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I read a book about 8 years ago that I really liked I want to read it again and can't find it anywhere. Set in the old west, heroine has loved hero for many yeas (there is a pretty big age gap I think) he marrys her out of necessity I don't think it was money related but I cannot say for sure. He is of Hispanic heritag... | 2016-10-04T00:00:00 | 959090 | [
"Savor the magic of New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer in a dazzlingly sensual story of turn-of-the-century Texas, of a man as enigmatic and forbidding as the sun-drenched land--and the woman who dares to cross into the uncharted territory of his heart.To Bernadette Barron, Eduardo Cortes was the enemy.... |
I've read this around 10 years ago, I am pretty sure it was originally published in English, maybe 300 pages long.I BELIEVE this was the story: A guy meets his sister's friend who is going to be the brides maid for her upcoming wedding. He immediately falls for her as she looks like the beautiful statue of a Roman godd... | 2020-08-14T00:00:00 | 776329 | [
"When Philip Wardman's feminine ideal, a Greek goddess, appears in the flesh as Senta Pelham, Philip thinks he has found true love. But darker forces are at work, and Senta is led to propose that Philip prove his love by committing murder. When Philip Wardman's feminine ideal, a Greek goddess, appears in the flesh ... |
I have been really struggling to remember the name of this book so any help would be much appreciated.What I can remember is that it was a YA Fantasy and the Heroine lived in a tribe in the desert (I think). She ends up leaving for some reason and joins a group of rebels??? that are living in caves in a mountain. The r... | 2018-02-14T00:00:00 | 25973595 | [
"Attention Dune Fans!For nine months of the year, the sands of the Sharani Desert are safe. The genesauri—giant, flying, serpentine monsters who hunt across the desert in enormous packs—lie dormant. The smallest of their kind is able to take down a single man with ease, and the largest is able to swallow entire cla... |
I saw this recently at Barnes and Noble, it was about a girl who has basically built another life in her mind, sort of like daydreaming an alternate personality. The blurb described this fantasy interfering with her real life, because of course she meets a boy she actually likes IRL. It was a modern setting, so I'm hav... | 2017-11-08T00:00:00 | 34091699 | [
"Victoria Cruz inhabits two worlds: In one, she is a rock star, thrashing the stage with her husky voice and purple-streaked hair. In the other, currently serving as her reality, Victoria is a shy teenager with overprotective Cuban parents, who sleepwalks through her life at the prestigious Evanston Academy. Unable... |
What I remember as the mush of the series:The villains of the series are these lizard people that have enslaved other animal races as slaves. One slave, taken from her mother as a cub because of her rare fur color is raised as a pampered pet. Something happens to make her masters think she is dangerous and they throw h... | 2019-09-21T00:00:00 | 58436 | [
"Here is an epic set in a far distant universe--a saga of faraway planets and of races strange and more fantastic than an ever seen on our world. Yet their struggles are universal: for justice, for freedom, for peace. \"Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles\" is a sweeping adventure that will transport you to another time, ... |
I'm trying to remember the title and author of a book about a sick girl (cancer patient?) who narrates her relationship with a childhood friend. The author uses various "genres" (emails, letters, lists, etc.) within the novel itself, mostly to show correspondence between the girl + love interest. For some reason "McFar... | 2011-12-03T00:00:00 | 127447 | [
"Told in letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors’ reports, and instant messages, the heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia. From: Melinda SkyeTo: ReadersSubject: JesseHi! I can’t believe it. What a surprise from Jesse. When he got my e-mail about being accepted by the Washington Scho... |
The book I am looking for was published within the last year I do believe. I think it would be in the new adult or contemporary fiction genre. The synopsis was similar to this:The heroine comes home to her roommate being raped. She shoots the guy. The guy ended up having mob affiliations so they went on the run. Any id... | 2013-10-15T00:00:00 | 18221931 | [
"Emma decided to skip the gym and went home early. It was the last easy decision she made because she found her roommate being raped by her boyfriend. She had two choices. Call the cops and be killed by his family’s mafia connections or kill him first and hope to survive. There was no choice to her. She killed the ... |
A picture book published in the early 80s or earlier. A rich child is faced with a boring birthday party and asks the butler to invite monsters. The book alternates between the 'real' party, where he receives underpants for presents, has to be neat and polite, and not comment on his uncle's slipping toupee; versus the ... | 2019-09-16T00:00:00 | 3878470 | [
"With deft waves of the hand, a rich boy's kindly butler enlivens Peter's birthday celebration with sedate uncles and aunts by producing messy, but merry monsters. With deft waves of the hand, a rich boy's kindly butler enlivens Peter's birthday celebration with sedate uncles and aunts by producing messy, but merry... |
Mod When did you read this Abigail? And adult books can have children as protagonists. To Kill a Mockingbird for example. I'm assuming it was set in the Amazon? Was there a paranormal portion of the book? I'm basing that question on your talking about giant eggs and the bat.Also, if this is a specific book, you ... | 2013-12-15T00:00:00 | 3304 | [
"Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold is about to join his fearless grandmother on the trip of a lifetime. An International Geographic expedition is headed to the dangerous, remote wilds of South America, on a mission to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast.But there are many secrets hidden in th... |
Looking for a book I read in the mid to late 90s. It was a chapter/YA book aimed at tweens about a boy (I think) who worked on a ranch/farm with emus or ostriches, I believe for the purpose of racing them. Must have been published in the 80s or 90s. May have been set in Australia but I'm not sure. I remember it had a r... | 2019-05-09T00:00:00 | 1168407 | [
"Jack Daw loves birds - all shapes, sizes, and breeds. One day his class visits the local zoo, and weighing 345 punds, this tremendous creature immediately captures jack's heart. That's when Jack comes up with a plan. He steals an extra ostrich egg that's about to be fed to a snake, and brings it home to his family... |
I don't really know if the book has warrior in the title but it's a book, where a young woman takes a baby which some other woman has left behind. The childen on this farm/planet than choose which of the men/alien/warrior will be its father and mate/husband for its mothers. This boy points at the biggest of a group of ... | 2021-01-29T00:00:00 | 54565398 | [
"A few years earlier there had been an invasion. Hordes of tall, grey aliens with tusks arrived in spaceships as big as cities. Before all the news went dark, humans named the creatures orcs. The human armies had fought and failed. War crimes were committed on both sides. Eventually, society collapsed and the gover... |
I read this in 2010/2011 and it was a trilogy. The first book is about a vampire named Lucian and at the beginning of the book he goes into a library, sees a girl who has his mother's ring and supposedly since she found the ring they are destined to be together..I really wish I remembered more of the book!!! | 2012-12-02T00:00:00 | 624386 | [
"A TASTE FOR PASSION is the the first book in the Kendrian Vampires series.Rana Sterling finally meets the man of her dreams and boy does he know how to push all the right buttons. Only, Mr. Tall, Dark and Too-Good-to-Be-True turns out to be just that-he's beyond her world.Lucian Trevane has a duty to fulfill. He's... |
one cat had mismatched eyespeople were making stew from catsthere were two tigersthe boy and a few cats got shipwrecked I think | 2019-03-12T00:00:00 | 25737020 | [
"Talking cats, a missing princess, swordfights with villains, and secret identities combine in this epic tale of bravery and self-discovery on the high seas. Duncan is very smart. He also has a most unusual gift. So why does his mother encourage him to be perfectly average and insist he only get mediocre grades ? H... |
Hi all, ive been thinking about a book, that i read maybe 6 years ago but im not sure when it came out, for a while and cant figure out the name of it. It was a crime thriller and the only parts i can remember are that there was a terrorist that tied to use some bioweapon to kill everyone, there was a lesbian sex part ... | 2021-03-03T00:00:00 | 18144124 | [
"A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkya... |
Found it in a goodwill in 2021, and didn't pick it up. It was gone by the time I went back for it and I can't remember the name. I think the cover was red. It was a paperback, and it looked pretty old. I remember the synopsis on the back mentioned the woman having the party did not kill the man, and rather she just fou... | 2021-11-24T00:00:00 | 16346 | [
"Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. ‘Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?’ she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.Desperate to dispose of the ... |
The book is a murder mystery. The main character is a female investigator/detective/police. Her brother is the murderer in the novel, and has recently showed up killing in her hometown. Her brother (the murderer) is coming to kill her. He has a creepy obsession with blood/even menstrual blood. Also, there is a history ... | 2013-01-03T00:00:00 | 481335 | [
"DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES...He's watching you. He knows what you're doing. He knows what you're thinking. He's coming after you.DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES...He has a knife. The steel blade gleams. Whenever you close your eyes, you can see it--the tip of his knife, pointing at your chest.DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES...He's closing... |
The book explained about how Moses was confronted by the sorcerers and how the guy and the priests killed the sorcerer in the end. | 2019-07-02T00:00:00 | 626118 | [
"Ex-detective Michael Thorn has retired from the police force, and is eager to lead a normal life for once. His days of fighting to protect the innocent are over. But his “retirement” isn't going to be the long-deserved rest he expected. His new home in rural New England has many strange stories surrounding it. But... |
Here’s what I know: (some spoilers ahead) - It’s one of those best friend ones- I think she either lives with her (guy) best friend or are next door neighbours or used to be next door neighbours - there may be a large family involved (one of them might have a large family) but that could be wrong - At the start of the ... | 2018-05-28T00:00:00 | 28369891 | [
"In a sprint, every millisecond counts. When you’re waiting for love, those milliseconds can feel like eons. High school senior Lucas Preston has it all: star of the track team, a scholarship waiting for him, an apartment to himself and a revolving door of girlfriends. He also has an older sister, five younger b... |
attention of the school 'bad boy'. You eventually learn that he lives in a circus that is run by supernaturals at night. The initial group is the 2 girls and 3 guys she meets at the school. The master of the circus who is some kind of beast the bad boy is his son. There are also 2 girls you later find out are somehow s... | 2016-06-01T00:00:00 | 23656424 | [
"Welcome to Whispering Bluff, Tennessee. Where the guys are hot. The girls are sweet. And nothing is what it seems... Flint DeLuca is sick and tired of moving. Her and her dad have moved three times in the past year. But that's the life of a carnie. Even an ex-carnie like her. Her father swears this is the last mo... |
I read this book about 10-15 years ago. It was on the shelf in the children's section of the library, so it probably wasn't too old. The story, as far as I can remember, was about a person from normal world entering this magical forest which only certain people can enter. Maybe only certain people can even see it. Ther... | 2021-02-14T00:00:00 | 10353049 | [
"For fans of the Chronicles of Narnia comes the second book in the Wildwood Chronicles, the New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure series by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society.The three books in the Wildwood Chronicles capti... |
Hey i read this book some years back, and i can't remember the title or the author.I'll write down what i can remember...It's about a man that got in a fight in his hometown, he beat up the guy he got in the fight with. After that he gets a call, or a letter i can't remember from a girl he used to know. She told him sh... | 2013-03-22T00:00:00 | 3675828 | [
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben’s blistering new Myron Bolitar thriller takes Myron—and his millions of fans—where they have never gone beforeMyron Bolitar hasn’t heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely... |
I read this novel as an ebook in like 2012, but I'm pretty sure it was written in the 90's. The plot of the book went something like this:A girl is sacrificed by her village to a cult who protects the region. She is given to a warrior as a reward for winning a battle. They are both virgins but she knows more about sex ... | 2016-06-09T00:00:00 | 6363641 | [
"In Katya's world, villagers sacrifice their daughters as sex slaves for a sect of warriors who keep their lands safe from invasion. When Katya herself is chosen as a \"bride\", although she's always questioned the arrangement, she submits for the sake of her family. She has no idea what to expect from the warriors... |
I think this was part of an anthology I read in my teens.It centres around a group of scientists in a lab observing another dimension through some form of apparatus. They see what appears to be an idyllic looking house with children? playing on a lawn. One of the scientists becomes so smitten over time that he eventual... | 2013-03-23T00:00:00 | 1597423 | [
"Fiction and Essaysix • Introduction (The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. I) • (1989) essay by Anne Devereaux Jordan 1 • Window • (1980) shortstory by Bob Leman 23 • Insects in Amber • (1978) novella by Tom Reamy 82 • Free Dirt • (1955) shortstory by Charles Beaumont 94 • Ri... |
Hi everyone. Have posted here before with great success so gonna give it another go. Once again memory is very vague and could well be mixing books, but here goes..I think the book in question was post-apocalyptic. One plot arc has a protagonist train night and day with a sword in order to challenge another to a duel. ... | 2018-01-03T00:00:00 | 12891107 | [
"The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in bl... |
This is driving me NUTS! I read this a few years ago and cannot remember the title or the author. It's this guy's last year as a cop or in the FBI, seems like he was overweight and drank a lot. I think he lived in a house where the backyard always flooded. This girl is taking his place and his papers are a mess and she... | 2012-07-24T00:00:00 | 1024724 | [
"From Jonathan Nasaw, whose heart-stopping debut was hailed as \"a superior thriller\" (\"The Washington Post\") and \"wickedly compelling\" (\"The Oregonian\"), comes a new novel that takes readers into the depths of\"Fear Itself\"Is it possible to be scared to death? FBI Special Agent E. L. Pender thinks so -- wh... |
Update: I found the book with the help of my local library, it's called "Pets for Sale" by Rita GelmanI remember reading this book when I was a kid. I read it in the mid 90s. A little boy is looking for a pet, and visits this very odd pet shop; I remember that the entire story was in rhyme.(It wasn't Puck's peculiar Pe... | 2019-04-16T00:00:00 | 15250120 | [
"A pet store owner has many strange animals to pick from, but the pet a young boy finally decides on is a big surprise."
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The book begins with heroine finding out that her fiance/boyfriend is cheating on her. So she goes to the house and find her boyfriend with other woman . She finds out that the hero is the woman's (cheater) girlfriend. They exchange words and it gets heated. Hero and heroine leave together. I read that book last year. ... | 2020-12-02T00:00:00 | 44595912 | [
"First Rule of Spite Club: Don’t fall for your fake boyfriend. Here’s what happened:My boyfriend cheated on me with Nick Mason’s girlfriend.We’re both angry. What better way to get revenge than to pretend to get together out of spite?Nick is rude and rebellious and completely freaking gorgeous. He's not my type, an... |
I don't remember much, mostly just my mental image of the last scene. Sorry for the vague details. I believe it was set in old England, though I'm not sure. I read it in maybe 2014 -2016. I think if was an old-fashioned book. I don't know if it was written in modern times and just set in old times, or actually written ... | 2019-03-28T00:00:00 | 13623948 | [
"From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an \"enchanting tale to treasure,\" The Great Unexpected captures the heart ... |
A young adult fantasy told from the view point of an intelligent cheetah. We find out that back in the past the ancient egyptian's had breeding programs to produce this big cat.. but it was lost in time . In the future this breeding program has been re-introduced. | 2018-01-04T00:00:00 | 827904 | [
"Two unusual black cheetahs share a mental link, one cat coming from the past to reveal scenes from his life with the young pharaoh Tutankhamen, and one struggling to survive in a future world ravaged by ecological disaster."
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I can't remember this book which one day caught my eye: All I remember was that the author had quite a long complex name and a small part of the blurb...there were three characters each with the name of either a colour or one relating to a colour. I believe it to be quite a recent release. The cover is a white hardback... | 2014-11-18T00:00:00 | 19288239 | [
"A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names wer... |
i read this book when i was a 5th-6th grader, but it was written for teenagers. What I can remember is there's a girl in her grandma's house (I think the grandma has died), and she spends a lot of time in the attic with her cat, and she talks kinda a lot about eating crackers and cheese. She talks about her neighbor to... | 2015-05-07T00:00:00 | 5982448 | [
"\"I had everything I needed to run a household: a house, food, and a new family. From now on it would just be me and Sammy–the two of us, and no one else.\"A tragic accident has turned eleven-year-old Aubrey’s world upside down. Starting a new life all alone, Aubrey has everything she thinks she needs: SpaghettiOs... |
I bought this book from a library sale in the early 90s when I was at primary school. The book would have been written around the 80s or very early 90s. It was a children’s novel.The cover was black with a portrait in the centre which was in an oval frame.I think the ghost was called Harriet and she wore a white dress ... | 2018-11-24T00:00:00 | 267972 | [
"Beware of Helen... Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her ... our \"poor stepsister\" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out i... |
I read this book a couple years ago. The girl lives in a different state and has her own life. Her parents convince her to come home for her birthday and throw a big party. She meets a man in the green house while she is trying to get away from the party. Back at the party, she has to open a sealed box and it says that... | 2021-10-18T00:00:00 | 55057634 | [
"In my world, a bride can be given... or she can be taken.When Winter O'Brien was given to me, she thought she had a say in the matter. She was wrong.She is my bride. Mine to claim, mine to punish, and mine to use as shamefully as I please. The sting of my belt on her bare bottom will teach her to obey, but obedien... |
I read this book on Kindle- pretty sure it was a free download in the early 2010s. The book follows a girl throughout her whole life. She has two guy friends who play football with her. When she's in high school her parents die and her two guy friends. They all go to college together and one of the guy friends is the q... | 2020-04-24T00:00:00 | 11382346 | [
"Fall in love with the boy next door in this sweet contemporary romance by USA Today Best Selling Author, Jillian Dodd.You know, being friends with two cute boys does have its benefits.There's Danny. Danny is a golden boy in every way. He has dreamy blue eyes and blonde hair that always looks perfect, even when it’... |
So a long time ago I read this book and I only remember one scene from it and it was his , so the girl is sleeping in her bed and the guy sneaks into her room and hides under her so he’s under there and starts to perform some hand gestures if you know what I mean and after he’s done with that his phone ends ringing and... | 2018-02-14T00:00:00 | 35281628 | [
"I didn’t notice her before…but now I do. The shiny strands of gold in her silky brown hair. Tiny crinkles between her eyebrows when she frowns. Her passion for neatness. Once I focus on her, I can’t take my eyes from my newest obsession. Ever. I need to know everything about her. Her past. Her present. The way sh... |
Ok, I remember that every single person alive had some sort of pass. Either a day time pass or night time. The day time people had a curfew and so did the night time people. It was because of over population, I believe. It was the system put in place to balance out everything. The two separate populations never saw eac... | 2013-09-07T00:00:00 | 22285 | [
"Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends ga... |
It’s about a boy and a girl who’s parents marry each other but the parents are rockstars. After the wedding in the first chapters they go on a tour. One of the roadies is always reading ian flemings James Bond one of the parents or one of the absent parents used to be a spy for the president of the United States and th... | 2021-04-03T00:00:00 | 3599149 | [
"Fame has arrived for rockers Blaze and Roger. Just married, leaving Los Angeles, and touring the United States with teenagers Q (Quest) and Angela in tow, the excitement heightens in Philadelphia when Angela realizes she's being followed. Q soon learns the secret about Angela's real mother - a former Secret Servic... |
Hello,I'm looking for a book I read around 2009 or 2010. I don't know if it was considered a new book back then or when it was published. I remember the focus being heavily about childhood and growing up in your home town.I only have two specific details I remember. One was that the main character had a large group of ... | 2019-10-18T00:00:00 | 6135237 | [
"The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiabl... |
** In search of a young adult mystery/thriller I read in 7th grade English 2005-2006. All I remember is the title was only 1 word - and the cover was a black background with a woman blinded folded in a red cloth. The protagonist was a teenage girl- but that’s all I remember. Some sort of mystery with a male antagonist.... | 2020-04-05T00:00:00 | 383563 | [
"Maggie doesn't know that there's a terrible secret buried in the basement--and a cold-blooded killer nearby who's determined to keep it that way. Maggie doesn't know that there's a terrible secret buried in the basement--and a cold-blooded killer nearby who's determined to keep it that way. ...more"
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This book is about a widow and widower who met on a cruise ship and left together. The widow husband was an architect who died in an accident at work. She worked for a company owning hotels. The widower was a lawyer his wife died of cancer. They moved in together soon after meeting each other but traveled a lot. They e... | 2017-12-02T00:00:00 | 8553779 | [
"Mia Thomas has buried herself in her work since her husband's death in a freak accident. Against her better judgment she agrees to go on a European cruise with her daughter's family. The first night at sea she meets a widowed attorney and a shipboard romance ensues, that doesn't fizzle when the ship docks. Against... |
It featured a silver-haired girl who became the first female wizard. She lived in a world where people had their fates woven as a tapestry at birth and they had to complete it before they died. The only name I recall is that she had a winged insect-like mount named Opal-Fire. It started with her tricking Death into tak... | 2013-02-03T00:00:00 | 795683 | [
"When news of dragon trouble comes, Marwen doesn't scoff even though dragons haven't flown in the land of Ve for many generations. Her destiny has been woven, and it will lead her to lost lands, to the powerful magic of the Wizard's staff and to a mystery no one should have to face alone. When news of dragon troubl... |
I read this around 2014. The cover is a dull color, maybe a light gray/green/blue, might have a face or a ship on it. The author's last name is probably around mid-alphabet.The main character is a young girl named Adeline, possibly Addie for short. At some point her father, the captain of a ship, leaves to sail somewhe... | 2020-08-08T00:00:00 | 460068 | [
"After the death of her mother, Adaline is sent to live in St. Louis while her father—the famous scout Kit Carson—explores the West. Yearning for the faraway world of her mother's people and desperate for proof of her father's love, Adaline flees the home of her cruel relatives to forge her own course through the w... |
about a girl who put a curse on her sister who is more popular than she is. gave her sister a egyptian necklace that her mother also wears. their father had also put the curse on their mother but he died instead as he did not translate the curse 'conditions' correctly, which is that if the cursed one doesnt die, the on... | 2013-06-18T00:00:00 | 7091296 | [
"Mary expected her seventeenth birthday to be a blowout to remember, courtesy of her best friends, fellow New York City prepsters Amy and Joon, and her doting boyfriend, Trick. Instead, the day starts badly and gets worse. After waking up in a mortifying place with a massive, unexplainable hangover, Mary... |
I just read this book in the last two years. The young woman calls off her wedding and is going through the older woman's journals in her house. It turns out the old woman, who lost her husband shortly after they were married, had smuggled women out of abusive relationships. Her house was a "stop" on the road so these ... | 2021-06-10T00:00:00 | 35084165 | [
"The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, and Nancy ThayerOn the weekend of h... |
Meets a baseball player? And she doesn’t know who he is, he wants to be with her but she is a loner. I haven’t read this romantic book and I can’t find it. | 2021-11-22T00:00:00 | 39329375 | [
"Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the fiercely loyal and sassily sexy characters in the Love in Bloom big-family romance collection. All Love in Bloom books can be enjoyed as stand-alone novels or as part of the larger ... |
This book was published in the 1990's (possibly in the late 1980's but that is a stretch). It is about a girl who moves in with her father (whom I don't think she really knew prior). I don't remember the plot but the elements that stand out are: -Her father built a computer into the house called "house cat" and the com... | 2014-10-13T00:00:00 | 498414 | [
"Spider's state-of-the-art computer allows her to adopt a new personality online, but causes problems in her relationships at home. It takes computer whiz Jerry and his uncle to make Spider see that she needs real friends -- but even they may be too late. Spider's state-of-the-art computer allows her to adopt a new... |
This book takes place in 2 different time periods and goes back and forth. The early time period 1940s I think is about a woman who is a single mom who works as a maid. She has to leave her toddler son home while she goes to work. When she comes home he is gone. THere is a blizzard at the time. She never finds him. THe... | 2017-04-22T00:00:00 | 13543138 | [
"In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels--The Violets of March and The Bungalow. With Blackberry Winter--taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon--Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time. Seattle... |
The book (series) is about a female who turns herself over to what was possibly a dark fairy king. There is a poem in pieces throughout the book and in its full at the very end. It turns out the girl changed her identity and removed her memories, so she could not remember that she was the queen. Throughout the book, th... | 2018-11-25T00:00:00 | 15847757 | [
"I gasp as my body curls toward Brennus like a flower to the sun, for the pleasure of it. He holds me close to him. His nose grazes the length of my neck. He breathes me in. I feel the roar and rush of my heartbeat. I’m his toy; his energy streams into me. He winds the invisible key in my back and the euphoria ratc... |
I think it was a bestseller, about what it was really like to be a secretary in a Mad Men type sexist world. | 2018-07-14T00:00:00 | 196842 | [
"Before Valley of the Dolls and Sex and the City--the iconic novel of ambitious career girls in New York CityWhen it was first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe's debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There's Ivy League Caroli... |
Mary Reilly is a housemaid who falls in love with Dr. Jekyll; I'm not sure all of the details match, though. | 2018-07-12T00:00:00 | 29850558 | [
"This is an alternate cover edition for B006E905OW Betrayed by those she trusted, penniless and alone, Darcie Finch is forced to accept a position that no one else dares, as assistant to dangerously attractive Dr. Damien Cole. Ignoring the whispered warnings and rumours that he's a man to fear, she takes her positi... |
I read this book sometime late 1990s/early 2000s. A young girl went to stay with her aunt for the summer. Her aunt lived in a house that had been in the family for awhile. The main character was staying in a room with a balcony? that overlooked the property towards a stream or river. The house had a tower that the girl... | 2015-06-06T00:00:00 | 3210839 | [
"Eleven-year-old Kathy, spending the summer with her aunt in her old family mansion, is visited by the ghost of a beautiful woman who died in the nineteenth century."
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Hi I am looking for a book I read as a preteen 12-14(I am 39 now). It may have been published between 1985-1995. Sorry it was a second hand copy I picked up so I am not sure. Plot synopsis:Prologue:A nurse is working late one night when a very rich man and young woman come in. The woman is in labor. The man pays off th... | 2021-08-06T00:00:00 | 6539974 | [
"Two lovers, one from the a wealthy Newport family, the other residing in the poorer section of town inhabited mostly by domestic servants, struggle to keep their illicit relationship a secret."
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Read this book on 2018. It takes place in the not too distant future. There are two main characters. One tells the story through diary entries and the other through a form of text messaging. They wear something called apparati that are like cell phones. | 2019-02-19T00:00:00 | 7334201 | [
"The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years—and the timeless and tender feeling... |
Remembered plot: The heroine goes on a quest/ mission to get a super weapon/magic item that would save the day and defeat the "evil" empire. Somehow gets stuck in time and comes back to find her kingdom lost the war and the new people aren't that bad. Book centers around her acceptance of this. I think there was also s... | 2019-06-30T00:00:00 | 9837154 | [
"Time stole victory.Medair an Rynstar returned too late to drive back the Ibisian invasion. Centuries too late.When friend and enemy have become the same thing, what use are the weapons Medair planned to use to protect her Empire? There is no magic, no artefact, no enchanted trinket which can undo the past.But no m... |
My elementary school library had this book so I know it was published before 1999 for sure. It was about as long as a Babysitter's Club book and would have been about the same reading level.It was about a girl who procrastinates on a big homework assignment and then ends up copying her older brother's (or sister's?) es... | 2018-04-13T00:00:00 | 1007963 | [
"Procrastination leads to plagiarism for Lizzie when, in order to hand her big research paper in on time, she copies one of her older brother's papers, and is shocked when the teacher wants to publish it in the school paper. Procrastination leads to plagiarism for Lizzie when, in order to hand her big research pape... |
Ok so I cannot remember much about the series but one book (I think maybe third of fourth in series). Revolves around a woman you used to act in adult movies, and is now a director. She is going to leave the business after completing her money goals so she can raise her daughter without worries. She is being stalked by... | 2021-02-12T00:00:00 | 31286555 | [
"Vincent Quinn is not at all what I picture when I think of a porn star. She looks fresh-faced and youthful, with an amazing, natural body, and she’s both smart and independent. She’s even a great mom, as far as I can tell. I’m too professional to say it, but even if this weren’t a job, I’d have the urge to prote... |
A bride runs from the church In wedding dress and jumps on the back of a bikers bike waiting at traffic lights he takes her away to I think a bad he owns ? And they fall in love | 2014-05-20T00:00:00 | 11084987 | [
"When lingerie heiress Brandy Summer gets cold feet and runs out on her Vegas wedding, she has nowhere to turn - so she hijacks a hunky biker waiting for a red light and begs him for help. What she doesn’t know is that her instincts are right: the groom has a hidden agenda. He needs her money to pay off his gamblin... |
The story is about a boy when one day woke up to find that his body hair is growing rapidly. He dont say it to his parents instead shave it regularly.He visits his family doctor regularly to take some medicine. One day in school duri g a performance his hair grows rapidly changing him to a dog. Later he found that his ... | 2020-11-06T00:00:00 | 125548 | [
"He's having a really, really bad hair day...Larry Boyd just found the coolest thing in the trash. It's an old bottle of INSTA-TAN. \"Rub on a dark suntan in minute\" - that's what the label says. So Larry and his friends do. But nothing much happens.Until Larry notices the hair. Dark spiky hair growing on his hand... |
I read this book as a pre-teen/young teen in the mid 90's. My dad brought home from a thrift store, so I don't know how old the book was when I got a hold of it. It is a fairly small book, only 100ish pages. I don't remember many of the stories because they really scared me at that young age; but here are the details o... | 2019-10-07T00:00:00 | 43256001 | [
"Roger Elwood's family of fictional horrors featuring stories about a Sadist, Ghoul, Cannibal, Psycho, Werewolf, Vampire and many more!Features stories from Brian Lumley, Steve Barnes, Luc Scott, K.M O'Donnell, Joseph Payne Brennan, Barry N. Malzberg, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas N. Scottia and Chelsea Quinn Yarbo, Robi... |
I read this somewhere around 1999-2004. It was about four teen girls who all become best friends and I think they make a pact of some sort. One of the girls is dating an athlete and she becomes pregnant, and they discover the boyfriend was HIV positive. When she goes into labour, one of the other girls tells the parame... | 2014-01-24T00:00:00 | 1114850 | [
"Megan and her friends Kit, Mia, and Elaine made an eighth grade pact to be \"friends till the end\", but in their junior year of high school, Kit becomes pregnant and desperately needs her friends' help. Megan is determined to stand by her, but all the conflicts inspire her to research the topic of teen sex and pr... |
Read in the early 2010sIt was about a little fairy girl (I think she may have had red hair and a name that started with F but that I'm not sure) who was on a journey, possibly to save her home. She could only walk on earth (like the forest floor) and could not walk on roads because she had to stay in contact with natur... | 2021-11-22T00:00:00 | 9757986 | [
"Little Fur is an elf troll who lives in a secret wilderness at the heart of a great human city. She is a healer. She sings to the ancient trees that protect the small wilderness.But one day Crow tells of humans who will come to burn the trees. To protect her home and her friends, Little Fur must venture for the fi... |
I'm pretty sure the authors name starts with a D, the author always adds a character with his name in the book as a random character, and it's a pretty big series, the main character of the series works in the navy, and he collects old cars, and he has a flirty relationship with a senator, his partner is an italian guy... | 2013-11-04T00:00:00 | 361081 | [
"Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America's deep-diving nuclear arsenal. ... |
I read it in the mid-1990s; not sure how old it was then. May not have been set in the same year it was published, but it probably takes place in the 80s, given some details. College setting, multiple POV characters. Three girls are a mini-clique. One of them was raped as a teenager: she was home alone and the rapist c... | 2019-08-04T00:00:00 | 688158 | [
"They don’t call themselves pretty girls but Amazons—these three young women at the University of North Carolina. Alexandria, Penelope, and Caroline are too tall, too smart, too striking, and too uncertain to be standard “pretty girls.” But as they struggle through a critical semester in their lives, pretty girls i... |
A girl goes to a school or boarding school I think for snowboarding and she meets a guy who’s in charge of the whole place and he’s either same age as Hernandez or a bit older and his name is ryker I think I’m not sure. He’s a bit of a dick to her but eventually they start liking eachother | 2018-02-24T00:00:00 | 27354942 | [
"It’s not a place for the weak.No one here tolerates wimps.If you can’t handle it, leave.When Roxie Slade snaps into a pair of skis, there’s no one on Sugarville Mountain in Vermont who can keep up with her. Not even the boys. Still, Roxie was shocked when she received a scholarship to Stark Springs Academy, a boar... |
SOLVED: _Archangel_ by Mike ConnerI read the back of this in a bookstore, and didn't get the book (out of $$$) - came back next time, and someone else had snatched it.Back cover blurb was that African (Americans?) were immune to this deadly/fatal disease, and kinda a slap in the face to the 'superior race' bigots. But,... | 2013-01-29T00:00:00 | 924639 | [
"This alternative sci-fi novel set in an otherworldly Minneapolis in the late 1920s, finds the city devastated by a mysterious plague & newspaperman Danny Constantine investigating a series of murders--an investigation that goes nowhere until he meets \"the Archangel.\" This alternative sci-fi novel set in an other... |
I picked up this story collection at a book store more than ten years ago and read some of the stories and the ideas have stayed with me. It was a collection of a single author. One is about a man who dreams of meeting a woman named Guennivere because is name is either Arthur or Lancelot, I can't remember which. He has... | 2012-04-03T00:00:00 | 244330 | [
"A sweet, wry, and whimsical collection of short stories from one of America's truly great comedic minds.Carl Reiner will have you laughing out loud at these twenty-five nostalgic tales with an off-beat flair, as he tackles such wide-rangeing topics as:Phone Sex: Dial 411 for Legal SmutEvangelism: Sissy Sue and the... |
This should be easy, but Google isnt helping. It was a children’s book from the 1980s. The nain character, Cass, couldn’t keep a secret and ended up embarrassing her family and friends. Her mom came up with plan- every day, three people would tell her things and she had to figure out which one was the secret. If she ma... | 2020-09-28T00:00:00 | 12950589 | [
"By becoming the subject of her mother's experiment for a class in behavior modification, Cass learns how to keep a secret. Then she learns a secret that traps her in a no-win situation between two friends. By becoming the subject of her mother's experiment for a class in behavior modification, Cass learns how to k... |
Literary Fiction; Historical Fiction; Colonial Fiction; Set In 19th Century AfricaIn Possibly colonial Africa, the construction of a railway line is taking place. But the Indian workers brought in to perform the task are being abducted by a Man eater. Our Protagonist and (I think ?) some other hunters have been hired t... | 2019-05-12T00:00:00 | 862052 | [
"St. Martin's is proud to present a new series of the greatest classics in the literature of hunting and adventure, chosen from the personal library of writer and big game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick. These showcase volumes will once again make available the true masterpieces of Africana to collectors, armchair ... |
I read this around 2010. The siblings lived on a farm with neglectful parents and the youngest child was mute (I believe?) and runs away and his older siblings go search for him. The title had something about the sea in it and I think the author was male and had a first or last name starting with a V. I remember the bo... | 2019-03-03T00:00:00 | 282771 | [
"On a stormy night, little Yann Doutreleau wakes up his six older brothers, all twins. He lets them know that they must flee their home--or risk being killed by their violent father. Without question, the siblings follow Yann into the wet darkness. And so begins their remarkable odyssey toward the ocean--as well as... |
I read this book somewhere between 2008 and 2017. It was set in a type of post apocalyptic world and the main character was a teenage girl who had (I believe it to be a young brother). Angels are involved and the main characters love interest is an angel who ends up trying to help humans even though (I think) he is not... | 2020-12-09T00:00:00 | 22372402 | [
"Alternate cover edition for ASIN B00750JZAEPhoenix Light’s world collapses around her when her dad rushes in the house and switches on the television to see enemy soldiers are taking over their world. Luckily, her father knew an attack was imminent and he built a vast shelter in the mountains for their family, and... |
I read this book in 7th grade and have never been able to find it!!I know a girl visits (I think) her aunt Val and uncle out in the country and has a friend she plays with that has a brother named Rudy and a bunch of other siblings. Their father is an alcoholic who wreaks havoc on them. This is all I really remember an... | 2018-02-20T00:00:00 | 3201312 | [
"A moving story of the strength and fragility of children in difficult situations, and of the power of imagination.Twelve-year-old Dawn is spending the summer on her aunt and uncle's farm while her mother recovers from a serious operation at home in Washington, D.C. Life in the country is very different from what D... |
I read this trilogy in the early 1980s when I was in middle school and it may have been old even then. It was told from the point of view of Noah’s neighbor, who helps him gather all the animals. Noah’s son, Ham, was supposed to help but he has run off and joined a cult and wears jingle bells on his ankles. The books w... | 2018-01-28T00:00:00 | 1593017 | [
"Reuben, an animal trainer, travels to Egypt to collect animals for Noah's ark, in return for a promised place on the ark for himself and his wife. Reuben, an animal trainer, travels to Egypt to collect animals for Noah's ark, in return for a promised place on the ark for himself and his wife. ...more"
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This was a literary western, recently published - at least within the last ten years. The author was a woman, from memory. The cover art was a painting - perhaps a wilderness scene with trees and hills. The painting had a European renaissance feel, more than a western feel.There are some SPOILERS in the description bel... | 2021-03-07T00:00:00 | 35297141 | [
"When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered in a Kentucky swamp, he leaves his small Pennsylvania farm and young daughter to find out if the rumours are true: that the giant monsters are still alive, and roam the uncharted wilder... |
I read a book about a man and his daughter. They went up a mountain to get a secret from a monastery to save it. There were murders and chases by an entity. It all culminated on a cruise ship, and was very scary but a real page turner. I think there are others in a series, but I can't remember the name of the book. Can... | 2011-10-06T00:00:00 | 39028 | [
"At a remote monastery in Tibet, a rare and dangerous artifact mysteriously disappears. Aloysius Pendergast agrees to take up the search that leads him and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia--and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror."
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A historical were the heroes parents give him because they are poor and they need money. The uncle wants the boy because he doesn't have any sons and he's gonna make the hero his heir. So the uncle take them to live with him and the hero grow up and after a while his mother tries to contact him but the hero doesn't wan... | 2014-10-05T00:00:00 | 35368 | [
"AWAKENED BY A KISS Laura Fairleigh needs a husband. If she is to keep a roof over her siblings' heads, the prim rector's daughter must wed by her twenty-first birthday. When she finds a mysterious stranger with the face of an angel and the body of Adonis unconscious in the forest and with no memory of his name or ... |
Each of these was set in the same small town, one about the sheriff's romance, one for the new preacher, one for the spinster dressmaker, and so on. Set in the 1880s or so, like Little House on the Prairie, they were light, fun reads, with lots of buggy rides and picnics and square dancing. The town had a name like Har... | 2013-09-08T00:00:00 | 1888684 | [
"In this delightful Harmony romance, a matchmaker succeeds beyond her wildest dreams. When the town newspaperman injures his arm, relentless matchmaker Maisie Parker calls dressmaker and amateur nurse Jane Carson to set his arm. But Maisie's twin sister Minnie, not to be outdone at playing cupid, comes up with her ... |
I've seen this book recently on Amazon (march this year), but forgot to add it to my shelves. All that I can remember is that it's about a (possibly blind) girl and a crow that brings eyes to her, so she can have/see the memories of the original eye's owner. | 2018-04-04T00:00:00 | 30667778 | [
"Bestseller in Japan, this Otsuichi's YA novella defies genre categorization. Dark fantasy at its Japanese best. With bonus material including author's afterword.A raven who has learned to speak from watching movies befriends a young girl whose eyes were ruined in a freak accident. He brings her eyeballs he steals ... |
This is a book I read in 1992. I thought the title was Nth Space, or N-Space, but the only listing I was able to find anywhere close to that was a collection of short stories.The story centers around a civilization that uses space ships to navigate the ripples in the fabric of space / time that are formed by a star's m... | 2009-03-18T00:00:00 | 968997 | [
"The universe of Neverness is and filled with extraordinary beings, such as the neanderthal-like Alaloi and the Order of Pilots. Against this backdrop stands Mallory Ringer, who penetrates the Solid State Entity. There he makes a discovery. One that could unlock the secret of immortality."
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While I don't remember the plot, the book was generally about life being sucky for this girl. She's going to high school and has a part time job as a costumed character at a children's arcade. She specifically mentions hating how kids pull on the rat/mouse costume's tail.The character has a deadbeat boyfriend who was p... | 2020-06-04T00:00:00 | 170175 | [
"Ashley Hannigan is one of the few people in her urban Philadelphia high school who doesn't care about the prom. It's pretty much the only good thing that happens there, and everyone plans to make the most of it--especially Ash's best friend, Natalia, who's the head of the committee and has prom stars in her eyes. ... |
I do not know the publication year but I remember reading this book in the late 1970s. The book is about a teenage girl taking care of her younger sister an alcoholic mother. She has all of the responsibilities of an adult because her mother is a very heavy drinker. In the book I remember reading when the teenage girl ... | 2020-05-04T00:00:00 | 1180953 | [
"A high-school girl gradually comes to an understanding of her mother's drinking problem and the extent to which she can control its effect on her life. A high-school girl gradually comes to an understanding of her mother's drinking problem and the extent to which she can control its effect on her life. ...more"
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Hi ! This is my first post here so I hope I got all the rules right. I keep remembering a series I read as a kid, anywhere between 5-10 years ago. There were quite a few books, like 4+ , maybe 7 ?? It's about a group of teenagers who learn that they can like, exorcise haunted houses and compel demonic monsters to leave... | 2020-07-01T00:00:00 | 1265500 | [
"OUIJA BOARDS, amulets, charm pouches... just kid's stuff, right? At least, that's what Rebecca and Scott think when they first move to Crescent Bay. Then they run into the Society—a select group of students who practice occultic rituals using these objects... a group that decides Becka and Scott are a threat to th... |
Hey guys, I've been trying to find this book for two years and I haven't! I loved the series but have a horrid memory so I apologize in advance for the fuzzy details.I read this series in 2014 on Scribd or Smashwords, most likely.It involves a teenage girl who lives with her mother in a trailer on a family or family fr... | 2018-06-27T00:00:00 | 4286100 | [
"MOONSTONE A Fictionwise Fantasy bestseller Young Adult A sickly mom. A tiny house trailer. High school bullies and snarky drama queens. Bad-guy dudes with charming smiles. Allie has problems. And then there's that whole thing about fulfilling a magical prophecy and saving the world from evil. Geez. Welcome to the ... |
This is a fiction thriller novel. Set in post WW 2 in Nepal ( or Tibet?). The western powers want to embarrass China who is now a new Communist State. So to do that the powers at be send a group of specialist Soldiers to go climb on and blow up the face of a mountain which is above a large man made lake. The resultant ... | 2014-02-21T00:00:00 | 13565639 | [
"The mountain reared above the Kashmiri peaks. Beyond it lay Red China and the vast nuclear complex of Su Tokai: an ominous threat to world peace.Farran was entrusted with a mission: to lead a group of hand-picked soldier-mountaineers on a suicidal climb across the roof of the world to destroy the Chinese nuclear c... |
As the dead soldier collapses, the soldier who is still alive regrets his decision and rummages through the pockets of the dead soldier. He finds a picture of the dead soldier's family. He goes and visits the family and meets the wife of the dead soldier, wanting to right his wrongs. The wife falls in love with this st... | 2020-05-18T00:00:00 | 359681 | [
"A powerful novel of honor, forgiveness, and unquenchable faith--set at the end of the Civil War. Quentin Larribee is a surgeon, but in the confusion at the end of the Civil War, his healing hands brought death to an enemy soldier. To ease his troubled conscience, he visits the man’s impoverished widow, only to fin... |
YA fiction book read between 2010-2015 told from multiple (5-6) perspectives with two characters named Gretchen (popular girl) and Q (football player?) who were dating before Gretchen fell for the shy new boy. Think they were in senior year of high school. One of the characters mentioned that another lived in a McMansi... | 2022-01-19T00:00:00 | 522785 | [
"What's really going on here?There's something brewing in the town of Scrub Harbor and it's not just about changing the name from Scrub Harbor to Folly Bay. O'Neill has a secret. Adam is starting over. Christine has a crush. Gretchen has a cause. You'll get an earful getting to know them! What's really going on her... |
Hi! I've been trying to remember what this one was called for a long time, and it's vanished from my box-of-books-I-read-many-moons ago. I read it when I was a child, so it can't have been published later than the mid-90s (and is probably from earlier than that).The book is YA fiction. The premise is that the protagoni... | 2012-01-17T00:00:00 | 23616717 | [
"Marcus Mustard is an apprentice in the caverns of Castle Dis - tending and feeding the monstrous, deadly, silk-spinning spiders whose appetite for human flesh can be staunched only by magic. But the power of magic is breaking down, and spells are going terrifyingly wrong."
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I read this book early-mid 1990s. YA fiction about girls summer soccer camp in Michigan. Main character is Shannon. Falls for guy instructor. Other characters include Trish and Big Red. Help. I've been searching all over for this book. | 2014-06-20T00:00:00 | 18181 | [
"When Shannon Nelson shows up at Fire Lake Soccer Camp for a two-week session, she can't believe her good luck. She'll be training with Gregg Warner, the high school soccer legend from her hometown in Michigan. A few pointers from Gregg and she's sure to be a star!After meeting Gregg in person, Shannon finds hersel... |
In this YA book that was available over Amazon.com, a girl who was created by a corporation starts out working in the smoothie cafe`. She was instructed to put a pump of the corporation's signature "boost mix" into every smoothie; but someone advises her to stop putting the chemicals into the smoothies, and suddenly he... | 2019-04-05T00:00:00 | 31859822 | [
"\"I don't know how old I am. We don't need to know. But I know I'm at least nineteen. I'll be nineteen forever. My name, Paige, means youthful assistant. All of us Forevers have names that mean young or youthful and we wear a tattoo of two golden apples on our left wrist that shows we belong to IDunaCorp. I want t... |
It’s either The Hoboken Chicken Emergency or there’s more than one person out there who writes like Daniel Pinkwater. Which is a scary thought. Come to think of it, it could also be Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story. Pinkwater likes giant chickens, I guess. The bit about speaking in front of a crowd is defi... | 2018-01-24T00:00:00 | 63324 | [
"Henrietta is no Turkey. When Arthur Bobowicz is sent out to bring home the family's Thanksgiving turkey, he returns instead with Henrietta -- a 266-pound chicken with a mind of her own. Thus begins the hilarious chain of events that has kept readers in stitches since Henrietta first pecked her way onto the scene i... |
I'm looking for this YA trilogy about teens who had this like, group of kids that would be hired out to steal specific things? It was told by the perspective of this sort of nerdy boy who was good at computers but felt left out the whole time because he thought he wasn't as helpful as everyone else. Also, the leader of... | 2018-12-03T00:00:00 | 451152 | [
"Jonah Wish, a brilliant computer hacker, is the newest addition to an elite group of teen outlaws all hired by the same mysterious benefactor, Nathaniel Coldhardt. Each of them offers a unique talent: Patch is a one-eyed locksmith; Motti can dismantle any electrical system; Con's charm is truly mesmerizing; and Ty... |
Middle grade mystery takes place at girl’s etiquette school. Read between 2013 and 2019. Main character may have been called Dotty. Mean girl gets murdered at a big school event, possibly a campfire, and the main character and her friends work together to find out who did it. The mean girl was a higher up in the school... | 2021-08-09T00:00:00 | 27030027 | [
"The fantastic new mystery from the author of Murder Most Unladylike.Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new school term, but nothing is the same. There's a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects - and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs.Then, after the firewo... |
I checked this book out awhile back and cannot remember the name for the life of me. I'd like to read it again because I enjoyed it so much. On the cover, I remember a dashboard of a car. I think her feet may have been up. It was about a girl who left with her mom during the summer to go to this Buddhism camp. And she ... | 2014-05-26T00:00:00 | 5927521 | [
"Fourteen-year-old Tessa has never had a normal life. Her mother, a frustrated hippie with awful taste in men, has seen to that. But when her mom pulls her out of school to live at an ashram in the Catskills, Tessa goes from being a freak among normal people to being an outcast among freaks. Freaks who worship an o... |
So around the beginning of the book the h is trying to escape because she was I believe put in a mental facility to hide her and they believe that her father is dead. The father murdered her mother so he put the h in a facility with a mixed DNA (ex. man made werewolf) to see what the child would do. The father set fire... | 2019-12-17T00:00:00 | 26026345 | [
"Story 14 New Species series. It is advisable to read the books in order, to get the most enjoyment from the series.140Dana is visiting Homeland when she meets a New Species who tugs at her heartstrings. As a widow, she knows firsthand the pain he’s suffering after losing his mate.Mourn isn’t so certain that talkin... |
I read this book between 1986 and 1989 and it was part of one of the teen romance series, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Sweet Dreams Romance, but it might have been a Wildfire or Crosswinds/Keepsake. The book is about a spoiled girl who can't live without her hairdryer and curling iron who gets talked into going camping ... | 2009-12-23T00:00:00 | 3057884 | [
"To help her best friend, Sandy, in pursuing her brother, Rick, petite, blond Chelsea Ann Hyatt, a lover of the soft life, considers taking a rafting trip down the Colorado River."
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I read this book around 2013-2016 after getting it as a present from one of my family member. I remember it being British themed and also it was NY Times Bestseller. I do remember bits and pieces of the story but not a lot. She's a teacher, (maybe kindergarten?) She's got 2 best friends, one who married to a rich man b... | 2020-11-03T00:00:00 | 1998200 | [
"There's A Big Life Ahead Of Her. But Can She Find The Courage To Live It?Emma is twenty-six, pretty, intelligent, and happily living with her childhood sweetheart John in a cute little Dublin apartment. Her biggest problem is that her mother won't stop nagging her to get married already. Emma and John feel like th... |
This book is about a boy names alec. His friend or sister goes missing in the timeline of the series. There is magic and a river involved and also an alternate reality. He gets stuck in the reality and he thinks it's been years but when he gets out it hasn't been very long. I think there might be a bird in the alternat... | 2021-09-21T00:00:00 | 17934459 | [
"\"To sell a book, you need a description on the back. So here's mine: My name is Fiona Loomis. I was born on August 11, 1977. I am recording this message on the morning of October 13, 1989. Today I am thirteen years old. Not a day older. Not a day younger.\"Fiona Loomis is Alice, back from Wonderland. She is Lucy,... |
I’m looking for a ya book I read when I was young. I read it almost 10 years ago at this point and all I remember is that it had a white cover, maybe a award stamp on it, a “h” word in the title, it followed two fourteen year old girls in boarding school (or something of the sort), they go thrift shopping, one girl is ... | 2020-07-04T00:00:00 | 44816 | [
"Sixteen year olds Maya and Roe form an intense friendship when they find themselves cast as outsiders at an all girls boarding school. Sharing their life stories, and curiosity about the adult world, they wonder how they might become people with style and character as opposed to school girls. When they move beyond... |
My grandma is trying to find a book (possibly 1940s) about two sisters in Australia. They immigrated from England to Australia. One sister is pretty and the other is plain-looking/ugly. A man falls in love with the pretty one. One of the sisters is possibly named Mary-Anne. | 2018-03-19T00:00:00 | 185528 | [
"A haunting love story set in the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th century.William Ozanne, whose hypnotic, masculine presence made two sisters adore him with all their heart... The two beautiful daughters of a wealthy merchant of the Channel Islands fall in love with the same man, are very diferent. Mari... |
This book starts off with the heroine, a teenage girl, starting a new school. She and her father just moved again. I'm not sure if they are both wolf shifters, but I know she is for sure. Her dad always told her to avoid wolf shifters (or werewolves) at all costs.On her first day at the new high school, several boys wh... | 2019-03-16T00:00:00 | 34670265 | [
"Dani has been hidden from the packs all her life for fear of being found and killed by the same person that murdered her mother but now it’s time to reclaim her title. As the future Alpha Queen, she must compete in the trials with her mates to prove she’s worthy to rule her people. She must choose the mate who wil... |
A young man 13-15 in the great depression drops out of school and goes on some kind of road trip in the midwest with a girl and her little brother. The girl is a fellow classmate of his and at some point, they encounter midwest outlaw Pretty Boy Floyd for some reason. At the end, the girl leaves the little brother with... | 2018-02-17T00:00:00 | 9972871 | [
"Jack Catcher's parents are dead—his mom died of sickness and his dad of a broken heart—and he has to get out of Oklahoma, where dust storms have killed everything green, hopeful, or alive. When former classmate Jane and her little brother Tony show up in his yard with plans to steal a dead neighbor's car and make ... |
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