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Good afternoon! I have been searching for days without any results for a youth fiction book, where the protagonist lives in a world where her memories are reset through a chip, women are forced to separate from men and do not know them, When the protagonist meets a men, she mistakes him for a cat.
It is a book that I have very good memories of :( if you help me I would appreciate it very much!!

meatina

Hello,

I've been trying to find a book I read as a child, that had some snippets of poetry, some stories by different authors, and at least one non-fiction piece. I've tried googling some of the names of the stories, but no joy.

Here's what I know/can remember:

-It would have been published in the UK no later than about 1993 - however it's probably from the 80's.
-It was a paperback with a blue cover, possibly with a church window and a bat on.
-It featured a Shakespeare sonnet in it - "Now is the time of night"
-There was a story/poem by (I think) Joan Aitken called "The Nine O'clock Horses" about horses that spirit away children that stay out late at night.
-There was a story about a boy who did a brass rubbing of a skeletal knight
-One story was about a ghostly goalkeeper
-Possibly the same story had a boy explaining to his little sister about ghosts, she wasn't scared but he was told of by his mum for scaring her - all the sister had said was "poor man that you can see through". He'd explained that you could see through ghosts, a bit like you could see the bones of her fish.
-There was both a story and a non-fiction piece on Herne the Hunter
-The last story was about a very young stonemason who dies carving an angel on a church

sarahjslagle

Hi!

I’m trying to find a book I read either in 2008 or 2012. It was about a Russian duchess or someone who had worked for the Romanovs. She mentions the winter palace a couple times. She pretends to be German to hide the fact that she’s Russian. And she works in a dressmaker shop. She falls in love with an American man and then World War I breaks out.

Cover: pink Edwardian gown. A long Lacey pink dress.

Thank you!

pronker

The book I read app. 1965 featured a cast of maybe ten year-olds and a few teens as protagonists, with naturally supportive adults. The time was about 1850 and the wagon train set out from AFAIK St. Joseph, MO to head west. It sort of seems the group were Mormon, but I am unsure. What I'm sure of is that one little boy grew impatient to see a real prairie dog town and was deeply disappointed to find out the 'dogs' were rodents. He looked forward to teaching one to speak and sit up for treats!

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tipsfinger

GENERAL INFO:
A Y/A novel or a Chapther book.
I read it around 2014-2017.
It was a fiction book

PLOT:
About a girl maybe 9-16 years old living in an apartment with mother on the Autism spectrum. Just to be clear, the mother is the one with Autism and not the daughter. Their neighbour is a lady with lots of cats. The plot mainly revolves around trying to find the girl's father. The father lives in a home for disabled people, I think, where her mother lived too before running away. Her mother had some sort of fear with buses and the girl was a baby when the mother had run away.

COVER:
The cover of the book was the sky with hands in front of it or balloons, I think.

Sorry, I don't remember much.

jvpiterhxlic

hello,

been trying for years to remember this series I read when I was younger, but I can't remember the title, author or cover.

all I remember about it is random pieces of the plot + smaller details.

- normal, teenage girl (believe she's blonde, could be wrong) is dating her best friend.

- new boy moves to town, believe his name is close to either malachai/malakai, and is later found out to be some demon kind of create (or at least can summon them through a portal he opens up near the end of the book)

- people start to wind up dead and are found in this forest like area in the town

- girl develops magic and at some point (idk if its the first book or later in the series) accidentally zaps her lipstick and melts it in the school bathroom

- crows or ravens pop up a lot, which is later found out to be connected to demons

I believe either shadow or dark/darkness was in the title but I could very well be wrong. I also read this pre 2010 and know there is at least 3 books in the series. Please help :(

kitewithfish

Hello kind friends!
You all helped me out with a children's book years ago, and I have returned to try and find a book I read prior to 2005. It's not too far off from the first Vampire Diaries books, but, uh, with immortal cannibals?

Note: I almost certainly got this from a public library between 1997 and 2005; I have no idea of what the cover was like, but it was almost certainly a pulp paperback romance novel. I don't think it's VC Andrews, but it definitely had the vibe.

Setting: A large secluded historical home with gardens- I *think* it is a US Southern former slave plantation, it's definitely in the US, but I was in my mid teens when I read this and it's quite likely that I misread the setting. The time period is modern era -I assume it's at least after the 1960s but it might be as late as the 1990s. Cell phones were not present in the book.

Genre: Horror romance? Romance? Given when I read this, it could have been a romance novel aimed at adults or it might have been aimed at older teens. Generally, a pulpy sort of book.

CONTENT NOTE: This book has cannibalism and incest.

General plot: A young woman (our view point character and protagonist) takes a job( or for some other reason?) goes to live at a large rural home of stately history. She's a very Gothic heroine - her mom seemed to have no family and no history, and the protagonist is on her own. She goes to live in this large manor/plantation, where an stately old woman and two much younger, hot, brothers live together. The protagonist thinks they are grandsons of the old woman, but it's not clear. She feels oddly like this mansion/plantation home is somewhere she knows before, or should have been before. There's a strong Gothic tone to the setting - the protagonist is always overhearing cryptic conversations that don't make sense.

In the romantic plot, the two brothers are both attractive and seem to be attempting to woo the protagonist, but at least one of them seems to be having (somewhat kinky, bitey) sex with the matriarch character. The protagonist is confused and scared by this - she thought they were related??

The resolution of the plot is that BOTH the brothers are actually immortal, unaging, and under a curse - they were in a love triangle with a woman hundreds of years ago, and instead of handling it, they murdered/dueled each other and the woman they loved did some kind of magic/curse, so they are now immortal, and the three of them entered into a triad relationship. (The time setting for this MIGHT have been the Civil War?)

They are also cannibals??? There's a plot point where they also eat their girlfriend to survive, but uh, she somehow doesn't die?

As time passed, the trio had a daughter, and when the daughter grew up, welp. The brothers started having a relationship with her - meaning that, in the present day, we are several generations into a cannibalistic, incestuous, undead threesome, all centered around this plantation house. And, of course, the protagonist is actually part of this family- the matriarch is her grandmother. Her mother was supposed to be the next in line for this triad, but she fled and made her own life elsewhere. (I cannot remember if the protagonist was born there and taken, or if she is the result of the mom having married someone else and he just happened to be out of the picture. - I suspect the former.) The brothers have magically summoned her back to the plantation home to continue the family together.

The ending of the book is that the protagonist accepts her role, seems relieved to not have to choose between the brothers, they have not-super-explicit sex, and, in a time jump, is shown to have had a toddler who is playing in the gardens of this mansion with her fathers.

Specific scene memories:
-The protagonist, while eavesdropping, sees one of the hot brothers kissing and biting the neck of the older woman, who is clearly into it, but it's also kind of vaguely vampiric in tone and the protagonist can't figure out if she's actually being injured.
-One of the brothers, explaining the whole curse situation to the protagonist, proclaims "There is not even a word for what we are." Because, well, immortal brothers in a curse that makes them periodically eat their girlfriend.
- I vaguely remember the protagonist is generally FINE with the ending, and feels calm and at peace with her unusual choices.

I do not know if they book is GOOD, but I was trying to describe this plot to someone in a discussion of Gothic romance, and since I couldn't remember the book, I now feel compelled to try and find it to prove that I did not make it up.

full_metal_ox

I encountered these quotes in Vegetarian Soups for All Seasons (Little, Brown and Company, 1996), by Nava Atlas; the problem is that I haven’t the book ready to hand, and it’s no longer in any of my local library systems.

The first quote came from a nineteenth-century (French? British? I want to say De Tocqueville or Brillat-Savarin) author who’d visited the U.S. and found an epiphany in gumbo: they proceeded to eulogize it as the perfect food, combining vibrant flavors and being soup and vegetable and entree in one.

The second was by a Victorian or Edwardian British author, extolling celery, in its cold clear no-nonsense crispness, as the gustatory expression of autumn. (These quotes embellished recipes for a gumbo and a celery soup, respectively; Atlas’ cookbook had something of a literary and reflective tone.)

ETA:

wolfinthewood has identified the celery quote, from the essay “A Word for Autumn” in Not that it matters (1919) by A.A. Milne;

kineticatrue has tracked the gumbo quote to Will H. Coleman’s Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885), p 91.

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princemira

Looking for a Sci-Fi book
Earth at the brink of an ecological catastrophe - polluted - ravaged by wars - was abandoned by the majority of its population who left in space ships - their society relied on technologies and they developed a military style technocracy merging with the machines becoming almost cyborgs. They build their ships from an extremely durable material "diamantee" or something along those lines.
In the meanwhile a small amount of people remained on Earth. They renounced their dependence on technologies and instead cherished the abilities within themselves such as telepathy, telekinesis etc etc - Earth managed to heal and they lived in total harmony with nature living miles apart.
At one point the departed people (technocrats) return on their ships and try to reconquer the Earth - the people with special powers who were left resit....
If anyone knows anything about the title or the author I would very much appreciate the info - I have been looking for this book about 15 years

daisyporter

Looking for a book my husband read about 1980. He was sevenish, but the book could have been for older kids. Here's what he remembers:

It was a world with no adults. Kids formed different groups called "planets."

It had an urban setting. the "planets" were outdoors in alleys, etc. No one lived in houses.

Newer kids to the planets were taught the group rules by the other kids: this is how we do things in our planet, etc.

It may have featured all Black characters, but he may be confusing that with another book.

I've been going through lists of books where there aren't any adults, including The Girl Who Owned a City, but can't find any that refer to kids forming groups called planets.

bagginsmyfrodo

I read this book somewhere between 2005 and 2012. I don’t know if it was published before this time period but definitely not after.

The book is a duopoly. It is a historical fiction with a romantic plot central to the storyline. The setting is not modern and felt more medieval. The main female character was the daughter of a nobleman and the love interest was of more common birth. They fell in love but for some reason couldn’t be together. That’s all I remember from book one unfortunately.

Book 2 starts with the main guy character (having felt betrayed by the female love interest) leaving and going back to Ireland or Scotland (I always get those confused in stories). The main female character follows him and tries to win back his love and while in Ireland/Scotland she stays with his family. They fall in love
With her and welcome her but it takes the whole second book to win back the affection of the male love interest as he is pretty cold to her.

I just remember the romantic plot line of these two books being amazing! I know it’s not much to go on but I have hope. Thank you!

christine19

Hi, I read this book about 2013.the book starts out the 3 girls are all at their school in their school uniforms and one of the Moms is late to collect them. I think it took place in the 60’s/70’s andout the white friends. One is English and her father is a diplomat, one is Irish and her parents are doctors and the other is Africaans and her parents own a ranch/estate, she has a brother and he plays into the story kore as the girls age. They’re all living South Africa I think, I know one of the girls moves away to Rhodesia, but moves back. The Irish one goes back to Ireland and studied medicine, the English one goes back to England and becomes a model or something like that. They all come back to the ranch in Africa and that’s when the bad things start, the English one is then scarred. The brother and the Irish one get together towards the end.

renjelly

The book I'm looking for is an urban fiction book about twin sisters. One sister kept her other sister a secret from her life and when the sister came around she tried to steal her twins life. One twin live eleves life endless Street smart while the other was book smart. I can't remember much else.

steinberg1

Read this book about 15 years ago. It’s about a psychologist who is tormented by his patient.

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inlovewithwords979

Hi everyone, I've forgotten a book i read a long time ago. I read it in Canada in english. It was a romance and fantasy novel that included a girl named Mage and her boyfriend named Adam. Mage had magical abilities. I believe the book was also a trilogy.

A few scenes I remember are:
A scene where she got angry and used her magic to roll a tire.

A scene where she wanted to have sex with him in a hotel but he wanted to wait for a better place to do it

(SPOILERS)
Near the end of the book Adam dies. (I dont really remember whether this happened in it or not but i think she was able to see Adam as a ghost after he died).

If anyone can remember the title that would be so helpful. Thanks!

seventiesgirl

Hi everyone! I just found this website today and if someone can help me solve this book mystery I would be so happy! I was born in the late seventies so I'm not sure if this book was written and illustrated before or after I was born. It seems to my recollection that my mystery book did not have many pages and I think the illustrations may have only been in black.and white or a couple other colors. But the story had to do with animals who for some reason build rounded dome like homes. It seems to me that a large animal like a hippo was used to shape them. I think they used cement or mud around the hippo and then let them dry. What I remember most are the illustrations where you could see the animals in their individual and maybe connected homes decorating them the way they wanted. As I grew up and would draw and doodle more amd.more I would draw homes of various shapes and I would then make rooms and decorate them. This mystery book inspired my imagination as did so many others. If you know any info on this story please help me solve this mystery. Thank you for your time!🙂👍🥰❤

eulalia_vox

Ok. I need help identifying a book. I'm like 73% (and declining) sure this is a real book and not something I just dreamed up.

Here's what I remember. My google-fu has failed.

I'm pretty sure I read it in the 90s. Young adult/teen. No idea author/publisher/cover/title.

The protagonist is a 16ish year old girl. Her parents are artists. I think her mom is a chidren's book illustrator. Dad gave up art & became a farmer. They may be separated/divorced. Definitely some strife.

Girl & dad move, i think, to his family home. It's a big old Gothic-type house. Weird, supernatural goings-on. Family's a little kooky.

Girl makes friend in school. Boy lives kitty-corner. Boy is cute but has big ears?

Maybe Canada?

Maybe seances, maybe mirror. Definitely evil family ancestor, Scottish, I reckon. Definitely remember them calling bad guy ancestor "laird." Laird Greagor?

Girl is only one who can defeat him. I remember the family and girl and boy have a plan and a final seance. Maybe a black cloak, swirling evil spirits trying to break chain of hands.

Girl prevails, happy ending.

Please, please, please somebody recognize this book with this crazy description. It is driving me up the wallllllllll.

flowersforgraves

I am trying to recall a very surreal portal fantasy book I read about 10-15 years ago. I believe it was a children's or young adult book. I don't recall much about it other than the state of Delaware was a fabrication by a sinister power, and possibly also that dinosaurs lived there. The cover of the book was green and yellow, and had a pulpy feel to the aesthetic. I know it's a long shot based on what I recall, but if anyone can help me, that would be great! Thanks.

edit: I'm pretty sure the protagonists were two boys and a girl, if that helps at all.

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bfavre1

I’ve recently started re-reading Fear Street books, which I used to be obsessed with back in the day. I keep thinking of one part of what I’m about 98% sure is a fear street book but I only remember this one part so am having a hard time locating it. All I can remember is that the main character goes to an indoor swimming pool and is swimming laps and then a person that has been chasing her shows up and is watching her from the roof of the indoor swimming pool which was all glass, she sees him and freaks out and runs out and then I believe he chases her. That’s literally all I can remember. Hopefully someone can help before it actually drives me insane.

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