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   Long story short , one was left behind during a move and the other was accidently put in with some donated books .


The first I'm looking for was a horror or thriller novel from either ( I'm guessing ) the eighties or nineties about a man murdered by being burned to death . He returns as a ' monster ' and his wife has bad dreams each night about him .
Things I remember most about this book - the wife wears her husband's clothing after his murder . ( His shirts over her leggings )
   The people who killed him are part of a Devil worshipping / Satanic cult who later kidnap the wife for a sacrifice .
   The two main villians are an older woman who is maybe a case worker ( ?? ) who tortures other women for fun , and her sidekick , a younger man who might have been a gang member ( ?? ) They have a mother and son type of relationship .
   There is a scene I clearly remember where a young woman gets tied up in the caseworker's kitchen and is tortured with ice cubes falling on her .

   The second and possibly easier to find is a romance novel about a woman who lives ....... I'm thinking in Texas and a man ( divorced , I guess ? ) and his young son .
   What I remember from the book -
   The woman is more like a tomboy and she saves another woman from being raped / assaulted by knocking the guy out , throwing a baseball right at his head . The two women become friends and go shopping and get makeovers together .
   The little boy hates living in Texas ( or wherever it is , somewhere warm ) and he spends lots of time climbing and sitting in trees .
    His drunk nanny or babysitter locks him in a closet or pantry and the female main character rescues him .

    Any help and / or info is appreciated !   I'd like to find the names , titles , authors ......... anything so I can replace those with other copies .

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persona22

Hello

I'm trying to find a book I read years ago which I don't remember the author.
The book is about fictional birds, but it is written as if the birds were real, with tips about where to find them across the United States, along with illustrations of each bird and a full description of their biology and other things of that nature.
Some of the entries feature a bird that is red, white and blue and it sings the national anthem, vulture that grows a colorful crest but only for a few days each year, and a white normal looking bird that changes the colors of their feathers to blue or pink depending of the bird being male or female for just a few weeks each year, along with the shells of their eggs also changing color for that time according to the gender of the unborn bird still inside.

It is an old book, I read it for the first time in 1996.

adevandermerwe

A romantic book. The boy and the girl were in high school together. He was the type of "bad boy" with tattoos and she the good girl. Their paths crosses when they are older when he drops his daughter of at the place where she works. I think in the book he was working in construction. She was teaching ballet i think or working at a day care.

grimshire

I'm trying to remember the name of this horror book my brother had in the 90's, i can vaguely remember the plot and the cover and nothing else. I specifically remember the cover had a red boarder, with hand drawn art with a blue demon kid with horns in a hoodie holding a kife/dagger behind his back while looking sinister at the reader while sitting on a log or branch and it had another boy i think they were at a campfire, one plot point i remember was the boy fell off a structure and was impaled with a spike or poll sticking from the ground and i remember it saying something about his internal organs falling out, but i also recall the boy had a friend who was a girl. I don't know why i'm thinking font in the title was like goosebumps but this was from what i remember it was way to dark and graphic for that series. Because my brother passed away in the 90's with leukemia i always wanted to read that book but i was too young at the time and wasn't allowed but i remember having a sneak peak at it.

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mewmew13

Book #1
In 3rd grade like 2002-2003 I read a novel that was about a boy who got caught in a wildfire. He ran towards a creek to escape but the creek was full of fish that had "boiled" to death, so he got out of there. Next he ran to a cave but came to the conclusion that he would cook as if he were in an oven and ditched that idea too.
I cant remember anything else about it except that teenagers accidentally started the fire with matches.

Book #2
I read this book in 5th grade. Everyone believes it's "the house with a clock in its walls" but I'm pretty certain it's not!
It's about a boy who goes to his uncle or grandfathers mansion type thing. Everything on the property is overgrown. The boy finds a secret passage in the house with stairs that go on forever. At the base is a weird looking thing on a boat that takes people to whatever is on the other side of the water.
There turns out to be a city or something after that but I've forgotten!

duxki

It's a book about a teen (I think it's a teen) who sells/bottles his soul in exchange for immortality. There was a part in the book where he was on a plane with his family and wanted the plane to go down to test out his immortality. The cover was a (I guess) melting white face mask with fire. Someone please help, I've been looking for to damn long. I think the author's name was close to Darren Shaw (Creator of Cirque Du Freak) since that's where I remember getting the book. This was back in 6th grade and it's been 6 years and I can't find it.

lilliannawinterwolf

I remember reading the first in a small book series in the nineties. It was about a group of four or five teens who worked at, I believe, a radio station. One was a cliched rich girl and the other was a guy from the wrong side of the tracks. I think, but am not completely certain, that his name was "Hero".

If anyone could put a name to this book series I would be so, so grateful!

veda_lemmon

I read this book as a teenager so I remember only a few bits and pieces, sorry. So here goes:

There's sort of 2 main characters: a girl who lives with her mom and younger sister whose family owns an old house by a lake. The second main character is a boy who lives right next to the old house by the lake.

The old house by the lake contains a mystery which both the boy and girl are trying to figure out. The girl sneaks out one night to visit the house (i think). She ends up in the neighbor boy's bedroom to hide or something, and the boy has to keep her under his bed to whole night.

I remember something about there being a lake monster and in the end you find out that the lake monster is actually the girl's father or uncle (some relative).

I can't remember the title but I do remember it being a long one, something like 5 to 7 words. And it was one of those "How to...", "A guide to...", or something along the lines of those types of titles.

PLEASE HELP ME!

jmcklewis

Thanks for any help you can give!

-This is a thriller type book
-I believe a woman (I want to say she is latina) is murdered and the main character begins to suspect her husband who may have also had an affair with her.
-I believe there is a scene at a fundraiser or some event with the main character and her husband and the woman who goes on to get murdered.
-I believe her and her child leave her husband and move to the country somewhere.
-I believe it is a small town and the townspeople help her settle in

I know I can't remember much of it but I appreicate any help!

sholio

I was talking to a friend about this book today and realized that I am now dying to know the title/author, but I can't remember that part at all, even though I remember the book very well.

I read this book as a kid in the 80s, but I think it used to be my mother's book when she was a kid, so it was probably published somewhere in the 1950s or 60s, no later than the early 70s. It's middle-grade reading level.

The plot (which I remember in surprising detail; I really liked this book and read it a lot) was about a suburban housewife, stressed and overwhelmed with kids/husband/generally being a 1950s housewife, who snaps one day and just stops giving a damn. Her new lightness of mood makes her start floating. Her family freaks out, but she's actually pretty happy about it (mostly because she just doesn't care anymore, about them or anything else). A screwball comedy ensues in which her frantic family tries to keep her from floating away, the media shows up, etc. Eventually they do actually lose their grip on her outside, and she floats away like a runaway balloon, at which point an all-out rescue effort ensues, because she's going to eventually float high enough that she'll either asphyxiate or freeze to death. However, the book's style is still a light comedy style even when they're scrambling to try to save her life.

This is an incredibly weird book because of the style/content mismatch; I mean it's basically a funny book aimed at kids that's about a family trying to save their suicidally depressed mom. Which is one reason why I want to find it again and find out if it's actually as bizarre as I remember.

Other things I remember about the book:

- There were cute little illustrations in a cartoony lineart style. I think the cover might've been a cartoony drawing of the mom falling or floating while everyone tries to catch her.

- The book was surprisingly educational about different kinds of clouds, layers of atmosphere, and so forth. The mom was either some kind of scientist before she quit to have kids, or she was just really into it as a hobby, but she named all her kids after different kinds of clouds, and a lot of her narration as she's floating has to do with the layers of atmosphere that she's passing through and that kind of thing. This was the book that first introduced me to the jetstream (because she gets caught up in it).

- I vaguely recall that the title is one of those "does what it says on the tin" titles like you typically got with kids' books in that era, but (in keeping with the rest of the book) there may have been some sort of weird twist to it. I think it may have included "Mother" or "Mom" in the title (something like "Runaway Mom" or "The Flying Mother" except not actually either of those), but I'm not completely sure about that.

euphorikitty

There is this one book that I've been looking for for years, my intermediate school teacher would read us a new short story when we had enough time. I know it's an old sci-fi book, it could have been published any where between 1950's to 1990's. It's a book full of short stories, but I only remember one small scene of a story. It's set in a diner, a human man is looking at human-looking alien strangers that just walked in the diner. The strangers sat down, but the strange man didn't pull his pants at the knee to sit, and the human man watching that thought that was odd, because every male knows to do that, so their slacks don't bunch and tighten.

That's the only part of the whole book I can clearly remember, though I think there was another story about robots being used in homes. Sorry this is all super vague. I hope someone, somewhere can help me

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angelia

I read these 2 books about 8ish years ago, so I don't remember the titles but I remember the details and google isn't helping me at all.
Book #1: All I can remember about this book is that it about a girl and a unicorn, they travel through a few tapestries. Not a picture book.
Book #2: I remember a lot more about this book. It is about a boy and a few friends who are in a town that has a door that is guarded in town that is separated by a stream or river with eels that eat people and their faces change based on the person's face that they ate. I think the book had a small leopard or something next to the door. I remember the door took them to like a fantasy place and he found like his uncle in there that he thought was dead.

Any help at all is extremely grateful, I've thought about this so much for the past few years.

kxthleen

bear with me here, cause I have very limited info! I read a book when I was a pre-teen (between 2001-2005, probably) with a female protagonist who, from what I can remember, lived with a lot of other girls, who she doesn't get on with. there's a line in the book about her dying her hair 'dandelion fluff/fuzz white/blonde' and leaving her roots brown to give them something to talk about. I believe there's a reference in there to a romantic novel, of some kind, but that's about all I can remember! really hope someone can help me cause this has been bugging me for years...

morivoveso

I remember one christmas in the mid to late 90s asking for Animorphs books and nothing else. I ended up getting books about kids who could turn into things instead of animals. I ended up throwing them out, but recently remembered this event, but not the name of the books. I never read them as I was so disappointed, so I don't havea lot to go on, and google has been no help.

nella_sweet2

So I read this book early 2000s when I was in high school and remember loving it. Here are some details I think I remember, hope someone can help.

1. I think it's an apocalypse/post-apocalypse/sci-fi/sci-fi horror themed with a strong focus on female protagonist.

2. The catastrophe on earth (think it was a series of natural diasters and combination of gases?) has killed a lot of people but most importantly to the plot, it has pretty much knocked out modern technology and modern conveniences.

3. I remember the heroine best and her along with several other characters grow scars but through their actions the scars eventually reveal a face fitting their character.

4. Another prominent plot line was that some of the characters have visions which is what leads their journey particularly the girl who is portrayed as kind and she has a band of others travelling with.

5. The story is at times brutal with survival of the fittest emphasised and the stronger but cruel of the remaining population hunting others.

6. There is also a male protagonist who also has visions of the heroine.

7. A point I remember vividly is when her scar falls away and her true face is revealed she is beautiful with flowing hair of multiple hues. I remember how the highlights in her hair was vividly described.

8. I think there may be something about a printing press or trying to restore means of communication (not sure if this is ftom that story or something else I was reading at the time?)

I hope someone can recognise this work. It's been plaguing my memories for years and no Google search has yielded any results.

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alanefraire

FOUND: 'The Accidental Hero' or 'Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation'

Boy am I glad I found this community.

I read this book ages ago, it was in my school library and I read the entire series. I remember loving it, and now I can't find it again.

I remember there was a kid who was in an orphanage, or a boys home, or something like that, and it was extremely strict. The group were going on a trip and he was hiding in the library (?) where he had hidden a bunch of comic books he was told to throw out. Some of them had pages ripped or damaged, so he made up his own endings to the stories. He was found by one of the caretakers (?), and forced to join the trip. I remember one of the kids teasing him and making him so mad that the lights in the bus blew out and he was forced to stay back and do chores, because everything was blamed on him (it was his fault always anyway).

He had to go down to the basement at some point and a robot from one of the comic books came out and attacked him, saying stuff about the robot prince or something? He ended up blowing up the robot (?) in the garden, and he hid the parts of the robot and didn't tell anyone until this random old dude came to pick him up from the orphanage. He was then taken to a secret island that can only be accessed at a certain time of the year, where he found all his favourite comics were real. Some guy had visited the island and turned the stories he heard into comics. When he arrived they checked him over for some sort of virus and he tested positive, but the old dude managed to convince security he was clean.

This was all in the first few chapters by the way. I'm really upset because I can remember so much of the book but I cannot, for the life of me, remember the title. It was one word.

In the following books he joined a training academy for the best of the best, found out the robot prince was living inside him and was tricked into meeting the robot princes father, under the assumption it was his father. He got taken to the mothership, where the robot prince took over his body. I remember a part where he related what was happening to something from the comics, where one of the main characters got taken over by the robot virus, but the rest of the comic had been torn up, so he had made up an ending for it. Then his friends tried to save him, but the robot had taken over and he had sort of merged or something with it and they tried to take over the world and one of their friends died or something?

I'm also pretty sure it was a trilogy. If anyone could help me, I would be forever grateful.

Alane
(Also, i don't know how to tag so if someone could help out with that, that'd be great!)

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tyxeros

I'm really glad I found this community, I read a looot of books, so hopefully I can contribute in answering questions as well as getting help!

Speaking of which, I just remembered a YA fantasy novel I read around 2008. It has (at least) two main characters, a boy and a girl, whose perspectives are switched between. The girl is a dragon/fairy creature locked away in a tower and has been since she was little, and the person who locks her in stole her wings - ripped/cut them right off her back, I remember them describing the wounds. I think the captor claims she saved the girl from being murdered. The captor wears the wings as a cape, and either uses them to fly or is trying to figure out how to use them to fly. Near the end of the book the girl breaks out of her room and finds her wings up on the wall, at which point her magic calls to them and they reattach. She flies away and meets the boy who was racing to the tower on horseback.

That's as much as I can remember! One or two details might be slightly wrong, but I distinctly remember the scene where her wings flew to her and reattached to the scarred nubs on her back.

Any help appreciated!

dandydon

The opening scene was a battle in a desert. There were elves, and humans, and some kind of monsters, and an invisible giant. The human was the main character. He was trying to figure out how to get out of the situation. The elves had green blood and one was getting its legs chopped out from under it but still continuing to wade forward into battle even as it was whittled down. the human was thinking about how tough elves were.

That is it. That is all I can remember. But...I am convinced I liked the book. it was very "tongue in cheek". For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of the book.

dandy

fancifuldelights

2010 or earlier-This book takes place in winter and a young woman is hired to babysit a quiet boy and they bond. The boy’s parents (I assume) are dead (under suspicious circumstances) and he lives in an old castle with an old woman and other family members and now the young woman. She isn’t liked by the family (they’re very mysterious) and they try to poison her by giving her a (cherry?) pie slice with poison but she doesn’t eat it. She ends up falling in love with a young man (not sure how they meet but he visits often). The two are chased by an assailant with a gun (possible shootout and they hide behind some stone pillars?) but they get away. There’s also a great pond surrounding the castle, there’s a lot of fear surrounding it (I believe the boy is afraid/there was an incident on the ice/drowning?) and someone falls through/left on the ice as punishment and the boy plays ice hockey on it I think. The young woman warms the boy up after he falls through? Thank you for reading and for any titles you suggest!

livmcneilreads

I have been looking for this book for years and I cannot find it anywhere!
It doesn’t help that I don’t remember the name or author! PLEASE HELP!!!!
For reference graduated high school in 2016 and I read this book my 8th grade year in middle school.
The covers always have an animated girl with a side braid and blonde hair. The books involved a little bit of magic if I remember correctly, and I specifically remember one of the book covers she had a glowing green neckalace on. Another book cover she was surrounded by what looked like a forest of plain, pointed sticks.
It was about a young girls travels (I’m pretty sure she was a Viking of sorts) aboard a ship and on land as she landed at different places.
I want to re read these because I liked them as a young teen but I didn’t get much out of them. I’d like to refresh my memory and be re kindled with a book series I once loved.
If anyone has any info PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Thank you!!! :)

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Hi ! New here and trying to find the names of 2 books .

Book about fictional birds

Please help me find this book.

Struggling to remember a horror book my brother had in the 90's

2 books I need help finding.

Looking for this book for years.

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opening scene - battle in a desert

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