I’ve been haunted by trying to find the tittle of this book

That sounds really familiar,

Submitted by Lindsey (not verified) on January 26, 2019 - 4:43am

That sounds really familiar, was one of the central characters a cyborg with wings who found a dead seabird? And the device let them........walk through walls I think?

Was it Storm Thief by Chris

Submitted by Lindsey (not verified) on January 26, 2019 - 3:16pm

Was it Storm Thief by Chris Wooding?

No its called all rivers flow

Submitted by Brayden Durdle (not verified) on May 22, 2019 - 1:24pm

No its called all rivers flow to the sea

I'm looking for a book about

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on February 25, 2018 - 10:56am

I'm looking for a book about a girl who is riding her bike and gets hit by a car and gets killed and goes up to heaven

Reply to someone looking for a certain book

Submitted by Kathleen Pritchett (not verified) on July 14, 2018 - 4:18pm

Could that book be ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin? The main character is killed while going to the mall. She then is sent to heaven, given a job, and meets many wonderful people. However, the gist is that she is growing younger each day until she is a baby and reborn.

finding a YA book!

Submitted by Joyce (not verified) on February 26, 2018 - 11:44am

Hello! We had a reference patron who is looking for a book she read in 2001. The book is about two best friends. One died, and the living one crawls through a hole in a tree and finds his best friend in the afterlife. The best friend tells the living friend he can stay with him if he wants, but he is going to have to die. He tells him the ways he could die based off a red book (short term death) and a black book (long term death.) The boy decides to wait until he is older to die based on the information from the black book. The patron says it's around a 5th grade reading level and that a tree was on the cover. She also thought the black book may somehow be in the title. Thanks for any help you all can give!

I'm looking for the same book

Submitted by Lesley (not verified) on August 18, 2021 - 6:46pm

I'm looking for the same book!

Looking for any info re: a short story from a sci-fi/fantasy mag

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on February 26, 2018 - 4:40pm

I am looking for help finding any information re: a short story I recall reading from a sci-fi/fantasy magazine. It was probably originally printed sometime in the late 1970's or sometime in the 1980s. The short story was about a secret government experiment that was aimed at slowing or stopping children from aging. Something was put into the food people ate, then those up to the age of 18 or so were put into government-protected camps to protect them while tests are done to see if the anti-aging process "took" or not. If it did not, the child was released back to join his/her family. If it did, they were kept in protective-custody. Apparently, many adults were angry that these children would live forever (either because they felt it was "unnatural" or somehow went against their religious beliefs), and the children needed to be protected from those who wanted to kill them. I recall an incident in the story involved a woman who was a cook in the camp who put ground glass in some stew or meat the children were being fed, in an attempt to kill as many as she could. Any help with either the name and year of the magazine, or (preferably) the name of the story and author would be greatly appreciated. Mahalo.

immortal children

Submitted by Melita (not verified) on September 23, 2018 - 7:47pm

I believe that it's Earthchild by Sharon Webb. There are two sequels: Earth Song and Ram Song. The medicine only works if you're younger than a certain age (probably having to do with puberty). They also find that the immortals lose their desire to be creative. Later, children who are gifted in art, music, science are pushed as hard as they can--then they have to make the choice--remain creative or become immortal. The main character is Kurt.

Thank you for the reply,

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on December 24, 2018 - 3:40am

Thank you for the reply, Melita. With your help, I was able to research the short story I recalled reading. It was a portion of the novel "Earthchild" called "Earthchild Rising" and was published in the "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" published on July 6, 1981, which is where I read it. Again, thank you so much, as I would never have been able to track it down without your help. Mahalo nui loa!

Childhood book, fantasy, like secret garden?

Submitted by ksyethelimit (not verified) on February 26, 2018 - 4:48pm

Children/Young Person's Book. The cover looked similar to a wooden door in a brick wall surrounded by vines or leaves and this seemed to continue onto the back cover (this is what I remember and may not be accurate). There was this girl who moves into an old house, alone I believe, which happens to be full of mysteries and secrets. The girl finds a journal detailing a trip through some foreign place (Africa? South America?) on some sort of river cruise where the explorers discover some type of animal. The girl discovers a cave or garden in the house with this type of animal there - called Tigs, Tiggs or Tiggy? There is a possibility there is another character who the girl meets who lives in the town but am unsure. I keep thinking this book is similar to the secret garden, or titled similarly but none of my searches this way have come up with anything. Thanks for any help.

Have only just seen this

Submitted by Claire (not verified) on February 17, 2019 - 2:30pm

Have only just seen this request, hope I can help. Is it The Valley of Secrets by Charmian Hussey? My son and I read it about 10 years ago & I was trying to remember it as well. Saw it in a charity shop & was so pleased to get my own copy. It's about a boy called Stephen, abandoned as a baby, inherits Lansbury Hall in Cornwall - creature is Tig.

Wine Fiction

Submitted by Lucinda (not verified) on February 26, 2018 - 6:29pm

I started reading a book on holiday about 15 years ago but didn’t finish it! It was about 3 different vineyards - one in the Napa valley, one in France (potentially the champagne region) and one in England (south of England - maybe Essex, maybe south coast) who all create sparkling wine and enter them into a competition. The uk vineyard was the underdog and everyone thought they were ridiculous for trying to make sparkling wine. I vaguely remember something about the uk vineyard being called Froggy bottom or foggy bottom but this might not be correct. I’ve googled it for several years and have had no luck so hopefully you guys can help! Thank you in advance!

vineyard book

Submitted by Sue ELLEKER (not verified) on October 20, 2021 - 12:25pm

Was it a true story? There is a vineyard in Sussex called Breaky Bottom.

Looking for a book

Submitted by Antonika Lee (not verified) on February 27, 2018 - 4:14am

I read a book about a guy who met a girl at an airport because they were stranded because of the weather. Years later, he meets that same girl when she comes to visit his house with his son and their friends. They eventually get together but then she leaves him. She doesn't know she was pregnant with his child until his son call him form the hospital saying that he found her.

Second Chances by Sharon Sala

Submitted by Mary (not verified) on September 27, 2018 - 6:15pm

Second Chances by Sharon Sala (Dinah McCall)

Romance/Mystery book that I don't know the name of, or author

Submitted by Alevosa (not verified) on February 27, 2018 - 1:34pm

I read this book a long time ago and would love to find it again. A young English lord gets kidnapped by bandits in Greece and is rescued by a young woman. Her father, after hearing of it, tells her they have to leave because he's been wrongfully accused of his father's murder back in England and has been in hiding all these years. He had kidnapped her as a baby and taken her with him because her mother divorced him. She goes back to England to try to clear his name and is hired by her own mother, who she resents but who immediately develops an affection for her, as a companion. She encounters the young lord again, as well as her father's cousin who inherited the title and has been in love with her mother all along and is trying to marry her. Her father then follows her and hides in the Estate, and as she tries to solve the mystery of her grandfather's murder they both become endangered.

Looking for Book, Possibly by Ursula K LeGuin

Submitted by Julia Lett-Harrison (not verified) on February 28, 2018 - 1:53am

I read a wonderful book, long ago and Im trying so hard to find it so that I may read it again. In this book, something had happened to the human population and a pregnant woman survived alone. She is pregnant and is able to communicate with neighborhood animals who are named after the apostles and who go out of the way to assist the pregnant hero. I do not remember how it ends. Please, help me find it!

PLZ HELP I LITERALLY CANNOT FIND THIS BOOK

Submitted by Makayla (not verified) on February 28, 2018 - 10:36am

So all I know is that there is this man who murders women and puts them in doll-like positions, naked with a rose (or some sort of flower) and this is his trademark. I guess he is sort of obsessed with dolls. I'm not sure of any more details. Sorry for the vague description.

I am sure its one of the

Submitted by Abdrew (not verified) on March 5, 2018 - 11:25am

I am sure its one of the books in a "Riley Paige Mystery" Titled Once gone. I read it on https://read.worldreader.org/Book/Details/50de57e9-680c-4c25-b4cb-03abfdffcdc9?version=0

Im guessing “Gone but not

Submitted by Abigeal (not verified) on February 7, 2019 - 10:16pm

Im guessing “Gone but not forgotten “ by Philip Margolin

Help!!

Submitted by Isabella (not verified) on March 1, 2018 - 12:25am

I read a YA book years ago about a high school aged girl who wins a scholarship/award to go to Washington D.C. and she stays in a hotel with maybe 10 other teens. I distinctly remember them playing "sardines" in the hotel and two of the teens hooked up in an elevator (this is where the totally innocent protagonist finds them and discovers that "sardines" is a hook-up game). One night, they sneak out of the hotel and witness a murder from the vent of a bathroom or something like that. The protagonist also gets caught in a love triangle of sorts where both boys try to beat each other to be her first kiss (she ends up kissing them both). One of the boys is an all-American sweetheart and the other is a typical rich bad boy (who I'm pretty sure convinced them to sneak out of the hotel in the first place). I think this book was the first installment in a series, but I forgot the title and was never able to read the entire series!

Looking for the title of a book

Submitted by Audrey (not verified) on March 1, 2018 - 7:43am

Good Morning; I am looking for the title of a book that I read many years ago (15+) and cannot remember. The book was about a young girl who survived a catastrophic tsunami while hiding in a seawall near her home. After the tsunami dissipates, she finds out that her best friend and brother have died. She also realizes that she was able to breath under water which helped her to survive. She then finds out that there are other people who are able to live underwater. She meets a male character who is one of these people and he convinces her to try to live in the sea with him. She notices that there are different groups of these people and they all have different markings on their bodies, especially their wrists. She falls in love with this man and begins to develop the red and yellow markings of his group. Unfortunately, that is all I seem to remember about the book. I would appreciate any help you could offer in helping me to find out the title of this book. Thank you for your time and help.

I can´t remember the name of

Submitted by Larissa (not verified) on March 1, 2018 - 11:38am

I can´t remember the name of the book , i read it in high school, it was a bout a girl who was abused by her stepfather, so she runs away, becomes a prostitute, end up making a lot of money, opens up clubs, and i think ends up with a car wash.. anyone?? help!

Childhood book

Submitted by Courtney (not verified) on March 1, 2018 - 4:00pm

I’m trying to remember this book I read as a kid. I was born in 1989 so this book could have been from the 80s or 90s. It was a 3 chapter book I believe. All I can remember was there was a dog getting ready for a dog show. It had to have a bath. I believe it wins the dog show at the end. It had pictures throughout too.

Might be Harry The Dirty Dog?

Submitted by Natalie (not verified) on February 27, 2019 - 11:32pm

Might be Harry The Dirty Dog? Don’t know if he wins a prize but he definitely runs away to avoid a bath

I can't remember this book!!

Submitted by Bri (not verified) on March 2, 2018 - 4:11pm

I read this book and I know it's a series but I can't find or remember what it's called. The cover has a girl on it and I don't remember her name but I think it started with a C or a K. Anyways she wakes up in the middle of the night to the police and she finds out that her parents were found dead in their room. Throughout the book we find out that the parents own this company and I think it has to do with genetic modification because the girl and her brothers all take special medication and it makes the younger brother super strong. The girl finds out stuff about her life she can't remember like a boy she was in love with and tried to runaway with.The sister and her brothers also find out that their father got one of the brothers girlfriend pregnant. At the end of the book they watch a video of how the parents died and it turns out that the mother was sick with a tumor or cancer and the father didn't want to live without her so they drank poison.

Hi! I know that this a little

Submitted by Amanda (not verified) on January 14, 2019 - 6:36pm

Hi! I know that this a little late, but this book is called: Confessions of a Murder Suspect, by James Patterson. The main character is Tandy.

Fantasy book.

Submitted by Art (not verified) on March 2, 2018 - 9:31pm

I remember reading a book where one of the character's names' was 'Nevn', or something like it. I remember the description for the name was that it meant "no-one". I believe this character was a wizard or magic-user of some kind, and was kind of a low-profile person due to his past. He may have been with/training a young man, and frequently gave advice to this person. I don't remember the rest of the story unfortunately, except I think this boy was someone of import to the story. I know this is pretty vague, but it's all I can remember of it. I probably read this book maybe 10 or more years ago. I tried Google Search to no avail.

I believe this book you speak

Submitted by Maple (not verified) on January 25, 2019 - 12:40am

I believe this book you speak of is from a series known as the deverry cycle? I may be wrong but good luck ^^

Author is Katharine Kerr

Submitted by Hawk (not verified) on February 11, 2019 - 2:13pm

Author is Katharine Kerr

trying to find this book again

Submitted by lee (not verified) on March 2, 2018 - 11:26pm

i'm trying to find the name of a book that i have read a while ago . It was about a group of friends that gets sent back in time after gettnig together and playing baseball. I can't remember much about it as it was a while ago that i read it but i know that they have some interactions with one of the friends grandfather and i think a doctor of something of that nature who shows them ways to travel by anchoring to an object. If anyone could help that would be great

The start of one of my favorite series

Submitted by Quorum (not verified) on January 11, 2019 - 11:47pm

So the book you are looking for is In Times Like These: A Time Travel Adventure by Nathan Van Coops. It is a great book and the start of a great series. I suggest that you reread it and get the next one as well.

Young Adult

Submitted by Sarah Parmenter (not verified) on March 3, 2018 - 1:22pm

For years I have searched for a book. I think the title is something along the lines of The Things Our Mothers Taught Us. The cover is a girl braiding golden blonde hair. I read the book in maybe 2010? The young girl's mother has cancer. There is one part about a party with a bonfire where the girl loses her virginity.

Book about controlling time

Submitted by Cai (not verified) on March 3, 2018 - 6:51pm

I can vaguely remember a book I read about people who had been trained to control time (a la Terry Pratchett's History Monks). The only scene I remember clearly was a moment where two major characters are together under a tree and the one who could control time slowed things down so much that they were standing under the tree together for years (possibly generations). It's bugging me that I can't remember the rest of it!

Thursday Next

Submitted by Rosemary (not verified) on April 24, 2019 - 8:09am

I am fairly certain the scene with the characters under a tree is from “Lost in a Good Book,” the second book in the Thursday Next Chronicles by Jasper Fforde

Book about teenage girls finding her friends murderer

Submitted by Autum (not verified) on March 4, 2018 - 3:41am

I read this book about 13 years ago. It’s about a teenage girl who moves to a new town and becomes best friends with a unpopular girl. The unpopular friend is found dead. Later in the book, the girl still alive is chased by the murder in her house and ends up dropping a tv on the murderers head as he chases her up the attic. I cannot remember the title of this book

What's the name of the book

Submitted by tyche (not verified) on March 4, 2018 - 9:33am

Romance novel I read about a dozen years back. The heroine meets the hero as a beautiful model who he thinks is a bit dumb, and later as a scientist/researcher who is not pretty. She dresses up as a dowdy woman using make-up and pretends to be two different women to the hero. He ends up falling in love with both her person and tells his friend that he likes the model for her intelligence and the dowdy scientist for her grace. He only figures out that they are both same when he finally does it with the model. He is angry initially but then goes out to cool down and tells a stranger on the beach(?) about his issue. The stranger points out that he thought that they were two different women he was in love with and now he knows they are the same, which is a great ending.

Is it Are You for Real, by

Submitted by hgeng63 (not verified) on August 11, 2018 - 6:02pm

Is it Are You for Real, by Barbara Daly?

looking for a book

Submitted by Andrew (not verified) on March 5, 2018 - 11:13am

I read this book a long time ago and cannot recollect the title or the author's name. The book cover has a picture of a car painted orange and either an eagle or dragon on the car. The story is about a boy who can repair anything on four wheels, and he built his car from the scratch using scraps he bought from the junkyard he works. He has a sister he cares for and a father who has taken to drinking since their mother left or died; can't remember. He had to combine schooling and work to provide for his sister and drunk father. Somehow, the sister had an accident while driving her drunk father home and I can't remember what happened after that. Pls help I need to read this book again. Thanks.

Is this it.

Submitted by Senshen (not verified) on March 15, 2019 - 7:45pm

I think the book you are looking for is Stetson by S.L.Rottman.

Can't remember name of really good book

Submitted by Ethan (not verified) on March 5, 2018 - 4:46pm

It's this book where this guy is trying to lose weight, and record his progress. Him and his friend work out at their school. But one day hears noises in the gym from their lacrosse team. He investigates and finds out these guys are beating their freshman up on the team and he wants to do something about it. But the principal is in on it too. He has no where to turn

Please, help

Submitted by Lydia (not verified) on March 5, 2018 - 7:21pm

I read this book as a girl but can't remember the title. Names of the character I remember are Celia Trevarwit (can't remember the correct spelling of the surname), Isobel, Paul. Little Celia lost her mother at a tender age and was in care of her father until the whole family fell into the trap of Isobel as a stepmother. Celia soon lost her father and was being raised by her wicked stepmother who was bent on marrying her off to her mature male friend, Fulke Withers. She was lonely until she met Paul and a relationship started between them. She was helped by a naval officer to escape to Paul, who took care of her until he had to go to war. Please, help me with the title. I have been searching for the book/title for a while.

If you Google Celia Trevarwit

Submitted by tracee (not verified) on October 12, 2018 - 1:42pm

If you Google Celia Trevarwit, you get Escape to Love by Denise Robins. There is a character named Paul and a step-mother. >Storm Castle - home of the Trevarwiths - on the wild Cornish coast. A bride and bridegroom driving up to the doors...a white-faced child peering from a turret window... the first dread meeting between the bride and her red-haired vixen of a step-mother... In later years, after the death of Celia Trevarwith's father, during the Second World War, Paul Manton comes to the district. A Free-French fisherman; he falls madly in love with Celia. She then embarks on a passionate struggle for her love and happiness with Paul, always up against her step-mother's opposition.

I think the book is Stetson

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 13, 2018 - 7:22am

I think the book is Stetson by S. L. Rottman: Stetson has a dream. He's been rebuilding an old Honda Civic working at a salvage yard, and designing T-shirts to help pay for food and parts. As long as Stet avoids his abusive, alcoholic father, he considers himself lucky. His car, his art, and a high school diploma are his tickets out of their factory town. Then his father brings home Kayla--a younger sister Stet never knew he had. His mother had been pregnant when she left, but told no one; now she's dead, and Kayla has nowhere else to go. Can these two wary siblings find anything in common, and try to build a future together?

Okay, lets give this a shot.

Submitted by Keo (not verified) on March 6, 2018 - 9:27pm

Okay, lets give this a shot. I don't remember much of the book because I read it 10+ years ago when I was in middle school. The book came out sometime before 2005. If my memory is right, it was about a romance novel where the man and woman fall in love. While I'm having a hard time remember everything but I do remember near the end. She was chained down in a lake or ocean or something. The man was desperately looking for her. Finally, like a spirit or a light of some kind showed him where she was. He got her out of the water in time before she drowned. There was also someone that wanted to kill her, which is why she got chained down to the ocean or water or something. Please help!

I think we are looking for

Submitted by Carolena (not verified) on November 15, 2018 - 5:05pm

I think we are looking for the same book. I remember they had gone through this across time. Each time her is some type of protector (warrior). They did not trust each other and she always dies and he could not live without her. They meet one last time where she has a cabin by a lake. She would see him in her dreams. He did rescue her at the end... does this sound familiar?

It's by Linda Howard, and it

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on February 4, 2019 - 1:52am

It's by Linda Howard, and it's a novella. I can't remember the title; I read it in an anthology of 3 stories by Howard.

I'm trying to find this book

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on December 26, 2018 - 8:10am

I'm trying to find this book too all I can remember is that she jumps in the lake with her pockets full of rocks with the things that her boyfriends friends called her and her friend ( who is a boy) finds her body in the lake after getting amnesia.

looking for a childhood favorite

Submitted by Madison Chaddock (not verified) on March 7, 2018 - 11:32pm

I'm hoping someone can help me, as I've been looking for a particular book for years that I absolutely adored as a child. It was a genuinely pretty freaky picture book, where most of the book was gorgeous, detailed horror settings -- such as a junkyard, a forest, etc., and in each place, you (the POV character) hear a noise and ask, "Who's there?" A voice always responds back, "Nobody..." At the very end of the book, it turns out "nobody" is actually "no BODY," and whoever it was had been building himself a body out of various bits from the previous scenes. The end of the book allowed you to 'meet' the monster in question in the form of a large fold-out poster that was attached inside. I loved this book so so much as a kid, but I've never been able to find it again. :( Does anyone know what I mean? I'd really appreciate the help!

Looking for a Childhood Favorite (Madison Chaddock)

Submitted by Kathleen Pritchett (not verified) on September 2, 2018 - 3:37pm

Who's There? Beware! by Patricia Hegarty???????

looking for a childhood favorite

Submitted by Justin (not verified) on February 4, 2022 - 5:56pm

Wayne Anderson's Horrorble book

Name of short science fiction story

Submitted by Kathy H (not verified) on March 7, 2018 - 11:44pm

I read this back in the 70s. A man finds himself in a society of farmer-types who have to hibernate every winter to keep from starving. They wake and grow their food every spring. He has difficulty the first few years but eventually adapts and is with the people for many years. The end of the story is the discovery that he was in a car wreck and has hallucinated the whole thing - he experienced the days as summer and the nights as winter as he crawled on the side of the road for several days. Please help me find the name of this story! Thanks.

Name of short science fiction story

Submitted by Natalie J (not verified) on November 28, 2018 - 5:19pm

I think it is called Non-Stop

I think I'm looking for the

Submitted by Danielle Driscoll (not verified) on March 3, 2019 - 3:34am

I think I'm looking for the same book. He marries a woman from the tribe and they conceive a child? I am still hunting for it. I seem to remember a gas station or car on the cover. He had healed in some kind of cave/pod thing before joining the village?

Cant remember the title of the book

Submitted by Catherine Abbott (not verified) on March 8, 2018 - 7:21am

I really wanted to read this book but I can't remember its title. Its cover was a picture of a rose and the story is about this teenage girl who likes this boy secretly and for some reason had a one night stand with him. They got married but the guy leave the girl after the marriage. He went to another state, studied and become a successful dentist (or something to do in medical field job)? Met a woman that he like and wanted to marry but before that, he has to divorce the wife first. So he came back to his town to look for the wife/ to divorce her... this guy didn't know that he had impregnated his wife & had a daughter with her.... I think this is a recent novel but the title was changed from the original one... hope any of you guys can tell me the title of this book.

Sounds like the plot of Jude

Submitted by Willy (not verified) on March 19, 2019 - 3:58pm

Sounds like the plot of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, but I don’t know the title of the nodern retelling.o

Sounds like Separate Beds by

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on August 21, 2020 - 1:34pm

Sounds like Separate Beds by Lavyrle Spencer

Hi, i cant glfind a book i

Submitted by Anja (not verified) on March 8, 2018 - 8:10am

Hi, i cant glfind a book i read befoure 4-5 years it's about girl who recives a postcard which is sent on wrong address,from the boy she didn't like, but she didn't know who sent that letter to her.She was expecting letter from colege,where that boy is going to sign up too.They were still sending letters to each other but some other boy and girl (this girl was in love ,i think, with the boy who accidently send the postcard on the wrong address) finds out for them and they wanted to separate them. Soon there was a party under the masks and they said that they will be dressed like characters from the pride and predjuice and the boy sent her a pen that change colors. I think that the book was called by any other name but i cant find it anywere!

Book

Submitted by All (not verified) on March 9, 2018 - 2:44am

There's a book I read ages ago in which there's a guy and a girl who hate eachother but the guy's brother is getting married to the girl's sister. The guy and the girl eventually fall in love and all. I really can't remember the name of the book

Hey, I think it might be "The

Submitted by Tatiana (not verified) on July 25, 2021 - 11:18am

Hey, I think it might be "The unhoneymooners" by Christina Lauren.

Girl and a werewolf

Submitted by Tabitha (not verified) on March 9, 2018 - 10:31pm

I am looking for a book were the main character a girl works part-time at an animal shelter. her best friend at school gets strait A's because he is a werewolf and is he stresses out he turns into a wolf. the werewolf teaches the girl origami and she uses it to defeat a storm of glowing bugs (I think). she did not know he was a werewolf until something made him change and she had to help him change back. If anyone could tell me what this book is I would be very grateful.

The place where the girl

Submitted by Alison H Rutledge (not verified) on February 20, 2019 - 7:09pm

The place where the girl lived was enacting laws against Magic. Her father had died and she was angry about her mother re-marrying. Turns out her stepfather has Magic, and so does she, and so does her boyfriend-werewolf. The origami has something to do with keeping the world in place when some form of chaos threatens to end it. I can't remember much more. Young Adult.

This is “Shadows” by Robin

Submitted by Vikki (not verified) on February 17, 2021 - 11:02pm

This is “Shadows” by Robin McKinley

help me find the name of the book?

Submitted by Taura Sengar (not verified) on March 9, 2018 - 11:49pm

The girl and boy does not like each other but sparks fly after 1st meeting.....girl gets married to the boy,they went to london where girl meets her ex who cheated her,the ex was an employee in the husbands office. husband saw them in a compromising position she came back to india .she became pregnant went to meet her husband and got all misunderstandings cleared

Does anybody know what the name of this book is

Submitted by Arthanna (not verified) on March 10, 2018 - 11:54am

I read a novel more than 10 years ago I only remember bits and pieces the women in the book is a model her name is Stephanie but her nephew calls her Stevie she goes to an island to look after her nephew while her sister and brother in-law are away she then falls in love with her brother in-laws brother (they're french) I think his name is Christian or something. This is either a harlequin or silhouette novel also

The book is called Sense of

Submitted by Fraoch (not verified) on March 11, 2019 - 11:08am

The book is called Sense of Destiny by Patricia Wilson

A novel like a sort of fable

Submitted by Mirta Parenti (not verified) on March 10, 2018 - 1:40pm

5 years ago I read a book whose title I don’t know. Its time and place are undefined, it seems something like South America in old times. A man arrives from the sea, naked, he’s helped by the local poor simple people who live on fishing.He becomes a sort of religious philosopher, he later has conversations with the leader of the catholic church, but has free love with men and girls. On the near mountains, in the wood, some shepherds find a girl who has been grown by woolves. They take her to the village and she’s sent to a nunnery to make her become a human being but she’llcome back to the wood.

A novel like a sort of fable

Submitted by Paul Hamshere (not verified) on February 3, 2019 - 9:16am

Was this 'Knowledge of Angels' by Jill Paton Walsh - it sounds very similar.

I'm looking for a book where

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 10, 2018 - 8:04pm

I'm looking for a book where it starts off that the girl is nine years old and saves the son of the house owner (who is fifteen) from drowning after he hit his head and fell into the pool. they became friends after that and it shows how he gets attracted to her then kisses her when she's sixteen after she comes back from prom. they get married but the marriage has problems. they guys sister never liked her. Please help. thank you

Name of book

Submitted by Avery (not verified) on March 11, 2018 - 12:39am

I read this book years ago and i remember i loved it i know its not maximium ride but i cant remember the name all i remember is the girl escapes animal testing where she was combined with a hawk i think. She has wings and eats rats and has white hair and i remember something about a wall when she got out i dont know please help

Help me find this book

Submitted by Jwant Dosanjh (not verified) on March 11, 2018 - 12:42am

So the book I’m trying to remember is this book about a girl who was convinced by her best friend to go to this party for her birthday. On the way there she gets into a car accident and switches into a ditch. But she wakes up underground in a room. And she is met by this man that she latter falls in love with and he tells her that he saved her. And that man is also supposed to have some sort of powers for healing and some other abilities like super speed and so does everyone else like him. And due that fact he and his kind don’t go up much because people will try to us them. And so they fall in love while this company searches for the guys and his kind to use them. One day the girl is kidnaped and used to get the guy and his kind to come up and save her but only he comes while his kind go to a different city to be safe. And ultimately he saves her and then he givers her the option of coming with him and his kind or to stay there with her family and she decides to go with him. And that’s how the boom ends. There’s supposed to be a second book and this bio that I have just discribes has a purple cover with I believe a green clover or a purple four leaf clover necklace charm on it. Please tell me if U can find this book!

maybe the Madison Avery series?

Submitted by Liz (not verified) on September 16, 2021 - 4:15pm

This is pretty late, but I think this might be by Kim Harrison? The first book is "Once Dead, Twice Shy," but it sounds like you're describing the prequel from the anthology "Prom Nights from Hell." She dies on her way to going to prom on her birthday and finds herself trapped by a grim reaper type person. She regains her body by stealing something from him, and eventually joins the people who fight the reapers?

Book

Submitted by Avery (not verified) on March 11, 2018 - 12:47am

Im also pretty sure she meets a boy

This book has eluded me for years

Submitted by Joseph (not verified) on March 12, 2018 - 6:15am

There was a book I read in grade school that was sort of a collection of American stories involving a stone pendant (shaped like an owl I believe)...different people come into contact with it over time and it almost acts like a guardian.

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A short horror story about farmer

Submitted by jonathan doe (not verified) on April 26, 2021 - 4:06pm

This might not be a book, but rather in a book that's about a bunch of short horror tales. It's about a farmer who takes in a wolf pup he finds in the wilderness. He cares for it despite the fact he has sheep, and he ignores what other people say. However, one day he finds a dead sheep, and the wolf pup with blood on it. He kills the wolf, thinking he killed the sheep, but then finds the body of another, grown wolf. It's then that he realizes the wolf had been trying to protect the sheep. The farmer is then haunted by the ghost of the wolf pup

Thrilling and suspenseful novel about kidnapping and faith

Submitted by Amanda (not verified) on March 12, 2018 - 9:57pm

The story has three different points of view (different main characters, depending on the chapter). One young man breaks up with his girlfriend and has a hard time getting over her, while the ex-girlfriend starts to live her life again (she is another point of view).In the story the ex-girlfriend gets kidnapped and held in a farmhouse in the middle of no where with a few other girls. The young man does everything he can to find her again- goes to police and family members, even speaks to a priest. The story moves to the girls point of view and how the have to live using a bucket for a washroom and hay for a bed, the kidnapper comes back every now and then to check on the girls... Eventually the girls get cell reception and the police find her approximate location; the young man hurries to find her there. Somehow the farmhouse catches on fire and the young man finds the girl again. In the end they find out it was the local police officer (or sherriff/ law inforcement) who kidnapped the girls. The story finishes with the young man finding god and becoming a man of faith.

Looking for a book

Submitted by tiffaney fields (not verified) on March 12, 2018 - 11:17pm

I’m trying to help my friend find a book... her rememberance....I read a scary book one time called the Cabin or the Cave. A woman gets thrown into a cave by a kidnapper and she has to find her way out. I can’t find this book does anyone know what the name is?

Looking for a few books and short stories

Submitted by ImaPow (not verified) on March 13, 2018 - 12:58pm

1. A YA book I read wayyyy back when I was in the 7th grade about a medieval princess whose village gets raided or something and she ends up being transported through time to the future. And when she gets to where she's supposed to be, she gets brutally raped by one of the guys supposed to be helping her. I don't remember much because I was so traumatized by reading that part that I never finished the book... It was an old book when I read it so I want to say it may have been published in the 80s or 90s. 2. A short story I read in an anthology in school (also 7th grade) about a man visiting a friend/acquaintance's home to check in on his wife during either WWI or WWII. Could be set in England too but the details are fizzy. Anyway, the man says good night to the wife and somehow some of her hair gets caught on his shirt. He wakes up the next morning only to find out from the servants in the house that the friend's wife is dead and he was interacting with a ghost. I want to say the story was called The Specter but I've never reenable to find it. Scared the crap out of me...

Pretty sure the first book

Submitted by SM (not verified) on July 6, 2021 - 7:59pm

Pretty sure the first book you're referring to is Beauty by Sheri S Report.

Previous comments had a typo

Submitted by SM (not verified) on July 6, 2021 - 8:00pm

Previous comments had a typo in the author's name. Pretty sure the first book you refer to is Beauty by Sheri S Tepper

I'm looking for a book about

Submitted by Sandra (not verified) on March 13, 2018 - 6:28pm

I'm looking for a book about a couple of children, brother and sister, they were poor, she sold flowers and in the end she dies.

Sounds like Dickens maybe?

Submitted by Grace (not verified) on May 18, 2019 - 5:42pm

Sounds like Dickens maybe?

Here goes nothing

Submitted by Tim Butler (not verified) on March 13, 2018 - 8:46pm

A popular (as it was recommended to me) book I read most likely about 10 - 20 years ago. From memory it was a book that followed the journey of a young man/woman. I’m pretty sure it was a love story that involved the person studying at Berkeley University??? Not much to go on unfortunately as that’s all I can remember apart from the fact it was a very moving book emotionally as the book was very descriptive with the seasons.

Romance

Submitted by Ssimpson (not verified) on March 14, 2018 - 1:53pm

Im looking for a book where a woman is shot in the head during a drive by and has a near death experience where she sees her mom and grandma. She decides to move to her grandma's house

Old Romance Book

Submitted by Brandy (not verified) on March 14, 2018 - 3:07pm

I can't find a book I've been looking for and don't know if I even have the title right either. I thought it was called "Sable". I used to own it, and it had a pirates ship in the background with a couple embracing on the front. It was about a girl (Sable) that is taken onto a pirate ship. She ends up falling in love with her captor after trying to escape and being brought back to the ship by the captain. He ends up not being a pirate but a man out to reclaim his land. There is even a portion of the book where the girl rescues him as well. I can't remember the captain's name, but I would truly love to find this book again. Can anyone help me out? Does it sound like anything anyone has read before?

Looking for an older children’s book I read in the 80s

Submitted by LSmith (not verified) on March 15, 2018 - 5:06am

Hi - I’m looking for a book I read and enjoyed around 1983-5 about a boy who goes to live with his grandfather in the snowy woods, Grandfather is somewhat of a hermit who takes care of yeti or sasquatch like creatures, and I believe in one scene feeds them in the barn by firelight. There’s a few black and white illustrations in the book. Any help would be much appreciated - thanks.

Help finding this book (manga)

Submitted by Asia (not verified) on March 15, 2018 - 7:49am

So the main character is a guy who leaves town and gets trapped in a forest with a bunch of monsters and has to fight them to live then once he's stong he meets a dragon and beats the dragon and has to take the dragons daughter on an adventure to see the outside world (its a really cute baby dragon I think she likes to sit on his shoulder or head or something) while there out texploring he world he's looking for love (he might be reincarnated? I'm not sure.)

Two books: A man in love with his slave, and a time traveller

Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on March 15, 2018 - 2:01pm

I'm looking for two stories, one; A man returns home from war and gives his father a slave, but his father refuses and gives her instead to his other son (the main character) who the man who returned from war hates. The main character accepts her but refuses to touch her. Over time he falls in love with her but there are still a lot of challenges to be faced. This is about all I can remember. Two; (read this about 10 years ago) a young lady falls down hits her head and wakes up in a different time (years before her own time), falls in love with and marries a celebrity who was already dead in her time. She has another accident and wakes up in her own time only to discover that history has rewritten itself and everybody knows her as this celebrity's wife, and he's dead. Also the newspapers say she disappeared the night he died. She is invited by the police for questioning on where she had been all those years since the night of her husband's death. One of the policemen looks exactly like a policeman from her husband's time and she finds out he's his son. She is finally able to go back in time to the night her husband died and save him. Thanks for the help.

a story about a man on a red planet missing the colours of earth

Submitted by Julia (not verified) on March 15, 2018 - 5:12pm

Hello, i'm looking for a short story i've read a while ago, it was kind of science fiction in style of Stanislaw Lem, or maybe it was him even, but i cant google my way to it.... It's about a man crash landing on a planet that is entirely red, as in everything is some kind of red colour. The man misses earth and especially things like green grass. The man slowly is loosing his mind after years on the planet and finally there's another man landing on the planet to save him but it turns out earth does not longer exist, and the man comes from a different planet also dominated with a certain colour. The "Crusoe" kills his saviour and continues to live in denial about someone coming to save him soon and taking him back to earth.

Is it perhaps Dark They Were

Submitted by H (not verified) on April 26, 2019 - 8:23pm

Is it perhaps Dark They Were and Golden Eyed by Ray Bradbury?

I read this book about a dr.

Submitted by Jacqueline Fields (not verified) on March 16, 2018 - 2:40am

I read this book about a dr. Who was the only dr to still make home visits, In the beginning he visits a family who husband comes home and poisons a man with rat poison, long story short the Dr makes visits to black family's, unwanted girls who are pregnant, he takes his son with him on these visits

Help me find the book

Submitted by shikha (not verified) on March 16, 2018 - 3:07pm

The plot is The girl is 29 years old and lives in church. A knight comes to the church and says that war has broke out and the girl has to marry him as this was her father's and brothers last wish before dying. They get married and after that girl comes to know that the knight was lying. In fact her father and brother are alive. This is a trilogy.

looking for a novel title

Submitted by clarencia D (not verified) on March 16, 2018 - 4:43pm

this novel has a girl at college who had gone for a party she meets there a cousin of some guy whom she has always had a crush on at college. This guy kind of saves her from being raped at the party, at school the next day he is her teacher and he is cslled something donovan ,they develop a thing for each other.they meet again when college is done through the cousin who gives her a job at their company.

A horror stories book

Submitted by Name of book co... (not verified) on March 16, 2018 - 5:40pm

A horror stories book collection with a holographic white cover with a clock and skull if i'm not mistaken. One of stories an old man took his granddaughter out to sea but decided he didn't want to die alone,he decided drag her down into sea with him

Story name

Submitted by lily (not verified) on March 17, 2018 - 6:54am

Once I read story about a little boy getting admitted into a prestigious school but he had to pass through some tests. One of these tests included writing an essay about a picture but for some reason the boy couldn't at first. The teacher who was taking the test is a bit mysterious and helps him about the test. The boy passes the tests. Then one day things happens to him just like the picture of his test and he dies in bus accident. Yes the picture was about a bus and it's passengers. English is not my native language. I read it in a translated form and I want to read it in English but I forgot the name. Can anybody please help me?

What is the name of this book?

Submitted by Kimberly (not verified) on March 17, 2018 - 2:35pm

When I was younger, I fell in love with a book that I can’t find anymore... this book was a yellow or blue book and the story was about multiple girls who were telling about their love life. I can’t remember their names but I do remember it was about 4-5 girls. Please help me find this book.

book

Submitted by Angelina (not verified) on February 14, 2019 - 8:46pm

Was it The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? It's about these girls who each go to a different place for the summer, talk about their love lives and the cover is yellow.

Maybe Bassackwards and Belly

Submitted by Jenny (not verified) on August 8, 2019 - 12:36am

Maybe Bassackwards and Belly Up? It has a blue cover with girls legs jumping. They all go to college. One meets a boy from ski team, one makes out with her highschool english teacher, one is dating a celebrity, and one meets an ugly guy in rome or smth

Cathy Hopkins books of mates, dates, and...

Submitted by alice (not verified) on March 16, 2021 - 12:05am

Cathy Hopkins has written books of three teenagers and their love life. the three musketeers named Lucy, izzy, and Nesta. I've read three books so far, the title of each book series always started with "mates, dates, and...." regarding each series. so I'm familiar with this titles : mates, dates, and inflatable bras. mates, dates, and cosmic kisses. mates, dates, and princess portobello.

i cant remember the title

Submitted by Dare pelumi (not verified) on March 17, 2018 - 5:05pm

the book is about a lady who took the place of her miser uncle, he died and she, her mother and sister discovered that if they let the world know he is dead they will be let out with nowhere to turn to. So they pretended this lady was dead instead of the uncle and buried this uncle under her name. fast forward years after, she went to check on some farms somewhere and on the road she met a duke whom she fell in love with but can't because she is supposed to be a male. they became good friends even with the duke's sister who liked him. many things happened later the Duke discovered she was a female leading to a affair between them. the lies spearheaded and the man I.e the uncle in lady form finally had to die. With a lot of cover ups they got married with only few actually knowing the truth. pls I really want to reread that book again. its title was something nonsense can't remember. thank you in advance.

It is called ‘Ridiculous’ by

Submitted by Jessie (not verified) on February 24, 2019 - 3:43am

It is called ‘Ridiculous’ by D.L Carter!

Can you guys help me fins this book?

Submitted by AK (not verified) on March 18, 2018 - 1:22am

I once read this extracted passage about a man walking across a pier, and then people singing a song, then there was this special food that the people collected, and then he went hiking with a girl, and the while on the top of the mountain, she pushed him off. He used his staff the hang on and didn't die. I don't know how the story ends. Can anyone remember this book? It has a pretty weird writing style too.

Name of Book

Submitted by Nancy C (not verified) on March 18, 2018 - 10:00am

I read a book in 1997, checked out from Broward County Fla library (no longer live there). Believe it was published in the early 90's Fiction baby found in river with a needle size hole in the heart who killed the baby (the "midwife"?) giving the baby a fatal dose of ??? due to knowing the child will die anyway

I need help finding this book

Submitted by Christopher Ackerman (not verified) on March 18, 2018 - 11:30am

I need help finding a book. When I read it a while back it was unpublished and I was chosen to be a trial reader. I remember there was a black cover with a blue butterfly on it. It was about a girl who got into a accident and gained the ability to see people's death. It was a horror/thriller novel and the girl had to find out who was murdering her friends. The huge plot twist was that her closest friend was the one murder everyone and he was obsessed with her. I think she ended up dying, but if you know the name of the book please email it to me.

Help me find this book

Submitted by Rebecca (not verified) on March 18, 2018 - 2:27pm

I remember reading this book in my highschool library, and it had a very beautifully illustrated cover. It was a girl who had her hair cut very short and she was wielding a sword viewed from a top down angle. If I recall correctly her name was Alex, short for Alexandra because she hated being called Alexandra. I *think* she had a grandpa who got kidnapped, but it might be memories from other novels being mixed into this. I vividly remember a scene where she was standing at a train station and waiting for the next train, and a stranger just told her to get on. After she got on the train she was whisked into a party where she met many people. The people were being fed a special drink which got them drowsy, but she didn't take it. Then she realized the day was repeating but the people around her didn't realize it. She couldn't look out the windows either because all of it was shut tight. I think I remember something about one person vanishing every loop? Then I think she found out the culprit and proceeded to kick a**? I can't be sure, I don't really remember. After that she went into the forest with her cat which I think she saved from the culprit? Then I remember her going into a hotel which had a giant refrigerator, some shenanigans happened and she had to trap someone inside the giant refrigerator. Then she stumbled upon a filming crew?? That's where the events get hazy. I don't quite remember anymore, and I hope someone here knows what I'm talking about because I'm pretty sure I didn't hallucinate the entire thing. It's a teen's book with a brightly illustrated cover, and looks really rustic.

IT'S CALLED ALEX AND THE

Submitted by Nani (not verified) on February 18, 2019 - 1:34pm

IT'S CALLED ALEX AND THE IRONIC GENTLEMAN

looking for a novel

Submitted by Pamela Endersby (not verified) on March 18, 2018 - 5:51pm

hi y'all. I'm looking for a book about three CIA female undercover agents investigating a mafia crime family. one of the agents worked as a nanny for the middle mafia brother. the other agent went in undercover as the girlfriend of the youngest mafia brother named Nick. I can't recall what the other female agent did. the book has a character named Jesus (Jesus burrels i think) @ the end everyone dies except for Nick and his agent girlfriend( who ultimately decides not to come clean or taking him in, but disappear with him)

I need to find a book

Submitted by Isabella (not verified) on March 18, 2018 - 11:13pm

The book is a children's book for around 10-12 year olds I read it and loved it but I can't remember the name the cover had a girl holding a shovel I think and I remember she had all older brothers her father thought she was clumsy and didn't like her I think one of her brothers had white hair and I think his name was Willie or something also she grew up on a farm.

help!!

Submitted by em (not verified) on March 20, 2018 - 2:47am

i read a book of short ghost stories a long time ago, on of the stories involved a girl who is being haunted by the ghost of a young kid; seeing it in a pond, a bathtub, and on a computer. it turns out that she accidentally hit the kid with her car one rainy night and thats why it was haunting her. its droving me crazy that i can’t figure it out

I think that's one of Bruce

Submitted by Summer (not verified) on January 12, 2019 - 8:18pm

I think that's one of Bruce Coville's horror anthologies, but I forget which. The kid was riding a bicycle, and also haunted the girl's water bed. The fact that she kept showing up in water helped the girl lead the police to her body.

Are you sure it’s not one of

Submitted by Rowan Procter (not verified) on March 9, 2019 - 12:39am

Are you sure it’s not one of Vivian Vande Velde’s stories? She had one about a girl who’s haunted by a young girl on a bicycle who she killed while drunk driving on a rainy night. I remember because there was a bit with a water bed. I think it was in her book Being Dead.

Please help me with the title

Submitted by Edis (not verified) on March 20, 2018 - 8:01pm

Hi, so I read this book a few years ago, it was about a young girl being kidnapped in a park and her parents coopering with FBI and trying to find her.(The kidnappers called and asked for 5 mil.) Her father has a PhD from MIT and he just started his company that went public and he became a billionaire. The mother is an attorney or something similar and has a much stronger character than the father. In the end the father collects the courage and goes of to save the girl from the kidnappers who were somehow connected to his wife (the mother) I cannot remember exactly. Please help me if you can, I have searched for hours and cannot find anything.

Looking for this book i read a long time ago

Submitted by petitemam (not verified) on March 21, 2018 - 11:12am

there was this little girl whose father, I think a duke was assasinated by his half brother, who also asked the killers to kill the girl but the killer did not when she saw the girl's innocent eyes. He leaves her instead and told her to run away; She was later raised in the village and taught how to fight and grew up to be very beautiful. When she grew up she started stealing from the rich to help the poor. In the end her step uncle wanted her to marry his son but she fell in love with someone else who is from a rich family and even had a son with him.

HELP I CAN'T REMEMBER THIS BOOK

Submitted by Amanda (not verified) on March 21, 2018 - 2:22pm

It was a book I read in middle school or high school where a girl lives outcast from people near a lake, she feels drawn to the water but can't risk going into it because of an accident that got someone she knew killed. There is a sort of love triangle between one guy who is a friend of hers (eventual boyfriend), and a guy who almost appears to be better for her but tries to get her killed. I can't remember the title or character names, but I can somewhat remember the cover, it has a girl hiding behind a tree near a river or lake and a guy approaching her, looking up at her.

I read this book once in

Submitted by Annette (not verified) on March 21, 2018 - 10:09pm

I read this book once in highschool and it was so good... I don't remember the author or the charactera name but the book is about a teenage girl moves in with her her aunt and uncle to a town with a serial killer and turns out to be her uncle.

2nd wife point of view, disabled stepson Abel, husband Lincoln?

Submitted by Missi (not verified) on March 21, 2018 - 11:03pm

Read this about 15 years ago. Book written from 2nd wife’s point of view. Husband (I think his name was Lincoln?) had a 10 year old disabled son named Abel. The first wife was intent on destroying the marriage of Lincoln and 2nd wife. First wife put their disabled son in a more expensive school, so expensive that the 2nd wife had to work all summer as a secretary (?) to pay for the school tuition. She was a teacher and always looked forward to having summers off until now. End of story (spoiler here) the evil 1st wife tried to shoot 2nd wife but somehow ended up killing Lincoln and herself instead. End of book 2nd wife was raising her stepson as both his parents died in gun accident.

The Title of my Favorite Book

Submitted by Jacob (not verified) on March 22, 2018 - 2:43pm

I read a book back in school that I really enjoyed. It was about a boy who was visited by a ghost and taken into the ghost world, I believe in New York. I have tried to find the book but I can't seem to, I thought the title was "The Night Visitor" but apparently not since I haven't found anything similar under that title. I read this book 6-7 years ago so it isn't new, if anyone knows or finds the book please let me know. Thank you.

we think this might be...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 1:36pm

The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh!

Book of short stories

Submitted by Sierra Tatum (not verified) on March 23, 2018 - 1:49pm

It was a book of short stories, I think they all involved children. In one a kid discovers a new color while digging in his backyard. In another a kid has something they hold in their hands that they won't show anyone. One of them this family is running from something and it turns out it was ju at kids playing with some toy cars? Possibly a story about aliens? It's driving me mad!

Help me find this book

Submitted by sarah (not verified) on March 24, 2018 - 5:30am

when i was a teen i read this book about a girl who like falls or something and ends up knocking down like one of the popular kids or something and someone recorded it and posted it and she began to gain a lot of fame becuase of it and theres another book im not sure if its the same book or not but the girl begins to turtor a fellow classmate and she begins to learn a lot from him and i think one of his parents is a doctor and then eventually they end up dating and she says that the reason she was tutoring him was to save up money for a macbook or something like that and i think her name was similar to like mackenzie and the boys name was like luke or lucas.

Has anyone read a book that

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 24, 2018 - 7:38pm

Has anyone read a book that is about a girls boyfriend that dies and she’s on social media and find that he is still alive

Forget Me by Kim Herrington

Submitted by Karah (not verified) on June 10, 2021 - 1:18am

Forget Me by Kim Herrington

2014 Contemporary Romance

Submitted by Mish (not verified) on March 25, 2018 - 8:36pm

I cannot remember the name of this book, but I am pretty sure it was published in 2014. It is a contemporary romance novel about a woman who returns to her hometown to help her mother take care of her father after she ran away to NYC when she was a teenager. She left behind a boyfriend who went on to marry her former best friend and they reunite when she returns, and he is now a doctor (I think). She and the boyfriend rekindle their romance and his ex-wife finds incriminating photos of her from NYC and sends them to people in the town. (when she ran off to NYC she was on drugs, and she has gotten her life together since then) I believe this was a part of a series as well if anyone could help that would be great. thanks.

Fictional book

Submitted by Nick (not verified) on March 26, 2018 - 1:48am

I'm looking for an old book probably between 80's and early 2000's, and I remember what the cover looks like, of a giant...maybe cyclops... taking kids in a field. It was about a giant who came from another dimension and tried to kidnap the kids. The boy went into the other dimension and eventually was trained by some kind of creature, who I think looked like a rat, and he learned basically psychic powers.

Young adult science-fiction book

Submitted by Janelle (not verified) on March 26, 2018 - 12:10pm

I read a novel in 2007/2008 and I believe it was released around that time. I can’t remember much from the plot. I do remember that the cover was orange-ish, and there was a shadow of a man running across, I believe? There was also a black stripe running across the book (once again not positive). When it comes to the plot, it had something to do with the young boy being able to travel through time or something similar. Please help me figure the name of this book out!

Book you can't remember the title of --NYPL article comment

Submitted by Emily, librarian (not verified) on October 19, 2018 - 10:31pm

When I read your comment I thought instantly of Margaret Peterson Haddix's "The Missing" series. The first book, "Found," came out in 2008. I am so curious if I'm right- please let me know!

I read this books a few years

Submitted by Taity (not verified) on March 26, 2018 - 3:23pm

I read this books a few years back and i cant remember the author or the character names. It was about a woman who found out she was pregnant and left to go stay with a distant cousin. The father of the baby was looking for her and when she was found he threatened her that if she doesnt come and spend one week on his island he will ruin the cousin's business. The child which was a boy had gone for a trip with the cousin so she just left. The boy was involved in an accident and she had to come back and the baby dad thought it was the cousin's son. And he left and she later finds out she is pregnant again..but later he will come back after investigating and finding out thay the boy was his and she was pregnant again

I Can't Find This Book

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 26, 2018 - 5:23pm

This is a book about a school of magic. If I remember correctly, it's about this young teen who lives in a grey and boring area controlled by an established government. If there is more than 1 child in the family, then only the "good" child stays alive while tthe other is sent to get executed. This boy was the not so exceptional child and he was sent to die. However, instead of dying, he was taken into a different realm of sorts with a school of magic. Please help me find this book. Almost positive it has a sequel as well.

is this it

Submitted by Betsy (not verified) on October 28, 2018 - 8:49pm

Was it the unwanteds by lisa mcmann?

I can’t remember the name of

Submitted by Bryce (not verified) on March 27, 2018 - 11:55pm

I can’t remember the name of this book! I remember a family being at an airport and the boy getting his suitcase taken away by security because of his science kits. He was very sad that he lost his favorite science book and wanted to get it back. When they get on the plane and land at their destination, the airport has signs saying that they are in the wrong place.

Please help me to find the name of the book

Submitted by Astha Shukla (not verified) on March 28, 2018 - 5:51pm

I read a book many years ago where the man had a fear of death and he stays indoor one night when he hadocked himself in his apartment sitting with wall back him up the photograph which was hanging on the wall fell on his head and he died because of it. I don't really remember the characters nor do I remember the author but please let me know if anyone can help me with the title of the story.

HELP

Submitted by Vondra (not verified) on March 28, 2018 - 9:06pm

I've been looking for this book for the longest time but can't seem to find anything remotely similar to it. The few things I can remember was that this guy had a thing for murdering prostitutes and then placing them in fairy tale costumes before he flees the scene. I think the ending consisted of him throwing his grandma in the oven like they did in Hansel and Gretel. I can't remember much, but please help!

Books for “tweens” or young teesgers

Submitted by Sue Cavansugh (not verified) on November 5, 2018 - 9:58am

I am wanting to introduce my granddaughters to books I read between agrs of 11-14 Will these tips and hints work for thst type of search?

Looking for a true crime book

Submitted by Help a true cri... (not verified) on March 28, 2018 - 11:58pm

I had this book more than ten years ago. True crime nonfiction, it’s about murders throughout history. I recall many being British. It featured a lot of stories, but the ones I remember clearly are the case of Ruth Ellis, the torture murder of Anne Naylor, and the two princes killed in London Tower. It was a very long book, my copy was hardcover with a red jacket.

HEELLPP!

Submitted by James (not verified) on March 29, 2018 - 5:44pm

I have been searching for a book for several years, it came in a large box of books donated by a local yardsale company. The details are a little sketchy but im like 80% sure its part of a series. There is a man and woman, both lawyers or attoneys or some kind of black tie occupation and the man frequently travels back in time/alternate dimention set in the middle ages to escape his day to day life, and eventually the woman follows suit learning the hard way its alot harder for women in that time period. I do remebwr that they didnt particularly like one anothwr. I remeber one single line from it clearly in which he is talking about his friends slave girl and pondering if he would "let me borrow her sometime" i do believ the words he used was. I think it was a crystal sculpture or sphere that was used as the way to travel. God speed to anyone who can tell me what the heck this book is

Help me!! I need to find this book

Submitted by Leslie (not verified) on February 3, 2021 - 2:46am

I believe it is Sweet Dreams Annabelle. It’s a children’s book from the late 80s or early 90s. A monster day is telling his daughter a goodnight story. Slowly a monster comes out of her closet. I really need this. It was my favorite book from my childhood. Please.

Can't remember this book title

Submitted by Tryss (not verified) on March 29, 2018 - 9:26pm

A girl meets a vampire in a hotel she is staying at for some reason. I can't remember much else from the book.

I realise it's super-late,

Submitted by katie philpott (not verified) on February 16, 2019 - 8:35pm

I realise it's super-late, but that sounds like Room 13, by Robert Swindells. ( my little sister owned it when we were kids.)

Fantasy Series Switched boy/girl child magic

Submitted by Stefanie Baker (not verified) on March 30, 2018 - 4:49am

A boy and a girl baby were swapped the night they were born. The midwife was the one who swapped them, it was a home birth one right after the other - the midwife had to run between the farm and the cottage to deliver the babies. One of the children had magic powers this one ended up living on the farm away from the magic family on the cottage. The non magic child ended up living in the cottage with the magic family and as he/she grew up felt disappointed at not being able to use magic (felt unwanted etc). Not sure what happens next but it involves magic and the kids have to go on an adventure and save something/someone. Along the way the kids get jailed and make a sheet rope and leave the castle (there is an illustration in the book dipicting this). There are also illustrations of maps. It’s written in a very similar style to Joseph Delaney (the illustrations also look very similar to what he has in his books) but it is written for younger readers - very similar plot lines as Joseph Delaney. The book is set in a small farming village but there is a Forrest nearby (where the witch cottage is). Publication date would be no later than 2008 as I read the books in high school and graduated in 2008.

I think the series your

Submitted by Scott (not verified) on July 10, 2018 - 8:43pm

I think the series your looking for is septimus heap, I loved them. idk hope this helps

The first half of your

Submitted by Darcy (not verified) on August 8, 2019 - 4:16am

The first half of your description sounds exactly like Viking Magic (Runestone Series) by Anna Ciddor, but the second half doesn’t sound familiar to me at all. Good luck!

Vampire book

Submitted by Christina (not verified) on March 30, 2018 - 10:26am

I can't remember character names or the title of the book. The book is a series book. I read the first one, but the second wasn't coming out for a long time. Eventually I forgot the name of the book and when I went back to the library to see if I could find it again, someone else either had borrowed it or the book was no longer there. Anyway, I digress. Can someone please help me remember the title. The book is about a girl who lives with two other sisters in a castle/ house with their dad. The two sisters have to go out at night every so often to hunt for a guy. They bring the guy home, and feed him to their dad (Obviously, the dad is a vampire). The youngest child is oblivious to all of this. She stays at home while at least one of the sisters is out at night hunting. The three sisters have a nanny who prepares special food for them. This food helps prevent the girls from becoming vampires for as long as possible. Or something like that. The youngest daughter is not aloud to be in the father's bedroom while he is not there or asleep. And of course she eventually goes in anyway. In one of the father's drawers she find pictures of other young females dating to way back when. One of those pictures looks like she could be her mom. Later on she finds out that her dad is a vampire as well as her mom who also is a daughter of the vampire. Once the daughters get to a certain age, they move out of the house and live with the other female vampires. The youngest doesn't like what she has found out about her family and herself. So, she runs away. Her siblings are worried about her and ask the father if maybe he should go after her. He's like no, she'll come back on her own once she realizes who she is. Since she is no longer getting the special food from the nanny, because she ran away. And the first book ends there with the girl in the woods running away from home.

Hardest to find

Submitted by Maral (not verified) on March 30, 2018 - 12:02pm

One of My friend is looking for a book and all he can remember is a girl who she has a witch parent/s and they're living in some kind of magical north land where the ground covered by snow.And there is a magical cat and a statue that change into a human during the story. And there is also a clown in it maybe!?

looking for vintage children book

Submitted by Jessica (not verified) on March 30, 2018 - 7:14pm

I'm looking for a children's book from the 1940's or 50's about a brother and sister who have adventure in their bunk bed.

Perhaps you're looking for

Submitted by Deb (not verified) on December 15, 2020 - 9:33am

Perhaps you're looking for Bedknobs and Broomsticks?????

book

Submitted by Christina (not verified) on April 1, 2018 - 10:12am

I read this book about 4 years back, it was by an Indian lady author. The book was "forever something", the story is about this Indian girl, who has to move to the United states with her parents and sister, because her father got a better job, but she doesn't want to because she is engaged to a boy in India. She moves and she finds it difficult to cope up with the culture, she gets bullied at school. Then she starts catching feelings for a boy names tony, who is a violinist. the boy responds. She slowly forgets her love back in India. Her mother shuts down completely, as she hates the place and has nobody with her, so she is in the room all the time, in her bed. then one day her boyfriend from India visits and surprises her, but she is at that moment with tony, her boyfriend understands something is wrong. And the story ends somewhere there. if anybody knows the book, please let me know, thankyou!

I've been looking for either

Submitted by Ayasia (not verified) on April 8, 2019 - 8:54am

I've been looking for either that book or a book like that. I was wondering if in that book they go back to India and then she tries to run away because she doesn't want to marry someone. And then someone tries helping her. I can't remember what is said in the book or anything but I remember what I imagined.

Looking for the name of books in a YA two-book series

Submitted by Tamara Smith (not verified) on April 1, 2018 - 7:55pm

Hoping you can help me find an audio book (i hope it is print as I want to buy it). I listened to two YA books on Hoopla about a year ago and cannot find them. Unfortunatelt Hoopla does not keep a recoed of my checked out books. The books are about a young woman who is a therapist who works with horses She lives in a small town and a boy from her past returns. He is a son of a drug addict and had a lot of developmental issues as a child. He sees dead people who were killed and he tries to solve their murders. The main character and him fall in love and have a child.He is not well liked in the small town as he is considered trouble and African American - she is not. He he forced out of town into a mental hospital, unaware hisgirlfriend was pregnant. In teh hospital he meet the MC of book two. Please help me find this book.

Romance book title

Submitted by Jen (not verified) on April 2, 2018 - 12:17am

I read this book a long time ago. I remember the cover has the woman in a red dress being held by the man. The woman was the daughter of a plantation owner and she was in love with the overseer for the slaves. They are caught together and the father tells each of them lies. The man somehow ends up on a ship. The woman has his child and years later the man shows up and marries her. He is wealthy and will not let her or the daughter have contact with the father(plantation owner). There is a scene where he discovers that she had been whipped just like he had.

Is it Alyx, by Lolah Burford?

Submitted by hgeng63 (not verified) on August 11, 2018 - 6:18pm

Is it Alyx, by Lolah Burford?

What's the children's book about a paper man?

Submitted by Macy (not verified) on April 26, 2018 - 1:52pm

I remember reading a children's book when I was little, it was about a little boy who was afraid of the dark and didn't want to go to bed because of the paper man. I can't remember the name of it. I remember some parts of it, the paper man was on the ceiling and rattling, he looked really creepy, like an angry old man but whenever there was a bit of light, he would cower away and stay in the dark. If anyone knows the book, please, let me know

Help ! YA novel with 3 dogs

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 26, 2018 - 7:42pm

The pilot's about a teenage girl who believe in finding true love. She believe in having one partner for life. She meet 3 different boys through the novel's and also adopt theirs dogs after each relationship ends. The first was a player, second was a hipper who sounds profound but actually knows nothing and last was the perfect dream guy at school. The lead leaves the last guy and the author introduce another guy at the end who might be the one for the lead.

Okay so I vaguely remember

Submitted by Jeanna (not verified) on April 27, 2018 - 7:34pm

Okay so I vaguely remember the book. It's about a girl who meets a vampire and finds out either she or one of her friends are a werewolf. It was in a compelation book I read in the late 90s.help

Your Book

Submitted by Joon (not verified) on December 14, 2020 - 4:35pm

I think that you are talking about the Twilight Saga. I recently finished it. Hope this helps and that it finds you!

Help

Submitted by Lucy (not verified) on April 28, 2018 - 5:27am

I was in a book shop and saw a book named truly ,madly , something...help me find the name... I read its plot and it was " a girl finally becomes teen and she is so happy that she can do whatever she wants now " ...help!

Book where woman sees ghost girl(s)

Submitted by Nicole (not verified) on April 28, 2018 - 12:00pm

The woman traveled to a family home (I think) on an island (maybe A Great Lakes type where you have to take a ferry). She saw girls on the property that turned out to be ghosts in the end. The girls would sing a haunting song (maybe something like that old song...come out and play with me and bring your dollies three) maybe while they were swinging. At the end, it was winter or very cold and raining. She followed them down to a cliff or rocks by the water and somehow during this, she realized how they died. I think there was a ribbon or something she always saw on the girl(s). I think I remember some reference to the back door (kitchen door?) of the house If I’m remembering right, she had to get around on a bike because of it being an island and not bringing your cars there. Ugh! I hope that’s enough that someone will know what I mean!

I think you're thinking of

Submitted by Deb (not verified) on December 15, 2020 - 9:32am

I think you're thinking of one of the books in Darynda Jones' series. The main character is Charley Davidson and the first book in the series is First Grave on the Right. It seems to me that that was a subplot in one of the middle/later books. Hope this helps!

Searching for a riverdale meets gossip girl book

Submitted by kristine (not verified) on April 28, 2018 - 8:08pm

Help! I was reading a preview for a book that I cannot remember the title for. But it was described as a young adult/teen fiction mystery book and similar to riverdale and gossip girl. It surrounds a murder mystery where a girl is found dead in the lake near an all girls private school. any ideas?

Dark Turns by Cate Holahan?

Submitted by G (not verified) on December 22, 2018 - 10:52pm

Dark Turns by Cate Holahan?

actually, I don't think it

Submitted by amanda (not verified) on January 14, 2019 - 6:46pm

actually, I don't think it was dark turns, I am looking for the same book! It's about a girl, so this girl and her friends jump in a lake because it is "tradition" after a Halloween, I believe she dressed up as something clashy and apparently she didn't like it. The first girl jumps in and then she screams and sees a body. The police start to investigate, and they all go to a private school. Basically, the main character is the most popular girl in school and so are her friends. When she finds out who dies, she doesn't really know her. And all of the sudden she gets an email from a dead person to get her "revenge". And she basically has to complete these riddles online, and it's associated with a "baking project", for example, one of her friends's name is Tai or sometime so her recipe for her revenge for Tai would be Tai Dinner. She has to complete these riddles within the time limit otherwise the dead person will come out for her, and basically ruin her life by releasing her secrets. Soemthing like that. I believe the hacker, the girl was the killerin the end.

Reminds me of Panic by Lauren

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 1, 2019 - 9:25pm

Reminds me of Panic by Lauren Oliver

I think it may be People Like

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on August 14, 2020 - 8:13pm

I think it may be People Like Us by Dana Mele.

The Lake of Dead Languages??

Submitted by deborah (not verified) on November 10, 2020 - 3:16am

The Lake of Dead Languages??

Could be 'private' by Kate

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on February 18, 2021 - 8:20am

Could be 'private' by Kate Welsh

Need title and author's name of family saga novel

Submitted by Adina (not verified) on April 29, 2018 - 7:27am

I forgot the title of this family saga novel. Three sisters were the main characters and in each chapter it reference real life events such as Ingrid Bergman affair. It had a blonde bareback woman and black background as the cover photo. It was a paperback novel of about 600. Does this sound familiar?

I don't remember much. The

Submitted by M (not verified) on April 29, 2018 - 11:35am

I don't remember much. The characters came in middle of the night, they had two children and owned a venus fly trap. It was a short childrens book

kids horror book

Submitted by cc (not verified) on April 30, 2018 - 11:13am

it was a series about different scary books one was when the girls parents wouldnt let her go outside then she finally went outside and made friends and then when they couldnt see her no more they told her she actually died . And another one was when this girl and her school mates had a sleepover in a muesem and she ended up finding a mummy or something i read it a while age i dont know the author name and its not deadtime stories

I think it maybe by R. L

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on October 19, 2018 - 1:41pm

I think it maybe by R. L stine(goosebumps series)

It is DEFINITELY a Goosebumps

Submitted by Ella (not verified) on May 6, 2020 - 5:43am

It is DEFINITELY a Goosebumps book.

The Dark Forces series or the

Submitted by Dawn W (not verified) on August 20, 2020 - 5:45am

The Dark Forces series or the DELL Twilight series, maybe?

I’m looking for a book about

Submitted by Meridoc (not verified) on April 30, 2018 - 3:20pm

I’m looking for a book about a girl. Her son is in the hospital and needs some sort of operation and her boyfriend is missing. She teams up with some sort of fbi and they have a dog and a psychic. The title had something about the word “line” I think

what is the name of this book

Submitted by spencer harding (not verified) on July 30, 2020 - 7:59am

a book about a girl who likes frogs and feels connected to a guardian angel when she sneezes. she put a ring on her finger because it turned them green because she likes frogs so much.

Help me find this book Please.

Submitted by Fatbaby (not verified) on May 1, 2018 - 8:10am

Its about a girl and her family, they move to a new house, its pretty big, but it has two towers on either side and one tower she can access but the other she can't. Anyways she starts to try and look for a way into the tower that has no door that leads to it. But where the door is meant to be a wall is, as she continues her days as normal she starts to find clues as to how to get into the tower, anyways one morning at about 2am she gets up and takes a look at where the door is meant to be instead of finding the wall she had seen earlier a door appears in its place and the clues she finds match whatever she needs to decipher on the door except shes missing the key. She looks for they key the next day ( I think can't really remember, read the book about 3 years ago) she finds the key and wakes up at the exact same time she had the previous morning but as she goes through the same process she goes to put the key in and the door disappears, leaving her in front of the wall she found the day she had moved, she realizes the door is only opened for a few minutes, and decides to do the same thing the next day.She finally gets in to the tower, but there are other people in the tower. Each person that enters the tower is from a different timeline, and time stands still for them. They all become friends, but the longer they stay in the tower and stuck in time the more they put themselves and the times they come from in danger. They start to realise that they can no longer meet each other and live their own lives, but they have to save the world by solving the mystery of this tower. Each person from the tower has to solve a certain mystery around or in the house, but each mystery has to do with the attractions of the house, one of the attractions is a fountain in the backyard surrounded by overgrown plants. And one of the characters in the book wears a 1940's fighter pilot goggles and hat. Anyways I absolutely love this book.> The cover of this book had a house with two towers and was dark brown and the moon i think was a clock. the background of the cover was a dark purple.

The book sounds like 88 lime

Submitted by Get it Girl (not verified) on May 2, 2018 - 7:34am

The book sounds like 88 lime street: the way in the author is denise Kirby

I'm looking for a book I read

Submitted by Aiden (not verified) on May 1, 2018 - 11:32am

I'm looking for a book I read as a child, its about two children (I belive one is a boy and one is a girl) that visit an island with their grandfather or uncle. Their is a house and some kind of tower, possibly a lighthouse were they find a dragon. I cannot remember the name of the book, author or characters.

A wolf book help find the name please

Submitted by Helen steyn (not verified) on May 2, 2018 - 11:06am

Its about a wolf cub born in a cave. His brothers and sisters got killed by a mountain lion... I remember the book was about this wolf.cub growing old as it had been through dog fights and humans trying to hurt it.. I remember the end was about a man saving him... but I can't seem to remember the books name... please help me find it

I believe that is "White Fang

Submitted by Mark (not verified) on July 28, 2018 - 3:04pm

I believe that is "White Fang" by Jack London

Please help!!!!!!

Submitted by Inara (not verified) on May 2, 2018 - 3:34pm

Okay so I thought the book was of mice and men but apparently I'm wrong. I remember this scene where this building was on fire and there were little kids inside ( it was like a school field trip or something,I remember the teacher getting out). These men (or man) help the kids getting out but one of them stays inside cause of the smoke and almost passes out. I know this is very little to go off of but if anyone can help I would really appreciate it!!!!! Its driving me crazy

My first thought is Mister

Submitted by Alyx (not verified) on January 30, 2019 - 7:27am

My first thought is Mister Monday (or that book series). I remember a scene in one of them when the MC is fighting enemies in a burning building and nearly passes out

Is it maybe the fire scene at

Submitted by Willy (not verified) on March 19, 2019 - 4:08pm

Is it maybe the fire scene at the end of The Outsiders?

could it have been the

Submitted by jen (not verified) on July 12, 2020 - 2:27am

could it have been the outsiders?

The outsiders?

Submitted by Lisa (not verified) on December 16, 2020 - 6:48pm

The outsiders?

Can’t remember book

Submitted by Viktoriya (not verified) on May 2, 2018 - 3:38pm

I am looking for a book, this book is about a boy who is all alone and all of a sudden a man with a rain coat leads him to another dimension where he’s in a house full of mysterious creatures and when he was that house everything from the outside world is unknown. when I searched up the author which I thought was HP looked craft all of his books weren’t this, can you please help me

Is it "the book of lost

Submitted by Kelsey (not verified) on August 30, 2018 - 6:29pm

Is it "the book of lost things"? It sounds vaguely like that book

Thief of Always by Clive

Submitted by Ammie (not verified) on March 4, 2019 - 1:44am

Thief of Always by Clive Barker?

Hi Viktoriya,

Submitted by Dawn (not verified) on May 25, 2020 - 11:35am

Hi Viktoriya, Did you ever find the name of that book? I believe I am looking for that same one!

I believe the book is "thief

Submitted by Carrie Moniz (not verified) on May 29, 2020 - 7:19am

I believe the book is "thief of always" by Clive Barker. I just finished reading it with my niece.

Help me find this book please?

Submitted by Hailey (not verified) on May 2, 2018 - 5:26pm

I once read a book, at least 16 years ago when I was 14 years old, about the cat who hypnotised his owner and swapped bodies with her. And no-one knew she was no more. Can you please help me find this book?

Is it Jennie, by Paul Gallico

Submitted by hgeng63 (not verified) on August 8, 2018 - 6:57pm

Is it Jennie, by Paul Gallico?

Reply to Hailey

Submitted by erin (not verified) on September 13, 2020 - 6:25am

Hailey, I think your book is "The Witches of Worm" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder! It was first published in 1972, so you definitely could have read in 2002 (if my math is correct and you were 14 at that time). Look it up, it matches your description!

Would love help finding a book I read as a child!

Submitted by Dona Blazis (not verified) on May 2, 2018 - 6:51pm

when I was about 8 years old (1978), I read a book I really loved, but I can't remember the author, title, or the name of any of the characters - just some of some of the story. It was about a little girl whose dad died, she runs away from home because she thinks her stepmother hates her (in reality she loves her and is worried and searches all over for her). I just remember that the little girl camped out in fields, had some money and was really good at planning out how she'd take care of herself. In the end, the girl and her stepmother are reunited, and the little girl realizes that she was loved all along. But that's all I can remember. Can anyone help?

Book could be "The Girl Who

Submitted by Mason Lee (not verified) on November 14, 2020 - 8:23pm

Book could be "The Girl Who Ran Away" by Joan G Robinson (alternative title "Charley) first published 1969? See Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2006452.The_Girl_Who_Ran_Away

Need help finding this book!

Submitted by Olivia (not verified) on May 2, 2018 - 7:19pm

I believe it is a YA novel and the only parts of the book i can remember is that it's a love story between these two characters and one of the characters makes collages as a hobby. One of the characters gifted the other sea glass because it was the color of their eyes. The books might have taken place on a beach as well.

I think you're taking about

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 3, 2018 - 12:12am

I think you're taking about Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare.

Somebody help

Submitted by Abraham (not verified) on May 2, 2018 - 10:28pm

Somebody told me once about a woman that die and came back to life and she wrote a book about what she saw and what's going to happen to humanity anybody knows about what I'm talking about?

Could be " the visions of

Submitted by Mike (not verified) on June 29, 2020 - 10:11pm

Could be " the visions of Marita Davis " its from the 1800's

Young adult title

Submitted by Brian (not verified) on May 3, 2018 - 1:43am

Read this way back in the 70s, was probably from the late 50s or perhaps 60s...was about a community that was upset by the presence of an Air Force base in their community. Near the end of the book, a member of the community is taken on an intercept mission and decides that having the base is a good idea after all.

Historical romance

Submitted by Eve (not verified) on May 3, 2018 - 12:24pm

Read this book about 10 years back.The heroine arrives at the hero's town.. Gets into a carriage and finds a man (the hero) sleeping at the back.. Don't remember why but She goes to his home and everyone suspects her to be a mistress of hero's father (who died recently) and a gold digger.. I think the h and h get married to avoid a scandal.. They go to the ranch tat the hero owns.. Where his frnd and wife stays.. I remember this one incident when they travel to the ranch the hero n his frnd pull a bandana over their face and with guns firing greet each other and the girl gets freaked out and loses control of her horse and the hero has to save her.. They end up falling in love while at the ranch.. there is someone trying to kill the heroine.. when they return back to his house the guy goes back to being cold towards her in order to protect her. But someone abducts her and the guy saves her in the end and story ends with a HEA.....I have been trying to find this book for the longest time..any help is greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance.

Is it a Regency romance by

Submitted by hgeng63 (not verified) on August 8, 2018 - 8:01pm

Is it a Regency romance by Georgette Heyer?

Sandra Brown - Hidden Fires?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 27, 2019 - 4:35pm

Sandra Brown - Hidden Fires?

Looking for a serial killer/assasin book

Submitted by Shankey (not verified) on May 3, 2018 - 8:24pm

Im looking for a book which starts off with a family in vacation or something, and a guy fakes to be a waiter and kills some young kid who was to inherit the family's wealth. The assasin goes on to kill a few more people until there is an assignment to kill one guy in particular, as the guy's security tries to protect him from the threat they end up hiring him not knowing he is the killer. In the end he ends up shooting him on the head. PLEASE HELP ME FIND IT

Please help me find this book

Submitted by Agnes (not verified) on May 3, 2018 - 10:46pm

I can't exactly remember the names of the characters, but it was a gay romance novel series with a bunch of mates, shapeshifters (mostly wolfs and cougars..who didn't get along). There were hunters too, and one of the books is about this one hunter who gets raped by a female shapeshifter who later gives birth to a baby boy and asks the hunter to take care of him. The hunter retires as soon as he learns that the baby boy is a shapeshifter and goes of to live in the countryside or something. He goes grocery shopping with his kid and the kid runs into a another shapeshifter who immediately recognizes the hunter as his mate. I can't remember anything else. Hope that helps and please let me know if you have any clue to the book. The whole series is focused on this pack in the countryside.

Book on gay werewolves

Submitted by Wendy Lowe (not verified) on August 12, 2020 - 11:34pm

It could be “Irresistable Omegas” by Nora Phoenix. Warning these stories are xxx rated Adults only.

To long ago to remember

Submitted by Demona (not verified) on May 3, 2018 - 10:52pm

The book starts out with a man who had been lost and and has no memory of who he is starts to travel meets a young girl, they get a hotel room and he sets off doing something and she go into town shopping, some lady shows her a special shop where she finds a dress and with out realizing it she is being suckered in, the lady claims her and steals her away to a who're house where she runs into her friend who does not recognize her but is in a big gamleing game where at the end they both bet land or something with a family sigil or symbol and it turns out that he is a lord, the book ends with him on a ship. I need yo find this book so I can find the sequels...can any one help?

A girl married her highschool

Submitted by Chaitanya (not verified) on May 4, 2018 - 10:26am

A girl married her highschool crush after his wife, her ex best friend dies to take care of the baby. But she is haunted by a letter left by the friend asking her to beware of M

Suspense thriller drama novel

Submitted by Shavaughn Major (not verified) on May 4, 2018 - 1:40pm

I read a book between the years 2000 to 2008. It was about a woman who may have been on trial for murdering a man she was dating. From what i can remember, when they were about to have intercourse or during intercourse she stabbed him. however, she could not remember the incident. She was ordered to see a Psychiatrists for counseling and during this time she started to recall child hood memories of being sexually abuse by a family member as a child. I believe she tried to date but she would attempt to kill the men she was dating but not remember. From what i can remember i believe her Psychiatrist tried to kill her for revenge on someone she had murdered in the past. does anyone knows the name of the book?

Book

Submitted by Lakendra Mendlik (not verified) on May 4, 2018 - 7:16pm

All I can remember about this book is that it's told in letter form from this guy to another about how he went somewhere and ended up in some kind of green lake/atmosphere (?) and it made everything really heavy and the only way he got out was by using the momentum from firing a gun, there was a bear trapped at the bottom, to stay alive he had to drink some kind of liquid and he somehow managed to ship himself back to where he was from in a box but died on the way cause he ran out of said liquid.

I can't finde one book I saw in a book store

Submitted by Leonardo Celić (not verified) on May 6, 2018 - 8:04am

The book is about girl who is following her parents footsteps by going in school for villans or evil school. It has two maybe more parts. Second part is about rivalry between two school's. Can somebody pleas tell me whati is the title of this book?

This sounds like it might be

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on February 5, 2019 - 12:01am

This sounds like it might be The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

There's a village where

Submitted by Amanda (not verified) on May 7, 2018 - 10:16am

There's a village where everything is super strict and no music is allowed. There's a young girl who secretly plays her deceased mother's violin. There's a group of rowdy teenagers who no one disciplines. One day a traveling musician (I think her name is Sunny) comes through and stays for a while. The young girl has dreams of being a mouse. Turns out she really is turning into a mouse at night. The rowdy teenagers also turn into animals at night. Sunny discovers ancient mining machines in the mountains. The cover had 2 girls on it, one with dark hair holding her head like it hurt, and the other holding a ball or silver or, and along blade of grass(?) In the other hand, piercing the orb with it.

Cove?

Submitted by Jaxon Perkins (not verified) on May 10, 2018 - 8:22am

Cove?

childrens book

Submitted by meme (not verified) on May 8, 2018 - 1:15pm

i'm looking for a children's book that had other short stories but the one in particular was about a boy who ate too many eggs and his mother would tell him not to eat so many until he became an egg himself, the book also had a story about a peg. i've been searching everywhere for this and have not been able to find anything. if someone knows about this gem please help me out. thank you :)

Trying to find this book.

Submitted by Katy (not verified) on May 8, 2018 - 4:14pm

I have tried every where to try to find the title of this book. I read it when I was in high school and really enjoyed it. I don't remember a lot, but here is what I do remember. The girl's family owned a bookshop and one day this strange gentleman came in looking for something. And I don't remember if there was a pendant or not, but if I remember correctly, I do remember that they (the young girl and her male friend) went through a photo to a different time period. And they were trying to fix/find something before the guy found them. I think that's accurate but I'm not sure. It's all I have to go on right now.

Mills & Boon/Silhouette Romance - I can't remember title/author

Submitted by Lizel Harvey (not verified) on May 9, 2018 - 5:03am

The heroine is a British girl of 19 called Katy and the H was in his mid 30's. She goes to the loo in the middle of the night and climbs into his vehicle. Katy is pretty clumsy and doesn't have a lot of confidence and he exudes loads of charisma. A bear attacks at some point during the story but he saves her. I think it was set in Canada, near the big Sur?? (I could be wrong) Anyway, they live happily ever after but would LOVE to find this book. I read it years ago and it has stayed with me as it was such a lovely story.

please help me remember this book

Submitted by Sheila Delgado (not verified) on May 9, 2018 - 6:01pm

I used to be obsessed with this series but I can't remember it's name now. It was about a girl who lived with this old lady, and the lady tells her that she's got powers over the earth and that there are three other people out there like her, but they control fire, water, and air. She explains how there's normally five, one of them being a gatherer of sorts that brings everyone together, but that this time the main character (earth girl) is the gatherer. I think there are three or four books and I don't remember much about the other characters except that earth girl ends up falling in love with the fire guy (who might'be been a prince or just really rich?) and he asks her to marry him in the middle of a sea storm in a boat when they're not really sure if they're going to live or not. I've been looking for this book for ages, any help is appreciated!

we found an answer for you...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 3:42pm

We think this book is The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper!

Uh, no

Submitted by Melita (not verified) on September 23, 2018 - 9:32pm

The Dark is Rising series doesn't match. You may be remembering the 6 signs (wood, bronze, iron, fire, water, stone) that were plot tokens in the book.

Please help me find out the title of this book!!!

Submitted by Jycenia Navarro (not verified) on May 9, 2018 - 9:59pm

This book is about a teenage girl whose boyfriend died. He was a foreign student from Britain I believe and she lived in the US. After his death she became extremely depressed so her parents switched her to a school of some sorts for damaged kids I think, I’m not really sure about that part. But anyways there she is one of about 5 or 6 teenagers who are put into this special class and in that class, the teacher gives each kid a journal and everytime they write in the journal, they experience a moment with the person they “lost”. I never got to finish it but it was so interesting and I’ve tried looking for it everywhere but I can’t remember the title!! If anyone can help me that’d be greatly appreciated.

we found an answer for you...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 3:43pm

We think this book is Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer!

Ok, I have one. It's about

Submitted by Jaxon Perkins (not verified) on May 10, 2018 - 8:21am

Ok, I have one. It's about this man and an author comes up to him with this manuscript for a book thing, and the man says he'll publish it the next day. The author leaves him with these funny pictures of like seven chairs or a hole in the wall and stuff like that, but doesn't ever come back.

Mysteries of Harris Burdick

Submitted by Jill (not verified) on July 27, 2018 - 4:36pm

It's Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. Super fun. Also, they turned those pictures into a primp for well-known authors to write stories about and those were published separately as "The Chronicles of Harris Burdick"!

Please help me find this book

Submitted by Paul (not verified) on February 24, 2020 - 4:10pm

Please help me find this book it was in a book give away when I was in elementary school about 9 years ago it’s about a plot in Maine where this kid starts seeing a ghost please help it’s driving me insane

A middle school book.

Submitted by Mik (not verified) on May 11, 2018 - 3:58pm

The main characters are called Trash and Firegirl. They live in an orphanage run by the government.

Just a guess

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on June 23, 2020 - 6:00pm

Fearless by Tim Lott? It has several of the story elements.

dystopian medical thriller fiction

Submitted by Kim Walker (not verified) on May 12, 2018 - 2:38pm

I have forgotten the name of a book about a 100% computerized medical center wherein a young (11 year-old) girl is mistakenly marked to have surgery except she wakes up and hides from the automatic sensors. The girl's (aunt) tries to find out what happened to her and there is also a man (detective/reporter?) who is slated for surgery but has questions about the computer's ability to operate. There is a 'bad guy' manipulating the computer, harvesting (organs) for the black market.

Hey! The book I've trying to

Submitted by Norma (not verified) on May 12, 2018 - 6:16pm

Hey! The book I've trying to remember is about the fact that you hace a perception of yourself, so you are that person you think, but other person will have other perception of you, and same for the rest of people in the world, so you are all that different persons. The tittle was something about that. Maybe something like "one, another one and a thousand more" (?) hahaha ^-^ Ahh the author is from Italy!! I don't remember his name neither u.u Thank you guys! c:

we found an answer for you...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 3:37pm

We think this book is One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (Eridanos Library) by Luigi Pirandello!

Help me please if anyone can

Submitted by Jasmin B (not verified) on May 13, 2018 - 8:28am

I read a book many years ago, the cover had a birdcage on it with a bird's skeleton inside it. It is about a mum and her kids who spend the night in their underground cavern, and they get up the next day to find everyone above-ground has vanished, only their belongings left behind, a bit like the Langoliers (But not). They meet up with others who had spent the night underground in bunkers, basements, etc. Has anyone read this book and know what its called?

I dont remember the name of the saga... it's killing me!!

Submitted by Dani (not verified) on May 13, 2018 - 2:10pm

Hello! I really need help! hahaha, I have been searching for the name of a saga that I read like five years ago, i dont remember who write it, the name of any of the books or any of the characters... I know, pitifull (crying out loud). What I DO remember it's that it is a saga of a family, brothers and cousins, an historical and romance saga. I remember one of the men being hurt by a gun in the forest, I remember when the first of them got married they bet when was going to born the firt child of the couple... Its frustraiting that I dont recall much of it, I just know that I laught a LOT, that the first couple got caught in the rain trying to resolve the atempt of murder of one of the youngest (the one that got hurt by the gun), and they went to a cabain in the forest, and a lot of steamy stuf happend... then they got married etc. etc. etc... HELP

Louis L'Amour's series: Sackett family

Submitted by Alice (not verified) on November 30, 2019 - 12:35pm

This sounds like Louis L'Amour's series on the Sackett family on the winning of the West & other early American history. There are 17 novels in the series of related books, they can be read in any order. The first one he wrote was _The Daybreakers_.

romance

Submitted by Sue ELLEKER (not verified) on October 20, 2021 - 1:02pm

This sounds like one of Stephanie Laurens' Cynster series. Possible the first one, Devils Bride. There is a cabin in the woods, and at the end the hero's relatives are betting on the date the baby was conceived, not born; and the child's mother makes them all pay their winnings to the local church.https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/stephanie-laurens/cynster/

book

Submitted by lolly (not verified) on May 14, 2018 - 3:33pm

In the book,the guy's girlfriend gets pregnant.After she gives birth,she takes off and leaves the guy to raise the child alone.He then has to juggle going to college and taking care of the kid.Pls,who knows the book?

Hi, this could be 'Boys Don't

Submitted by Éabha Sheehan (not verified) on March 12, 2020 - 7:58pm

Hi, this could be 'Boys Don't Cry' by Malorie Blackman. A boy (Dante) has only slept with one person- his ex girlfriend. She left town about three months later and then showed up about a year after that with a six month old baby, asking him to mind her and then left again.

true story during war about a village with only women

Submitted by Anastasia Pat (not verified) on May 14, 2018 - 5:15pm

I am looking for a book that I have only read the plot once from Wikipedia. All the men of a village have left to war, leaving the women and girls alone in a village. One day a foreign man came out of the blue to the village and the women promise each other that no one will be fall in love with him. This is a true story written by a young lady who fell in love with this man, but she never published it. She left a will that said she wants the novel will be published after 100 years from the incident by a woman of her family that is younger than 25 yr or something like that. I think that the novel became/will become a movie or tv show in 2018.

Possibly a short story, believed to be a hoax

Submitted by Karine (not verified) on April 14, 2020 - 6:59pm

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Homme_semence Link is in French, you may have it translated. It matches your description of 100 years. But experts believe it is not a true story. There is a French movie as well.

Can anyone tell me the name

Submitted by Katherine (not verified) on May 14, 2018 - 10:30pm

Can anyone tell me the name of the story where a worker messed everything up for his master by doing everything word for word. One time when the master asked him to oil a carriage or a machine, he put oil on the whole carriage making it slippery. Another time he screwed a party when he was told to put something in a cool place. It was a funny story and most probably had a Chinese setting. I read it when I was a kid and can not remember the name now. If anyone knows please help!

Amelia Bedilia

Submitted by Heidi Lanier (not verified) on October 21, 2019 - 11:14pm

Amelia Bedilia

Guys I've been trying to find

Submitted by Summer romance (not verified) on May 15, 2018 - 12:01am

Guys I've been trying to find this book I read years ago about a girl I believe her name was myra she had spent one summer at her friends house and fell in love with her friends brother who's name was Zander I believe and his ex was a model named Angelica I believe and she stole his phone to ruin their relationship when she was already cheating on Zander with another man. Myra met a painter who asked her to pose for him in a nude painting and they had a bit of a fling. O can't remember the name but the cover had a picture of a cartoon styles lady holding a wine glass lying on a couch and someone was pouring wine into her glass and it was like a 1920's themed drawing in a way

This is definitely Undeniable

Submitted by izzy (not verified) on June 6, 2018 - 4:41pm

This is definitely Undeniable by Ingrid Monique

Looking for a forgotten title

Submitted by K (not verified) on May 15, 2018 - 11:37am

Remembered a fantasy book with a female lead. She is from the shadow house. Supposed to be a magician. She cuts pieces of her shadow - so her shadow is all tattered and has holes in it. She fights for a house that hires her for some inter-house wars. Her love interest also fights in those house fights. Whichever house wins the house fights can make the rules of the world. Do you by any chance know the author/title?

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Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 3:36pm

We think this book is An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard!

I feel that I know so much about this book, yet I cannot find it

Submitted by Jessica (not verified) on May 16, 2018 - 12:32am

I am looking for a young reader book published in the early 1990s (so not quite a children's book, but not a chapter book) that I feel confident has "Cat Walk" in the title - I think the difficulty finding it is that it has nothing to do with fashion! It is set in an imaginary, ancient Egyptian like setting, in which a human girl is being raised by a large grey anthropomorphized cat. A stranger comes to visit and gives the girl a map (I think?) and encourages the girl to go out and explore the world, the cat-mother says something along the lines that everyone must go on their own Cat Walk to discover themselves. So she does, and has adventures along the way, and in the end discovers she's grown up to be a beautiful human woman (and isn't some weird cat, like she thought she was). I think in the end she gets a new name. Any help?!?

I'm looking for a book about

Submitted by daniel (not verified) on May 16, 2018 - 1:50pm

I'm looking for a book about humankind in the future and on this planet the society is all blind and the wear white robes and pins that beep when they get close to something. It starts with the main person, a boy, is playing hide and seek in the school during class with these kids. There is this girl who is the daughter of one of the leaders and she wants to see but anyone who can see is killed. They are blind because the people who first settles on the planet thought seeing was sin or something. The girl who is the boy's friend runs away but the boy thinks the leader, her father killed her but he can't tell anyone and he doesn't know for sure. For some reason the boy is able to see and he learns that the leader can see as well and the leader and his mom are having an affair. And for some reason the boy steals peaches and hides them under his bed. At the end he runs away because the leader finds out he can see and wants to be the only one who can see and the boy disappers into a field. Help. It was a series but i only read the first book.

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Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 3:34pm

We think this is Truesight by David Stahler Jr.!

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Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 26, 2020 - 11:54pm

THANK. YOU. So much. I've been trying to figure this out for a week now.

Looking for a book

Submitted by Hugh (not verified) on May 17, 2018 - 3:17am

In the late 50s, early 60s, I read a children's book about a donkey in Ireland that was ill-treated by its owners. I think his name was Barney. Can anyone help?

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Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 3:35pm

We think this book is Barney the Donkey by Anne Thomasine Casserley!

Looking for this book series

Submitted by Alex (not verified) on May 17, 2018 - 10:18am

So this is vague as heck, but im looking for a young adult series where the female protagonists name starts with an X. If i remeber correctly she was a bit chubby with red hair, her best friend was a boy. Her mom was strict because she was or is in the military and her father is not all there in the head. Its sort of a fantasy adventure set in a fictional world.

Flora Segunda

Submitted by Melita (not verified) on September 23, 2018 - 9:28pm

Except for the main character's name starting with X, the other details match. Flora Segunda is the daughter of Buck Fyrdraaca, general of Califa, and Hotspur. Flora wants to be a ranger and have adventures but her mother definitely wants her to go into the army. Flora's best friend is Udo and she has a dog named Flynn. The Flora series is by Ysabeau Wilce and there are two more books.

Been looking for years

Submitted by Julie Rogers (not verified) on May 18, 2018 - 11:57am

I've been looking for a short story about a man/boy finds a box filled with magic/tricks and uses some of them. In the end he uses one to shrink himself so he isn't seen and he accidentally gets stepped on.

Can't Remember this Book But it Meant a Lot to Me

Submitted by Tia Dee (not verified) on May 18, 2018 - 9:19pm

There was a book written from the perspective of a little girl (i think around middle school) who felt really different from her parents and thought her parents were extremely boring. Her aunt, who is the mothers sister, visits and because the aunt knows the girl feels this way she is able to manipulate her into helping her steal things from her parents (or something like that)..

Book based on character name

Submitted by Cressida Persaud (not verified) on May 18, 2018 - 11:44pm

Hello, can someone help me find the title of a book I read ages ago. I feel like the title had the word “paradise” in it but I could be wrong. It’s a romance novel and the male lead was named Ulysses.

I am looking for a book where

Submitted by Sarah (not verified) on May 19, 2018 - 10:56pm

I am looking for a book where there is this one girl whose family is well of and her brother is the golden boy. He gets drunk and crashes into a kid so he goes to jail. Her mom treats it like its nothing and so she switches to a new school. She becomes friends with this girl whose family is very loving but not very rich. She likes the older brother and starts dating him but they don't tell anyone since they are afraid that his sister is going to get mad them. His ex-girlfriend had dumped him and hurt him. he used to be fat and chubby but lost all the weight and is now very fit. He is part of a band and they need to record their music so she lets him use her brothers' studio in her house. Her parents had agreed to this but when her brother got mad at her parents, they changed their mind and told she couldn't let them come. She still uses it but gets caught by her parents' friend who has a crush on her and is very creepy. In the end, she does go to visit the boy her brother hits. Oh, and she also helps her boyfriend on his rounds to deliver pizza. His family owns a pizzeria. I think the brothers name might be Jeffrey but I am not sure.

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Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 1:52pm

Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen!

I remember a lot of details but no names or the boom title.

Submitted by Katelyn Parrish (not verified) on May 20, 2018 - 3:35pm

The book is about a young girl who has finally come into her own. He mother died when she was young and doesn't have a lot of female influences. He next door neighbors have a mom but other words they're all boys...one of the boys next door is her best friend and durring the summer time his family runs a kind of water skiing resort that she helps out with. She has always had a crush on her best friends middle brother but he had never taken real notice in her until that summer. So all of the sudden there is a possibility that she and her best friends brother are going to become a thing until later in the end she decides that she would rather be with her best friend instead. When they were little she gave him a necklace out of a "gumball" machine and he still wears it long after it has made his skin turn green...he never takes it off......I remembered this book from Jr high only because there is a movie coming out now that is so similar to it called The Kissing Booth that is also based on a book of the same name.

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Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 1:55pm

The Boys Next Door by Jennifer Echols!

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