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I think this book was published between Fall 2005 and Spring 2010, as I recall that the book was displayed prominently in the high school library; normally only new releases were displayed like this if I remember right. The main character's mother had escaped this pack of wolf-creatures (I think?) where she had been kept captive. The mother had been a captive for her whole remembered life before escaping, and it was a hellish memory for her. After escaping, she has to learn how to live in normal society, and she raises her daughter constantly on the move to avoid the pack recapturing them. The daughter was captured by that same pack as a teenager. I seem to recall there was a crumbling castle setting where the creatures lived, but it was a modern setting. In some sort of ritualistic thing, she had swirls painted on her skin, and one of the pack is supposed to take her as a mate. I distinctly remember a picture in the book depicting her with the swirls painted on her skin. I am pretty sure the pack's culture is declining, and they somehow "need" the girl in order to survive. I think there was some kind of telepathy or empathy thing involved, too.

kisstheskittlez

I read a book a very long time ago and can remember basically nothing about it but that I loved it. I know this is gonna be a long shot but I gotta try. It’s a book about a witch with read hair and emerald geeen eyes. I know it wasn’t set in modern times, it had more of medical times. It was definitely a romance novel that my young teen eyes new nothing about when I read it haha. So there was a sex scene I’m pretty sure in a cave and maybe on the cave ceiling? And I’m sure the cover of the book was a bluish green witha picture of a red headed girl on the cover. Those or the things I’m pretty sure of. There might have been like some sort of council or government like school she was going to? I honestly don’t remember. I read it thinking it was gonna be just a nice witch book I borrowed from my great Grandma but it ended up being more. And unfortunately when she passed the book was nowhere to be found.

jinora_grace

This is a repost from the old LiveJournal What Was That Book. Hopefully, with a little bit of new information, I'll be more successful than last year.

I am looking for a children's book with a title something along the lines of "Just for Fun". The copy I remember having circa late 90s-early 2000s was a library discard book. The cover was blue-grey, with the front illustration showing a bunch of kids reading and hanging all over an elaborate contraption where you set the ball rolling, and it causes a domino effect. The pictures were all limited palette colors. The first story was the 12 dancing princesses (in particular I always liked the ending of this version because the soldier acknowledges that the oldest princess is best choice age-wise, but chooses the youngest princess because of her sharp senses). I believe the center of the book contains some Dick and Jane type stories. Towards the back of the book, there is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood where a grandfather keeps telling the story "wrong" by making his granddaughter the main character, and the granddaughter keeps correcting him. I recently identified the retelling as Little Green Riding Hood by Gianni Rodari.

greythornllc

I once read a book that went like this. It had three or four sections in the book. The main character was a young woman that ran away from some kind of forced/profasised demonic marriage and losses memories of why she runs. She has some kind of special dance that can devour life force/souls that is revealed later. She heads to a huge city that has thousands of temples and gods that are worshiped there in one of parts of the book she accidently kills a god (a frog god of some sort) and then brings all of the gods in the city into caporial form with her dance.
There are a few other pieces that i recall. The city has a lot of guilds. There was a princess in a tower where the main character had to sneak into the treasury part of the tower to steal something (or the princess) there was a comment or two about the princess and her guard haveing an affiar during this as well. And at one point the main character rescues a blind snow cat that learn to use the main characters eyes to see.

fackell

Fiction about an artist whose life was made horrible by people in his life so as to spur him to produce great works of art (i.e. orchestrating life events that give him grief & suffering). I would say it is a satire on the “suffering artist” & “tormented genius” stereotypes, written in grotesque / macabre style. I remember there were plenty of vivid graphic descriptions. If I am not wrong this artist was a painter.

I read this book almost 10 years ago so details are quite hazy. It haunts me that I cannot find the book. Any ideas would be much appreciated!

adastrum

Hello! So, like everyone here I read a book back when I was younger and I can't for the life of me remember it's name. It was either a fantasy or YA novel. The book cover was red and black, I think it had the outline of a wolf in red or black. Anyways, the plot was basically about this young princess who was feared by all the servants, and kingdom because she turned into a monster, I think it was a wolf, once a month. I think she either had a red cloak that prevented the transformation or a potion or she was just locked in a room until the transformation ended. I can't quite remember. Anyways, one day her father says she's been betrothed to some prince from an island. Now this prince and the island kingdom are feared because he's supposedly evil and violent. She also has brothers who are protective of her, and love her. So anyways, she forced to depart, but she's very self-loathing so she feels she deserves to be married to a monster since she is one. Turns out the prince and the kingdom aren't nearly as bad as she expected, they fall in love and I can't remember if the brothers try to rescue her or something. Anyways, it was an incredible book about learning to love yourself, and a lovely romance, and I would love to read it again. Please let me know if you know the title, thank you!

whats_up9

Hi everybody!

So the details I remember are:

Good vs evil in both the real world and parallel world

The setting of the book is an old school but there is also a parallel world (of sorts) where there are dragons, kings and all that stuff so that version is like a medieval fantasy one. You can only go to that parallel world and back on certain times a year. People from the school also have like, soul twins(?) in the parallel world. For example there is a professor in the school who knows these things and mentors laura, his other version in the parallel world is a king and I remember both of them getting hurt or sick if either of them gets hurt or sick. And the protagonist needed to save the professor/king at one point because of this(one of them was poisoned I think?) I think she had to get something like the holy chalice or something like that to heal the guy but I’m not sure

The main character was a girl called Laura (%90 sure) she had telepathy, telekinesis and other abilities like that. She basically helps the professor and other good characters by having secret confrontations with the evil guys in the real world, she also goes to the parallel one to help out with stuff.

I think there are 5 or 6 books in the series and I’m %100 sure the main heroine forgets everything and loses her powers to win against the evil at the end. And then a new student arrives (and it is implied that the new guy has her abilities and he/she will take the protagonist’s place now) and it ends like that

I remember a dragon eating a character in the 4th or 5th book I think?

I also remember that the protagonist has a confrontation with a sfenks(sphynx?) in the parallel world and she escapes by answering her riddle correctly.

I also remember that the evil people try to kill the protagonist and her mom when she’s little, they put some hellhound like dogs on the road when they are in a car and her mother drives the car down a cliff to the sea to not hit them, her mother drowns but an angel or something saves the protagonist

I think she also has a brother who has no powers BUT I’m really not sure about this one

I think I read this book around 7-8 years before? I think it was a new book back then but I’m not sure.

This is about all I remember from the books. If anyone can help me out I’d really appreciate it, thanks in advance everybody!

johnkgr

So I read this book a while back and the story went like this:A girl meets a boy , they fall in love, and she is describing everything that they did together till they broke-up. In the end it turns out that all that was a goodbye letter she wrote and gave to her bf along with a box full items like a ticket from a movie they went to and other things like that. She left the letter and the box outside his door and left. That's all I remember. It would mean a lot to me if you could help me with this.

Thank you for you time.

Current Mood: sad

jadekirk

I read this book a few years ago. I can only remember a few details.

In this book, it was set in the future after the end of the world and everyone had to have a job. Everyone turned against the manager of the shop.

Thanks in advance. I would really like to read this book again.

zoefruitcake

I'm a librarian so it is my job to try and work out what book someone is trying to describe from useful things like the name of a secondary character or the colour of the front cover. I usually do pretty well but I am stumped trying to remember the title of a book I read once. It is an English book about two men who went to school together, one called Will and the other Liam. The chapters alternate and are headed with the name WILLIAM with either the Will or Liam part in bold. One of them moves next door to the other and finds a hole in the wall and starts watching the other from within the walls. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

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sketchpadnc

I'm looking for help with the name of a book I read in the late 80's. The main characters were a brother and sister that discovered the often used "this could change everything" thing. Gene mods were a large part of the book as many characters were adapted to life in space... The brother had three arms but I dont recall the sisters.

I do recall that the brother played guitar. There was one point where he was playing a jam session and the lead singer was ripping up his throat trying to sing "half cord" or "off cord". That's about all I recall and I know its not much but any help will be appreciated. It's driving me crazy that I cant recall the name.

dunnowhat

Looking for a book where theres this evil force called the grim something I think, and the force was defeated a long time before by a group of warriors including this wizard whos name starts with a V, and they all slowly die out until it's just the wizard left and apparently the force is returning and then at the end they find out that the wizard didnt want to die so hed been sacrificing young girls? i think, to this evil force and they see the force looks like a little girl

poobwain

I need help finding a book where this kid goes into this world behind his backyard and in that world there’s a Snow White but she’s fat and the dwarves are like grumpy because they have to take care of her.Also there’s this wizard who traps the protagonist in a jar or something and the wizard is eating bugs, I think the book was called the original or something of the sort.But it’s really been bugging me that I can’t remember the name of the book or author.

littlestclouds

I first read this book when I was in middle or high school, so it probably would have come out in the '80s or '90s (my money's on the '90's). One of the stories I remember involved evil statues that come to life, possibly because they were struck by lightning? And another story in the book involved a bus stop/bus, iirc. I think it would have been along the same vein as R.L. Stine and was aimed at middle-grade readers.

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Current Mood: hopeful

misskayrose97

So there was this book I read back in 6th grade. The main character’s name I think was either Amalie or Amelie. The story goes is that her dad gets really sick and his friends step in to take over and care for him. They help the young girl get through it and become more of her friends than the kids at school.

The book cover was blue and it showed legs, like you were looking at a group of people.

ggrod

I read this book back in the 90's, and it was thriller/horror about a killer who stalked and killed families. In this book the killer talks about other families he's murdered. But this particular family has created their own language they use around the house. This really intrigues the killer. I also believe the killer learned this family's language from stalking them. I think the killer was trained or hired by the government as well. Does anyone know what book I mean? Thanks!

msdkblack

Looking for a chapter book from the 80's for 3rd-4th graders about a little Mexican girl who went to live at a hotel or on a ranch and her mom was the maid it had something to do with las palmas or the desert?

Current Mood: busy

soundofsunlight

There are folk tales of fairies stealing human babies and leaving a changeling in their place, and in this book, that was exactly what happened. The changeling is the main character, so the story is from her point of view. She is a thin and sickly child, and she has an unhappy childhood because everyone is suspicious of her being a changeling (and they are correct). She does have one friend, though; I can't remember why he is friends with her when everyone else shuns her. He might be an orphan or something?

Anyway, since she's so unhappy in her life, she decides to run away and find the land of the fairies, and her loyal friend goes with her. They rescue the girl who was stolen to be a servant to the fairies, and take her home to her parents, and then...I think she and her friend continue traveling, since they don't really fit in anywhere, except with each other.

Based on other books I was reading at the time, and what I remember of the physical book, I think the book I'm looking for would have been published somewhere between the 1940s and 60s, maybe 70s.

henderson182

I don't remember much about the novel other than the opening sequence featured a part where there were two characters who drove a car off a bridge or cliff and the car went underwater, it could have been a mother and a daughter but am unsure.. then it goes to describle how the car is filling up with water up to her nose and then over their heads and then the whole car is full and how they escape the car by smashing out the window and swimming to surface.

Current Music: Car Underwater - Armor For Sleep

ramenoodlehead

This was a series I believe I read in the early(?) 90's about 4 girls who maybe were already friends and went to college together, or maybe some of them already knew each other? I'm pretty sure there was nothing paranormal or anything about the books, just basically the series was kind of a teen soap opera type deal with the girls in college. Lots of friend and girl drama.

I think each book may have been told from a different girls' perspective or was about one girl at a time. I know at least one was in a sorority or pledging and it caused drama.

I believe I was getting them via Scholastic book club, but not sure.

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