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I remember reading this book when I was at school (I pretty much lived in the library and the sci-fi section was my idea of heaven <3) so it would have been 1985-ish through to 2000-ish?
But literally the only thing I can remember is the book cover *facepalm*

I’m pretty sure it was a reddish or pinkish colour (but honestly, don’t take that as gospel, I could be mis-remembering it, I was only a teen at the time).

The cover had a huge galaxy like Andromeda or the Milky Way galaxy in the sky of a planet (the pov was from the planet looking at the galaxy in the sky) and it was never truly night because the galaxy was so bright all the time. I remember a character commenting on how it was never fully dark because the galaxy was so bright.

It was either a hardcover, or large library edition paperback. I feel like it was a well known sci-fi author of that time but can’t remember a name.

It looked sort like the style of this book cover…

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60641307-andromeda

…with a full galaxy in the sky of a planet, but it was more like daytime, and more of an 80’s-90’s art style, and the galaxy was larger in the planets sky, also the planet had atmosphere, no spacesuits needed.

If this book cover is familiar to anyone, please help me find it again?

Current Mood: frustrated

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.

honigfrosch

Okay, unfortunately I have VERY little information to give on this one, but who knows, maybe someone remembers the same scene from the book that I do?

It's science fiction and YA and I read it as a kid/young teen, so it must be from the early 90s or even earlier. I know the protagonist was a girl and I think she was on some space station or spaceship with her family. There was an alien threat(?) that either took over people's bodies or duplicated them, if I'm not mistaken they had red eyes when compromised and I remember that her father was one of the victims/duplicates and confronts her at some point, which I found super creepy. I don't remember anything else about the plot or cover image and I'm not sure where the book originates from but if I had to choose I'd say either UK or Germany.

I'm happy about any suggestions (if I read summaries on Goodreads or elsewhere it might bring back the memory...) Thank you ♥

nightrayne

Read a book ages ago in the old school sci fi/fantasy genre popular in the 90s or so. Can’t remember a whole lot about the plot anymore but could have sworn the book was called the Three Sisters. Definitely set in a fantasy world with one sister being I believe a warrior/soldier, another may have been a healer, and the third was more of a helpless female/seductress in the way a lot of female characters were written in that time period. Not sure if anyone knows what I’m talking about but have googled so much and still can’t find it!

malkat_1987

These were all hardcovers.

One was about weather and natural disasters. I can't remember what the cover looked like. I think each topic spanned two pages. The main illustration for each section also spanned two pages. I remember sections about earthquakes, tornadoes, and tsunamis. The illustration for the tsunami section had a giant wave striking a Japanese town. The book also talked about Pangaea.

The second book had "natural world" somewhere in the title. It also talked about weather and natural disasters, but had sections about rocks, glaciers, and water too. Like the last one, I can't remember the cover.

The third book was about the history of life on Earth. I *want* to say there was a mammoth on the cover. Like the weather book, each section and accompanying illustration spanned two pages. It's possible they're both by the same publisher. I remember a section about animals from North and South America meeting for the first time, and a section on early humans.

I'm sorry if this is too little to go on. These books were important to me, and I've been racking my brain trying to come up with as many details as possible.

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.

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

elea_tsubaki

Hi!
I'm looking for a book that I cant recall the name or title of, but what I do remember is that it centers around a young girl who witnessed something and then is hit by a car. She ends up breaking her leg in the accident but the rest of the boom is about how the man who hit her, the one who's crime she witnessed is trying to find her. It's a young adult/juviniele fiction book that is probably 90s to early 2000s. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thehunter

This was a YA book, probably written in the early to mid-1980s. The cover had a dark blue border and a picture of two kids looking frightened and hiding behind a bush, crouched down low. The kids were wearing backpacks and had identical or very similar haircuts, something between a bowl cut and that "curtains" style that was popular in the '90s. I believe one of them was wearing a purple and green striped rugby shirt. A dark figure in the background seemed to be looking for the kids.

I remember very little about the plot. The children were brother and sister (the sister was a little older) and had run away from home together, perhaps because their parents were getting divorced and they didn't want to be split up. I remember them packing supplies in their backpacks, and I think they were planning to live in a public park for a while. The girl may have cut her hair like her brother's, in hopes that anyone looking for them would mistake her for a boy.

If anyone has any idea what book this is, please let me know! Thanks!

Edit: FOUND! The book I was looking for is At the Sound of the Beep, by Marilyn Sachs. The kids are hiding behind a tree, not in a bush, and I don't know where I got that idea about the rugby shirt, but this is definitely the right book. Thanks for your help!

Current Mood: curious

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.

Current Location: UK

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!

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Entries tagged with 1990s

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YA Books Series from the 90s - Teens that worked at a Radio Station

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