How to Find That Book You've Spent Years Looking For

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November-December 2003

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Searching for a book you remember reading as a child, college student, or happy dropout, but haven't seen anywhere since? On the Web, there are now numerous ways to expand your hunt beyond Amazon. Abebooks (www.abebooks.com) is a consortium that connects you to thousands of used-book stores around the world. Another search site is the Berkeley-based Bookfinder.com. You can also search a growing number of individual stores online, including the Portland-based Powells (www.powells.com) and Bolerium Books in San Francisco (www.bolerium.com), which specializes in rare books on labor issues and radical history.

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Meanwhile, your local library can be a great help, too, thanks to a practice called interlibrary loan. Libraries across the country will lend you books and other materials, creating a vast collection that's easy for you to access. Here's how: If you don't find what you're looking for in your library's catalog, ask a librarian to locate it elsewhere in the huge national loan network. Tell the pros as much about the book as you can. Title and author are most important, but publisher and publication date (or even a good guess at it) can be helpful too. They'll do the rest.

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  • Angela Fortunato 10/19/2011 12:17:08 AM

    Deynissa, It sounds like the book by James Patterson. I'm not sure what the first book is called but I believe if it is the book I'm thinking of the sequel is The Lake House or just Lake House.

  • Angela Fortunato 10/19/2011 12:14:18 AM

    Deynissa, It sounds like the book by James Patterson. I'm not sure what the first book is called but I believe if it is the book I'm thinking of the sequel is The Lake House or just Lake House.

  • Deynissa 10/17/2011 11:48:44 PM

    Hello, I don't have a lot to go on, but here goes. I'm looking for a book I read in the early to mid 90s. All I remember is it's a fantasy book about a group of children with powers who were captured by the government. One of the kids could fly. There were 2 adults (I think) that helped the kids escape. I think the book ends at some farm house where the kids take a stand and fight the people trying to find them. I know it's not a lot, but if anyone can help, I would appreciate it.

  • Barbara Huffert 10/17/2011 7:31:04 PM

    I'm looking for a book read in 1972. A boy went adventuring with a red ant who was a General. There were other companions, various critters. They make it back to the boy's yard alive but as I recall at least one of them was hurt. It was a very thick book for a 5th grader.

  • Jodi Phillips 10/17/2011 5:10:22 PM

    i am looking for a book that i read in junior high. it is about two twin sister away at school that find a mirror. The mirror takes one of them back in time to an old house. I can not remember anything else aboutwhat happens in the book but i do remember that it switches back and forth between the two sister and that one of their names starts with a j.

  • abject 10/17/2011 8:20:29 AM

    hi im looking for a book i read in the 90's based in england, the woman dresses up as a boy and sneaks off to boxing matches, the duke is an illegimate son he catches her and brings her home only to have her father threaten him. She thinks he has married her only for her downry so she leaves him and runs away, when she comes back he is very angry and distant. She even gets kidnapped by a former suitor who had once raped her and was wounded in a duel by her husband. This is a part of a series i think. Thanks.

  • abject 10/17/2011 8:13:01 AM

    hi im looking for a book i read in the 90's based in england, the woman dresses up as a boy and sneaks off to boxing matches, the duke is an illegimate son he catches her and brings her home only to have her father threaten him. She thinks he has married her only for her downry so she leaves him and runs away, when she comes back he is very angry and distant. She even gets kidnapped by a former suitor who had once raped her and was wounded in a duel by her husband. This is a part of a series i think. Thanks.

  • abject 10/17/2011 8:06:44 AM

    hi im looking for a book i read in the 90's based in england, the woman dresses up as a boy and sneaks off to boxing matches, the duke is an illegimate son he catches her and brings her home only to have her father threaten him. She thinks he has married her only for her downry so she leaves him and runs away, when she comes back he is very angry and distant. She even gets kidnapped by a former suitor who had once raped her and was wounded in a duel by her husband. This is a part of a series i think. Thanks.

  • abject 10/17/2011 8:06:13 AM

    hi im looking for a book i read in the 90's based in england, the woman dresses up as a boy and sneaks off to boxing matches, the duke is an illegimate son he catches her and brings her home only to have her father threaten him. She thinks he has married her only for her downry so she leaves him and runs away, when she comes back he is very angry and distant. She even gets kidnapped by a former suitor who had once raped her and was wounded in a duel by her husband. This is a part of a series i think. Thanks.

  • Krista W 10/15/2011 10:51:01 PM

    i'm after a book that starts in heaven - two soulmates knowing rebirth is coming plan to meet in the next life - after being born both parties remember nothing but are left with a nagging desire to go to the swiss alps (i think) - when they finally meet one of the duo has already married and i think they kill themselves - it was breathtakingly beautiful - i read it some years ago and feel it may have been around awhile when i read it - not a long novel but my copy was a hard back - would love love to find out the name and add it again to my collection - any assistance appreciated!

  • Melanie Brown 10/15/2011 9:57:32 PM

    Its an old romance novel I read 6-8yrs ago and even then it was secondhand. It follows a young woman who moves overseas to a farm thats been in her family for a long time. On the wayto the farm she meets 2 children (one of them I beleive is named Matt) and discovers that they are running away from home. She then finds out they live next door to her new home with their father and his fiance. Taking them home she meets the father and recognises him as the boy she had a crush on as a teenager. The children fall in love with her first and she takes to giving them horse riding lessons and babysitting them. I remember there is a party (I think its a birthday)where she is looking after them and things get out of hand a cake is destroyed and bath time is a mess. The fiance can't handle children- she's a little prissy and ends up leaving.Father starts relying on the woman more and they begin to get to know each other The woman is currently training her prize horse who was retired (very famous back where they came from) to enter a competition in the local area. There are a couple of scenes i remember- them going swimming together after a long day working on the farm and also another where they end up sleeping on a hay bale.A couple of other things I remember- Her parents are still overseas and can't travel due to her father being ill she also has medals from previous comps won before she retired her horse. PLEASE HELP!

  • CTroy 10/15/2011 12:47:09 PM

    Can anyone identify the title or author of a modern novel about a high-school girl who is intrigued with a quiet, mysterious man and began to visit him secretly at his home. He was a seriously religious Muslim (but gave in to the temptation with her). He learned every-day American English from her. Then one day he disappeared, I believe. I think this may have been one of the first novels about sleepers. I think I read it before 9/11, which makes it all the more interesting. I keep most good books, but somehow I let this one go. It was really a good read, and I think ahead of its time.

  • CTroy 10/15/2011 12:47:09 PM

    Can anyone identify the title or author of a modern novel about a high-school girl who is intrigued with a quiet, mysterious man and began to visit him secretly at his home. He was a seriously religious Muslim (but gave in to the temptation with her). He learned every-day American English from her. Then one day he disappeared, I believe. I think this may have been one of the first novels about sleepers. I think I read it before 9/11, which makes it all the more interesting. I keep most good books, but somehow I let this one go. It was really a good read, and I think ahead of its time.

  • MrsOsha 10/14/2011 8:42:43 PM

    @Lady Cyra - I can tell you that the book you're looking for isn't Green Darkness. I know that book like the back of my hand, but it was a good suggestion! I myself am looking for a book that was made into a childrens' movie in the 1970's. It took place in England and it was the story of a little boy who is staying at his grandmother's house (because of a family tragedy, or something) and he is horribly bored - the house is enormous and has wonderful parklike grounds. He meets a little girl one day, in old fashioned clothing, and they become very good friends. It turns out, in the end, that the little girl is really the grandmother, who has found the ability to time travel. She always remembered the little boy from her childhood, little knowing it was really her own grandson. Time travel plot. Loved it and I wish I could remember the title! Thanks...

  • bekahjeane 10/14/2011 2:03:50 PM

    I am looking for a book. It is a fiction book trilogy set during World War II. Each of the three books are from a different family member's perspective. One of the daughter's falls in love with a man who goes to pearl harbor. He ends up dying and the only thing left is her unborn child. I know this is not much but I read the book over ten years ago and I am pretty sure it was all ready several years old at least. Any help much appreciated. Thank you.

  • tedinohio43229 10/12/2011 11:00:06 AM

    @ Debbie R from 10/8/2011: Your dinner guests question definitely fits the format of the PBS tv series Steve Allen presents Meeting of Minds, though I don't recall your specifics about the England setting or walking along a canal. Six episodes per year in 1977, 1978, 1979 & 1981 with several of the episodes spread over two shows. The transcripts for each year's shows were published in book form and are also available in audio format. Amazon has some of the books and audios available but didn't appear to be all. The videos of the shows are unavailable or impossibly expensive. There's a discussion of books with a similar theme at the following URL: http://ask.metafilter.com/113433/Fictional-AlmostFactual-Encounters

  • Joni 10/12/2011 8:30:23 AM

    You left out Ebay and half dot com and paperbackswap dot com and alibri dot com and bn dot com and amazon dot com and on and on and on. I used to be an internet bookseller and was always finding books for people. I read some of the posts, but there are way too many for me to help. If only I had time to read them all!

  • Joni 10/12/2011 8:29:15 AM

    You left out Ebay and half.com and paperbackswap.com and alibri.com and bn.com and amazon.com and on and on and on. I used to be an internet bookseller and was always finding books for people. I read some of the posts, but there are way too many for me to help. If only I had time to read them all!

  • pawprints86 10/12/2011 12:12:24 AM

    Need help finding a book I read 10+ years ago, and I know it wasn't new at the time I read it. Don't remember title or author (though I should, I read it enough times) -- it was a Young Adult book, set in a kingdom - the Princess was the main character in the book, I remember something about there being a plot to overthrow the King and Queen, them being ambushed perhaps? The princess kept seeing lights in a certain wing of the castle. She was whisked away from the castle by an older woman, only later did she discover that the woman was her grandmother. They went to a village to keep her safe, a big man (Thor? Tom?) was her protector. Eventually herself and her grandmother rescued her parents, the King and Queen, from the dungeon, happy endings all around. I am not even sure where to start looking for this book. Thank you!

  • Margaret Baker 10/11/2011 11:22:26 PM

    I read a harlequin presents about a secretary who is in love with her boss but he has assigned her the special task of looking through America's elligible bachlorettes and find that who is best suited to be his wife. She has been in his life long enough to be familiar with his family and quits after they take a trip there to visit them. That's all I know I'd like to read it again so any help would be nice.

  • Cianne 10/11/2011 5:46:45 PM

    There is a children's book that I thought had won some sort of award, but may not have, about a girl and her eccentric mother who move around a lot. The most that I remember is that she moves to a place (must be a ranch of some sort) where she meets a boy named Nick. She describes him as being really dirty, and if I remember correctly they ride horses together. In the end she has to choose between moving on with her mother and staying in a place where she had finally found she fits in. She chooses her mother. If anyone knows the name or author of this book, I would really love to know it.

  • Roxanne 10/11/2011 4:55:10 PM

    Looking for a book it's juvenile fiction. It's about a family that are named after famous towers. The families last name is tower I think. Not sure how it went, but I loved the book as a child in the 60's.

  • Rose 10/10/2011 8:30:11 PM

    KristaH, I think your book might be Look for Me By Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn.

  • Nana 10/10/2011 12:57:45 PM

    I need help finding a book. The book is about a girl who lives with her very strict father/grandfather who is a very devote man- possibly a priest- and a stuffy aunt ( i think). Anyway the girl's brother is off at some prestigious European University studying and she is jealous of him because she sick of her stuffy life. So her brother whose name I believe is Thomas, takes her with him to visit some of his friends. He does this by forging a letter from a fake aunt of one of his friends. SO the girl gets to go and she ends up living with the group of friends and they have great times. However her, the main male character and several others go mountain climbing once and the main male character falls and dies. The story fast forwards like 30 years later and she is now married to the red headed friend and they go to an *exhibition* where a man in ice is found and it is there friend who fell long ago.

  • tanni 10/10/2011 12:19:52 PM

    Hi, I am looking for a Mills and Boon, I read more than 9 years back. It's about the hero who goes blind in a fire and the heroine nurses him back. He also loses the use of his legs. The heroine had met him years back when she had come to the hero's house as his brother's girlfriend. The hero insults her and kisses her too and shows that she is not good enough for his brother. But in reality he was saving the girl from his abusive brother. The heroine doesn't want to be recognised but she comforts him through his nightmares and they end up making love. Both of them fall in love with each other but she tries to leave him as she thinks that they are deeply scarred to have a life together even when the hero promises his love. In the end, the hero drives her to the train station but as the train moves, she realises that she cannot live without him and runs back to the guy. Through the book, the hero associates the girl's smell to those of wildflowers. I think there is a dog also in the story. I will be grateful to anyone who can tell me the name of the book and the author. Thank you.

  • Teri 10/10/2011 8:13:50 AM

    i'm loking for a book about four sisters who kidnap a man to marry their elder siter because she has to be married first before they can also get married. the man is a millionaire and does not love the elder sitser until later

  • Cindy Grewell 10/9/2011 10:55:57 PM

    Looking for a book, can't remember title or author. Its about a woman who wishes her life were simpler and she awakens in ancient times and is a restaurant owner. I believe she lives her whole life over again there and has a daughter who dies due to the conditions in the period she lives in. She does return to her time in the end of the story.

  • Lucy_N 10/9/2011 8:08:23 PM

    Hi, I have been searching for this book for ages. I think I read it around 2005/2006 and I have been trying to find it ever since. I dont remember the title or the author but I know it was about two brothers who were mirror twins (I think the medical term is that they have situs invertus). Anyway there was something about the balance of the universe and one twin was supposed to die but then the wrong twin dies. the story then splits up and we follow the living twin as he tries to deal with the now apocolyptic world and the dead twin as he journeys through the afterlife. Its a very vague description but the only other thing i remember is that the living twin (i feel like his name was felix but that could be wrong?) gets stabbed but he lives because his heart was on the other side of his body. Can anyone help? I would really appreciate it!

  • Lucy_N 10/9/2011 8:03:24 PM

    Hi, I have been searching for this book for ages. I think I read it around 2005/2006 and I have been trying to find it ever since. I dont remember the title or the author but I know it was about two brothers who were mirror twins (I think the medical term is that they have situs invertus). Anyway there was something about the balance of the universe and one twin was supposed to die but then the wrong twin dies. the story then splits up and we follow the living twin as he tries to deal with the now apocolyptic world and the dead twin as he journeys through the afterlife. Its a very vague description but the only other thing i remember is that the living twin (i feel like his name was felix but that could be wrong?) gets stabbed but he lives because his heart was on the other side of his body. Can anyone help? I would really appreciate it!

  • Lucy_N 10/9/2011 7:47:23 PM

    Hi, I have been searching for this book for ages. I think I read it around 2005/2006 and I have been trying to find it ever since. I dont remember the title or the author but I know it was about two brothers who were mirror twins (I think the medical term is that they have situs invertus). Anyway there was something about the balance of the universe and one twin was supposed to die but then the wrong twin dies. the story then splits up and we follow the living twin as he tries to deal with the now apocolyptic world and the dead twin as he journeys through the afterlife. Its a very vague description but the only other thing i remember is that the living twin (i feel like his name was felix but that could be wrong?) gets stabbed but he lives because his heart was on the other side of his body. Can anyone help? I would really appreciate it!

  • Marsha 10/9/2011 5:39:43 PM

    Sara 6/30/2011 9:21:28 PM
    hopefully someone will be able to help......i don't remember much about this book, only bits and pieces. it was a very good book about a woman thats saves this little boy (he turns out to be a scottish lairds son, about 10 years old)he is dangling over the side of a cliff on a frayed rope.....the book you're looking for is "Ransom" by Julie Garwood.

  • Marsha 10/9/2011 4:48:18 PM

    in the late 70's/early 80's I bought a book at a truck stop in New Mexico. I loaned it out and the girl moved, taking it with her. I don't know the title or author. What I recall is that a family man starts to be taken over by a malevolent spirit intent on killing his wife and daughter...I recall the daughter hiding in the attic in a dollhouse and there was a vivid description of her hearing the knife as he slashed through the air while hunting her. Turns out that it is the mans grandfather's spirit who has been inhibiting him; many years early he was locked in a root cellar and left to be killed by rats by his true love's father, as the girl's father felt he was not fit to be in their wealthy family. Of course this was after the girl was already pregnant. I don't recall how they figured all this out. any help is appreciated.

  • Marsha 10/8/2011 8:31:47 PM

    Book Worm, I believe you are looking for Open the Door and See All the People by Clyde Robert Bulla. I recall that I enjoyed the book, and as a country girl myself I related to the girls in the book not understanding city life.

  • Alle 10/8/2011 7:49:30 PM

    @ Christa-The book you described sounds like "Blood Memory," by Greg Iles.

  • Marsha 10/8/2011 6:16:36 PM

    Shaneen, the book you're looking for is either This Present Darkness or Piercing the Darkness by Frank E. Peretti. Both books are amazing. They were written and published in the order given. enjoy!!

  • Marsha 10/8/2011 5:22:02 PM

    Joanne C., the book you remember is Wishes, written by Jude Deveraux. Most of her books are part of a series or, like Wishes, includes characters from other books. enjoy!!

  • Debbie R 10/8/2011 10:12:12 AM

    I'm trying to find an out of print fictional book about a man who wonders what it would be like to sit down and have dinner with some of the greatest historical figures of all time, dead and alive and having a conversation with them. I think he lives in England. He decides to invite 3 or 4 people to dinner, where they can all share their thoughts and prepares a dinner relative to the times and places when they were alive to make them comfortable. He prepares a meal and each of the dead invitees shows up and they have a remarkable evening of discussion. Each week he invites new guests and chooses people to create interesting and lively discussion about politics, art, music, philosophy and history. I think the story took place in England...at least in Europe as I remember the main character walking along the side of a canal one evening. It was great because he was able to get inside the minds of some of the greatest leaders and thinkers in history. I have no idea of who the author is, the name of the book or when it was published. I believe it may have been published in the 50's or 60's...possibly sooner!

  • Belzonni 10/7/2011 8:19:38 PM

    Looking for a kids book. Alaska (Seward Bay) Disabled boy turns into a seal.

  • shagourney 10/7/2011 2:12:04 PM

    Hi ive been looking for this book for about a good year now. I read the book around 2003 or 2004. its a romance novel with suspense. the heroine is african american, i believe an orphan. she is in her thirties and she is a virgin. She marry's this old man that she has been working for on his deathbed. he owned the bar that she worked at all her life. on his deathbed he tells her that when he was younger he was rich and that he left his money behind in Louisiana(i think this is the correct state). he doesnt tell her that he left because people thought he had killed his wife by pushin her down a water well. He tells her that he has 2 sons i believe and they are both birracial because their mother was native american. well the girl leaves and goes to the state and immediately discovers why the man left. she ends up acquiring his debt from backed taxes i think, so she owes everyone. his son hates her and pays off her debt to basically be his servant. they fall in love and the girl finds out who really killed the mans wife. it was some woman that was obsessed with him. i think she was pregnant for him at a time but the child died. she had a statue of the kid in her yard. she tries to kill the girl and the guy saves her. they end up getting married and having a child.

    please help!

  • Wes 10/5/2011 10:06:02 PM

    Hi, I'm looking for a book that I read in high school. I'm pretty sure it was rather new at the time so probably published between 1998-2003, which gives a little room in case I'm wrong. The book is about a student who is part of an after school 'gang.' The students get together and study etc, where their older brothers and friends make sure they stay out of trouble. In the beginning of the book the student is taking a placement test and does really well, bumping himself into Honors classes. I know at some point he breaks his arm, and that the trademark for the 'gang' is a single braid on one side of their head.

  • Jennifer 10/5/2011 2:20:07 PM

    I am looking for a book that was written in the 1960's or before called ''Best Friends'' About a girl who moves in next door and becomes best friends with her neighbor girl. The story is about their adventures together. Can you help me find the author please! : )

  • roderie 10/5/2011 12:21:58 PM

    Pamela: The book is "Light A Single Candle" (1962) by Beverly Butler. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NSICZE?ie=UTF8&tag=whatsthatbook-20&linkCode=as2 "Gift of Gold" (1973) by Beverly Butler, also available from Amazon.com:
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671413279?ie=UTF8&tag=whatsthatbook-20&linkCode=as2

  • roderie 10/5/2011 12:17:52 PM

    btw, pamela, i know the book youre talking about, i will try to find it.

  • roderie 10/5/2011 12:05:21 PM

    I am looking for a book about a teenage girl, who's mother died when she was young (possibly in childbirth), and she lives with her stepfather. her mother recorded a bunch of tapes to teach her about being a woman. her stepfather gives her the tapes when she is about 17, and i think she goes off on a search to find herself, while listening to the tapes. i remember an incident on a train, where she like yanks a guys belt off because he was hitting on her. and she doesnt find out until the end that her stepfather isnt her real dad... her mother tells her through the tapes. i think the book must have been written in the 80s or 90s. thanks

  • Nadia 10/5/2011 8:58:03 AM

    I am looking for a French book I read when I was in High School. I don't remember the title or the author. The story is about these poor twin sisters, one choses to become a nun, the other is sorta forced into prostitution by this man she fell in love with. She tries to escape him but it is hard. She then meets a great guy who falls in love with but is afraid to tell him about her past. She vows to never prostitute again, but her pimp doesn't believe her and pursues her. The pimp catches up with her at the end - goes into her place and mistakes her nun sister for her and rapes her and kills her. BUt he is so astonished to find out she is a virgin and is horrified. Then the sister who used to be a prostitute sacrifices her great love for the nice gentleman and takes her sister's place as a nun. Please help me identify this book.

  • Pamela 10/5/2011 8:40:15 AM

    I'm looking for a book I read in the 70s about a girl who goes blind and gets a dog to work with and learns that being blind doesn't define her. It's a book that was written for teenagers and I'd really love to find it. Any help appreciated.

  • Jennifer 10/4/2011 4:39:26 PM

    There is a book written in the 1960's or before called Best Friends about a girl who moves in next door to another girl and they become best friends. I can't find it anywhere and do not know who the author is. Please help!

  • Jennifer 10/4/2011 4:35:29 PM

    There was a book written called Best Friends. It was about a little girl that moved in next door to another little girl and they became best friends. It had to be written in the 1960's or before.

  • Jennifer 10/4/2011 3:59:16 PM

    There was a book written called Best Friends. It was about a little girl that moved in next door to another little girl and they became best friends. It had to be written in the 1960's or before.

  • Alycia 10/3/2011 10:28:40 PM

    There is a book, i dont remember what the title is or who the author is. It has to do with a girl who lives with adopted parents. Her mother was crazy and they lived in a place called "fireless". Then her mom killed her little sisters. The main charecter was saved because of a repair man that happened to come by. I really need help to find this book. Thank you.

  • guy gardner 10/3/2011 6:56:51 AM

    Pls am looking for a book i read abt 1991-1992. I have forgotten the title and the authour but its about how to remember things. All i can remember is its got a red cover,it teaches one how to memories numbers by associating them to items. pls someone help

  • guy gardner 10/3/2011 6:51:17 AM

    Pls am looking for a book i read abt 1991-1992. I have forgotten the title and the authour but its about how to remember things. All i can remember is its got a red cover,it teaches one how to memories numbers by associating them to items. pls some one help

  • Bernadette 10/2/2011 11:46:51 PM

    SO I'm looking for a book (or story) where a young boy goes into some sort of a subway system. He sees someone drop a box (and somehow knows its a bomb) and wants to get rid of it. He looks all around though and sees children and old people and just a lot of people in general. So, he decides to sacrifice himself in order to save everyone else. He hugs the bomb and dies. Please help!

  • Ashley 10/2/2011 3:04:10 AM

    @Shelly. You're looking for 'Tamsin' by Peter S. Beagle.

  • Isabel Monteith 10/1/2011 10:45:19 PM

    @Guilermo Your book is "Bridge to Terabithia" by Paterson.

  • Isabel Monteith 10/1/2011 10:06:05 PM

    Stefanie...the books you are looking for are by Cynthia Voight. The first one is "The Homecoming." Another one is "Dicey's Song."

  • Judy B 10/1/2011 2:04:38 PM

    I'm looking for a book I read in elementary school in the 1960's. It's about a black caterpillar who thinks he is ugly. He wanders around the woods and talks to other animals. In the end he turns into a beautiful butterfly. The illustrations seem to be Japanese(?) influenced with big oval eyes. The book was green and rectangular shaped. Any help is appreciated.

  • LEK 9/29/2011 8:49:06 AM

    none

  • Book Worm 9/29/2011 4:20:52 AM

    I'm looking for a book I read as a child...probably read it around 1975. I cannot remember the title. It was about a family and I believe their house burned down at the beginning of the story and they went to stay with relatives. The oldest daughter was the main character and in the new place they went to live there was a sort of "library" where you could borrow dolls for a limited time and then return them.

  • John 8012 9/28/2011 8:21:37 PM

    Looking for a couple of books I read in the mid 70's. Both by the same author, Anonymous. They were coming of age books, sexually graphic and yet by today's standards probably mild. The titles were "US" and "Them", the best I can recall. If anyone know the exact titles or where they can be purchased please respond.

  • Carna 9/28/2011 3:49:34 AM

    I found the book after getting a 2 page list of books I'd read in the past 3 years and going through them all. Turns out the book I was looking for is called The Beginner's Guide To Living, by Lia Hills. Read it, I'm going to again!!

  • Costumes Gothic 9/27/2011 7:34:16 PM

    I am trying to think of the name of the book, based on a future where everyone is gay, except for 10% of the population which is straight. I believe that it is a sci fi novel that was published in the 90's. http://gothiccostumeideas.com

  • KristaH 9/27/2011 7:29:28 PM

    I'm looking for a book I read as a kid, it was from 1998 or before, its a book about a teen girl who either goes to live with her grandmother at a bed and breakfast(hotel?)or the family goes on vacation there. I think it has something about the bed and breakfast being on or near a cliff by the sea.I remember one scene she is trying to sleep and she sees a man floating outside her window a few floors up and doesn't realize that he is a vampire at first. She ends up falling in love with the vampire and there is a secret in her family about vampires or magic or something. I keep thinking the title has something to do with the moon but I could be wrong. She has to help with the customers who come and stay and there is one customer that she thinks is weird. I've been trying to find this book for so long, please help!

  • Julie Taylor 9/27/2011 10:00:56 AM

    "Stand at the back of the barn. three o'clock. A deer hung by the tree, caught by a hunter's trap" faintly are the words "wood, big tree". This is the only page left from a book my mom used to read. If anyone has any clue where this came from, i would appreciate it Thanks.

  • Julie Taylor 9/27/2011 9:49:35 AM

    "Stand at the back of the barn. Three o'clock. A deer hung by the tree, caught by a hunters trap" This is all that is left from a book my mother read to me when I was young. I would like to read it to my children, but I don't remember the name or the characters. Any help would be appreciated.

  • Carna 9/26/2011 6:35:55 AM

    Hi, I'm looking for a book I read a year or 2 ago in my school library but I can't remember the Title or Author and all the books have been moved around. Anyway, it is about a boy called Will who's mother dies and at the funeral he talks to a girl, and they soon end up together. He has an older brother, and I remember Will ran away and went camping after he found out the girl thought she was pregnant. He meets an old man in the National Park and doesn't fully trust him but gets along anyway. He goes for a walk and finds a piece of glass, and cuts himself, but then realizes he has lots to live for and washes it in the river. He returns home and his dad thought he had killed himself, which wasn't too far off. The girl finds him in the cemetery talking to his mother's grave and you find out she wasn't pregnant. Sorry I only remember 1 name, but I hope the description helps. I got it in Western Australia, if that is any use. Thanks.

  • Jillie 9/25/2011 5:31:09 AM

    I am looking for a book I read a long time ago. It was a young adult book, about a girl who suddenly time traveled through a mirror and met another girl who lived on the frontier (I think? They ate salt pork and similar things). They were friends at first. Then the frontier girl either went crazy or evil because she eventually goes after the other girl with an ax (but the good girl makes it home through the mirror first).

  • christa 9/24/2011 11:28:00 AM

    @ LadyCyra, you MAY be looking for the book Green Darkness. It sounds similiar to what you described, but I think the ending may be different. At any rate, I don't remember any poison, but I haven't read it in many years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Darkness I'm still hoping for help with my query: a female investigator who's a freediver with daddy and grandaddy issues? Anyone? Most likely written within the last 10 years.

  • Kaitlyn 9/24/2011 2:50:13 AM

    I'm looking for a book I read years ago. All I can remember about it is that it's a young adult book and it had something to do with a girl living by the ocean and one of the scenes had her sitting by the beach with a boy who turned into a sea creature. Pretty sure there was lots of magic involved.

  • BobP 9/21/2011 7:27:46 PM

    I'm looking for a book I read to my son about 10 years ago. There are two families that have been feuding for generations. A guy lived in the country, but went to the city to kill the last of the other family to end the feud. But he got so scared of the city that he ended up hugging the guy that he had come to kill.

  • pawprints86 9/21/2011 2:43:23 PM

    Need help finding a book I read 10+ years ago, and I know it wasn't new at the time I read it. Don't remember title or author (though I should, I read it enough times) -- it was a Young Adult book, set in a kingdom - the Princess was the main character in the book, I remember something about there being a plot to overthrow the King and Queen, them being ambushed perhaps? The princess kept seeing lights in a certain wing of the castle. She was whisked away from the castle by an older woman, only later did she discover that the woman was her grandmother. They went to a village to keep her safe, a big man (Thor? Tom?) was her protector. Eventually herself and her grandmother rescued her parents, the King and Queen, from the dungeon, happy endings all around. I am not even sure where to start looking for this book. Thank you!

  • Destiny 9/21/2011 12:30:29 AM

    Hi, I'm looking for a book I read awhile back, probably in 3rd grade. I don't remember the author or the title of the book but it was classified as horror. The cover had a man on a beach dressed in dark clothing, brown jacket and pants with boots, he held a lantern too and his eyes were mean looking. It was foggy too. I remember it was about a little girl, and she had some kind of problem, asthma maybe, she was at a talent show where the man was and her sister was in the stands. Something happened at the show that made the little girl upset and she ran to the beach where the man chased after her, I remember a part where the girl was in a tunnel and the man grabbed her leg. It was really descriptive. I've been looking for years for this book and I can only remember the cover. =/

  • Joanne C 9/20/2011 3:17:04 PM

    I am looking for a book that I read about 18 years ago. It is about a wealthy woman who is always one upping her socialite friends. She dies unexpectedly and is told at the pearly gates that in order to get into heaven she must do a good deed for someone. She ends up helping a girl who is overweight and has no life. The girls sister is the pretty one and is always going on dates. The heavier girl is always at home cleaning and taking care of daddy.

  • Marcia Ponce 9/20/2011 11:54:23 AM

    Looking for a book I read in the '60s, about a young orphaned girl raised by strict grandparents, then by a male guardian who is a bohemian, artist type. He helps her through all the phases of childhood and adolescence and, ultimately, they fall in love. I seem to remember it was a controversial book by a Swedish woman named Monique, but can't remember the last name of the author, or the title. Driving me CRAZY, please help.

  • Marcia Ponce 9/20/2011 11:50:38 AM

    Looking for a book I read in the '60s, about a young orphaned girl raised by strict grandparents, then by a male guardian who is a bohemian, artist type. He helps her through all the phases of childhood and adolescence and, ultimately, they fall in love. I seem to remember it was a controversial book by a Swedish woman named Monique, but can't remember the last name of the author, or the title. Driving me CRAZY, please help.

  • Shalene 9/20/2011 11:18:14 AM

    It is about a girl who needs to find a bird and make it laugh out the back side of his head or mouth. I believe she is trying to save the kingdom and has to accomplish this task within a certin time frame. She doesn't know how to do this task, but eventually figures it out. Can anyone help?

  • FredWolffe 9/20/2011 11:17:20 AM

    Mar H: the one you are looking for is 'by his bootstraps' by R.A. Heinlein. it is the definitive time travel paradox story.

  • FredWolffe 9/20/2011 10:42:14 AM

    hawkwind; i think you are looking for 'dolphin boy' part one of a trilogy. book2 is 'daughters of the dolphin', book3 is'destiny and the dolphin. by meyers, i think

  • LadyCyra 9/19/2011 9:35:19 AM

    The book that I am trying to remember was possibly written in the 70s or 80s. I think the title has "Time" or "Love Again" in it somewhere.
    It deals with reincarnation, and takes place in England. The woman, is blonde (her name might be something like Adora, Aurora, or possibly something "different"..) and the man might be, at one point, a nobleman.
    The women are all related, either mother, daughter, and granddaughter, or perhaps one generation skipped between each.
    There might've been something about the Great Fire of London being mentioned.. She was pregnant at the time, and hid in a doorway to save herself. She also stole some silver or silverware. (I might be mixing that part up with another book, though.)
    The end of the book has the woman living with her mother and daughter, who’s about 6-12 years old at the time, right down the “street” from the man that she loves. He, however, is married to some horrible woman, and they have a son. While the boy is out playing near a cliff, pond, or stream, his mother finally becomes tired of knowing that her husband loves someone else, and poisons him, as well as herself. The girl’s mother somehow knows what is happening, and rushes over, but is unable to save him. I think she then kills herself, as well.
    The children are the first set of the three lovers who are actually able to be together.
    Any help would be amazing. :) I've been trying to figure this book out for years.

  • Lucy Thirlwell 9/19/2011 12:02:46 AM

    i'm looking for a book i read a few years ago. I think it may have received an award or was a reader's youth choice or whatever around 2007 - 2009 some time. The cover of the version i read had a pale-skinned man with white hair standing in front, with a ship in the background that was on a dragon. the plot involved the main character being the seventh son of a seventh son, having demon heritage, and he went to be a navy man or something. The book had ships that were literally built into the backs of sea dragons, using their old skins to meld the ship onto the animal. there was magic and the main character had a demon mark on his thigh, i think. near the end i also remember there was something threatening the drgaon's heart, so the main character cast a spell that encased the dragon's heart in ice to prevent it from over heating. I remember that there was a shapeshifter, and some woman i think had troll blood or something to that effect in her ancestry as well. as well every chapter began with a passage form the navy code or whatever that everyone on the ship had to memorize, and that the main character helped younger crew members remember. can anyone tell me the title of this book?

  • tedinohio43229 9/18/2011 2:34:01 PM

    @bobeannie on 6/12/2011
    "I am looking for two book series' that I only vaguely recall. The first was a series of chapter books that were for young readers. I read it when I was in 4th grade or so, in the early 80's, though I doubt they were new at the time (I found them in the school library). They were about forest animals and their adventures; I believe there were foxes, beavers, rabbits, bears and maybe turtles. They had families. ...." These are the Old Mother West Wind stories by Thornton W. Burgess. Characters include Reddy Fox and Old Granny Fox, Paddy the Beaver, Peter & Mrs. Peter Rabbit, Buster Bear, Spotty the Turtle and many, many others. New editions still in print, and old or original editions on Amazon and eBay ranging from a few to hundreds of $$.

  • brittany 9/18/2011 10:58:31 AM

    im looking for a book i read when i was a little girl and its a bout a flood and she was counting backwards about bottles of beers on wall and i was n about fourth grade and her brother went to go get help and parents were gone somewhere thats all i rember but i want to read it again if sumone will plz tell me the name of this book

  • Julie Whittingham 9/18/2011 10:50:01 AM

    read a book (recommended on Richard and Judy bookclub) about a young boy who spends lots of time at the sea, fascinated with sea creatures, his parents i think are separating?? not much to go on - was a few years back - maybe 6 or so - can anyone help with the title please

  • tedinohio43229 9/18/2011 10:43:27 AM

    I'm trying to determine the author/title of a book I read probably in the early '70s when it was originally published. The book is a series of fictional vignettes in which unrelated scenarios address a problem facing society and offer a solution. The solutions, while appropriate to the problem or offense, would not have been acceptable to society as a whole. As I recall, the opening scenario involves the problem of alcoholism and drunk driving; the proposed solution is a car equipped to either blow up or shoot the driver when the ignition is turned on if the car senses the driver is intoxicated. Successive vignettes escalate either the number of offenders involved or the seriousness of the situations. I have hazy recollections of storylines involving a rogue military unit or commander, biological warfare, and perhaps a nuclear confrontation as the final scenario, but I don't recall any of the proposed solutions. Any help is appreciated.

  • josh 9/18/2011 3:50:26 AM

    Hi, I am looking for a thriller/suspense novel and I believe the author also wrote a series of short stories. The novel I am looking for is about a woman who reads a book about a serial rapist, and as she gets further into the book, it starts becoming real. As for the short stories, only one I remember anything about is the last one in the collection of stories. The short story is about a couple who moves out into the country. Their neighbor turns out to be a witch, eventually the neighbor talks the husbands wife into learning witchcraft and all that, they eventually kill the husband.

  • josh 9/18/2011 3:42:01 AM

    I am looking for a thriller/suspense book. I don't know the author, and what I remember is very Vague. The Novel I am looking for is about a woman who reads a book about a serial rapist and as she gets further into the book, the book starts becoming real. The Author also wrote a bunch of short stories. The only short story I really remember is that the final short story is about a young couple who move into the country and and meet their neighbor(who turns out to be a witch, she talks the wife into joining her in witchcraft) and at the end they sacrifice the husband.

  • Fzek24 9/17/2011 10:53:04 AM

    I need help finding a book I read a long time ago. I remember the main character was a girl and they lived in teh city and she wasnt close with her parents. She went on adventures in this house and I remember they had a river instead of a hallway and they always needed a boat to cross it because there were alligators in the water

  • Karen_A 9/17/2011 7:47:44 AM

    additional info. haha! It's silly, but the only line I really remember also word for word from the boom is "would you like some coffee with your milk?" they were making fun of the lead character because she doesn't really drink coffee and all the other drama club people drinks it. Or something like that. I would really appreciate the help.

  • Karen_A 9/17/2011 6:35:55 AM

    Hello, please help me. I am looking for a book and I don't know the title, the author or any of the characters name. :( It's about a girl (something like Mary, i think) who wrote a play for her class which her professor loved and that her play (Hamlet in modern times) was going to be produced by their school drama club. So at first she hates the director and found him snobbish but then they find out that they like each other. Note that she has a boyfriend. I remember that they (the girl and the director student) went out to get fabric for the play and got stuck in the snow thing. Oh, and I also remember that one of the other characters' name (not the lead) is Sloane.

  • Nyaisha Coleman 9/16/2011 5:54:55 PM

    Im looking for this book i dont know what the title is but its about a girl who gets a job being this famous stars personal assisstant so she can have all the requirements she needs to get into the college she wants to go to. but then she starts pretending to be the star so this girl will stop being bulliyed and when the star finds out her agent said that everyone look the 'nice' side of the stars personality only that it wasnt the start it was her assisstant who was doing all the nice things

  • Fatima.K 9/16/2011 7:35:53 AM

    hi, i can't remember the title of the book and i've been thinking about for a very long time. the story starts when the heroine bumps her car with another car, then the owner of the car is a man and he sorts of makes a deal with her about the damage she made with his car. she can't spell words, she's an artist but she doesn't show her works. she lives with her grandfather in a mansion. she also knows several languages. please help me. i think it was from harlequin or mills and boon.

  • tav 9/15/2011 1:00:48 PM

    Hi... My wife is looking for a book from the 1980s. It about a woman who wakes up after a car crash that killed her cousin ...... as she resembles her cousin, as the only I.D. was found was that of her cousin , the police think she is her and the cousins husband thinks so also ... until she remembers....... Any help would be really appreciated.

  • Naomi Tropp 9/15/2011 11:44:48 AM

    I"m looking for a book I had as a child. I was born in 1943. It had beautiful black and white illustrations of a long haired cat. I don't know anything else about it.

  • Naomi Tropp 9/15/2011 11:44:46 AM

    I"m looking for a book I had as a child. I was born in 1943. It had beautiful black and white illustrations of a long haired cat. I don't know anything else about it.

  • Robert M 9/15/2011 4:35:21 AM

    @Heather Michelle Unless i am very much mistaken, the book(s) you are looking for are The Black Magician trilogy, specifically The Magicians' Guild, which is the first book in the series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Magician_(novel_series)Is the wiki page on the series.

  • Hazel 9/14/2011 10:59:57 PM

    Quite a few years ago, I read a romance novel about a man who was an empath, but he became something more after being experimented on by a scientist. The woman in this story kept having dreams of the man coming closer to her only to realize that the house was on fire. She tracked down the southern mansion and while she was walking up the stairs, she suddenly found herself in the past. I have no idea what teh title is or what the author's name is.

  • HeatherMichelle 9/14/2011 3:39:37 PM

    I read this book about 5 years ago, and i cant remember any character names or defining things, only the it was a fantasy book probably a young adult book, about a world where some people can do magic. The main character was this young girl who was an orphan i think living on the streets with all the other lower class people. The city they live in is divided into the upper class and the lower class and the magical university where all the mages live. The beginning of the book, the Mages are doing some kind of city clean up or something and they are all standing around with a force field in front of them while the lower class people are throwing rocks and stuff at them because they all hate them, then the main girl gets up the courage to throw a rock, and doesn't realize it but uses magic and her rock goes through the force field and hits one of them in the head (the evil guy). after a long search to find her, the mages invite her into the university where she studies magic ect....
    does anyone have any idea what im talking about here?

  • Shelly 9/14/2011 2:47:36 PM

    I'm also looking for a book, maybe someone will recognize it? It was a teens book, about a girl who has to leave America to go to England, because her father does agricultural research and got a job doing a special type of planting on a plantation there. Anyway, the girl has to leave her cat in Quarantine for 6 months, and she discovers a ghost in the manor and makes friends with her, and ultimately solves the mystery of who killed her - which I believe was a member of the gentry who lived in the house (not completely positive), who's ghost (?) comes after her on the last part of the book, and the wild hunt is called. I think there was also a pookah (black horse) which saves her from the wild hunt and helps her survive it. I can't remember the title of the book, but I'd really like to find it. These are all just things I vaguely remember so they may not be entirely correct. I mostly remember the type of planting the father was doing that involved no plowing, and the cat left in quarantine, and the ghost.

  • Lee Fisher 9/14/2011 7:55:40 AM

    Looking for a science fiction short story I read many years ago. I think it was from the 50's or 60's. Anyway, the story is about a crew on a spaceship that reach a world where the "messiah" of that world's religion had just come, and they missed him. This happends again and again, with the crew of this spaceship always arriving too late. This was in a collection of short stories. Any help would be appreciated!Thanks!

  • Amanda Palmer 9/13/2011 12:37:32 PM

    Hi all, I am looking for a book I read years ago. All i know about it is that a faerie lord takes a girl to the faerie realm where they are married, and she ends up having a child with a paw... i also remember that the faerie lord has half white and half black hair.... any help would be great thanks!!

  • Angel Leylia 9/12/2011 11:13:35 PM

    @Jason, that's the book my brother was looking for just now! Thanks again!

  • Angel Leylia 9/12/2011 11:11:58 PM

    @Jason oh that's the book my brother was looking for just now! Thanks again!

  • Angel Leylia 9/12/2011 11:08:19 PM

    @Jason oh that's the book my brother was looking for just now! Thanks again!

  • Angel Leylia 9/12/2011 7:11:56 PM

    @Jason oh that's the book my brother was looking for just now! Thanks again!

  • Angel Leylia 9/12/2011 7:11:10 PM

    @Jason oh that's the book my brother was looking for just now! Thanks again!

  • Angel Leylia 9/12/2011 7:07:40 PM

    @ Jason oh that's the book my brother was looking for just now! Thanks again!

  • Angel Leylia 9/12/2011 6:59:03 PM

    @Jason thanks for giving me the title of book 1! I hope you find your book too! It sort of sounds like Lirael but I know your looking for a different one!

  • Allyse 9/10/2011 1:33:33 AM

    Hello all. I am looking for a book that I read a few years ago ( though I think it was set in the 70's : It is about a girl called Sissy who goes off to college in the city, and her sister Charlotte who turns out to be a "call girl" ( prostitute) and deals with drugs and shady characters. Sissy is rather introverted and ends up falling in love with a med student, and charlotte is found dead after being stabbed in the back with a knife. If any one could please help that would be fantastic, thank you.

  • Haku Ryuu 9/9/2011 5:45:45 PM

    Hi, I'm also looking for a book I read many years ago. It's about a girl (or boy, I can't remember) who died in an accident and went to heaven.However, she didn't quite make it there. She landed in a place called 'Time Square (I think)' and met many people there who could not find the strength to go to heaven and leave everything they used to have on Earth. There was a specific lady who died in a hit-and-run and she would not pass on because she had cats that still lived on Earth. Then, the girl meets the guy who hit the woman who is also in Time Square. Apparently he couldn't pass on so because he wanted to apologize to the woman. The girl brings the two together and they meet at last. The woman then learns that the guy felt sorry and was the one who kept taking care of her cats, and before he died, made sure they had a good place to live. The guy and the woman fall in love and they, with the girl, pass on into heaven altogether. I really liked this book (it made me cry) and I would really like to read it again.

  • Andrew Dukart 9/9/2011 10:49:06 AM

    Im looking for a book i think its for young adults, i can't remember the title or authers name but its about some parisites that feed off peoples dreams and create hallucinations that kills teens they look like nerve clusters. the main girl gets stabbed with a fork in one of her dreams by one of the parasites.

  • RJ 9/7/2011 9:44:57 PM

    TEst

  • RJ 9/7/2011 9:42:46 PM

    I'm looking for a book I started to read in the mid 90's. The version I read had a man on the cover with long black hair and was wearing a black cloak or wizards robe. In the book the man himself is a dark wizard of sorts. At one point in the book a kid from a village who is considered crazy, kills a dragon by ripping off its horn and stabbing it in the head repeatedly. I can't for the life of me remember the name or the author.

  • Pat P. 9/7/2011 2:35:08 PM

    The book I'm looking for is a children's book. My friend's son had his grandparents read it to him over and over again when he was a child. It's about a boy in New York (?) who looks forward to the coal truck coming. That's a highlight of his life. The book has only black & white line drawings, not pictures. Anybody know what this might be? Friend's son is now expecting a baby with his wife and I'd love to find the book for him.

  • Calin 9/6/2011 2:02:30 PM

    I'm afraid I do not have much to go on. When I was in seventh grade I borrowed a book from my teacher and do not recall the title or author. I do not recall any character names either. It us a coming of age novel and the two main characters are both boys when the book starts and they are orphans on a island with other orphan boys. It is a sort of school or monastery. It is a medevil like setting in a fictional world. The protagonist becomes a favorite of the unfair care taker and eventually uses the privilege to escape. He escapes by sailing in a small fishing boat with his friend in a storm. He goes through a series of trials and such and is captured as a slave in a mountain pass buy a Viking like person on skis. But he has some sort of emerald or ring that is a sign of a noble and it makes him into nobility. It was about 1,000 pages long and the way it ended made me believe there was a sequel. I think he was in love with his old friend that he escaped with wife or something. If any one has an idea I would love to read it again. Thanks.

  • jason higby 9/6/2011 9:27:24 AM

    hi i am looking for two books. they are both horror. one is about an indian who wants to bring his master back to live. the name of the book is like "shaman" or something like that. there is a person named allison who gets kidnaped by the indian to be the last sacifice. it takes place in the winter time. the other book is about a libirayn that kidnaps children to turn them into dolls. cant think of her name, but some of the people have the last name of "adams". they are the sheriff and his two kids "kevin" and "kathy". the name of the book could be the "dollmaker". thank you for your helppp jason higby

  • Jason 9/6/2011 2:26:16 AM

    actually, nevermind, that's wild magic, by tamora pierce, a lucky find on another site mentioned tamora pierce and it suddenly clicked. Also, if anyone hasn't read those, they are all quite good, I reccomend almost everything pierce has written :)

  • Jason 9/6/2011 1:55:10 AM

    Angel, book one is Lirael, part of the old world trilogy by garth nix i believe, sabriel, lirael, and abhorsen. The dog is called the disreputable dog if I'm thinking of the right one, and the "rune" on her forehead is called a charter mark. Don't know about the others, unfortunately. I read one about four years ago, from a library, so I didn't have it long, it's part of a series. It starts with a female knight of some sort. She finds a girl in a town with the power to turn into animals. I don't remember much more than that, but it's driving me mad. I really wish I could at least remember the author, but I have no clue.

  • Angel Leylia 9/5/2011 1:59:14 PM

    I'm looking for 4 books I sort of remember the tiles but I don't know who wrote them. BOOK1: I think it's called Arneziel it's about a girl who thought she was a watcher but was really a necromancer; she has a dog that she created and brought to life; she has a rune shape on her head; her mother is a watcher and her dad is a necromancer. BOOK 2: I think it's called star child it's about a girl who only speaks a different language never known to humans her mother is a queen but never remembers anything until later in the quest a guy helps them and they find a chest with a crown. But she ends up talking English in the end. BOOK 3: Acidental Witch I need the author for this one. A kid climbs a tree and falls down in a witch's circle turning the kid into a witch. BOOK 4: I think it's mooneyes it's about a boy who has a disoriented face and eyes that looks like the moon. Please help me find them!

  • Annika 9/5/2011 12:38:58 PM

    Hi, I read a book not too lomg ago and I would love to read it again. It's about a girl with a "perfect" life. She's a rights atcivist (I'm pretty sure). So she's assigned to do a report with this "outsider" guy. I really thimk the guy's name is Hal, but I'm not sure.. I also frgot he name of the girl. They choose some book, Hamlet maybe? So when they read it, they start falling in love. At the end of the book you find out "Hal" is an undercover cop, he saves the girl's life from her ex-boyfriend I think. When she's at the hospital, she gets really emotional and tells Hal to leave her alone.. Then later on after her brother's wedding she looks for him, and then the kiss. So I hope you can help me! :)

  • Lisa Antaya 9/3/2011 11:13:12 AM

    Melissia, I think you're looking for Dream a Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  • Melissia 9/3/2011 8:33:11 AM

    I began a book about a woman who had married a tv preacher. He was a fake healer. she was running with their son and was working for a man from her hometown who had a drive-in. she was cleaning and she and her son were very hungry. the owner hated her because of how her husband had taken money from the town. she and her son were living in her car.

  • Merryn 9/3/2011 3:51:36 AM

    So there's this book I read a while back, and I can't find it anywhere and I really want to know the author's name because there was a sequel that hadn't been published when I read it and it should be out by now, but I can't for the life of me remember her name (I'm pretty sure the author's a woman).
    So the story of the book (which I think was called 'supernatural') was about a girl who worked for a company who's job it was to catch supernatural creatures and stop them from hurting people. Her best friend is a mermaid and she lives at the company, and doesn't go to normal school.
    Then a guy named 'Lend' breaks into the building and she befriends him, and Lend can mimic the shape/form of anyone he wants (including the main girl, but not her eyes), who's dad used to work for the company, and who she starts to date part-way through the book.
    Meanwhile something starts killing the creatures; a girl who looks like a ball of fire to the main girl, and who is sort of the main girls twin or sister, who kills the creatures so she can steal their souls to live (or something).
    There's also this riddle about the girls eyes and water or streams, that means something important.

  • Merryn 9/3/2011 3:50:43 AM

    So there's this book I read a while back, and I can't find it anywhere and I really want to know the author's name because there was a sequel that hadn't been published when I read it and it should be out by now, but I can't for the life of me remember her name (I'm pretty sure the author's a woman).
    So the story of the book (which I think was called 'supernatural') was about a girl who worked for a company who's job it was to catch supernatural creatures and stop them from hurting people. Her best friend is a mermaid and she lives at the company, and doesn't go to normal school.
    Then a guy named 'Lend' breaks into the building and she befriends him, and Lend can mimic the shape/form of anyone he wants (including the main girl, but not her eyes), who's dad used to work for the company, and who she starts to date part-way through the book.
    Meanwhile something starts killing the creatures; a girl who looks like a ball of fire to the main girl, and who is sort of the main girls twin or sister, who kills the creatures so she can steal their souls to live (or something).
    There's also this riddle about the girls eyes and water or streams, that means something important.

  • Julia Farrell 9/2/2011 10:46:36 PM

    I'm trying to help my mom find a book she read about 35 years ago as a teenager with her best friend. She'd like to give the book as a present to her friend as a joke. It's a Harlequin Romance, and all she remembers is that, after a girl either passes out or is thrown from her horse, a bird swoops down and picks the buttons off her blouse.

  • shafayat 9/2/2011 4:23:35 PM

    i read this romance mystery about ten years ago. its about a little boy and girl about five years apart, the boy is older, about eleven. they're friends but are separated because of a mysterious tragedy surrounding a fire in the kitchen or attic, and either his or her family (or both) moves and both boy and girl forgets the tragedy (as have I). twenty-something years later the woman returns to the town and befriends the same guy (they don't know this). there's this one scene where she scorns him for drinking it but when he scoops water from a stream/river for her to drink she wonders if the sweet taste came from his hands. the woman sees her ghost (more than once) in the attic of her childhood house but it turns out to be her sister. (i think the grandmother concealed the secret tragedy but eventually confesses the secret tragedy to her)

  • Natasha 9/1/2011 11:18:21 PM

    To Mariah:I believe the book you are searching for is called Trickster's choice by Tamora Pierce.

  • HawkWind 9/1/2011 11:29:08 AM

    Hi, Looking for a book I read back in the early 70's. A boy was changed from small time by his scientist father. Gave him characteristics of a dolphin. He was able to stay underwater for long periods of time. His skin was oily so he could swim easier underwater. I read this when I was in 8th grade.

  • Amanda Armstrong 8/31/2011 7:28:30 PM

    hi, im looking for a book i read in middle school. it would have to be from the early 90's or before. i cant remember a whole lot about it but i will try to explain what i do remember. the book is based out of the 1800's. this young girl lives on the farm with her family. at some point she goes off to live as hired help in someones house where she will learn to cook and clean. this girl falls in love with a man that she knows and desires him more than anything. she is walking through the woods one day and some ominous being (think it is like a ghost woman) tells her she can do magic. well she ends up using this to make this man she loves fall in love with her. in the end she settles into a house with a man but im not sure if it is the same man or not. it is all very confusing but this is all i can remember. i loved this book growing up and would love to find it again. it is i think book one of a possible series and i think the title has star in it.

  • Mariah 8/31/2011 3:15:55 PM

    The book I'm looking for I read a few years back, is s fiction book about a girl whose hair is strawberry blonde. Her father is some sort of spy or something because he taught her how to look for clues and move things around in a room, then put things back exactly the way they were. Her cousin is a guy who makes potions and mixtures, and one of them turned her hair blue in the beginning of the book. The story starts to move along when she accidently goes sailing out in pirate infested waters and gets caught. They shave her bald (because nobody would want a blue headed slave)and sell her into slavery. She eventually ends up in a nobles' house, helping the people who live there with something where her spy/thieving skills come in handy. In like the last chapter of the book, her father comes to buy her back and the noble goes "Oh she's not a slave anymore. Not for sale." And then the noble notices the crooked smile that the father is wearing looks familiar and the Main Character comes in and they have a happy hugging party. Then the Main Character tells her Father that she can't leave for some reason I can't remember. Any help on this would be great! It's been bugging me all day...

  • Mariah 8/31/2011 3:13:28 PM

    The book I'm looking for I read a few years back, is s fiction book about a girl whose hair is strawberry blonde. Her father is some sort of spy or something because he taught her how to look for clues and move things around in a room, then put things back exactly the way they were. Her cousin is a guy who makes potions and mixtures, and one of them turned her hair blue in the beginning of the book. The story starts to move along when she accidently goes sailing out in pirate infested waters and gets caught. They shave her bald (because nobody would want a blue headed slave)and sell her into slavery. She eventually ends up in a nobles' house, helping the people who live there with something where her spy/thieving skills come in handy. In like the last chapter of the book, her father comes to buy her back and the noble goes "Oh she's not a slave anymore. Not for sale." And then the noble notices the crooked smile that the father is wearing looks familiar and the Main Character comes in and they have a happy hugging party. Then the Main Character tells her Father that she can't leave for some reason I can't remember. Any help on this would be great! It's been bugging me all day...

  • Lindsey Beaver 8/28/2011 3:26:27 AM

    I read this book one time a long time ago it had this character in it (I don't think she was the main character more like the sister or best friend of the main character ?) but anyway she fell in love the with the "helps" (gardener ?) son she becomes pregnant and when the villain finds out that she slept with the help he rapes her so she loses the baby the father supposedly runs off (toward the end you find out that the villain killed him and only then after they uncover the remains along with an engagement ring she realizes what must of happened) after the guy rapes her she gets her sister and her friend I think and crashes her car in the lake on purpose to hide something.

    That's all I can remember I tried pulling up my favorite suspense authors and it's killing me that I can't remember anything else about this book. I know its a crappy description but if you can help would really appreciate it.

  • Shalene 8/26/2011 11:40:13 AM

    I am looking for a book I read in grade school in the 70's. It is about a girl who needs to find a bird and make it laugh out the back of his head. I believe she is trying to save the kingdom. She doesn't know how to do this task, but eventually figures it out. Can anyone help?

  • Ivellisse 8/25/2011 8:29:09 AM

    Hi looking for a book about a jewish girl who is supposed to marry a jewish boy who is studying to be a Rabbi but the rabbi does not think they are a right fit. After hearing this t girl runs away and ends up with the best friend of her boyfriend. She gets pregnant and marries him. She later returns to her hometown and learns that her best friend marries her first love and is devasted. She leave her town and abandons her religion. She gets a divorce and raises her daughter alone. Her daughter becomes engaged to her first love's son. She does not tell her daughter until they all get together for an engagement dinner. I cannot remember the names of the characters. But the story takes place in Israel. Thank you

  • Angel Leylia 8/23/2011 1:46:13 PM

    I'm looking for 4 books I sort of remember the tiles but I don't know who wrote them. BOOK1: I think it's called Arneziel it's about a girl who thought she was a watcher but was really a necromancer; she has a dog that she created and brought to life; she has a rune shape on her head; her mother is a watcher and her dad is a necromancer. BOOK 2: I think it's called star child it's about a girl who only speaks a different language never known to humans her mother is a queen but never remembers anything until later in the quest a guy helps them and they find a chest with a crown. But she ends up talking English in the end. BOOK 3: Acidental Witch I need the author for this one. A kid climbs a tree and falls down in a witch's circle turning the kid into a witch. BOOK 4: I think it's mooneyes it's about a boy who has a disoriented face and eyes that looks like the moon. Please help me find them!

  • mds1124 8/23/2011 1:34:47 AM

    Looking for a Spy Suspense/Thriller that I read back in the 1980's...Cannot think of the author, title or characters...I have looked through all the most popular authors and they are not the one...This book was about a computer programmer or computer type person who was recruited and trained to be counter-intelligence agent...It was fiction and the best book I have ever read - I could not put it down...Any help anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated...I'm going crazy trying to find it...

  • Gracie 8/21/2011 2:28:24 PM

    I am trying to find the name of a romance book. It is about a teenage boy who lives with his mother and stepfat her. The stepfather niece or cousin comes to live with them when her parents die. The boy knows that the stepfather is attracted to the girl so he lets her sleep in his room at night. Eventually he believes the house is no longer safe for her and his mother gives him money and he runaway with his cousin. When they are living on the street a cop finds them and takes them into his home. The boy goes on to become a cop and the girl goes to college.
    The girl turned women has always loved her protector and the cop is torn between his need to protect her and love her. They finally get together as adults.

  • Deirdre 8/21/2011 11:06:05 AM

    I am trying to find a book that I got from the scholastic book fair at school somewhere from 1979 to 1981. I don't know the exact title, it was something Ghost Stories. The cover had a wrought iron fence or stone fence I believe with a woman dressed in a white dress with her hands cut off and the sleeves folder over where her hands should be and blood dripping. It was a compilation of short ghost stories for children. Please someone help me find this book!

  • christa 8/20/2011 7:27:25 PM

    I am looking for a book but I cannot remember any character names. It is about a female freediver. She lives on the east coast of america, probably in north carolina or georgia. Her grandfather sort of owns an island off the coast, and the African American dwellers are under his rule almost like it's the grandfather's own fiefdom. The woman does not remember a lot of her childhood, and wonders if her father or grandfather molested her, and she also wonders if her grandfather is really her father (i think.) At the end, one of the island folk is chasing her around to protect the grandfather's secret, and her car crashes into water. The man chasing her thinks she's dead, but, being a freediver, she held her breath and played dead.

  • maame 8/20/2011 8:57:43 AM

    Hi Guys. Can some please help me with the title of this book.It is a romance book. I read it in 1999. It is about a girl and a guy were sort of in a music group(amateurs) Theguywas from a rich family and the girl was very poor. She forbade him from ever coming to her house cos ofthe poor condition. He did visit her one day and I'm not sureif heoffersher money or something but she ends up hurting him with a metal chain and runs away,leaving him with a scar in the face. They meet again when they are all grown up. There is also a a note involved. I believe the book is Harlequin BLAZE, but I can't remember the title.

  • maame 8/18/2011 10:58:15 AM

    Hi Guys. Can some please help me with the title of this book.It is a romance book. I read it in 1999. It is about a girl and a guy were sort of in a music group(amateurs) Theguywas from a rich family and the girl was very poor. She forbade him from ever coming to her house cos ofthe poor condition. He did visit her one day and I'm not sureif heoffersher money or something but she ends up hurting him with a metal chain andruns away. They meet again when they are all grown up. There is also a a note involved. I beleve it is Harlequin BLAZE

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