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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Before You Start

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

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

Crowdsourcing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Library Databases (log in with your library card)

More Suggestions

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

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

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

How to Move On

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

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

View all posts by Gwen Glazer

Comments

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Horror paperback novel from the late 70's- early 80's

Submitted by Wanda (not verified) on September 9, 2018 - 3:52pm

I've been trying to recall the name of this paperback from the 70's-80's. It's about two boys, teens, young teens. One is good, the other evil. The evil one kills people, and of course the good one tries to stop him. On the cover is a picture of a teenage boy on a bike and it's night time.

Help Me Find This YA book

Submitted by Jo (not verified) on September 9, 2018 - 7:39pm

I'm looking for a book where the protagonist is invited for a summer vacation by his girlfriend someplace with a beach. The girlfriend has a gay cousin who was recently heartbroken or something and the protagonist falls for this cousin.

I've been looking for this for years

Submitted by Michele Engel (not verified) on September 10, 2018 - 1:11am

The storyline is so horrific, I'm almost mortified to outline it, but it's like having a flea in my ear -- I won't rest until I finally find that book. The story is set sometime during England's witch trials. I think the main character's name is Hazel, but because all my searches have failed to dig up anything, I could be wrong. Hazel's an adolescent girl who flees the home when a mob drags her pregnant mother to be burned at the stake -- her fate would be the same, since she has a 'witch mark'. I don't recall how she got pregnant, but she's befriended by an old woman who has plans for her baby once its born. She finds out & gets away. At some point, she meets a thjef (he may have been the one to help her get away, but I've no idea), and the story ends when the thief?, on his way to the gallows?, sees Hazel?, also condemned to death, and breaks her neck before she has to bear the agony of her execution (I'm guessing it's being burned at the stake). I read this during the early to mid 80s.

this is just a guess and its 2020 so I'm late but

Submitted by kay (not verified) on September 12, 2020 - 12:21am

maybe you are talking about the crucible... idk i have not read that book in a while so i am probably way off

Hazel

Submitted by BH (not verified) on September 30, 2020 - 3:05pm

I am just grateful that you DID respond! Thank you. I do not know if "Crucible" is the name of the book, but I have also been looking for it for a while.

short story name?

Submitted by Pankaj Bangde (not verified) on September 10, 2018 - 9:27am

a short story where the lovers, madly in love with each other, don't speak each others language. eventually when they do, they lose love between them. may be the author is Anton chekhov but not sure. Anybody can help with the name of the story?

The breakfast quest

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 23, 2020 - 1:18pm

The breakfast quest

Okay so first of all, I have

Submitted by Kiara (not verified) on September 10, 2018 - 10:49am

Okay so first of all, I have been looking for this book for years. I read it on iBooks at least 6 years ago. The device I read it on no longer works as well as I have a new iTunes account as someone locked the other account. Plugging the device into ITunes does NOT work as the device is locked as I forgot the password after years of not using it. Now the book is about a girl/woman whose sister went missing, she and her sister have a power that when used creates a scene in someone’s mind so real it can kill someone even though it’s not actually happening. The older sister (I think) goes to seek help from a man who she thinks can help. He’s a paranormal something in his own right, I’m getting the image of an immortal warrior? They have crazy chemistry and work together. This is all I have and I need help desperately because I want to read this book again but I can’t remember any specific details about it!!

Book my mom is looking for

Submitted by Jeanie (not verified) on September 10, 2018 - 10:55am

My mom and sister have been trying to remember a book for s few years now. I think it has the word blue in the title and it was in France, with time period when catholics had to hide. It was a novel. That is sooooooo they can really remember... But any idea would be appreciated!

The Virgin Blue?

Submitted by Desiree Matlock (not verified) on January 27, 2020 - 7:21pm

Could it be The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier?

The Virgin Blue by Tracy

Submitted by Christine (not verified) on August 28, 2020 - 2:30pm

The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier.

In the early 2000's a read a

Submitted by Jackie Thiel (not verified) on September 10, 2018 - 11:58am

In the early 2000's a read a review about a novel where a woman is walking down the street (I believe New York City) and see's her brother (I think, maybe father) who had gone missing for years now homeless on the street. Any diea?

Could it be The Glass Castle?

Submitted by Val (not verified) on February 6, 2021 - 6:04am

Could it be The Glass Castle?

This may be "The Glass Castle

Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on March 6, 2021 - 10:05am

This may be "The Glass Castle" by Jeanette Walls. It was published in 2006. It is a memoir, not a novel, but reads as narrative non-fiction. The book opens with Walls spotting her father living homeless on a street in New York City (I think her mother may have been there too, but the memoir is mostly about the relationship between Walls and her father). She had not been in contact with him for many years.

Trying to find a book

Submitted by Naz (not verified) on September 10, 2018 - 8:26pm

This may have been in a a collection of short stories rather than a novel but it's about a teenage English boy after WWII when he visits his older sister who is now working in Germany. The start of the book details a night in an air raid shelter during the war when a childhood friend is killed by bombing when she runs out of the shelter to greet her father.

A book I read in third grade

Submitted by Jenna (not verified) on September 10, 2018 - 9:37pm

I remember reading a book in elementary school about a little girl who had a bunch of deceased relatives, and in the book her aunt/ uncle dies. I think it might have lilac or lavender in the title or it might be something talked about in the book. I can’t really remember that much.

The Series of Unfortunate Events

Submitted by Anayia (not verified) on October 9, 2020 - 12:19pm

3 children’s parents die in a house fire and they move into their aunts and she dies. then they move into their uncles and he dies and they end up with their other uncle. the childrens names are violet, clause, and sonny

Love story

Submitted by Dalia (not verified) on September 12, 2018 - 7:48am

Please help me find this book. A young couple are living together after she finds out she's pregnant. The girl realizes she doesnt want to live with him anymore and leaves him a note. He's at work when he gets the note thinks it's a love kote and saves it. She leaves and he reads the note too late. He tries to catch her once realizing the note was a breakup but is too late. What's the name of this book?!

An amazing book with short stories

Submitted by Ethan Boldway (not verified) on September 12, 2018 - 1:26pm

So, there were a couple of short stories in there, one of them was callled "Prozac" and it was about a guy that took prozac and he had a crush on a girl at a supermarket and he ended up freaking out in one of the aisles (that's all I can remember of that one). Another short story in there was about a kid that was shooting up a school and the teacher gets shot and finally someone gets up and stops him. Another short story on there was about a guy who was trying to get over a suicide of his best friend that was a girl. Please help me find this book, this book really meant a lot to me but a friend lent it to me and took it back. If it helps, the cover was red and the name was only on the spine (at least for the one I read) Thanks!!

i can't find this book!!

Submitted by Sally (not verified) on September 12, 2018 - 3:11pm

There's a book I read quite a while ago. It has a black and yellow front cover but I've unfortunately forgotten its name. It was about a boy who lives with his family in America and moved there from England because of what happened to his brother a long time ago when they were both kids.The boy regrets everything he's done in his life like seriously damaging his brother's health which can't be restored and blames it all on himself causing him to commit suicide by drowning and then wakes up in a new dimension which he thinks is the afterlife. Then meets two other people while trying to hide from a van he thinks is suspicious. I can't quite remember the girls name but the other boy's name was Tomaz/Tomasz and all the three kids rely on each other to survive in this "afterlife". Tomasz/Tomaz's family fled away from Poland because of I think war?? And the girl had an abusive father which one day pushed her down the stairs and she died. Also there's this jail kind of thing where everyone gets put into. It's for the people who've agreed to forget about their past life and move on to a new fake one where everyone takes this drug thing and are no longer in the present real world. They're just unconcious. The boy finds out that his brother never actually survived but died and the disability was just a cover from their parents when in fact they knew he was no longer with them. He also finds coffin like boxes which contain everyone and is determined to try the drug simulation for himself to truly figure out whats going on and how to stop it. So yeah if you know which book I'm talking about I would absolutely over the moon to find out what it's called!

More than this by Patrick

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 11, 2019 - 6:09pm

More than this by Patrick Ness! Hope you check this

I read this book a long time

Submitted by Emily Pott (not verified) on September 12, 2018 - 5:03pm

I read this book a long time ago, back in elementary school, forgot the name but remember some details. Really want to find it. It's about this girl who considers herself very boring and plain, her room has a bunch of calendars for decor. Later on she paints her room purple and becomes very outgoing. Her family gets her a bunch of art supplies for her birthday. I don't really remember the rest. If anyone knows this book, plmk! Been searching for a while. Thanks in advance.

The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: The More, the Merrier

Submitted by Charlotte (not verified) on April 3, 2021 - 2:13am

I know it’s been a few years but in case you never found it I read this one as a kid too! It’s The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: The More, the Merrier by Anne Mazer.

Been trying to find for years, need a miracle

Submitted by Rachel (not verified) on September 12, 2018 - 7:44pm

I'm looking for a book that I think i read when I was a child/preteen. I don't remember the whole story since it has been so long. I believe it starts out with a family. There's three daughters, one son, a mother and father. The father used to work in the palace until he had an accident while training dragons and lost a limb. (I think it was a leg??) The father is a very noble man and he would speak out against someone in the palace who was trying to take the throne. There is this mountain that is near where they live but they cannot go there or speak of it. There is apparently a special breed of dragons there and no one goes up there. But the family gets attacked and two of the girls escape to the mountain and the other girl and her mom is thrown into a work camp. The son and the father and sent to the palace to work in the army. The father is forced to go back to his old job and the son is part of the trainees. The two girls escape to the mountains and find an egg (Or maybe a baby dragon, I can't remember) and they take care of it. When the dragon is a little older, the two girls find help from a wizard on how to train it (maybe?) and the wizard lives in a tower (? Again, not sure). Eventually the wizard helps then with the dragon and accompanies the two girls to help set free their mom and sister along with other girls from the work camp. Even just an author or a guess would be much appreciated!

Teenagers travel to an alternate dimension

Submitted by Kaazinn (not verified) on September 12, 2018 - 8:03pm

This one will probably be kinda hard to figure out since I don’t remember too much but it’s really driving me crazy! I read this book a while ago with my grandmother I was pretty young at the time. I think the front cover of the book was really magical looking. I think in the book a girl and a group of her friends travel to a magical fantasy world on accident and they have these magic rocks or coins that have magical powers. One of the girls ends up turning into a mermaid. I think the magic coins is what caused them to go into the magic dimension. I also think that the coins were meant for the specific girl and the girls are trying to figure out what each of the coins mean. I really hope you can figure this out!

okay, i don't have the title

Submitted by Luna Clark (not verified) on February 19, 2019 - 12:38am

okay, i don't have the title unfortunately, but i actually came to this page because i'm looking for the same book and it's been driving me insane! so if you ever found out the name or remembered any more info about it, PLEASE let me know :)

Girl with stones book

Submitted by Jeri (not verified) on August 13, 2020 - 3:51am

I am trying to find the same book, I think. The girl was drawn to a stone in a mall, and it was given to her by an old woman. This caused her to be entangled in another world. A giant king gave the girl his stone as he died, and the girl was able to hold more than one stone, which no one else could do. The mermaid people were served by the humans -the lowest caste- who were dying and the girl could heal their sickness.

Wellspring of Magic!

Submitted by Rowan (not verified) on December 24, 2020 - 2:49am

Hey there! I’m 98% sure that the book you’re looking for is Wellspring of Magic by Jan Fields. I recognized the plot as soon as you mentioned it, but it definitely took a little while to track it down on the internet. There’s also a second book in case you’re interested! Happy reading!

Looking for 2 old book I read early 90's - 2000's

Submitted by LoveMyASDson (not verified) on September 12, 2018 - 8:40pm

They were novels I found in the $1.00 bin at the grocery store I worked at in Canada. They were supernatural type. 1) Was a novel about a girl with supernatural powers. She seduces her professor, he refused to leave his wife. 2) Was a novel about a young girl who fled her family home, her father wanted her to take her mother's place (he blamed her for the death of his wife while she gave birth to her), She moved to a haunted apartment building, there was a detective who had a past where he and a friend conjured a demon. So if anyone can help find these novels I would be ecstatically happy. :)

Book I needddd

Submitted by Georgie (not verified) on September 12, 2018 - 10:57pm

It was about a man who fought in Afghanistan and became blind he also lost a limb. When he comes back he starts seeing a therapist or a physio I can't remember and they slowly start to fall in love. As the story goes on though you find out he's not blind and that his PTSD was so bad his mind had convinced himself he couldn't see

I'm trying to find this book

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 13, 2018 - 12:12am

I'm trying to find this book but sadly, I don't remember the title or author. It's about a teenage girl who lives in a town where everyone knows everyone. Her dad is a forest ranger but I'm pretty sure her mom passed away. All is swell until two newcomers, a guy and his sister, arrive. Surprise surprise, they can shape shift into black panthers, and the teenage girl and the new guy, (Nicolas?) pretty much fall in love. I pretty much remember the entire plot but I can't for the life of me remember the title or author, so if anyone knows this book then feel free to reply. Thanks! The genres are romance, mystery, fiction, action and adventure.

Is this the gathering by

Submitted by Nia (not verified) on August 5, 2020 - 11:52pm

Is this the gathering by kelley armstrong???

Pretty sure it's what you described

Submitted by Robert Bradford (not verified) on October 11, 2020 - 4:29am

You accurately described the Elementals series by b Michelle Madow. It's a 5 book series, easy to find at either ebook sites or brick and mortar; I've read the full series at least a half dozen times and still enjoy the heck out of it every time. Hope you're able to get yourself copies real soon.

Horror novel about a stone that comes to life after dark

Submitted by Donna (not verified) on September 13, 2018 - 3:24pm

I read a really creepy horror novel as a teen, which I would love to re-read, but I can't think of the name of it for the life of me. I have tried several different search terms to try and locate it, but I am coming up with nothing. I thought maybe someone here may have read it and will know the name of it... The novel has to be at least 25 years old. I loosely remember the plot. It went something like this: A woman traveled to another country, I think it might have been Ireland. She brought back some type of stone. Not sure if she stole it, or took it as a souvenir. It was supposed to protect her and bring her wealth, or something of that nature. But the stone would come to life at night and turn into this horrid creature that would kill people in her life. I think she even threw it away, or drove it out into the countryside and tossed it, but it came back. I remember by the end of the novel she was pretty terrified of the dark, had generators with back up generators and had to keep the entire house lit so the thing wouldn't get back in. I think by the end of reading it, I was pretty terrified of the dark too! Does this novel sound familiar to anyone? I'd really love to re-read it.

I read this book last year

Submitted by tito (not verified) on September 14, 2018 - 10:25am

I read this book last year about a girl in a village that couldn't talk and there was a war I think her village captured a soldier like a giant and she was made to clean his wounds and take care of him daily and the giant refused to speak to anyone but her

The BFG by Dahl?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 9, 2020 - 12:48am

The BFG by Dahl?

Trying to Find a Book Title/Author

Submitted by Thomas Fisher (not verified) on September 14, 2018 - 12:16pm

I wonder if anyone could help me track down a book that I don’t know the title or author of? It’s a children’s story that my father often read to me when I was little (so 30 years ago at least but the book may have been older) similar in style to C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books or Tolkien’s The Hobbit and of about the same length. The main character was called Wee One the Gnome. I never actually read the book myself, so I’m afraid I don’t know exactly how “Wee One” was spelled. He lived in a magical forest in a small house and had a series of misadventures with other fantastical creatures. The chapter I remember most vividly involved him getting a group of cat people to help renovate and/or paint his house with the promise of feeding them pies, but then failing to deliver the promised pies. The cat people responded by menacingly surrounding his house chanting “Pies to eat, pies to eat” until he finally made good on his promise. I know this isn’t much to go on. I know that it was at least published in English, if not originally written in it, because English was the only language my father read. I'm hoping to find it so I can get a copy for my newborn nephew. Any help is greatly appreciated!

The Adventures of Be-Wee the

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on October 28, 2018 - 11:27pm

The Adventures of Be-Wee the Gnome?

I'm looking for a book I read

Submitted by Lori Spurgeon (not verified) on September 14, 2018 - 12:44pm

I'm looking for a book I read in Jr. High School in 88' or 89'. It was about a man (father I think) who moved to an island. There was a hurricane coming they were prepping the house for it. The hurricane is the last I remember about it.

Was it Nim’s Island?

Submitted by Zweiblumen (not verified) on December 29, 2020 - 12:40pm

Author Wendy Orr

Young Adult book

Submitted by Janet (not verified) on September 14, 2018 - 2:22pm

I read a book long ago, am trying to find out the name. It's about a girl who tries out a friend's motorcycle, crashes it & hits her head. She wakes to find herself back in time, is a very old lady who others think she is a witch. Might have the word Nightmare in the title.

Motorcycles and a contract with the devil

Submitted by Ava (not verified) on September 15, 2018 - 2:58pm

I read this book a very long time ago, and can barely remember it, but here's what I do remember: - The deuteragonist was a young woman who had suffered a motorcycle accident and died, but her soul was still bound - The protagonist had to rescue the deuteragonist from this fate by finding and destroying her contract held by death or the devil - In the beginning, you don't know that the deuteragonist is dead, it's a huge reveal That's all I can remember, but I remember the book being insanely good. I was shoved off a balcony when I was a kid, while not yet finished with the book, and my stuff- including the book- was stolen, and the concussion made some things blurry. If anyone could help me find this book again that would be lovely, as I never got the chance to finish it.

I need the title of this book

Submitted by Lydia (not verified) on September 15, 2018 - 6:56pm

I need the title of this book,about a ship that was sailing and had an accident.i can't remember the. Details clearly but the main character's name is Gulliger

Gulliver?

Submitted by Rosemary (not verified) on April 24, 2019 - 5:50pm

Not “Gulliver’s Travels,” by Jonathan Swift?

Can you also help with

Submitted by Lydia (not verified) on September 15, 2018 - 6:59pm

Can you also help with Nigerian stories

TRYING TO FIND A BOOK

Submitted by ANNA (not verified) on September 16, 2018 - 5:20am

I haven't read this book in like ten years but from what I can remember it is centered around a little girl who has a good family life until she walks in on her mother in her mothers art studio topless with another man who isn't her father. Then her mom dies then she falls in love with a little boy who loves her back but her childhood enemy I think her name was missy or sissy or something similar gets angry that the little boy chose the main character over her so she tells the secret that him and his family cant join the yacht club because of their religion and the boy runs away and gets in a sail boat and dies then years down the line our character meets an older guy while she is like 16-18 and the guy has red hair and they get married have kids then at the end of the book after her husband has died of old age she dies and she smells her first loves scent.

I must find it..

Submitted by Seriah (not verified) on September 16, 2018 - 6:12pm

I'm looking for a book I read in 2013 the plot was probably set anywhere between the 10th to the 15th century, two sisters in a convent are called by their brother to his castle, the prettiest of the sisters is to marry his magic user (possibly a warlock who might have a cursed hand that he cannot use) however the elder sister offers herself and marries the magic user, the younger sister falls in love with one of the guards and the brother forces himself upon her in the end the elder sister is arrested as a witch by her brother and her husband saves her.

I must find it

Submitted by Kim (not verified) on June 11, 2020 - 5:43pm

Lord of Danger by Anne Stuart

summer novel Bildungsroman

Submitted by Deborah Luper (not verified) on November 15, 2021 - 12:42pm

thought it was John Evans or some Evans ..who use to write mysteries/thrillers..wrote one novel about teenagers one summer in the USA..north eastern area..think someone died or they were gay

Looking for this kids book I believe from 1980s/90s

Submitted by Angel (not verified) on September 16, 2018 - 10:29pm

I believed it was a poor woman with this wizard or something that came to her and would grant her a few wishes and she wished for too much (she wished to be queen and wished for stars & moon - everything if I remember right) to the point she got so greedy she was forced by wizard to go back to her poor lifestyle. It had to be in 1980s or early 1990s.

Fairy tale

Submitted by Rosemary (not verified) on April 24, 2019 - 6:24pm

It sounds like the fairy tale The Golden Fish/The Fisherman and the Fish/The Fisherman and His Wife. Being a fairy tale, there are many, many similar versions of the same story. The fisherman catches a (golden) fish, who promises him three wishes if he lets the fish go. As you describe, the wife wishes for more and more, until the fish says she has been too greedy and takes it all back,

Please Help Me Find This Book!

Submitted by Elizabeth McKenna (not verified) on September 17, 2018 - 1:55am

Hi, I heard this as an audiobook when I was a preteen I think. I don't remember the title, author, or any of the names of the characters. All I remember was the main character was a boy, he had "gem eyes" and the villain in this story wanted to steal because the eyes have magical powers. The boy's power is time travel. The villain has been stealing eyes for a long time and the boy is the last of his kind. I remember that the villain had backward knees. There was also a middle-aged man who was trying to save the boy, he also wanted to go back in time or go forwards in time for the specific reason that I cannot recall. Please if you know the title of this book please let me know!

I don't know the name of the

Submitted by Alyssa M (not verified) on October 22, 2020 - 11:18pm

I don't know the name of the book...but it does seem similar to "Always a Witch" and "Once a Witch" duology. Maybe that can help, if not I think you will enjoy them

I am also looking for this

Submitted by Ryanne Barker (not verified) on November 15, 2020 - 9:05pm

I am also looking for this book lol. I remember every time he time travelled his hair would get lighter- like i think the strands were turning clear? And the antagonist had "spoon-shaped" nails that he used to pluck the eyes out of all the kids with green eyes. He also had the ability to scry when he oiled his nails and could look for the kids with "gem eyes" I think. He could also jump really high with his backwards knees. I'm like 90% sure there were also dragons and that the ending of the book took place in like a dragon den where the protagonist and antagonist fought.

eyes like diamond

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 26, 2021 - 1:51pm

eyes like diamond

i cant find these books

Submitted by charity (not verified) on September 17, 2018 - 9:44am

book one- a girl gets jilted at the alter a few hours before her wedding. she ends up getting her gazebo maker to marry her because shes a big shot and her wedding is full of publicity. the gazebo makers name was lucus. book two- a girl was kidnapped when she was younger and had her left hand smashed by those people to hid her identity. she ends up trying to find out who she is and finds her missing face on a website. she finds her mother but her mother isnt actually her mother, she was kidnapped by that women after that women loses her own kid and she changes her entire appearance to keep her identity a secret. she ends up changes to brown hair and wears glasses that change her eye color

Could book 2 be "The Face on the Milk Carton"?

Submitted by G.M. (not verified) on September 1, 2021 - 10:14pm

Could it be "The Face on the Milk Carton" by Caroline B. Cooney? In the story, the girl's hand was not smashed (maybe mixing up with another story?), but Janie Johnson sees a missing person photo on a milk carton and realizes it's herself. Finally finds out her adoptive parents thought she was their grandkid, as the daughter of their missing daughter, Hannah, and Janie is reunited with her birth family. Eventually her kidnapper and adoptive parents' daughter, Hannah, is found...

It keeps me up at night

Submitted by Marjorie (not verified) on September 17, 2018 - 11:05am

When I was in Elementary school I read this book, and for the life of me I can't remember the name, or most of the book. What I do remember though is that I believe a girl has gone off to live at this place, and the house she is in is alive. At one point in the book this man comes to the house, and the girl hides in the shadows with the curtains, and she tells herself over and over again something along the lines of how "she is nothing, shes just a shadow," and the man never sees her. I believe that there was also another boy with her, and an older character that took care of them.

I'm not sure

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 29, 2021 - 9:04pm

I probably don't know what book you're talking about, but it reminds me of the first like 30 pages of City of Ember book 3.

I vaguely recall a scene like

Submitted by Jay (not verified) on January 4, 2022 - 12:11am

I vaguely recall a scene like this in Hilari Bell's The Goblin Wood.

YA book, colored balls give you powers

Submitted by andrew (not verified) on September 17, 2018 - 11:37am

there is a book i dont remember too well, but there are these balls that you like press to you and they give you powers and they are ranked from 1 to like 12 and the guy makesw money from finding and selling them and then eventually he teams up and they find a pair of golden one which arent a thing but they are and the person uses them and they can magically find all the balls

Burning Midnight by Will

Submitted by Michelle (not verified) on September 22, 2020 - 6:08pm

Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh. I loved this book! I try to convince middle schoolers to read it every year!

Trying to remember book

Submitted by H H (not verified) on September 17, 2018 - 3:43pm

I'm trying to remember a book I read probably 15 years ago. I believe the woman was either engaged or married to a banker or stock market guy, and her father was some sort of secret agent. The bad guys were after her because of her father. I think her fiancé or husband either ended up being one of the crime lords, or they were trying to point guilt at him. I just remember when it was revealed who the main bad guy was, it was a big surprise and not who you were expecting it to be. It would have been Christian fiction, I'm sure.

Daddy

Submitted by Krystal (not verified) on September 17, 2018 - 7:30pm

I’m looking for a book called Daddy, it’s about a teenage girl who has a new stepdad and starts having an affair with him, I remember the cover slightly it was somewhat fuschia/purple and the lettering I believe was turquoise. I read it two years ago and I haven’t been able to find it since.

try, Lolita by Vladimir

Submitted by Cristina (not verified) on September 2, 2020 - 4:45am

try, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The book with a girl having an affair with her stepfather

Submitted by Tamara (not verified) on February 8, 2022 - 2:25pm

No it’s definitely not Lolita.

Daddy

Submitted by Carmen (not verified) on November 1, 2021 - 1:00pm

It's Daddy by Janet Inglis

Trying to find the name of a book I read...

Submitted by Katie (not verified) on September 18, 2018 - 5:02pm

The book starts where the main character is in the kitchen taking care of some young girls when the police raid the house. As the book progresses, you learn that this girl was abducted at a very young age and raised by the mean den mother. She ends up falling in love with the den mother's son and eventually marries him and years down the road, she becomes the den mother. She doesn't know what she is training these girls for, she is just teaching what was taught of her. She rarely gets to leave the house and one by one these girls end up sent away. There is a trial, determining her invovlement in the illegal activity and she is let of and reunited with her real family by the end.

The Girl Before by Rena Olsen

Submitted by Jessica H (not verified) on May 25, 2020 - 7:19pm

The Girl Before by Rena Olsen

Book I read a couple years ago

Submitted by Lydia (not verified) on September 19, 2018 - 2:51am

So the first one was a book series that i had read it was about five teens who meet a boarding school after their parents sent them because of a war. Something shady was happening in the school so they ran away and tried to find their way home, using the skills they were taught at the boarding school. Please help desperately want to read this book series again

Book

Submitted by Norah Farber (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 4:44am

Check this list and see if your book is on it. http://readinasinglesitting.com/list-books-set-in-boarding-schools/

Help me find the name of this book, please!

Submitted by Sarah Shah (not verified) on September 19, 2018 - 1:03pm

I'm looking for a book I started reading but never got to finish. It was about this guy whose best friend named April disappears and he suspects she ran away to meet up with a maternal relative who broke out of jail. April's mother, May, denies any such thing happening but the main character is convinced that she's run away. Other details: The main character's parents both work at a law firm. His uncle happens to be in a similar business. April's siblings are also named after months, her brother is named August while I can't remember her sister's name. April's father is in this lame traveling band and he's pretty much abandoned the family. The main character has a dog named Judge. Some secretary lady works at the MC's parents' firm who's affectionate towards him. In one of the starting few chapters of the book, the MC's family goes to have dinner at this place which claims to have the best some food, can't remember what, but the MC is puzzled about why people use false advertising like that.

I think this is the Kid

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on January 2, 2022 - 9:14pm

I think this is the Kid Lawyer series by John Grisham, maybe? Long time, sorry, but...

Wilderness Survival Novel

Submitted by Trenton (not verified) on September 20, 2018 - 12:34pm

I'm looking for a book that had "Moon" in the title, thought the second book to the series was called "The Long Road Home" or something like that. I remember it was a book about a boy and his father living out in the wilderness, the family had just lost the father's wife. They survived by having a little survival shack, hunting and trapping and trading crops grown to the local convenience store for a little money to buy what they couldn't get out in the woods. Eventually for some reason I can't remember his dad died and the boy survived by himself and the authority chased after him with sniff dogs. The boy got away for a while because he rand and ended up at a hunting cabin. He slept at a tree and in the morning woke up to see the man hovering over him. He didn't trust the man at first and ran away. He somehow found himself there again and eventually trusted the man but the hunter called a child division services place or 911. The boy got sent to juvy and made some friends while he was there, one with cancer, and the other lived in this RV with some "weiner dogs" as pets. The boys escaped from juvy using a shower curtain and ran into the woods. They lived in a huge dead tree that had fallen over and hollowed out a bit. They hunted deer and camouflaged their orange jumpsuits with mud. Somehow the authorities found them again and his original home saying "It would take an indian chief to find it." and the boys had to run away while they were chased by mistreated/abused sniff dogs. The sniff dogs eventually caught them but the boys befriended the dogs and turned them against the abusive officer. They survived hiding in a ravine and fishing in a small creek down in the ravine, cooked the fish on a spit. That's all I remember. I think I didn't finish the book but wanted to.

Wilderness Survival Novel Answer

Submitted by J. (not verified) on May 29, 2020 - 2:20pm

Alabama Moon... I think... I know that you have already found the book by now, but I was in the position trying to figure the title of the book.

A book about a boy climbing a montain which he always wanted to

Submitted by kai (not verified) on September 21, 2018 - 4:46pm

Hello, I am looking for a book I read in Middle School which was soooo good. The details are Hazy so I do not know how accurate this will be. It was about a young boy and he lived in a town which was like really discriminative towards Native Americans. He was like on the rowing team at school. There was a mountain in town which he had always wanted to climb with his older brother. Before he got to the chance to, his brother died in a car accident. The car accident was caused by a Native American boy, who I think also happened to be dating the boy's sister at the time. It was like the boy really missed his brother and would go out and row like every day and eventually he got like a huge gash on his hand from breaking the ore. Then eventually he ran away from home and ended up climbing the mountain with the Native American boy. That's about all I remember and I am not sure how accurate all of it is.

Hello!! Oh my goodness, I

Submitted by M (not verified) on December 6, 2020 - 8:39pm

Hello!! Oh my goodness, I have also been trying to figure out what this book was called for what seems like forever; I think I’ve finally got it! It’s called “Trouble” by Gary Schmidt. Hope that helps! :D

Need help finding a book

Submitted by Melissa (not verified) on September 21, 2018 - 6:24pm

I am having trouble finding two romance books! Each are stand alone books and not part of a series. They could be a harlequin or silhouette. I read them in the 90s early 00s. One was about a veterinarian or animal shelter when I picture the cover I see light green. The other is about a solider having a pen pal. I know very vague but I have been able to find all the other books I wanted with less to go on but for some reason I can’t find these. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Possibly Dear John by Lyn

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on June 15, 2019 - 3:18pm

Possibly Dear John by Lyn Ellis

Hard 2 find real paranormal book, non-fiction

Submitted by Nous (not verified) on September 22, 2018 - 10:00am

I never actually read this book but was told about it and shown a YT video summary about an hour long. It's about a guy who's wife dies and he tries contacting her ghost or something. Gets involved I some group of medians. Eventually he makes contact with some entity via one of the medians. He falls in love with the entity or median or both. The entity stirs up a lot of problems and drama between The group and has him do a bunch of things to cause problems. Eventually he comes to the conclusion the entity wasnt his wife and was actually some sort of demon. I think either before the book came out or shortly after the author killed himself over it. I think the title is similar to "hungry ghost" or something with ghost or spirit in the title.

Please help me find this book :(

Submitted by Ekaterina (not verified) on September 22, 2018 - 6:08pm

The cover is an upside down city in the sky and a road on the bottom leading up to the city with a girl walking. Its about a girl and a mother that are constantly moving. They finally move to a small town. The girl becomes friends with the neighbor. She comes home to the house a mess and mom not in sight. When she goes to her room she sees a broken mirror. Police try to investigate and the Girl tries to run away. She ends up in the hospital and goes into the batroom. Looks in the mirror and sees something trying to grab her. The same thing that chases her in her dreams. She goes through the mirror into a different place. Its full of mutants and monsters. Long story short she's a princess with a father that's a king. Her mom is locked in a tower. I dont remember the rest. Please help.

Time travel to medieval times

Submitted by Jaylee (not verified) on September 22, 2018 - 11:39pm

I read this book my grandma had way back in 2009 I can’t remember the name but what I can remember is. It’s about a girl who lives in the middle of no where by the mountains. She goes for a walk and ends up finding a cave. She goes into the cave and falls through a warm hole where she wakes up in the trees outside of a town. She goes into the town and sees everyone is in rags and they stare at her. I knight shows up and she immediately things he’s handsome but he’s very rude. I can’t remember the plot but some people take her in and she stays and ends up making love with the knight and she describes it very vividly. I can’t remember if she goes back to her own time but in the end all I can remember is she finds a human skeleton at the cave and it has the same necklace she gave the knight she loved. I know that’s not a lot to go off of but I’d really like to find it.

3 Book Series

Submitted by Alys (not verified) on September 23, 2018 - 1:58am

I actually think this series was mentioned here, but the book suggestion was not the right one. I've been looking forever for it, but from what I remember it was a 3 book series that followed a girl who eventually went to an academy for music or something and had a roomate whom she became very close to, but the roomate was found to have magical power and was taken away by the corrupt government. The main character then goes through great lengths to save her friend and take down this corrupt government, including spending time in a prison camp and meeting another rebel lady and her brother, Giovanni (the only character who's name I remember). They help her overthrow the camp's evil overseers and eventually fight an army of mages (where she sees her friend). At some point she does some undercover work, dressing as a man to infiltrate the enemy's base of operations. She is found out, but in the end the rebels win and the government gets overthrown. She is later arrested because she saves her friend/lover (who was supposed to be put to death with the rest of the mages) and put on trial to be executed as a traitor. Her place is taken by Giovanni who loves her (although she doesn't return his feelings) and she is set free. That's all I can think of, but goggle has failed me so far! Please let me know if anyone knows what book series I'm talking about! Thank you!

Title of book

Submitted by Linda Goldsmith (not verified) on September 23, 2018 - 1:04pm

WW2 Netherlands. Large house in country run by a much loved widow. Younger girl comes to live. Nazi visits widow and ends up protecting her. Food very scarce Fiction/novel read in ebook

The summer of my German

Submitted by Val (not verified) on February 6, 2021 - 6:21am

The summer of my German soldier?

Okay so there’s three girls

Submitted by Mariah Szabo (not verified) on September 23, 2018 - 6:34pm

Okay so there’s three girls and they’re friends although one of them like comes in the first book. It’s not set on modern times or maybe it’s juts not written in modern tones but one of the girls names is Tess and I think another ones is Martha (or maybe that’s her little sister?)but neither of those things are for sure. I remember that they all have dog hair colors I think brown yellow and red and at some point they each cut off a lock of hair and put it in a locket or something like that. I know that two of the girls live on the same street and they a bench that they go to to meet and it’s at the base of a hill and they climb the hill a lot and bring a picnic and there are chickens on top of the hill. At some pint in the book it’s winter and the narrator talks about like all her winter clothes and getting them on. It’s a series I believe and they get older/maybe boyfriends? The new friend who I think is Tess and I wanna say blonde?? I’m not sure anyway I think she has a nicer house than the other two. Other than that I can’t think of anymore details pls help it’s driving me crazy

I want to say that kind of

Submitted by Alys (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 11:00pm

I want to say that kind of sounds like the Betsy-Tacy, and Tib series by Maude Hart Lovelace, but it's kinda a shot in the dark.

This definitely sounds like

Submitted by Stephanie (not verified) on March 6, 2021 - 10:35am

This definitely sounds like the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. Betsy and Tacy are little girls in the first book, and as you say, the third girl comes at the end of the first book: her name is Tib (she is blonde, as you describe, and lives in the fanciest house in the area). There is a chapter in the second book in the series where they cut off their hair to make keepsake lockets (Tacy nearly died of diphtheria and they wanted to keep mementos of each other). The books are from Betsy's point of view and go from age 5 up to the first years of her marriage; they end in 1917 with the US entering WW1. Lovelace based the books on her childhood: Tacy and Tib were based on her real-life best friends growing up.

Sniper I think

Submitted by James (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 1:53am

I'm looking for a book that if memory serves me correctly is called "Sniper". I've looked everywhere and have been unable to find it, though I read it approximately 20 years ago. If I recall, it was a work of fiction based in Seattle, WA This child and his mom moved into an apartment building in Seattle that was full older folks, and they helped the older people out at the building. There was a man they read about in the newspaper that was shooting older people about every week in Seattle with a .22 pistol, with no apparent reason in the beginning. I vaguely remember it all trying together in the end though. If anyone knows the actual title, author, anything to help me locate this book so I can read it again, I'd be grateful. Thank you in advance.

Looking for the Title of a Book I read in the 1980s

Submitted by Norah Farber (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 3:35am

Hello everyone: Looking for the title of a book I read in the 1980s which was assigned by my English professor in college. It is about a man who used to love to ride horses but ends up in a wheelchair. He owns a diner and keeps the horse in a pasture behind the diner. I think the diner is on a dusty highway. The man is very angry. He hires a waitress who eventually helps him get on his horse again. Perhaps the horse had a white star shape on its forehead. Thanks. Been looking for this book for several years with no luck.

The Honk and Holler Opening

Submitted by G (not verified) on December 24, 2018 - 10:26am

The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts?

Thank you! The tips provided

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 8:41am

Thank you! The tips provided here helped me to better think through my searches. I found almost immediately the book I was looking for!

Jewish Fiction

Submitted by Chanie Graus (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 10:24am

I read this Jewish novel in the 90s, though it was not a new book at the time. It was about a Jewish girl in Europe who meets a very handsome man one night, it may have been on a ship. She finds out the next morning that he is a prince who came to visit her city. In the rest of the story, the prince goes searching for her without knowing that she is a Jewish woman.

Looking for a book

Submitted by Annette (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 12:28pm

The book I’ve been looking for is about two young kids a boy and girl, they are visiting or live in a town and there is a cave with treasure they set out to find. I know very vague but it’s all I can remember lol

Trying to find a book from my childhood

Submitted by Dayne (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 1:16pm

I really can't remember much about this book just that I was thoroughly intrigued by it growing up. I remember it was I think about a boy who moved into a house next to this family.. these two girls who ended up being able to turn into some kind of fish creatures they had gills and such. And I remember a part where I think the girls got caught in a fire of some sort and a necklace she was wearing got embedded into her skin from the fire or something like that. I do apologise I know it isn't much to go off but any help would be much appreciated

Have searched for so long...

Submitted by Josh (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 5:11pm

It is a book or possibly a short story I was forced to read in high school where this young couple fall in love and are separated. They both encounter a long exhausting journey; the man goes into the army I think where he is eventually ship wrecked and whipped with 100 or more lashes and the girl eventually finds herself a prisoner of some soldiers and they become stranded in an old fort or something. As they become more and more hungry they decide to eat the woman’s butt cheek in order to survive. I believe she is raped as well by many men and it isn’t until the two are old that they reunite and finally are able to love one another. I apologize but this is the most I can remember.

Candide

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on June 15, 2019 - 3:33pm

Candide

parallel world?

Submitted by CHELSEA (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 5:55pm

I read this book more than 15 years ago. I can't remember much but it was about a girl/princess? that somehow fell into another world or parallel world. The cover had a cityscape i think going right ways up on top and another cityscape upside down i think or at least on the bottom of the page. I think it might have been young adult.

The 10th kingdom?

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on May 1, 2021 - 7:21pm

The 10th kingdom?

It was Princess Nevermore!

Submitted by Michaella (not verified) on October 6, 2021 - 8:42am

It was Princess Nevermore! What a blast from the past. I loved that story as a teenager.

Romance novel

Submitted by Valerie perrigo (not verified) on September 24, 2018 - 11:23pm

My moms sister who is now passed away gave her a romance novel. She cant remember name or author. All she remembers is that it was current times the woman went to the dentist as shes getting numbed or put out she wakes up in old western days long ago. A handsome man finds her on edge of property he tries to help her and shes still numb from dentist so shes slurring words and mouth looks weird so he thinks she has a illness or something.

A Time for Love

Submitted by Ivy (not verified) on April 2, 2019 - 10:53am

A Time for Love by Constance O'Day-Flannery

I have read a book years ago

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 25, 2018 - 8:47am

I have read a book years ago and I am trying to find what the title is, so I can read it again. What I remember is the heroine that used to paint and at that time she was lost and unaffected at anything around her. When towards the end of the book they broke up, she continuously paints the face of the man she loves etc.... does anyone have an idea?

I think I found it. Entincing

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 26, 2018 - 3:32pm

I think I found it. Entincing an angel by Leo Charles Taylor...

Magic and romance

Submitted by Lor (not verified) on September 25, 2018 - 9:04am

Help. I'm getting crazy trying to find this book. I read it about 19 years ago. It didn't have a cover. Its about magical powers setting maybe medival times. There was an invisible coat like harry potter's. The heroine was trying to learn to use her powers. A hero was trying to protect her because an evil sorcerer was trying to steal her powers. He wud go inside her head looking for her power source. I recall the sorcerer gaining the power which was too much and it killed him

Sounds very familiar. Since I

Submitted by Rebeckah (not verified) on April 6, 2020 - 12:09am

Sounds very familiar. Since I've read so many things like this I'm getting them kind of confused. But you can try the books by Tamara Pierce. I can't place which one specifically but it might be one of those.

I've tried so many times to find this but with no luck

Submitted by Jasmine (not verified) on September 25, 2018 - 11:16am

Its a book I read in 6th grade where there were two girls doing a book report and they were checking the book out because they were doing it last minute (one was a nerdy girl and the book report was based on a book her dad always read to her.. the other was a girl who just did things last minute) The nerdy girl had the last book in stock and the other girl went up to her telling her she doesn't need the book as much as she does... they fight over it and magically go into the book.. They live through the book and I guess they have to get to the end of the story to escape (I cant remember) There's this scary witch scene where she can only smell one of the girls and that girl sprays her perfume to mislead the witch... in the end one stays and one escapes the book to tell the story.... I've tried to search google for this book so many times but I cannot find it... I also remember it was a paper back book with a purple-ish picture... I'm sorry I was 12

Could it be “The Wizard the

Submitted by Annesreadingima... (not verified) on April 6, 2020 - 1:47pm

Could it be “The Wizard the Witch and Two girls from Jersey” by Lisa Papademetriou?

Look at the book that forget the title of

Submitted by James Lucas (not verified) on September 25, 2018 - 1:12pm

It taught, meditation, telepathic, visualization, out of body experience and exercising something like yoga. I believe it was Egyptian book, it also has certain affirmations for you to repeat it had a title similar to Mystic magic of the Cosmos

PLEASE HELP.

Submitted by Sophie Bird (not verified) on September 25, 2018 - 3:36pm

I'm looking for a book or short story (it could be a movie or show but I'm very certain it's not) and it's absolutely driving me insane. In the book, a really harsh, strict mother and her two daughters return to the mother's home country or village in desperate need of money and a place to stay. One of the daughters is described as being unattractive and the other has some sort of cognitive developmental disability and requires significant care. The mother is offering to do pretty much anything for money but no one will give her a job because her family is in some way disgraced. She's not a bad woman but she's super strict and not very pleasant. Eventually they land a job with the mother as a housekeeper in a famous painter's house.The mother cooks and cleans for this very particular, stubborn painter and the sisters spend a lot of time out in this meadow picking flowers for the painter to paint (although it's really just an arbitrary task he gives them). The painter has a young male apprentice who might have been the love interest of the main character. One day the painter asks to paint the main character because she's unusual looking. At some point the mother has a falling out with the painter, or maybe the daughters do something wrong, and they move in to this grand rich house with a family whose daughter is frail and sickly and always kept inside. The little girl is kind of a brat. I don't remember what happens next or at the end but I remember a scene where the two sisters and the rich girl are sitting in a garden and talking. There also might be an element of them visiting a church at some point but I don't remember. I was up so late trying to figure this out. Someone PLEASE help if you can.

Confessions of an Ugly

Submitted by Dawn W (not verified) on July 3, 2019 - 7:11am

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. It was made into a movie starring Stockard Channing.

Who Is The Author Of This Book?

Submitted by SABRINA ACREE (not verified) on September 25, 2018 - 11:23pm

Hello. Thank you for the opportunity to receive your learned assistance in this matter. I am looking for a book, "Eyes" from the late 1970s by a female author, whose name I cannot recall. However, I do recall the premise of this suspense novel. It's the story of a single man who begins a rather unusual "relationship" with a woman via the telephone. He is a social worker, who has recently broken up with his Chinese girlfriend (I only mention this as it's another detail of the story, though minor). He lives in Manhattan in the 1970s. One evening after work, he answers his phone, it's a woman caller, but a wrong number. Over time, she repeatedly calls him and, being lonely (and a social worker, and thereby a sympathetic soul to others' problems), he responds accordingly, and begins chatting with her with increasingly regularity, though they've never met. One day, while on the phone, he's startled by a noise in the apartment, concerned. His mystery caller tells him to relax as it was just his cat having knocked something over. This is when he realizes that she can not only see him, but has been watching everything he does. Realizing she's about to be discovered, she hangs up. He becomes obsessed with somehow finding her. In the epilogue, he's passing a public phone and, hearing it ring, is tempted to answer, thinking it's possibly her. Again, I know the title, "Eyes", but not the author (a woman). I would greatly appreciate finding this novel, though it's been decades, it was written in the late '70s. Thanks in advance to anyone who can tell me the author's name that I might FIND this one! Best to all!

Eyes by Felice Picano (1976)

Submitted by G (not verified) on December 24, 2018 - 10:44am

Eyes by Felice Picano (1976)

Children/young teenagers book

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 26, 2018 - 12:30am

I read this book years ago, it was a children or young teenagers type of book, small didn't take long to read at all but I'm pretty sure it was part of a series or something. I don't remember any names but it was about a boy and a girl, I think they were siblings, the kids ended up possibly running away or something but along the way the boy somehow gets a magic belt that turned him invisible the girl also gets a magical item I think but I can't remember what it does. Anyway, I think they end up joining some sort of "resistance" type group and fighting with them. I can't remember if they stay with them or not though. Sorry if it's not much but I haven't read the book in ages and I can't remember much. I think the group they joined lives in the forest and had a giant wall the kids had to get through or over if that helps. Thanks

Please help me find this book.

Submitted by Lost book (not verified) on September 26, 2018 - 3:03am

I have read this book 15-20 years ago. It was kind of a spy novel, about stopping a massive killing plan by a unknown killer. I do not remember about the main character but some of the killer. The killer was famous for not revealing his face at all and always getting job done. And actually that killer-assassin was a woman. One of the guys approach to her thinking she was a contact for the hitman, sleeps with her and she kills him with a hair dryer in the bathtub, finally revealing that the faceless hitman was a woman. After some events that I don’t remember, the hitwoman goes to a place where she was planning to kill many people, switching heliums for balloons with hydrogen or something toxic. The main character figured it out and finally stopped her. Could you please help me find this book? Thank you so much!!’

I too have been looking for

Submitted by Jennifer Grossi (not verified) on February 27, 2020 - 9:30am

I too have been looking for this book since the mid-80s. I seem to remember the Jericho in the title and a white/purple cover. I have searched for decades to no avail. I remember poisoned whips used for one of the assassinations. And I remember the lady who set up the contracts as actually being the killer and her name was something like nieva or nunes but I don't remember anything particularly Spanish or Latin about the character. I am sure it is the same book because of the blow dryer scene and finding out she was female and very drab, not flamboyant in appearance.

windmills of the gods by

Submitted by jess (not verified) on March 22, 2020 - 1:05pm

windmills of the gods by Sidney Sheldon

HELP ME FIND THIS BOOK

Submitted by Jahhyrah (not verified) on September 26, 2018 - 5:31pm

This book is about a girl who had no friends because she had intercourse with her teacher and everyone found out, Than she started talking to a black kid and the started dating and he stayed with her for like a weekend cause his dad changed the locks to his house, Than they dated, but than she caught him kissing her MOM! next thing you know they are fighting outside at night and the cops thought he was aggressive towards her and she said she didn't know him, Than the cops shot the boy in his head, Than he was in a coma for like 6 months and when he woke up she asked him to forgive her.... and the book ended with him saying "No" I REALLY WANNA KNOW THE NAME, PLEASE HELP

Pretty sure it's what you're looking for

Submitted by Robert Bradford (not verified) on October 11, 2020 - 4:54am

I'm not 100% sure, but I'm reasonably certain that you're talking about Behind The Spiritual Lines by R.J. Ellis. Though honestly even if it turns out to not be the one you wanted, it's still a great read, and one that has basically the exact same storyline progression and character relationships as you described. Best of luck!

Need title of children’s book please

Submitted by Beth (not verified) on September 28, 2018 - 10:06am

This book is about two female cats who are friends. They often go to lunch at a cafeteria where they order chocolate cake, steak, and macaroons. One day one of the cats shows up in a funny hat (a very colorful hat with fake fruit). The other one (who usually wears a pillbox hat) doesn't like the hat and says pretty much that she is embarrassed to be seen in public with the first one. The second cat then refuses to be friends with the first one for some time and the two of them have to find separate places to eat lunch. Eventually the first cat apologizes and they become friends again. They then have lunch at the cafeteria which probably has cat somewhere in its name like the catroom or something. I first encountered the book probably during the early 90s/late 80s.

Could it be “That Fat Hat” by

Submitted by Annesreadingima... (not verified) on April 6, 2020 - 1:56pm

Could it be “That Fat Hat” by Joanne Barkan?

Pregnancy book

Submitted by Jessi Parker (not verified) on September 28, 2018 - 11:29am

I don't have a ton of details, but I remember a girl gets pregnant by her boyfriend. She doesn't tell her mom, instead she runs away. She works at a little restaurant or diner. I remember the name holly or marie..and that's it :/

Answer

Submitted by Kurumi (not verified) on September 28, 2018 - 9:09pm

Breakfast at Tiffany's? Probably not, but worth a shot

Kathleen, Please Come Home by

Submitted by Dawn W (not verified) on July 3, 2019 - 7:20am

Kathleen, Please Come Home by Scott O'dell

Because of you by Pip Harry.

Submitted by answer (not verified) on March 27, 2020 - 3:46am

Because of you by Pip Harry.

Could you find my book?

Submitted by Kurumi Shinoda (not verified) on September 28, 2018 - 9:07pm

It's about 6 siblings, I think. They're troublemakers in an elementary school. I remember faint descriptions of a line: "There were 6 of them, one in each grade. They all smoked (yes, even the girls), caused fires, broke things. But they have never been held back a grade because teachers could never handle two of them at once." The story is told by a 3rd grader girl with a brother. It's really funny, and it's old- written in the 60's or something. It's a part of three books, I think. I read this in 4th grade, and I'm in high school, so sorry if descriptions are unclear. One is about a Christmas pageant. That's all I remember.

The Herdmans!

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 10, 2018 - 7:10pm

Those kids are the Herdmans, from the books The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and The Best School Year Ever. You have excellent taste in books! :) You also have a really good memory; those are a lot of details.

Thank you!

Submitted by Kurumi Shinoda (not verified) on December 15, 2018 - 9:39pm

Thank you so much! I wanted to recommend it to my brother and to also re-read it. You're the best, thank you for taking the time to respond!

Could you find my book?

Submitted by Kurumi Shinoda (not verified) on September 28, 2018 - 9:16pm

I remember this very briefly so I'm sorry for the poor descriptions. The cover had a girl and her brother, standing side by side. It looks like a mirror however it is a broken picture frame, with a drop of blood on it. I read it in elementary school- I think the main character's name was Sophie? Please help me find it.

Edit

Submitted by Kurumi Shinoda (not verified) on December 15, 2018 - 9:44pm

I found my book! The title is "The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall" by Mary Downing Hahn if anyone wants to read it. I cannot tell you how satisfying it was. I'll try my best to answer some of these comments on the website.

Half human and half animal book series

Submitted by Nick (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 12:14am

I need help. A long time ago I was reading a book for the reading merit badge and I want to reread it but I can't find the book. The cover when I read it looks sorta like water with a shell in the middle of the cover with some markings. The book from what I rember is about genetically modified humans that could survive in different climates but in this book it focuses on half man and half fish. The main protagonist seams to be a type of princesses who is good with weapons and hand to hand combat but she repeatedly goes off to the surface and other places off limits like a possibility deserted lad that is protected by a shark with lasers or something similar eventually she gets on a beach and I think meets another GMH being talks about how the shells on their throats that allow them to breath underwater. I think in other books they talk about other half human half animal hybrids like half human and half bird, half human half horse and half man and half snake I think. It has been a long time since I have read those books and I might be confusing different parts of different books. I appreciate any help I can get thanks for the help

I think the book series you

Submitted by Jess (not verified) on August 10, 2020 - 8:52pm

I think the book series you are looking for is Above World by Jenn Reese. I was searching for this book too, but found it.

Read a book in high school can't remember the name of it

Submitted by Juan Rendon (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 2:53am

The one thing that I remember about the book is theres a boy who fell on love with this girl and they start seeing each other. Then one day they go into the forest and the weather gets bad and in the end get killed by a giant tree

A Bridge to Terabithia

Submitted by Lor (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 9:33am

I think its a bridge to terabithia

Girl and a clover

Submitted by Alix (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 12:34pm

this was a young adult book i read maybe a decade ago, it was about a girl who felt she was different and for some reason had knowledge of if fae or fairy people touch a 4 leaf clover they shed their human disguise, she starts trying to find one outside her house then decides to roll around in the grass and poof she transforms, and some guy shows up and informs her she needs to come home to the fairy world and she is the princess i think, not sure but i think she only had her mom in the picture i don't think the dad is mentioned

Maybe

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 11, 2020 - 10:51pm

Maybe Tithe a modern fairy tale by Holly Black

Your book title Holly black

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 2, 2021 - 11:36pm

Hello, trying to find an old novel, read years ago. Long time, to this day. The title of the book, in your comment, made me have a wondering, as to if you.ifht ha e clue. No title. Vague recollection of plot. "Two different women, with different stories, appearing to be friends. One man, in their midst, and choices. This, is an old one.... 60s,70s, 80s, as most. Might be of, American or British. I hope you can assistinvs with this inquiry.

Some of the details aren't

Submitted by Corilyn (not verified) on April 28, 2020 - 2:52pm

Some of the details aren't the same, but some of your details make me think its from the faerie realm series? I read some of them in elementary. It's her and her grandma, who gives her a charm bracelet, and she goes to the faerie realm to help the faeries and ogres and trolls and stuff like that.

is it Don’t Breathe a Word by

Submitted by kat (not verified) on May 26, 2021 - 2:46am

is it Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon?

Book named Phillipa or Philippa

Submitted by Christine (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 2:45pm

This book probably was published in the late 60's or early to mid 70's. It is about a teenage girl named Phillipa or Philippa who lives with her father in Sweden, or another Scandanavian country, She meets an older boy or young man who works for him and develops a crush on the boy. He thought of her as a little sister and nicknamed her "little boll." Phillipa was devastated when, during a big neighborhood parade or celebration she found out he had a girlfriend whose name was Kristen or Kirsten.

More Info

Submitted by Christine (not verified) on October 1, 2018 - 9:43am

(I am the OP giving some additional information.) The young man's name may have been Ole. His girlfriend's name may also have been Kristy or Kirstie. It could have taken place in Norway. Phillipa moved in with her father when she was a teenager. I'm not sure what happened to her mother.

where can I find the story

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 5:22pm

where can I find the story called fantasy about Alice that was accusedof killing her Ex boyfriend

Is it

Submitted by Smriti (not verified) on May 11, 2020 - 11:18am

Is it We'll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean ?

Help

Submitted by Samantha (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 8:55pm

Maybe you guys can help me? I am searching for a book I read when I was young. It was yellow/ orange cover, kind of busy featuring a childs birthday I believe. The entire book was about waiting/patience and started off with a child looking out the window for his (?) friends to come. It would have been published mid-90s to early 2000s.

Can't remember title

Submitted by John (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 10:11pm

I read a book in junior high, it was part of a series, had something to do with clocks. A young boy with asthma meets and old man at his school who stabs him with I think and hour hand of a clock pierces one of his lungs and he's able to breath better...I believe the old man ends up dying and the young boy at some point sees an old mansion on a hill that no one else and see, its surrounded by a massive hedge. On one side is a kinda doorway tho its black...nothingness is a key point in this series it seems and that's what is was, once he's through this nothingness he's in the mansion but it's like another world completely complete with a different civilization of sorts sorta stuck in the past...multiple levels each control by a person with a hand from a clock....hour, minute and I believe the second hand as well...his goal is tho claim all the hands and free everyone...at one point he has to use this stairway that only exist as long as he's moving and thing of the stairs...many times he gets stuck somewhere else...as long as there is an image of stairs he can get back to the the staircase he needs...sorry not sure if that's enough info, been looking for it for awhile, found it once been it's been a bit. If you figure out anything email or message me please!!!

Keys to the kingdom. Mister

Submitted by Antonia Boyer (not verified) on February 13, 2020 - 9:55pm

Keys to the kingdom. Mister monday by garth nix

Romance novel that I can’t find

Submitted by Sarah (not verified) on September 29, 2018 - 11:32pm

The book about this older sister who is foreced to marry an older man that she is indifferent to. Her jealous younger sister who is 13 or 14 seduces him before the wedding. The older sister marries him and doesn’t know about her sister’s affair. They end up sleeping with each other multiple times over the years, the younger sister aborts the baby and that allows her to continue having affairs in the future without repercussions.

Husbands favorite childhood book

Submitted by LV (not verified) on September 30, 2018 - 12:21pm

My husband only remembers the plot: Inthe jungle a young boy finds a small peanut-shaped alien and helps it get to a place where it will hibernate. Thank you for any and all suggestions:)

What's the name?!

Submitted by Cynthia F (not verified) on September 30, 2018 - 5:44pm

I read a book around 2005, checked it out at the local library. About a girl that meets this new guy in town who starts out being super nice. Another guy shows up soon after. The first boy ends up being a sociopath and the other is an undercover cop I think. At one point they go to his house where he says he lives with his aunt to find just a bean bag chair and a tv. I think the cover is a picture of a broken vase.

Helpful

Submitted by Samantha (not verified) on February 10, 2020 - 1:59pm

Helpful

Could it be Tiger’s Eye?

Submitted by Cat (not verified) on July 15, 2021 - 5:42pm

Could it be Tiger’s Eye? Something like that. He girl had been in a coma and wakes up as a teenager and the rest sounds like what you put

Need to find this book

Submitted by Anastasia (not verified) on October 1, 2018 - 4:33am

I read a book in highschool im sure it was published before 2012 it was about a young girl from africa she had beauty and her father had status but their fortune changed and the father ended up raping his daughter and selling her to a man in america for money. The young girl later finds love with a drug dealer. Its fiction and i think her name was Fatima im not sure

Girl with violet eyes.

Submitted by Leka (not verified) on October 1, 2018 - 10:32am

I can't remember the name of this book or the characters names but I do know the main character had violet eyes and she hated them because it makes her different. Then a brother and sister who claim they knew her before when she was younger come rescue her from some kind of shadow monster and tell her she has some kind of incredible power because of the color of her eyes. I know the girl has astronomy class with the brother and they're soulmates but can't physically touch. I know it has something to do with demons as well, like they try to come to earth through some kind of portal in lake. I know the book cover is all white with one violet eye in the center it's the first in series. If you know what book this please help.

The book you were looking for

Submitted by Chasity (not verified) on November 9, 2018 - 7:13pm

The Fallen Star

I read a book about 4 years

Submitted by Sheri-Leigh (not verified) on October 1, 2018 - 3:52pm

I read a book about 4 years ago. I can only remember the name of the wife (who dies right in the beginning) her name is Billy. She has two kids (girl and boy) The best friend is a jewellery maker and looks after the kids, while the husband mourns. She decides to look after the kids while he works. For the life of me, I cannot remember this book.

I can’t remember the title

Submitted by Alicia Nelson (not verified) on October 1, 2018 - 8:36pm

The book was qualified as a supernatural book but I remember a girl was living with her parents who were having bad problems in there marriage and one day her dad just walked out abruptly. But the supernatural part of the story is next door is a family with a dead son that she sees from her bedroom window.... I can’t remember a whole lot.

I read this novel years before but I couldnt recall the title

Submitted by Sanjitha (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 12:44am

There were three siblings two brothers and a sister.. The storyline starts while they were locked inside a bank locker inside their house by their father they could sense that something was wrong so when they escaped from the locker they came to find that their home was completely destroyed and there was a big hole in their living room. Through it they saw that the hole city was like that. They decided to go to their grandparents house which is just outside the city. On the way they found many weird things.. Such as a group of horseman and a alien which was like a monkey. Later when they reached their grandparents house they were to be attacked by aliens so then the man in horse they saw in the city helped them escape and told them the location of the safe haven

YA mystery

Submitted by Jane (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 1:36am

I can remember that it involved a group of teen friends who go to stay at a huge house that has a recording studio in the basement. The recording studio is significant during the course of the mystery I think. One girl is very sick and has a pet bird that tests her food and drink for her. At one point a guy shoots a snake. A few of the girls were or are cheerleaders and one is still upset about a prank that happened during a routine. A flashback shows one of the girls poisoning a drink with bleach meant for one girl who stole her boyfriend, but ends up being drunk by the girl that ends up sick and she is too scared to say anything before she drinks it. That’s about all I can remember :/

Weekend by Christopher Pike

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on July 1, 2021 - 12:53am

Weekend by Christopher Pike

I think it's called For Her Eyes Only

Submitted by sahdah (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 9:54am

Okay yes it sounds dubious and yes it was probably distributed by passions books or something, but I can't find it anywhere. It was a cool story. Female Navy officer who had to work with a movie star play boy, the plot was thicker than that. It was a drug/mystery and a decent story. I can't find it anywhere-- now I'm trying to re-create it by memory.

Can't find this book

Submitted by Michael (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 1:18pm

I should have asked about this book years ago when I still remembered most of the details. I started this book in the library got very far and didn't finish so I really want to! I believe this book was about a young woman who was part of this group of people who lived in this frozen landscape of a world. I believe that they had powers to change into wolves and that at a certain point the main character got injured badly. But beyond that I can't remember. I think the cover had the main character walking through a mountainous snowy landscape and the name had something to do with 'wolf'. Please help!

I think I found it...

Submitted by Kurumi Shinoda (not verified) on December 15, 2018 - 9:56pm

Ok ok ok. So don't get your hopes up, but I think this is your book. The one I'm talking about is a series called "The Wolves of Mercy Falls." There are four books: Shiver, Linger, Forever, and Sinner. The characters in it can change into wolves, and the cover is a person walking through a snowy landscape! The cover also has something to do with "wolf," like you said. I hope this is it... is it? Please let me know!

Pocketbook story

Submitted by Jeryl Pechardo (not verified) on July 8, 2021 - 10:39am

There's this book that I'm dying to find but I can't remember the title of the story and much worse is the author of that story because it has been so many years as in since I last read it. The only thing that I remembered was the name of the male lead which is Marco Mondragon and the little sum of the storyline. The storyline is about the rich girl who pretended to be poor because she wants to be noticed and get close with her crush who is fortunately the brother of Marco named Kenneth and is a model, the girl applied to Marco as an secretary out of desperation hoping to be close with her crush. That's all I can just remember hope you'll help me! Thanks!

This doesn't seem to match

Submitted by Carrie McBride on July 12, 2021 - 2:28pm

This doesn't seem to match the plot you describe, but Marco Mondragón is a lead character in The Spanish Brand series by Carla Kelly.

College Literature

Submitted by Red (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 1:28pm

I read a story between 1992-1995 while pursuing my Associate's degree. I can't remember anything but an image and I'm not even sure if the image is in the book or created in my head from the text. At any rate, God/Universe/Divine is sitting there looking at his fingers. There is a ring on each finger and each ring is a planet. Any ideas? I didn't realize at the time that it would have such an impact on me, but I haven't been able to let it go. Wish I could contact my college professor! Thanks for any help.

This sounds a little like an

Submitted by Peter in Pembro... (not verified) on May 17, 2021 - 1:44pm

This sounds a little like an image from the H.G Wells short story 'Under the Knife'. How's that for a late reply??

biography

Submitted by tania (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 7:06pm

Looking for a biography that I read over 15 years ago. Placed during ww2 about a German guy who worked on punch cards or similar (he talks about the early computers) possibly a part of the party or a resistance figher. I think it would have been published in the 80s the cover was drawn pictures with a profile of a bearded man, white background. The name Gerhard comes to mind but not 100% certain. It was written in English.

novel about a man who checks in to what he thinks is an inn

Submitted by Rae (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 8:53pm

I am looking for the title of book about a man who checks in to what he thinks is an inn one night, but when he is dissatisfied with the place and tries to "check out", it becomes apparent that his son has checked him into some kind of care of facility. The "clerk" at the the front desk is a manager who is unsympathetic and unhelpful. The guy befriends some other residents and they plot to escape. One of their attempts involves stealing the car of a visitor who has left the keys in the ignition. I am pretty sure that this book is NOT The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

This sounds like one of the

Submitted by V (not verified) on December 12, 2019 - 6:12pm

This sounds like one of the plot lines from Cloud Atlas - the Timothy Cavendish plot line.

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Submitted by Andre Weaver (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 8:54pm

All I know about this book is about a husband killing his wife for money? I read it in 2011 ...

I can't remember novel

Submitted by Andrew (not verified) on October 2, 2018 - 9:08pm

I read a novel that was about a guy that died on the day of the wedding of the girl he likes, but was too afraid to admit he like her. He goes to the underworld and becomes the brother to Yama or Satan and is sent back in time to his high school days. He meets the girl he liked before and becomes her boyfriend. Also, he used to be the CEO of Microsoft and now that he went back in time, he started to program the Microsoft software and sells it to Microsoft. Also, he learns how to cultivate and do martial arts. So I think this is a translated Chinese novel, but I am not sure. That's all I remember, please help me find the title of novel.

Audio book from years ago.

Submitted by Tyler (not verified) on October 3, 2018 - 10:39am

What I remember is vague but here me out in the book a street is separated from the others it starts with the power going out I can't remember what exactly terrorized them. But an unseen force wouldn't let them leave and slowly aome of them started to become mad and people were dying mysteriously and murdered. I wanna say they were transported to another Dementions or were terrorized by aliens

The Regulators

Submitted by Christine (not verified) on October 4, 2018 - 10:42am

This sounds like The Regulators by Stephen King (originally written as Richard Bachman)

Please help! What is the title of the book

Submitted by Alex (not verified) on October 4, 2018 - 3:08am

A boy (15year old) who was accused/convicted murdering a man/woman (cant remember), saved by a lawyer/investigator with HIS SIDEKICK like a machine that uses hologram in the crime scene, like Jarvis in Iron Man. Please help! Thank you!

I just can't seem to remember

Submitted by Mariah (not verified) on October 4, 2018 - 12:03pm

So when I was in middleschool or so I read a thriller/horror book about this girl who lived in a town with rumors of a little ghost girl haunting the forest. I believe the main girl character was having car trouble/ was coming home from somewhere when a boy a little older than her (he was an adult of like 21 i believe the girl was late teenager) flagged her down from his car and gave her a ride home. It continues to show those two characters as they grow closer. Eventually it's revealed the "ghost girl" was infact the boys dead sister but she wasn't a ghost (I believe her name was Carry or something similar?) and he would kidnap young girls around the main characters age and similar in looks and keep them pretending they were his dead sister... I'm pretty sure the only reason the main character figures this out is finding something in the trash can? Like she found something strange that shouldn't have been there if he was a man living alone, I for the life of me cannot remember what it was, but i just remember her thinking it was strange. that is all i can remember but i'd love to eventually be able to reread this book if anyone can help i'd really appreciate it.

This sounds like 'The Lovely

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on December 12, 2019 - 6:24pm

This sounds like 'The Lovely Bones'!

Idk if this will help but it

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 2, 2020 - 4:20am

Idk if this will help but it sounds just like the movie "house at the end of the street" with Jennifer Lawrence

I cant remember the title

Submitted by Rummana (not verified) on October 4, 2018 - 8:15pm

i recently read a book that i cant seem to remember. The title had November in it. Its about a rich family at a dinner table with other rich families discussing boat racing and how they lost. The kitchens odd job man says he has a plan and tries to discuss it with the father of the family. The kitchen odd jobs man falls in love with one of the daughters Lorna. Lorna also falls in love with the kitchen odd jobs man. There are 2 aunts, 1 son, twin girls and Lorna. One of the aunts names was Heniretta. It was a romance book. Pls help me find this book as it was a nice book to read

November of the Heart

Submitted by Norm S. on October 5, 2018 - 8:29am

Hi Rummana - Sounds like November of the Heart by LaVyrle Spencer: https://browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb11729729__S?lang=eng

Romance Novel

Submitted by Rosalind Gonzalez (not verified) on October 5, 2018 - 1:54pm

I once read a book about a female that was hired to protect by a man's father. Who suspected that his son was escaping near misses from assination attemps. She was hired in secret. I believe it starts of with the son seeing someone following him to his house when he gets paranoud he runs the bike of the road, then realizrs its just a woman eho claims to have rented the only other housr near his. He apologizes not knowung she is actually his bodyguard.

Driving me literally insane

Submitted by LaTisha Hajdin (not verified) on October 6, 2018 - 5:41pm

I've been on a kick lately about rereading books I read in high school. There are two books I'm looking for (or maybe it's just one, I'm really not sure). The first one, is a young adult but all I really remember is the main character is a chick, but the guy in the book wears a pink shirt, cammo shorts, and combat boots. I read it between 2000-2007, it was a new book in my school library... The other one is also a young adult book, the book cover has a girl with short purple or blue hair that covers her eyes and she's wearing lipstick. I think the title to this book was just one word (ex: Lips, Eyes). Also read this between 2000-2007. I don't know if these are two different books or the same book; I also think the second book I described is part of a series. Thank you for any help you can give me.

I have read book where boy

Submitted by Ch (not verified) on October 7, 2018 - 10:52am

I have read book where boy exchange its body with a dark and he try to tell others doesnt anyone know the name

There is this girl who was

Submitted by Madhu (not verified) on October 7, 2018 - 2:28pm

There is this girl who was sold by her brother to his friend. That guy he tries to take her virginity but as the girl won't allow him then he make her fall in love with him and take her virginity then throws her out of his life..then later realises his mistake

a book called theENGLISH

Submitted by olatubosun (not verified) on October 7, 2018 - 5:27pm

LOOKING for this novel called the English written by two authors the hard cover is a bed sheet always with a british flag with a couple on the British flag sheet on the bed.. The English boasted at the beginning of the novel and how it sends some to Africa to expand british Empire..

Book i read awhile ago

Submitted by Kallie delucia (not verified) on October 8, 2018 - 12:17am

I read this book a few years back about a girl who’s kidnapped and forced into this mansion with a few other girls competing for the love and to be the favorite wife of this man who’s old wife is sick and dying in a room in the mansion.. very little detail sorry but I know that the girl the story is about became friends with the sick wife who grew close with the man and yeah all I know is that there was an elevator that led to the basement where the wives were not allowed and that there were servents that fixed the wives up everyday and I think the man who forced the girls into marriage also had a Dad that the girls were scared of? Ughhh it was such a good book! I just can’t remember the name

I’m pretty sure your thinking

Submitted by Jamie (not verified) on October 4, 2019 - 12:39am

I’m pretty sure your thinking about “Wither” By Lauren Destefano

Trees

Submitted by Jackie bergen (not verified) on December 23, 2019 - 5:39pm

Non fiction Science popular out this past year

Can't remember name of book read in the 1990s

Submitted by Mikeike (not verified) on October 8, 2018 - 5:13am

Can't remember book name. Its about this girl who moves with her mother or grandmother .the girl goes for a ride on her bike .and meets this boy. Whom she falls in love with or befriends and towards the end of the book the boy remembers he drowned in a pond or body of water .and doesn't know hes dead .or the girl finds out .the cover is a girl with a bike .manor the names of characters are Elizabeth or tom.any help greatly appreciated.thanks

Ghost story about drowning?

Submitted by Catherine (not verified) on May 26, 2020 - 2:12am

I think I'm looking for the same book; did you ever find it? Or get the title?

Please help me the title of this book

Submitted by Johanna (not verified) on October 8, 2018 - 6:44am

I once started reading a book but i misplaced it,i was really loving it though,The book started off with a girl stealing (I am not sure if its a phone or a bag ) from a guy, but when the girl ran like few feet away to hide or something,the bag just busted into flames...I know that I am not really giving away anything but please help me find it.

I think this is Stealing

Submitted by Jen (not verified) on July 3, 2021 - 6:34am

I think this is Stealing Phoenix by Joss Stirling

I do not remember neither the

Submitted by Elena (not verified) on October 8, 2018 - 9:09am

I do not remember neither the name or the author. But the book started with something like the sounds of the beating heart and: "He decided to go 5 miles, and 5 miles was what he would do". It was about a boy who was doing running, and was kidnapped. I read it as a young teenager. Thanks)

looking for the name of the 1st romance novel i ever read

Submitted by Valentina Jean-... (not verified) on September 23, 2019 - 9:48am

can't remember name or author but the story was about this lady who owns a successful lingerie store. the owner of the mall her store is located in wants to have a kid so he makes a deal with her to try and get pregnant but when she was a kid she was a diagnosis that she couldn't have kids she still agrees to the deal but she does eventually get pregnant anyway. Please help this is haunting me.

I was seaching for the same

Submitted by Mely (not verified) on April 23, 2020 - 6:08am

I was seaching for the same plot and just found "Scandalized!" by Lori Foster.

I can’t remember the name of a book

Submitted by Shifal Sudhir (not verified) on October 8, 2018 - 1:28pm

I don’t remember the name of the book. It was something I read around 5 to 6 years ago. It was a book about an expedition to the Mount Everest by a boy and his mom (I think) where they meet a local tribe. The tribe has a princess or rather the Chief’s daughter who gets kidnapped or lost in mountains one day along with another girl. The expedition was initially to prove the existence of yeti. But as they try to find the princess they find a group of creatures almost like humans but nothing like them at the same time. They have been keeping the princess in capture. In the end, all I remember is they rescue the princess and make a rope out of their hair. I hope someone helps me find this. I don’t remember if the author is Indian or not. It could be though.

Please help

Submitted by Crown Agabi (not verified) on October 8, 2018 - 8:50pm

fantasy book where main character has 2 female best friends who she feels she's drifting away from she lives with her grandmother whose husband is dead. the main character meets a guy and falls in love she moves in to his house for protection they drive to a house which has a tree that guards the girl and there is also a portal/river near the house that leads to the faerie world

I am looking for a book

Submitted by margret (not verified) on October 9, 2018 - 9:27am

I am looking for a book about a young man who is dared to live on a isolated island for one year. I think it's an old book. I have been looking all over for this but can't seem to find it. Does anyone remember what this book is called?

Hi!

Submitted by Chiara S (not verified) on October 20, 2019 - 8:40am

Hi! Not sure that's the one you're looking for, but does it have a tragical ending and is it quite old (as in, maybe '70-'80s old?) If so I read it too but I can't remember the full title. I believe it begins with "the year of" though. Hope you find it!

I don’t think it was on a

Submitted by Nicola (not verified) on January 2, 2020 - 2:23am

I don’t think it was on a dare, but this is the theme of a wonderful book called ‘An island to oneself’ by Tom Neale. My grandfather had this book and I still love it.

can you help me find this

Submitted by nini (not verified) on October 9, 2018 - 10:35am

can you help me find this book i read about a female wolf who left her home town and blocked her wolf for eight years only to come in contact with her mate who is about to get married to her sister eight years later

i should have kept a better reading diary

Submitted by Emily (not verified) on October 10, 2018 - 1:04pm

i checked this book out from our local library several times yet could never remember the title or author. was published probably in the late 70's or early 80's. a teenage girl suffers from black outs and doesn't know why. she must have had some trauma or a neurological issue. no one knows what is wrong with her. eventually, she becomes close with her teacher (might have been a music teacher?) who engages her interest in visual art. she takes her to a museum where they see an exhibition of aubrey beardsley's work which inspires in her a very disturbing reaction especially to the medusa drawing.

Help me find this book

Submitted by Emma Kate (not verified) on October 10, 2018 - 8:17pm

I read this book years ago and can't remember the name. It's centered in a small religious town. The main character is apart of the choir and has a crush on a boy. I think he was ginger. His little sister is kidnapped and he is under question. The main character helps to find out more about the girl's disappearance, knowing her brother isn't behind her disappearance. The book is a mix between a green/blue/ and purple and has a flower on the front. I know her family is dysfunctional and i think it was her mom who stays in a facility. I don't remember much else.

Okay so this is an old book.

Submitted by Angelina (not verified) on October 11, 2018 - 4:15am

Okay so this is an old book. There are characters on a carriage, I think they are strangers? Each is a bit of a stereotype. They each tell a story to pass the time on the way to the destination

Well, this definitely sounds

Submitted by Jen (not verified) on November 8, 2019 - 9:48pm

Well, this definitely sounds like Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. But it is possible that you were reading a remake of it.

Trying to remember the name of this book

Submitted by Rebecca (not verified) on October 11, 2018 - 11:11am

I don't know if this particular book has been asked about, but I am looking for a murder mystery/crime book I read way back in 2007ish. I remember I bought it at the airport while waiting for our next flight. However, I left it behind when I moved and I don't know if my mother threw it out or not when they moved to a new house. Traveling back home to look in the old house is not possible. We still own it, it's just too far to travel. It was purchased in Germany, but the book was in English. It apparently is the second or third in a detective series. I remember that the killer ended up being a baker/cake decorator with giant hands and the detective actually asks him how he can decorate cakes with such large hands. I think the cover was red and gold, possibly with a bird on the front (which would be the gold color). If anyone has any idea on what book this could be, I would be eternally grateful for the title so I can read the rest of the series!

Trying to remember the book

Submitted by Seth Herron (not verified) on October 11, 2018 - 1:33pm

I read it when I was in elementary school, but it was about a girl who gets stuck on africa, she talks about the heat a lot and how the sun makes her skin like leather and she eats figs and adapts. She maybe gets rescued and learns to work on the ship and starts drinking her coffee black and starts to prefer it that way. The rest is a blur.

Book Golden Urchin

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on September 20, 2019 - 10:54am

I know that this was over a year ago, but try the book Golden Urchin. Even if its not, its definitely my all time favorite and I would highly recommend it :)

Is it this?

Submitted by Carrie (not verified) on July 11, 2020 - 5:30pm

The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith.

I can't remember the title of this book from long ago

Submitted by Angelo Devenecia (not verified) on October 11, 2018 - 10:53pm

Okay so the history I have with this book is, that I remember reading it back in middle school around 2012. I think it had the protagonist on the cover with a tree and a raven or something like that, I think it had the title of "Raven," but there's to many raven books on the internet. Anyways, I think it was a mystery book, something for teens if anything. So, from what I remember is, that there was this word "phosphorous" or something like that. That the someone or the protagonist question these crackers that were given to him that contained something like that, and something about it being made from urine or something. Now I think about it, I think I recall that these crackers, when eaten, allows you to see some like of UV light or something, I don't remember. So anyways stuff happens and what not, that beings a clue mystery thing, if I can recall. Maybe some adult helping the protagonist, and some raven, I don't remember. But I do remember the ending where he is confronted with a-I assume a female villain that gives him a riddle of where to find his parents around this mansion they were at. But he was given a time limit for something. Either it was this item everyone in his group was trying to find-if there was a group, that if he didn't figure it out in time, they'll die and he has to give up this item. That or she or the villain-could be a he, gets away, not being willingly caught from the bargain that was given out from either the boy or villain. Anyways, he was running out of time or lost the game, but realizes the riddle given to him. So he goes outside somewhere on the mansion grounds and digs up his parents and release them from a coffin or transparent glass coffin. I don't remember. But it was the start of his journey for sure and the adult man helping the kid out. I serious think he was helped by a man. Anyways, that's all I can go on. Hope I can get my answer.

It's "The Raven Boys (The

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on March 15, 2021 - 12:04am

It's "The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater"! Mann, I spent the all of the morning trying to think of the name, ooof.

Name of the book

Submitted by May (not verified) on October 12, 2018 - 4:12am

A girl’s memory of her childhood with her older sister. Her older sister I think was anorexic. They went swimming one day and her sister drowned and died in a tide (her sister believed she’s a mermaid). The girl would blame herself for not saving her sister. Her parents thought her sister had problems, so her sister would have to go to therapy. While in therapy, her sister would lie and makeup her stories and not take her meds. Her sister liked this boy that were their friends. This boy and the girl later in the story coped together about the sister death.

HELP ME! Need to find this book!

Submitted by Jason Radlein (not verified) on October 12, 2018 - 11:57am

Hi I am looking for a children’s book between the late 90’s and 2000’s. The books main characters were monsters and it was ultimately about self esteem. On the inside cover of the book there was a map. This is all I remember, if you have any recollection of this book or know the title. Please do not hesitate to speak up! THank you

HELP ME FIND THIS LOVE STORY PLEASSEEE

Submitted by Jenna Dombi (not verified) on October 12, 2018 - 2:21pm

I feel like I read this love story awhile ago but I can’t remember the title!! It’s not Double Dare by RL Mathewson I’ve read it a ton it’s something else. But this book is about a girl who I think comes from a family that doesn’t care about her much. So she’s best friends with this family of like 5 boys, all brothers, and I believe all their names start with the letter R. One of the boys is closer with her than the rest, but there’s another brother that’s also in love with her so back in high school he made a rumor up about her so his brother would hear it and not want to date her (still don’t remember the rumor). Either way when she was 15 she had to get surgery on her breasts due to her likelihood of getting breast cancer. Due to that she feels less like a woman. Fast forward and she has to get a hysterectomy now and she feels even less like a woman now. The the brother she’s closer with finds out about it and gets upset she’d think he wouldn’t love her. If you find the book I’ll love you forver it’s been killing me. The key part is that she feels like like a woman cause these surgeries and the one brother started a rumor so the other wouldn’t date her.

Kids book

Submitted by Melissa (not verified) on October 12, 2018 - 3:21pm

The girls mother is busy cleaning the house and she wants to play. The mom ends up dressing up as someone and the name of the book is Mrs. whoever comes for lunch. I just can’t remember who her mom pretends to be. I found it before and it was out of print but I’d like to search again since it was a childhood favorite!

Gigglebelly

Submitted by Rosemary (not verified) on April 24, 2019 - 8:27pm

I found a book on Amazon: “Mrs Gigglebelly Is Coming for Tea,” by Donna Guthrie

Can't find this book

Submitted by Ranny Belmondo (not verified) on October 12, 2018 - 4:35pm

I remember reading this book in 6th grade. From my memory, it is about a boy who's got an older brother, little sister, mom, and I forgot if the dad was there. I don't remember too much but all I can remember is that the family went on a road trip and the two brother would fight over who would have the little sister's head on whose lap when she lied down on their laps in the car. They didn't want the little sister's head on their laps because she drooled when she slept. Another thing I remember is that the two brothers trespassed and were swimming in a lake that was off limits. One of the brothers were being pulled down deeper into the lake and the other brother saved him somehow. I believe they called this lake monster the Pooh bear. If anyone's got any idea just let me know thanks!

Hi! I'm pretty sure the book

Submitted by naima akhter (not verified) on December 23, 2019 - 10:21pm

Hi! I'm pretty sure the book your talking about is The Watson's Go To Birmingham-1967. They went on a road trip to Alabama because the older brother was troublesome and the parents were tired of dealing with him.

i cannot remember much of the

Submitted by angela (not verified) on October 12, 2018 - 11:21pm

i cannot remember much of the book because i read it such a long time ago but all i can remember from it is that the main guy has an old beat up flip phone and he admits that hes kept that phone because of a voicemail that was left on it by the girl he loves who is the other main character of the book. PLEASE HELP!

Hello, i know it's been a

Submitted by Erëza (not verified) on November 23, 2019 - 5:49pm

Hello, i know it's been a year but i also know that a book that you can't quite remember is never actually forgotten, so i think the book you're looking for is My forever girl by Heidi McLaughlin and it has also been turned into a movie.

Do you know this book?

Submitted by Megan Moss (not verified) on October 13, 2018 - 12:08am

It's a children's book series from the 2000s. It was about two sisters (possibly twins) one of which was named Reese. I remember one of the books was about them in school and they had to take care of their own egg babies. In another book they were searching in their parents closet for their Christmas gifts but didn't find them. Anyone know what this book is?

BOoOoO K!!!

Submitted by Kyukei (not verified) on October 13, 2018 - 8:19pm

I'm looking for a book were the girl protagonist is in search for Bigfoot but in search she and her guy friend get sent to another world where she gets forced in to an engagement and finds out that world is the world were her sister was sent to when she want missing and that the BigFoot's are acutely some kind of guardian for the forest.

I think the book you are

Submitted by SL3339 (not verified) on February 28, 2021 - 11:19pm

I think the book you are looking for is the first book in the Ruby Ring Saga by Chrissy pebbles - title: eternal vows.

Forgotten book that I've been searching for for eight years

Submitted by Min Fitzgerald (not verified) on October 13, 2018 - 11:03pm

I've been looking for a book that I read when I was in kindergarten or so. It wasn't necessarily a children's book, as I have always been an advanced reader and was reading 200 page-and-up books when I was in third grade. The most that I can remember, and it really intrigues me, is that the main character is a girl who needs to solve puzzles in these rooms, though there might be more to it than that. I can't remember if she had an ultimate goal, just that she needed to keep advancing. One room she got to made her pause, however. There was a curtain in the room obscuring the far wall (and for some reason I remember these roons as being hexagonal or octagonal? That may just be my own mind though) and from behing the curtain she kept hearing these noises that terrified her. Eventually she managed to steel herself and find the courage to draw back the curtain, and when she does, what she sees standing there is not some monster, but herself. It was this philosophical kind of thing about yourself being the thing you're most scared of, or your greatest enemy being yourself, but again, I was six. The details have become a little fuzzy. I also remember the books (I believe it was a series, but I may have been holding multiple, similar books in the memory I'm drawing this from) being pastel-hued, with purple, peach, and orange sticking out in my pink particularly. One of those three. They were fairly thick as I remember them, not short, but I couldn't give a good estimate on page number. The time period they're from is probably relatively recent, nothing before the 1900s, I'd guess. Thank you so much!

Help me find this book

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on October 14, 2018 - 6:25am

All I remember is that a princess is imprisoned in a giant bird cafe and forced to sing for the king and his guards but she gets the chance after years in the cage and escapes to a neighboring kingdom to try and find the other guardian like her from a prophecy to stop tyrant king from taking over everything. The two guardians are connected but only after their powers are connected and she pretend to be a servant. That is all I remember, please help I've been looking for years now

Read this in highschool

Submitted by kyla cook (not verified) on October 14, 2018 - 4:19pm

It was a historical romance novel she was wrongly accused of sleeping with a man She was only healing him She was forced to walk through town and get stones tossed at her The laird or highlander helped her was taking her somewhere She had four body gards Her and her gards used bows Each of there arrows had a different color for the person that used it She also had a bunch of statues of a saint all of the statues had gold in them

Shadow Music by Julie Garwood

Submitted by Elena (not verified) on April 29, 2021 - 11:53pm

Shadow Music by Julie Garwood. Princess Gabrielle.. Saint Biel.

Book

Submitted by Sarah (not verified) on October 15, 2018 - 12:50am

My friend hates reading but he once found this book that he liked and understood he says it’s about a boy and father that are fixing up a car but then the father passes away but he finishes the car himself and something about him going to find his sister

Can't find a book on wattpad, I've forgotten the name

Submitted by Denise (not verified) on October 15, 2018 - 10:50am

So it's basically about this girl who likes boy, and one night this guy enters her room while she is asleep. So it's dark and she gets up and sees him but he tells her not to put the light on. The talk get to know each other. This went on for days and she thought that this mystery guy is her crush but it's not, It happens to be her crush's Elder brother. She finds that out after she goes to her crush's house and he comes and tells her....

A book with a Cat on the Cover in the woods chasing

Submitted by triacona (not verified) on October 15, 2018 - 11:51am

I am trying to remember a childhood book. It was about a cat that roomed a dark wood. One day a 3 children got lost in these woods. And the cat came towards them, seemingly to befriend the children, it snarled and bit one of the children, taring off flesh. This caused the children to start running. As soon as they turned their backs the cat began to grow in size. Soon they realised and turned to face it, only to have the bitten child to get their throat ripped out. The other two bolt and the cat begins persuit, all the whilst growning in size and ferocity Thanks for your help.

Book

Submitted by Vicente (not verified) on October 15, 2018 - 2:07pm

Hi! I am looking for the book collection that the plot it is about crime into deep sea. There is Under Water Police Secret Service. I forget the title...I have some name related to the author and the good guy: Peter Kapra, Jim... It marked greatly my childhood. Many thanks! Vicente, from Mozambique

Just a guess

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on December 7, 2019 - 7:49pm

El Planeta Liquido (The Liquid Planet) by Peter Kapra?

I can't find this book, please help

Submitted by Smokey (not verified) on October 15, 2018 - 10:26pm

I've looked everywhere, google, yahoo answers, quote sourcing, can't find it. I read it two years ago, and I loved it, I really wanna read it again. It's about this bipolar girl named v who moves into this small town with her artist mother for the summer. V works at a pottery shop, where she meets this chef boy named (I think it's Jordan? J something at least) who's father just died, The dude's mom is grieving the death, so he has to take care of the kids. It doesn't actually end happily. V impulse buys a motor scooter/bike and finds the father she never met, who has a new family instead of her. She then later crashes said bike.

it’s called “when we collided

Submitted by lauren (not verified) on November 28, 2019 - 12:09pm

it’s called “when we collided”

Victorian romance book I can't find.

Submitted by Stella (not verified) on October 16, 2018 - 12:43am

Read this book in the 90's where an orphan woman think her name is Betsy or Bessy, lives with distant relatives in the country where she meets a man accused of murdering his fiance by the towns people but his best friend at the time murdered her in the end because he was also in love with the woman.

Lost Book

Submitted by YUHANNES WATTS (not verified) on October 16, 2018 - 4:24pm

This is a childrens book about a young African American boy who either gets into some trouble or loses his confidence. He goes to a gypsy and she gives him a special box and tells him to always keep it by his side. The boy grows up and becomes very successful... One day when he is grown he opens the wooden box and sees that it's only a mirror with his reflection inside.

Help!!! I can't remember the title of this book

Submitted by Amy Karlberg (not verified) on October 16, 2018 - 7:14pm

I can't remember the title of this book- It's a fiction (I think Y/A) book about a girl whose parents die so she moves in with her uncle and they adopt a white dog named Mellomar(?). At one point she breaks a bone and everyone things she's depressed but she says she's just clumsy. Her uncle is very attractive and wants to be a real estate agent. Her uncle tries to sell a house and she has to light a cinnamon candle. She lives by the beach. I think there is a lighthouse on the cover with the white dog who has a little bit of brown coloring. Please help me!!

Found something close....

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 10, 2018 - 7:39pm

I searched for "dog named Mallomar" (like the snack cakes) and found a book called One Year In Coal Harbor, by Polly Horvath. There's definitely an uncle (Jack) and a young girl goes to live with him. I didn't see anything about a cinnamon candle or him being a real estate agent; either I've got the wrong book (sorry) or you may be combining two books in your head. Hope you find what you're looking for!

I found it! I had been

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on April 12, 2021 - 11:23am

I found it! I had been looking for this one too! Everything On A Waffle by Polly Horvath. I looked up the book in the comment below and it wasn't quite right, but it's by the same author so that led me to this one.

Shot in the Dark

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on October 16, 2018 - 11:12pm

I read a book from the late 90s/early 2000s in middle school. I only have vague memories of the book, but I figured I'd take a shot in the dark in case it was actually very popular. The book was centered around a teenage male protagonist, and it was realistic fiction based on standard social drama types of issues. There was one part of the book where the boy was in a girl's basement, but her dad came home angry, so he was forced to run/hide. The only other memories I have from it are like visions from a dream that I can't really describe. I think the cover was red and black, but can't remember unfortunately.

Son of the Mob by Gordon

Submitted by Elmer Yoder (not verified) on March 27, 2021 - 4:44pm

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman, has a scene like that

I can't remember the title.

Submitted by SII (not verified) on October 17, 2018 - 11:19am

Looking for a book. It's part of a series. I think the characters are called Lucy and Cole. They meet when they're 15 and Lucy's dad is an alcoholic. The book goes through to college as well.

Please help

Submitted by Rosie Rodriguez (not verified) on October 17, 2018 - 12:32pm

I read a book a while back about a girl who had a twin and the story is about both teenagers but in the end it turns out that one of the twins had died and the girl had been living two lives to deal with her sister’s passing. Please help me find the name of this book!!!

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Submitted by Sarah (not verified) on July 22, 2020 - 9:55pm

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

In Vietnam a soldier is MIA/POW ... 4 old friends try to get him

Submitted by Desbages (not verified) on October 17, 2018 - 5:58pm

End of war in Vietnam ... In America, a young woman receive a letter from her MIA husband, he tell her he is alive and to prove his identity use the sentence "say hello to Tiny'' which only the two of them know about "Tiny" being one of the young woman breast which is slightly smaller than the other one ... She contact 4 of her husband Green beret friends who decide to go back to Vietnam and free him ... I read it around 1983 or 4, I believe the original title was "Mission impossible" which make it impossible to found on the net since everytime you type those 2 words you go directly to Tom Cruise movies ... Thank you for your help, I got to find that book

Is it Mission M.I.A.?

Submitted by Norm S. on October 18, 2018 - 8:52am

Hi - I think the book you're looking for is Mission M.I.A.? -Norm, NYPL

Sweet Short Story

Submitted by Chelsea (not verified) on October 17, 2018 - 9:36pm

I listened to a short story in a collection of short stories years ago. I can't remember all of the details, but I loved it! It was about a small town or community that kept fire alive by always keeping embers and even people smoking to pass on the flame. It was in a great and well told collection of short stories on an audio cd. I just can't remember any other details...

Try to find a book I read

Submitted by Lynne (not verified) on October 17, 2018 - 10:48pm

Looking for a book I read that was set in the Pacific NW somewhere. A city was quarantined and some young people began to notice really strange things happening. People were blending with inanimate objects. One person was stuck in a ceiling as if he were a part of it. Someone got trapped in a wall. There was something really strange at the city hospital and it was initially guarded by the military. Lots of strange flashing lights and odd sounds coming from it. A couple of kids tried to get out but were forced to return by the military. There was a strange opening in the sky and it was hinted that this led to another universe that was taking over this universe and people were being trapped between the two, hence the people in the ceilings and walls. At the end of the book, it was suggested that the hole in the sky was expanding and would eventually swallow up the earth. I would love to find this book. Thanks.

Help find book

Submitted by Carlina (not verified) on October 18, 2018 - 1:08am

I can't remember the name of the book. Believe it was young adults or teen fantasy or science fiction. Was about a girl who was sold to (maybe) and went to live an abbot. They were warrior monks. She trained with two ring blade weapons. I think here name was Reign. They had to fight a darkness coming into their world from another realm and she was drawn to it?

Looking for a book

Submitted by Gilbert Brook (not verified) on October 18, 2018 - 1:32am

This book is about a doctor finding GOD. He goes to Africa and helps a farmer with advanced tuberculosis and without the proper equipment manages to save him. The farmer notices the doctor and says "You look like you are wondering what you are doing here." The doctor says, "Yes I do wonder." The farmer replied, "You are here because God sent you to help me." There were other stories in the book but I can't remember them. If any one knows the name of the book I would appreciate your telling me. Thanks. ... Gil

I forgot this beautiful book's title I read a few years ago...

Submitted by Aydan (not verified) on October 18, 2018 - 6:15am

There was a book I picked up, it was about survivors of a disease that wiped out everyone over 18 years of age, it caused them to accelerate really quickly...and so they decided to use their remaining time to build camps for children's and also a special place where every single copy of a book is kept for the future generations. They nearly found the cure but they didn't had enough time and so they wanted to children to find the secret vault with the books and to find a cure. There's two main groups in the story, one are called Zeds and they are like caveman, they can't speak well and little children are taught to be brutal. The other group is where the main character is in, and they are more civilized in a safe base. I remember they started the quest to find the vault when they found a girl who was 17 years old and was educated, I think her name was Lucy or Ruby, but she taught the main character who is a boy how to read and able to retell the story of peter pan and the ending is sad because it was a year later and they found the vault after many sacrifices from their friends and Ruby/Lucy's last resting place because she was ageing quickly was inside the vault where the main character picked a book from the shelf and read it to her as she slowly died... Please help me find the title.... I really want to re-read it!

book title

Submitted by Vicki (not verified) on April 23, 2020 - 2:26pm

The Soterion Mission by Stewart Ross

Native american child's book

Submitted by Panda (not verified) on October 18, 2018 - 11:59am

I only really remember that there were two girls who always looked at the moon and say they love the moon, one night the moon wanted to test them and told them he will take them up high into the sky (most likely to his palace I think) and they must keep their eyes closed as he grabs their hair or something, and one girl got impatient and opened her eyes, soon as she did he dropped her while the other one kept hers closed. She got some sort of necklace that the book came with at the end. Oh I also remember something about their beauty having to do with their chins.

Booook

Submitted by Findbook (not verified) on October 18, 2018 - 6:16pm

The book was about a boy which was very troubled. At the beginning of the book everything was unclear about what happened to him. The book had chapters (especially in the beginning if I remember correctly) which were interviews with people who knew the boy. The interviewees were talking about how they would not expect the things he had done. After that you will find out that he was abused by his father, he was beaten. It turns out that as a result of the abuse, he kills someone in a park, but he does not realize what he is doing. He has a best friend, which has a younger sister. Eventually he rapes the little sister multiple times at her home while her parents and brother are out of the house. It is written in the point of view of the disturbed boy. I think the disturbed boy also had a little sister and he takes care of her. Does anybody know this book? I think it was written bij a female, but Im not 100% sure about that.

hi am looking for 2 books ;

Submitted by viede (not verified) on October 19, 2018 - 6:50am

hi am looking for 2 books ; the first one is about a teen girl (17 I think) who was dating a guy that was 2 or 3 years older than her but her parents didn't approve so when she got pregnant they made her give the baby up , already her boyfriend had broken up with her as he was about going to jail on the day she was going to tell him she was pregnant but she didn't tell him and he went to jail without knowing. Years later she came back to town and met her ex but he had a daughter of 14 or 15 years unknown her is the daughter she gave up. The second book is about a girl who went to look for her younger brother in Italy as he was going getting to married to a young Italian heiressbut on arriving there found out from the older brother of the bride that had eloped , its a Christmas season story , the female had the stay at the bride's family Castle (I think there is a Castle in its title) alone with the bride's brother whose name is Dmitri , and story goes on about how they fell in love. I would really appreciate if you can find these novels , thanks.

Children's picture book

Submitted by Nicole Whitney (not verified) on October 19, 2018 - 12:17pm

Hi, I have been looking for years with no luck for a book from my childhood. It was about a little girl who was moving and wanted to bring the moon with her. She put it in this little box. It was something like it got cloudy when they were moving so she truly believed she had brought the moon in her little box. I can't remember the title but the art was beautiful. I think the girl's name started with C... Like Cecelia or Cynthia or something. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Molly's Special Wish

Submitted by Teadye Howell (not verified) on February 25, 2021 - 7:20pm

I think this is Molly's Special Wish by Robyn Supraner.

help me find this book please

Submitted by Taylor angel (not verified) on October 19, 2018 - 5:12pm

So the book is about a girl who can hear a boys voice in her head all her life. Everyone told her she was crazy so she stopped telling people about the voice. Then she went to high school and a new boy entered her school. She met him by running into him in the elevator. When she started talking to the boy in her head, they both realized that she was standing next to him in the elevator. That's all I remember about the book. Please help!!!!

I believe this book is

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on August 27, 2019 - 10:27pm

I believe this book is Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan.

Trying to find this book

Submitted by Griffin (not verified) on October 19, 2018 - 11:08pm

All I can really remember is that the main character is half fairy. Her parents were banished because the father is human (not to sure, it has been years since I've read it.) So in order to see them again, she had to give up her powers. There was also a talking cat. The cover was of her flying if that is able to help.

Try the Chaos series by

Submitted by Charmaine (not verified) on October 22, 2018 - 2:49pm

Try the Chaos series by Claire Farrell, very similar, and a really good read.

Try "No Flying in the House",

Submitted by Mara (not verified) on July 16, 2019 - 6:30am

Try "No Flying in the House", by Betty Brock

Lost book

Submitted by Anita imam (not verified) on October 20, 2018 - 3:32am

Please could you find a book written by Pakistan author _ maybe female_ about a lady unhappy in her marriage. Disliked by mother in law. 2 kids. Husband having affair brother drinking( big business man) commits suicide eventually.

Maybe this one?

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 10, 2018 - 8:13pm

You may be thinking of Deena's story in Nafisa Haji’s novel The Sweetness of Tears.

Looking for a book about a girl immigrating to America

Submitted by Luigi Romanelli (not verified) on October 20, 2018 - 5:23am

I used to live in Rotterdam, NY. My 4th grade teacher use to read a book to the class during our lunch break. The book was about a girl migrating to America with her sister (they were European, maybe Dutch, maybe German). They were going to live with their uncle, who was already there. But during the journey on the ship the letter with their Uncle’s address flew away with the wind and when they arrived they couldn’t find their uncle. They suffered poverty, living I believe in NY and I remember being touched by their story. I remember there was alo an Italian family (maybe Gina was the name of one of the members of this family). I remember that the younger sister was the main character. I remember the desperation of the sisters when they did not find their uncle waiting for them at the port ( I believe in New York ). I remember there was a happy ending. Their uncle finally finds them! Any clues?

Could the girls have been

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on November 19, 2019 - 12:25pm

Could the girls have been friends not sisters? I am thinking this sounds quite a bit like a book called "Victoria Crossing" by Micheal Wallace. Same premise as you describe. The reason I suggest it even with the differences is the "desperation" when he was not waiting for them. Great read either way.

I remember a long time ago

Submitted by Arizona (not verified) on October 20, 2018 - 4:06pm

I remember a long time ago hearing this story about a family that moves into a new house. They have 2 girls that start asking for more snacks at night because of the shadow kids. One night the mom goes to check on them and they are sleeping in the same bed. She realizes that they aren't breathing and pulls the blanket down to see why and the girls bodies are all chewed up. Turns out the house was previously occupied by a man who locked his girls in their room and starved them to death.

Picture book about old lady who wants a new home

Submitted by Aiyana Bailin (not verified) on October 21, 2018 - 1:13am

Read in MA in the early 1980s. A little old lady had a little house with a brook in the back and a cow and probably some pets. She wasn't completely satisfied and decided to move; went round the corner and moved in there; the scenario repeated itself 4 times, which brought her back to her old house, which someone had painted in her absence. She was so delighted when she found that perfect house.

Found it!

Submitted by Jesse (not verified) on December 10, 2018 - 8:25pm

It's 900 buckets of paint by Edna Becker. Credit for the solve actually goes to the folks at Loganberry Books; I knew I had seen it in their "Stump the Bookseller" forums, so I googled parts of your query along with their store name and it popped right up. Yay!

Hello,

Submitted by SB (not verified) on October 21, 2018 - 6:14am

Hello, I'm looking for a adult romance book I've been thinking about lately, can'tremember of it's good but I liked the storyline it has a semi similar premise as the New Species series. There are a group of individuals being tested on (can't remember if they were created or already existed) who have the key to a cure for a deadly disease. A young women comes back from getting her medical degree to work with her father who is one of the head scientists there. One of the more dominant males of the experimenter on group loved her when she was younger and I belive they had a short fling before she left. He has a son with one of the other experimented females. He still cares for the human women and 'works' with her to help find the cure. He realizes shes sick when he smells or can tell something is off. They test her blood and she has the disease. He really quick fixes the issue and has her try again and tries to make her think she was never sick so she won't know he knows the key to curing the disease.

YA novel about girl who befriends a 19th century family

Submitted by JennyVogels (not verified) on October 21, 2018 - 3:47pm

I'm looking for this book - I can't remember author, title, or main character's name. A girl finds a family living in the 19th century, right around the corner in her neighborhood, she can visit them anytime. They are religious, the boys are named Shem, Ham and Japheth. She brings them things like soda cans and pizza which they think are amazing, she spends the night there sometimes, under the goosedown comforter with hot rocks from the stove. I read it in the 1990s, I think it was contemporary to then. I can't remember why they lived like that, I think they were under some kind of curse, and they couldn't leave their century, and maybe she was sort of the only person who could come to them, for some random reason. They didn't know anything about the modern world, but they became good friends of hers, and explored the meaning of modern ideas like feminism and how that would come across to a 19th century frontier type housewife. It was a fascinating book and I started getting curious about when I realized how hard it was to find a book when you can't remember those basic details. Please let me know if anyone has heard of this book or knows what it is called. Thanks so much.

Title & Author Found

Submitted by Laura (not verified) on August 3, 2020 - 10:40pm

The Hunky-Dory Dairy by Anne Lindbergh

Help me find the book

Submitted by Smriti (not verified) on October 22, 2018 - 5:50am

I am trying to find this book in which there are two sisters.after the death of their mother,they are taken to some sort of another fantasy world with the help of the older sister' friend,who is actually from that world.also there is some prophecy involved and the threat to their life,and thats why their mother keeps them from this world.the hero and heroine are destinied to be bonded and she called him his libra.its a triology and in the third book both hero and heroine died in the end in a war.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Submitted by MLL (not verified) on July 9, 2019 - 6:04pm

I think the series you're searching for is the Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray, the first book being A Great and Terrible Beauty.

Thanks

Submitted by Smriti (not verified) on April 30, 2020 - 2:18am

So i searched for gemma doyle trilogy,unfortunately its not that.Its a modern day setup.But thank you for replying.

Possibly the Zodiac Academy

Submitted by Avid Reader (not verified) on September 26, 2021 - 3:51am

Possibly the Zodiac Academy series by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti? Sounds very similar.

Help me find this book

Submitted by Nitika Chauhan (not verified) on October 22, 2018 - 10:53am

So i read this book like 3 or 4 years ago an it was the 1st book in a series. I have no clue who was its author or the name of the book i just remeber the plot vaguely.so it starts with a girl sneeking in a shady garrage kind of place to find her sister who maybe is her twin ,where she is attacked by bad guys. A guy saves her who later revealed is some kind of a prince or something. So it is revealed that is some kind of prophecy revolving around her sister as she has some sort of mark on her body and the prince took her to protect her from the bad guys. Basically she is the key to stop the bad guy. The prince stays with the girl and falls for her later revealed that she is the siater they actually wanted as she has the mark which was hid by her mother by tattooing on it when she was 7 or 8. Later they go in the place or whatever where the sisters meet and the truth is revealed. Basically the ending is a cliffhanger where the bad guys attack the palace and eveyone is running ,so the prophecy girl ends up in a field or something where everyone is attacking each other . It is a fantasy paranormal book . If anybody has any idea which book it is please do tell , i am literally dying. P.s- the other sister is a necromancer or something who can see the future or whatever

Trying to find book title

Submitted by Alana (not verified) on October 21, 2019 - 3:21am

Is the book Adult or YA fiction?

This sounds similar to

Submitted by Avid Reader (not verified) on September 26, 2021 - 3:35am

This sounds similar to Fighting Destiny by Amelia Hutchins - The Fae Chronicles

Two book/book series I’m trying to find

Submitted by Charmaine (not verified) on October 22, 2018 - 2:45pm

The first is a urban fantasy, the story is based around Vegas (I think) a hotelier who has some kind of magic portal in the bottom of his hotel. A female who may need his help? (Not sure) and I’m pretty sure there are evil supernaturals trying to end the word.. not a lot to go on I know. The second is based around a magically hidden supernatural City in the US, I can’t remember much about the storyline. I know a women is brought to the City and is staying with someone till she’s on her feet, it’s not the series, hidden City.. I know both descriptions are very vague and that’s why I’m having trouble finding them, any help greatly appreciated.

histroical romance novel

Submitted by lisa (not verified) on October 23, 2018 - 7:22pm

I read this book many years ago and cant for the life of me remember its name....it was about a girl cassie who lived with her aunt and was kidnapped by privateers and fell in love with the pirate captain called Vincent savage who sold her into slavery in a harem where she was the a favourite but still continued her passionate love affair with Vincent who was going to rescue her but she was flung in a bag into the sea by the sultan for her betrayal and Vincent believed her dead but she wasn't and finally did find her...anyone know what this book is called?

Cant Remember the Title

Submitted by sarah (not verified) on October 23, 2018 - 8:03pm

So I read this as like a first chapter book and it was a series of books. Its about a girl who is an angels and is sent to Earth in different timelines to help people get through stuff. Thats all i can remember

Can u please help me out

Submitted by Zai (not verified) on January 17, 2021 - 7:55pm

Can u please help me out So I their was a story that I read and forgot it's title in this story their was a girl that need to be protected by 3 groups the 3 groups are UNO the most powerful in the 3 groups but they don't know the girls face , the second group is called DOS the group of her ex boyfriend and the third group is called TRES the group of her brothers

The book I read takes place

Submitted by Natalie Koepp (not verified) on October 23, 2018 - 9:23pm

The book I read takes place in the future and there’s like an ice age or something (it’s dystopian). The girl in the book had strange colored eyes and so she wore colored contacts. Strange eye colors were common but illegal and the girls were the strangest. She’s teams up with a boy. Two scenes that I vividly remember are that the girl and the boy go to a casino type place and gamble to win money, there ends up being a bomb at the place and the girls colored contacts are burned away and they have to try to escape. Another scene at the end is that those two are on a boat trying to escape and she feels a power deep in the water below her. She ends up summoning like a giant water serpent/dragon thing that saves them. If you know this please help!

The Iron fey series??

Submitted by Smriti (not verified) on October 24, 2018 - 9:25am

Is it the the iron king from the iron fey series??

the Heart of Dread series

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on June 30, 2020 - 4:11am

I love this book! It's Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz, the first book in the Heart of Dread series.

Yes! I know this one!

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on December 29, 2020 - 11:30pm

Your welcome, your welcome.. Oh, spending about 20 minutes looking through my book history was nothing.. THE BOOK IS: Frozen, by Melissa de la Cruz.

A delightful childrens book I'd love to find again

Submitted by Robyn (not verified) on October 24, 2018 - 7:50am

About a girl who was ill and lived with her dad who was a dollmaker. He wouldn't allow her to go out to play with other children she saw in the street because she wasn't well. She used to watch them play and so he made her three dolls - likenesses of the children she longed to play with. People would ask to buy them but he always said they were not for sale. Many years later she is old and comes back to the derilect shop, her father has died and she looks around and finds the three dolls and then somehow (I cant recall exactly) meets the three friends as old people. She gives them the dolls of themselves.

Book I need to find

Submitted by Taylor Hopkis (not verified) on October 24, 2018 - 11:40am

I can't find this book I read a few years back. All I can remember about it it the cover has a guy and girl at some lockers, the girl it poor and the guy is well off and the girl only owns one nice bra (I font know why I remember that but I do) and she wants yo be with the well off guy.

Jean and Johnny by Beverly

Submitted by Dawn W (not verified) on July 2, 2019 - 8:40pm

Jean and Johnny by Beverly Cleary

The book i am trying to find.

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on October 24, 2018 - 1:33pm

so there is this book that is about this guy who is kidnapping his ex girlfriend who is a mermaid but the thing is is that i can not remember the name of the book do you guys know the name of that book

Can't find this book

Submitted by Mel (not verified) on October 24, 2018 - 9:24pm

Can anyone help? I'm looking for a book I think it has the title After Alice or something with the name Alice in it. This family adopts a girl called Alice and she comes to live with them in a remote area. She comes from a family where her mother was a drug user and saw things so Alice was removed from her care. The new family has a daughter who is the same age as Alice and doesn't like the new addition to the family. Her mother is pregnant and as the story continues it's the birth of the new child that brings Alice and this other girl closer as they try to help the mother. I've been searching for years for this book and need to find it but nothing is coming up in my searches, so of anyone knows the book or the author or the title it would be much appreciated!!!

i cant remember this title!

Submitted by Shaide (not verified) on October 24, 2018 - 9:31pm

back in middle school i read a book about a man who lived in an apartment with his friend, and he was blind. He also had a job at a company and always talked with his co-worker. (i cant remember if the mc was blind, or if the friend was blind) __SPOILERS__ and eventually his co-worker convinced him that his friend wasn't actually real, causing the man to kill his friend who actually was real, and he found out that the co-worker he had been talking to all this time was actually just in his head.

Children's book, science fiction

Submitted by john (not verified) on October 24, 2018 - 9:52pm

Each child had been given a pet, main character called his "Pinky" (I think). Pinky didn't have eyes or feet or mouth, but could FORM eyes or feet or mouth as needed. It liked to sit on his shoulder. Another boy tried to pet it, but it nipped him with real teeth. One day Pinky fell into some acid; in panic the boy rescued him, and rinsed him with water--layer after layer of damaged tissue came off, until with a sigh of relief the boy uncovered a smaller pink blob, still alive. He gratefully put Pinky back on his shoulder, where the creature gazed at him contentedly with eyes that were sometimes there, sometimes not...

Please help me find this book

Submitted by Kellza (not verified) on October 25, 2018 - 12:17am

I've been searching for the title of a children's book I read about 15 years ago. Itwas definitely a kid's book, with picture illustrations.It's about two young friends around age 7 maybe- I believe the girl's name was Sarah and I cannot remember the little boy's name-- he shared a friendly kiss with her and then later she found him drowned in a puddle? or pond? She calls his name repeatedly but he doesn't respond.

Please Help me find the name of book and the author of book

Submitted by Lisa (not verified) on October 25, 2018 - 2:45am

I read a book in the late 70's or early 80's that was a collection of ghost stories - it got ruined and destroyed in my parents basement. All I remember was that it was a paperback book and on the cover was a man walking away from a phone booth on a very dark spooky night.

Help here

Submitted by HiddenBlade (not verified) on October 25, 2018 - 2:16pm

a book about a ball of creatures where two blonde-haired girls are invited. They are looked for their deeds. both symbolized the sun and the moon, and the title of the book was supposed to have the word night or something

Help me find this book

Submitted by Yasoda (not verified) on October 26, 2018 - 9:51am

*it was sent in Victorian England or thereabouts *there was character who we thought was male but who turned out to be female *it seemed to be a mystery and was set around a park or town square *there was a character named Killian

Try Georgette Heyer's book

Submitted by Renee (not verified) on July 18, 2019 - 11:07pm

Try Georgette Heyer's book The Masqueraders!

Title of a Book

Submitted by Julia (not verified) on October 26, 2018 - 10:43am

I'm searching for a book written by an American (maybe African-American) published in the 90's. It is a sort of travel journal or memoirs chronicling the writer's journey across Africa. He went to Senegal and a lot of other African countries. One vivid description I remember was his description on the height of the Senegalese and one man picking his nose. The finger in the nostril went all the way up to the second joint.

-she sees a guy right(after a

Submitted by Guest (not verified) on October 26, 2018 - 8:46pm

-she sees a guy right(after a heart transplant at the beginning of the book) - she finds out that guy is the heart donor -who died on a boat explosion -so to escape him she jumps into a lake and drowns herself -she is rescued and given a new heart at the end

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