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

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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.

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Comments

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The wizard children of finn

Submitted by Marisa Pierluisi (not verified) on January 10, 2019 - 10:15am

The wizard children of finn or the lost legend of finn maybe. I never read the books but have them on my bookshelf and it seems to fit

I’m not the original poster, but you helped me immensely

Submitted by Morgan Blackthorne (not verified) on May 31, 2021 - 2:56am

I’ve been looking for this book for about 20 years! Thank you for posting this, it’s the exact one I was looking for… the two details I remembered most was the kids coming back with lice and the boy having left his flashlight in the past. Thank you, thank you!!

Anyone have any idea what this book is?

Submitted by Sam (not verified) on July 15, 2018 - 1:46am

I read this book a few years ago, but I can;t remember anything but a few obscure scenes. It's probably more geared towards people who are "middle school age", but I found it interesting nonetheless. The main protagonist is a girl whose father owns a very high-end cafe/restaurant/hotel, so they are quite rich. She also has lots of apartments -possibly hotel rooms- that each have a different "getaway" inside, such as an amusement park room, a beach room, etc. One scene has her meet a therapist she wanted to find -he had something to do with dentists and/or diamonds...- who, at the time, was meeting with a woman who had dreams of her "past life" as Joan of Arc. Another depicts two girls older than the protagonist getting in to the hotel/cafe, who had shaved off their eyebrows for a "Venetian-themed party". Hopefully this gives you enough information. I'm not even sure if this book exists anymore due to its elusivity.

Pish Posh

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 21, 2020 - 7:45pm

Pish Posh

Please help me find this book!

Submitted by Ems (not verified) on July 15, 2018 - 8:56am

Hi everyone! I have been searching like crazy for this one book I borrowed from the school library over one summer. All I can remember from the book is that it’s this girl/woman and I think she lives in England. Her mother left her dad who has problems with alcohol and she blamed her mum. She was taking care of her dad and realised that he did have a lot of problems and wasn’t the fun dad like when she just visited. At the same time she was dating a guy and soon she realised he was also drinking a lot. I think she found him cheating with her friend. And I think it ended with that she fell for one of her friends. I think I read it the summer of 2010 or 2011 so it must be written before that. Grateful for all the help I can get!

I believe this is "Lucy

Submitted by Jenn (not verified) on March 10, 2019 - 6:45pm

I believe this is "Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married" by Marian Keyes.

Magic powers, escape

Submitted by Carys (not verified) on July 15, 2018 - 4:48pm

The book is about a girl (princess?) with magic powers. The spell I remember: “pies and cakes and hot eel stew Tarts and breads and berries new Bring us lots of tasty food We’re in a hungry kind of mood.” This was said while the main character was escaping something (castle?) with a bunch of other people. I think at that point they were in a forest or woods. The spell was prefaced by something like, ‘I had used magic to help make food before, but I had never created food purely out of magic’ or something like that. The book was a children’s chapter book (no or minimal pictures) and was a historical setting I think. I’m pretty sure it’s a first person POV. In the end the main character marries someone I think. Any ideas? Other details that might help? Thanks!

No Place For Magic

Submitted by Beckylita (not verified) on August 2, 2018 - 3:02am

Maybe _No Place For Magic_ by E.D. Baker?

I'm looking for a book

Submitted by Joyce (not verified) on July 15, 2018 - 7:21pm

I read this book about four years ago, it was written by a particular 'Joyce' but can't remember her last name, it was about a particular girl that didn't like following the normal way of doing things who was in love with a married man that was about to divorce his wife. The cousin of this man and the almost divorced man didn't really see eye to eye, cant remember the reason, but the cousin felt the girl was stupid for loving the almost divorced man. I remember a part of the novel where she wore a very beautiful red gown but didn't have shoes to match them so she wore black slippers with the gown which the cousin noticed immediately.

Children’s magic book?

Submitted by Olive J (not verified) on July 15, 2018 - 9:14pm

This is definitely a long shot, but when I was younger I know I read a book about a girl living in some weird dystopian future/alternate reality where all children had to wear these thin gold/silver chains and their caretakers has weird names like Cheerful and Optimism and stuff like that. I think she escapes somehow and runs away? I know there’s a bit with magic and a staircase that feels like you’re going down when you’re really going up instead or vice versa. I don’t remember anything else about it.

Phaze Split Infinity by Piers Anthony

Submitted by Lord-Xanthor (not verified) on July 17, 2018 - 8:20pm

What your describing sounds like one of the books out of the Phaze series. Im not sure which one of the series has that part in it but I put book #1 down in case you read one out of order. Piers Anthony is well known to use puns, colors, and feelings as characters. Someone else asked for the same exact series above. So I dont ruin it for you in case you didnt read the other books, Phaze is a planet that exists in two different planes. One of science, One of magic. The one of science is controlled by tirents called Citizens who have counter parts in the magical side called Adepts. The people are basically slaves of the citizens but work for a limited time in order to earn a share of protonite in which they can retire off of. Each person has a limited stay and each year there are contests to allow extended stay time or the grand prize of Citizenship. It may be the contest is every 4 years. Anyway, what you described sounds like a small part of the book and to give out more info would ruin it for you and others. I hope this helps.

we think we know this book...

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

Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner!

I am looking for a book i

Submitted by SARHA (not verified) on July 15, 2018 - 11:06pm

I am looking for a book i read when i was young. It's a young adult book. All I remember is a young girl or teen goes to stay with family at a big house, or castle. She goes out in the middle of the night in her nightgown to wander around the property and is on a cliff looking amongst everything, and i think there was water down below. Don't know if she was dreaming. Can't remember the rest.

is it Heidi a novel by Johanna Spyri

Submitted by Atema (not verified) on July 15, 2020 - 8:22am

Somewhere in the middle of the book Heidi is taken to the city side ( having lived her whole life in the village) and she becomes so ill and homesick she begins sleep walking around the whole house

Children's book about a witch changing places with a girl

Submitted by Kelly (not verified) on July 16, 2018 - 12:50pm

This is from the 80's, I read it in '82 I believe, and it had black ink drawings. A witch on a full moon night near Halloween "switched places" with a school girl - got to experience her life and the girl, hers. I remember nothing except she got into her room via a big branch and an open window. This is so little to go on but it has been driving me MAD! I loved it. Any help greatly appreciated.

can’t remember

Submitted by Amber (not verified) on July 16, 2018 - 2:54pm

I use to read all her books in middle school . It was a series and the books were sad , every book a kid had a disease or something wrong with them . I remember in one book the person got a heart transplant and caught feelings for the girl that the heart giver fell for , I need to know the author !

Maybe it was A Serious Of

Submitted by Karen (not verified) on July 19, 2018 - 2:54am

Maybe it was A Serious Of Unfortunate events?? Idk just sort of sounds like it

Were they books by Lurlene

Submitted by Annie (not verified) on October 25, 2018 - 11:12pm

Were they books by Lurlene McDaniel? I had been trying to remember similar sounding books and when I came upon those online, they seemed the most familiar to me! Hope that helps…it was driving me crazy forever!

sounds like "in a heartbeat"

Submitted by eve (not verified) on June 13, 2020 - 1:38am

sounds like "in a heartbeat" by Loretta Ellsworth?

Looking for book

Submitted by Scott (not verified) on July 16, 2018 - 6:13pm

My wife and I are looking for a book we read years ago. In the book one of the storylines has one millionaire brother who likes to have sex with prostitutes that had been laid on a bed of ice and pretend to be dead. I know it sounds odd but that is the only thing we can remember about the book. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Galilee by Clive Barker?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on January 5, 2022 - 10:42am

Galilee by Clive Barker?

Galilee by Clive Barker?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on January 5, 2022 - 10:42am

Galilee by Clive Barker?

Galilee by Clive Barker?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on January 5, 2022 - 10:42am

Galilee by Clive Barker?

Book

Submitted by Toni (not verified) on July 17, 2018 - 2:04am

Looking for a book I read about 15 year ago. About a young English writer who goes to house sitter on on her way to the house she picks up a hitch hiker in an old RCF uniform he get out at the house she was going to and disappears. She meets him again on the road and realizes he is a ghost and he is looking for the women he loves. As the book goes on the cottage is sold and the women the ghost is looking for buys the house. Looking for the name of the book it was a great story.

books

Submitted by Jocelyn Kettler (not verified) on July 17, 2018 - 4:49am

I am looking for a book that came out mid 80's to mid 90's. The book was about a boy who found a cave with creatures inside that had claws like razors. The eyes of the creatures were large and bulging. The also talked about people going missing in the boys town. I remember a passage from the book where the boy was laying in bed one night and seen glowing yellow eyes outside his window. When the boy woke the next day he found slash marks outside his window.

(Loremasters of Elundium, Book 1) by Mike Jefferies

Submitted by Lord-Xanthor (not verified) on July 18, 2018 - 6:50pm

This is one of my favorite series and knew the name but forgot the author which is Mike Jefferies. At the time when I had read the series, it was just a trilogy. But now that Im looking it up, seems Mike Jefferies added a few more so going to go buy the entire set now. The characters with the big eyes are slaves and never seen the light. They were captured by a demon type monster that lives in the darkness. There is a wizzard type of character with a rainbow cloak that fortells prophecy's and the claw marks are from one of the demons beasts who is after a boy who is supposed to unite the kingdom and bring all races and animals together once again for a final confrontation. The rainbow cloak wizard in my opinion is more like a god who doesnt interfere directly with anyone but at the same time helps with prophecy to get things into motion. Prime example of god like powers is the fact that when a king tried striking him, he passed a godlike edict that not only separated man from beast, all types of conversation between animals and man were no longer understandable.

The book you're describing

Submitted by Cj (not verified) on October 10, 2019 - 4:04pm

The book you're describing sounds like "Little Brothers" by Rick Hautala to me. The little brothers were what they called the creatures and derived from some Indian meaning.

I'm looking for a book that I

Submitted by Ruth (not verified) on July 17, 2018 - 2:21pm

I'm looking for a book that I read 15 years ish ago. It's a romance novel set in Australia... one of the main characters is called John I think. The female protoginist falls in love with him but she ends up marrying his rival.. I think she perhaps falls pregnant and has to marry for the sake of her unborn child... I guess its a period novel? The rival has a cane... can't remember how he got injured!

we think we know this book...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 1:56pm

More than One Night by Sarah Mayberry!

Please help me find this Fantasy/Romance Book!

Submitted by Ash (not verified) on July 17, 2018 - 2:30pm

Okay so I read this book a few years ago (no more than 5 I would think) and it's about this woman who is of unknown descent that doesn't remember anything but it a plaything for the gods. Two gods in particular torture her and follow her from island to island over several hundred (?) years. When the book really begins she stumbled upon a cave and feels drawn to it for some reason. Inside the cave are several (eight maybe?) statues of men. She touches one of them and they slowly come to life and break out of their stone coverings. They think she's a threat at first but soon realize that she freed them. She steps out of the cave and they see that she has scars all over her body. They say that they have a way to get off of the island (and the dimension I think) that she's in and back to the real world where they have a house set up. At one point, she grows wings or something and is dangerous and another god or warrior or something comes to the house where they are living and stays with them. He is either fate or death or some kind of big power that's supposed to win some kind of war. Also, I think she has a thing with one of the warrior guys that tries to fight it but can't. There's another point in the book where it's revealed that the reason she lost her memory is because she drank water from this leaf near a pond or something. She is the same kind of immortal/fantasy creature as the warriors are.

Anybody knows the book?

Submitted by Corina (not verified) on July 17, 2018 - 2:45pm

A friend told me about this book she read when she was a kid and we tried to find it in almost every way but couldn.t. So, it.s about a girl who lives in France l think, it.s during the war and the country is invaded by english. She fels im love by an english soldier who invites her on a "date" but he takes her to his friends and she is raped by all the soldiers. She gets pregnant,her parents try to make her do an abortion or lose the child by beating her or giving her pills and starving her but she has the baby anyway. To keep the baby out of the people.s sight, the baby boy is kept in thw house and raised in a smal and dark room next to his mother.s room. His only connection with the outside world being a small hole in the door. When he grew up he used to watch through that hole and spying on his mother,he fels in love with her. Don t know exactly what happens next but he ends up to one of his aunts who thinks she may educate him...even if he was a savage, but she can.t and ge.s taken to a nental hospital. In the end he escapes from that hospital and starts looking for his mother. He ends up killing her and taking his own life too. One other thing is that the kids grandparents where bakers but he never tasted bread.

I don’t know the name of the book

Submitted by Andrea Bennington (not verified) on February 17, 2020 - 10:21am

But I definitely want to read it just based on your description!

Teen drama??

Submitted by Karen (not verified) on July 19, 2018 - 2:52am

I read this book when i was about 11 years old, and I didn’t finish reading it since I had to return it to the library to check out the books I needed for class. Anyways, the book was about two best friends who always hated a club of girls where in order to get in you had to be a certain age (I believe 13?) well the two girls talk about how they’re never joining it, but as soon as one of them turns that certain age she joins. They stop talking and then bump into each other at the grocery store in the cereal isle. The girl who is now in the club is getting some Froot Loops, while the other one thinks/ remembers how they use to say that it tasted like cardboard and that they hated that cereal (that was just because the girls in the club liked that cereal). That’s all I can actually remember which is not much i know, though I think that at the beginning of the book they also said they played in the bushes with their dolls? But I’m not sure at all. I think the cover was of two girls laying down on the grass with something in the middle of them, for sure the title, but idk if there was a cake or something else.

Lost Book

Submitted by Shaniya (not verified) on July 19, 2018 - 2:08pm

I’ve read this book in middle school, quite a few times. I’ve tried to look it up before, and I found it once, but I somehow forgot it again. I remember some parts of the cover, a boy and wolves running, or maybe sitting or walking, in the snow with trees surrounding them, the sky is blue I believe. It’s about a homeless boy, or maybe orphaned, in the streets and he finds wolves, quite a few, I believe one of them was very old, and one of them was pregnant maybe or just gave birth. Later on in the book, the boy gets sausages and feeds them all. Throughout the book, the boy lived with the wolves and they were family, he also learned how to steal and/or beg. Another part happens in a hospital I believe, he was so much like the wolves he snarled, maybe bit, at someone at the hospital, later on he ran away or was released and I believe he found the wolves, or maybe they left him. I don’t remember it that much really, but I want to, so whoever knows this book, please let me know.

The Dogs of winter

Submitted by GJY (not verified) on September 2, 2020 - 8:02pm

The Dogs of winter

Forgot the title of the book

Submitted by K Vasanth (not verified) on July 20, 2018 - 4:06am

I'm sure it is a series of book Cuz I have 2 of them.... It is about a boy who is working for a British intelligence agency. I don't remember the character names. He meest a person in the hospital who is of the protagonist age.... He is a son of a wealthy man's... Who is looking to build a space hotel... And it is nearing completion... But his original plans are to make the satellite to fall over the US governments pentagon... The plans are however foiled..... If anyone remembers the title please help... Thanks in advance....

Movie is called Moonraker. James's Bond 007 series.

Submitted by Lord-Xanthor (not verified) on July 21, 2018 - 11:18pm

Sometimes a book is made into a movie, and though the movie is a blockbuster, the book that spawned it is horribly mangled so it will sell in many other countries without hopefully offending any of them. The changes from book to movie are so much, that there is not much of the story left in tact with the movie. This story is a prime example of this happening. Anyway, the title of the book , the agents name and organization they work for were completely changed for the movie and Ill have to get back on the actual books name and author as I need to contact my old teacher who read the book to my 2nd grade class. The book she read to us and had us read back had its front and back covers gone and she would read a page then pass the book to the next student who read the next page and passed it to the next student. I remember it well because we never got to finish the book due to the fact the movie came out and the teacher took the entire class to go see Moonraker. After the movie, our teacher said the same thing I did above, about how books and movies get messed up. Id say give me a week and ill be back with the book info, but until then, watch the movie if you want. It wont ruin the book for you.

too hot to handle permabook By Ian Fleming

Submitted by Lord-Xanthor (not verified) on July 25, 2018 - 5:10pm

Didn't take as long as I thought. I always add time to my projections, thats how everyone perceives me as a miracle worker. (Borrowed from star trek) Anyway, the book your looking for is called too hot to handle the publisher permabook. The movie rewrite version is called Moonraker. I also found out why my teachers book was so mangled. Turns out she got the book when she was a kid and back then unlike society today, anything remotely adult/sexual was highly mojo. When her parents caught her with the book they took it from her but because money was scarce as well they didnt want to trash the book either so they took the front cover and back of book off and removed several pages they felt were not meant for a young reader. Makes me want to go buy the book now. I wish this website had a forums, as it would be nice to know if anything I replied to here helped.

I think this has to be the

Submitted by Elizabeth (not verified) on March 3, 2020 - 9:36pm

I think this has to be the Alex Rider series.

For sure Ark Angel by Anthony

Submitted by Kerran (not verified) on June 1, 2020 - 1:29pm

For sure Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz, part of the Alex Rider series. One of my favourite series growing up so I recognised this plot immediately.

Sci Fi Comedy book about Humans being outlawed

Submitted by tim M (not verified) on July 20, 2018 - 8:50pm

A friend told me about a book he read years ago that was hilarious, but can't remember the name. It's about a guy who works at area 51 and accidentally gets in an alien space ship that autopilots to different planets. Every chapter starts with him doing something mundane like dumping the waste system before taking off again, but it always ends up destroying the planet. So the entire galaxy outlaw humans and destroy earth. One warlord kept a human alive and they are the most feared species in the galaxy, because they think they have terrible weapons and everything they do has to do with war. Except the guy was simply, accidentally causing these disasters. One scene in the book had an alien coming across the human playing a clarinet, and reported back,. "He had a weapon, and it was making a horrible screeching noise". Does anyone know what book this was, it was written almost in a monty python type humor. Thanks.

That Title!

Submitted by AngieForgotTheTitle (not verified) on July 21, 2018 - 6:18am

I am dying out here, trying to remember the book title! Help, please. It was about a teenage girl whose parents died hunting recently, I think. She was all alone until a guy came who claimed to be her cousin, Harry?, but he wasn't. He fell for her and she for him but... And she met this other boy who she doesn't know is a demon or a demon prince, or something. It's a series, more than one volume. If ANYONE remembers a title or the author, or some more info that could help me find it, please, reply. Thanks!

Demons dont dream by Piers Anthony a Xanth Novel

Submitted by Lord-Xanthor (not verified) on July 25, 2018 - 5:21pm

Your the third person here to request one of Piers Anthony's books. The Xanth series is a huge series that has never ended and most likely wont due to its popularity. I have to catch up on a lot of his books but for now, the one your describing sounds exactly like Demons dont dream. Dont worry about reading out of order. Each book has a new set of main characters, and ones prior grow up by next book and move on.

Help me find this book please

Submitted by Christina (not verified) on July 21, 2018 - 1:10pm

This is the book I read years ago it was about a woman who basically fell in love with the cop and they have some falling out and years later they bump into each other again and she is this huge rockstar and he turned his cop skills into a security business and unknowingly became her security guard eventually they realize who they are zand her past relationship she was in a domestic violence relationship where the guy tried to kill her that’s why she has this top notch security team to watch and take care of her pretty much an a part of this guys security business is his best friend who this woman also falls in love with and they have a three person relationship and they all love each other

Title

Submitted by Gaylene Douctre (not verified) on January 1, 2020 - 6:31pm

Name of a kids book where a little boy becomes invisible to everyone except a little neighbor girl

I have been looking for a

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 22, 2018 - 9:02am

I have been looking for a book with a bunch of ice on the cover. I don’t rememwmber much the people were like hiding from something and I think the dad was a king or at least head of the people and they may have had a castle. The most accurate thing I can remember is that some of the chapters are written in second person and in the beginning there was a note written by one of the characters to someone else about something.

It could potentially be one

Submitted by Katy (not verified) on February 20, 2022 - 2:01am

It could potentially be one of the books in the throne of glass series by Sarah J Maas..? It’s been a long time since I’ve read them unfortunately so can’t be sure..

I NEED A MIRACLE

Submitted by Angeline Gaynor (not verified) on July 22, 2018 - 3:43pm

I have 2 paperback romance novels I have tried to find for years....the first I lost during a move back in 2002. I believe it was titled Sisters of the South of something to that effect. It was about sisters that were married off, one to a cousin and the other to a plantation owner, I believe, in South America. I think he was already married but his wife was crazy or something and tried to kill the baby the new wife had with him? The other I believe was titled Angeline. I recieved it as a Christmas gift, I believe, in 1991 but, let a friend borrow it and never saw it again. It was about a young school teacher that, I believe, was sent to open a school or take over a school somewhere back in pioneer times.

we have a guess

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 2, 2018 - 5:20pm

The second one about the teacher could be When Calls the Heart by Janet Oke!

Or Christy by Catherine

Submitted by LT (not verified) on August 6, 2018 - 10:40pm

Or Christy by Catherine Marshall

It could be Christy by

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on February 6, 2020 - 3:21pm

It could be Christy by Catherine Marshall

Childrens book from 80's

Submitted by Mary (not verified) on July 22, 2018 - 10:52pm

A favorite aunt hosts a sleepover for her nephews and nieces. They try on costumes, find the cat who has kittens and in general have a splendid time with their aunt who is single. Seems the author's name might be a single word starting with A, not positive about that. Thanks. I think the title includes the aunt's name.

we think this might be...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 2, 2018 - 5:18pm

Aunt Nina, Goodnight (this is a 1989 book by Franz Brandenberg, but the illustrator's name is Aliki!)

Can't remember name

Submitted by Jaime (not verified) on July 23, 2018 - 12:15am

THe book I am looking for I read nearly 15 years ago. THe opening is a girl being killed with her screams added to a song the man is making. WHen he is done he plays it and it melts the sound system opening a rift that allows a creature through who seeks revenge against him and against essentially everyone who has done anything bad. She pulls them into a world that is sickly and polluted looking before killing them. There is a corrupt cop who gets killed.

I KNOW THAT ONE!

Submitted by Crystle M Swinford (not verified) on December 20, 2019 - 5:40am

That's "Angel of Darkness" by Samuel M. Key (Charles de Lint writing under a pseudonym)

What's the title of this book;

Submitted by Natwijuka Evalyne (not verified) on July 23, 2018 - 6:20am

I don't remember everything very well, but there was a guy, his sister and his best friend living in the same house , the three of them alone, the girl breaks up with boyfriend because she wasn't good in bed and so asks the brother's best friend to teach her. The guy then applies for a scholarship and wins it. The girl always helped him read. They also had a neighbour called Hailey. They could also go n visit their parents once in a while.

Help me find this book!

Submitted by Sarika (not verified) on July 23, 2018 - 12:49pm

OK, so I don't know the title or the author of the book, but I think the male protagonist's name was Adam (although, I'm not sure!). He is from a rich family of a small town and is bestfriends with a poor girl who lives in the trailer park (Femail Protagonist) with her grandmother, I think. So these two fall in love, but enter the Mean Girl. She is from an affluent family as well and the guy's mother likes her a lot, whereas she despises the poor FP. Their's also the MP's grandmother who is very sweet and totally ships FP and MP. The FP is raped by a police officer who is investigating her grandmother's death. The MP couldn't save her because of his Mother (she's evil, by the way). So, anyway, stuff happens, and then they meet years later when MP's grandmother dies. Well, as you would have it, secrets unravel and all is out in the open, but the MP is still under the thumb of his mother and the his fiancée (The Mean Girl!). So now they have to overcome it all somehow to come together, because true love! Please help me find the book with this story line, I've been searching high and low for it with no results. Please help!

I read this book once. It was

Submitted by Jaz (not verified) on July 23, 2018 - 7:35pm

I read this book once. It was about a young rocker type dude that flew back to his parents after this chick somehow died while he was having sex with her. He gets home and dosent tell anyone which makes him go crazy and i think he falls intl drugs and partying or somthing. I think the book might of had multiple story's in it ..

Exit here.

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on January 6, 2020 - 12:35am

Exit here.

Vintage children’s book with kittens

Submitted by Terri (not verified) on July 24, 2018 - 9:58am

I only remember that this book was illustrated by black line drawing. It had a little girl and kittens. It was very hippy-esque with lots of flowers. I remember that the way the illustrator drew the girl’s hair made it look like spaghetti. I wish I could remember more. I keep dreaming about this book and I’m desperately hoping you can help me!

seamstress turned Paris fashion designer, builds empire

Submitted by Betty Mattingly (not verified) on July 24, 2018 - 1:36pm

early 1900s , young seamstress, designer starts at the bottom, much detail in fabrics, stitching, european/paris/london I read this book in the early 1990s

This is a long shot, since

Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on March 6, 2021 - 7:06am

This is a long shot, since many novels likely have this plot, but it may be "Banners of Silk" by Rosalind Laker. It was originally published in 1981, but I read a copy in the mid-1990s, so they were still easy to find in libraries then. Laker's books have been re-published as e-books now.

I can't remember the name of this good book

Submitted by Linda Martin (not verified) on July 24, 2018 - 5:57pm

I read this as a paperback several years ago. It was a very good read, and wish I could remember it to recommend to my friends. Subject matter was as follows, happily married female cave explorer, gave up an illegitimate baby girl in her youth. She has another daughter with husband. Many years later unwanted girl comes into her mother's life, unbeknownst to the mother. The unwanted girl kills the woman's husband and daughter to have her mother all to herself. Later when her mother realizes that it's her illegitimate daughter who has murdered her family, she takes the girl cave exploring to leave her there to die. The cave is rigged so they can't get out. In the end, the mother, who I think was dying with cancer, decides to stay there in the cave to die with her first born. A sad ending, but good read.

YA Sci-fi?

Submitted by Bob (not verified) on July 24, 2018 - 10:58pm

As long as memory serves me correctly, the story was about a young boy genius who went off to college. His roommate was another young boy like himself. He would often skip class at the college to go to the computer lab. Where he would write up program for a game. It would print out a readout of the game and the progression within the game set in a distant planet. I believe the name of the kids friend was a Wurm. Spelled with a u and not an o. I believe the book was written between 1970 and 2000. It was set in a time when computers would give printouts. The college setting was either MIT or a similar College Style. I don't recall if the author or publisher was Sandy or contained sand and its name. I never finished the book and would love to find it to finish it.

we think this might be...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 1:46pm

Gadget Factor by Sandy Landsman!

YES!!

Submitted by Bob Whabiab (not verified) on February 23, 2020 - 8:39pm

Thank you so much!! The book "Gadget Factor by Sandy Landsman" is the one for which I've been searching for over 15 Years! Thank you.

What's the title of this book - God in in the title somewhere

Submitted by Joyce Brunson (not verified) on July 25, 2018 - 2:34pm

This story starts off with a little girl telling the story and it expands over 3 generations. The girl is a pretty black girl with long hair (it's set back in the early 1900's). I think the book came out early 2000's and it's by a black author. The girl is married off when she's a teenager and she's telling the whole story. This book end when the girl is like in her 60's or so, she's a grandmother. Cant remember a lot but the book was a page turner and drama filled.

Is it Their Eyes Were

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on August 26, 2019 - 10:18pm

Is it Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston?

Very likely "Their Eyes Were

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on June 6, 2020 - 10:04pm

Very likely "Their Eyes Were Watching God" though that book is from the 1920s or 30s and Janie has no children or grandchildren. She tells her whole life story to her friend and her long black hair is often referred to. I had to read this for school.

I read this book a looooong

Submitted by Term1nat0r79 (not verified) on July 26, 2018 - 12:48am

I read this book a looooong time ago. It was about this boy who I believe lives at a beach or visiting for the summer by a beach. He makes friends around the area whom are all great swimmers. The main character meets a girl whom he has a crush on. He’s shy around her but sooner or later starts talking to her. One scene in particular was that his friends all swam into the ocean to hang out (I believe) but the boy wasn’t a great swimmer. The girl convinced him to swim but unfortunately he started drowning. Towards the end of the book, the boy and the girl crush are on a mountain where they kiss I believe and they both jump off the cliff. Luckily the boy survived whom wakes up in a hospital recovering from a coma. He asks about the girl but they don’t know who he was talking about. They also said how he swam by himself (with no girl encouraging or even there to begin with!) that the girl was all imaginary. Help me find this book! Please

Message hidden in candlestick that has to be twisted according t

Submitted by jo (not verified) on July 27, 2018 - 4:03pm

I'm looking for a book that I read in 1994. It was the kind of physical paperback style that I associate with cheesy romances. It had to do with a mystery, and a message that was hidden in a candlestick that was generations old. The secret compartment in the candlestick was opened when a woman remembered an very old traditional song and twisted the candlestick according to those notes. There was something about jungian psychology in there and generational memory being passed down subconsciously

Some sort of demon book?

Submitted by Ange (not verified) on July 28, 2018 - 6:16am

I remember there being a book in the family and when I was young I was fascinated by it (I don’t think I was supposed to read it tbf). It seemed a biggish book with grey sketches of demons and angels on it and inside the cover was a picture of a face looking into a broken mirror. I have no idea what the content was because I think it was before I could read. 1970’s time. Anyone enlighten me?

I am looking for a SHORT STORY

Submitted by Liese (not verified) on July 28, 2018 - 5:42pm

The short story is an old one - I thought it was Graham Greene but it might be Dorothy Parker or even Colette. Or ?? I knew it so well I can't believe I have forgotten who wrote it. It's about a newlywed couple, so happy, coming back to their home, and finding the fire lit and a supper waiting for them, and a note from the husband's ex-girlfriend written to the new wife. A very sweet-seeming letter about how she knew how cold the cottage could get and so she wanted to be sure they were comfortable on their return...and then they found more letters from the ex-girlfriend in the house -- very passive-aggressive but the wife thought they were sweet and the husband got more and more upset. The idea was that the ex-girlfriend was inserting herself into the marriage and successfully damaging it, while APPEARING to be super-kind and sweet. I'm going mad trying to figure this out! Thanks for any help.

Please Help Me Find This Book

Submitted by Joules (not verified) on July 29, 2018 - 3:06am

I read this book when I was in around the 6th grade (i’m 24 now). It was about a boy and a girl who were somehow supernaturally connected by fate. There might have been aliens involved, or at least something involving space. Though, the setting was always in some simple locations on Earth. I think they were born at the exact same time when some cosmic event occurred. They had never met but then do meet by the end. I remember it making me sad.

This book is called Being of

Submitted by Kae (not verified) on July 14, 2020 - 5:10pm

This book is called Being of Two Minds by Pamela F. Service. Such a great book..!

Looking for this book.

Submitted by John V Wild (not verified) on July 29, 2018 - 6:41am

Hi, I read a book in 1970's possibly 80's about an Australian naval patrol boat in 1945 near the end of ww2, it was looking for some action before the war ended and was cruising around the coast of New Guineau and North Eastern Australia. Charactors I remember are Lt.Commander Cordeau, Lt Beech, and Zola the stoker. There was another Lieutenant who was the bad guy, but I can't remember his name. They capture an Italian submarine and its first officer who has a sea chest with him and when opened has about a million pounds in cash. The bad guy gives the Italian a drink and poisons him dead. He then shoots Lt, commander Cordeau and leaves him dying and takes Lt. Beech hostage in a jeep at gunpoint. He then lets him go and as he drives off he throws the gun at Beech but it is empty. I don' t know the author, but I think the book was called "Dead mans chest" or similar. I have been looking for years but can't find it !. Wonder if anyone recognizes it ?. Mzny thanks John

we found an answer for you...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 3:29pm

We think the author is J.E. Macdonnell! We're pretty sure this particular title is Fire Storm, but it may be another one of his books.

Looking for a book title

Submitted by Ronald Higdon (not verified) on July 30, 2018 - 4:31pm

Looking for a book when I was a teenager. The book was about a woman and a man and possibly a second man. The story line was that they were some kind of adventurers, possibly journalists or photographers or something else. They traveled to different parts of the world. I seem to remember the title as something like 'When Friends Were Lovers' When Lovers Were Friends'. At the end of the book the woman was married, had children and a white picket fence, but was not married to either of the men. The book was a paperback. The time frame for me reading the book was in the 1960s kr possibly the late 1950s. Thanks for any help.

Children’s book of stories fiction

Submitted by Ezra Ayers (not verified) on July 31, 2018 - 2:14pm

There’s this book about a princess who can never look into a mirror. Her parents took away all the mirrors in the castle and the only way she’s ever seen herself is through portraits. She is the most beautiful person alive but she wants to see her reflection so she gets a piece of a broken mirror and her reflection is nothing. So she runs away into the woods where she’s finds a witch who says she can make her have a reflection all she has to do is pick her parts. So she picks two different colored eyes and parts that don’t match. But she can look into the mirror. That’s all I can remember other than it’s in a book of stories and on the cover there was a lavender background with a street lamp and a black cat. Please help!

I am looking for a book about

Submitted by Meghan (not verified) on July 31, 2018 - 3:04pm

I am looking for a book about an alien abduction. I don't remember how it all happens but the scene I remember is a woman and an alien being abducted by another alien race and being held captive in a sort of tent. They are given food to eat but the alien insists on not eating and starving to death. The alien captors get wind of this and force the two to eat. The alien captive insists that she and the human throw up the food (and bury the vomit to hide it from the captors). Then they are "rescued" by the alien captive's "tribe" by being beamed up to the alien ship. The alien captive's arm is stuck or being held by one of the alien captor's "tribe" so the human holds the alien's body and steps into the beam and is beamed up. The alien loses her arm. That is mainly what I remember. Does anyone know this book??

Invader Zim Abducted episode.

Submitted by Lord-Xanthor (not verified) on August 14, 2018 - 9:43pm

Its funny how cartoons make fun of great artists and movies like Goodfeathers from goodfellas as an example. Invader Zim is no exception. Im still trying to find the name.of the book the author made the spoof from, but if your interested in some dry humor, watch Invader Zim Abducted episode. The uncut version has a lot of what you mentioned in regards to both human and alien being abducted.

Looking for a book

Submitted by Alan (not verified) on July 31, 2018 - 4:52pm

I read a book for my English Oral exam back in 1986 (UK). Paperback. It was about a man seeking to find out the truth about whether his friend had committed suicide or had been murdered by his wife. It was set in America on a lake - at one point he kills a young man who he believes had a role in his friends death, and stuffs his body into a cave only accessible underwater. This takes place in the winter. His relationship breaks down over his obsession with finding the answer. There is a convict involved who ends up murdering the wife at the end and then reveals that he was present when the friend died - "Did I pull the trigger or did he?" Then he shows the man how it was done, and the question is then did the man kill the convict, or did the convict commit suicide? I have tried search engines with no luck.

What is the title of this book?

Submitted by Cyndi (not verified) on July 31, 2018 - 5:42pm

A woman started a weight loss program/company, much like Weight Watchers. It was a great success, but then she lost it somehow, or was in danger of losing it, or going bankrupt. The woman's name was Cynthia. I think a man tried to take control of it financially or threatened her. It was a fiction novel from the 60s or early 70s. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

The New Body by James

Submitted by Cyndi (not verified) on August 9, 2020 - 5:30pm

The New Body by James Fritzhand!

Please help me find a fairy tale

Submitted by Kate (not verified) on July 31, 2018 - 6:25pm

This isn’t a book but I was hoping someone could help me find a fairy tale I once read. It started out where the king and his friend the high chancellor were assassinated so the throne could be taken over. The queen and the chancellor’s wife (who were also friends) escaped from the coup and ran away to live in a hut in the woods to protect themselves. They were both pregnant, and soon they each gave birth to a son. They raised the boys as brothers and they looked so similar anyone else would have thought they were twins. When the boys grew up they decided to seek their fortunes so they left their mothers and went into the world together. They came to a fork in the road and they decided to split up. My memory gets a little fuzzy from there but I remember that they each got something that would change color when the other was injured or dead so the other would know to avenge them. Or it could have been that they promised to return the the crossroads and cut a nearby tree, and the color of the sap would tell them what had happened to the other. But either way, one boy finds out that the other has died (killed by a witch I think) so he sets out to avenge him. He passes through a kingdom and is taken to the palace where they all mistake him for the king of the land (the king was really the dead friend by they look so similar not even his wife can tell them apart). The queen tells him she was so worried because he went into the forest a few days ago and hasn’t returned until now, and the boy deduces that his friend died in the woods. So he goes into the woods, ends up getting the witch to bring his friend back to life, and they both return the palace and explain everything, and it all ends happily ever after. I’ve looked for this fairy tale and I can’t find it anywhere online, but I don’t think I could make the whole plot up! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Does the cover have woods

Submitted by Heidi (not verified) on May 27, 2019 - 10:20pm

Does the cover have woods/forest/trees?

Need the book name

Submitted by Seoyo Park (not verified) on July 31, 2018 - 6:49pm

The book is about a teen girl who I think she caught the zombie virus. She used to go to regular school where she had a crush on a boy then when she caught the virus she had to leave school and go to a school for zombies but before she had left for the school she accidentally gave the boy she liked in regular school something and I think he turns into a vampire because in the book she said he was too fast to be a zombie and because of this he was mad at her so when he saw her at the zombie school he started bullying her that’s really all I can remember please help me because I don’t even think it’s a zombie school but in the school it was filled with zombies please help me.

Young adult series help me

Submitted by Angela r (not verified) on July 31, 2018 - 9:53pm

Series was about gentically altered girl who would fight (vigilante?) But then would collapse shortly after and pass out so she would immediately find a secluded place. Lived in New york. Remember her likeing krispy kreme i think. Many books in series. People were after her or looking for her i think (evil or government people maybe?)

we think we know this book...

Submitted by NYPL staff (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 1:51pm

The Fearless series by Francine Pascal!

A mystery book set in England

Submitted by Annie Pierce (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 12:52am

It takes place in a remote English? village. A girl disappears. All evidence points to a husband, who maintains his innocence. The villagers defend him, but let loose details that make him guilty. Years pass. A detective? comes to the village - photographs are found that prove the man was taking pictures of girls. In a weird twist, the girl who was supposed to have been murdered returns home. Fascinating book. Any ideas??

Sounds like A Place of

Submitted by Sonja (not verified) on June 18, 2019 - 9:28am

Sounds like A Place of Execution by Val McDermid. The villagers learned that the girl’s stepfather was a pedophile who abused and photographed many of the village children. In revenge, several families conspired to set him up for the girl’s murder, for which he was ultimately executed, although her body was never found. The missing girl became a journalist, who years later interviews the detective about his most famous case: her own disappearance/“murder.” I can’t remember why she didn’t know her true identity.

Lost children’s book.

Submitted by Samantha (not verified) on August 1, 2018 - 1:49pm

Hello! I am searching for a children’s book that my sisters and I read when we were young (about 20 years ago). All I can remember about it was the girl had red bushy hair and she had either giant cats or tigers? I know this isn’t a lot to go on but I have been searching for MONTHS and am having no luck. Can someone help?!

Maybe

Submitted by Skyla (not verified) on July 7, 2019 - 3:49pm

Was it maybe The Icemark chronicles By Stuart Hill

Ok so I have been looking for

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on August 2, 2018 - 7:18am

Ok so I have been looking for a picture book I loved as a child that my mum sold at a garage sale (am I still bitter??? Ha). I read it around 1995ish. It was about a boy, and a bull in a shop. It had quite dark coloured pictures in it. That’s all I’ve got!!

Please Help Me Find This Book

Submitted by Sabriyah (not verified) on August 2, 2018 - 12:08pm

I read a book a long time ago about a writer in England who has a daughter. Him and his wife separated and he is trying to get his life together. He receives a letter from n anonymous person saying that he has to write a book about a killing spree the man is about to embark on. The person threatens his family in order to get him to write the book. But the person starts to kill people, I beleive based off the Bible and each victim is killed in a grotesque way and has a message left inside of the bodies. But the writer has to go to watch crime scene so that the book has details even the public wouldn't know about which ends up going against him because the police soon think he's involved in the murders. The book cover is all white with blood drops coming down from what I remember.

Children's book search

Submitted by Jane (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 12:13am

Trying to remember the name of a children's picture book about a boy and his dog that get lost overnight and they sleep together in an abandoned house. The book is targeted to children about ages 3 - 8, and I used to read it to our children in the late 1990's. Thanks!

Please help

Submitted by Edith (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 2:44am

Last night I had a dream of which I'm SURE it's the content of a book I read and loved one or two years ago, but I can't remember the title or the character names (though I know I knew them in the dream). I think that the dream was about the 2nd book of a trilogy or something, but I'm not sure. It's about a teenage girl who lives with her little sister at her grandparent's house (furniture and all seemed very expensive). Her best friend is a little crazy, but an adorable girl. In my dream, the girl was sitting with some kids from elementary school or something around a campfire on a field and told them a story, leading to the fact that she had prepared a huge torch and something like a "satanic spell" to chase away the fears of the children. Before she could light the torch, her grandparents showed up and stopped her because "it could be dangerous for her to summon demons" or something and sent her home. (That's only a little unnecessary detail I remember...) That part reminded me of Supernatural. The mother of the girl was too busy to raise her children so they lived witch their grandparents. As a punishment for her reckless act, her granny said she has to go with her mother, but she said she wouldn't go and her best friend showed up, taking her to the pool. I know, that's weird, and now - writing it down - I don't even think that could be a book anymore... but if anyone has an idea, I'll be lucky! PS: She said something about "hearing her thoughts very weird AGAIN" so I had in mind that it was the 2nd part of a book + it had a change in the narrative perspective ("I" to "her") PPS: Sorry for my English...

Help me find this book

Submitted by Steven (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 4:39am

The book is tittled "I PROMISE" by James... I forgot the surname of the author. ... Is a novel about two lover's met at the restaurant where the woman was working and the guy asked the lady to take her out to a date and while they were talking about it the guy asked her "to be or not to be?" where it was a question of is it date or what?. I they went to a date and ended up getting married and the husband was working as government secret intelligence without her wife knowing and one day he went out to a dangerous rescue mission and came back and only to find out they were able to recognize him and tracked him down, him and his colleagues where left with no choice but to fake his death with a car accident that was said he was burned beyond recognition without telling his wife the truth with the thought of it could also endanger her life, and went far away and changed his identity to become Mr Grant for started a new life and retired the job, few months later him and his collegues founded out that his wife was pregnant and was waiting for to tell him as a surprise the same day of the fake death car ccident. And few months later the woman gave birth to a baby boy, and the his husband felt the pain of not being there for her wife and not being part of the child and told his colleagues about how he felt about this and they formed a plan to at least get a chance to be close to his son and during the day of his sons birth he came to the hospital to see his child and her mother felt the feeling of his father being around because she loved him very much in a way that ever since he passed away every Sunday after church she goes to the graveyard and sit there on his grave and cry hurtfully until it's late. Then they formulated another plan and made him Professor Grant so he can have a chance to teach his son during winter school, as his son and her mother they were financially suffering and even thou they tried to give them unnecessary excuses of money from his former husband "Jack" now called Mr Grant, they ran out of excuses and finally they met during winter school they became close to each other "with his son of'cause", and every season he'll tell her mother about this amazing professor that seemed to getting along well and sometimes asks about you (his mother) if she's OK, is she married, he buys me lunch and so on and on, he seemed very happy after every winter school until one day the mother was eager to know or meet this professor Grant and one day, their son graduated, began his career as a journalist, and sometimes forced to work outside the country on dangerous environments just like of his father and his father sometimes gets worried about his safety and his decided to get married and gave a special invitation to his former winter school professor Grant as he was like his mentor and someone he looks up, he promised him that he'll come and to finally meet his mother he didn't worry much cause he changed his face after faking his death. During the wedding day when her mother saw her for the first time he recognized his eyes and his present that came with it and she fainted and everybody was shocked what happened and he quickly picked her up taking her up the stairs carrying her in her arms and every one following her asking what happened and he said give her some air and every one went back down stairs ...

looking for a novel based on reincarnation

Submitted by lucy walsh (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 6:07am

I'm looking for the name of an author/novels that i read in the 1970's. the books were based on reincarnation. One was about a young girl who "remembered" a previous life and actually decorated her doll's house exactly like her home in her previous life. her husband finds her and is then accused of pedophilia as she is a child. (No it isnt Audrey Rose). another novel was about a young woman who had weird dreams about life in the "wild west" where she seemed to be a whore. she visits an old inn and finds a portrait of herself on the wall. it turns out it was an ancestor of hers. there may have been more books but these 2 storylines stick in my head. I would love to find out the author's name and see if there are any more books in a similar vein

R Novels

Submitted by Vone Bowly (not verified) on June 26, 2020 - 11:33pm

You might be interested to read - An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute ; Come Home Kathleen by Susan Webb ; Green Darkness by Anya Seton ; Here and Hereafter by Ruth Montgomery ; Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine ; Nonsuch Lure - by Mary Luke ; Till All the Seas Run Dry by Susan Webb ; To Sleep No More by Dinah Lampitt ; Four Great Oaks by Mildred McNaughton ; Many, Many Times by James Riddell ; Middle Window by Elizabeth Goudge ; Osru - the History of a Sould by Justin Sterns ; Seven Journeys by Dorota Flatau ; Star Rover by Jack London ; Three Gentlemen by A.E.W. Mason ; Wanderer's Necklace by H. Rider Haggard .

Please help me find Historical romance

Submitted by Susie (not verified) on August 3, 2018 - 5:20pm

I'm trying to remember a historical romance I read in the last 3-4 years. The hero was a duke/earl? who was widowed (I think). He had a mistress in London. He goes to the country and marries a young blond woman. I think he had to in order keep the property in the family. At one point the young wife is riding on the estate and is nearly attacked by someone and the husband saves her. He ends up falling in love with her. He goes to London and purchases a pearl necklace to give her. He purchases the same necklace to give to his mistress as a good by gift. The husband and wife go to London together and while at a ball, the wife meets the mistress. They are wearing the same necklace and the wife runs off. I would love to find this book to read over again.

Sounds like a Mary Balogh

Submitted by hgeng63 (not verified) on August 13, 2018 - 12:26pm

Sounds like a Mary Balogh Regency romance--not her earlier short ones.

Did you find out the name of

Submitted by Stacie (not verified) on June 9, 2019 - 3:03pm

Did you find out the name of this book? I found your post while searching for the same book. Thanks!

You might've found it already

Submitted by Sam (not verified) on May 9, 2020 - 9:50pm

You might've found it already but it's How to Tame a Willful Wife by Christy English.

1980-ish Young Adult/ Teen Novel - need help finding title

Submitted by Maybelle Schreible (not verified) on August 4, 2018 - 12:50pm

I'm looking for a book I read sometime in the early 1980s or so. It was a teen novel about a girl and her MALE best friend who run away to the wilderness together. At some point they must cross a dangerous river/waterfall and they end up back in a very secluded place where no one can really easily find them because of that particular waterfall/river gorge/whatever. They fend for themselves well for a while but eventually become romantically involved, and the girl freaks out about the possibility of getting pregnant in that isolated environment and decides to leave. The boy decides to stay behind, and says "you know where to find me". His name MIGHT have been Dane but I'm not sure. Anyone recognize it?

Coming Back Alive by Dennis

Submitted by Jessica (not verified) on October 11, 2021 - 2:51am

Coming Back Alive by Dennis reader

Book about young girls on school vacation

Submitted by Victoria Churchill (not verified) on August 4, 2018 - 11:00pm

Very vaguely remember a series of books about girls in middle school? Who got together over Christmas break etc and had sleep overs. I used to want to be them but I had no friends. Any ideas? (Btw this would have been early 1990s)

Sleepover friends

Submitted by Lor (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 8:14pm

Is it not sleepover friends book series by susan saunders

Help

Submitted by Lara (not verified) on August 5, 2018 - 9:10am

I don't know much about the book. It's cover was a red haired girl with her face painted.. Or it was blood. I'm not sure. The rest of the cover was black. It had about 300 pages. It was an ancient story. The girl ran from home. She had siblings. She found a tribe. I think she was not supposed to be there. She was being forced to marry. She fell in love with someone else... Can you help me?

a romance novel

Submitted by maryam (not verified) on August 5, 2018 - 6:21pm

I don't know the type of book but it's about 2 pe ople who got in a marriage of convenience and where living separately have Nt seen each other for years until the wife got into a car accident and the husband asked her to move in with him can't remember much but the husband thought she was running with her lover or sometin

suspense novel - late 80's - early 90's

Submitted by Nicole (not verified) on August 6, 2018 - 9:43am

Looking for a book about a group of college friends (now late into adulthood) who meet up - one has died. The story is told from varying points of view - one from the murderer and one from a wife. A wife of one of the men begins putting together clues and starts to realize it's one of the friends who might be the murderer. The murderer realizes that an old paralyzed woman may have seen him drown someone out her bedroom window - he then sneaks in and smothers her. I have been looking for this book for ages!

Suspense novel-late 80's-early 90's

Submitted by Sandy Daltrey (not verified) on August 2, 2021 - 12:55am

Could it be the book Hindsight: A Novel of the Class of 1972 by Barbara Rogan? The plot is somewhat similar.

Looking for a book

Submitted by Alex Hopkins (not verified) on August 6, 2018 - 2:14pm

I dont remember a whole lot about it. What I do remember is it was fantasy and the book was about a girl traveling in a snowy land. She came across a mysterious guy who always had a hood on and then later it was revealed that he was like a humanoid cat person and the hood was magical which hid his face. I think they ended up traveling together.

I found it

Submitted by Alex Hopkins (not verified) on August 28, 2018 - 8:32pm

Its called The Book of Deacon

YA horror fiction novel 1980s/90s

Submitted by Amber (not verified) on August 7, 2018 - 3:16pm

I’m trying to remember a book I had growing up that had a blue cover and a woman with brown curly hair with a car. It was sort of similar to Christine but in a knock off way and is kind of similar to Fear Street novels but I cannot for the life of me remember what it is. I vaguely remember the plot consisting of a possessed car or the car possessing the girl

Maybe Catalina chronicles

Submitted by Nell (not verified) on May 16, 2019 - 10:25pm

Maybe Catalina chronicles

Not sure if it was a book or a dream.

Submitted by Danielle Adams (not verified) on August 7, 2018 - 6:48pm

This one has bugged me for a while. I can't remember if it's a dream I had or a great book I read. It was about an alien race who when one of their members did something bad enough the punishment was to take their soul and put it in an alien animal species. The particular criminal it followed was put into a five legged spider type creature and had to try and survive as that species.

Late 80s-Mid 90s YA novel set at a ski resort

Submitted by Blake D (not verified) on August 8, 2018 - 3:43am

There are at least three main characters:. A girl and two guys. The guys are namedl Matt and Kurt I think. I don't remember the girl's name. I think they are older teenagers. The guys are both ski instructors. One of the guys secretly holds a grudge against the other because the one holding the grudge lost his parents to a skiing accident while they were being guided by the father of the other guy. As a result, the one holding the grudge at least tries to kill someone near the end of the book.

Children's book help

Submitted by Sandra Bucher (not verified) on August 8, 2018 - 7:49am

I read this a long time ago. - maybe 60's. I believe it was a chapter book, maybe elementary. The only things I remember about it was that the main character was female and it would be a special trip to visit this house with a beautiful garden and there were jewelweed plants in the garden. It might have been a mystery. Ty

Periodical article that I think was an overview of a book

Submitted by Katie (not verified) on August 8, 2018 - 4:34pm

Sometime between 2000 and 2004, I stumbled across a magazine article about the birth of the FBI - the very beginning, when the Bureau was still called the Bureau of Investigation, and was run by former PIs and taxmen and otherwise colorful characters. I distinctly remember reading the article in a magazine - and I used to think it was a Smithsonian magazine, but have since totally failed to track it down - but then, after I put the magazine aside to come back to later, I never could find it again. I also think the article might have been written by an author who had a full length book about the subject, a book which I also searched for and completely failed to find online. Please help me find it! Thank you!

David Grann "Killers of the

Submitted by Mary Dicks (not verified) on March 25, 2020 - 9:13am

David Grann "Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and Birth of the FBI"

Help me find a copy of an old Literary Cavalcade

Submitted by Emmy (not verified) on August 8, 2018 - 5:14pm

I am looking for a copy of Literary Cavalcade that includes A Child's Christmas in Wales. It was printed like a play. My family used to read it every Christmas with each of us reading the parts. I have searched online but with no luck. Any ideas? I would love to have it again to read with my mom, brothers, sister-in-law, and niece and nephew.

Wow, that's specific!! I can help a little....

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 10, 2018 - 5:32pm

Insanely enough, I own that copy. It's the first Dylan Thomas I ever read. I remember there's a portrait of him on the cover (not the usual black and white photograph but a chalk? oil? portrait with yellowish tones in the background), and A Child's Christmas In Wales is definitely inside. While I'm not willing to let go of my copy (sorry) I can verify that that issue of Literary Cavalcade HAS to be from before 1994 (probably between 1989 and 1993), since my teacher had new copies sitting around when I was in junior high. If you don't end up being super attached to that particular edition, there are a few hardcover printings of just A Child's Christmas In Wales available online. There are some very nice audio recordings as well--Thomas himself reading it, plus Fern Hill and a few others of his poems. I hope you find what you're looking for!

I need the TITLE of This BOOK

Submitted by zai (not verified) on August 9, 2018 - 12:50am

I have been looking for a book that I read YEARS ago, its around 2009 till today. it was about a man that fall in love with his brother fiancee without her knowing it. He love her more than his brother loved her. He decide to kidnapped her before she made a big mistake by marring his brother. he kidnapped a day before her wedding day. he brought her to an island or a secluded place for a week..He tied her on the bed for few days and seduced her . his was succeed. at last she love him back and married him instead her intended.

Book about lawns

Submitted by Jennifer (not verified) on August 9, 2018 - 11:37am

I read a non-fiction book about 20 years ago on why lawns are bad for the environment. I am pretty sure the hardback is white, with a picture of a lawnmower on the cover. Finding it again has been bugging me for years!

I think I know the book

Submitted by Andrea Bennington (not verified) on February 17, 2020 - 11:00am

“The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession. My copy has a man pushing a mower on the front cover.

Help me find this book!

Submitted by Rosa (not verified) on August 9, 2018 - 3:04pm

This is a children book about a guy who is very poor and always hungry, one day he looks into his fridge and sees he only has a jar of mustard. He then decided to eat a hat that he always wears and puts mustard on it and eats it. I Believe by the end of the book he becomes rich somehow. I don't remember his name, but I remember he has a black mustache, an old looking suit, and a black hat that looks like a plate with an M on top. I read it a lot when I was younger, but this was many years ago. Thanks!!

Please help me find this book!

Submitted by Wordwizard (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 12:07pm

Dear Librarians: I'm looking for a book that I don't remember the title or author to. It was perhaps 1968 when I found it, so that could rule out some later books. It was a children's book, maybe 4th grade up or middle grades? I would classify it as Fantasy. The cover had a distinctive image on it of one or more evil beings depicted by circular cylindrical scribbles like a small whirlwind. The children in the book unwittingly step into a (shifting?) spot that takes them to a fantasy world with inimical beings that are a threat coming out to our world. Obviously, no adults would take this threat seriously, and the children must deal with it on their own. I believe there's a girl protagonist, and a boy, maybe more than two. I don't recall whether the kids are related or friends or a combination. I think the book might be vaguely reminiscent of A Wrinkle in Time, minus the religious aspects. I hope you can help me! It was a good book, which I reread a few times, but even back then, I kept forgetting the title and author and losing track of it.

Lost Book

Submitted by Angela Gaule (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 12:08pm

I am looking for a children's book. It was absolutely published before 1980. The author's name is at the beginning of the alphabet because I found the book when I was trying to read all of the books in the library and started with the A's. I thought it might be Mabel Esther Allen, but I can't find enough that have a synopsis to be certain. The book was written for about 9-13 years old. A girl, for some reason, has to live with her uncle. There is a male cousin there who is about the same age as she, possibly slightly older. They are probably about 13-17 years old. They are walking down a staircase toward a painting when they are suddenly in the painting. They have many adventures, not a single one of which I can remember, and then they find themselves back on the staircase and continue walking down. The book has struck me for a long time because when it ended you still didn't know if it all had really happened. We moved in 1980, and I checked it out in my hometown library, so I know it had to be published before then. My library removed all dust jackets, so I have no details about the cover.It is not by C.S. Lewis, which is the suggestion I most often get. Any help would be appreciated!

Help identifying book of advice from father to son

Submitted by Kimi Wei (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 12:12pm

I would like help identifying a book. It was written maybe 30 years ago by a father giving his son a list of what today are referred to as life hacks as the son set off for either college or his first job. One set of advice was to buy the most house he could afford and the least car he could get away with buying – and still meet his needs. I believe the book became a best seller and may have been entitled something like, A Father's list of 100 life tips for my son as he goes off to college. If you can help me ID it I will be so grateful.

90's Scholastic Children's Scifi

Submitted by John Smith (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 12:17pm

I read on Atlas Obscura how ya'll are experts at finding books that people cannot remember the name of. I had a book as a child (I think late elementary-early-middle-school-age, I was born in 1983) that I loved. I read it over and over and over. I think it might have been a Scholastic book. It was a novel with no pictures. The plot was centered around a boy who was able to travel instantly to another planet or space station by being uploaded into an android there. I believe that it looked like him. It might've had something to do with a family member that was working there, an aunt or uncle or something. I remember it wasn't what it seemed, but that's about all I can muster. I wish I could've kept it, unfortunately the foster system doesn't let you hang on to many things when you get moved around. Now that my own son is 9 and is also a sci-fi fan, I am hoping he can enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you so much for all your help!!! What a great service this is that ya'll are providing! Thank you, John Smith Zachary, Louisiana

I can see this book in my mind ... but can't remember the title

Submitted by Randy Osborne (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 12:33pm

Hello. This is a long shot, but I've asked Google, all my reader friends, local librarians, Facebook, etc., and no one has been able to help me yet. I'm looking for a novel that I found in the attic and started reading as a teenager, decades ago. Of it I can remember only that it was a fat book, deckle-edged with red boards and no cover, and that it consisted entirely of dialogue between two characters, presented not in quotes but as one character's name followed by a colon, and then the other character's name behind a colon followed by a large block of text ... back and forth. All of the novel's action was conveyed this way. The font was tall with serifs, rather like Bookman Old Style but more condensed. I lost track of the book along the way and have been searching for it for decades. Thanks for any help.

Author of Westerns, including an Oedipus remake

Submitted by Karen Myers (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 1:10pm

There was an author who wrote (at least) 5 Westerns, all available in the '70s or thereabout in mass market paperback (and of no great age) -- perhaps these were recent reprints. Male (pen-)name, since forgotten. They were rather more literary than genre in character, and garnered reviews from the mainstream trade. One of them, in particular, was a resetting of the complete Oedipus story in the "wild West" (barmaids, gunmen, etc.). I read them all, but it was a long time ago. It's not one of the obvious suspects: Cormac McCarthy, Zane Gray, Louis L'Amour, etc. These 5 books may be all the mystery author wrote -- I certainly couldn't find any others at the time.

How to find a book

Submitted by Neal Goldstein (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 1:39pm

A very good friend of mine and i became friends spurred by our love for a book we had both just read. Over the years we have forgotten the book, but both of us would love to read it again. Our recollection is pretty vague but there was a man (and a women at some point in the plot) traveling/living in different places including an island and there was magical realism going on where the place (and possibly time) shifted. I remember the cover being dark blue with stars. Ant ideas Thanks

woman in Sicily teaches cooking classes, recipes are in the book

Submitted by Pat G (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 2:16pm

I read a book once and cannot remember what the title or author was! It was, I believe,  Fiction/Novel ..about a woman who moved to Sicily and gives cooking lessons to small groups of friends in her kitchen, using her grandmother's recipes. The unique thing about the book is that the author includes the recipes that the main character is teaching/cooking throughout the book. She make a White Bolognese sauce that I recall, and I believe a simple fennel and orange salad. That is all I can remember. I copied a couple of the recipes when I read the book, but have moved overseas since and lost the copies. Thanks to anyone who can help me!

have been trying to find a

Submitted by Beckie Tetrault (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 3:24pm

have been trying to find a book, I believe I read it in the 90's.. it starts with anthropologist finding the remains of the man who seemed to have sealed himself alive in a cave.. soon the researchers are infected with an unknown virus. When the viral load in their blood reaches a certain level, the virus begins communicating with them. It has a hive mind, and it states that they created all our childhood diseases to strengthen human bodies to be able to become hosts for this intelligent virus.. and that's about all I can remember, I can tell you it's not Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear, but it reads very similar in style to Greg Bear... I have tried friends, family, and Reddit, I'm beginning to wonder if it even exists.. and help would be so appreciated ;) thank you!

Children's book from when I was a kid in the 70s

Submitted by Sarah Ward (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 4:06pm

can somebody help me find a book which I thought was called The King and his friends. It was a picture book about a king and he had to Dragon friends and a griffin friend and they were all do nice things for him and like make a fire for him and decorate his bed and make life just a lot nicer. Anybody ?

The King and his Friends by Jose Aruego

Submitted by Kate Shea (not verified) on September 13, 2020 - 5:45pm

I loved this book as a kid! I couldn't remember the title until you mentioned it!

I'm looking for a middle

Submitted by megan (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 6:12pm

I'm looking for a middle grade book I read with the last 5 years. The boy's parents are missing (possibly at sea, by pirates). He isn't allowed outside (maybe the same people are coming for him). He befriends the neighbor girl. There are stuffed animals (taxidermy) in his new home. I think there is a walled garden.

Help!!

Submitted by Jose (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 8:45pm

Okay a very vague description but here goes... It’s a blue book and it is about a teenager boy who’s father is having an affair. The boy has a best friend who “gets all the ladies.” I believe the mistress ends up having a baby so the boy kidnaps him. He also falls in love with this girl who goes to a Catholic school. I need help ! Thank you

About a young girl who has been brutally traumatised and manipu

Submitted by Jessica (not verified) on August 10, 2018 - 11:36pm

I read a free sample on Google Play Books and was unable to purchase it at the time. Phone broke and am unable to retrieve account for some reason. So the story was about a girl preteen to early teen who had called the police on her mother and was taken out of the home. I The story was told as the girl was placed with a psychiatrist and his wife and daughter and the girl would have flashbacks of events and conversations with her mother. I think the girls name was Anna... not too sure. From what I gathered the mother had been murdering young children for years and the girl knew and was forced to keep quiet, the mother being very manipulative and abusive. As the girl is placed with th a doctor who seems to have a dysfunctional family life she is enrolled in the dr.s daughters school. The daughter doesn't know the girl is the girl from the very published story of the murderous mother, but thinks her a weirdo nonetheless who by the way is getting all the attention at the moment. The daughter enlists her friends at school to be really mean to the girl. Then the girl sees someone who doesn't fit in with the other girls and approaches her. But the girl is unresponsive to any type of friendship... so far. I also remember the dr. was trying to prepare the girl (Anna?) for the upcoming trial of the mother. I had d this book sample under Urban Fiction on Google Play books. I really really want to read it in its entirety if only I could find out the title/author!!! A long description I know... can someone help please!!!

Good Me Bad Me, read this

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 29, 2019 - 6:59pm

Good Me Bad Me, read this when I was a bit too young? I never got around to finishing it because it seemed so horrifying but the plot was very interesting.

Help me find this book I read in elementary school around 2010

Submitted by Jane (not verified) on August 11, 2018 - 1:02am

This girl is orphaned I think and lives in a scary room in a home where nobody loves her, then she gets scared because she sees a shadow in the form of a boy. Eventually they become friends and go on an adventure to restore light back into the world (nobody has seen sunshine for years). There is a mean woman that they find out is named Gretel I think? Also they use these ashes in a box that have some type of magic. The boy takes her to see his shadow world too and it’s super trippy but she can’t stay for long. I remember loving this book and the concept of the kind ghost and the afterlife place that has crazy dimensions. If anybody knows what I’m thinking of that would make my day!! Also this may be totally wrong but I think there’s another thing with potatoes bc that’s the only plant they can grow in the cloudy world (i might just be thinking of the city of ember).

Liesl and Po by Lauren Oliver

Submitted by Mary Dicks (not verified) on March 25, 2020 - 9:26am

Liesl and Po by Lauren Oliver

Cant remember this book series

Submitted by Ashley Leonard (not verified) on August 11, 2018 - 1:14am

One of the books in the series the duke is married to his wife for 10 to 15 years and keeps his promise to give her children. They made a pact not to be physical for the first 10 years or their marriage. During the entire marriage the duke is in love with someone else.

This book could be Ravishing

Submitted by S. C. Day (not verified) on November 29, 2021 - 3:52pm

This book could be Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas. It's the 2nd book in the FitzHugh trilogy. The main male character is an Earl (called Fitz), and he and his young wife (Millicent) agree to wait eight years before consummating their marriage. The Earl wants to give his wife a child before he leaves her. The wife is in love with her husband, but never tells him. The Earl's first love returns as a widow with two young children, and wants to set up a household with the Earl. The Earl realizes what he would be sacrificing if he left his wife who he finally realizes he loves.

Going crazy, cant find this book

Submitted by Sofia (not verified) on August 11, 2018 - 5:32am

Hi! I have been trying to find this book I read I think 4 years ago. I dont remember the cover or the author but the book was about a girl who lives with her uncle, she goes to a bar with friends and meets a boy by the docks. She has powers or something like that, she goes to a special school where this boy is a warrior and she meets a girl who wants to be just as badass as he is. Along the story she befriends two hellhounds who are at the school on a cell and she brings them food. There is something else there she gives food to and later finds out its a dragon who saves her in a fight. The boy is her soulmate and during a fight where she and her friend are involved he arrives late a growls at everyone but her and she is told to go to him and just let him hold her. Later they ask her if they did something because of his behavior and she says they only kissed once in the infirmary..... if anyone knows the name the book help! I want to buy it and cant find it anywhere :) thanks!

Relentless by Karen lynch

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 2, 2020 - 6:55am

Relentless by Karen lynch

I read this book when I was

Submitted by Camille Ann (not verified) on August 11, 2018 - 11:18am

I read this book when I was so young I can’t remember the title or any characters in it but I remember the plot. It is a story about best friends but both are envious with each other’s life. Then they heard about this legend about a wall that if 2 people crossed that wall, their bodies will be switched. So they agreed to do it and it worked. But after the switch, the first person got home (her bestfriend’s home) and learned that her bestfriend’s family was murdered and her bestfriend is the prime suspect and since she became her bestfriend (physically), she tried to hide. Until she remembered her bestfriend’s favourite place (I think it’s her bestfriend’s gradparents’ barn) and hid there. But the police found her and arrested her. While she’s on their patrol car, it all came to her that the switching was all her hallucination that are caused by her depression that is a result of her bestfriend’s death. Please help me find the book. Thank you!

I think its rl stine

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 2, 2020 - 7:00am

I think its rl stine

The book is Switched by R. L.

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 29, 2020 - 9:53am

The book is Switched by R. L. Stine. :) I read the book earlier this year. It has a cool twist ending.

Help me fine the source of this quote

Submitted by Robert Armbruster (not verified) on August 11, 2018 - 12:26pm

I thought this was in Moby Dick, but can't find it. The gunner's mate says something like, "being a gunner, I think that the solution to most problems is guns"

Looking for a book about anthropomorphic foxes

Submitted by Katherine (not verified) on August 11, 2018 - 3:10pm

In the late 1990s, I was obsessed with a book about foxes. I'm *fairly* sure this was not a children's book, but cannot be sure. I remember that the main characters were all foxes who spoke (but otherwise acted like foxes--this wasn't a Rats of N.I.M.H. situation). It followed a few foxes in a community from the time they were kits all the way through adolescence. There was a mangey fox who lived in the swamp, who the kit-foxes all made fun of but I think he eventually saved their lives during the climax of the book? There was a three-legged fox. I think there was a cabin in the woods with a lantern. There was almost definitely a swamp. I'm fairly sure there was a bit of a romance between two of the adolescent foxes. I think at some point, there's a fire and the foxes are trying to escape it and they end up going into the mangey fox's swampland? (This book sounds SO WEIRD when I write it out.) I'm fairly sure that the cover was beige or teal, but not 100% sure because I think that makes me think of the Swallows & Amazons cover I have. But for some reason it's sticking out in my head as the same style. I'd be super grateful for any guesses or help--I've been looking for this book for years. I've submitted to the whatsthatbook and Loganberry Books as well.

An "African-American" woman

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on August 12, 2018 - 1:35am

An "African-American" woman that's a manager for a Japanese singer fall in love with each other

80's teen fiction

Submitted by Jenn (not verified) on August 12, 2018 - 3:08am

The story haunts me, but cannot find it anywhere. A teen girl is pulled out of class one day because her mother dropped dead from an aneurysm. Her aunt, a model taking time off because of a coldsore, picks her up and takes her home. They sit shiva. Her dad, unable to cope, takes her off to Miami during school break, and (things get vague here) as he retreats into sorrow more and more, she's left to her own devices and hooks up with a vaguely unsuitable guy. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I've been hunting this book for years. Thanks!

Looking for a book

Submitted by Joel (not verified) on August 12, 2018 - 3:48pm

I’m trying to remember a book I read about 30 years ago, I swore the title was teen dad but can’t find the book. It was about a young man who life was turned upside down when he becomes a father to a son named mason as he is about to start collage.

He's My Baby, Now by

Submitted by G (not verified) on December 28, 2018 - 7:34pm

He's My Baby, Now by Jeannette Eyerly ... ?

Or try No More Saturday

Submitted by G (not verified) on December 28, 2018 - 8:08pm

Or try No More Saturday Nights by Norma Klein (This one has a baby named Mason.)

Stephen King book

Submitted by Dee (not verified) on August 12, 2018 - 5:50pm

Im looking for the name of a book. Think written by Stephen King. Was also made into a movie. Its about a darkness that took over the world. A few people trying to outrun it. Eventually ending up in an airport, waching the darkness coming through the airplane window. Cant remember whether the people just disappear.

Is it the Langoliers? It's a

Submitted by Beckie (not verified) on August 15, 2018 - 4:37pm

Is it the Langoliers? It's a short story by Stephen King, from the book Four Past Midnight..

I believe you are looking for

Submitted by Jo Firla (not verified) on August 15, 2018 - 10:26pm

I believe you are looking for the Langoliers

Trying to find a book

Submitted by Will (not verified) on August 12, 2018 - 11:13pm

I'm trying to find a book I read years ago, I remember it being about a girl in high school who talks to a ghost of a man who was killed years in the past and someway she goes back in time and save him and they end up dating, sorry if the details are too vague but i can't hardly remember the plot but i would like to read it again...

Might be The Mediator Series

Submitted by Kelsey (not verified) on September 30, 2021 - 5:52am

Might be The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot.

Photographer and the red head

Submitted by Michael (not verified) on August 12, 2018 - 11:45pm

So my dad had an audio book that I never knew the title to, but listened to the as a kid and have been dying to find it ever since. I believe its about a German immigrant (Hans I think is the name, but I could be wrong), who falls in love with cameras. He also meets a red head and they have a sordid love affair, getting caught in bed by her father, and I think he ends up breaking Hans' camera. I th8nk the story takes place in New York, but I could be wrong. Sorry if this isn't much help, but I was like, 5 or 6, and I don't think my dad knew I was listening to this audio book, and he listened to it two or three times, and I just never k ew what it was or who wrote it, but I would love to read it as a grown up now.

Photographer and the red head

Submitted by Stuart E (not verified) on February 6, 2021 - 3:06pm

Perhaps: The Museum of Extraordinary Things, by Alice Hoffman

I forgot the name of this book

Submitted by Lexi (not verified) on August 13, 2018 - 2:24am

There was this book that I have already read, but I don't remember the name of it and I really want to find it to read it again! If I remember correctly (I barely remember.), it was about a mom and her daughter that moved really close to a forest and (I think) at one point she followed a cat into the forest. It was a white cat. Eventually she found someone in the forest (?) and every night the girl had to hurry home. But the person she met took the girl to her world, where her friend (who was much older now) lived in a house. The girl knocked on the door once and got to know her. | I don't remember anything else. someone please help me find the book

Book where girl follows cat?

Submitted by Emily Mannlein (not verified) on June 6, 2020 - 10:40pm

I know it's been a few years but could it be the Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn? The girl's dad is dead so it is just her and her mom. She follows a ghost cat and meets a girl- except for in that book, she goes back in time to her neighbor's childhood friend who died. But she gets to know her new neighbor, an older woman who at first didn't like her, through this adventure. When the neighbor was a kid, she took the other girl's doll, but was never able to give it back and felt bad. So she buried it in the garden with a note. The main character finds it in her yard, figures out who it belongs to and gives it back hoping it could change the past. But the friend still died. I don't know when the "modern" part was supposed to be but I think the neighbor was a kid in the early 1900s or late 1800s.

book without a title

Submitted by Stephen Blair (not verified) on August 13, 2018 - 8:11am

There is a children's book in which an evil owl has metamorphized into the mayor of a city. A child or children have to expose him guided by the proverbs " call a spade a spade" and "delve deeper." Unfortunately, I can't recall the author or the title.

Old Children's Book about a lion with no hair?

Submitted by Mariyta (not verified) on August 13, 2018 - 12:51pm

I had a book when i was a kid about a lion who either had no hair or gave all his hair to birds or something like that. Then the birds brought him leaves to replace his hair. It was a big book, maybe 8x10, hardcover, with several stories. The lion was on the cover. It was possibly from the 60s or 70s?

Lion and Mouse Book

Submitted by Amanda (not verified) on February 18, 2021 - 1:23pm

I’m looking for the same book I had growing up as well. Read it in the early 90s. Remember the lion story and it having multiple stories in it... and that’s about it. Did you have any luck finding the book?

YA Romance

Submitted by Madison (not verified) on August 14, 2018 - 2:33am

There's this book about two teenagers in high school. The girl is hispanic and the boy is white. The father of the girl is the gardener for the boy's parents house. One day she's in her dad's truck and the boy scares her? and she spills her coffee on herself and the boy helps her clean it up. The girl's family gets deported somewhere near the middle/end of the book. By the end the boy doesn't take the soccer scholarship and moves to Mexico with his girlfriend. Please help find it!

Young children's book

Submitted by Jen (not verified) on August 14, 2018 - 7:39am

Read it in the 70's in elementary school library many times as a young child. About a brother and sister (orphans?) meet a old man-small house and they bake cookies. (I know it's sounds like the start to a child molester case-but that's all the real details I can remember...)

Little Cookie House/Shop?

Submitted by Mer (not verified) on August 12, 2020 - 4:56pm

Hi i read a similar book, small and paperback. Pen and ink illustrations? A girl bakes cookies maybe with the help of an older woman neighbor in a vacant small hoise for rent. Pretty sure there was a little brother. The man they met was a large landlord who was angry they were using the house to bake,but then liked the taste of the cookies and allwed them to use the house as a cookie shop. I cannot find info on this book ANYWHERE. Same book?

HELPPP

Submitted by Anne (not verified) on August 14, 2018 - 11:51am

So i remember reading this book (not sure if it was online or a proper book) where these two people ( a guy and a girl) wake up in the middle of the day to find that they don't remember anything. So the story goes on and it turns out that there is a spell/curse thing on them that makes them renew themselves once everyday of the week, and they find that there have been others before them and take help from notes that the ones before them have left behind.They do this too, for the ones after them and try to figure out whats happening to them. Then this one day, they're in a hotel room and the guy thinks that the cause of this is love. Basically, they dated in their 'past life' but broke up because of problems between their families, and the guy thinks that if they fall in love again, like how 'fate' decided, they could be normal again. So they try this and it works and then there is like a 'years later' scene where they are married and they have a kid and the author leaves it on a cliffhanger; they're kid and her boyfriend are going through exactly what they did. I hope i find the story...it was amazing. Thanks!

Glimmer?

Submitted by Mayhaps (not verified) on July 15, 2020 - 2:09pm

It could maybe be Glimmer by Phoebe Kitanidis. I read it years ago and the plot seems kinda similar although I don't remember the ending.

Romance/Mystery/Fiction Book

Submitted by Rebekah Bears (not verified) on August 14, 2018 - 2:25pm

So, I have this book I read a few years back. I remember a lot of the plot, but I can't find it. It's likely the author was similar to Linda Howard/Julie Garwood/ Iris Johansen, as those are the kinds of authors I was reading at the time. So, it starts off with a teenage girl who plans to run away. She goes to meet someone she met on the internet (to the best of my memory), and gets kidnapped by people who take young girls and sell them. She's taken, and listed on a site to be sold. A woman comes into play (who I believe has a personal reason for working on cases such as this one), and she's trying to find the girl. There's a man who's helping her, who I believe is the romantic interest. They find her, and I remember the woman is surprised by how strong the teenage girl is, and has her lead the younger/weaker girls out while she deals with the bad guys. There's a fire somehow, and that's about all I remember. Please help me find this book.

A teenage girl with a famous father.

Submitted by Amelia Washington (not verified) on August 14, 2018 - 5:46pm

I read this book a bit ago. It was about a girl with a middle eastern single mother. When she was twelve she thought her dad was a famous rockstar and sent him letters but never got a response. Then a few years later, the famous guy shows up at her doorstep saying that he is her father. He takes her and her best friend to go see his dad, who is dying. It would have been published around 2015 - 2018.

very nice

Submitted by Sean Wiseman (not verified) on February 12, 2021 - 7:40am

very nice....it reminds me of my dad...

Fantasy

Submitted by Fen Chen (not verified) on August 15, 2018 - 1:12am

When i was a litte girl,i remembered i have read a interesting book.But for some reason,i lost it.Beacause it lost some pages beginning and end part,so i don't know what the full story.The only thing i remember is there was a girl who dream and see herself in ice kingdom,she help people in that kingdom.When she wake up,everything is dissapear,when she sleep,it happened again.Thanks for someone find book for me.

Help to find out a book

Submitted by Rohit Solanki (not verified) on August 15, 2018 - 11:54am

Hi, I am trying to recall a book that I read 4 yrs back but hardly remember anything,even the title and the author.There is a whole series of crime thriller by that author.It is a story where young boys are being kidnaped and killed.The killer turns out to be the priest/ father of the church.The priest/father is tortured when he was young so he murders young boys.

It might be...

Submitted by Frederika Bain (not verified) on September 20, 2019 - 9:42pm

An Ice Cold Grave in the Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris

i was reading a book that had

Submitted by Wendy (not verified) on August 16, 2018 - 8:03am

i was reading a book that had 3 sisters and 3 brothers dating each other and 1 of the sisters used to make edibles and sell them

I remember starting to read

Submitted by Rose (not verified) on February 23, 2022 - 5:22am

I remember starting to read this book on wattpad bl about a main male protagonist working at this hotel which is visited by three attractive dragon emperor guys that ultimately take interest/fall in love with him. Does anyone have an idea of what it may be called?

Trying to find the title of a book I read as a kid

Submitted by Traci (not verified) on August 16, 2018 - 11:17am

My mom and I have been searching for this book we used to read together when I was a kid for years and have had no luck. It was about a mom and a daughter - the mother was sick, with I think cancer, and every time they saw a sunset together they would hold hands and say "click" taking a mental picture of that sunset together. I'd love to find it again!

I have been trying to

Submitted by Kaylee Wells (not verified) on April 11, 2019 - 8:02pm

I have been trying to remember the name of this book as well!

Maybe one by Lurlene McDaniel

Submitted by BH (not verified) on June 22, 2020 - 3:20pm

Maybe one by Lurlene McDaniel?

They murdered her mother!

Submitted by McKayla (not verified) on August 16, 2018 - 3:28pm

I can't seem to remember the name of this book. It's young adult fiction and it's about this girl and her boyfriend who are on a mission to find information about the girl's mother. They go to her mother's hometown to try to find stuff and go into the mother's old best friend's house. There they find a journal of the girl's mother and an alter ego. The fbi and police are after them. The two men who killed her mother want to kill her too. APparently the popular politician is her father and is working with the men to kill her

Hi everyone. I've loved this

Submitted by Megan (not verified) on August 17, 2018 - 1:08am

Hi everyone. I've loved this one book since my teen years but I can't remember the title for the life of me. I thought it was written by Cornelia Funke but after searching it hasn't come up. I read it about 9 years ago but it could have been published a while before that. The story involves a boy named Daniel who has to talk to the elderly for a project at school. He meets this nice old lady that encourages him to get out and be more social. Eventually he meets this girl (I think it is his neighbour but I'm not sure) she always hangs out with her little brother who I remember has a head full of black curls. She is very secretive and does not share too much about her life with Daniel which eventually becomes a source of conflict, until one day she suddenly disappears. Daniel then finds out that she has been taken (I think to a boat) by a man who he later finds out was the girls ex and that her little brother is actually her child but because she was so young (I think she was raped by the ex) that her parents thought it would be better to make it "their" child. Anyways, Daniel fights off the bad guy and saves the day, in the end the old lady that he has gotten so close to becomes his adoptive grandma. I've searched for this book for so long, I hope that at least someone else has read it and knows the title!

I would love to hold this book again

Submitted by Deb Santucci (not verified) on August 17, 2018 - 11:25am

When I was a child in the 70's the Scholastic book order yielded a story I still love and half remember. The main character is Annika (sp?) who spends much time in apparent solitude in the rooms of her grandmother's house. There are opposing forces with whom she contends, in the form of living (though to other eyes) mechanical miniature animals from shelves of a curio cabinet. The dog is kind, wise, and like a dear relative to Annika while the mechanical/ live cat I remember as providing a great threat. It was a story gripping to me. I've looked through second-hand stacks for it for years.

I think I know

Submitted by Phoebe (not verified) on March 2, 2020 - 11:28pm

Is it No Flying in the House by Betty Brock?

That's the one!

Submitted by Patrice (not verified) on April 5, 2021 - 6:08pm

YES I searched through these comments hoping that book was in there. All I remembered was the little girl didn't have parents and her friend was a magic dog.

M is for Mischief (I think that's the title.)

Submitted by Deb Santucci (not verified) on August 17, 2018 - 11:37am

On moving to a new home siblings playing in the summerhouse are intrigued by an unusual oven and cookbook there. The oven dial can be turned to "M" for magical results. Ethical dilemmas are the heart of the story. The children turn a boy they don't like into a donkey (or perhaps, give him donkey ears). Is there a copy of this anywhere? It is one of two favorite 70's childhood books of mine. It came from the Scholastic book club.

Magical Stove

Submitted by Allyson (not verified) on May 21, 2020 - 10:15pm

The book you are describing is M For Mischief by Richard Parker. It’s available on Amazon!

I'm looking for a book that

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on August 18, 2018 - 3:07am

I'm looking for a book that was filled with short stories. One specific story was a Carrie inspired one where a author met a girl and she was obsessed with his work. She stole his laptop and tried to keep it away from him. Another short story was about a guy skinny dipping with a girl and she turned out to be a weird creature. I think. Please help! It was multiple stories...

Children's story about a glass statue?

Submitted by Monica W (not verified) on August 18, 2018 - 9:07pm

Around 1993-1994, in Canada, our 3rd Grade class read a story (possibly a short story or a novel excerpt, possibly in a compilation of stories) about a girl who lived with her father. Her mother was either missing or dead. The girl possibly goes on an adventure, but it kicks off or ends with her finding a giant glass (?) angel (?) sculpture on their front lawn? I've been wondering what the heck the story was about all these years. Please let me know if you recognise the story!

Help me find this book.

Submitted by Abel (not verified) on August 19, 2018 - 6:08am

Hello guys. I need to find this book. Although I can't remember much about the book. It's a story about a little child abandoned in the wild and was raised by wolf and one voice or spirit called AZ. Thanks

Hi, I read this book a few

Submitted by F (not verified) on August 19, 2018 - 2:46pm

Hi, I read this book a few years ago and can't remember the title of the book. Basically, the story is about a young woman that comes back to her hometown to work in her mother's pub, thinking that one day the pub will be hers. She, later on, discovers that her mother has sold her pub to a young man. This is a series of book and each book talks about one of their group of friends.

Help me to find a book- Fiction

Submitted by Sanjeev Oberoi (not verified) on August 19, 2018 - 3:03pm

the storyline of a book dont remember is that a woman and the main protagonist open a club for women to come and satisfy their sexual needs discreetly and in a decent fashion There is even a very private visit by the Vice President of the USA.

Could this be Butterfly? Don

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on June 15, 2019 - 2:36pm

Could this be Butterfly? Don't remember the author.

By Kathryn Harvey

Submitted by Nikki (not verified) on May 21, 2021 - 5:09am

By Kathryn Harvey

The main female character is

Submitted by Kat Nicky (not verified) on August 19, 2018 - 3:22pm

The main female character is 18. She is mated to the heir of one magical kingdom. Her fater is the heir to the opposing magical kingdom. She loves to run, and it evemtually leads to teleportation.

help!!

Submitted by Julianna (not verified) on August 19, 2018 - 7:40pm

hi. i've been trying to find out about this book for a while now and it's just bugging me on how i can't remember it. basically, the plot, from what i remember, is this: the protagonist is a girl around the age of 12, I believe. She is an orphan and has gotten adopted just recently, them being the aunt and uncle of her dead parents. she goes to the house. and her aunt is somewhat delusional? i mean, the aunt thought that the protagonist was her dead daughter cuz they look similar. she's told not to go near the aunt's son's room, since he's been sick (for a long time, too). slowly but surely, the protagonist is able to hear and see the ghost of the aunt's eldest daughter. though, her intent was malicious, seeking vengance on her little brother for "pushing her off the roof of the house" that they were playing on (which was false, the little cousin was trying to defend himself and accidentally knocked her over.) that's all i really remember.

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

Submitted by Bethany (not verified) on April 16, 2021 - 2:52pm

The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall by Mary Downing Hahn

youth scifi book series(?) from mid-80's

Submitted by Josh N. (not verified) on August 19, 2018 - 9:39pm

Read about you on my NYT daily newsletter and so glad I did! Been trying to find a youth scifi series I read as a child. The only details I remember: there were 3 main characters, 2 men and 1 woman. The wife of one of the men was killed by robots previously; he was traumatized and distrustful of robots. They were all traveling together on a Millennium Falcon-esque spaceship that might have been named something like "Voyager" and might have been sentient/talking variety. Any help...?

short story read in the late

Submitted by cml (not verified) on August 19, 2018 - 10:42pm

short story read in the late 90s, printed possibly as early as the sixties or seventies? girl comes back home from fat camp: she has a magical or witchy family in some way, possibly just mom and grandmother, and the story revolves around preparing for and attending a "fete" at which the devil arrives, possibly in the form of a relative (the only line i remember clearly is about everybody at the potluck yelling Avaunt, avaunt!). she also has a locket sealed by yellowish goo or resin which she picks open by the end of the story.

Altogether, One at a Time

Submitted by Me (not verified) on October 10, 2020 - 1:41pm

The short story is "Camp Fat" from "Altogether, One at a Time" by E.L. Konigsburg. A counselor at fat camp gives the girl a goo-covered locket; she picks off the goo and the locket plays "Au Clair de Lune." Later, the counselor is revealed to be a ghost or something. (She's from the past, and hasn't worked there for years.) Unfortunately, I think the devil, the potluck, and "Avaunt, Avaunt" are from something else entirely...I don't remember them in that story or any other story in that compilation.

omg

Submitted by cml (not verified) on January 26, 2021 - 11:20pm

the other stuff must have been in one of the other stories in the compilation. thank you!!

omg

Submitted by cml (not verified) on January 26, 2021 - 11:23pm

(the compilation was actually one put together by the teacher, so there were several dozen short stories in it)

Children's book from 90s/2000s

Submitted by Alyssa-Jayne (not verified) on August 19, 2018 - 11:08pm

I remember reading a book in my childhood, maybe when I was around 10 (so likely 2003 or earlier). What I can remember is very vague. I feel it was a short illustrated chapter book, tall and slim with a bold picture of a tall building with illuminated windows. The title may have had the number 11 or 13 in it... something like "The Eleventh Hour" or "The Eleventh Storey". It was a mystery about a child or maybe siblings whose parents have died and they are sent to stay at this distant relative's home which is a large haunted looking mansion or hotel. I remember a feast with loads of bizarre guests who may or may not be ghosts or other supernatural beings. I also remember something about the word "BEWARE" being written backwards on the wall and it has to be viewed in a mirror for the character to realise what it says. So basically a kid's mystery book, some kind of numbers or time is involved, there's a mansion/hotel and clues written backwards on the walls. Thoughts?

I have also been looking for

Submitted by Jacia Foote (not verified) on May 20, 2021 - 8:46am

I have also been looking for this book! Any luck yet?

Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base?

Submitted by Jaunty Rockefeller (not verified) on July 1, 2021 - 8:36pm

What you describe shares many elements with Graeme Base’s “Eleventh Hour,” an illustrated mystery with clues embedded in the illustrations (messages written in reverse, patterns in the wallpaper, etc.). It centers on a large birthday feast, though the characters are all anthropomorphic animals, no human children being sent to an uncle’s mansion.

Book title

Submitted by Kay (not verified) on August 20, 2018 - 12:30am

I can't remember everything but i know it was about a young girl and her dad , her mom had passed away giving birth to her brother i remember something about dust please help

I think I've read this

Submitted by Emily Mannlein (not verified) on May 18, 2020 - 8:29pm

Sounds like "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse- the mom gets badly burned and both she and the baby die. Do you remember it being historical fiction and written in verse (like poetry)?

Help me

Submitted by Olivia (not verified) on August 20, 2018 - 5:23pm

There’s this book that I read last year, it was about a girl who had a guy best friend and when they were little his dad tried to get them to do weird stuff but they escaped and then he ran away and finicky came back in high school then ran away again

Can't find the name of this book!

Submitted by Casey (not verified) on August 21, 2018 - 12:23am

Okay I read this book when I was a kid, I'm sure it was some kind of children's book or at least in the children's section of the library where I would have gotten it. I can only remember some strange details such as that the main characters I believe are a brother and sister, I think the beginning takes place in a museum and they are in the gift shop at some point and a teapot is important/involved? They end up finding the missing will to some man who was involved with the museum and it was missing because one of his family members (a woman, I think) hid it. There's also a skeleton with a raincoat that's important, maybe the cover of the book but I can't remember

I think I know this....

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 31, 2019 - 1:13am

This might be the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg Or a Skulduggery Pleasant (features skeletons) book.

Looking for children's book about an elf and leaves

Submitted by Petra Dreiser (not verified) on August 21, 2018 - 4:29pm

I am looking to find a friend's beloved children's book about which he cannot remember much. It's supposed to be a 30th birthday surprise. It's an illustrated children's book/story read to my frined when he was around five (so early 1990s) in Trinidad. The story features someone raking leaves and an elf who was either the personification of the wind or who just out of mischief kept blowing the pile of leaves away. At one point, though, the elf gets caught in a bag. Can someone help? Thank you your efforts!

That might be Abigail The

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on May 30, 2019 - 8:38am

That might be Abigail The Breeze Fairy, part of the Rainbow Magic series

Coma???

Submitted by Meno (not verified) on August 21, 2018 - 6:07pm

So I read this one book when i was around the age of 12 or so but it was about this teenage girl who was in a coma or something and she had all these flashbacks from her life or something?? It contained sex scenes or something of the sorts. That may be completly wrong but I know for sure the cover of the book was blue and it had a gumball machine on it.I think the gumball machine had multicolored gumballs in it?

Sounds like If I Stay

Submitted by Kyra (not verified) on February 8, 2020 - 6:37pm

Sounds like If I Stay

Children's book from the 80s?

Submitted by Kimberly (not verified) on August 21, 2018 - 6:25pm

My mother used to read a book to me that was about the months of the year. It began, "January, cold as ice/ Is skating time for little mice." It has been driving us both crazy for years! I was born in '86, so it was likely published in the 80s or early 90s. Anyone have any ideas?

Sounds like Chicken Soup with

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 15, 2020 - 11:34pm

Sounds like Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak

Help me find this book

Submitted by Susan Godshall (not verified) on August 21, 2018 - 9:03pm

I'm trying to find the name of a young adult book written in the 1950's about a happy family in Minnesota. It focuses on winter sports, and an outsider (cousin?) comes to stay, learns to ski jump and quickly becomes a ski jumping prodigy. There is a Scandinavian flavor and I think a recipe for meat pasties, which the kids take with them for hearty lunches on their outdoor adventures. It is a pleasant coming-of-age story.

Book identification

Submitted by Carla Kozak (not verified) on April 4, 2019 - 4:49pm

I think this might be Granite Harbor, by Dorothy Maywood Bird. It’s set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the mid-1940s, but skiing is definitely a part of it. The main character moves in with the family next door when her parents move back to Texas or wherever they’re from.

"brain in a vat" sci-fi

Submitted by Bjorn (not verified) on August 22, 2018 - 1:12am

The story as I can recall if are some intelligent robots that were exploring their planet and near the end the manage to break into some place they'd never been - and found the brains of whom they used to be - in containers and hooked to the computer network from where the robots ran. This would be both pre-matrix and pre-internet. Most likely an author of some distinction as I would have read it translated to Swedish.

Read it Years Ago and Can’t Remember the Name

Submitted by Felicity (not verified) on August 22, 2018 - 7:14am

I read this book in middle primary school and it was children-young adult kinda mid range aimed. I know that it has an audiobook adaptation if that helps. What I remember about the actual book is as follows. The start of the book has something about a petrol station and there’s red dust (or my 10 year old self may have just added that bit in) and then the main character/characters is/are taken to this compound where they’re forced to develop these gifts, the most memorable one was telekinesis. The main characters also discover a whole bunch of people in comas which I feel like they had to try to save. There are two people, I think they were twins, but they were definitely brothers with ridiculously powerful telekinesis who I’m pretty sure had control of the compound and were the oldest of the gifted. When the main character first meets them, they are using their power to manipulate playing cards and they live seperately to the others. It’s pretty vague, but I figure this is worth a shot. Thanks in advance (even if you don’t recognise it).

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on June 4, 2021 - 10:00pm

okay, so i'm not sure if this book does have telekinesis since i've read something like this a few years ago. the book is called "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar And 6 More" by Roald Dahl. again, not sure if it's the one you're looking for, but i vividly remember a guy named henry who can read through cards, and uses that at casinos to become rich. anyways, hope this helped :))

Accidental shooting - novel

Submitted by Theo (not verified) on August 22, 2018 - 4:59pm

I read an excellent novel many years ago about a boy who goes next door with his neighbor's son to look at a his father's gun. Whilst handling the gun, it goes off accidently and the bullet goes through the window and kills his stepbrother (sister?) who is still a toddler and is playing in a kiddies blow-up pool in the garden. It deals with the repercussions of the shooting in a very sensitive manner.

Hi, I read this book but can

Submitted by Nadine jiahd (not verified) on August 23, 2018 - 8:54am

Hi, I read this book but can't remember the name, it begins with the hero waiting in his car for the heroine to get out of prison where she was accused and charged for murdering the hero's brother in his house where she worked as either a babysitter or as a housekeeper, I'm not really sure which. Then he takes her away from the press to his house to keep her from harming his brother's wife and child.

True Story

Submitted by Patricia Stack (not verified) on August 24, 2018 - 1:43am

I am looking for a book that is from a doctor or nurses point of view. Memories of the different babies that had been affected by prenatal drug exposure.

Forgot the title

Submitted by Annaniya (not verified) on August 24, 2018 - 3:28am

The book had something to do with the last name of Goodman. I don't really remember too much but the children's parents died at Birth. After the father's passed away the children went into foster care. The best friend which is the boy got adopted bye a woman who everybody thought was the village witch. And the girl got adopted by a family with a lot of kids. And every time the mother would get pregnant she would lose the baby and she started having bad dreams.

Vietnam War and its heros

Submitted by Robert/Ann Mattingly (not verified) on August 24, 2018 - 11:00am

I would like to find the book written about the Vietnam War and some of its heroes. Especially on the cover is a picture of my cousin. name of John Libs along with others I think Thank you

Is it Mud Soldiers by George

Submitted by Christine S. (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 6:46pm

Is it Mud Soldiers by George Wilson?

There are 2books I have been

Submitted by Zee (not verified) on August 24, 2018 - 11:09am

There are 2books I have been trying to find. First one is about a girl who works as an a live-in nanny and was kidnapped and taken by a pirate who said she was his mate. They then turned out to be “kelpies” water horses. It’s been along time I can’t remember much. Second book is about a girl who was kidnapped while she was going to her friends house and the man who took her let her go only to turn into wolfs and chase her to kill her. She was saved by a back wolf. I didn’t read all the story hopefully it’s enough information? Please and thank you.

Help! I remember this book I

Submitted by Christine Streier (not verified) on August 25, 2018 - 12:26am

Help! I remember this book I read a couple years ago that was about a teen girl who starts running with this boy she meets and they make playlists for each other to run to! I'm pretty sure she has a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend too, but they end up liking each other! Cant remember any names just the ipod playlists and the running!

hey! i vaguely remember

Submitted by jay (not verified) on June 3, 2020 - 10:20pm

hey! i vaguely remember reading something similar to this! while I don't know the exact title, I'm pretty sure it's something by Sarah Dessen. You might want to give that a go, cheers!

The truth about forever by

Submitted by jessica davis (not verified) on February 19, 2021 - 5:09am

The truth about forever by Sarah Dessen?

Since You’ve Been Gone?

Submitted by Sloane (not verified) on July 19, 2021 - 2:24am

This sounds like Since you’ve been gone by Morgan Matson!

The book

Submitted by Mj (not verified) on August 25, 2018 - 8:37am

Hi,so I've been trying so hard to find this book .... I can't really remember much the only part in the book which stands out to me is when she requests/dedicates the song "You and your hand (U + ur hand) by Pink to him" .

Looking for this book

Submitted by Tammy (not verified) on August 25, 2018 - 12:48pm

Romance about a one night stand that results in a pregnancy she confronts him at work to tell him, they marry against his brothers advice, brother tries to break them up, she gets sick and is told it’s her or the baby, chooses the baby and tells the husband too as well. Goes into labour and the husband chooses her. Mum and baby survive and they all live happily ever after

The Billionaires Heir

Submitted by Ore Ajewole (not verified) on March 28, 2019 - 9:43am

The Billionaires Heir

I read this book in middle

Submitted by Parker (not verified) on August 25, 2018 - 2:16pm

I read this book in middle school like ten years ago. It’s about a young girl who writes journals for one of her classes that the teacher responds to. I remember that the girl had a really tough life and was taking care of her little brother (i think) and the teacher was asking the girl to get help or something? The parents were possibly dead??

The journaling sounds like

Submitted by Val (not verified) on February 6, 2021 - 5:44am

The journaling sounds like Push by Sapphire.

Help me find this book

Submitted by Lily (not verified) on August 25, 2018 - 10:00pm

Okay. So, it was a book about two sisters. One died due to a car accident while the other survived. The girl who survived mentioned her sister's name when she was asked by someone of authority on what her name was. Ever since then, she pretended to be her sister. Also, the girl who survived was into arts and was supposed to go to an Art School with her best friend who liked her. In the end, she told everyone the truth about what everything.

This book

Submitted by Sandy (not verified) on June 18, 2019 - 12:39pm

I have been searching for this forever. Did you ever figure it out?

I think you mean ‘the secrets

Submitted by Sjieuwke (not verified) on February 6, 2021 - 7:55pm

I think you mean ‘the secrets we keep’ by Trisha Leaver.

Help me find this book.

Submitted by Charmilly (not verified) on August 26, 2018 - 3:13pm

I read a book a couple of years ago and the details are a bit murky so any help locating this book would be greatly appreciated. The story starts off with a writer who lives in southern France with her husband and daughter. I think she was American but I'm not 100% sure. She goes off on assignment to write a cook book and she is accompanied by a male photographer. At first they don't get along but they eventually start an affair. She is away fro her family for long periods of times and every time she has to return home she's torn because her home life is so chaotic and uneventful but life on the road is fun and exotic. She gets to see different places and have all these grate experiences. She eventually chooses to go back to her family and the affair ends. That's pretty much the gist of it. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

Please help me find this novel!

Submitted by Alma (not verified) on August 26, 2018 - 7:48pm

Hi, thank you for taking your time to read this. I've been searching for this book for about five years, and I'm not exaggerating. It's a mystery novel about a murder that the main character tries to solve. The victim, a woman, shows up at an iced lake in a white dress after her death and frightens the main character. She tries to solve the murder and befriends – I think the sister of the victim. Her name is Alice and she's a painter that lives in a circular house with a lot of windows. In the end it turns out that she is the murderer and has been dressing up as the victim to scare the main character, in the climax Alice tries to kill the main character but fails. I think the novel is from maybe the 60's or earlier. I know there's a ton of plot holes and it's not exactly logical, but I appreciate all help! Thank you so much in advance.

Mistress of Mellyn?

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on August 29, 2019 - 7:22pm

This has many of the same elements as Mistress of Mellyn by Victoria Holt, with the dead wife named Alice.

Fiction

Submitted by Ray (not verified) on August 26, 2018 - 10:00pm

I believe it's a short story. I'm trying to remember the name. It's about a guy with a station wagon who races the devil. He is winning and has a blow out and loses. The devil makes him his chauffeur. I read it probably 35 years ago. Anybody ever heard of it?

Station wagon races the devil

Submitted by Ted Wilson (not verified) on March 16, 2021 - 2:59am

Bill and his station wagon lose to the devil. The story is in “…Who needs Enemies” by Alan Dean Foster. The Last Run," copyright © 1982 by Mercury Press, Inc.; first appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction

Science fiction book...possibly part of the title is Max

Submitted by Patricia (not verified) on August 27, 2018 - 7:28pm

The time is in the future. The population has grown to such an extent that there is no land left. Animals are all extinct and there is a zoo of animals that have been stuffed, so people can see what they looked like. I remember one section of the book where it is someone's birthday and friends are taking her (or him) a few vegetables from their secret garden. They are on a bus and have had to carefully hide the vegetables because, if found, it will start a riot since fresh foods are a thing of the past (unless you manage to find a tiny plot of land to plant). There is a building somewhere that older people (and possibly ill people) can go when they are ready to die...don't remember how they die, only that they can. The population is so extreme that having a baby has been outlawed. I think a couple might be pregnant and are trying to find a way to escape (to what, I don't remember). I read this book years ago and many books since but this particular one has stayed with me and I would love to read it again.

I'm looking for a book I read

Submitted by Alex (not verified) on August 29, 2018 - 4:15am

I'm looking for a book I read back in middle school. It was about 2 brothers who go stay in the suburbs with one of their parents (divorced) for the summer and they become friends with a homeless boy who basically stays in the woods nearby. They become more and more comfortable with each other until the boy's dad disapproves of the friendship and something happens in between but then the dad takes the boy in his RV and takes one of the brothers as well because he's unconscious. If I'm not mistaken the unconscious brother wakes up and manages to get away and ends up in Gilbert, AZ (where the other parent lives I believe). I might have some details wrong but that's basically the whole point of the book: 2 brothers making friends with an unknown boy

Driving me crazy

Submitted by Audrey (not verified) on August 29, 2018 - 6:14pm

Can someone help me find this book, I used to owne it but lent it to a friend who never gave it back and then moved! I can only remember the begining and the cover. Takes place in Ireland during the potato famine. A girl is with her brother at night and her brother decides to get food for the family by stealing from the grain she's but he ends up getting caught. The cover is gold with flowers and maybe a hill in the back with a blonde girl (16-18 years of age) on the left bottom corner.

Its from the Journey to

Submitted by Sari Ann Kiefer (not verified) on October 8, 2020 - 10:19pm

Its from the Journey to America books, Fiona McGilray's story: A Voyage from Ireland in 1849.

Please help me find this book!

Submitted by Lou (not verified) on August 29, 2018 - 8:11pm

So long ago I’d read the summary of a book about a young girl who’s in a relationship with an older guy he’s like 30 yo or something but the problem was his daughter who has nearly the same age as the main character! Does anyone know this book?

Been looking for this book forever

Submitted by Kelsey (not verified) on August 30, 2018 - 1:33am

So this is a book series and from what I remember the first book is about this girl who goes to a school for like heroes or something and everyone has a chosen weapon and hers is a talking sword. She works at her schools library and her boss is like a super strict no nonsense kind of dude. Then this guy comes to her school and I think everyone thinks hes awesome (again been a long time). Then someone breaks into the lib where they hold all of these artifacts and steals a powerful one (it might bave been her sword now that im thinking about it) so she is like gotta get it back and thus starts the whole series. I know it was kind of a vague discription but thats all i remember.

Mythos Academy by Jennifer

Submitted by Nadja (not verified) on March 2, 2020 - 9:13am

Mythos Academy by Jennifer Estep - either the Gwen Frost series, or the Spartan series with Rory Forseti; they both have talking swords.

Been looking for this book forever (YA)

Submitted by Kelsey (not verified) on August 30, 2018 - 1:50am

This is about a girl who eats dreams or dirives power from others dreams and she goes to this mafical school where i think other people can do magic to but she is one of the few that do this type of magic and I think other people think she is weird or like suspicious of her. Her mother can do this type of magic to but I think she is evil which also doesn't help her situation. So she has to crawl into peoples rooms and feed on their dreams or something and one night she was doing that and the dude she was feeding from woke up and was like etc and she was like 'lol bye' or something. And yiu know its a YA book so they get together.

Are you still looking? I can

Submitted by Alisyn Wright (not verified) on April 2, 2020 - 5:55am

Are you still looking? I can't remember the name but I own it and can look for it.

I can't remember the name but

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 2, 2020 - 7:07am

I can't remember the name but I own it and can look for it if you haven't figured it out yet. Email me gymgirl33@comcast.net

Help

Submitted by Kelsey (not verified) on August 30, 2018 - 1:53am

This book is about some people wake up after they die better than before but the longer it takes to wake up the less emotion of feeling you have. There is this girl who woke up the latest i tgink it was like 174 mins or something and eceryone who wakes up has to go into thus militarynad everyone is scared of her. She meets this boy that woke up 2 mins after death and is like super emotional and they like liberate everyone or something

I FOUND IT! It's called

Submitted by Kelsey Cronin (not verified) on January 17, 2019 - 1:28am

I FOUND IT! It's called Reboot! I am so happy I found it

Need help finding a book.

Submitted by Will (not verified) on August 30, 2018 - 7:42am

I read this one book in highschool. It was probably the only book I fully read. It was kind of dark and not really my genre of book, but i had randomly picked it out and read it all out of boredom from school and ended up liking it for some reason. Heres what I remember: It was about a few friends from high school or school in general who were either from England,Scotland, or some other country near that area in which they speak mostly English. One day one of the friends commits suicide, and no one knows why, theres no note, no anything. However, he does it by riding his bike into the road and getting hit by a car, so his friends think it was morely an accident while the police and detectives are saying it was suicide probably. Enraged by the police and sad about their friends death, they remember that their friend had always wanted to be buried somewhere in the europe/england/scottland/UK area that had the same name as him. However he is cremated and his parents want him to stay there in the house. So the kids steal the ashes, take a train, and run off to the place with the same name. In the end, the kids bury his ashes at the place, the detectives find a suicide note, stating that part of the reason he had committed suicide was because of his friends. One was secretly dating his ex, a other was playing sports or something instead of hanging out with him like they always did, and a few others did some things which led to this moment.

Can anyone identify an old movie

Submitted by Ypsilanti (not verified) on August 30, 2018 - 3:12pm

Hi all, I would like to identify a movie I saw as a teenager (sometime in 1970's - cannot pinpoint the time any better). There was a man living in small cabin in the wilderness, I believe he was a trapper, and he was married to a mute woman (not sure if she was a native indian). His foot/leg got injured (not sure if he caught in a trap?) and the woman had to amputate hit leg at the knee to save his life. The movie was clearly set in the 19th century (somewhat reminiscent of James Fenimore Cooper's books) and this is all I remember. I would appreciate if anybody could let me know what movie this might be. Thanks.

The Trap with Oliver Reed

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on June 15, 2019 - 2:45pm

The Trap with Oliver Reed

Children's Picture Book from the 1970s maybe?

Submitted by Heather A Farmer (not verified) on August 31, 2018 - 7:10pm

I'm looking for a favorite children's picture book to surprise my sister for her 50th birthday. She read it in our school library (Camelot Elementary in San Antonio, TX) in the early 1970s. She remembers that it had a pink "crinkly cover" and it was about a young girl who had an upstairs reading room in her house that my sister described as "like a cupola." She said she doesn't know why, but her mind associates the book with Madeline L'Engle which may or may not be true. I'm sorry I don't have any more details.

The Velvet Room

Submitted by Candra McClanahan (not verified) on March 31, 2021 - 3:00am

I think maybe the book you are referring to could be The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. I have this book from the 1970s which had a pink cover and was published through Scholastic Book Services. The girl Robin in the story lives during the depression. Her family is always on the move until one day their car breaks down in a small town. She discovers a large abandoned mansion with a secluded alcove, complete with velvet cushions, inside the tower where she likes to read, dream and hide from the real world. Eventually a "ghost" and burglars intrude into her safe haven and force her to make new choices and find direction in her life. Great story and one of my all time favorites!!!

Book from the 1990s I think

Submitted by HelpMeFind (not verified) on August 31, 2018 - 10:33pm

I think I was in middle school when I read this book, but don't remember a lot about it. This book was about a female vampire in search of the vampire who killed her family and made her a vampire. He used a black rose (like a calling card maybe?). And there was a connection she had with a tiger in a cage. I never got to finish this book, and the characters and images I do remember really stay with me!! Help!

In the forest of the night by

Submitted by Casey (not verified) on November 17, 2020 - 11:44pm

In the forest of the night by Amelia Atwater Rhodes is the first one that comes to mind. Her other books are spectacular too!

Childrens story about feeding animals before eating yourself

Submitted by Si HIg (not verified) on August 31, 2018 - 11:48pm

This was a large format illustrated children's story I read in the early 70s - There is a house in the forest or some such setting and people traveling stumble across it, I think when they are in need. When the enter the cottage/house, there are animals also in a stall inside. There is food cooking in the fireplace and hay or grain in the room. When the animals beg to be fed first and the person feeds themselves first instead, the person is turned into an animal and added to the stall. I don't recall what the reward was for the person that finally did feed the animals first, but I seem to recall it saved the previous people-turned-into-animals.

Please help me find this book

Submitted by Ruth (not verified) on September 1, 2018 - 1:41am

I'm looking for an old children's picture book about a mother telling her daughter about her life, her grandmothers life, and her great grandmothers life when they were her age.

True story of three bears, Canadian book for teens, ca. 1972

Submitted by Ute (not verified) on September 2, 2018 - 6:30am

Hi - somewhere near 1974 I read the German version of a Canadian Book for children aged 12 (?) or 14 years and older. It was telling the true story of three motherless bearcups and a man who helped them to survive in the woods. One of the bears was named Rusty or Dusty and was finally shot (by hunters?). I believe, it was a reward winning book. And I am not sure at all, but there might have been the word "river" or the name of a river in the title. Many thanks. : )

Just a guess

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on January 24, 2021 - 10:46pm

Your book may be The Bears and I: Raising Three Cubs in the North Woods by Robert Franklin Leslie. It was published in 1975,

the book i need to find is

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 2, 2018 - 12:57pm

the book i need to find is about this woman who ends up with this man who's possessive over her and they have sex a lot ( yikes ) and they go on this trip to find his child, but the woman didn't know about that until the end and eventually they get there and he kills his baby's mother and the woman either killed the man or the cops got him. these details are kinda all over the place but this is what i remember from the book

Serial killer-amnesia

Submitted by TBcat (not verified) on September 2, 2018 - 3:17pm

Hi all. I've tried searching for this book I read when I was a young teen. Around 20 years ago. It's about a woman who returns to her hometown for some reason or the other. But her memory of her younger years is vague and it involves Friends of hers being killed. Hence the amnesia. But while she's home, killings like the one that involved her friends start happening again. Long story short, it ends with her being the original killer but having no memory of it. Split personality or something along those lines. But throughout the book the writer refers to a stack of papers on her desk that seems to be getting higher every morning when she wakes up. It's only at the end of the book that the reader discovers the woman/serial killer has actually been writing down the details of each kill. Leaving a book so to speak of each kill. I've searched but have yet to find it. There's even a part that mentions a mother pulling hard on a child's arm dislocating the elbow and the main character can relate because her own mother had done it to her. Any of this ringing a bell?

Looking for a book! Please help/respond

Submitted by Carolina (not verified) on September 3, 2018 - 7:44am

Hi there! So I have been looking for this book for quite some time now, and it is driving me crazy. I read it as a young teen and now as a grown adult keep thinking of the book from time to time. As the weirdo I am I remember I used to write in a notebook every book I’ve ever read. After moving out who knows what might’ve happened to it and have rummaged through my poor parents home with their permission in search of my many lists! Google hasn’t been much help either as I cannot remember title or author. The book is I believe wirtten in first person, I think the girls name is Coralene or something similar to that. She’s around 17 when the book starts and is wanting to lose her virginity (cannot think of time period of book but I believe it is 20th/21st century) and she basically picks this guy out names Will from school and they end up getting together, I can’t recall if they get married but the guy does go to school to become some sort of Tree specialist or rapper or something. The now woman and guy do have a child and I forget what exactly happens but “Coralene” passes away and I guess it’s when Will finds the book and finished it off as he reads it to I believe their daughter. It’s a bit foggy and I know it’s not much detailed, but hopefully someone will recognize it! I think the title does have the word Pillow in it somewhere.

This is all by Aiden chambers

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on May 1, 2021 - 3:00pm

This is all by Aiden chambers?

Forgotten childhood book

Submitted by Cameron (not verified) on September 3, 2018 - 12:15pm

Futuristic (like a utopian book). I keep wanting to type in “Tripoli” or something similar but nothing I can find is it. The cover had tall buildings like Seattle’s needle and lush green forest or trees.

Book: I Want to Find

Submitted by Faith Matt (not verified) on September 4, 2018 - 7:05pm

I saw it on Amazon and it was about a girl that got a letter from the royals that she was going to be one of the people trying to look like the princess(the princess had died so they needed a duplicate). She was supposed go into training to be the princess but there are secrets. On the front of the book the cover had the view of a head from behind. I believe that there were to styles of hair on the cover to represent the girl and the princess she was supposed to represent. She has roses in her hair. If anyone can tell me the name of the book it would be awesome.Thanks!

Very few details

Submitted by Issiah (not verified) on September 5, 2018 - 11:52am

All i can remember is that a a trickster fairy prince was living with a girl and her guardian and they have like romantic subplot

the sisters grimm?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on October 24, 2020 - 1:09am

the sisters grimm?

Missing a Mystery!

Submitted by Kate Soehnlen (not verified) on September 5, 2018 - 4:38pm

What I remember about the book that I'm trying to find: a reclusive (pretty sure she's blind and may be psychic) lives in a cottage in a wooded area in New England, I think. Somehow she gets corralled into helping a male detective solve a murder which puts her in jeopardy. I want to say that she also has someone who helps with things like groceries (since she rarely goes out) and such like things. That's it. I hope you can help me. It's driving me nuts! With gratitude, Kate Soehnlen

Sounds a lot like the 2000

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on February 19, 2020 - 9:07am

Sounds a lot like the 2000 movie The Gift starring Cate Blanchett

"Spiritual Journey" Novel -- Deep, Lightless, Watery Cave

Submitted by John W. Reed (not verified) on September 5, 2018 - 4:41pm

The memory of a long-lost novel has been haunting me for years. I've tried repeatedly to find it again, but no one ever seems to have heard of it. It'll have been published before 2004 and probably considerably earlier than that. It had a protagonist who became trapped in a lightless cave for months and perforce underwent a spiritual journey before finally finding his way out or being rescued. I vaguely recall eerie photoluminescence being mentioned. The protagonist was probably married although I'm not sure whether or not he had children who haunted his dreams of an ever-retreating life before the cave. Also, for some reason, my memory insists that the novel's title was very short, perhaps something like "The Skink." Speaking of skinks, I *think* the protagonist was obsessed with an underground creature that could very well have been a skink. The creature was likely meant to be a metaphor. I guess it's worth trying once more to find what was once upon a time a fairly popular mass-market novel. Any pointers to the actual novel are much appreciated! (Please forgive the wall of text -- I don't know how to force proper paragraph formatting with this board.)

The Skook

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on June 15, 2019 - 10:41pm

I believe you're looking for The Skook by JP Miller

Cant remember the names

Submitted by Luna (not verified) on September 5, 2018 - 7:00pm

The story is about a girl i think shes 14 or 15 and she meets this guy (17)at a hotel i think and all i remember is that her dad died during the war and the mom is always drinking and acting desperate basically the boy meets her mom and they are always together and she begins to hate her mom because she believes they've had sex. I cant remember what happens at the end

Helpp please

Submitted by Lena (not verified) on September 5, 2018 - 7:04pm

This story is about a guy who meets a girl who is a drug addict and her boyfriend is a dealer. I dont remember much just that he tries to help her and at one point they are in the bathroom and he thinks shes hiding drugs in the toilet and she laughs and hold her arms up and tells him to search her which he decides not to because he wants to trust her. At the end she disappears and he tries to track her down but her aunt or mom tells him shes getting help and its better to wait

Is it the book Candy?

Submitted by Shelby (not verified) on February 20, 2019 - 9:23pm

Is it the book Candy?

I REALLY NEED HELP FINDING THIS BOOK

Submitted by sam crisp (not verified) on September 6, 2018 - 5:25pm

Now I was never into books, but I remember reading this book in class one day and only just recently I have gotten the urge to finish it. The book is about 2 teens, one boy one girl, who live different lives, they suddenly cross paths because of a music/ rock festival I think. The boy really wanted to go to this event and I think he had friends who either didn't want to go with him, or he just didn't wanna go with them. While making his way there he sees a broke down van and inside he meets his favourite rock band, who were the main performers of this event. I don't know too much about the girl apart from she works in her uncle and aunt's cafe I believe.

Scary kids book 90s man wrapped in a sheet

Submitted by daniel (not verified) on September 6, 2018 - 8:20pm

Does anyone remember a scary kids book from the 90s involving a skinny man wrapped in a sheet (looked like a mummy kinda) running after people and getting caught in a door? Very creepy artwork

Was it Who's Your Mummy by R

Submitted by KRYSTAN EPPERSON (not verified) on August 27, 2020 - 1:42pm

Was it Who's Your Mummy by R.L. Stine? It's from his Goosebumps Horrorland series.

Idk the name of the book but

Submitted by Megan (not verified) on October 23, 2020 - 9:24pm

Idk the name of the book but that sounds like the movie 'underwraps' that was on disney. Came out in the mid 90s. Maybe it became a book or vice versa

kids zombie book

Submitted by Bump Verde (not verified) on September 7, 2018 - 10:13am

I am looking for a book series about a boy and his neighbor Emma. They were turned into zombies in middle school, maybe by their teacher. I think that the principal was a hundred-year-old zombie. The PE teacher was a zombie. Emma's dad was a HAZMAT (Humans Against Zombies Mobile Assault Team) worker, and he helped them until he discovered they were zombies.

Help Me Find This Book Title

Submitted by Nancy (not verified) on September 8, 2018 - 12:54am

Read this book in the early/mid 70’s; science fiction story about a preteen or teen in some weird region/community inhabited by huge angular (triangular?) creatures - one of which he is servant to. He wants to escape but can’t fifure out a way to do it. I remember one passage where the boy had to climb up on the creature to bathe him, and I think the environment was a warm and humid one. It’s also possible that an illustrated movie was made of this story.

The Tripods trilogy

Submitted by Vicki Stoneham (not verified) on March 13, 2019 - 8:37am

Sounds like the last book of the Tripods trilogy by John Christopher. The protagonist was called Wil, I think. At least the first book was made into a British tv series.

Kids book or story

Submitted by Anita Otte (not verified) on September 8, 2018 - 9:10am

Two of us, two of us climb the stairs, two of us say our prayers, at the end you two be still

Fantasy book magic stone plane crash

Submitted by wraythlethe (not verified) on September 8, 2018 - 11:25am

1990s/2000s? Child/teen Fantasy book with magic stone that transports 2 kids to another world through a plane crash & involves a green skinned wizard. So to start two teenagers (12 or 14 but definitely less than 16 I think) boy and girl, cousins maybe? friends, find a stone/rock in an abandoned quarry after or during a thunderstorm. (The stone glows?, something to do with lightning maybe?) ....I think they got some powers or something by using it but I'm hazy on this part, ....but while they're on a plane it crashes except they wake up in a different world...(fantasy/medieval with elves, dwarves, giants, magic) They first meet/get rescued by a young man who was an apprentice or slave to a wizard and was cursed with green? skin. They have to help save the world or something... at the end they can travel back to their world (during the book they met at a forge? and after some magic they are informed that they could get home but decade(s) will have passed in their world, despite less than a year passing in the fantasy world... and at the end they wake up in the farmers field the plane crashed in but decades later and the parents/aunt had still stayed by the phone waiting for news of them....

Pretty sure it's what you're looking for

Submitted by Robert Bradford (not verified) on October 11, 2020 - 4:34am

There are some differences between your description and the books, but even the differences you described the right basic idea just in the wrong setting or something of that nature. So I'm almost positive what you're looking for is the "80 AD" series by Aiki Flinthart; 5 books, very easy to find, and quite entertaining even after multiple rereadings. Good luck!

Looking for an Old Book

Submitted by Scott (not verified) on September 8, 2018 - 5:52pm

I read a novel I’d love to find the title and author of. I read it in 2006 and i remember it seemed old at the time - maybe something from the 50s or 70s. It may have also had two authors. I recall a riveting plot where someone manages to intercept an oil pipeline and steal the oil by sending it to their own tanker. And in order not to tip off the people who owned the pipeline, they replaced it with the same volume of seawater in the process to avoid being found out. I think I remember there being parts about the underground tunneling and just a fascinating plot. Any help is appreciated.

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