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

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!

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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