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

I am looking for a book by an anonymous author. I remember that the cover of the book was red, and I'm not sure of the title. It was short, not more than 150 pages.

The book is written as a memoir. It was about a young boy that lived in a slummy area. He describes his surroundings as decrepid, dirty, run-down, dry, hot, etc. and he refers to all of his friends and family as brown-skinned. There is a girl that comes to live in the neighborhood with her Grandmother and this girl is blue-eyed and blonde-haired, unlike anything the boys have ever seen. She was very sexual towards this main boy, making suggestive comments, letting her skirt fly up as she goes down a slide at the park. The boys all like her and at the end of the bookl they convince her to go up to one of their apartments. She struggles with one of them and falls out the window to her death.

The most interesting thing about the book is that at the end, the publisher writes a blurb about the author. They said that a lawyer came into their office with a stack of spiral notebooks and said the author wished to remain anonymous. The publishing company stated that they believed the book was written by a professional writer that did not want to name themselves as the author. I need to find this book!!!!!!

sorry for the very vague reference-
romance novel-a woman who is overweight( top-heavy), short, blue-eyed (I think blonde haired) and is living in her brother's house with him taking care of it for him but he doesn't appriciate her. one day she looks in the phone book to hire a gardener for the grass and choses one based on the name (it seems sexy to her and she is desperate for romance). she gets dressed up for the garderner to arrive and he comes and is wary of her and mean because many times socialite woman hire him to make moves on him. but she gets upset and very flustered by his attitude (and cuts herself by accident?) and he carries her upstairs. they eventually have a romance and she takes him to this family party where everyone thinks she's hired an escort.
-in the book there are many diffrent stories going on at once (all centered around this one extended family)and it is a book from a series
-the character(Ava?)asks the gardener how long it will take him to cut the grass becuase she has to run eraands and wants to pay him and he feels bad for being suspcious of her

-quote- the woman says to the gardener ' i wouldn't give you up for all the rice in china." and he goes 'That's alot of rice.' and she returns ' you're alot of man.'

-the woman also loses alot of weight by trying to become more attractive to the latin gardener and doing work around the house

- i feel like the book had something to do with australia and opal

any idea would be appreciated :)

i read this book back when i was in middle school.
i remember a little bit of the plot. and only one of the characters names in it. which happens to be "graw kaw".
He was one of the few ancient dragons. the world was coming to an end. Aliens came to their planet to gather resources for themselves. the aliens reader device said there was no intelligent life forms on the planet. they thought it was too primitive and okay to gather recourses from. there were dragons,elves. there were goblins and humans too. if i remember correctly humans and dragons and all the other races hated each other. and ended up coming together to defeat the aliens. they came together and collected as much wood as possible because there oracle told them that to save their world they would have to have them in specific locations and in a specific formation wich i do not remember.. ---im dyeing to read this book again.. and ive been searching sence freshmen year.. :(( please help?

I'm looking for a book/short story about a boy with asthma who moves to a new town with his by plane and eventually finds out the town is controlled by amind controlling gas and he is immune because he uses an inhaler. He alsomeets a girl who is also immune because she takes pills forher breathing as well.

I am looking for a book for girls ages 12-16. The book was published in the 1960's. The book instructs girls on how to dress, where their hair, puberty, hygiene, feeling blue, menstruation, what to carry in their purses, how to pick and arrange clothing, etc. This book was not from the What every girl should know series. I would like to find it for my nieces.

Okay, I've been looking and looking, I hope you guys can help me! I'm searching for a young adult fiction book. However, the only things I can remember about it is that it's about a boy and a girl (probably a romance) and the cover is a close-up pictures of the candy Twizzlers.
I know that's not much to go on, sorry!

This is in response to Lee who said:

I'M SEARCHING FOR A BOOK i READ AS A CHILD IN THE LATE 60'S TO EARLY 70'S. THE ONLY THINGS I CAN REMEMBER ABOUT THE BOOK WAS THAT SAINT MICHOLAS NAME WAS IN THE TITLE, IT WAS SET IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND TOLD THE STORY ABOUT HOW SAINT NICHOLAS CAME TO BE. HE LIVED IN A SMALL VILLAGE WHERE THE STORY WAS SET. THE STORY READ OF A MAN NAMED NICHOLAS WHO CARVED BEAUTIFUL TOYS OUT OF WOOD AND BEGAN LEAVING THEM OUTSIDE THE DOORS OF CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS TIME. IT TOLD OF HOW HE STARTED DOING THIS AND DID IT UNTIL HIS DEATH AS AN OLDER MAN. I WANT TO READ THIS BOOK TO MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN BUT CAN'T REMEMBER THE TITLE. IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME PLEASE DO.

I'm pretty sure what you're talking about is The Adventures of Nicholas by Helen Siiteri. Here's a link to it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Nicholas-Helen-Siiteri/dp/1412038650

Hope that's what you're looking for!

This might be a long shot, but I am desperately looking for at least one book although I think there were at least two that I read about 20+ years ago at primary school about a boy who I think was walking home from school when he saw a shop he'd never noticed before. I think it was a magic shop and was owned by a wizard - the boy had adventures there - but then the shop disappeared.

To Karen who wrote on June 23rd...I too have been looking for this book for quite some time. The title is HEART OF A WARRIOR by Johanna Lindsay. This is the third and I think the last installment of a 3 part series. The first being Warrior's Woman and the second being Heart of a Warrior. I hope this helps.

--- Mario ---
I'm not 100% positive but it sounds to me like the Wayside School stories by Louis Sachar.
The school has 30 floors but no 19th floor and each book contains a story from a different floor.
Its a series of 3 books called "Sideways Stories from Wayside School"

Keena

I am looking for a book that I read around 1989, it was a paperback fantasy novel. Of course I cannot remember the title or the author. This books haunts me and I have been searching for it for years. The story is about a girl who is very poor and is sold into slavery by her family. She then goes on to become the slave of a powerful man in a Romanesque type empire where treachery, greed, and hedonistic tendencies abound. During her days in slavery she discovers that she is the ONE who will set this empire free. She has been chosen and after her master dies she escapes and goes to a forest where she leads an army who is pitted against the hedonistic empire. I remember her and her army crossing a river and her being bitten by leaches. I think the name of the book was her name: it was something like Ayleah. It was a very thick paperback novel with a red cover and her face with blond hair. She is a female warrior who overcame adversity and I have been inspired by this story for years. I lost the book many years ago and would love to be able to read it again. I will read this post from time to time to help others find the books they are searching for because I know how important the quest is too find the book that haunts you.

hi im looking for a book that i read when i was in elementary school. it was a book with several stories in it, its taken place at a school with several floors. the cover has the school with some students looking out the windows. i dont know the author or nothing and have no idea of the title. just know that it has the name of the high school in the title of the book.. i was wondering if it was possible for u to help me? or anybody who has a clue about what im talking about..???

Please help am trying to find a book i read in middle school this book is about a boy whose mom dies and dad marries a person they have a baby and move to new house boy doesnt like the new wife of his father and goes to the forest and sort of gets lost in this fantasy world and he wants to escape and goes on this journy with a logger that helps him go to the kings house but the logger does not make it so the kid has to go by him self to the castle but it is a trap by this jester/evil joker that lives forever if he gets to imprison a new kid and that kid becomes king and cant die until new kid comes to the world. the book is red and some thorns boarder the title.

Hi, I've been looking for a book I read many times in middle school; one that I even did my book report on.
I can't remember the Title or Author, but I can remember some of the plot.

The setting is in modern day, and it's about
A young girl works in a candy shop with her abusive father, and she sneaks out at night to go help an overweight but nice man on the beach sell news papers, who sends her to the pizza place that a boy, who she happens to like, and his family work at.
She soon finds out that the man is the father of the boy she likes after he suffers a heart attack or something and after that, things start to go from bad to worst.

I am looking for a book...

Sci-Fi, came out in the late-80s to mid-90s. Man has populated many planets and a loan trader in his small ship comes across an abandoned Starship. The Starship was some type of Bio-Seeding/Engineering ship used for creating/modifying species as part of terraforming. In part of the story he uses the bio capabilities of the ship to create animals that fight other animals for money.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Im looking for the title & author of this book.. Ok I read this book about 3 years ago, I think it was set in England, all I can remember about it is that the killer who commited more than one murder was a female called sally, she was australian. The ending of the book was of her just about to kill someone else I think using a knife but she was caught before she managed it. I remember being fairly surprised that she was the killer and the only other thing I remember is that the characters were in a pub every now and then, I think possibly one of them worked there, maybe Sally?? Any help would be most appreciated!! Thanks in advance, Kai

I came across this book at an old used book store and I cannot remember the title or author. It was a red book and the title was somthing like "Sammuriji" or "Kammuriji" (I may be completely wrong). From what I remember reading on the back it is about a Samurai that leaves where he's been brought up and finds this monk. I believe this is a Japanese story (In english of course) and I remember reading something about traveling through Osaka and several other places in Japan. I can't go back to this bookstore for a few weeks and I'm afraid the book may be gone by the time I visit again, but If I could just remember the title I could find a different store or maybe order it online. Also, the book I'm explaining is the first in a series. I remember seeing only the 1st and 5th book at the used book store I was at. I hope all of that helps!
Thank you,
Briana.

Trying to remember a story I read a long time ago. All I can remember is that there's a girl/teenager/young woman in a forest and she meets a creature that is like an ape or bigfoot. There were a lot of illustrations and I'm pretty sure the title was the name of the creature (something the author made up). Thanks!

I'm looking for a book I read in my grade school library (1990). The book already seemed old by that time. It was basically just an encyclopedia of mythical creatures. Each creature had an illustration done in plain black ink. Has anyone heard of it?

I'm looking for a book I read somewhere around 10 years ago. I've been searching for it ever since. I don't remember the author but I remember it was a fiction book that took place during World War 2. The beginning of the book starts of with a character named Frank writing either a book or his memoirs of his time in World War 2. The book itself- a lot of it takes place on a submarine. There are a lot of characters to keep track of. Frank's best friend is named Jack and there is a love triangle of sorts with a woman named Martha. I also am almost positive that one of the main characters last names is Johnson.
Any help would be so appreciated. I'm going crazy trying to find the title and author online.
Oh and I know the author's last name is at the beginning of the alphabet it starts with either F-K because thats the section in the library I got it from lol

I am looking for a teen novel and I do not know the title. I know that I read it a few years back so it was most likely written from 1995-2006. It is a novel about a young girl who falls in love with a teen boy she isn't supposed to. (I know it sounds like every other book) But the reason she isn't supposed to like or even talk to this boy is because the girl's family has been feuding with the boy's family for many years over something I don't remember. I know this sounds very broad but please I have been looking forever with no success. I do remember that the boy has a very nice house and the girl is invited over for a house party. The two houses are in looking distance of eachother and they are on a nice country type stretch of land. Thank you!

I am looking for a book that I read as a pre-teen sometime between 1978 and 1982. Disclaimer I cannot remember the title author or publisher just the plot line. The book is set in World War II and a young girl is traveling in Germany with her Uncle who has been named her guardian. They are injured in a car accident and the Uncle is hospitalized and the girl is taken in by a woman who is hiding two Jewish sisters in her attic. The girl soon realizes what is going on and is sucessful in securing their passage to safety. There is a noisy neighbor girl who reports them to the Gestapo. I want to remember this title and hopefully locate the book. Please help me I am going crazy to find out the title and author

I am looking for a book I read in the early to mid 90's about a boy who goes to this town posing as a high school student but is really a writer. He even fakes his death as fodder for a new book he's writing and his true identity gets out by a girl who falls in love with him. It's a series of books I think by an author like R. L. Stine but I can't remember the name or the exact author.

to shannon and atlantis, the book your looking for is the year of the cat trlogy, by zoe daniels. the dream, the hunt and the amulet. i spent a week looking for it an finally found it this morning! so happy i love these books! u may also like the secret circle by lj smith.

I am looking for a book I read in 1999. The story takes place on earth and another system. A man just appears in a womans bedroom and they have to find another man who came from the same planet the other man's from. She ends up helping and going back to his planet with her love interest. There she almost gets killed by something and he gets so upset he says he has to punish her once back at his place. Punishment is allowed in cases where the women are in danger and such. When he leaves her to think about her punishment to comments to the computer(that was set up to her with translations and questions she might need answered) about the punishment being what we on earth call dating. I would really appreciate any help with the title and author of this book. It is driving me crazy. Thank you

I am looking for the title and author of a book that I read a year or two ago. It is a romantic mystery/suspense. I remember that the main couple was on the verge of divorce. She was from a very prominent family and her mother was in prison (maybe died in prison??). The main thing is that throughout the book there are excerpts where someone is on life support and she can hear what's going on around them. She hears them talking about pulling the plug and thinks that she is screaming, telling them not to, but no one realizes it because she is "trapped" in her body and appears completely unresponsive.

i am looking for a supernatural teen romance book i think written in the late 90's about a girl who starts a new school and finds some of the students are shape shifting panthers and that she becomes one. there is a brother and sister an the brother falls in love with the new girl and i think they worship the godess bastet! i remember there being a poster of a panther with piercing yellow eyes as she entered the school and think this may be the cover of the book. pls if anybody knows the name of book or the author pls let me know it was one of my fave books growing up and would love to read it again.
thanks

It's been over six months since I first posted this, with no response, so I thought I'd try again. Standard disclaimer - I can't remember title, author or main characters' names. The story was set in England, starting pre-WWII, and the man is an illustrator (I think) who marries a young lady and they move into a small cottage with the main bedroom on the floor above the main ground level floor. He paints a mural on the bedroom wall for his pregnant wife and proceeds to go off to war and be killed. His artistic daughter returns to the cottage, not realizing that it is the cottage she was born in, when she is a mature woman. I seem to recall a bit of romance in the story, but that is all I remember. Both my wife and I read this, and we really would like to find it again, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Dear SS

The book you described reminded me of a book by Clive Barker called The Thief of Always: A Fable

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060177241?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060177241&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2

Not sure if that is the one but This is also a very good book

Hi Dawn,

Oh my gosh, I think that's it! I can't thank you enough. I've been trying to figure out the title for 15 years!!! I already ordered it on Amazon.

Thank you so very very much!

Monica

Hello Monica,

I think the book you may be looking for is called

What happened when Jack and Daisy tried to fool the tooth fairies.

Here is a link to Amazon just in case it is the book
http://www.amazon.com/Happened-Daisy-Tried-Tooth-Fairies/dp/0590081144

I am trying to find a book I read as a beginning reader in the early 1960's. I think the cover was yellow. It was about a sister and brother I think where one of them lost a tooth and for some reason were just trying to fake out the tooth fairy.

The fashioned a tooth from flour and water and put it under their pillow but the tooth fairly know the difference!

I've never been able to remember the name of this book but would like to find it. Can anyone help me? Thanks!

I am looking for a fantasy book I read in 1996 or before (it may be several years older) about a magician that is initially uaware of the power of his magical skills, and uses his talents to turn pieces of lead into gold coins, but he has to flee the town where he uses this gold, because before long the gold turns back to lead.

He also visits a castle, where the ladies wear magically woven dresses that become randomly transparent, revealing tantalizingly fleeting glimpses of nakedness to the many watching admirers.

The hero has to travel to defeat a very powerful evil sorcerer, whose fortress turns out to be an underground city. The evil wizard is adept at using wards for alerting him of the presence of intruders or triggering magical traps, and is also able to conjur magical monsters. In one scene, the hero is travelling along a valley when he unwittingly triggers a magical trap when hordes of monsters are instantly conjured into existence to do battle with whomever sprung the trap.

Eventually, the hero is captured and emprisoned inside the underground fortress in a big square room guarded by a horseman or centaur-like creature that would gallop up and down around the corridors outside this room. Bizarrely, this "guardian" streamed ghostly excrement as far as it went. In the book I had, the only illustration was of this fiersome horse-like guardian, galloping along.

What happens next I can not recall clearly.
The hero might have had companions along with him.

i read this book back when i was in middle school.
i remember a little bit of the plot. and only one of the characters names in it. which happens to be "graw kaw".
He was one of the few ancient dragons. the world was coming to an end. Aliens came to their planet to gather resources for themselves. the aliens readers said there was no intelligent life forms on the planet. they thought it was too primitive and okay to gather recourses from. the dragons and i believe there were elves not so sure. but there were goblins and humans. if i remember correctly humans and dragons and all the other races hated each other. and ended up coming together to defeat the aliens. ---im dyeing to read this book again.. and ive been searching sence freshmen year.. :(( please help?

Looking for a book i read in 1999 about I think she was an angel, that brought this man & women with 3 children together they got married and adopted the children. it starts off when the oldest boy of the three children was caught still to feed his brother & sister, their father & mother when missing. and they were left all along. when the boy got caught steeling, this lady showed up as a case worker, and placed the children in the man's care until they could find out what happen to their parents, but when the real case worker showed up, she said she never heard of the lady that place the children in the man's care. at the end of the story they all be came a family by this lady bring them all together. can any one help me find this book, i forgot the title and author of this book. thank you very much.

Please help me find this book! I read it in middle school, 1997-1998, from the school library (Halifax Co. Middle). It's about a boy that runs away/is kidnapped. He's taken to a "fantasy" land, but everyday in this land has four seasons. Each morning is spring, the afternoon is summer, evening is fall, and night is winter (complete with Christmas festivities every night). At first the boy thinks this is awesome but then starts to get homesick. I think it's a struggle to leave, he has to escape? By the time he gets home he realizes that each day he was in the fantasy land was actually one year. He tries to find his parents but it's been like 10 years so they don't recognize him, etc...

It was pretty intense and I'm dying to read it again.

Julio - Sounds like Fred Saberhagen's Books of the Sword universe, though I don't know which book. There's a Wisdom sword ("Wayfinder") and a "Soulcutter".

I'm looking for one, probably young adult-ish, but older. I'd compare it to Anne of Green Gables/Secret Garden. There's this forest. A girl/young lady who seems very much at home it it. Guy who worships her, but is very timid? He rescues her somehow from something. At one point he sings and is good at it. At another he kisses her footprint in the forest floor, and covers it.

ive been trying to find a book i havent read since the begining of grade scool. i dont remember alot. only that it was winter and there was a little girl with a blanket wrapped around her and she seemed cold. and i kinda rememberfeeling kinda sad atthe end sooooo

I am looking for a fantasy book I read in the early 90's, that may have been written in the 70's/80's, about a boy/teen who finds a magical sword. The sword is one of seven or nine. The sword grants the bearer wisdom, i.e. ability to learn languages. He is disappointed that he has found the least powerful of the swords but discovers that knowledge and wisdom are the most important weapons. There is another sword that shows up in the book (Soul-something (biter, maybe)). It's wielded by a man, I think with long white hair. The cover had a sword on it I believe and may have been one of a series which covered each of the 7/9 swords. I have been looking for this book for years and would appreciate ANY help.

Hello,

I am trying to remember the name of the book I began reading at my Grandfather's mountain lodge when I was 12. I never did finish it and can't remember the name or Author.

The book was from the perspective of a little girl. Her mother was moving them from the city (NY I believe) to an orchard. Her older brother had just purchased a television and was trying to get it to work so they could watch the baseball game. He got it working on what he called gypsy channels. They watched a ball get hit out of the park and instead of going back to the mound, the camera followed the ball and a little boy trying to catch the ball. This turned into watching him follow the ball all the way to their orchard.

I can't remember much more than that but hope it sparks a memory in someone who knows what it is.

I am looking for a science fiction book about a young girl who survives in a bomb shelter with her pet bird. I think her father built the shelter for her. I think he was a scientist or professor but I don't think he survived. I read the paperback in the early 1980s, 1985 at the latest. I don't think it was a very old book so it would have been published in the late 70s or early 80s. It may have been young adult but not sure.

I'm on a mission to find a book for a very good friend of mine. However, he cannot remember the author OR the title. (lol) He does remember the basic storyline and it would have been published prior to 1994 and available in his high school library.
It was about a young man who infiltrated a "cult" to find out what types of rituals they participated in. Part of the cult requirements was to drink some kind of "nectar" on a daily basis. Eventually he becomes addicted to the nectar and falls into the mindless drone state of the other cult members and then fights his way out of the cult.
I would appreciate any tips or leads that could help me figure out what this book is. =)

I am looking for a book I read in the 90s. It is written by an Israeli describing his military service during what was I think the Yom Kippur war. The book was pretty anti-military. I believe the author was a journalist

Ralph Romano

I think you may be looking for this? Not sure if it is ,but I remember reading this trilogy several years ago.hope it helps you :-)
kathryn of Vt.

"The Cross Time Engineer" (1993) by Leo Frankowski

For Bill:

Found the title of my book while scanning through fantasy lots on E-bay. Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings is about a former thief, mismatched warriors and magicians and a goddess who join up to "acquire" a magical text. I don't think it is the book you are looking for.

@ Olivia

Thanks so much for your response. That isnt it, but it does look like a great book! I think the one I am looking for may have been a bit "darker". Im thinking the girl ran away from abuse maybe? I remember her getting a scratch on her arm when she ran away from someone. Funny how something can jog your memory with such little detail, then drive you insane!

I am looking for the title of a trilogy about an Polish engineer from the present that is mysteriously transported to medievil Poland and knowing that the Huns will eventually attack sets about to prepare the country. Modernizing it with the material that is at hand

I am loking for the titel of a trilogy about an engineer in Poland the one day is mysteriously transported in time to medievil Poland and knowing that the Huns will eventually attack sets about preparing the country.Modernizing it with the things at hand at the time.

Hello!
I'm looking for a book about little bird and it's first fly. A hawk was followed it but coud'nt catch. It hapeened in a big sity. I think that author is American and this book is pretty illustrated. Thank you!

For Casf:

I may be looking for the same book as you. I can't remember any names of characters or locations where the story took place, but also read the book in the early 90's. What I do remember is a human man who inherits his fathers house. In the basement theres a doorway to a fantastic land where adventure ensues. He fights elves and wins their deadly elf swords which he buries under concrete at the end of the novel, because if you get rid of them they will come back and get you. I have been looking high and low and so far have drawn blanks. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I'm looking for a young adults book. I don't know what it's called, but it's about this sarcastic teen alien who travels to earth to study it. I think the cover had a moon on it, but I'm not sure.

@Amy

I think the book you are looking for is: "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E. L. Konigsburg.

I loved this book as a child too!

I'm looking for the title to a adventure/fantasy book I read in the 1990s that involved a human man and a goddess. It had a lot of quests and battles. It was a very long book and it seems that the human's name began with A and was in the title of the book.

Oh, I have so little to go on, I hope that someone can help me. I'm looking for a book that I read as a young teen (in the 80s). It centers around a young girl (and I believe a young boy... possibly her brother) who find themselves homeless. I remember that they take money from a wishing fountain to buy food, and they bathe in the fountain. I believe that they hide and live in a school for a while? Not much to go on I know.. but it is worth a shot.

I'm looking for a book I read in the 80's. It was a YA novel about a girl in her late teens that for some reason has to go and live with her grandmother or great-aunt. I thnk her parents may have died and she has never met this relative she has to go and live with. The grandmother has a huge old house that she lives in and rents rooms to other older people. This girl basically becomes the maid in the house and the tenants start getting murdered. I think one lady gets stabbed with scissors or knitting needles or something. Someone gets knocked out and tied up in a shed for days. It was scary and gory to me as I read it when I was a tween! There was a man in the story who was about 30 named Hugh who eventually saves her and I think they get married in the end. The girl is described as having long beautiful black hair. The novel may have been written in the 70's. I have been trying to figure out the title for years.

I'm looking for a book that I read in the first grade in 1968. its about a boy who spends the night outside in a tent and during a rainstorm he saves a cat. The cat is tangled up in some fishing line that hooked to a giant fish.

I know it's a long shot, but thought I'd try

I read a series a few years back. It was about a girl who lived in this strange walled city, she kept a diary, and that's the book's POV. Her job is to kill the babies that aren't needed (creepy, I know), and she escapes one night and goes on the run. She finds a band of, I think they're traveling gypsies. Anyway, the main gypsy guy falls for her, but they're seperated. She ends up in this city, and the last scene of the first book is them in the snow and him telling her he loves her, I think...Then the series gets kinda wierd. the girl and boy have powers that come from their rings. His mother makes strange inventions, but he doesn't meet her until way later. There's people that have powers that come from the jewelry they wear. It's all very strange, but I loved the books, and can't for the life of me remember what they were called, or who wrote them. Please help!

Hi, I am looking for a book I read as an early teen. It's about a girl, whose mother leaves the family leaving her with her abusive dad. The dad disappears for a few days. The girl has a jar of $14 or so (I think?) hidden in the springs of her bed, and she's relieved that her dad didn't find it (I think he trashed the house before he left..?) She is afraid he's coming back to get her so she hides out in a cave on the ridge overlooking the house. Over several days she gathers useful things from the house and takes them to the cave, where she makes a dwelling. she uses a wheelbarrow to move things up there. She continues to go to school so that nobody gets suspicious. One day, from her position on the ridge she sees the police come to the house to see what's going on (can't remember why) and she hopes they don't notice the track from the wheelbarrow, so they don't find her hiding spot. They don't notice it. She doesn't want to be reunited with her dad. Eventually a teacher gains her trust and helps her out but I can't remember the rest, I think I had to turn it back in to the library without finishing, and now 20 years later, I'm desperate to finish it! haha

Can anyone help me out?

I'm looking fiction book about a troubled teen girl whos parents force her to go to some kind of rehabilitation camp or something like that. From what I can recall they like kidnap her to get her there and she has no idea where she is. the other girls are brainwashed and have different levels of freedom. all the girls are to brainwashed to help the girl or give her any information about whats going on. I remember the staff there forces her to wear diapers and they actually changer her diaper and treat her like an infant. Thats really all i can remember! I would love to read this book again it got confiscated from me when i was in boarding school lol. i think the book was purple or blue but i couldn't swear to it if you have ever read anything like this please let me know!

Ryan - that's a famous Japanese fairy tale. My younger brother had a book of them edited by Lafcadio Hearn called The Boy Who Drew Cats and Other Tales. That story was called "The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings". Both Amazon and AbeBooks have various editions and collections with these stories. It was a piece of my childhood, too.

Melvin-
I think the book you're looking for is Z for Zachariah.

Melvin 3/22/2010 8:39:59 PM
Hi, I'm looking for this book that I have read in High School. all I remember is:
It's after some kind of atomic bomb or something like that. This young girl is at her family farm (or just house) and sehes the only one left. After a while she notices someone or something coming towards her house. A man wearing a yellow radiation suit comes. He talks to her for a while then talks her into leaving. So they put gas in her families car and go somewhere. thats all i can remember

Hi MarBig on 05/06/2010

The books you are looking for are the Summer Tree series by Guy Gavriel Kay. FANTASTIC books. They are still in print, you can get all three books in one binding or all three seperately. Glad I was able to help you!! Shelley :-)

You wrote:

I'm looking for a series, I think it was a trilogy. There were 5 people from college that get transported to another time/world become heroes for the new world one of the main charaters was named Paul which was later changed to Pawl or Pwl

Hello!

i read a book about 5 or 6 years ago and it starts off with a young african american male in jail, he talks a little about how he spent his time in jail, while in jail he goes through a series of things like, fights, jobs in jail, a bigger guy trying to take over him sexually because that was the bigger guys thing to do, and how he met a man that looked like a woman but got around often, etc etc etc. well the guy ends up getting out of jail and looks to live with a family member of his i believe (aunt??). No one is home but the next door neighbor opens her door and invited him in, they have sex and go about things in that manner for a little bit. He struggles to get a job but ends up getting into some type of gang and in order to get into the gang you must have sex with all the members which happen to be men so they all have something on one another incase of anything. the guys name is something like quater dollar or something weird like that(explains himself like 50 cent) and all the members explain themselves as the people in G-unit. well long story short he ends up getting together with a woman and gets really sick but has a child with this woman and now he has HIV or AIDS. the woman dies from giving birth and thats how it ends i think. well im trying to find this book and ive been trying for about 4 years now. please help me!!!

Thank you,
Danielle Rivera

Angel Santiago

The book you are looking for is Lurlene McDaniel's Angel of Mercy.

Original Comment/Request:
On 4/20/2010
Hello!

I am looking for a book I read a couple of years ago...make that about 6 years ago. It's about a girl (probably college age) joining the peace corps. I think she's on her way to go help in Africa when she meets a young man in the ship ( i think) and they kinda fall in love. At the end, i think ine of them dies. I've been dying to read it again. I think the cover of the book is green and the girl might have curly hair...maybe...

Please help

Paul--I think you maybe looking for Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes

TC - your book about the boy who couldn't talk who fell through a hole into the 1920's and was taken in by a kind family is The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key (who also wrote Escape to Witch Mountain btw). I loved my copy of The Forgotten Door to death.

Sarah, you want Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, for the girl sent out of her historical theme town to fetch medicine. She never knew it wasn't really the 1840's and people from the 1990's were watching them through hidden cameras.

Hey everyone I do need help with finding a particular book. I read it close to 10 year ago and I borrowed it from my brother's college library.

Here's what I remember:

The girl was possibly an android of some sort, and she frequently "time" traveled to different periods, obtaining relics from the different eras. She'd usually portray someone of the cleaning staff of some sort, and would typically go unnoticed.However, she caught the eye of either the man of the house, so some guy around town and they fall in love. She can't really tell him what she is- so she goes on pretending to be 'human'. Long story (incredibly short) he finds out that she's not "human" and breaks up with her, she's devastated, then (I think) she leaves him alone, I don't remember anymore.

One scene that did stand out up until this time was when they were sleeping together, and he/she commented on how cold his/her feet were. I don't remember who said what, only that the feet was "ice cold" (obviously since it's winter).

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advanced!

Looking for a book....

I'm looking for a book about Russian twins, boy and a girl. The girl and the boy played violin and piano together. The sister, I think her name is Sophie, fell in love with her brother but he went and married their governess. She becomes insane and lives as the owner of her grandfather's castle for a while before the story ends with her saving her brother and her being with someone else. What book is that?

Oops - the should be Christina Katerina AND THE Box.

Sarah, you want "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix.

TC - A Door in the Wall, I forget the author.

Roger - sounds like the Thornton Burgess series. Mostly out of print, but sometimes they do mass market reprints - check Ebay.

Dana: You want "Christina Katerina Had a Box", by Patricia Lee Gauch. One of my favorites when I was younger, and now one I read to kids at the library:)

I'm looking for a series, I think it was a trilogy. There were 5 people from college that get transported to another time/world become heroes for the new world one of the main charaters was named Paul which was later changed to Pawl or Pwl

I looking for a book I read in 1966 or 1965 I read the book in Spanish but it was a French Book by a French Author the name was El Hijo de La Selva (the Son of the Jungle) (no relation to the jungle boy) or Tarzan, this guy was found in a forest and he turned out to be the heir of a French aristocratic family. He has lived with animals so he does not talk and he has no manners it is not Tarza though.

Billy Bogan...Could it possibly be "Piratica" by Tanith Lee?

Billy Bogan...Could it possibly be "Piratica" by Tanith Lee?

I'm trying to find a series that I read in high school and I don't remember the vast majority of them, except that they were good. The series were actually many different series which were all connected through the protagonists, who were all girls who were either related or friends. I remember in one of the books, the main girl falls in love with a boy named Kenneth, who has an older brother who gets another girl in the village pregnant. The older brother ends up leaving, and the girl (who wants to be an actress...I think her name was Marie?) ends up having the baby and naming him Paul. Paul appears as a trouble-making troubled teenager in another series. I think Kenneth and his love interest end up being cast in Romeo and Juliet at some point. All of the stories take place in the early 1900s. The girl who was with Kenneth is part of a very large family and at one point, one of the younger sisters gets pneumonia or something, but she doesn't end up dying. The protagonist wants to become a writer and hides her work in a desk at school where it is found and commented on by an anonymous reader who later turns out to be her english teacher. That protagonist is later an aunt in a younger series which features her niece and Paul, the troublemaker.

I'm trying to find a series that I read in high school and I don't remember the vast majority of them, except that they were good. The series were actually many different series which were all connected through the protagonists, who were all girls who were either related or friends. I remember in one of the books, the main girl falls in love with a boy named Kenneth, who has an older brother who gets another girl in the village pregnant. The older brother ends up leaving, and the girl (who wants to be an actress...I think her name was Marie?) ends up having the baby and naming him Paul. Paul appears as a trouble-making troubled teenager in another series. I think Kenneth and his love interest end up being cast in Romeo and Juliet at some point. All of the stories take place in the early 1900s. The girl who was with Kenneth is part of a very large family and at one point, one of the younger sisters gets pneumonia or something, but she doesn't end up dying. The protagonist wants to become a writer and hides her work in a desk at school where it is found and commented on by an anonymous reader who later turns out to be her english teacher. That protagonist is later an aunt in a younger series which features her niece and Paul, the troublemaker.

I read this book about a teenage boy who was in the shed with his friend Jason one. All he remembers is that there was a loud bang and then Jason was on the floor. He remembers what leads up to that point, but thats it. His mother rushed in to see what happened and told his sister Melanie to go call 911. The chapters change setting often; at on point he was in his jail cell, then the next he was outside talking to his lawyer and the police with his parents. I know they had waffles for breakfast that day. The main character keeps wanting to go back and change the scene, how it ended. I didn't get to finsih it and I would really like to. Thank you to anyone who can help.

I am looking for the title of a book that tells the story of a little girl whose family has a large box that she plays with. She makes a boat, fort, etc. out of the box and the neighbor boy also plays with her and they keep making things out of the box as it wears down until it is completely flat. I believe it was written in the 1970s or early 80s.

I am look sf book set way in the future about this criminal who's head gets cut off and he has to live of rest of like that like think about the stuff he did thanks

Paul - was your book Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes? This is my favourite book ever, I reread it at least once a month!

I am looking for a book I read in the 1950's. It was Sci-Fi. All I remember is that there were Aliens called Thulians and they had green blood. People of the time of the story used little cards, not cash, to pay for stuff; weird, huh?
Anyway, I would like to re-read it. What book is it?

Trying to find a book by plot. -The world is 100 levels, on level 00 is a school, all the names start with 'A'. There is a boy who claims he comes from the outside. The main character is a girl with the rare ability to read she learned from her grandmother. Believing the boy, the girl collects food, and the journey up the 100 levels. They find a message written on the walls which allows them to pass into a decontamination shower, and they make their way to an unknown upper city, where the 100 levels are believed to simply filled with machines.... or just a myth. The book ends with the boy and the girl escaping the new upper city and setting out to find the boy's home.

Wow! This site is amazing! I've been looking for a certain book on and off for about seven years and then today I found it.

Hey I'm searching for a book from Theresa Kelly - Goodbye is not forever. It's been out of print and i can't find a copy on the internet anywhere. If anyone knows where i could get it, i would be really grateful.

I am looking for a book I remember a friend telling me she read when we were in high school. Basically all I remember is it's about a girl who lives in an earlier time period and ends up finding out that it's actually modern day and they are being watched through mirrors. Very vague, but I have been wondering about it for years!

Paul - Could your book be House of Stairs by William Sleator?

Paul - Could your book be House of Stairs by William Sleator?

Paul - Could your book be House of Stairs by William Sleator?

Ryan, sounds like you're looking for "The Funny Little Woman" by Arlene Mosel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funny_Little_Woman

Hello!

I am looking for a book I read a couple of years ago...make that about 6 years ago. It's about a girl (probably college age) joining the peace corps. I think she's on her way to go help in Africa when she meets a young man in the ship ( i think) and they kinda fall in love. At the end, i think ine of them dies. I've been dying to read it again. I think the cover of the book is green and the girl might have curly hair...maybe...

Please help

There was some work quoted on the October 2009 SAT which sounded fabulous. A young woman named Elizabeth starts working for a publishing company, and refuses to accept any money from her parents. Her mother realizes this is to avoid the ties of obligation and control to her parents. It also mentions stuff about how the daughters of her parents' friends were doing other things, like attending parties or something. It was definitely not anything recent.

I'm looking for a book that I read ~15 years ago. It was about a boy who was in another plane of existence that was running after a deer, fell through a hole and woke up in a cave in the 1920s. He couldn't talk but I think he could talk to animals and could carve wood really well. He is taken in by a family. He ends up getting chased by some people - I can't remember why.
Sound familiar to anyone?

Andy,

The book you are looking for is called Shade's Children.

Set in the future...
The book is about a small group of humans who are still on earth but some kind of robots have taken over. Most if not all of them have some sort of "Mutant" power, the main character a teenage-ish boy is called "Gold eye" or Golden eye because of the color of his eyes, this allows him to read the robots minds or something...
The book follows this boy, and he finds more humans who together fight against the robots, and save the humans.

I am looking for some books I read in elementary school about 1967 to 1972. The books were children's fiction about animals who had little adventures. Each book was about a particular animal and this animal interacted with the other animals in their adventure.

The books were interconnected in that a story from one book might be referenced in a different animals book.

I do not know author or title or publication date.

Would like to find these for my child.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

@ Pi,

I can't help with the first, but could the second book be
Red Planet by Robert Heinlein

They ice skate in the canals

Synopsis: On his way to school with his friend, Frank, they stop off at Cynia Station to wait for the ice to harden. Bored, the two boys decide to go and see the Martian city that lies just outside of the station. They are pleasantly surprised to meet and speak with some Martians, as they usually ignore the human colonists. There Jim makes friends with Gekko, a Martian, but insists that Willis must come with him when Gekko tries to persuade Jim to leave him there. Jim has cause to regret his insistence that Willis accompany him when their new headmaster, Marquis Howe, arrives to take over the school. It is instant hate between Jim and Howe, who infuriates Jim by confiscating Willis and caging him up in his office. Then Jim finds out that Howe is trying to sell him to the London Zoo! Jim persuades Frank to help him rescue Willis and Willis plays back a conversation between Howe and the General where the two boys learn that the Company (the Earth conglomerate who owns the colony) is determined to save money by making the colonists stay on one half of the planet where they will live in bitter cold, -100 below freezing, for one Earth year and then have a normal year, etc. Jim and Frank are determined not to let this happen. They carefully plan their escape and they are off to save their families! What Jim doesn't realize is that he and Willis will do much more than save his own little colony - the fate of all humankind on Mars rests on him and his little round friend...

Pi said [Also, I'm looking for a book from the 50s about a boy living on Mars, who ice skates in the canals. ]

@ Dave,

Could you be looking for Mr Murder, by Dean Koontz?

Synopsis: Martin Stillwater has a vivid imagination. It charms his loving wife, delights his two little daughters, and gives him all the inspiration he needs to write his highly successful mystery novels. But maybe Martin's imagination is a bit too vivid... One rainy afternoon, a terrifying incident makes him question his grip on reality. A stranger breaks into his house, accusing Martin of stealing his wife, his children—and his life. Claiming to be the real Martin Stillwater, the intruder threatens to take what is rightfully his. The police think he's a figment of Martin's imagination. But Martin and his family have no choice but to believe the stranger's threat. And run for their lives.

Dave said [Where a man and his family have been living happily until another strange man contacts the husband and claims that the husband has stolen his life, The man and his family try very hard to defend themselves against this person. ]

I have now been looking for this book since i was 18 years old that is over a decade now. The book title i have no ideah all i know is it is called someone's name and the Oni. The book is a childrens book I was read back in the early 80's it is about a woman making rice balls one day when one slips away from her and rolls down a hill then into a crack in the earth. Well the woman proceeds to chase this rice ball into the firey center of the earth then something happens (I think she battles the oni there) retrieves her rice ball and journies home to her hut. I have no ideah how to find this biik given the lack of a title so any help is greatly appriciated. Please help me find this piece of my child hood.

I am searching for a book (Mystery-Thriller)

Where a man and his family have been living happily until another strange man contacts the husband and claims that the husband has stolen his life, The man and his family try very hard to defend themselves against this person.

That was the synopsis on the inside front jacket

I saw it in a used book store, and at first I didn't think it could be that great a story, but after a few minutes I thought it sounded interesting, and when I went back to the shelf I couldn't find it and could not remember the title.

The book has been written in the last twenty years. If anyone could help me find it I would greatly appreciate it

I am looking for a book that was probably published in the ´50´s. It´s about a girl living with relatives on a Nebraska farm in the mid-1800´s. Her family left her there while they went on to California (or Oregon) to start a new life. It seems too long for her to wait, so she tries repeatedly to run away to join a wagon train headed to where her family is. She is found out once when she discovers the train she joined is going somewhere else and is sent back. Eventually she runs away and manages to join one headed in the right direction and they let her join. What´s the name of the book?

I'm looking for a book I read in elementary school about 1961. A boy goes to school, and when he returns home his parents are "different." He discovers they have valves in the backs of their necks put there by aliens.

Also, I'm looking for a book from the 50s about a boy living on Mars, who ice skates in the canals.

Can't sleep till I find these books...HELP!!!!!!

This was a "Compiled short story book" but I am not sure what the name of the book was. The only thing I am sure of is there was this story called Lucky Pete. He was a boy who grew up with a lot of luck and then things began to change for him. It was a book that we read in class (5th or 6th grade) at Shirley Elementary in Detroit. We moved and I never had the chance to finish it. It would have been in the early 70's that it was used but it may not have been written in that era. Your thoughts would be much appreciated! Thank you!

Hi,
I'm looking for a book that must have boon published late 1990's or first half of thr 2000's.

It is afiction novel and is set in Britain during the time it was written.

It starts off in a similar way to last years movie FAQ's about Time Travel.

Some people are in a British pub (Bar) and one of them see's something strange going on in a large shed in the garden behind the pub.

It ends up becoming involved in time travel, one of the friends has a small company hiring sceneray and props to small film companies.

There is a flying saucer involved which travels through time ( no aliens) and at one point the saucers takes them to an allottment (private vegetable garden ) beside a small British village.

In the end, they are in a warehouse with one of their friends who, without their knowledge, has been using the UFO for their own benefit and I think there may be a shootout.

The book is also written in a very humerous style.

I have been trying to find this for a long time and recall that it was populour enough for it to be put on CD as an audio book.

Any ideas please??

Many thanks

Mark

Hi. I am searching for a book I read in 7th grade seven years ago. It is about a group of kids that are selected to play this game to go to a deserted society. What they don't know is that they are being trained to create a new society in this land; it is not the game they thought it was. They were actually specifically chosen for their roles. They finally come to the realization that they are indeed stranded and they begin to build their society. It's a sci-fi novel with a reading level at about a 7th grade level. Thanks

I have been looking for this book I read back in junior high for years! What I remember about the story was a family that was big into horses, barrel racing, rodeos, etc. One of the daughters was overweight, kind of the black sheep of the family, not as into riding as her family. They went to an auction and bought some horses. An ugly bay horse named Crow really sparked this girl's interest. When they returned home, the trailer was shaking all over the place. Turns out this horse was sedated and was really traumatized. Going through lots of difficult times, she gained his trust, and gained her own self confidence along the way. She rescues him from himself and after their bond strengthens, she enters the local rodeo in the barrel racing event. Turns out, he never gets to race because a little girl's horse decides to run away with her and they race to save her from falling beneath her horse's hooves...Good story, would love to add it to my collection! I remember the cover having a girl with long straight blond hair, (glasses?) sitting on the ground next to a barrel. That is all I remember. Any help would be much appreciated!

Hi, I'm looking for this book that I have read in High School. all I remember is:

It's after some kind of atomic bomb or something like that. This young girl is at her family farm (or just house) and sehes the only one left. After a while she notices someone or something coming towards her house. A man wearing a yellow radiation suit comes. He talks to her for a while then talks her into leaving. So they put gas in her families car and go somewhere. thats all i can remember.

If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

For Kitty Marie, who wrote, "7/16/2008 1:29:33 PM

I once read a book about a girl who finds out that a new teacher at her school will be staying with her and her family for a while. They end up having an intense friendship, and it really is a beautiful book. It ends with the school being on fire... it's hard to remember a lot of it, but it truly was a beautiful book and I would love to find it again.."

I remember that book. The teacher's name was Ursula. Or was it one book bu Ursula Le Guin? Hope this provides some leads...

For CJ-
The book is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

hELLO, I've been searching for this book for years but to no avail..im really beggining to get desperate now..so i would really be greatful for any help...its a historical romance..the hero comes into the heroine town n get rich by playing at the casino...he first met the heroine when she fell into a pond or river with her fiancee while travelling in their carriage n the hero rescued her..the hero is immediately attracted to the heroine n blackmailed her father so as he can marry her...after their marriage i remember that the heroine hated him n decorated their room as a brothel room on their wedding night as she felt like a prostitute...she also felt guilty after sex as her mother told her that it was a sin to enjoy physical relationships n she constantly blamed the hero for that..later the hero went to his mistress but at the end the heroine n the hero returned back together..plse any help will b welcomed..thnkss

hELLO, I've been searching for this book for years but to no avail..im really beggining to get desperate now..so i would really be greatful for any help...its a historical romance..the hero comes into the heroine town n get rich by playing at the casino...he first met the heroine when she fell into a pond or river with her fiancee while travelling in their carriage n the hero rescued her..the hero is immediately attracted to the heroine n blackmailed her father so as he can marry her...after their marriage i remember that the heroine hated him n decorated their room as a brothel room on their wedding night as she felt like a prostitute...she also felt guilty after sex as her mother told her that it was a sin to enjoy physical relationships n she constantly blamed the hero for that..later the hero went to his mistress but at the end the heroine n the hero returned back together..plse any help will b welcomed..thnkss

Oh no, janieones56, Neither of them are the books I have been looking for. I have read The Magician's Nephew, and I have read The Twelfth of October too (Really good too btw). I truly thank you for helping though. I am still searching!

janieones56 3/20/2010 1:43:45 AM
And Jron7667, your second book may be The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis.
janieones56 3/20/2010 1:38:00 AM
To Jron7667: The book you are thinking of may be "Saturday, the Twelfth of October" by Norma Fox Mazer. No dinosaurs, but the main character (Zan) ends up in a prehistoric landscape/community. It was published in 1975.

And Jron7667, your second book may be The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis.

To Jron7667: The book you are thinking of may be "Saturday, the Twelfth of October" by Norma Fox Mazer. No dinosaurs, but the main character (Zan) ends up in a prehistoric landscape/community. It was published in 1975.

Can someone plz help me find the title of this book? ive been looking forever.

i read it a long time ago and i really want to read it again I just cant
remember the title. It starts out with this angel getting a new assinment.
So the heroine is the headmistress of a boarding school and they need more
money for it so the through like a fundraiser where dates and vacations
are auctoned off. One of the guys there is a guy she used to go to school
with, and the angel tries to make him bet on her. she is really plane but
they make her look really pretty and different so when her ex-classmates
see her they make a bet with the guy for him to accept and he do's and
they go on this weekend together and they start to fall in love and
everything that she thought she new about him turned out to be wrong and
she also finds out that he cant read and she sets out to help him learn.
then his ex- girlfriend or someon who wants to be his girlfriend shows up
and she (the Heroine) overhears them talking and learns about the bet and
leaves and he realizes what happens and chases after her but she wont talk
to him so he sneeks into her school office and they make up. it has a red
cover with a duy in a tux and a girl in a red dress(i think) you cant see
their faces it only gos up to their necks.

Can anyone plz tell me the title or author of this book? I've been looking for a long time and i hope someone can help.

i read it a long time ago and i really want to read it again I just cant
remember the title. It starts out with this angel getting a new assinment.
So the heroine is the headmistress of a boarding school and they need more
money for it so the through like a fundraiser where dates and vacations
are auctoned off. One of the guys there is a guy she used to go to school
with, and the angel tries to make him bet on her. she is really plane but
they make her look really pretty and different so when her ex-classmates
see her they make a bet with the guy for him to accept and he do's and
they go on this weekend together and they start to fall in love and
everything that she thought she new about him turned out to be wrong and
she also finds out that he cant read and she sets out to help him learn.
then his ex- girlfriend or someon who wants to be his girlfriend shows up
and she (the Heroine) overhears them talking and learns about the bet and
leaves and he realizes what happens and chases after her but she wont talk
to him so he sneeks into her school office and they make up. it has a red
cover with a duy in a tux and a girl in a red dress(i think) you cant see
their faces it only gos up to their necks.

I am looking for the name and author of a book I read recently. In a vault under a monastery a weird guy and his descendants - all young men who look the same - work for years writing the names and dates of death of everyone on the planet into hundreds of books. When they are done they kill themselves and the vault is sealed. Jump to the present. The vault has been opened and the books are now under guard at a secret location in the USA. One of the guys who works there steals info and sells it to an insurance company for money. Another guy tracks him down.

It was actually quite a complex if somewhat unbelievable plot but a good book. It may not have been very current though as I was travelling at the time I read it and may have picked it up secondhand somewhere.

Searching for a book I read in the 80's - a girl accidentally travels back in time to what I think is the Bronze Age (??). She is taken into a tribe of people who speak another language however there is a female shaman or medicine woman who looks exactly like the girl - long white blond hair - similar age - dark circles painted around her eyes. The girl ends up returning to her time with the help of a young man in the tribe for whom she developed feelings. She is still wearing a long white ceremonial robe and a heavy gold torc around her neck which she hides from her family. I thought the author was Monica Hughes but it isn't - I BELIEVE the author is Canadian because she came to our school when I was in 5th grade (around 1985). Any ideas??

Searching for a book I read in the 80's - a girl accidentally travels back in time to what I think is the Bronze Age (??). She is taken into a tribe of people who speak another language however there is a female shaman or medicine woman who looks exactly like the girl - long white blond hair - similar age - dark circles painted around her eyes. The girl ends up returning to her time with the help of a young man in the tribe for whom she developed feelings. She is still wearing a long white ceremonial robe and a heavy gold torc around her neck which she hides from her family. I thought the author was Monica Hughes but it isn't - I BELIEVE the author is Canadian because she came to our school when I was in 5th grade (around 1985). Any ideas??

Searching for a book I read in the 80's - a girl accidentally travels back in time to what I think is the Bronze Age (??). She is taken into a tribe of people who speak another language however there is a female shaman or medicine woman who looks exactly like the girl - long white blond hair - similar age - dark circles painted around her eyes. The girl ends up returning to her time with the help of a young man in the tribe for whom she developed feelings. She is still wearing a long white ceremonial robe and a heavy gold torc around her neck which she hides from her family. I thought the author was Monica Hughes but it isn't - I BELIEVE the author is Canadian because she came to our school when I was in 5th grade (around 1985). Any ideas??

im looking 4 a book i have no idea wat its cal;led and who the author is but on the cover there is a picture of a very pale girl its only her face anyone know what its called?

I am looking for a book about a woman who unknowingly time travels back to the past through an old trunk. All I remember from the book was that there was a pink dress that was supposidly from one of her ancestors and once she put it on to go to a party- her entire house caught on fire and she was trapped in a shed/bedroom of some sort and she had no other choice but to get into the trunk. She is saved from the fire, but now in the past, and saved by some man who is now going to help her get back to her own time. Not very conclusive but thats all I remember, Thanks!

I am also looking for a book that i read at least 8 years ago. I dont remember much, just that it was about a girl who had been "marked" in her dreams with I believe a cresent moon style scar on her forehead by this creepy bad guy who thought that she belonged to him. She had either just moved into their creepy house or just had to move in with a new relative. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Shannon C

I think your book could be

The Angry Moon

A novel by

William Sleator

it's about an Indian boy

Looking for a book I read in the mid 1950's. It was about teens building Hot Rods. All I remember is that one Hot Rod had copper bumpers and I think it was painted pink, but, I'm not sure of it. I know this is mighty puny information, but, I'd like to re-read it. What's the title?

I am looking for a book I read in the 1950's. It was Sci-Fi. All I remember is that there were Aliens called Thulians and they had green blood. People of the time of the story used little cards, not cash, to pay for stuff; weird, huh?
Anyway, I would like to re-read it. What book is it?

Pat - the book you are looking for, where the children cut up an American flag at the end, is called The Children's Story, by James Clavell.

I don't know if anyone will be able to help me, but I've been trying to find a children's book I remember borrowing form the library repeatedly when I was younger (mid 80's). I recall an angry moon, chasing two children, a boy and a girl (siblings?). It may have been set in ancient Mexico, or possibly Egypt? I know it's not a lot to go on but I read that book over and over and for the life of me I can't remember much about it. All I know is the two children were dark-haired and they were being chased throughout the story.

I am looking for a picture book that I had as a child - printed in late 70's or early 80's I would guess. It was about a man who was going on a journey to find something, I seem to remember him with a pointy face and Robin Hood type hat, with a red pointy beard. He meets friends along the way who can change into things and their changes are all important in overcoming obstacles along the way. One was an elephant, one was fire, one was a snake that unfurled himself across a broken mountain ledge for the friends to cross but then not the people who were chasing them. Very vague, sorry. Ring a bell with anyone? Thanks!

Hi! I'm trying to remember the title of a book I read years and years ago in the 80s-supposedly a true story-it was about a minister and his wife and children who buy a surprisingly inexpensive, old Southern plantation manor-type house and find out (naturally) that it is haunted. Back in the antebellum period, a young girl, the daughter of the house, was murdered by a male slave-can't remember if he committed suicide or was lynched-and her mother ended up hanging herself upstairs. The slave and the mother are the ghosts in the house-the mother ghost puts fresh flowers in rooms and the footsteps of the slave are heard in various areas. There is a character called Enoch, who is an ex-slave-he is extremely old,close to being a centenarian, as I believe this was supposed to be happening in the fifties or sixties-and he tells the house's story to the new owners. Enoch is murdered later on in the story, and it is implied that either the ghosts or someone who didn't want the truth to get out did it. I remember the book being a paperback with a pic of a house on the cover....wish I could remember the title or author. I have no idea when it was published-possibly in the seventies or eighties. If anyone here can help, I would be grateful!

I am looking for two books, and hope someone can help.

The first book, around 1976 - 1977, was about a girl walking along a sidewalk (I believe?) that trips or falls, somehow, and she when she falls, she fall onto dirt, amid ferns. She is in a jungle,and there is a dinosaur- that's all I know because it was a book that belonged to my mother's friend's son, and I only read the first chapter or so, while my mother visited a few minutes.

The second book I read in 1976, and was about boy, his friend, and the boy's uncle who was a scientist. They find a deserted, domed city under the ocean, and explore it, and find, in some sort of hibernation capsule, an aquatic being, who they revived, or who was already revived and who became friendly with them - I think. I just really remember the domed city and the idea of how a great civilization had died away.

I am looking for a book I read in the mid to late sixties. Thinking back, I thought it might be a pulp fiction type of novel but my cousin checked it out of her school library. It's about girls growing up in New York City. One characters name is Juanita. She is overweight and eventually becomes addicted to heroin. Another characters name is Carla. The only thing I remember about her is she has a scar on her face. The cover of the book shows a blonde girl with a scar on her face standing in a doorway.

Looking for a book I read in the early 80". It's about a young boy thay travels back in time through a trap door in a barn. I believe he travels back in time somewhere near colonial American time. He meets a young girl and for some reason he brings items, including a dirt bike through the trap door. People see him riding his dirt bike with a helmet on and they think he's the devil. Can anyone help with this?

Looking for the name of a book:
A young prince accidentally drinks a potion that is okay for adults, but it turns half of him invisible. He has 4 guardians. He goes on a quest, and every time something really important happens, one of his guardians dies, and part of his body becomes visible again. In the end, he is whole, and all of his guardians are dead.

Judy - Your book is "Love Play" by Rosemary Rogers:

Delight Adams and Sara Colville are half sisters. They look enough alike to be twins, but they are opposites in almost every way. Sara, at 21, is studious, aristocratic and still a virgin. Delight, at 19, has been everywhere and done everything--including starring in two X-rated movies...Delight is engaged to Carlo, a wealthy young Italian. But Carlo’s older brother, Marco, does not think Delight is a suitable wife for Carlo and he will do anyting to stop the marriage. Delight wants to run off and marry Carlo. And, to gain time, she wants Sara to pretend she is Delight...

I am searching for a book I read in the late 90's.

Set in the future...
The book is about a small group of humans who are still on earth but some kind of robots have taken over. Most if not all of them have some sort of "Mutant" power, the main character a teenage-ish boy is called "Gold eye" or Golden eye because of the color of his eyes, this allows him to read the robots minds or something...
The book follows this boy, and he finds more humans who together fight against the robots, and save the humans.

Any help would be great!!!

Hi, I've been looking for this book for a few years now. It's a science fiction novel. there are a few planets with different races on each planet. one of the planets decides it doesn't want to cooperate with the other planets and decides to start a war. unfortunately, all i remember is that there is a guy who is somehow politically connected to the group of ppl on the war council (his father or something) and he also needs to protect his sister, maybe? anyway the storyline surrounds this guy. also, i think he may be royal/high order. thank you!

I am looking for a book that I read in 1983 and it was called "the step child" but I don not know the author. It is about this girl who gets a boyfriend and all these weird things start happening to her and she always has deja vu when she is with him. She is invited to meet his family and she knows the house and his room. She goes to his closet and finds her chldhood stuffed toy on the shelf and it turns ot he is her bother-they had gotten separated in a train/auto wreck when they were children and she was mistakenly placed with the wrong family. She goes out and stands in front of the train and gets killed and her boyfriend/brother has no clue why and the conductor can't understand why she had such a beautiful smile on her face as the train it her....thanks

For Jayne Heath, the book you are looking for is called "Envy" by Sandra Brown

It's about a girl who wears a red riding hood costume & has a wolf one for her boyfriend. When she was leaving she called her boyfriend to see if he was ready to go to the party but he said he was taking some other girl & then broke up with her. When she was about to leave there was a wolf in her car so she took off running which lead the wolf to follow her to a cabin house. Then he shifts back to human to tell her she was his mate.

Ok I just posted my comment earlier today about the book I was searching for. Luckily, I found it! It is: This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger~

As a child in the 80s, I bought a chapter paperback book at our school book fair about a girl living in the future. She and her family where moving to the moon to start a new colony or something like that. She is on earth at the beginning of the story and it describes her city kind of like a huge indoor town. iT's like everyone lives in these huge apartment building that have malls, parks and all kinds of places. The clothing they wear is mood clothing I think and changes accordingly. They board a spaceship and they land on the moon. THey live there. I don't remember how it ends but I know she has a crush on some boy. I don't know if he's back on earth or not. Oh yea... and she watches tv off her watch. That's all I remember. It was a light fun read.

I'm looking for a book I read in the early-to mid-90's. Pretty much the only plot points I can remember are that the main character is a teenage boy who survives a car crash and has had some sort of machine/microchip implanted in his brain. The cover was black, the title is 2-3 words and was an orangish-red color. If anyone has any clue what book this could be, please help...it's driving me crazy :) Thanks

I'm looking for a book I read in the early-to mid-90's. Pretty much the only plot points I can remember are that the main character is a teenage boy who survives a car crash and has had some sort of machine/microchip implanted in his brain. The cover was black, the title is 2-3 words and was an orangish-red color. If anyone has any clue what book this could be, please help...it's driving me crazy :) Thanks

I am not sure how this works but read a post from Alana about a book she is looking for I know the Author and name of book however with this site you cannot reply to post the question was :
Alanya 2/5/2010 7:12:56 PM
Ok this is going to be super vague as I read this book over ten years ago, but I've been trying to find it again for ages.
Here is a brief synopsis of the book that I can recall... dun dun duuun...
Our Heroine lives in a convent I believe because her family was killed as a child. She has wonderful red hair and is slightly magical. Little does she know that she has an evil twin sister out there who had tried to drown her in the bathtub when they were bathing together as small children. Her mother had put her in the convent to protect her from her sister, as she had a great destiny ahead of her.
A great Destiny that included being the Mate of some sort with our Hero who I believe was a prince, but most importantly was a Magical Shapeshifter who turned into a wolf!
No One know that there are twins because she was hidden away and when she is revealed her sister of course tries to off her.
I think this book was written in the early 90's or late 80's. This seems impossible. I really loved this story and I have never been able to find it again. If you could help me at all it would be amazing.
Thank you for reading my awesome summary of good times.
This was a Historical Romance Novel.
The book she is wanting is Beneath a midnight moon by Madeline Baker

I am looking for a series of books that I read in middle school... It had to deal with a girl and her grandma... I think we bought them at a christian bookstore, but I can't remember the titles... It's absolutely driving me CRAZY!!! I know this isn't much to go on, but if anyone can figure this out for me I'd really appreciate it!

Help! I'm looking for a book about ancient Tyre and possibly ancient Greece. I read this book when I was a kid and it had something to do with the dye they used in Tyre to make purple cloth and it came from mussels or clams or some sort of shellfish. It is historical fiction and a love story as well. I can't remember the author or the title. All the action seems to have taken place in Tyre, Greece and the Mediterranean Ocean. Any ideas about this? Or is there some way to search for old (by today's standards) on the internet. Books that were printed probably between 1940 and 1960?

Help! I'm looking for a book about ancient Tyre and possibly ancient Greece. I read this book when I was a kid and it had something to do with the dye they used in Tyre to make purple cloth and it came from mussels or clams or some sort of shellfish. It is historical fiction and a love story as well. I can't remember the author or the title. All the action seems to have taken place in Tyre, Greece and the Mediterranean Ocean. Any ideas about this? Or is there some way to search for old (by today's standards) on the internet. Books that were printed probably between 1940 and 1960?

I'm looking for a book I read as a child, but I don't remember the title or author. I think it's on an island, and the protagonist finds a huge whale on the seashore. He/she enters the whale, and inside it there is some kind of castle with warriors in armor. At some point the armor kills them by shrinking, or burning them, or with their sword. At the end of the book the protagonist is back on the island with the warriors pursuing him/her, but in the end they turn into ash. If anyone knows it I'll be so happy
thanks

Hi i am looking for a book i read i think was made in the sixties it is about a man on earth who suddenly starts getting powers after finding his wife is having an affair. He finds himself sent to a parrelel earth where he has a brother and whose world has been taken over by aliens who have stopped the planet from turning. The two brothers have to use their powers to fight the aliens and to start the planet back turning again. the aliens are disguised as humans if memory serves me correct.Any help would be great.thx

Ok this is going to be super vague as I read this book over ten years ago, but I've been trying to find it again for ages.

Here is a brief synopsis of the book that I can recall... dun dun duuun...

Our Heroine lives in a convent I believe because her family was killed as a child. She has wonderful red hair and is slightly magical. Little does she know that she has an evil twin sister out there who had tried to drown her in the bathtub when they were bathing together as small children. Her mother had put her in the convent to protect her from her sister, as she had a great destiny ahead of her.

A great Destiny that included being the Mate of some sort with our Hero who I believe was a prince, but most importantly was a Magical Shapeshifter who turned into a wolf!

No One know that there are twins because she was hidden away and when she is revealed her sister of course tries to off her.

I think this book was written in the early 90's or late 80's. This seems impossible. I really loved this story and I have never been able to find it again. If you could help me at all it would be amazing.

Thank you for reading my awesome summary of good times.

This was a Historical Romance Novel.

I'm trying to remember the title of a teen romance book I read in either the late 80s or early 90s. This is what I remember about the story: A teenage girl vacations with her family possibly in Spain, and she meets two different guys. One is kind of shy/moody but sincere, and the other is more popular but also a player. At one point in the book, the shy guy and the girl are on a hike somewhere and he leads her to a place where thousands of Monarch butterflies have gathered in the trees, and he shows her how to stand still so the butterflies will land on her too. If anybody else has read that book and remembers the title, I would really appreciate knowing what it is.

I am looking for a children's book and I don't know the titlle or the author. The main character is about a bug named Stu and it had something to do with music.

Mimi-
I think you are looking for:
AllReaders.com Precision Book Search.
I hope this helps you find your books!

Arlinda-
Sorry, the spelling of the first name is wrong.
The name is Marlys Millhiser.

Arlinda-
The book you are looking for is, "The Mirror" by Marylis Millhiser.
Hope this helps. You can find it at Amazon.

I am looking for a web site I used to locate books. The site required you to enter information on what you wanted to read. Example, you would enter whether the main character was a man or a woman. How many sub characters where were. What you wanted the plot to be and if you wanted sub plots are not. Also, you were required to enter whether you explicit scenes are not included in the plot. Once you entered the required fields, the web would give you a list of books that met the criteria.

I am looking for a book that i read a few years ago. Its a historical romance. The heroines name is Katrina, and she has an arranged marriage with a man (an American i think?) who owns a shipping company. She doesn't want the marriage, thinking its with an old guy, so she runs away. She somehow ends up being caught tho, and ends up on the ship with her betrothed. He is trying to find people who are stealing from him, so he pretends to just be the ships captain, and gives his middle name as his last name i think. Katrina doesn't know that he is her betrothed and she falls in love with him. They end up reaching the port, and the hero's cousin (?) says that he is her betrothed (she only knew his last name) and takes her to his house. His sister lives with him. If any one knows the title, i would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

I am looking for a book but I cant remember the name or author. Its about a girl that kills her family and is found by cops in her kitchen peeling and eating grapes. Can anyone help me? it has been driving me crazy for years now.

I'M SEARCHING FOR A BOOK i READ AS A CHILD IN THE LATE 60'S TO EARLY 70'S. THE ONLY THINGS I CAN REMEMBER ABOUT THE BOOK WAS THAT SAINT MICHOLAS NAME WAS IN THE TITLE, IT WAS SET IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND TOLD THE STORY ABOUT HOW SAINT NICHOLAS CAME TO BE. HE LIVED IN A SMALL VILLAGE WHERE THE STORY WAS SET. THE STORY READ OF A MAN NAMED NICHOLAS WHO CARVED BEAUTIFUL TOYS OUT OF WOOD AND BEGAN LEAVING THEM OUTSIDE THE DOORS OF CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS TIME. IT TOLD OF HOW HE STARTED DOING THIS AND DID IT UNTIL HIS DEATH AS AN OLDER MAN. I WANT TO READ THIS BOOK TO MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN BUT CAN'T REMEMBER THE TITLE. IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME PLEASE DO.

hi..i'm looking for a regency romance about a young lord who fell in love and marries a beautiful blonde lady who demeanor is aloof and words sarcastic. He tries to break her behavior by becoming a masked highway to seduce her. He kidnaps her and brings her to a cabin to begin the seduction. She panicked and a repressed memory of being raped in the woods by poachers/woodmen as a young girl is revealed. I can't remember the title or author..can you help? thanks!

I am looking for a book that I read in 1982. It was about a young woman who was about to be married. It may have been the late 1800's or early 1900's. One day this young woman was looking in a mirror. the type of mirror on a stand that gives a full length view. I am not sure if she was trying on her wedding dress or what, but somehow she gets zapped into this mirror.and ends upin a different time period.
seemingly she was still about to be married. Anyway time passed and somehow I think she gets zapped back to her time period only to learn that the man she married was her grandfather and tha she was her own grandmother. I know it souds strang but it was a beautiful book that I would love to read again. I do not remember the title or the author's name. help would be appreciated. Thanx

I'm looking for a book I read as a child in the 70's at my dentist office. It was about a little boy who was small and wanted to grow tall like his parents. He was much smaller than his friends and he discovered when he yelled at them with his arms in the air he would grow. He kept "roaring" at his friends until he was a giant and then all his friends played on him like he was a mountain. The illustrations are much like Peter Reynolds.Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thanks!

The book I'm looking for was written in the 1970's - I thought it had Friends or Lovers in the title. It was a couple of families and I could swear that there was some sort of grocery store dynasty and the family that owned the grocery store's name had Van in the last name. There was killing of a I think of a boy in one of the families reminiscent of the Manson killings. Also there was some sort of cabin in Big Sur that a lot of things happened at.

Any help would be very much appreciated since I didn't realize it was missing til now.

i am looking for a book i read about 4 years ago, cant remember author or title of book. fiction murder mystery book, story was that a guy steals the manuscript of his recently deceased flatmate and become famous by publishing his book under his own name.

I'm looking for the title of a book (maybe a mystery). The main characters were some kind of agents and when they smelled oranges they became invisible. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thanks!

Emily: The book you are looking for (about the little Chinese woman who made the dumplings and laughed Tee Hee) is called: THE FUNNY LITTLE WOMAN

To the person looking for the book about the large boy that rolled around, he was chased by THE PUMPKIN GIANT. I read it in 3rd grade and then read it to my students. :D

Hope that helps. :)

Amy

I'm looking for 3 books. 1st one had little girls living in a French orphanage...one was kidnapped by a woman calling herself Madam Cabot, the girl had a long braid and a little sister w/fluffy curly blonde hair.
The second: an orphan girl from another country moves in with a family and the girl next door tries to befriend her. The girl is frightened and hides a lot.
Third: a young girl is living with family (not parents) and I know she had Scarlet Fever and they had to cut off oher hair.

So never mind about mine, I just found them both: "The Angel of Death" by Alane Ferguson, and "Acceleration" by Graham McNamee, if anyone's interested.

Thomas & Katie: "i think they had a chip implanted in there brain for advertisements. They take a trip to the moon..." You might try "Feed" by M.T. Anderson. If the book you're looking for had oxygen factories because they'd cut down all the trees, this is it.

I'm looking for two young adult books. One had a picture of a dead, toe-tagged body on the cover. The title was written on the toe tag. It's about these mysterious murders..they keep finding people burned to death with no evidence of fire. Turns out they were being microwaved to death, by some kind of microwave-y laser gun? Mhm.

The other one's about a boy who worked on a train or at a train station. He was going through the lost and found, and ran across a notebook that turned out to be a serial killer's hit list. He tried to warn the next victim, but she thought HE was threatening her. The real killer was a psychopathic middle-aged man living in his parents' basement.

I'm looking for a book I read in the late 1990's about an adult brother and sister who share a house. The brother is agoraphobic and never leaves. The sister goes away on business and hires a housesitter to stay in her place. The housesitter and brother strike up a friendship and the brother discovers his problems likely stem from his father's service as a Nazi concentration camp officer. Can anyone help?

A few years back I came across a book , I believe it was in the teen section, the cover was just like a composition note book.. I can't remember the name or what it was about. I just remember the cover.. its been driving me insane all these years

I read a book in 1979 or 1980 about a boy (aged about 12 or 13) who spends a summer at camp. One day on a group hike up a mountain, a thunderstorm strikes and the negligent counselors lose track of the kids. The protagonist panics and runs down the mountain in the wrong direction and gets lost and survives on his own for at least a few days before being found. While lost he tries fishing using a paperclip as a hook, but it gets stuck at the bottom and while trying to retrieve it he hits his head on a rock overhang as he surfaces and almost drowns. Thanks.

I'm looking for a series of books I read in the late 1970's from the public library. The main character was a girl of 10 to 12 years who's family had emigrated to New York around the turn of the century. It had elaborate descriptions of the shops, streets and ethnic neighborhoods while describing the girl's attempts to fit in as an American and the family's attempt to live the American Dream. I think there were 3 or 4 books in the series. It was written for youth.

If anyone knows what these books might be, I'd love to re-read them now that I'm in my 40's!

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions!

Werewolf book: I read in the early 90's I believe. About a werewolf, Frankenstein, and Dracula. The werewolf and Frankenstein are friends and go against Dracula. I believe part of the book (the finale) takes place on an island as I believe Frankenstein is doing something down by a dock. Alright then, any ideas. Thanks.

Sam, I think your book is "The Blue Sword" by Robin McKinley

I am trying to recall the name of a Newbery Medal book. I read it in the mid-1980's A boy could only see the fields and other things when he was on a ferris wheel. Please help. thank you.

I read a book about a woman who sells the family home after her husband dies/leaves, much to her adult childrens disproval. She goes to an artists commune in the desert and finds love.
I think the word 'wish' is in the title but could be wrong.
I have been searching for this book for about 10 years.
Thank you for any help

I am looking for a book about a character called Tim Dahler who sells his smile/laughter to a rich Barron. I appreciate if anyone can give me some information about this book.

I'm looking for a book my aunt read for a book report in elementary school; the main character is a little girl who goes on an adventure across the ocean floor. At some point she encounters a creature or monster of some sort named "Saa"- any help?

I am looking for 2 science fiction books.

The first one all I remember is the first line. "His name is mass." Thats it. My father had me read it when I was young, but I cannot remember anything else.

The second book is about future earth. Technology has gone all biological. People splice genes to give them different properties of animals and plants. Animals and bugs are used as actual vehicles. Computers and specially created plants and vines. Old hardware technology is outcast from main society and is making a rebellion. I can't remember anything else about it.

If anyone can help me identify either of these books, I would be so grateful. Thanks

hi everyone. I'm looking for a book I read as a child. It was a chapter book for children 10-12yo. It is set in the Australian outback. the main characters are a boy and a girl who discover a uranium deposit while out exploring the bush. They get mixed up with criminals or bad people who are looking for the same thing. Help me please. I read this book in 1970 so would have been published in the 50s or 60s...

I'm looking for a book called(I think?) "The Killing Fields" ... it was about a family in South Africa mining diamonds... it was super long and went on forever... I have done a search on the internet and it comes up with many books with similar titles but not the one im looking for... anyone know it?

I'm looking for a (teen romance?) book I read over ten years ago. I only remember one scene: the female protagonist fought the prince on horseback as part of a duel where you had to cut the scarves off the other person without drawing blood. She wins, though only because the prince hides the small drop of blood from where she pricked him.

I am looking for a book of short stories I read a year or so ago. One of the stories is about a boy who has keys for fingers, one is about a family of people with pumpkins (?) for heads, and one is about a human kept as a caged pet. The author is female, and her first name starts with an A.

Hey I am looking for a book that I read like 5 years ago. It is a Romance book and I don't remember the title or the author or the characters for that matter. There was a man; and a women who was an excellent cook. I don't remember how they meant but they meant his father/grandfather in the past. and She saved the town through her cooking. or something like that. She had a big feast and had the whole town bringing her ingredients. also there was a part in the book when the man said he was an eunuch, which was a lie. I really would like to find this book! its kind of hazy in my mind.

Hey guys i am looking for a book from grade school that took me away during a turbulent time in my life..The story was about a group of boys tat were being held captive in an old keep in medival times,where the guys used them as servants. The men had things to make them invisible and other magic tools made to keep the boys in line..If anyone finds this book or anything like it p,ease email @ javonnesmoot@gmail.com

The book I'm looking for is an old children Halloween book and it was the first book I read.. I remember one of the lines from the book saying "I pull my sheet up off my bed" and "I cut two holes so I can see" refering to the sheet he took off his bed to make his Halloween costume, and I remember it was in rhyme form too. I also remember there being something about a pumpkin patch and a black cat in it but that's all!! If you have any idea please let me know.

I remember reading a book as a child (sometime in the early 80s) that involved an animal or animals traveling around the western US and encountering others along the way. Pretty sure it was written well b/f the 80s. In the book, there are lots of interrelated stories, but the one I remember was a story of a squirrel (and maybe others) painting the painted desert of Arizona. In it, a squirrel spills white paint on its tail, which explains why Kaibab and Abert's squirrels have white tails. Anyone remember this book? I'm pretty sure many/most of the stories were of the folk tale style. Thanks

Kristin -

I think your book is Heckedy Pegn by Audrey Wood

For John - 9/26/2009 - I believe the book you seek is Tom' Clancy's "Without Remorse."

Standard disclaimer - I can't remember title, author or main characters' names. The story was set in England, starting pre-WWII, and the man is an illustrator (I think) who marries a young lady and they move into a small cottage with the main bedroom on the floor above the main ground level floor. He paints a mural on the bedroom wall for his pregnant wife and proceeds to go off to war and be killed. His artistic daughter returns to the cottage, not realizing that it is the cottage she was born in, when she is a mature woman. I seem to recall a bit of romance in the story, but that is all I remember. Both my wife and I read this, and we really would like to find it again, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all. Ok i am looking for a book i remember fron like 86 ish. it was read to me in elementary school. its a fairy tale about a witch who take a womans like 10 children and turns them all into there favorite food. the mother comes to get them and the witch tells her she can only come in if she cuts off her legs. so the mother gets on her knees and hides her legs so the witch thinks she does so. the witch then tells the woman she can only have her children back if she guesses wich food is wich child. the mother of course guesses them all but i so badly want my kids to read this story and see the illustration. sound familiar to anyone?

I am looking for this book where the main characters are "Quentin Wainwright" and "Chara Wainwright". Quentin directs plays and Chara is a model. They marry in spite of the age difference between them (Quentin is older). Chara is made to believe by her mother that Quentin would leave her and so she moves away from him even though she loves him. he loves her too and comes back into her life to have her back in his life. i don't know the title or the author. Other characters are "Ford Talbot", "Bea", "Grinell". I also remember they sort out all differences at the end.

Please help me find the title of this book...

I'm looking for a book I read once, I think it was a romance. I don't remember the characters names or the authors but I know the whole story. It opens with the female lead giving birth in the woods to a stillborn baby, she passes out and is found by a family who is traveling with a group of familes on a wagon leading west I believe. In the wagon group a man's wife (Victoria) dies in labor and his son survives (begins with an L I think). The female winds up being a wet nurse to the infant and the husband fights his attraction to her but circumstances force them to marry and eventually they fall in love. During all this the females step brother who raped and impregnanted her is looking for her and the husband was a former outlaw turned good and people/the law are looking for him.

im looking for two books, one i read fairly recently.
Its based on two characters, male and female. its a comedy/suspense, shes a librarian, hes a baker, some guys kidnap her, he saves her, his grandmother tells his of 4 horrbile dates in his life, umm i think the ending is at a circus..

the other was years ago, all i can remember is it had something to do with a maze and these two kids fell through it, into the desert i think, of a alternate universe perhaps. dont havemuch more on that one, i think it was a boy and girl though

I read a fantasy novel about 10 years ago which featured two female protagonists, a warrior and a sorceress. They were trying to keep a politically ambitious female general named "Smyna" from starting a fake religious war. Magic was tough to learn or practice because the emperor(ess) was an avatar of the sun goddess and would stop it if the use came to his/her attention.

That's all I have. Front cover showed a redhead with a sword with her hand on the shoulder of a dark haired woman.

Jane,

I think the series you're thinking of is The Deathgate Cycle by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman. It's actually seven books, though: the first four take place in worlds of air, water, earth, and fire, and the last three involve interaction between characters from each of the worlds. Hope this helps -

I'm looking for the title of a book I read when I was in elementary school in the late '70's/early '80's. It was about twin girls (I think one was named Rose) and one of the girls dies. The only other thing I remember about it was descriptions of one of the girl's very pale skin (I think she was described as being so pale you could see her veins?). Not a lot to go on... sound familiar to anyone?

I am looking for this book where the main characters are "Quentin Wainwright" and "Chara Wainwright". Quentin directs plays and Chara is a model. They marry in spite of the age difference between them (Quentin is older). Chara is made to believe by her mother that Quentin would leave her and so she moves away from him even though she loves him. he loves her too and comes back into her life to have her back in his life. i don't know the title or the author. Other characters are "Ford Talbot", "Bea", "Grinell". I also remember they sort out all differences at the end.

Please help me find the title of this book...

I'm looking for a book where two tigers, that are brothers, get separated when they are very young and one of them is to be a present for the daughter of the russian king or president and the other became a figter in an animal arena. The daughter fell in love with a boy who at the end of the book fights the tiger in the arena, and I can't remember the rest of it though.

The book I'm trying to recall is fiction, published in the last ten years, contemporary setting. It is the story of two sisters, about 6 and 8 years old, being reared by their father (their mother died). A female friend of the (deceased) mother and father is a professional photographer of some fame. She takes nude, "artistic" photos of the girls which are shown in photo exhibits. As the girls get older, they begin to be increasingly uncomfortable with the photos--particularly as they are exhibited. The title may have the word "light" in it. The author was female.

The book i'm looking for is an erotic ebook... might be with ellora's cave but it is about a werewolf and his Secretary/assistant who end up quarantine in a hotel room on the night of the full moon. so the alpha of the pack orders the assistant to have sex with her boss so he wont go berserk... only she's in love with him n they were on their way to meet the wolfs fiance.. Please help!!

the book jojo is looking for is Man of My dreams By Johanna Lindsey one of my faves!!

The book I am looking for is about a retired US special forces operative who now lives on a small island. He ends up caring for a young female, who has escaped from drug dealers, with the help of a couple of doctors whose boat has broken down and is being repaired by the "hero". The young female then gets kidnapped and killed by the "druggies" after ambushing the Hero and leaving him for dead. The hero, once recovered, hunts down the druggies.

Looking for a book I read in the 90's but don't know how old the book was. It was about "5 women" but in the end it turns out to be the same woman. Starts out in college(maybe in England), then a woman, married, who's house burns, then a woman in prison in S. Africa...finally on an island somewhere, coming to terms with her life. I remember reading it quickly, thinking there was more to glean from it. eg, (something like), "We really never see ourselves but in unexpected mirrors"

The book toni L is looking for is Story of O by Pauline Reage.

I'm looking for the name of a book that I read in the 1980s. It is about 3 generations of women and a house. The house was built for the grandmother by her father. She chose it as her home even after her marriage. She watched the Brooklyn bridge being built through its windows. The house stayed in the family and as the years passed so did the surroundings. I remember the grandmother being fearless, she was unhappily married. I can't remember the story that went along with her daughter but the book ended,naturally, with the granddaughter. It was a paperback and the cover, as I recall, had the faces of the women down the left side. Would really like to find this book. Thank you.

Hello. I've been looking for this book i read about 2 years age. its about the duke that went into hiding or something like that. well this girls father let him stay there but they could not tell his daughter who the duke was. the father acted like had bought the dukes horse and the duke was the handler that came with the horse. well not long after he arived the daughter started to flirt with him and one night in the stables one thing lead to another and she became pragnet and they had to get married. but that is all i can remember of the book and it is driving me crazy. please help me if you can.
thank you!!

I am looking for a little paperback book that has America in the title? It tells how adults come into the classroom and indoctrinate the school children and by the end of the hour lecture they are tearing up the American flag.
Please let me know if you know that title of this book. I want to assure my friends this is NOT what Pres. Obama is aiming for.

I'm trying to find a book I read in the late 1980's. It was a romance novel. A race of aliens where in a war with another race. Virus was released that made the women sterile. In order for their race to survive, the aliens kidnapped women from other planets to have their children. The captain of the ship kidnapped this woman from earth. I believe she was a doctor, she was 26, and her name may of been Jane. The captain ends up falling in love with this woman. I can't remember anything else about the book but I really liked it and would like to read it again. If anybody has any idea what this book may be I would be really grateful. Thanks!

I am trying to find a book based around a guy called hirsh dickstien and his quest for uranium for israels 1st nuclear bomb
Can anyone help

I am looking for a book it was about a lady and her name is O or Oh and she is a sexual slave for a society of men that used women it was a really interesting but wierd book

I, too, am looking for a book that I read in high school in the early 70's. It was fiction about a college football player in a (small?) school who was going through the usual angst of growing up. at one time he locks himself in his dorm room refusing to come out. The one vivid memory is a pick-up game the kids play in a common area during a snowfall. They reduce the game to only running between the tackle positions. I can't for the life of me remember the name.

i am looking for a book that i read in the late 1990's the book was about a divorced lady and her daughter moving to a southern town the little girl has problems being around other people. she starts taking riding lessons her mother is introduced to a guy that has a gift with animals. he lives in the back woods of the town with lots of animals. He helps the little girl. someone is dumping toxic waste on his land and his animlas are drinking the water and dying. the water glows at night. throughout the book she is introduced to the towns people mostly rich.Her best friend lives there. I know this is not a lot of info. if someone could help me out i would appreciate it.

I read a book in the late 1990's .Can someone help me with the name. It's about a woman that moves to i want to say either atlanta or charleston she is divorced with a little girl. the guy that she meets lives in the backs woods of the town. he has a gift with animals. some one is dumping toxic waste on the land that he lives on and it is killing the animals. the woman and her daughter become involved with him. her daughter is very shy.he helps her to over come this problem by teaching her about the animals. He takes them hunting with him and they see him talking to the dead animal that he shoots. I may not a all my facts straight but can someone help me out

I am looking for a book that I read 3 years ago. It is a fantasy book about people who can channel magic through various 3-D shapes, in various colors depending on their magic strength. I don't remember the heroine's name, but the king in the book is blind and can channel magic through a sphere. There are at least two books. I've been going crazy trying to find out the name of the books and the author.

I am looking for a book that I read 3 years ago. It is a fantasy book about people who can channel magic through various 3-D shapes, in various colors depending on their magic strength. I don't remember the heroine's name, but the king in the book is blind and can channel magic through a sphere. There are at least two books. I've been going crazy trying to find out the name of the books and the author.

I am looking for a book that I read 3 years ago. It is a fantasy book about people who can channel magic through various 3-D shapes, in various colors depending on their magic strength. I don't remember the heroine's name, but the king in the book is blind and can channel magic through a sphere. There are at least two books. I've been going crazy trying to find out the name of the books and the author.

I am looking a book about a prize horse named Flag and the trainer who trainer who was able to break him.

I am looking for a book that is about a crippled man in a wheel chair and every night through his dreams he goes to a world where everyone is perfect. It goes on about the struggles of him deciding to live in the real world or stay asleep for ever in the dream world. I don't know the title or the author, so if anyone has any information or leads to this book I'd really appreciate it!

I am looking for a book that is about a crippled man in a wheel chair and every night through his dreams he goes to a world where everyone is perfect. It goes on about the struggles of him deciding to live in the real world or stay asleep for ever in the dream world. I don't know the title or the author, so if anyone has any information or leads to this book I'd really appreciate it!

The book I am looking for is about a two sisters, one is named Delight, who is a secondary character. She is going to marry the younger brother of a Sardinian count. The older brother doesn't want his brother to marry her. Delight's sister goes to Sardinia in her sister's place and eventually falls in love with the older brother.

This was a trashy beach read that takes place in the 1980's I think, however it was present day in the book.

The story centers around her somewhat goody-two-shoes sister who impersonates her sister by going to Sardinia.

Hi,
I am looking for a book. The story was about a man who came back from the war. He was missing one eye and had a patch. He falls in love and marries this woman, I think was the widow od one of his war buddies, but she is still in love with her dead husband. Finally she falls in love with him too.Can anyone help me find the title and author? Thanks

Hi everyone i am looking for a historical romance book. I dont know the name or author but what i remember about it is that it was about a girl who had to marry this guy i think because he was rich but they hated each other. They both leaded different lives in the night. She would become this masked hero, while he would be a hero as well i think, and they met up as strangers not knowing who the other was.The ended up meeting each other at different times in the night to make love and then she would go back to her husband not knowing that he is one and the same person that she was with. She only realised after that her husband had similar movements like her masked lover and found out later that he was the same. Please i need to find this book if anyone has any ideas.

I don't have the proper information for the book. It's about a little girl who got kidnapped from her front yard while playing with her friends. She was sold to some men. While out at a store with the men another man spoke to the little girl. The man who held her captive called her by a name and told her to come on, as he walked off the little girl told the stranger that her real name was ????? This made him follow them. The stranger ended up fighting with her captor and taking her. She told him where she lived and he attempts to taker her home. The men who kidnapped her came looking for them. (That is all that I remember about the book. Please help!!!!)

Thank you, Alicia L.

I am looking for a book, fiction. Its a biohazard situation, a male doctor is on honeymoon or vacation with his new wife. The island they are on has some sort of outbreak of disease, it is killing all the women. Them women are bleeding to death from every orfice within a few hours. His wife tries to help, becomes infected and dies. Later he learns the virus was enginered and planned by a brilliant female doctor/ scientist he used to be in love with. She has put it into little make your own perfume vials, one red and one blue, when you mix them they turn purple and activate the virus. The female has a daughter who works in politics as a public relations and campaigner. Cant remember the name now, or author, and didnt get to finish it so I dont know how it ends. Thanks for any help.

im trying to find the name of a book and author by the story if you know it pls let me know
the story is a romance novel is about a ballerina she falls in love with a duke they have a baby but her manager gives the baby away the dukes finds out about the baby and goes to find it and brings it to her in the end they marry and he lets her continue with her dancing even though as a duchess she should give up public life I read this book in the 80's loved it would love to find it again.

thank you
sarah

Shannon

Im looking for the same book as you!

The only other things I vaguely remember is that the high school mascot was a panther and that the brother and sister had green eyes. I thought his name was Alex but I can't be sure.

Let me know if you find it! I've had no luck searching online.

Shannon - I've been searching for that book as well. I remember something about the high school mascot being a panther. And the brother and sister had green eyes. Please let me know if you find it. I've had no luck searching thus far.

Shannon - I've been searching for that book as well. I remember something about the high school mascot being a panther. And the brother and sister had green eyes. Please let me know if you find it. I've had no luck searching thus far.

Well, I remembered that it was written by Walter Jon Williams and was able to figure out that the book is called Praxis. So... thanks anyway. lol.. Hey, if you want to read a great book, read Walter Jon Williams' Days of Atonement. It's a mystery/suspense/police procedural/science fiction novel. And it's really one of the best books I've ever read.

A few years back I read the first chapter of a science fiction novel online and for the life of me I can't remember what it was. I thought it was by Dan Simmons but I think I'm wrong now. The first chapter was about a starship and it's crew coming to a planet where a huge celebration or Olympic type event is taking place. But it turns out that it was a coup and all of the ships, except one, are locked in and cannot blast off. The one ship does and.... I have no idea what happens after that. Lol. That was the first chapter. Does anybody have any idea what novel this was? I'd really appreciate it!

A few years back I read the first chapter of a science fiction novel online and for the life of me I can't remember what it was. I thought it was by Dan Simmons but I think I'm wrong now. The first chapter was about a starship and it's crew coming to a planet where a huge celebration or Olympic type event is taking place. But it turns out that it was a coup and all of the ships, except one, are locked in and cannot blast off. The one ship does and.... I have no idea what happens after that. Lol. That was the first chapter. Does anybody have any idea what novel this was? I'd really appreciate it!

I've been trying to remember this book for years. I read it in elementary school and it was my favorite book. It's about a kid who turns a tv remote into a time machine. He accidentally brings two kids in a spaceship (a boy and a girl wearing silver jumpsuits) from the future through a time portal he creates in his closet with the remote. He eventually travels with them to the future where he finds that kids rule everything, not adults. That's all I can remember. Does anyone know anything about this book?

Rho, The book you described sounds to me like "Guests" by Michael Dorris.

I can barely even recall, let alone find, the book that keeps coming back to haunt me. I read it in the 70s (in my 20s), but I found it in my public library, so it could have been written much earlier. Storywise, it was a lot like the Sidney Sheldon novels I bought in paperback some years later, a "cinderalla story" of sorts. The setting was contemporary, glitz, glamour, lust, betrayal, dark family secrets and international super-wealth. The heroine's name was Carlotta, and she ended by walking into the ocean (to die, as I recall). I loved it. MUCH better than the paperback stuff of this kind we have nowadays. Can anybody recall a book like this with a beautiful, tragic anti-heroine named Carlotta?

Thanks for the space for asking this!

Carly

I can barely even recall, let alone find, the book that keeps coming back to haunt me. I read it in the 70s (in my 20s), but I found it in my public library, so it could have been written much earlier. Storywise, it was a lot like the Sidney Sheldon novels I bought in paperback some years later, a "cinderalla story" of sorts. The setting was contemporary, glitz, glamour, lust, betrayal, dark family secrets and international super-wealth. The heroine's name was Carlotta, and she ended by walking into the ocean (to die, as I recall). I loved it. MUCH better than the paperback stuff of this kind we have nowadays. Can anybody recall a book like this with a beautiful, tragic anti-heroine named Carlotta?

Thanks for the space for asking this!

Carly

OK. So, I read this book about 4 years ago and IT'S KILLING me to find out what the name of the book was. It was about a guy who gets a scholarship to a school. He gets there and meets twin sisters one whom he really likes and the other who really likes him. They end up getting him into trouble a lot. Then the book begins to explain about a pool cleaner (i think) he seems to be addicted to steroids or some sort of drug and eventually the two different stories come together in where the pool cleaner ends up killing one of the sisters in a tunnel or something.

PLEASE help me. It's driving me INSANE not remembering the name of this book.
THANKS!

I am Rozier Externat a fourth year's student in Agroforestry and Environment Science in American University of Les Cayes, South of Haiti. I would like to find a farm in order to make more practice.
Thanks before

I am looking for a book I read in 1999. It was paperback and had a Graveyard onthe front, I believe. It was about these twins who ran a mortuary and controlled demons. The sheriff (John Sutton, i think) and a professor, were trying to stop them. The evil twins were able to raise the dead. The cop blew up a gas station and the tanks. The town was Ravinia or something like that. ANY help at all would be great.

I'm looking for a book that I read 20 or 30 years ago.
it's about several (3 or 4 or 5) old women who are or become homeless. they find an abandoned house and move into it. they fix it up as best they can, they plant a garden so they can eat - one of them is a really good gardener. one is a really good cook. one of them may go out to work? they go to the dump for furniture and stuff. they meet a young man named Jesus who helps them. I think this takes place in California.
I really liked this book and would like to read it again. does anyone know what the title is or who the author is?
thanks.

I'm trying to find this book I read a while back but I can't remember the title or author
It's a historical romance about this girl who is pushed into a lake of sorts by her mother in hopes of getting the attention of a passing high born lord. Normally able to swim the girl is weighed down but her clothes and almost drowns but the passing lord is able to save her. Once he saves her he has to marry her because of the compromising situation. Once they get married their some intimacy issues that arise which was why the gent didn't want to marry in the first place anyway although there is plenty of chemistry between there is one BIG problem getting int the way.

hello. I am looking for a book that I read 3 or 4 years ago. all I remember is that the book was about a Chinese girl or something similar. I remember that the book cover was all red and had the girls head and part of her arm coming out from behind a door or something. I am not sure if it was a true story or fiction I have been trying to find this book forever so I can read it again. any help would be appreciated.

Looking for a book about a judge who is taking some time off because of something that happened in his court room. He is in the mountains and hears a child. The child can't talk. There is either someone chasing the judge or the child. It also takes place in San Francisco.
Thanks.

To Jayne, I think the book you are looking for is Perfect by Judith McNaught.

My memory may be a little to a lot fuzzy but does anybody recognize this book?

The main character in the book was a young girl in a rural area who I believe had fairly severe burn scars on a part of her body (arm?). I think the book focused on her coming to terms with her burns and a relationship she formed with an adult friend over the summer. A passage that stuck with me was one where it discussed what people did in the afterlife and I'm paraphrasing but it went something like "Those who die when they are young and strong push the water down the river. Those who die when children tickle the grass roots to make it grow. Those who died when older blow the clouds through the sky."

The book was likely either on a new arrivals or staff recommendations shelf in a college library in 98-99. While I could be completely off it seems like there was something in the title related to bees.

Many thanks!

Ryan

I read a book in the 60's about twin boys that were ghosts. I remember they wore striped shirts and I believe the cover was blue. I had gotten it from the library. I think they also hung out at the school. Can anyone help me?

I read a book a couple of years ago and i've always wanted to read the
rest of the series but i can't remember who it was by or what it is
called.

There is a prince(?) who is locked in a dungeon by his father, who is
helped to escape by a girl, her sister/cousin(who has magic) and her 3
aunts(?) who hate the girl and tell her to seduce the prince so that the
king can't kill them and make their clan extinct. (they lived in mountains
i think)
The girl pretends to be a boy for the first part of the book, and at some
point they meet a man who has children killed so he can make a glove type
thing for himself (because he has some kind of skin disease) and they also
go through a dark place i think like underneath a mountain and they travel
with a group of people at some stage, and the girl meets another man that
she likes and she climbs a tower/cliff with him and finds a man at the top
(its misty)

thats all i can remember. if anyone knows what it is please tell me!

I read a book a couple of years ago and i've always wanted to read the
rest of the series but i can't remember who it was by or what it is
called.

There is a prince(?) who is locked in a dungeon by his father, who is
helped to escape by a girl, her sister/cousin(who has magic) and her 3
aunts(?) who hate the girl and tell her to seduce the prince so that the
king can't kill them and make their clan extinct. (they lived in mountains
i think)
The girl pretends to be a boy for the first part of the book, and at some
point they meet a man who has children killed so he can make a glove type
thing for himself (because he has some kind of skin disease) and they also
go through a dark place i think like underneath a mountain and they travel
with a group of people at some stage, and the girl meets another man that
she likes and she climbs a tower/cliff with him and finds a man at the top
(its misty)

thats all i can remember. if anyone knows what it is please tell me!

I am looking for a children's book I used to own 10-15 years ago
The plot - A little girl named Blossom lives in an orphanage. Unhappy, she runs away and finds herself in a woods. She is helped by some fairy's and ultimately makes friends with a boy whose parents own the woods.
This is all I remember. I do not think it was written 10 to 15 years ago.....I think it was a bit older. Thanks so much for the help!

I am looking for a children's book I used to own 10-15 years ago
The plot - A little girl named Blossom lives in an orphanage. Unhappy, she runs away and finds herself in a woods. She is helped by some fairy's and ultimately makes friends with a boy whose parents own the woods.
This is all I remember. I do not think it was written 10 to 15 years ago.....I think it was a bit older. Thanks so much for the help!

I am looking for a children's book I used to own 10-15 years ago
The plot - A little girl named Blossom lives in an orphanage. Unhappy, she runs away and finds herself in a woods. She is helped by some fairy's and ultimately makes friends with a boy whose parents own the woods.
This is all I remember. I do not think it was written 10 to 15 years ago.....I think it was a bit older. Thanks so much for the help!

AMANDA - I found it on AMAZON! Thank you so much! :)

please please help me find this book. i have been looking for years
its a book with three stories in them. one is with a man called clay. he has found out that after a drunken night stand at new year he is now going to be a father.
the women who is pregnant has been thrown out of her house by her abusive father and is now going to live with clay. cant really remember what else happens but in the end they get married and fall in love.
sorry this isnt really much help but i loved the book years ago and i cant remember who its written by or what its called so if anyone can help i'd apreciate it .
lucy x

please please help me find this book. i have been looking for years
its a book with three stories in them. one is with a man called clay. he has found out that after a drunken night stand at new year he is now going to be a father.
the women who is pregnant has been thrown out of her house by her abusive father and is now going to live with clay. cant really remember what else happens but in the end they get married and fall in love.
sorry this isnt really much help but i loved the book years ago and i cant remember who its written by or what its called so if anyone can help i'd apreciate it .
lucy x

Does any one remember reading a children's book that is about these two little boys, one of them is asian and the other i believe has reddish brown hair. They have like show and tell at school and one of them brings a bonsai tree and the other brings a rhino beetle. One of the pages the boy rides an actual rhino on top of a school desk.
If anyone can help it'd be appreciated. I read it sometime around 96.

41 years ago my friend Nancy gave me a children's book (we were 19) about an ant named timothy who was not respected by the other members of the colony because he engage in typical ant labors, however when the winter came he became an honored member because he had stories to tell. I have found Frederick the Mouse but I am certain it was an ant. I am looking for the book and I am looking for Nancy. Help?

41 years ago my friend Nancy gave me a children's book (we were 19) about an ant named timothy who was not respected by the other members of the colony because he engage in typical ant labors, however when the winter came he became an honored member because he had stories to tell. I have found Frederick the Mouse but I am certain it was an ant. I am looking for the book and I am looking for Nancy. Help?

Rho

I've never read this book myself, but I think you might be looking for: The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare

sara

Please help me remeber the name of this book. I read it in the summer of 1984 for the school summer reading list. It was about a boy, Native American I believe, who dreams of a forest and a river with a beaver and some other animals. I think the animals are supposed to be spirit guides. I can't remember the ending. I have tried for years to find this book and no one has heard of it. Can anyone help?

AMYTIME - I also loved that book about the princes -- it was my dad's favorite and then he read it to me as a child.

I asked him the title as I couldn't remember it either --

THE JUST-ALIKE PRINCES.

Hope this helps!

hello. I am looking for a book that I read 3 or 4 years ago. all I remember is that the book was about a Chinese girl or something similar. I remember that the book cover was all red and had the girls head and part of her arm coming out from behind a door or something. I am not sure if it was a true story or fiction I have been trying to find this book forever so I can read it again. any help would be appreciated.

There's this book i read years and years ago that I haven't been able to find. I remember A Little about it, hopefully enough so someone else knows what I'm talking about. I remember it was a book about a younger girl, and I think she moves to a new place with her dad. But One chapter is told from her point, then the next chapter switches to this boys point of view, then the next chapter switches back to hers, and so on. I also remember she falls in love with an older man, like a man her fathers age. I think his name was buck? And she tries to seduce him? But I remember she falls in love with the boy that is also telling the story, I think.
If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I would love you forever.

The children's picture book I'm searching for had twin Prince brothers - one in red, on in blue, who fought over all their toys. The room had to be divided, and "Bridgette, the chambermaid" would gather all the broken pieces and carry them out in a basket. The Princes had long names, like Prince Edgar Albert John and Prince Edward Andrew Thom. Thanks so much!

The children's picture book I'm searching for had twin Prince brothers - one in red, on in blue, who fought over all their toys. The room had to be divided, and "Bridgette, the chambermaid" would gather all the broken pieces and carry them out in a basket. The Princes had long names, like Prince Edgar Albert John and Prince Edward Andrew Thom. Thanks so much!

Theres This book i read over 3 years ago i never got to finish it because i was going into 6th grade i dont rember the tittle but the plot was about this boy when he went to sleep his sister was kidnapped in his dreams he went to go save her on the way he met up with this girl who was a worrier (guess you could say) who saved him from the people that they were in war with but that was her job to help people like him but he wanted to save his little sister they couldent leave unless they had a master of some sort (i guess you could say) witch he did and made the girl his appretice he was the same man that was her older brothers master and i rember on there journy there the boy met the leader and gave her some kind of plant leaf she sighned the papers then burned the plant along with papers to get rid of the smell thats all i rember please if you no about that book help PLEASE!

can you help me find a book i can't remember the title of?

I'm looking for a book that involves either a boy a girl that travels through a mirror to a fantasy land where the trees get cut down to build glass buildings and only wood can kill the ghosts, one guy has a stick to fight the ghosts with, there is a valley with monsters in it and at one point a library where the librarian gives the child 3 questions I think, and in order to escape, the child piles up loads of books and climbs out of the ceiling.
This book was read to me when I was very young at school, and has stuck with me ever since.
I'd say its publication is pre 1986.
any help appreciated.

Looking for a children's book about two boys who go searching for a missing dog. They travel all around town looking for him, stopping at places like a Chinese laundry (I think). There might be a 'bad guy' dogcatcher involved, too. At the end, they find him and bring him back home where one of the boys' father says they can have a treat "from the icebox." They go to the icebox and find the dog already sitting in front of it. Because they use the word 'icebox' instead of 'freezer,' this book is probably older, maybe from 50's or 60's.

Years ago I had a book that dealt with anti-semitism in the USA, the
German-American Bund, Henry Ford's part, Gerald L K Smith and Father
Couglin, among other related subjects during the 1930's and early 1940's
leading to WW II.

The book was unique in that different type faces were used thoughout its
200 + pages and newspaper headlines and photos were reproduced in
different sections of the book consistent with the subject matter. The
cover was illustrated. I loved that book and often referred to it. I cannot
remember the title, and I have no idea what happened to it. Somehow I must
have lost it and want to try to find it again.

Hope someone has a clue or suggestion.

Thank you,

Howard

im looking for a romance/western book. it's about this woman who has to marry this man out west, but he abuses her. he was killed and she was blamed. she was rescued by these outlaws but ended up lost out in the woods somewhere. some indians took her in (she was with child, she gave birth there). she eventually married a native and he was good to her; she had another child. later he got killed in battle, and the natives were forced to a reservation. a man took care of her and she married him and they moved. the end

looking for a book i read 8-10 years ago in high school.
it's a young adult book about a boy who lives with his Aunt who is a witch with a cat for a familiar boys familiar is a skunk at the end of the book he saves the day because he had no fear

I am looking for a book I read as a child. It was a book you had to find the(I believe)the yellow or maybe it was red bug. Does anyone remember this one from the 80's

Can anyone please help me find a book I read many years ago .. I believe the name of it was "The Stranger Within " it is about reincarnation ... a soul comes back as a baby not yet born , but while in the womb recalls his past life .. please help .. thank you

Are there any sci-fi fans who can help me out? Some years ago I heard a radio theater piece about a man writing his dissertation on time travel. While he was writing (and drinking, I believe), another man crashed through the wall and started raving at him. It turned out that the man who arrived was the dissertation author from the future. As I recall, he dragged the author through a portal, where there was yet another incarnation of the same man. Does anyone recognize this story? I remember the introduction saying it was Heinlein (sp?) but I've never found the story.
Thanks if you can help.

Can you help.....I've been looking for a book for about 20 years...I used to get it from my local library when i was a child...I'd take it out week after week. It was a childs book...I think it was called "THE CAT WHO COULD NOT GET DOWN" about a cat who clibs to the top of a house and gets stuck....silly I know but means a lot to me. lots of memories of my mum teaching me to read. any help would be appreciated

I am looking for a book I read when I was a young teen. I think the cover may have a panther with yellow eyes on the front and its like a 3 or 4 books series. A girl moves to a town and she goes to school and there is a brother and sister with dark hair at taht highschool and the guy takes interest in her, and it turns out him and his sister belong to a group of students that can shapeshift into black panthers. Thats all I can really remember. Anyone recognize this?

Shannon

Katrina, I think I remember that book too! Was the statue made of something like crystal, but harder? And I think the figure was human like but had scales. I can almost picture the cover! Now you have me started; I just managed to get a copy of a book from 5th grade that I'd been searching for (first the title, then the book) so maybe I'll have the same luck here - only a bit faster!
-Mary

Katrina, I think I remember that book too! Was the statue made of something like crystal, but harder? And I think the figure was human like but had scales. I can almost picture the cover! Now you have me started; I just managed to get a copy of a book from 5th grade that I'd been searching for (first the title, then the book) so maybe I'll have the same luck here - only a bit faster!
-Mary

I'm looking for a book but I don't remember the title or author. It's a 2 in 1 book. It takes place in the south it's about a woman reporter that is almost killed in her house and a cop, Nick who saves her from the killers, they fall in love. The second story is about the reporters brother who is living alone and happy about it but then his ex-wife who is running from killers ends up staying with him and that's when he finds out that they have a son together, they end up falling back in love and end up together. Can anyone help me with the title or author of this book?

Rebekah,
That's it!! Thank you soo much! Now I can sleep at night;]
Becky

I'm looking for a book I read as a child in the early to mid sixties. All I remember is the main character was a very ill and lonely child who somehow got hold of a magic pencil. Everything she drew (or wrote...I really can't remember) came to life, or rather, became an alternate world in which she had adventures, etc. I'm thinking the main character's name started with an E (Eloise? Elanor? Elaine?) but I could be wrong about that. If anyone recognizes this book, I'd love to know what it's title.

i have been looking for this book for a while now with no luck, i dont have the title or author. it is like an autobiography about one of the first navy seals that served in vietnam, i believe he was from texas, he had a german shepard with him i beleive his name was kujo. other than that i dont remember much. please help thank you.

I am looking for either the title or author of a novel I read at least 10-15 years ago. The heroine hails from the days of Atlantis and is a "runner"; she relays messages to other communities. The story revolves around the end of days of Atlantis and the knowledge that the heroine has about its ultimate demise which is rejected for the most part by the city's citizens. I'd really appreciate any input! Thanks! Debbie

I am looking for either the title or author of a novel I read at least 10-15 years ago. The heroine hails from the days of Atlantis and is a "runner"; she relays messages to other communities. The story revolves around the end of days of Atlantis and the knowledge that the heroine has about its ultimate demise which is rejected for the most part by the city's citizens. I'd really appreciate any input! Thanks! Debbie

This is a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone would know the title or author of a fiction book from the 1980's or earlier about two modern day children who come in contact with other children from the early 1900's. These "children from the past" are in a ghost-like form. It was not a scary ghost book at all. It was one I remember from my childhood and I loved it. Thanks!

I am looking for a book about a man who rode an Andalusian stallion from Chile, through South America, through the Panama Canal, Latin America and ending in Washington DC. I believe the author was German. I read it in the 80's. I can't remember the title or the author. I belive it to be non-fiction, taking place in the early part of the 1900's.

I am trying to identify a book I read as a young lad around about 1960ish. I found it in my local library in Southend, England. I have no title or author. The story was about a young american boy who was a hobo, travelled on trains and got a job setting up pins in a bowling alley. I remember it as an absorbing story and would like to rediscover it.

Scott M.,

i think the book you are looking for is part of the Animorphs series. i dont remember who its by but the entire series is abouth a group of kids who acquire the ability to shapeshift and have to save the world.

i hope this helps.

i am looking for a book that i never finished reading when i was younger. i dont remember the title, the author, or the main characters name. it was about a young girl who finds aladdin's lamp after jasmine throws it out the castle window and uses it to gain riches and magical powers. unfortunately thats all i remember. does anyone know what book this is?

Becky,
There is a series by Iris Johansen you may be looking for Body of Lies

I am looking for a book that was written about 1884-1989 I think. Its a romance about a woman whos husband is a whaler and makes her a decorative piece out of the whale bone to wear with her corset, she wears it faithfully.
He dies while on the ocean whale hunting and she falls in love and marries. Years later her late husband returns from sea, not dead after all.
If you can help me with the title of this book I would be grateful

I'm looking for the same book that Connie was looking for. It was about a young girl whose mother put her in a frying pan and burnt her. Please send me the info if you know it.

Thank you

I am looking for a book I read in High School. It is about 3 teen girls in H>S. who are trying to fit in. One of them becomes anorexic and one of them breaks her leg on a sking trip. Anyone know this books title or author or both?

I read this book about 15 yrs ago I don't no the name or author of the book but the main charcter is Sebastian he is the son of a actress off broadway and the father might be a Doctor , Lawyer, Teacher, no to sure, Oh well the mother goes insane later in life and her son Sebastian goes insane as well later in life . He has a good friend in college who thinks he is in love with him. Sebastian does get married to a woman but soon goes insane. It would be wonderful if someone could help me find out the name of the book. Thanks!!

I am looking for a book that I read in elementary school. Most likely a young adult book. It was about a child that found a statue near the water, later the statue leads him to an underwater city. There are elevators that bring you down into the city. I can't remember the rest? I believe the statue comes alive. I would love to read this book again.

My book is about 2 rich sisters during the 1st world war. It starts with them going to a ball in a horse drawn carriage. THe younger sister is very vain. They may be polish??? Or Jewish.As the book goes on they fall on hard times. Towards the end of the book the older sister falls in love with a poor man who brings her a bunch of red roses. Any one remember this book?

Hi, I am looking for a book that I was reading 8 years ago, but it was stolen before I finished it. Don't know the author or the title, but here's what I remember...

A skeleton was found and police were trying to find out who this person was so they contacted a lady who specializes in recreating faces based on the skull.

That's it, not much to go on!!

I JUST FOUND IT!!! It's called Haunted Sister by Lael Littke!!!! whew... that took a lonngg time to find...

Rebecca-
Did you ever find the book you were looking for about the twins? I am looking for the same one.

I am trying to find a book that I read in either middle or high school about a couple of children who could change shape to anything they wanted, but had to
choose a permanent shape by a certain age. They are trying to save the world from monsters disguised as icebergs or something very similar to that. Towards the end of the book one of the characters turns himself into a phoenix and by doing so saves the day. Can anyone think of a book that resembles this at all? It's driving me crazy trying to remember it!!

I have been looking for the past 15 years for a paperback book I read in the late to middle 80's I'm sure it was writtin by a women and it was about a haunted house, Jacob Armand was once the owner of the house and was in love with a married women, and she felt the same when her husband found out he conspired with he's to young daughters to accuse her of witch crafted and they burned her as her ashes were still smoldering he broke off her burnt index finger and wrapped in it puple velvet and kept it in a box,
please help me find this book it was the scariest book I've ever read
thanks Bev

I found my book. The title is "Sophie's Last Stand" by Nancy Bartholomew. Now I can add this to my collection.

Chris, those sort of sound like the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary, Beezus was her friend, hope that helps

I remembered a little more: At first all the girls were mad at the boys and started a club. Then there was supposed to be a dance or something and all the girls wanted boys to ask them out so they started liking the boys again. The main character of the book then got mad and started acting really strange (wearing crazy clothes, putting gum in her own hair, she ate a tube of lipstick) so the boys would not like her.

This is going to be impossible to find. I'm looking for a book I read when I was in school, probably 25-30 years ago.

It's about a girl who has brown hair and freckles, probably 10 - 12 years old, tomboyish. She always gets into trouble because people pick on her and then she acts out. I remember something about a chewing gum incident - either she got it in someone elses hair or she tries to and ends up getting in her own. The she acts like its the new style. She finds and old, abandoned house and a picture of a beautiful woman inside it. She fantasizes about the womans life. She has a friend who is a boy. She is not Pippi Longstocking and I don't really know if this was the only book about her or not.

I will be amazed if anyone finds the name of this book based on this description, but I thought it was worth a shot.

This is going to be impossible to find. I'm looking for a book I read when I was in school, probably 25-30 years ago.

It's about a girl who has brown hair and freckles, probably 10 - 12 years old, tomboyish. She always gets into trouble because people pick on her and then she acts out. I remember something about a chewing gum incident - either she got it in someone elses hair or she tries to and ends up getting in her own. The she acts like its the new style. She finds and old, abandoned house and a picture of a beautiful woman inside it. She fantasizes about the womans life. She has a friend who is a boy. She is not Pippi Longstocking and I don't really know if this was the only book about her or not.

I will be amazed if anyone finds the name of this book based on this description, but I thought it was worth a shot.

Susan Spencer, after I posted that post I looked on Amazon and could not find it but did find it on the alibris.com site, copy paste below and you will see the exact book I have, don't know if it is the one you are looking for but if you can see the cover it would ring a bell maybe... good luck

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/56836/used/365%20bedtime%20stories

Sarah Spencer, as soon as I read that I remember a book I have from my childhood called 365 Bedtime Stories, there is a story for each day of the year, and your description made me think of it. I got out my old copy, (I'm 53!! and is is one of only 3 or 4 books I kept from my childhood) It has a story about kids sitting around doing that game but with cities, not states and it has a story about a silverware family. All the stories take place on What-A-Jolly Street, and the stories all use the families, children and pets from that street. A great story book, it is missing the inside front page that tells the year it was published but it was in the 60's I'm pretty sure, it is published by Whitman and the only name is on the front, Ray Quigley. Sounded so similar to yours. Hope that helps!!!!

Looking for a children's book. It's full of stories, but I can only remember bits of a couple of them. One was about some kids sitting around saying state names.One kid would name a state and the next kid had to name a state beginning with the last letter of the state the kid in front of him said. The only other story i can remember was about a family of toothbrushes. The book was published in the late 60's. It was a thick book, but i don't know the author or anything. I know it's not a lot to work with, but if anyone could help me I woiuld be eternally thankful.

Im looking for a book but i can only remeber the cover and the story. im convinced i dreamt it.
Its about a girl who can shapeshift into a panther and she has to protect a witch princess so the princess can marry the shapeshifting prince there is also dragons who can shape shift to.
the cover has a black cat or panther head shot faceing out the cat has green eyes.

That question was asked before, but I can't see whether it was answered or not. could you please tell me the title or author? been looking for it for quite some time now.

Im looking for a book but i can only remeber the cover and the story. im convinced i dreamt it.
Its about a girl who can shapeshift into a panther and she has to protect a witch princess so the princess can marry the shapeshifting prince there is also dragons who can shape shift to.
the cover has a black cat or panther head shot faceing out the cat has green eyes.

That question was asked before, but I can't see whether it was answered or not. could you please tell me the title or author? been looking for it for quite some time now.

Looking for a science fiction book I read years ago. I can only remember that earth was changing and people were having to move farther and farther north, they had wall to wall plants in their homes for air purification and there was one man that for some reason was chosen as the only one that the whole world would listen to so that they could change the way we used the planet's resources. Any idea??? thanks in advance

Hey!!! Big heeeeellllpppppp!!!! I have been looking for this book for ages! Its set in Africa on a cotton plantation- it is ran by a white farmer and his wife- the farm is failing and his wife- who is originally from the city is struggling with life in a harsh desert environment and the heat- she is a real lady and is not suited to the life her farmer has given her- it deals with the issues surrounding the white and black people working on the farms- she befriends one of the black man servants- something totally shocking in those times- and at the end in a fascinating twist- to do her a favor the man kills her.......brill book! But what is it called! What is the authors name? any help would be fabulous! thanks a million!

I read a book a few years ago about a 19th century Pennsylvania oil baron/tycoon. I don't remember the title , author or the publisher. I think it was first publihed in the 1960's or early 70's. If this rings any bells with anyone please let me know.

I read this book a couple of years ago, but I can't remember the name or the author. I thought I had it in my book collection, but I haven't come across it. Please help I really would like this book.

This woman divorces her husband because she found out that he was spying on their woman neighbors and putting them on the internet; he even put his wife on the internet. He also got into it with the mafia, because he had something of there's. The police thought she was part of her husband dealings. Then she got attacked after the divorce and decided enough was enough, so she took Krav Maga for a couple of years. And then decided to move because everyone knew what her husband had done and they sort of believed that she was end on in even though she was cleared of any wrongdoing. I believe the FBI and the mafia believed that she was holding out on them about either info or some kind of object that put the mafia in a bad light.

She moved to a quiet neighborhood. Her hippy psychic-sister came to visit and predicted a couple of things. Trouble followed her. a gothic-typed woman was found dead in the lake by her house. And of course with her background the FBI arrived and clearly assumed that she had something to do with the murder. She's attracted to the FBI agent that interviews her; the other one is very hostile FBI woman. The FBI woman gets beat up by the lead woman in this book because she says something to piss the lead woman off.

She realizes that someone is following her and her sister as they walk down the street to her house and she distracts her spacy sister and goes through a gangway and waits for the guy to follow her. She grabs the guy with some kind of krav maga technique and asks him some questions and then she gets pissed and breaks his arm.

Then as she was going to a School for an interview she gets attacked by another guy looking for whatever her husband stole. and so she beats him up and then the police is called

i read a book a while ago and i believe it was published in the 90's. its about a woman who witnesses a murder in a restuarant, the FBI agent who is on the case has to take her away to a cabin in the mountains. during the time of hiding out and running for their lives they end up falling in love. the book i read was i think a brown color and had a single feather on the front.
if anyone has any anwers PLEASE tell me!!!! its driving me crazy!!
thankyou

i read a book a while ago and i believe it was published in the 90's. its about a woman who witnesses a murder in a restuarant, the FBI agent who is on the case has to take her away to a cabin in the mountains. during the time of hiding out and running for their lives they end up falling in love. the book i read was i think a brown color and had a single feather on the front.
if anyone has any anwers PLEASE tell me!!!! its driving me crazy!!
thankyou

Hi, I'm looking for a novel about the Vietnam war, but I forgot the authors name or the book title, however two of the characters were named Childs and Chalice.

Hi, I'm looking for a book about a girl, who wants to get a tan and do "unhealthy things" but her mom doesn't allow it. In the first chapter, I remember that she felt flavors in her mouth because of her emotions...^__^ doesn't really make sense. I read it over the summer, and I believe the girl enters a friend's (I think) dog called Blue into a dog show and wins, but Blue gets hit by a car after the show and his leg is amputated. I've remembered this book for a while now, and I want to read it again, it's a pleasant book.

Hi- I am searching for a children's book from the 50's
about a boy who makes clay animals and they all become real. There could be a north wind somewhere in the story.I believe it was the typical board book-picture book.

I am going CRAZY remembering a book from early childhood (late 60's early 70's) about a glockenspiel. Might have been magical but I dont think it is the Gordon one. I think maybe the cover was white w/an illustration of a glockenspiel on it.PLEASE,if you remember it..Help..I need sleep!!!

can someone help me find a children's book? I remember reading it as a kid but do not remember the title or the author's name. It was published in the 80's most likely and it is a book of short stories. I think there are only about four or five stories in it but it is a thick book. Each story has a different color. There was a story about a cowboy and I remember that was orange colored and then there was a story about a boat and that was blue. There was also a story that was green. I remember that it was a blue hardcover book with a blue jacket over it with a white box in the middle where the title and author's name was. Thanks so much.

can someone help me find a children's book? I remember reading it as a kid but do not remember the title or the author's name. It was published in the 80's most likely and it is a book of short stories. I think there are only about four or five stories in it but it is a thick book. Each story has a different color. There was a story about a cowboy and I remember that was orange colored and then there was a story about a boat and that was blue. There was also a story that was green. I remember that it was a blue hardcover book with a blue jacket over it with a white box in the middle where the title and author's name was. Thanks so much.

can anyone help me find a book about little kids who gave each others trees for their birthday and they plant them next to each other.Then,after the boy went to sleep he found himself in a futuristic world.After that he found himself next to the trees,but they were grown.
haha,sorry if I don't make sense..
^_^ thanks in advance
*I read it when I was in fourth grade

Im looking for a book but i can only remeber the cover and the story. im convinced i dreamt it.
Its about a girl who can shapeshift into a panther and she has to protect a witch princess so the princess can marry the shapeshifting prince there is also dragons who can shape shift to.
the cover has a black cat or panther head shot faceing out the cat has green eyes.

I am looking for a book set in the Civil War where one son goes to a military academy in the North and the other brother ends up in the South. They go off to war, fighting for different sides and somehow a girlfriend of one is a nurse and figures it out......Great book but cannot remember name or author.

I'm looking for a book about a teen aged boy who comes across a house in the forest where a party is taking place at night attended by people his age. He finds the abandoned house again when he is older, but the events of the long ago night are very different from what he thought had happened. War has intervened. He is looking for a girl who was at the party.
The book was translated from French.

Samantha

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

by Emily Arnold McCully

I am a teacher and am looking for this book (something like Marvelous Maddie?) that would be great for my students, but am not quite sure of the title and have no idea of the author. It seems near impossible to find a book under these circumstances. The book I read a couple of years ago is about a girl that came up with a new invention or idea for the factory that she was working in. I think this was in the early 1900s. She wrote wonderful notes in her journal about the invention, but when her boss found out what she was doing, he stole her idea. She ended up going to court over it and won because she could prove to the judge and court that she came up with the idea based on her illustrations and notes taken in her journal. It is a great picture book. Does anyone know the author or real title?

Hi, i've been looking for this book for about 3 years now, i read it in middle school and i remember it being really good. unfortuanately, i only remember what the cover looks like and what it is about.

The cover has a picture of a girl facing forward with medium, blonde braids. I think she is standing in front of a wall but i'm not possitive.

The book is about a girl who moves towns to a town with a wall surrounding it. she is very curious and wants to find a way to get over the wall. she finds out that she can see over it if she stands on her windowsill. She goes to the library one day and finds a passage behind a chair in the corner of the library. i think there were two cats in the library too, one named sebastian mabey? I think she finds this stone and it allows her to hear the animals and she finds out that the cats are evil.(also i think in the first chapter a male character dies but later you find out that he really faked his own death)

this is all i remember. if anyone knows about this book PLEASE tell me.

Hi, i've been looking for this book for about 3 years now, i read it in middle school and i remember it being really good. unfortuanately, i only remember what the cover looks like and what it is about.

The cover has a picture of a girl facing forward with medium, blonde braids. I think she is standing in front of a wall but i'm not possitive.

The book is about a girl who moves towns to a town with a wall surrounding it. she is very curious and wants to find a way to get over the wall. she finds out that she can see over it if she stands on her windowsill. She goes to the library one day and finds a passage behind a chair in the corner of the library. i think there were two cats in the library too, one named sebastian mabey? I think she finds this stone and it allows her to hear the animals and she finds out that the cats are evil.(also i think in the first chapter a male character dies but later you find out that he really faked his own death)

this is all i remember. if anyone knows about this book PLEASE tell me.

please can anybody help me find a book i read about 15 years ago.The main characters are a man who is disowned by his wealthy family for causing the death of his brother. cant remember if he is on the run or wether he has just come out of prison. A young school teacher is at a petrol station i think and he grabs her and pushes her to the ground and starts kissing her as if they are a couple because there is a police officer looking at him. He takes the girl to a sort of log cabin i think somewhere up in the mountains and i remember its snowy. They end up falling in love and he sends her back. Then i think he turns up at the school to see her and they get married. His name is cleared of anything to do with his brothers death. i think the girl goes to see his grandmother and arranges for them to speak again. please help its driving me mad!!!!! thanks

Thanks so much sara that is it. I have been looking for this book for the last year.

gini camporese

I'm almost certain your book is Eyes of the Night by Diana Bane-

The book I'm looking for has "sister" in the title (i.e. The Other Sister, Older Sister). The protagonist, Sissy, is worried about her older sister Charlotte who hangs arounds the wrong crowd and has a questionable 'job'. Sissy meets this guy and while they're dating, he helps her find out exactly what trouble Charlotte has gotten into. The cover showed a picture of the two girls and it looked quite dated, so it must be late 70's through 80's. The hairstyles and clothes looked like the 80's.

Oh wow. So I'm on here looking for some random book..
Thomas, I'm pretty sure we're looking for the same one.

Oh wow. So I'm on here looking for some random book..
Thomas, I'm pretty sure we're looking for the same one.

HI Im looking for a book published in the 90's. It has a white cover with a candle and flame on it. The main charater is named Branwen. She is welsh and has long black hair and blue green eyes. She is sorta like a druid and she has magical powers. The book starts in Wales and then moves to North America. She marries a guy named Jason Faraday. Who turn out to be involved in top secret group of people intrested in paranormal stuff. She eventualy leaves him and he becomes obessed with getting her back. Any and all help finding this book is appreciated. Thanks

HI Im looking for a book published in the 90's. It has a white cover with a candle and flame on it. The main charater is named Branwen. She is welsh and has long black hair and blue green eyes. She is sorta like a druid and she has magical powers. The book starts in Wales and then moves to North America. She marries a guy named Jason Faraday. Who turn out to be involved in top secret group of people intrested in paranormal stuff. She eventualy leaves him and he becomes obessed with getting her back. Any and all help finding this book is appreciated. Thanks

Looking for a book from early 1970s/late 1960s. Juvenile science fiction. Plot involves a family that lives under the sea in a research lab that is invaded by bad guys called "Vandals". The family had a pet dolphin (I think) that was extremely intelligent.

I'm looking for a book(isn't everyone?) I read in 4th grade. I don't recall much except there was a group of children(siblings), 3 or 4, and they met a man while on a walk in the park and he taught them how to use their imagination. Then, they were transported(in their imaginations) to ...someplace... and aside from that all i know is there was a gumtree made of bubblegum and one of their 'imagination lessons' had the man describing toasted marshmallows until they could smell them. ANY help at all would be so great!!

I'm looking for a book(isn't everyone?) I read in 4th grade. I don't recall much except there was a group of children(siblings), 3 or 4, and they met a man while on a walk in the park and he taught them how to use their imagination. Then, they were transported(in their imaginations) to ...someplace... and aside from that all i know is there was a gumtree made of bubblegum and one of their 'imagination lessons' had the man describing toasted marshmallows until they could smell them. ANY help at all would be so great!!

I read a book in the 1990s about the Altamont concert were a person that was at the concert helped carry Meredith Hunter's body to the paramedics and he tells what happens on the way. What I remember is when the angels were done stomping on him, they threw him in a trash can or something like that. There was photos and the last photo show was the heavy set man in his birthday suit. I have looked and looked online and cannot find it anywhere!

Hey hey. I'm looking for a book... about a little girl who either lives with an actress or is the daughter of... and somehow there is a girl who wants to be an actress so she fakes her way into the home... the woman dies... and the little girl and the other girl go live with I guess the grandmother.... and the two meet a boy... they both like him and the daughter of the woman that died finds out that her and the boy are brother and sister... so the other girl and him get married [he doesn't really love her] and in the end the grandmother kills the girl who he married....

Its been a few good years. Sorry. lol

Hi im looking for a book that was set in the future. the characters talked very odd like future slang. i think they had a chip implanted in there brain for advertisements. They take a trip to the moon. the main character meets a girl and she gets sick and dies at the end? It was odd because of the way they talked and took a little while to get used too. Thank you

Hi im looking for a book that was set in the future. the characters talked very odd like future slang. i think they had a chip implanted in there brain for advertisements. They take a trip to the moon. the main character meets a girl and she gets sick and dies at the end? It was odd because of the way they talked and took a little while to get used too. Thank you

Hi, I read this book in primary school, I can't remember what it was called but it might have been something like'the finders'

The main character was a girl and she met these 'people' who took the form of crows and were invisible. Someone gave her a book which would turn her into something evil if she did not get it back to the owner before midnight or something like that. I remember something about the moon hypnotising her ...

Has anyone else read it? or know what it is called?

Am looking for a book/story I THOUGHT was from Poe but am now doubtful being I am unable to locate it in any of his available works. It is a fictional story of creature who lives in a male characters brain threatening to eat his brain if he does no do it's evil bidding. Any and all help is appreciated.

Am looking for a book/story I THOUGHT was from Poe but am now doubtful being I am unable to locate it in any of his available works. It is a fictional story of creature who lives in a male characters brain threatening to eat his brain if he does no do it's evil bidding. Any and all help is appreciated.

I am looking for a book from the 1980's or 90's about a reporter who meets with a man. The man forces him to drink a potion that turns him into a werewolf. The first half of the book is about the man killing people. The second half is about him in a test facility where he escapes and stalks the people in the facility. This is driving me crazy.
thanks

I am looking for a book from the 1980's or 90's about a reporter who meets with a man. The man forces him to drink a potion that turns him into a werewolf. The first half of the book is about the man killing people. The second half is about him in a test facility where he escapes and stalks the people in the facility. This is driving me crazy.
thanks

I hope some one can help me.I lost a book about angels .I think it was about archangels.I dont remember the title or the author but I remember the book was baby blue and there was a secret/hidden page on how to envoke an angel.Oh please do help.it was a hard cover.Thanks.

hi, i've searched everywhere online and having no luck whatsoever ... about 10 years ago i read this book, which i have to say is the only book i've ever read (apart from the ones i got made to read at school), and i loved it, but lost it. i really wanna get it again but have no idea who the author is or what the title is. but the description i have for it (or closest to what i can vaguely remember) is:
it was mainly focused on the girl, who went to stay with family in a huge house. near where they live her grandparents or great/great-great parents were buried and entombed with a curse on them. they were vampires, and i think it was something like if the light of the moon shone upon their coffins they awoke, which happened and the curse got broken and ran around the mansion, hiding in secret passages. can't remember much after that, but it was a really good book. if anyone has any help it'd be much appreciated.
thanks x

Thalion_Maxwell
Thanks it helped alot now i con stop making myself go crazy

Sara: The book you're looking for is called Dealing With Dragons. It's the first book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. Hope this helps!

Sara: The book you're looking for is called Dealing With Dragons. It's the first book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. Hope this helps!

hi
im new here
im looking for a book i read last year that i loved
its about soccer and the main character is a boy that plays in a city league but he gets the chance to go up to major league. when he gets to the major league training camp he realises they drug all the players. so he runs away and hides from them and joins an illegal underground soccer league team. then in the end his underground team versus the major league team he was supposed to join and the underground team wins.
if anyone knows about the book im talking about please tell me. ive spent hours searching and i cant find it.
thanks.
Josh

I'm looking for this book i read about a year ago, I can't remember the tittle or the author and only a little of the plot. It starts with this girl who happenes to be the niece of the queen of faery's and the future heir of the throne but she doesn't know that till the end of the book. She goes on vacation to the human world. As soon as she reaches the human world she is attacked by a deamon or dragon (I don't remember). then she is rescued by this guy who happens to be a werewolf or something of the kind. He works for a secret organization that protects the human world from knowing about the other worlds. Thats all I remember i would really like to add this book to my collection if you have any idea please tell me. Thank you.

Bennett Thankyou

You have just bought a search of several hours to an end. What a great site.

Thanks again.

Wes

Hey Wes,

I think the group mentality book may have been "The Wave." Here's the wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave

I am trying to find a book I read about 15 / 20 years ago at school. It involved a teacher trying to demonstrate to his students the power of group mentality. He guided the students but allowed them to set their own criteria in deciding who joined their group. They rapidly became exclusive of others. He eventually exposed them to the direction they had taken and made them compare it to Hitlers approach to social structure in order to shock them into realsing how easy people can become almost tribal. I have no idea of the name or the author. Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

Any help is appreicated in finding the following book - it is driving me crazy! I have no idea of who the author is or what the title of the book is. I read it in the late 80s and it was by a Catholic housewife who had lots of kids (maybe 10?) and her day to day life with teens and toddlers. I think it was a series of books, and in the one I read, a hurricane tore down their house, and they had to rebuild. It was a humourous book and was about day to day family life. I read it abroad, and my mum really wants to read it again, but can I find it? Not at the moment.......Driving me crazy! Any help would be wonderful! THANKS!!!

I am trying to find a book that i read six years ago about a boy who moves into a new house and discovers a nearly dead man in his garage. He then starts to slowly revive him and saves his life.

I'm trying to find this book that I read 4 years ago. I know the plot, but nothing else. There were twin girls, and they had switched outfits to fool their parents at their grandparents house when they were probably about 2 or 3. One of them drowned in the pond that was in the backyard. But the other twin lives and goes on with her life, and when she is older, she finds out, through looking at pictures that she is the twin everyone thinks drowned, and no one knew. She was looking through pictures with her mom and in a baby picture, she sees that her mole is on the other side of her face, she then realizes that she is the other twin. Please let me know if you know anything about this book, I think the title had the word tiger in it but I could just be completely wrong about that. Thanks!

I am looking for a Fantasy book from the 1980's.
I cannot remember the title or author but I think it was written by a woman.
The premise:
A young servant girl who is blind or blindfoled is trying to escape a witch. She is enchanted as are several animal friends who try to escape the witch with her in a boat.
It was a paperback with the above scene on the cover.
I loved this book I hope someone out here has heard of it.
Thanks
PSF

I hope someone out there can give me a lead on this book.
I don't have the title but I think the author was a woman.
It is Fantasy from the 1980's The premise:
is a enchanted servant girl,who is blind or blindfolded and several enchanted animal friends are escaping a witch in a boat. That is what I remember other than I loved the story.

Thanks
PSF

The book I'm looking for was originally published around, if not before, 1997 in paperback. I can't remember the name of the author's name but I know it has to be in the A-C section and the title is a future date (something like 2534). I worked at a bookstore and remember running across it when I shelved numerous times before finally reading it. I remember liking the book but would like to read it again.
The story is of a war veteran (Vietnam I believe) who lost his legs in the war and is now miserable with pain. When he dreams though, he truly believes his mind is transported into the future where he has a healthy body again. He learns of the society in the future and decides he wants to stay permanently but that requires his body to release his mind. He takes the leap of faith to over medicate, hoping his mind will stay in the future world where he's happy.
Anyone out there, please??!!

The book I'm looking for was originally published around, if not before, 1997 in paperback. I can't remember the name of the author's name but I know it has to be in the A-C section and the title is a future date (something like 2534). I worked at a bookstore and remember running across it when I shelved numerous times before finally reading it. I remember liking the book but would like to read it again.
The story is of a war veteran (Vietnam I believe) who lost his legs in the war and is now miserable with pain. When he dreams though, he truly believes his mind is transported into the future where he has a healthy body again. He learns of the society in the future and decides he wants to stay permanently but that requires his body to release his mind. He takes the leap of faith to over medicate, hoping his mind will stay in the future world where he's happy.
Anyone out there, please??!!

I'm so glad that I found this site. I'm looking for a young adult thriller/mystery book that I thought was called "Finders Keepers... Losers Weepers" (or it at least had that on the book cover). I read it when I was in the 6th or 7th grade (around 1995).

It was about a twisted man (young adult perhaps) who became obsessed with an intelligent young girl (maybe in middle school). She might have been the daughter of a cop. In the end, he somehow gets her into this secret cave of his (which he knows really well and takes victims to play hide-and-seek, I think) and she escapes.

I keep thinking that the kidnapper character was a smart guy who was teased by people as a youngster. The character might write poems or riddles, which intrigues the young girl. I think that he posed as someone else in order to get close to her while he stalked her.

If anyone knows what this book is, I'd greatly appreciate it!!

just popped into my head-
a series of books about a princess who ran away and ended up living with a dragon inside a mountain as his house keeper/cook - met a prince (named zinnibar, zinbar, a "z" name) - thought he was a plumber
another of the books had a witch with a lot of cats and she had glasses- she makes an appearance in all 3 books

the setting is The Enchanted forest which I want to say constantly rearanges its self - nothings in the same place twice

there is a short story about the prince and the princes son I think it has the word "sun" in the tittle
it's about: some one put some kind of "spell" on the castle -the prince who is now the king is traped in side
the queen isn't - infact i don't even think their kid is born yet - any way kid grows up rescues his father and his girlfriend has a frying pan obsession.

any ideas?

Rena

Thanks so much! That has been driving me crazy for years!!!

I'm looking for a set of books at the preschool level that I used in the early 80's to teach my daughter to read. I believe the first book focused on teaching the concept of a word and associating it with objects (like a shoe). I remember no other details except I believe the author's first name was Peter. The books were effective and she learned to read before she started Kindergarten.

I'm looking for a set of books at the preschool level that I used in the early 80's to teach my daughter to read. I believe the first book focused on teaching the concept of a word and associating it with objects (like a shoe). I remember no other details except I believe the author's first name was Peter. The books were effective and she learned to read before she started Kindergarten.

Marge - The book about the raft people living on the underground river is Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele. I was looking for the same book, and found your request. Some of your recollections helped me to track this book down.

In the late 80's I read a book involving a set of characters colonizing mars. (Some were prisoners I think). On the planet was a type of deadly palm trees and giant worms. That is about all I remember except I thought the title had Blood and Worm in it....

In the late 80's I read a book involving a set of characters colonizing mars. (Some were prisoners I think). On the planet was a type of deadly palm trees and giant worms. That is about all I remember except I thought the title had Blood and Worm in it....

Hi, I'm looking for a book I read in the 70s or 80s about a boy and a girl in their teens in the UK who have to survive when all the machines stop. They seem to be alone in the countryside. There may have been a man giving them guidance. I associate the name 'William' with the book, but I don't know why.

Also looking for a children's book or short story set in the USA or Canada in the country about a toddler who goes missing and lives with beavers for years(?)even though he is not far from his family. He may have been reunited with them in the end. The beavers acted like real beavers, not talking ones!

I'm also wondering about a great short story I read at school about a group of friends spending the evening together and one person (not one of the friends?) says he can make someone disappear and erase their existence so that no one will even notice they are gone. At the end of the story, one of the men kicks over the chair his wife had been sitting on - she's disappeared. Realy well-written and creepy.

Can someone please help me find the title of this book it has been driving me crazy.

I am looking for a book I read in HS is was about a guy who was born into a techy future city, he is curious about things meets a joker type guy. He discovers a hidden passage in a statue which leads to a station with many ways out but only one way was kept up. He meets other people who are more meantally developed. In the end he is followed up a tower were he gets into a space ship and leaves.

Can someone please help me find the title of this book it has been driving me crazy.

I am looking for a book I read in HS is was about a guy who was born into a techy future city, he is curious about things meets a joker type guy. He discovers a hidden passage in a statue which leads to a station with many ways out but only one way was kept up. He meets other people who are more meantally developed. In the end he is followed up a tower were he gets into a space ship and leaves.

As a librarian I am always using the following resources to find books. The first is Fantastic Fiction which lists authors and all of the titles they have written, including series: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
Another great resource is NoveList. You can search by author, title etc etc but also by content or subject so it is great if you know the plot and nothing more. There are also "readalikes" so if you love a certain author but have read everything she has written, you can find other titles that you might enjoy.
In Maine we can access NoveList through the MARVEL system. It is an EBSCO database. Ask your local library if they have free access to these databases: http://web.ebscohost.com.prxy1.ursus.maine.edu/novelist/search?vid=1&hid=15&sid=42917795-0ae4-494d-9d82-f3292ec0ef5a%40SRCSM1

Thank you. That was driving me insane.

The high school book about the kids at bording school and the tree was A Seperate Peace:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separate_Peace

I couldn't stand that book when it was assigned to me in 8th grade.

I am looking for book I read a few years ago. It was in novel form. Supposed to have been a diary translated from the French. It had a title something like: Apostle #....
The book was about an attempt by the Russians? KGB? to infiltrate the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and to destroy it from within. I do not know the author (supposed to be a french nurse who found a dying man on the side of the road). Anyone?

I am looking for book I read a few years ago. It was in novel form. Supposed to have been a diary translated from the French. It had a title something like: Apostle #....
The book was about an attempt by the Russians? KGB? to infiltrate the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and to destroy it from within. I do not know the author (supposed to be a french nurse who found a dying man on the side of the road). Anyone?

Trying to find a book that was required reading in a high school class of mine (around 1987). No idea on author. Title is hazy, but it may involve a tree.

Book is about two boys at (boarding?) school. One is either protective or bullying of the other (or both ) and the other ends up dying or killing himself near the tree or... falling out of it? Hanging himself? I'm not sure. That's all I can remember. Please help if you can, thanks!

Trying to find a book that was required reading in a high school class of mine (around 1987). No idea on author. Title is hazy, but may involve a tree.

Book is about two boys at (boarding?) school. One is either protective or bullying of the other (or both ) and the other ends up dying or killing himself near the tree or... falling out of it? Hanging himself? I'm not sure. That's all I can remember.

Looking for a book that is meant to be
torn
written in
decorated
altered

.....and then left for someone to "find" and alter more then leave again for a new finder...

I think this is a book for a teen but I can not recall the title, author etc...

Please if you know tell me because I think this book might help my teemn nieces who just lost their dad (my brother) to a heart attack... I think this book is different enough and interactive and the idea of leaving it for another to find will be interesting to teens...

Anyone heard of this book?
thank you
Robin

I'm trying to find a book, I don't know the author nor the title.

It's written in English, by a Russian or Eastern European author. I bought it in Italy in Feltrini international bookstore in 2003-2004, it was in the 'new section' (so published around 2002-2003, no later than 2000).

It's about this Russian/Eastern European guy who gets mixed up with some Russian/Eastern European gangsters, mobsters. He ends up working for the 'vilain' of the story, nicknamed 'The Aardvark'. I remember there's a lot of wodka drinking in the book...

Thanks for any help/suggestions..

Jan

I'm trying to find a book, I don't know the author nor the title.

It's written in English, by a Russian or Eastern European author. I bought it in Italy in Feltrini international bookstore in 2003-2004, it was in the 'new section' (so published around 2002-2003, no later than 2000).

It's about this Russian/Eastern European guy who gets mixed up with some Russian/Eastern European gangsters, mobsters. He ends up working for the 'vilain' of the story, nicknamed 'The Aardvark'. I remember there's a lot of wodka drinking in the book...

Thanks for any help/suggestions..

Jan

Hallo.
I'm still looking for a book I read 6-7 years ago. It's a series 4 of fantasy stories about a mage kid, who travels between planes (or spheres) of water, air, fire and stone (or earth). In plane of earth the people lived underground in the cave getting warmth and light from some lava. They also brought dead people back to life and so they would the choirs they did as living, which caused the whole world system to start collapsing.
Also, in plane of air people living on huge trees and never saw the ground and in pla-ne of water they were riding dragons.
I know it's a bit muddled, but I really hope that somebody can advice me something

Still looking for a childrens chapter book about: a girl, a friend/companion (probly no human), a mountain, a withch/es, and colored/potioned snow.

Any ideas? Any suggestions? Anyone?

years ago in the 80's, i read a book that contained numerous short stories that were spiritual. all of the stories revolved around different values. each story had one thing in a common, there was always a wolf in the background, the wolf represented god. my favorite story was one that talked about a porcupine who had no friends and helped out a skunk, who also had no friends and they spent time together as one of them was very ill. i like to find the book to share with my wife, but do not remember the title of author, please help

years ago in the 80's, i read a book that contained numerous short stories that were spiritual. all of the stories revolved around different values. each story had one thing in a common, there was always a wolf in the background, the wolf represented god. my favorite story was one that talked about a porcupine who had no friends and helped out a skunk, who also had no friends and they spent time together as one of them was very ill. i like to find the book to share with my wife, but do not remember the title of author, please help

In the 90s, I was reading a book about a girl who couldn't find a lover since she thought no one would be a better
lover than she was to herself. Anyhow, I lost the book and forgot what it was called. Does anyone know what book I'm talking about?

There's a section where she's sitting in a library and figures out how to pleasure herself without anyone noticing. That's all I can remember from the book, since I didn't get a chance to get far before it was lost.

I am looking for a book that was written in 1940-1960's. It is a Western Novel and one of the characters is named Dyke. Any advice on how to find???

The book I am looking for I read about 5 years ago(I am 30) and it was about a woman named Sage? and she got called back home for whatever reason, her family owned sheep and had money cause of some hybrid crossed wool? She finds out past stories of her mother and what her life was. The story tells about how her mother was a nurse in the war, I think it takes place in england and marries the disabled cousin or friend of the man who she gets pregnant by. I really would like to read it again if anyone has an idea let me know. Thanks!

The book Kara is looking for is Emily's Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary.

I'm looking for a child's nonfiction science book about spacecraft I read as a kid (1966-1968, maybe earlier?). It was a slim hardcover with really nice drawings of spacecraft ranging from actual chemical rockets to speculative nuclear-powered, solar sails, and even antimatter designs.

ok... i read this book about 6 years ago but have no idea when it was written. Google didnt help at all...
It was an adults book in the supernatural/occult-y genre. (i think) From what i remember it was called Demon City or city of hell or some such... but it started off with a person dying and waking up in hell with her leg or arm being chewed off of by starving homeless people... the main characters were two twin boys, one of them being a satanist. There was an angel in the story and for some reason she got beaten alot so she had many scars... lets see, what else, what else... there was alot of sex and torture in the book... one of the characters had a security guard boyfriend who used a toy she called Mr. Bumpy.... yeah, my memory is tapped. if you can help in the tiniest bit id appreciate it!

I have been searching for a book I read 30 years ago. It was a love story set in England around world war two. I believe he went to war and she married someone else. They may have had an illegitimate child. She might have been a spy or part of the resistance. The love was ill-fated and I don't believe they stayed together. She may have died...or he thought she had. I wish I could remember more. The cover of the book showed an english country house on an expansive green lawn.

I just found this site by accident, and I've been searching for a specific book for a couple of years now, so any information anyone has would be greatly appreciated!
I cannot remember the title or author of the book, or even any names of the characters, but it was about a female student (maybe high school or so) who fell in love with her English teacher. Romeo and and Juliet was sort of the running theme throughout the story, both because of the forbidden love and it was what they had been studying when she fell for him. I remember towards the end her saying something about Romeo and Juliet not being a love story, as everyone thinks, but about something else.
Sorry that's not a whole lot of information, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd be extremely grateful!

Tashia,

Try the Redwall books by Brian Jacques.

I'm looking for the title of a childrens' series of hardcover books I read as a child in the 80s. All I remember is that the illustrations were beautiful, there was a picture of a rather large-eyed mouse on the cover (there might've been different animals on the other books)and I believe it was set in the forest. The book covers came in red, pink, gray... If anyone knows these books, please help me out.

Sorry, computer glitched so this is now the 4th message. It posted the other one on here 3 times... Didn't mean it.

I'm trying to find a book I read a few years ago, but unfortunately I don't remember when it was published or who wrote the book... or the characters' names.

It was about this girl who lived with a controlling father who always expected her to be perfect, so she would always dress in what he thought was appropriate and keep extremely clean (not even a speck of dirt under her fingernails). One day she goes to the library and overhears some fellow students talking about an abandoned mansion/house. She gets involved and they decide to go check it out. She lies to her father in order to go, and in the house they find the ghost of a boy. They make friends with him, but he is mostly interested in the main girl. There's something mentioned about being locked in rooms and telepathic conversations with the ghost, but I can't really remember. Later on, the girl hangs out with the ghost on Halloween and he turns her into a ghost temporarily so she can fly around with him, but she has to be back home before a certain time or else she can't get back in her body. They see some kind of ritual with many other ghosts.

That's all I remember. I would really appreciate it if someone knew what I was talking about and could help me find it!

I'm trying to find a book I read a few years ago, but unfortunately I don't remember when it was published or who wrote the book... or the characters' names.

It was about this girl who lived with a controlling father who always expected her to be perfect, so she would always dress in what he thought was appropriate and keep extremely clean (not even a speck of dirt under her fingernails). One day she goes to the library and overhears some fellow students talking about an abandoned mansion/house. She gets involved and they decide to go check it out. She lies to her father in order to go, and in the house they find the ghost of a boy. They make friends with him, but he is mostly interested in the main girl. There's something mentioned about being locked in rooms and telepathic conversations with the ghost, but I can't really remember. Later on, the girl hangs out with the ghost on Halloween and he turns her into a ghost temporarily so she can fly around with him, but she has to be back home before a certain time or else she can't get back in her body. They see some kind of ritual with many other ghosts.

That's all I remember. I would really appreciate it if someone knew what I was talking about and could help me find it!

This afternoon I watched a movie about Sophie Scholl who was a member of the White Rose, a group of students who were in the resistance movement in nazi Germany. I remember reading a novel based on her life and execution when I was in Jr. High in the early seventies but have no idea of the name of the book. If anybody can help me out it would be greatly appreciated.

Hi I have been looking for a fictional mystery of sorts. The details that I remember are sketchy at best. A woman and man who I believe is the town sheriff find hidden lost town. The inhabitants of the town died many years ago from some disease that I believe was passed through a tainted water supply. I believe that the disease was tuberculosis or typhoid. The end of the book documents the struggle that the town went through before the death of the townspeople. I think there was a map that led them there. Please help!
Candice

Zri;

It could be a book by Roger Zelazny, I'm not sure which but it will not be part of his Amber series. Either This Immortal or The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth is about the Indian Gods.

Tried this before and didn't go through, hope it doesn't go through twice.

I've been looking for maybe 3/4 years. The book opens with a chase through the catacombs of Paris, the plot centers around a vampire. His enemy is also the 'master criminal', who is trying to destroy him. A mansion forms a part of the setting, at some party the vampire must attend, he is nearly caught. I think the time frame might be Victorian. It's exciting, kind of sophisticated, intense. Suspense, I don't remember any romance. Published after 2000 I think.

I really hope this works, I've spent hours inputting what I remember, can't get anywhere. Thanks.

For Dorrie,

The name of the english version of the book you are seeking is "Tell No one" by Harlen Coben. The film is called "Ne le dis à personne"

I'm looking for an old children's book that I read 25 years ago. The main character is a young girl who lives in a small farming community. Her grandfather was one of the first people in the area to own a car, and it was a Model-T ford (new at the time). Her favorite thing to do is go to the library that is open once a month or so, and the story talks about how special the library and books are to her. At one point she has a cooking mis-hap, and creates some odd type of pop-over or something like that. I'm sorry I don't remember more, but if anyone could help it would be great. Thanks

I have been looking for a book I read as a child, about 18 years ago. I don't remember the name, but it was about a man who lived in acabin in the woods and talked to animals, like a bear and a dog, I think. He was in love with a mermaid that lived in the lake behind the cabin. The cover of the book was a cream color and had a scetching of the cabin. I have been searching for this book for ao many years, please help!
Thank you!

I got this fron a friend in my inbox, so I thouight I'd lend a hand

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Ok so I'm looking for a book its about a spacecraft that is running out of fuel so they summon a demon to give the ship energy. It is narrated by a guy sending voice letters to his wife. Can you help me? Its not by H.P. Lovecraft, by the way.

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This is all I have, and I'm not sure if it's enough, but help would be appreciated.

Hello! I've been trying to find a book for almost two years now and I REALLY want to find it again! I read it in the Temple Public Library. It was a hardcover children's picture book about a girl whose brothers set off to fulfill their lives, and so she does too. The girls has long dark curly hair. She goes on this adventure thing and meets a man... ah I vaguely remember this... she meets a man who's wearing black, and he makes her tame a pack of black dogs, or something like that, and then in the end he turns into a big fish and something something and then in the end they fall in love and marry. I think.

Agh it was such a good book though! I remember I loved it, but I could never remember the name of it! I've googled and googled it but I can't find it!!

I'll try to remember more from the book... but if anyone has ANY idea what it could be, please reply!!!!!

Thanks! :D

Thank you so much for your help! It sounds like what my boyfriend described, and it will make a great Christmas gift! Do you know anything about the second book I for which I am searching about a thief or zealot in Jerusalem shortly after Jesus' life on earth? I know one of the main characters is a girl who suffers from agoraphobia, and there is a character named Samson. Thank you again for your help!

I am looking for a children's/young adult book that I read in the 70's. It was about a people who lived on rafts on an underground river in complete darkness. Their were man eating fish in the water that the people were afraid of. One of the kids fell off the raft, survived and was washed out of the caves by the current. He had never seen the sun before and it burned his eyes, and he ate fruit from a tree that was so sweet it burned his mouth. It was an extremely descriptive book, and I am doing it absolutely no justice. I thought it was called the Underground River, but I don't think that's it. Thanks in advance for any help.

Nicole,
The one could be The Headless Cupid.

Shaneen, it sounds like you are looking for Piercing the darkness by Frank Peretti he also wrote a sequel called this present darkness , with the same theme , it could actually be either book. Both are great reading. I hope this helps, Billy

I am looking for a book I read a year or two ago.
It begins with a couple going to a lake where they've been going to since they were children, there is a tree with their initials carved in it. They go for a swim in the lake at night when they are visciously attacked by someone unknown. The man then wakes up after being knocked out and his wife has disappeared, believed to be dead.
Next, it is years after and the man (I think he is a Doctor) is working and receives an email which basically implies that his wife is still alive somewhere as it contains information that only she would know.
He then takes it upon himself to reopen the case of her "murder" and find out what really happened.

I would really appreciate it if you could help me find this book! It was also made into a film, I think it was a french film.

I am looking for a book I rented as an audiobook about 3 years ago from Hastings. I do not remember the name of the book, but the book begins with a woman having to pull her car over (or had a wreck?) because of a horrible headache. She is taken to the hospital where tests show she has had an aneurym (I think), and the doctor tells her she will have another one and she will die from it. She can't leave the hospital, but she spends the next 24 hours? doing things to leave for her family for after her death (writing letters, sending her husband for gifts, etc.). There is something about a desk at home that has significance too. Can someone please tell me the name of this book and who wrote it. I really want to read it again.

sorry I triple-commented, I didnt think it went through

Hi there Im looking for the titles for 2 novels,

one has a broken statue of a cherub on the cover and has something to do with children and black magic.

the other has to do with twin sisters, one of which dies, and the other takes care of the deceased sisters child. it goes on to say that the living sister has something to do with the drowning of the young girls mother, on the cover there is a woman in a white dress, tangled underwater in seaweed

if anyone recognizes these could you please let me know! it would be greatly appreciated

Im having a really hard time finding a book I read years ago in elementary school. Im pretty sure it was a young adult book, it has a statue of a broken cherub on the cover and has something to do with black magic, but other than that I remember nothing, if anyone can help me I would appreciate it!

theres also a book about a young girl who lives with her aunt who she thinks is her mother, but it is her mothers twin sister. her mother had drowned and the young girl was lied to her whole life, on the cover there is a girl in a white dress tangled in the weeds underwater, if anyones read this please let me know the title! I have such a bad memory

Im having a really hard time finding a book I read years ago in elementary school. Im pretty sure it was a young adult book, it has a statue of a broken cherub on the cover and has something to do with black magic, but other than that I remember nothing, if anyone can help me I would appreciate it!

theres also a book about a young girl who lives with her aunt who she thinks is her mother, but it is her mothers twin sister. her mother had drowned and the young girl was lied to her whole life, on the cover there is a girl in a white dress tangled in the weeds underwater, if anyones read this please let me know the title! I have such a bad memory

Hi!

I'm looking for two books, but I don't have a title or an author for either, and I was hoping someone might be able to help me out. The first is about a thief or a zealot living in Jerusalem shortly after Jesus' death and resurrection. There is a character in the book named Samson, and the thief has to care for his sister, who has agoraphobia. The second is a fictional novel about an American town which gets inhabited by Satan and his demons. It talks about Satan's possession of various citizens and his attempts at destroying a preacher and his family. One scene describes the preacher's wife being attacked while in her car.

Thank you for your help!

Ok, I can't believe I found this on my own!! But the title is Tree Castle Island...Also, I was excited to find out it is by Jean Craighead George the author of Julie of the wolves and a previous post My side of the mountain!! I am headed to library to check out my side of the mountain!! If anyone gets the chance please read Tree Castle Island it is such an awesome book!!

Toodles, Kymmie

Hi,

I am looking for a book that a boy makes his own canoe and ventures out in the swamp. He finds an island and inhabits it, finds a pet turkey and then eventually meets his twin that he had no idea he had. Somewhere they find a bear cub and try to raise it, but it dies. Any help would be great!!

Hi!

I'm looking for two books, but I don't have a title or an author for either, and I was hoping someone might be able to help me out. The first is about a thief or a zealot living in Jerusalem shortly after Jesus' death and resurrection. There is a character in the book named Samson, and the thief has to care for his sister, who has agoraphobia. The second is a fictional novel about an American town which gets inhabited by Satan and his demons. It talks about Satan's possession of various citizens and his attempts at destroying a preacher and his family. One scene describes the preacher's wife being attacked while in her car.

Thank you for your help!

There's this book I read in elementary school (about 13 years ago. It was about a young girl who had many siblings (at least 8 manybe 12). The family moves into a new house out in the country. She wants a space of her own, and she gets it when she finds a hidden room in the new house. I seem to remember it having a slanted ceiling so it was kind of a triangle shape.

I also remember that all the children were given names from a baby name book. The first child got the first name under the 'A' section, the second got the second name under the 'B' section, and so on. I think there might have been twins in there somewhere as well.

I can seem to find out what it was called no matter how much I search.

Julie--

I just found the title of the book--it's called "Mirror of Danger" by Pamela Sykes. I just requested it from my libray loan and can't wait to read it with my daughter.

Apparently it was also published in the UK as "Come Back, Lucy" and there was a tv show, too.

Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me help a friend who has been searching for a favorite book from his childhood. He is in his early 40's . The book was about a Mormon family and told all about the children and how the father was very strict. Not a lot to go on but wondering if this stands out to anyone?

to Julie-

I am also looking for the name of the book about the mirror that can transport the girl from modern times to Victorian times. I remember bits and pieces of the terrifying conclusion where the evil girl from the past is trying to keep the modern girl trapped--I think she turns over all the mirrors or something. if you think of it, please post it. If I think of it, I will do the same. I know I read it in about 1975 or so.

I'm trying to find a book that I read as an elementary student in the 80's, but I think the book was old. It's called Best Friend or Best Friends. The main character is a young girl who is embarrassed by her eccentric grandmother who wears bandannas and fixes bikes. The girl lives in an apartment--high-rise, I think. She makes and loses and makes a best friend.

My friend read a great book in high school that she can't remember the name to and that I desperately want to read.

It's a re-telling of sorts of fairy tales, of real stories that the Grimm Bros. and Anderson based their stories on. The tales are dark and violent. It's not a literary criticism or a children's book. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Crystal: Your first book is called Charlie the Lonesome Cougar - Disney made a flick of it that is still available. My daughter loves it, too...

Sara,
Thank you so much! I had to go to Amazon and order it!

Kim your book is My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

I am looking for a book I read as a child. It is about a boy who runs away and finds a large hollowed out tree to live in. He sets the tree up as his home and lives on his own for a while. I remember him making a bed out of things he finds in the woods, and a soup bowl out of a turtle shell... I cannot remember more specifics, or the name of this book, but I would really like to find it! Thank you!

Hello All. I'm actually trying to find two books. I do know they are both harlequin books. The FIRST book is about the hero setting out to romance this girl who he thinks is having an affair with this older guy who happens to be the hero's sister who is pregnant, which is why he tries to "steal" the girl. He had no intention of actually marrying the heroine but of course fell in love with her. I think the hero owns a casino(maybe) and takes place in either France or Italy. The SECOND book I believe is an older harlequin. This girl tracks down her sister who I believe was adobted by this rich family, which I think takes place in the Mid-East. Well, he thinks the girl is a threat to his sister and possible kidnaps her until her identity is learned. I would appreciate any book titles or authors. These two were favorites of my late grandmother's and something happened to her copies. She gave them to me to read and then became my favorites. Would like to track them down. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

hi i'm looking for a book i read in jr high i can only remember the cover sort of its a bed room and out the window is a mountain. the one thing that sticks out vividly in my mind is that there was a witch or witches - and when the dumped the cauldrons out it would leave colored snow and turn you into things i think

im actually looking for two books i read when i was younger and one (1) was about a mountain lion named charlie ,the main character was a man that i think i remember was drowning and charlie saved him and there was one part where the man shut charlie up in his house so he wouldnt get into trouble but he got out somehow, and one of the things i definantly rember was that at some point a coworker (logger) of the man and the mountain lion charlie were on a floating log rolling it and the man fell off first i think the cover was blue and had charlie looking out over some rocks with water flowing over them and the second (2) book was about a kid in school and it was set in the future where no one drove or walked they would just step into something and be teleported to where they wanted to go no one ever when out side because there are germs out there but one day the boy went out side and saw the color of everyones roofs on their houses (sounds wierd i know) but everyone was asking the boy,what color is my roof?what does my house look like? thanks for any help :o)

I am a sophomore in college and I remember reading a book in elementary school about a group of students who were in a special school for kids with paranormal capabilities. They got around force fields and all sorts of stuff, and I remember they went to a park somewhere in the story. Does anyone know what this book is called? I would really like to find it again.

Does anyone else agree with me that reading seems to be on the increase, and that children should be encouraged to spend time a few times per week reading with their families?

I once read a book that recently I have been searching for, sadly I have no idea who wrote it, the title, or have a detailed description of.

It is a Science Fiction novel and takes place either on Earth or some other world, the main characters are all that of the Indian gods, but everything is mechanical such as how they are reincarnated, how they move around etc. Buddha comes in to play at some point and there is a war during the climax. I remember the book being soft cover and was blue with some sort of design on it, I think it was a world or something of the sort. If anyone knows what book I am speaking of please let me know! I remember enjoying the book thoroughly when I read it and would love to read it again

I don't remember the title or even the author but I do remember most of the plot. A young girl gets pulled over by a police officer and she takes the officer back to her house where the sleep together. The next morning she shoots the officer when he says he has to leave or his wife will be mad. She has his baby and one day when the baby is with a babysitter she gets kidnapped by the partner to the officer she killed and the partner kills her. Then the kid grows up with the babysitter who is sleeping with his bosses wife and who he's in love with. I remember the kid had a lot of problems with his eyes and he was worried it was to expensive for his "guardian" or the old babysitter. Then I know the kid goes to a foster family and on his eighteenth birthday he made this plane thing and he flies off a cliff and falls in the ocean and gets caught in the waves. I also know they talked about "forever love" a lot in the book. Also on the kids birthday his mother would always take him to the beach and to an amusement park thing. His mother refused to tell him his last name so he never knew until the end when he found his birth certificates with a bunch of his mothers things.

I remember quite a bit about the plot but I for some reason can't remember the title or the author. Please please help ASAP! Thanks!

Rebecca,

You might be looking for "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell.

I've been struggling with a book I read in the mid-80s. The story is about royal siblings that have been dispossessed and must gain divine endorsement to regain the throne. I don't remember the title or author. I do remember that there are seven signs, the fourth of which is Fing, which represents love. The last one is Death. Two of the characters are Pinwy and Ianwyn.

Does this ring any bells with anyone?

Hi all, I've been looking for a horror book I read a few years back. I rented it from the library, lost it and then we moved. Go figure. The worst part is: I only remember a small blip of the writing and the cover. Everything else is a complete blank to me.
Clues; A man moves to a house that is isolated, It is also infront of this haunted tree. The tree is said to drive people crazy, and he himself does go crazy. There is a scene with a chainsaw. The cover Was a willow tree over a shack. [I think].
Many people have agreed that the cover was changed, that is the bad news. The worst news is that every book that I've looked over hasn't been it.
Any hints as to what the book is called or the author?

I'm actually looking for a book for its book cover. I never read the book but I saw it in the 1990's and it reminds me of a R.L. Stine cover but its not. I guess it was about a haunted house and there is a family looking scared and the furniture in the house is possessed. The arm chair became a mouth with teeth and the seat is the tongue. The fireplace is wild and alive. And something on the wall becomes bats..thats all I remember but its driving me crazy.

Aubrey Hutto i think the book you are looking for is face on the milk carton. If not im sorry but iread that book and it seems to about match the discription. Hope i helped.

Hi

I'm looking for a book that I read as a child about a little girl that goes to visit her grandmother (I think it was her grandmother) and has some magical experiences. The one part I clearly remember is when she is pouring water into the wash jug in her room the wall opens into a garden or something like that. I think it was my mother's book and would have been published in the thirties or maybe earlier. I would love to read this story to my nine year old daughter so if anyone can help that would be great. I thought it was called Magic for Marigold but when I got that book it was the wrong one so maybe Marigold features int he name. I read it in the sixties some time. Hope someone can help.

thanks

Sally

Looking for a book that I read in grade school. Had to be published in the late 70s or 80s. I cannot remember the title for the life of me, but I want to say that the word dolphin was somewhere int he title. The story was about a young girl who went to this island alone, I can't remember whether or not she planned to go alone, or just ended up that way, but I recall in the story that she stopped at a store for some supplies and then the story goes on and tells of her stay alone on the island. I am sorry to be so vague, but it has been many years, and I can't remember much else about it, except that the book was hardback and mostly blue in color, at the time. If anyone out there can help me, I would be so very gratfeul! Thanks!

Hi there.
I'm looking for a fantasy book about some mage kid, who travels between 4 planes (or spheres) of air, water, fire and stone (or earth). I read it 6-7 years ago. Most well-remembered thing - people who inhabitaed the plane of fire brought dead people back and made them do the chores they did as living, which causeed the whole world system to start collapsing. In the plane of water people were riding dragons and in the plane of air - living in on the huge trees.
I know it's not much to go by, but I would aprisiate any help :) Thanks!

Liz,

I'm not sure, but I think the book you are referring to is The Mirror of Her Dreams. It's part of a series written by Stephen Donaldson. Hope that helps you.

Hi.

I'm looking for a book about a girl and her brother who go through a mirror or something similar, and end up in a castle (I think) and there's a girl there who is the girls twin, only evil. It's not a scary book. It was my favorite book when I was about 12, around 1994 or so? I think the cover had a girl on it, possibly a castle as well... If anyone has ANY idea what I'm talking about, I would be very thankful as I'd love to find this book again.

I am trying to find a book and I think the title begins with "The house at..." It's a fiction/occult/supernatural type deal. A girl moves into a house with some wanna be satanists. The book opens up with a description of this abandoned house, and the story is basically how it got that way. This book is kind of old. I read it years ago. I found it in a second hand bookstore, think my sis borrowed it. The end has an ironic twist, when the tenants decide to sacrific the new tenant, and her parents hsow up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!!

Theresa-

Your description sounds like the plot of the movie P.S. I Love You. The movie was based on a book by Cecelia Ahern with the same title.

I'm looking for a book, I think the title is The Box. It's about a box that contains war. It was published in the late 1970's or early 1980's.
I remember that a man read the book on TV or at a book reading (I was young, don't remember which) and my parents bought the book and a cassette recording of the man reading.
In the story, the people knew not to open the box and told their children not to open it, for generations the box bounced around and when someone finally opened it war spilled out.
The book had interesting pee/ink drawings.
I would be interested to know if you are able to help me find this book.
Thanks.

Hello. I sure hope someone can help me find the title of the book I've misplaced. I've either passed it on or loaned it out without return. I can remember it was in my 'favorites' shelf and now it's not. It is about a couple who's husband dies from an illness. He left behind for his wife 12 letters, one to be opened only on it's month. Each letter he tells her to try things or shares his thoughts. By the end of the 12 months, he expects her to be able to manage without him. It has been driving me crazy. Please help!!

I have been looking for a book for about 10 years I don't remember the name or author. But its about a group of teenagers that decide to go into an old house because years before some young football player went in and never came out. as it turns out when you go into the house and close the doors the rooms change causing you to never be able to find your way out. They eventually figure out that if you shine a flashlight in the rooms before you enter you can tell if the room is real or not. its all very confusing but it has been driving me crazy for so long. Thanks

I am looking for a book that I read as a kid. In the book, an old fashioned girl goes to stay with some more modern family members. She doesn't really get on with them and prefers to spend her time poking around their old attic. In the attic, she comes across a large mirror. The mirror ends up being a door to a turn of the century world inhabited my another young girl. The two girls become friends, however, it turns out that the girl in the mirror has her own, evil agenda.

Does this ring any bells?

The book I am looking for is about a girl who lives with her father and they move around alot. The father had always told her that her mother was dead. He finally tells her that he kidnapped her when she was little and her mother is alive. A reunion eventually happens between the girl and her mother and her mother's family. I read this around 1985.

I am looking for a children's book about a young boy who makes a purple concoction that cats like and he ends up selling it door to door or something like that. I read it in the early to mid 70's but it could be older.

Hello from Texas!
I'm trying to locate a book I read in the mid or late 70's. I think it was book about Casper but it could have been another ghost. There were three ghosts all together, I believe, and it had robbers in it. The book was purple and that's about all I can remember. I would like to try and find this book online but I haven't had much luck. I'm hoping you can help! I don't think it's 'Georgie and the Robbers', the cover and storyline just don't match what I remember.
Thanks!

Hye I was looking for a book about a young boy who's sister dies when they both get hit by a car when they are crossing the street, it goes on to tell the little boys story and what happens to his relationship with his parents.. I also remember what the cover looked like: Grey with a little girl walking down this trail.. Its more of a kid book, I read it when i was 6 or 7 but i remember that i liked it!

I'm looking for a book I read maybe 20 years ago , I only remember it was about pirates and the name of the book was one word ( maybe the name of the ship ) and it may have started with the letter J. I know it's not much to go on but if you know anything even close... Thank-you, Billy

I am trying to find a childrens book I loved as a kid. It would have been published somewhere between 1970-1981. It is about two "people" who build a home out of materials they find in the rubbish tip. One wears a cap and the other has a blue and white stripped top. The two things I remember most (aside from the great artwork) was they build an organ from pipes they find, and at the end their home is going to be destroyed. They escape with three pieces of board (all that is left) and a tin of nails, by building a stairway up.
I don't know who wrote or illistrated it, or even what it is called, but I have been trying for the last couple of years to remember what it is called and find a copy of it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Stuart

Jolie: Thanks so much! I was drawing a complete blank. Oddly enough, I have been trying to thrift/used bookstore a copy of Jumper, because it had been 6 years or so since I read it, and it was always one of my favorites. Happy hunting.

Travis -- I know that book! It's "Wildside" by Stephen Gould, who also wrote "Jumper" and several other really good YA-ish novels. It's a personal favorite. :)

Aloha

About twenty eight years ago I borrowed a book from a friend and somebody borrowed the book from me, but didn't return it. I would like to replace the book and have a copy for myself also, but I don't know the name of the book or the author. I've searched and googled, but can't find it anywhere.

Here are the clues: The book was about perception, possibly more about the physical aspects than the mental. It was published about 1980 or earlier by a university press. I don't know if there was a single author.

"Through the Mind's Eye' is the closest I can get to remembering the title, but that is a book about religion and/or philosophy by Ralph Lewis.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Tom Powell

I read a non fiction book 20-30 years ago about a homesteading family in Canada that had a pet goat named Annabelle. Anybody ever hear of it? Thanks.

I'm looking for a book I read about 10 or 15 years ago that takes place in heaven. It's a mystery about a murder/death of an angel. I believe there is a trial, Lucifer, Metatron.

Has anyone any idea what the title of this book may be?

Thank you in advance!

I'm looking for a book I read about 10 or 15 years ago that takes place in heaven. It's a mystery about a murder/death of an angel. I believe there is a trial, Lucifer, Metatron.

Has anyone any idea what the title of this book may be?

Thank you in advance!

I am looking for a book that I read back around 1992 about a boy and a girl that were trapped in the basement of an old theatre or something to that effect. They were trapped due to a war(I believe) and when they got out decided that there best bet for survival was a trek across the country. The book was a series, this being the set up for the first. I was about 12 when I read it and can't for the life of me remember anything about it except the story had caught my attention back then and I moved out of town before getting the opportunity to finish it. Any help would be appreciated.

I read a book in 2006, and I cannot remember the title. I'm going nuts trying to figure it out. It was about a man attending his college reunion only to discover that all his friends had grown up, and he hadn't. He wants to binge drink, but they are all more responsible and have kids and/or wives. He realizes that he has a pretty severe drinking problem and the book details his recovery. Please someone help.
Thanks!!!!!!

Hello, I need help remembering the name of a book I read and brought in London about 1999. It was the story of a man (a jaded Ad.exec I think) and his wife, who packed up and travelled aroung the world interviewing the oldest people in many countries, including Germany, Sth America and Japan for example. It as a great read and I think had the words"book of life'or some such in the title. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks

please help me find a book that i recently bought and stupidly loaned out..it is about a 18 month old (i think) little girl whose parents put her in a frying pan and cooked her until she had burns on her left side and her lips were drawn up like a raisin..it was such a sad glad book. it was in a free box that i got it and i cant remember the name of the book or the author. please if you can find out let me know.thank you so much

Dear Betsy,
Title of the book you are looking for is Of Two Minds, by Carol Matas. Here is a link to the amazon.com listing: http://www.amazon.com/Two-Minds-Point-Fantasy/dp/0590394681/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217899066&sr=1-3.

Travis

I'm desperately searching for a book that I read when I was about 9 years old. It was published in paperback most likely in the late 70s- early 80s. The style of it was very similar to John Bellairs, and the occasional illustrations were in the style of Edward Gorey. But, it was not by John Bellairs or illustrated by Edward Gorey- that much I'm sure of.

It's a chapter book for an approximate age range of 8-12 year olds, I would guess.

I don't remember the entire story, but these are the things I do remember:

The main character is a young boy, whom I believe is living away from his parents in a large, old mansion. He befriends a ghost, a witch, (perhaps a mummy?), and there's a tiny little vampire bat that he has to feed from his own arm. I can't remember what the plot is, but I know that these are all friendly and kind characters, and that they help the boy solve his mystery/problem.

The cover was in bright pink or purple, and really did look very much like some of the covers of John Bellairs' novels. It had the same "feel" as his novels. I was living in Australia, so most likely this book was published in Sydney or London, and was most likely set in England.

Thanks for the help.

I once read a book about a girl who finds out that a new teacher at her school will be staying with her and her family for a while. They end up having an intense friendship, and it really is a beautiful book. It ends with the school being on fire... it's hard to remember a lot of it, but it truly was a beautiful book and I would love to find it again...

I am looking for a book a read as a child. The characters were beautiful girls with long hair. All I remember is the good one's name was Willow. The bad one's name was Raven. She wore black and purple, a long darkness veil with animals or something in it.
Please help!

I am looking for a children's book that I read between 20 and 30 years ago. A story on the news reminded me of this book.

It was about a little boy who was so fat that he could only get around by rolling on his stomach. He met a little girl who had the same problem.

I think that they were chased by a witch who wanted to eat them.

I think that it was around Halloween or Thanksgiving. I seem to recall a pumpkin or jack-o-lantern.

It's most likely out of print.

No one else I know remembers this book. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone, I am also looking for a book that was probably published in the 80's. Its a scifi novel that begins in a secret research facility where a scientist is trying to create a bacteria that will be used to rebuild the skeleton of dinosaurs in order to create missing pieces. Instead this bacteria starts to re-animate flesh and dead stuff. This discovery unknow to his employers, they fire him and send his work to be incinerated. However, that releases the bacteria into the world and then animals and humans start resurecting and becoming normal ppl again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have raved about this book to friends and now can't remeber who its by or what its called.

I read a book a couple of years ago, which I can't remember the name of, and it is driving me crazy, because I really enjoyed the book. I think the title is something along the lines of "What a girl needs", or wants or something, and on the cover was a dog and it's owners legs. It started off with a murder mystery party at the main girl's friends house, where she met some guy called James (maybe). The dog got lost, and the James character finds him. Near the end, she starts going into labour at her best friends wedding, and when they're outside the hospital, they sit in the car for a minute, and "James" says "If i could do this for you, I would". They have a little girl, who they name Mini, because she is so tiny, and i remember the writer saying that "James" could hold Mini in one arm/hand, because she was so small. I can't remember anything about the book, i'm afraid. If you could help me, that would be great.

I am looking for a young-adult novel that I read several years ago, but I remember next to nothing about it. It concerns 2-3 young adults who are staying at their uncle/father's house. They explore the area and find a cave/tunnel that leads to an unpopulated land. They keep it a secret and either borrow or save up for a small aircraft, that they use to scout and map the territory with. I believe in the end the government catches on and tries to capture them? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Betsy- I have read the princess book that you are trying to find, but cannot remember the title either. Is it possibly a Jane Yolen book?

I'm looking for a book that I loved as a kid, but I don't remember the title.

It was about a purple bear in a treehouse and the only line I remember is: "Can it be? A purple bear in my treehouse tree?" Any help would be great. Thanks!

im looking for a book i dont remeber the title, but tis about a boy who likes to write poetry his family is verry difunctional and all i remeber is one of the Poems he wrote,
" I Ain't Goin' DOwn Moma"
I ain't going down moma
I ain't goin down
You can lock me up in your coke can house
Till i'm Bustin' at the seams
You can whoop me like a dog while i listen to your schemes
You can take away my pride you can pull me off the team
You can step on me till i squirt blood but you aint takin my dreams
I ain't goin down moma
I aint goin"

Thats not the entire thing but its a major part of it i remeber it ends with the mom and son comming to a mutal type respect for each other.. or somthing it was in a book i got a second ahnd stor and it got sold in a yard sale i woul lvoe to find it again it is a great book

I'm looking for a book about a girl who travels into the magical realms through these energy paths. Everyone is fighting for control of the land and I believe she meets Satan (possibly her father)? Very vague recollection but if you have any ideas on the title please let me know =)

To wendy: Its called Beginner’s Greek by James Collins. Its much like the movie Serendipity.

so theres this book that i read as a kid and i cannot for the life of me remember what the name of it is or who the author was. i do know that its a childrens or young adult fiction book about two twin sisters and one of them dies as a child. in the end it turns of that the living twin sister is actually the sister that died but she felt so guilty that she took her sisters name and pretended it was her who had died. i remember that the book was blue and had two faces on the cover.

also, there is another book that is either a childrens book or a young adult fiction book about a girl who is so unnoticed that she eventually blends in with the furnature and lives in the walls.

I'm looking for a book I heard about. I can't remember the name of it. It is about a man that travel a lot for a living he dream that one day he was going to meet the woman of his dreams on a air plane or air port and one day he dose.
They talked and talked for hours, but they both had to go their own ways. He got her phone number so they could get together again.But he looses the phone number! and the book gose on how/ what he did to try to find her again!
Please tell me the name of this book!
Thanks
wendy

just like it

Emelie4/8/2008 12:00:00 AM
looking for a book, only a few years old. About a young guy who
is addicted to drugs. His parents get him into a rehab place and he
has to have his teeth pulled without any pain killers. It's a
biography.

Million Little Pieces??? James Frey

I am seaching for a book based in England. The subject went to a
boarding school and was befriended by a lesbian type girl who was
on the hockey team. She had an affair with a married woman who was
rich. They dressed up in costumes and had their portraits painted.
The affair broke off and she married a man named Charlie whom she
loved terribly. He was a gambler who spent and spent her money. She
had to sell the pictures she had painted for money to supprt him.
When he found out about her lesbian affair he left her. When he
realized he really loved her he was returning to her driving near
the coast when he had an auto rash and was killed.

I am looking for a book that I read in the mid to late 70's
about an earthquake in the Eastern part of the u.s. maybe New York
- I guy fell off a ladder then swore that he could feel that an
earthquake was coming. Someone was having an affair, someone died
by falling into an empty pool... a kids playhouse was involved...
Does anyone know the name of that book?

I am looking for a book I read when I was a kid about a princess
who is able to change realtiy with her mind and a prince who is
supposed to marry her (he might have had telepathy?) She creates
and alternate future world or something like that, and there is an
evil dictator who she eventually realizes is a future version of
herself, mad with power. Does anyone know the title to this
book?

i am looking for a book about pirates. in it is the pirate
captain who has avoided capture for along time and is famous
because he does alot of impossible things. in it his ship got
attacked by a dragon they put up a fight but lost and he only
escaped because his first mate, a magician turned them into birds.
he crashed(in bird form) and got found by a little girl. i dont
remember the author, the books name, or even any of the charactors
names. also in the back there are a bunch of short stories named:
"stories from bern's tavern" or somthing like that. PLease
help!

The Handmaid's Tale by Maragaret Atwood?

looking for a book, only a few years old. About a young guy who
is addicted to drugs. His parents get him into a rehab place and he
has to have his teeth pulled without any pain killers. It's a
biography.

Im looking for a childrens book, about a little old chinese
lady, and she makes these rice patty balls and they fall off the
table and roll places and she chases them and she ends up chasing
them through some cave with Statues of gods, i remember seeing the
word "wicked" gods or something in the book. PLease help me find
this book, I loved it!

I am trying to think of the name of the book, which was also
made into a movie, that was a fictional, futuristic story about the
world gone awry when zealous Christians went too far. The story is
about a surrogate mother and the cover had a red hooded robe on the
front of it.

I am looking for a book I read on the late 90s it may be
considerably older. It was a fantasy novel the two main charachters
were a male and female. They were both socrcerers. This book had a
hierarchy of majic ranging from magician to wizard with sorcerer in
between(there was also a level above wizards but they dont specify
what they are in this story). In this book these two people are
forced together to find out what happened to their wizard who i
think in some way was frozen, i may be wrong. they travel to
diferent dimensions of a sort sometimes being the most powerful
people in that area other times being outmatched and other times
not able to use their magic at all. the male was some level of
aristocracy and also good with a sword she was a kind of loner. I
think her name was something like cheylene and he was prince or
baron something. It turns out in the end their wizard actualy set
the whole thing up to get them together because they are some type
of anomaly where when working together they can accomplish things
outside the realm of what is normal

I am looking for a book any suggestions on finding it. Its
called hunted or hunter by an author with the first or last name
david. The main characters name is david. The cover is black with
red tear across the middle of three claws. its sci fi and deals
with a mad scientist who takes dna alterning serum that turns him
into a beast.