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I'm looking for a book about an unreliable narrator, I think she was a teen? She had a younger brother and her mom was a famous actress. I don't remember any of their names, I just remember that the blurb on the back cover was a bunch of lies about the narrator that she told her friends, and one of them was that she was a vampire?
I remember is as like a supremely average book, but it really bothers me that I can't remember the title. I think it was a YA novel, and I guess the plot was something along the lines of the girl going on a trip with her mom and brother, meeting a creepy boy and somehow learning that lying is bad?

hxdiyah

Ok, I've looked for a while for this book and am considering giving up at this point. I remember getting it for free with my Kobo reader like 5-8 years ago?
The main things I can remember are:

It's about 2 detectives, one is a blonde female and one is male. One of them is new- I have no idea which

It's about a serial killer who has been killing girls and leaving like a torso or a head or something behind

We see a few chapters intermittently from the killers perspective and he is shown as being a taxi driver

One of the victims is a disabled girl who was last seen in a supermarket

The killer has been collecting parts of girls to make human dolls, both detectives have been picked up by him at one point where he talks about his dolls

The detectives both like to sit at the front of the taxi ( no idea why this is relevant )

bratfarrar

Okay, I'm on the verge of concluding that I somehow made up this book, but here goes:

Star Wars novel, set after the original trilogy of movies
Luke Skywalker as a main character
A significant portion of the story took place on some sort of desert/desolate world
The identifying feature is that the world was home to these creepy sub-cutaneous parasites. The bigger they were, the more they could influence the host. I think there was a scene were Luke discovered that someone had basically been entirely taken over by the parasites and was pretty much just a puppet
Also, once you're on the planet and outside of a sealed room they're pretty much impossible to avoid picking up, so even Luke winds up with a whole bunch of them
I think eventually he managed to purge them out using the Force?

Anyhow, I have no details about the plot, or what other characters were in the story or anything. Pretty sure it was written prior to 2004, but looking through Wookiepedia's list of novels yields nothing that matches what I remember.

Help me, findthatbook, you're my only hope!

ETA: Ha, never mind--I post this and then five minutes later figured out that it's Planet of Twilight by Barbara Hambly. So nice to know it's not just some weird nightmare I dreamed up on my own.

mattevansc3

My local library had a series of books (possibly a trilogy) that I enjoyed when I was younger in the mid 80’s. I want to track them down to read to my children.

The library never had the first one but the basic plot outline is;
A boy does a weird monster dance to scare his younger sister which accidentally teleports them to a fantasy world. They are separated and the locals treat his sister as a powerful sorceress because of her torch.

I can’t remember the outline for the second book.

In the third book he does the dance but when he’s teleported he’s shrunk to the size of an insect and gains leaf armour made by ants. He eventually meets a wizard from an earlie book that resizes him but he’s a few inches smaller. Him and some adventurers from an earlier book go into a dungeon where they start getting “killed off” with venomous crossbow bolts and nerve gas.

One of the covers is of the boy doing the dance and the back cover summary always discusses the dance/movements in detail.

Any help would be much appreciated.

kitewithfish

Hello, kind friends!

I am looking for a book that I read in hardcopy in my childhood (aka, the early 1990's) which was probably written 1990's or earlier. I have no recollections of the cover or the age of the book at the time.

Setting: American revolutionary war and preceding years, I think in New England.

Genre: historical fiction - probably aimed at older children, I think, but it might have just been from an older style of polite writing that did not mention sex or upsetting things in literature. (I read a lot of things as a child that I was probably not supposed to have read. :)

Main character: a young man who we follow from a poor childhood to adulthood. He's educated in a public (I think) single room schoolhouse with a single teacher. He's a mathematics and accounting genius from an early age, and at one point I believe there's a conflict with his schoolmaster who does not believe a student as dumb as him could be working out complicated mathematical problems without being instructed in how to do it. (He's not particularly un-intelligent, but he's Very Gifted in math and not much interested in other elements of education, and the character might be read as autistic to modern readers.)

Detailed scenes:
- conflict with his school master over math, but the boy's mathematical talents are later recognized and he's trained (apprenticed?) to someone in trade involving sailing ships or a port. The school room uses slate and, I think, lead pencils to write on them rather than chalk?

-at one point, a mentor he admires gives him a book to study on mathematics (Maaaybe Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, not sure) and the boy is embarrassed bc he cannot read Latin, but when he confesses the mentor arranges for him to have lessons.

-scene on a ship in a battle where he has to hide in the gunpowder room and calmly reads a book until the battle is over, causing people to exclaim that, of course, he'd be reading completely calmly in the powder room of a ship under fire, of course. The ship might be smuggling goods, not sure.

-There's a scene when he's an adult where, at a dinner party, his host asks him to solve a complicated mathematical question regarding compound interest over time bc the host would like to make sure that he has not been cheated by a bank or business partner. The host lays the details out, but says, Don't worry about solving it now, enjoy your tea, I'll give you some time with it later. But the main character thinks about it and comes back with a detailed answer without using any writing materials in a very short amount of time.

-This was a book I read on my own, from my school or classroom library, not something that was assigned

fenzik

I'm attempting to track down a novel I picked up at my local library growing up. I don't live anywhere near it now so I can't go and look, and I only read the first few chapters...but here goes.

The cover, which admittedly was the main reason for me to pick the book up, depicted a hunter with a bow overlooking a forested valley. The artwork was really beautiful. It did a good job of fooling me.

The contents of the book were, and this is no exaggeration, an almost 1 to 1 copy of Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. Farm kids, pale riders, the whole shebang. The one thing I remember being different was the Moraine character was a guy, and the Lan character was a girl. Everything else was just short of being word for word.

I know this is basically nothing to go on, but I often find myself wondering if the author was trying to be clever and later on subverted the reader's expectations.

lottief8

I'm trying to find a novel that I read on Wattpad within the last 3 years, although it could have been written earlier. It's a combination of fantasy, chicklit, ya fiction, romance, and adventure. The female protagonist is a princess (or some type of royalty) in her late teens or early twenties and has the ability to manipulate/bend water. Her powers can be dangerous and hard to control at times, which is a plot point that jumpstarts the novel. She accidentally kills someone at the beginning of the novel which leads to her running away and joining a group of pirates. They go on a series of adventures that build up to a massive battle at the end. The pirates don't like her at first but they grow close and she becomes part of the crew. She and the pirate captain - whose name I'm pretty sure is Gideon but I could be wrong - fall in love along the way. It's one of those will they-won't they situations and one where their feelings are obvious to everyone around them. One of the plot points includes them searching for a magical ring or similar object connected to the female protagonist's powers/some ancient force. Ending scene includes a battle with plot twist (included at bottom of post)

Other random details:
- The author started a sequel that I remember having a reddish orange cover and was more fire based/had fire as a plot point (as opposed to the blueish cover/water based plot of the first book), but then discontinued writing it because of writer's block or a similar issue. She never said anything that I can remember about taking the books down, so the first one at least should still be up.
- the female protagonist's mother is dead and her father remarried. I'm pretty sure the stepmother ends up being the big bad but I could be wrong.
- Gideon/the pirate captain has a tragic past that includes a dead fiancée (I think she died in a fire? which might have influenced the second book)
- there's a scene in the book where the female protagonist and Gideon are alone, somewhere on an island or a beach. She touches an ancient sword/magical object (it might have been the one they were looking for) and blacks out/has a vision. She wakes up to Gideon holding her to his chest, thinking she's dead
- I vaguely remember the main character cutting off her hair/having to disguise herself as a man to hide in an army

- at the end of the novel, the female main character and Gideon end up fighting the big bad. AND ***SPOILERS*** IN A MAJOR PLOT TWIST (at least to me, I totally didn't see this coming)

Gideon betrays the female protagonist, in a move related to his past trauma. The main character was trying to persuade him to either kill or not kill the villain, or something like that. He does the opposite of what she whats him to do, despite loving her and having gone through so much. It was a really upsetting moment for the characters and the second novel picks up immediately afterwards.

Thanks in advance for any help!

sarusaihiryu

Hi, I'm looking for a short story or extract from a novel set in England a few years after Richard I's crusade. The main character is a high-strung teenage boy named Stephen, who is raised by his guardian to believe that he is the son of a soldier who died heroically on the walls of acre. Stephen is given a mission which terrifies him but which he manages to accomplish. His guardian's friend is amazed by his guardian's pronounced relief, and it is then revealed that Stephen's father was hanged on the walls of acre for cowardice. I can't remember the name of the author or the title or anything. If anyone knows which book I mean, please tell me. Thanks!

jodran2005

I am trying to find a book series (It was of three or four books). The book covers lined up to form one large image if the books were laid side by side in order. Color was orange.

The books had multiple perspectives. It was centered around the festival of Beltane and they burned effigies of the queen. There was some element of factions/getting chosen for specific jobs. The main characters were orphans? Or non-chosen-people. I remember one person running errands for people and getting bread for prostitutes. There was a castle/palace which had fine marble for the halls I think. Farmers from surrounding areas would set up in a field outside city limits during the festival.

jat

One story was about pigeons that give birth to a griffin.
Another was about children that discover a monster in a well that eats anything which is thrown down.

Presumably from the 80s or early 90s.

The cover depicted a child (a girl?) lying in bed surrounded by monsters from the stories. A red griffin perched at the foot of the bed.

cinderella91

Hello everyone, so I am trying to find this Harlequin romance novel but I can't for the life of me remember the name or author! It was about a couple who dated as teenagers they saw this ship I think that's only supposed to be seen by lovers. The girl gets pregnant her parents confront the boys parents but the parents are rich snobs and don't want them dating she miscarries and the boy's parents lie that she got an abortion. Years later as adults she come back to town(she moved away after the incident) to purchase some historic manor to cheer up her mom who is grieving her dad. She meets the hero again who is an historian or something and he still thinks she got an abortion but they end up falling for each other again and the snobby parents try again to break them up and get him to marry some high society girl. They find out about parents lie. She gets pregnant again they live happily ever after. Does anyone know the name of this book please? I've tried keyword searching in every search engine I can think of and nothing.

azrael_nephilim

Hello all,

When I was in single digits as a child (which was a LONG time ago as I am 35), I read a book in my school library which was about a hero on another planet (I believe it may have been Mars but I can't be certain). I can not remember this hero's name. He was a martial artist and I believe he had some sort of an animal companion.

I believe he was human, but was hiding from (and often getting into fights with) alien soldiers. It was a central detail that the main thing this character had going for him was his super human abilities with martial arts (but a made up/alien variety). Somewhere amongst the early chapters of the book, there were a few fight scenes in underground tunnels.

On the old copy of the book I was reading there was an illustration of some sort of hollow Iron Suit; maybe some sort of armor. I believe the name of the book was even some sort of reference to an iron suit, iron man, red suit, martian suit, hollow man etc. Problem is that whenever I search anything similar I just find 100's of Marvel references, to which this book was unconnected.

I would love to find out what this book was called as I loved it as a child and would even quite like to pass it on to my kids, if only I could remember what is was called. Any help would be much appreciated!

In summary:
About 30 years ago.
Childrens SciFi,
Strong emphasis on Martial Arts (but made up),
Another planet,
Underground Tunnels
Possibly Aliens, an alien army or alien soldiers,
References to some sort of suit of armor, possibly made of Iron.

Many thanks!

ma_ya_12

Don't remember much but it was about a girl who was a spy/secret agent and she had recently moved to a new neighbourhood maybe?

One thing I remember in particular was her mum was a widower, and she recently started started seeing this guy that the main character didn't like, and one time they were in the car together and he played Stevie Wonder's 'Isn't She Lovely', and she thought it was the dude trying to be romantic with her mother but it turns out the guy was her Dad, and he was playing the song for her. He had faked his death to keep his family safe because he was also a spy/secret agent (I think).

Other than that, my memory is pretty spotty. I think she carried out like one main mission during the book, she was trying to solve a mystery of some sort. There was no magic, so it's not a fantasy book, but she did have gadgets. It may have also been part of a series, I think I was wanting to read the sequel but never got around to it.

Read while I was still in school I think, 7 to 12 years ago, but I found it in the school library and I don't have access to that database unfortunately :/

Any tips would be great! Thanks for reading :)

Current Location: UK

ashstar54321

There was a book I read some ten years ago in elementary school. I can't remember too much but for a few concrete details and a few things I'm not sure if I remember correctly. I have been unable to find this book and it's driving me half mad. I am hoping someone here can help?

Things I remember for certain:
It was a large paperback picture book.
A boy and his cat are on an adventure, looking for something.
They fail in their quest, so the king/monarch/ruler traps them each in a locked cube of sorts. (There's a happy ending eventually, I just don't remember how).
The illustrations are full of puzzles and illusions. There are two that I remember distinctly:
1. Towards the beginning, there was a full page illustration and the reader was supposed to find all of the cats. Some we actual cats, others were bushes or shadows or silhouettes made up of other objects.
2. A tunnel stretching out, with the lines along the wall getting closer together toward the far end. It was on of those height illusions, where all three objects were really the same size, but the lines made some appear larger than others.
Illusion and magic were major themes.

Things I may or may not remember correctly:
The cat was black or black and white
The boy wore an cloak that was somewhere on the red-orange end of the color spectrum and a pointed hat.
The boy and cat were trapped in separate magical cubes.
The ruler who had imprisoned them was deeply saddened by something.
The boy was a magician, or training to be one.
Many far more skilled magicians had attempted the quest before and all had failed and been imprisoned.
The objects in the tunnel height illusion mentioned above were toy beings of some sort--maybe toy soldiers?
The tunnel was a blue color and the height illusion objects seemed to be floating at different heights.
There was a large cat-shaped bush in the 'how many cats' illusion, and the caption for that image said something about being distracted and needing to find the boy's cat before moving on.
All the illustrations had a bit of fuzziness to them, like they had been originally done in colored pencil, but I might be making that up.

I can't remember anything else--it's been years since I had read it, but I remember it fondly. I would love to rediscover it, and would be so, so grateful to anyone who could provide me with a solid lead!

antoniag2000

I am looking for a book I read. Can't remember anything besides a scene. The hero Marries the heroine and drops her off on the steps of a house, leaving her crying in the rain. She collapses and ends up sick, I think even so far as almost dying. And I think it's a regency. But that's all i remember.

papermango

i’m looking for a book. one of the characters goes to peru and has to help someone there. i read it 10 or more years ago.

jen_fuqua

Hello, I am trying to figure out what book this is that I remember. It's a historical romance- maybe by Cassie Edwards? And there are spoilers for the story in my description, just a warning.

The main plot centers around a Native American (chief, I believe), his two wives, and a white woman that he wishes to make his third wife. In regards to his two wives, both are Native American and one of them is pregnant and -spoiler alert- it is revealed after she is murdered that the baby was not her husband's but actually a child conceived with a close friend of his. The man she had the affair with lets it slip while holding her dead body and babbling about it right in front of her husband. The other wife was vicious to the pregnant wife, getting banished after she cut off the pregnant wife's braids, and I believe that she wound up prisoner to some evil white guy that wanted the white woman. As for the white woman, she was not happy about the Native American already having two wives and wanting to make her the third, though the Native American conceded to her wishes enough to start work on a separate home for her so she wouldn't have to share with his other wives. She did try being nice to the pregnant wife, though the pregnant wife pouted and sulked about her husband's plan to marry the white woman. At the end of the book, the white woman is the only wife and the Native American man agreed not to marry anyone else.

If anyone knows what book this is, please let me know ; ; I have been trying to find it for months with little success.

Current Mood: anxious

mystarling

It was an audiobook on CD I heard around 2005-2010. Strong Wizard of Oz themes (maybe one of the other L Frank Baum books? It seemed more like the original to me though). Main elements I remember:

- It was a musical: the first number was the man character singing about living in a rose cottage with her dad, who then died

- There was a fisherman the protagonist was warned against talking to by the 'Glinda' like character, but she did anyway and was given a magic whistle

- the quest they were given was to retrieve the witches magic eye (this may be from something else)

- I'm not sure of the companion characters were traditional WoO sidekicks, or something else

- in the end, 'Glinda' turned out to be the witch in disguise, and so her warning about the fisherman was her trying to prevent the protagonist from getting her hands on the magic whistle.

- the protagonist uses the whistle to shrink the witch away into nothing

Thanks!

hndsmejack

I read this book a couple of years ago. It's focused around a guy who was given Metal Hands and indoctrinated into a religious order and a commander in an Empire's military. The Empire is in disarray because the Emperor was assassinated by the religious order, and the line of succession is heavily disputed. A fleet of black ships was seen coming from a volcanic island and they attacked a coastal city. I, regrettably, never finished the book and it has lead me to here. If anyone knows this book I would greatly appreciate your help.

Current Mood: curious

halpme

Hey, guys would really appreciate it if you can help me find this book!
*SPOILER ALERT I WILL BE TELLING THE END OF THE STORY IN ORDER TO GIVE MORE DETAILS*
I know it was a picture book for sure and it was a horror book. The drawings kind of had a Dr. Seuss style to it but not exactly. Basically, it follows the story of five (I'm not sure if it was five) people who are in a forest and need a place to stay. They come across a house who is inhabited by an old couple. The old couple will let them stay in exchange for a story.
I only remember three stories and some are not in exact details so here we go.
There was one story about a guy who encountered aliens. I cannot remember anything else but he tells his story and the old couple takes him to his room.
Another one was the story of this blonde girl. She tells the story of her favourite ice cream brand when she was little. One day she gets invited to see the factory and how they make the ice cream (similar to Charlie and the chocolate factory). She has these amazing dreams of what it will look like. When she gets there it turns out to be the complete opposite. They drain the cows of their milk and kill dogs and children to make their ice cream. In the end, the horrified girl goes home and vows to never eat the ice cream again. In the end, she cannot resist her favourite brand and eats it despite knowing the origins of it.
So basically each person tells their story to the old couple and the old couple gives them a room. Soon one guy is left but he does not have a story. So the old couple refuses to give him a room and he leaves. He basically wanders the forest and comes across the most horrifying things ever. Monsters, and all these weird creatures. They all end up chasing him until he ends up back at the old couple's house. There he tells them his story of what happened to him in the forest so they let him stay and I think that's how the story ends.
Please help me find the book, I would very much appreciate it.

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