November 07, 2009
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How to Find That Book You've Spent Years Looking For

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

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

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  • Alice 10/31/2009 3:31:09 AM

    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...

  • krista 10/30/2009 7:23:14 PM

    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.

  • alex 10/29/2009 9:04:32 AM

    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

  • Vin 10/24/2009 9:49:31 PM

    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.

  • Sara 10/23/2009 6:09:45 PM

    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 -

  • Sara 10/23/2009 5:43:49 PM

    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?

  • Alice 10/22/2009 5:37:26 AM

    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...

  • Natalie 10/15/2009 11:52:13 PM

    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.

  • Linda C 10/5/2009 8:17:10 PM

    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.

  • Joana 9/30/2009 11:50:41 PM

    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!!

  • Joana 9/30/2009 11:46:38 PM

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

  • John 9/26/2009 8:18:39 AM

    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.

  • Maryann 9/20/2009 9:40:48 PM

    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"

  • Leslie M 9/20/2009 10:33:38 AM

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

  • Leslie M 9/20/2009 10:22:40 AM

    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.

  • jojo 9/10/2009 9:19:37 PM

    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!!

  • Pat 9/8/2009 12:49:00 PM

    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.

  • Paula 9/7/2009 1:49:32 AM

    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!

  • tony williams 9/6/2009 6:48:06 AM

    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

  • Toni L 9/2/2009 6:28:00 AM

    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

  • Bob 8/19/2009 8:44:43 PM

    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.

  • ann 8/12/2009 2:24:59 PM

    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.

  • ann 8/12/2009 2:13:47 PM

    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

  • Alison 8/7/2009 5:01:07 PM

    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.

  • Alison 8/7/2009 5:00:16 PM

    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.

  • Alison 8/7/2009 4:59:31 PM

    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.

  • Mensa Otabil 8/4/2009 4:59:41 PM

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

  • Laura 7/29/2009 4:59:56 PM

    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!

  • Laura 7/29/2009 4:59:12 PM

    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!

  • Judy 7/28/2009 8:48:05 AM

    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.

  • Shannon 7/26/2009 3:40:26 PM

    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

  • Krystal 7/23/2009 9:46:32 PM

    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.

  • Aalicia 7/23/2009 4:53:22 PM

    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.

  • Cissy 7/20/2009 12:24:59 AM

    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.

  • sarah Landestoy 7/9/2009 5:54:19 PM

    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

  • Atlantis 7/9/2009 12:38:14 PM

    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.

  • Atlantis 7/9/2009 12:30:44 PM

    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.

  • Atlantis 7/9/2009 12:29:14 PM

    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.

  • kgreene 7/8/2009 2:46:24 PM

    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.

  • kgreene 7/7/2009 11:32:04 AM

    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!

  • kgreene 7/7/2009 11:31:02 AM

    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!

  • Stefan 7/6/2009 11:41:38 PM

    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?

  • D. M. Anderson 6/30/2009 10:52:12 PM

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

  • Carly Corday 6/29/2009 7:56:58 PM

    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

  • Carly Corday 6/29/2009 7:56:03 PM

    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

  • Paola 6/28/2009 6:05:22 PM

    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!

  • Rozier Externat 6/26/2009 6:58:37 PM

    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

  • CarlaT 6/25/2009 10:02:36 PM

    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.

  • jellogirl 6/23/2009 8:35:23 PM

    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.

  • Dominique 6/23/2009 3:31:06 PM

    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.

  • Rebecca 6/19/2009 10:29:43 PM

    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.

  • Donna Stedham 6/19/2009 8:32:17 PM

    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.

  • Donna Stedham 6/19/2009 6:58:53 PM

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

  • RyanA. 6/17/2009 12:22:44 PM

    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

  • Migna Syska 6/16/2009 3:21:56 PM

    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?

  • Curasi 6/11/2009 7:47:26 AM

    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!

  • Curasi 6/11/2009 7:45:47 AM

    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!

  • Heather 6/11/2009 4:45:38 AM

    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!

  • Heather 6/11/2009 4:41:07 AM

    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!

  • Heather 6/11/2009 4:39:22 AM

    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!

  • Amytime 6/10/2009 9:45:07 PM

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

  • lucylocket 6/7/2009 2:34:17 AM

    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

  • lucylocket 6/7/2009 2:29:04 AM

    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

  • Megan 6/6/2009 5:32:25 PM

    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.

  • Timothy 6/6/2009 11:39:29 AM

    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?

  • Timothy 6/6/2009 11:38:45 AM

    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?

  • Sara 6/5/2009 10:08:40 PM

    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

  • Rho 6/4/2009 9:29:13 PM

    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?

  • Amanda 5/30/2009 8:47:01 AM

    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!

  • Rebecca 5/28/2009 4:50:29 PM

    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.

  • MeganF. 5/28/2009 6:33:37 AM

    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.

  • Amytime 5/27/2009 7:52:25 PM

    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!

  • Amytime 5/27/2009 7:49:39 PM

    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!

  • Breanna 5/22/2009 3:38:43 PM

    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!

  • lilgem 5/21/2009 5:59:33 AM

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

  • rune2099 5/18/2009 7:13:11 PM

    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.

  • Maggie 5/17/2009 8:49:46 AM

    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.

  • Howard 5/16/2009 1:43:22 PM

    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

  • Bethany 5/14/2009 8:14:14 PM

    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

  • Sara 5/13/2009 9:58:59 PM

    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

  • Kelly 5/8/2009 3:33:49 PM

    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

  • Debbi 5/5/2009 10:25:31 PM

    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

  • Mar H 5/4/2009 4:27:45 PM

    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.

  • glen southward 5/4/2009 3:56:00 AM

    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

  • shannon 5/2/2009 4:24:52 AM

    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

  • Mary 4/29/2009 9:39:18 PM

    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

  • Mary 4/29/2009 7:53:40 PM

    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

  • Melanie 4/28/2009 1:26:30 PM

    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?

  • Becky 4/27/2009 9:11:09 PM

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

  • Katie 4/26/2009 8:41:34 PM

    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.

  • Matthew R. 4/26/2009 8:08:03 PM

    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.

  • Debbie 4/24/2009 7:36:56 PM

    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

  • Debbie 4/24/2009 7:35:47 PM

    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

  • Krissa 4/21/2009 12:01:09 PM

    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!

  • M.L.Scheer 4/19/2009 5:47:58 PM

    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.

  • David 4/18/2009 7:33:44 AM

    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.

  • victoria 4/18/2009 12:33:19 AM

    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.

  • victoria 4/18/2009 12:21:36 AM

    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?

  • Rebekah 4/14/2009 8:41:34 PM

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

  • Rebekah 4/14/2009 8:14:24 PM

    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

  • Hope 4/5/2009 7:23:51 PM

    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

  • Harriet Beck 4/5/2009 7:23:00 PM

    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?

  • Barb 4/3/2009 3:55:58 PM

    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!!

  • Katrina Lomax 4/2/2009 4:58:30 PM

    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.

  • R Quinn 4/2/2009 5:07:59 AM

    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?

  • Becky 3/29/2009 10:39:19 PM

    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!!

  • Katie 3/28/2009 5:15:44 PM

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

  • Katie 3/28/2009 4:06:23 PM

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

  • Scott M 3/28/2009 11:50:44 AM

    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!!

  • Bev Moreno 3/24/2009 7:41:26 PM

    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

  • L. HENDERSON 3/22/2009 1:12:41 AM

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

  • meme 3/19/2009 7:59:29 PM

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

  • Chris 3/19/2009 2:54:43 PM

    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.

  • Chris 3/19/2009 2:51:52 PM

    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.

  • Chris 3/19/2009 2:29:21 PM

    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.

  • meme 3/18/2009 8:07:17 AM

    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

  • meme 3/18/2009 8:00:38 AM

    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!!!!

  • Sarah Spencer 3/17/2009 7:35:58 PM

    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.

  • Psalms 3/15/2009 3:02:13 AM

    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.

  • Psalms 3/15/2009 3:01:56 AM

    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.

  • meme 3/13/2009 8:57:47 AM

    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

  • Rene 3/10/2009 3:56:57 PM

    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!

  • Kevin Thomas 3/6/2009 4:38:30 PM

    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.

  • L. HENDERSON 3/1/2009 1:00:54 AM

    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

  • shae 2/28/2009 5:30:30 PM

    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

  • shae 2/28/2009 5:28:34 PM

    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

  • peter a 2/27/2009 10:41:51 PM

    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.

  • help 2/25/2009 10:29:06 PM

    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.

  • sara 2/23/2009 10:05:29 AM

    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.

  • dawn z. 2/20/2009 9:51:48 PM

    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!!!

  • Rose 2/17/2009 4:51:31 PM

    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.

  • Rose 2/17/2009 4:50:37 PM

    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.

  • Janice 2/16/2009 12:56:41 PM

    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

  • Lillith 2/16/2009 2:55:37 AM

    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.

  • Brandt 2/14/2009 5:52:09 AM

    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.

  • Nanette 2/10/2009 2:28:47 AM

    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.

  • Sara 2/7/2009 2:23:56 PM

    Samantha


    Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

    by Emily Arnold McCully

  • Samantha 2/5/2009 9:19:33 PM

    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?

  • sarah 2/5/2009 6:24:02 PM

    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.

  • sarah 2/5/2009 6:23:05 PM

    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.

  • jayne 2/4/2009 7:58:02 AM

    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

  • gini camporese 2/2/2009 11:08:42 AM

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

  • Sara 2/2/2009 9:17:44 AM

    gini camporese

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

  • Maggie 2/1/2009 12:11:04 PM

    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.

  • Katie 2/1/2009 12:03:32 PM

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

  • Katie 2/1/2009 12:01:32 PM

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

  • gini camporese 1/30/2009 11:52:22 PM

    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

  • gini camporese 1/30/2009 11:44:31 PM

    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

  • Steve 1/30/2009 5:42:32 PM

    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.

  • Tortoise 1/28/2009 10:35:35 PM

    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!!

  • Tortoise 1/28/2009 10:33:09 PM

    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!!

  • Suzanne 1/28/2009 10:58:50 AM

    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!

  • Leigh 1/25/2009 1:32:01 PM

    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

  • Thomas 1/23/2009 12:31:14 AM

    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

  • Thomas 1/23/2009 12:30:10 AM

    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

  • Heather 1/22/2009 2:57:50 PM

    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?

  • Cara 1/21/2009 8:28:59 PM

    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.

  • Cara 1/21/2009 8:28:42 PM

    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.

  • Niki 1/21/2009 2:00:36 PM

    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

  • Niki 1/21/2009 2:00:14 PM

    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

  • lujza 1/21/2009 2:41:24 AM

    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.

  • Laura 1/20/2009 8:54:52 PM

    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

  • Sara 1/20/2009 9:37:08 AM

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

  • Thalion_Maxwell 1/19/2009 9:24:00 PM

    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!

  • Thalion_Maxwell 1/19/2009 9:23:28 PM

    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!

  • josh 1/15/2009 7:11:23 AM

    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

  • Cerynise 1/15/2009 3:48:32 AM

    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.

  • Wes 1/11/2009 10:45:14 PM

    Bennett Thankyou

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

    Thanks again.

    Wes

  • Bennett Gordon 1/11/2009 10:12:14 PM

    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

  • Wes 1/11/2009 9:32:28 PM

    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.

  • Nikki Schiannini 1/11/2009 5:20:20 PM

    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!!!

  • brittany 1/10/2009 9:26:52 PM

    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.

  • Rebecca 1/7/2009 4:40:24 PM

    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!

  • PSF 1/7/2009 4:23:57 PM

    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

  • PSF 1/7/2009 4:16:47 PM

    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

  • Alex 1/7/2009 12:39:26 PM

    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??!!

  • Alex 1/7/2009 12:38:59 PM

    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??!!

  • Suzi 1/4/2009 2:19:32 AM

    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!!

  • Sara 1/2/2009 2:48:53 PM

    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?

  • marge 12/27/2008 4:25:57 PM

    Rena

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

  • Mary 12/25/2008 10:22:17 AM

    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.

  • Mary 12/25/2008 10:21:46 AM

    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.

  • rena 12/24/2008 5:27:04 PM

    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.

  • Michael L. 12/23/2008 3:47:02 PM

    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....

  • Michael L. 12/23/2008 3:42:01 PM

    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....

  • Judith 12/20/2008 9:01:38 AM

    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.

  • Ken 12/19/2008 4:29:11 PM

    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.

  • Ken 12/19/2008 4:28:38 PM

    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.

  • LisaTM 12/18/2008 12:54:21 PM

    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

  • J.T. 12/17/2008 3:09:12 PM

    Thank you. That was driving me insane.

  • Bennett Gordon 12/17/2008 3:03:42 PM

    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.

  • Bill 12/17/2008 3:02:22 PM

    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?

  • Bill 12/17/2008 3:00:52 PM

    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?

  • J.T. 12/17/2008 2:59:30 PM

    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!

  • J.T. 12/17/2008 2:55:46 PM

    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.

  • Robinbird57 12/17/2008 1:43:03 PM

    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

  • Jan 12/17/2008 3:19:15 AM

    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

  • Jan 12/17/2008 3:15:24 AM

    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

  • Jane 12/16/2008 5:01:01 AM

    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

  • Sara 12/13/2008 8:37:43 PM

    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?

  • garth 12/12/2008 7:49:07 PM

    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

  • garth 12/12/2008 7:48:32 PM

    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

  • John 12/12/2008 6:42:36 PM

    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.

  • Cathy 12/8/2008 3:39:01 PM

    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???

  • gina 12/7/2008 6:49:17 PM

    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!

  • Allison 12/7/2008 2:16:10 AM

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

  • murray 12/6/2008 9:40:15 PM

    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.

  • Jeanette 12/3/2008 5:47:38 AM

    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!

  • Pam 11/25/2008 2:36:13 PM

    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.

  • Paige 11/25/2008 1:20:59 AM

    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!

  • Sara 11/24/2008 10:37:17 PM

    Tashia,

    Try the Redwall books by Brian Jacques.

  • Tashia 11/23/2008 3:31:55 AM

    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.

  • Cheyenne 11/22/2008 10:58:15 PM

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

  • Cheyenne 11/22/2008 10:49:32 PM

    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!

  • Cheyenne 11/22/2008 10:37:14 PM

    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!

  • Deb 11/22/2008 6:50:59 PM

    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.

  • Candice 11/20/2008 8:21:06 PM

    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

  • Melle 11/18/2008 6:18:04 PM

    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.

  • Melle 11/18/2008 6:01:07 PM

    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.

  • teasydot 11/18/2008 1:07:24 PM

    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"

  • kara 11/18/2008 12:52:09 PM

    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

  • Stephanie 11/18/2008 12:42:17 PM

    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!

  • Erah Mar 11/18/2008 10:16:15 AM

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

    ---

    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.

    ---

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

  • Llama 11/14/2008 6:33:25 PM

    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

  • Shaneen 11/13/2008 8:27:21 PM

    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!

  • marge 11/13/2008 8:27:18 PM

    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.

  • marge 11/13/2008 8:19:27 PM

    Nicole,
    The one could be The Headless Cupid.

  • billy bogan 11/13/2008 3:20:27 PM

    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

  • Dorrie 11/11/2008 4:00:06 PM

    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.

  • Lorilei 11/11/2008 2:07:40 PM

    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.

  • Nicole 11/10/2008 4:47:45 AM

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

  • Nicole 11/10/2008 4:44:45 AM

    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

  • Nicole 11/10/2008 4:40:31 AM

    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

  • Nicole 11/10/2008 4:39:39 AM

    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

  • Shaneen 11/7/2008 10:02:46 PM

    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!

  • Kymmie 11/7/2008 10:51:59 AM

    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

  • Kymmie 11/7/2008 9:48:50 AM

    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!!

  • Shaneen 11/7/2008 12:09:22 AM

    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!

  • Elwenaur 11/6/2008 7:24:34 PM

    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.

  • kathy k 11/6/2008 2:19:58 PM

    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.

  • kate 11/6/2008 2:04:15 PM

    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?

  • kathy k 11/6/2008 1:59:00 PM

    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.

  • jessi 11/5/2008 10:00:56 PM

    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.

  • Stephanie 11/5/2008 2:10:18 PM

    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!

  • Ruby Kapture 11/4/2008 3:01:34 PM

    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...

  • Kim 11/4/2008 1:08:22 PM

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

  • Sara 11/4/2008 10:55:08 AM

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

  • Kim 11/4/2008 6:40:24 AM

    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!

  • Dawn 11/1/2008 9:37:30 PM

    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.

  • Sara 11/1/2008 1:46:06 PM

    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

  • crystal 10/31/2008 1:22:19 PM

    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)

  • Zach 10/31/2008 2:33:54 AM

    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.

  • Pamina 10/29/2008 6:36:01 PM

    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?

  • Zri 10/29/2008 12:17:25 AM

    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

  • julia 10/28/2008 9:19:18 PM

    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!

  • Rose 10/27/2008 10:44:11 PM

    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?

  • Shadow 10/27/2008 12:12:33 AM

    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?

  • Jen 10/23/2008 9:03:41 PM

    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.

  • Conner 10/23/2008 8:55:05 PM

    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.

  • Sally 10/23/2008 6:41:28 PM

    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

  • Rebecca Branam 10/22/2008 10:49:22 AM

    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!

  • Jane 10/21/2008 9:45:29 AM

    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!

  • TJ 10/18/2008 11:12:26 PM

    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.

  • TJ 10/18/2008 11:10:41 PM

    Hi.

  • Liz 10/17/2008 2:02:31 PM

    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.

  • MsFlame 10/17/2008 1:06:03 PM

    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!!!!

  • Julie 10/17/2008 12:29:10 PM

    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.

  • Dee 10/14/2008 10:27:19 PM

    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.

  • Theresa 10/14/2008 5:20:58 PM

    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!!

  • Elena 10/13/2008 1:25:43 AM

    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

  • Julie 10/12/2008 1:59:18 PM

    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?

  • Aubrey Hutto 10/7/2008 9:17:58 PM

    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.

  • madi 10/7/2008 12:59:37 PM

    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.

  • Victoria Walton 10/4/2008 9:31:30 PM

    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!

  • Jamie 10/4/2008 10:06:19 AM

    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!

  • billy bogan 10/2/2008 3:26:02 PM

    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

  • Stuart Wilson 9/29/2008 9:36:25 PM

    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

  • Travis 9/23/2008 12:21:29 PM

    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.

  • Jolie 9/20/2008 10:31:57 PM

    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. :)

  • Tom Powell 9/15/2008 3:35:43 PM

    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

  • Cathy Burr 9/9/2008 8:39:18 PM

    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.

  • Lyrka 8/30/2008 11:32:49 PM

    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!

  • Lyrka 8/30/2008 11:32:25 PM

    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!

  • Adam Richards 8/30/2008 7:29:07 PM

    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.

  • Nicole 8/25/2008 10:52:10 PM

    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!!!!!!

  • Stephanie 8/21/2008 7:06:13 PM

    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

  • connie 8/11/2008 4:34:24 PM

    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

  • Travis 8/4/2008 8:20:27 PM

    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

  • Carrie 7/24/2008 4:17:19 PM

    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.

  • Kitty Marie 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...

  • Lauren 7/14/2008 10:54:09 PM

    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!

  • auntydale 7/3/2008 7:28:54 PM

    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.

  • Jason M 7/2/2008 9:31:06 AM

    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.

  • Charlotte 7/2/2008 9:23:00 AM

    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.

  • Travis 7/1/2008 1:33:31 PM

    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?

  • Katie Anderson 6/30/2008 1:45:30 PM

    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!

  • Nancy 6/24/2008 4:01:35 PM

    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

  • Sarah 6/24/2008 1:18:39 AM

    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 =)

  • Sarah 6/24/2008 1:05:47 AM

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

  • Jennifer 6/18/2008 6:30:05 PM

    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.

  • wendy 6/17/2008 6:17:42 PM

    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

  • TINAH 6/12/2008 2:41:50 AM

    just like it

  • Dina 6/7/2008 11:20:23 AM

    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

  • Francene Cox 5/8/2008 12:00:00 AM

    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.

  • terri 4/20/2008 12:00:00 AM

    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?

  • betsy 4/16/2008 12:00:00 AM

    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?

  • seabass 4/15/2008 12:00:00 AM

    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!

  • Emelie 4/8/2008 12:00:00 AM

    The Handmaid's Tale by Maragaret Atwood?

  • Emelie 4/8/2008 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.

  • Emily 4/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

    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!

  • CJ 4/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

    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.

  • rob 3/10/2008 12:00:00 AM

    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

  • jake 2/23/2008 12:00:00 AM

    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.

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