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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

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

jamisnively

My sister swears she remembers me reading a book when I was late elementary school age, around 2001-2004ish, and she thought it was a Harry Potter book. But none of the Harry Potter book covers match her memory of the cover art of this particular book. I have vague memory of what she’s describing, a green hand that comes out from the bottom of the picture and you don’t really see any other part of the body the hand comes from. I don’t remember what the plot might be, but it would be a book written for children. Anyone have any idea?

cardiacuk

I'm hoping someone can help me find this book as it really affected me when I was younger. Some plot points I can remember include the protagonist having a homosexual encounter backstage at a theater, a character being killed by being stabbed in the eye with a pencil, and the protagonist not attending the funeral, and also the protagonist climbing a balcony at the end of the book to speak to a girl. I also remember dolls being involved somehow too, and a bridge being sabotaged. I must have read it before 1999, if that is any help.

sadiedw

Hey all, I spent hours searching and I have thrown in the towel.

I want to say the book had quail on the cover, or quail or partridge birds were involved somehow, and maybe a girl? Kind of a moodier type of mood to it?

YA novel where the main protagonist is a girl who is kind of an outsider and possibly had magic powers.

In one part of the book a bully at school pushes her and she hits her head, she goes home to take a shower and the back of her head is bleeding.

I really want to find this book, it’s one of those books you encountered at the library over summer vacation when you were in middle school and stuck with your younger siblings and divorcing parents for weeks, you love it, return it to the library, and even when you go back to get it again a week later it is gone, and you can’t remember the title, and it bothers you forever.

Let me know if you know it!

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.

starshipfox

I read this book in the mid 00s, and I think it was recently published at the time. It was a literary novel about a young woman who is held at gunpoint in a public park. I believe she lived in New York city, and the attack is fairly brief: she isn't assaulted, but is very frightened. She has a boyfriend, and when she talks to him about the attack afterwards he isn't very sensitive. I think the book had quite a lot of literary references, perhaps specifically to Robert Frost? I also remember the cover had colour photographs of autumn leaves.

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

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.

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!!! :)

nayaranightroo

EDIT: Found! It's Cry of the Icemark, by Stuart Hill.

I've been trying and failing to find this book for years, so I might as well try here! \o/
I read this YA Fantasy book in 2012 at the latest, but I doubt it was published earlier than 2000. What I remember:

1) The protagonist was a princess of some kind(?), or possibly the daughter of the leader of some kind of warrior tribe. Possibly red-haired.
2) The mother of the protagonist is dead pre-book. I think the father dies at the beginning of the first book.
3) The protagonist goes to a land with ice/snow and makes peace with a race of giant talking beasts that her people fear. I'm pretty sure the beasts are snow leopards. The protagonist rides at least one of them at some point, I think.
4) The protagonist has a guy love interest. When she meets him, he's trying to help heal someone, I think? He's some kind of wizard / has magic. He might be called Oscar.
5) At some point, near the end of the book, the love interest bursts into flames (due to magic gone wrong, maybe?) and he's horribly burnt. I seem to recall him running around a courtyard of some kind while naked?
6) The cover might be the red-haired protagonist accompained by a snow leopard / white beast, but I might be confused here.
7) There's a second book, in which the protagonist and her love interest are not teens anymore, but adults with several children, and those children are the main focus. I think the book starts with one of their children betraying the rest.

hecatemahadevi

I never actually read it. I saw the cover in a collection of sci-fi/fantasy book covers I know the local library used to have (they may or may not still have it; this was probably 20 years ago, and I know well-loved books get "retired"). What I remember is that the cover was dark, i.e. a night scene, and showed a pale-skinned woman with black hair and a flowing black dress, holding a large glass goblet of blood. I would assume it's something in either the high fantasy, or low/urban fantasy genres (vampires maybe? or just witches?) but I can't recall anything about the title, the cover's artist, or the author of the book it went to.

marleybear

I read this book in about 2013, though I’m not sure what year it was released or the publisher. All I remember is that the cover was white and grey, like monochrome, and all you saw was a road, a blurred out figure and sort of mist/fog/blur.
The premise of it was that this teenage boy (16-18) goes out to find his missing/dead sister. He also had a brother who I believe had something to do with her disappearance. There’s a part in the story where the boy gets into a fight with two older men, and I believe that when the brother shows up? Those are about all the details I can remember, but I do remember I loved this book, and have wanted to find it with no luck for months! Any help is super appreciated!! <3

findmethisbook

I once read a book 4-6 years ago. It was not new at the time, however I do not know how old it was, either. It wasn't too large, maybe a centimeter and a half thick. It wasn't all that hard either, you could just get through it easily. But I found myself liking the book. However, I have no idea what it was called nor who the author was.
Firstly, I can describe how the book's cover looked. It had the three siblings in the front. One in the middle and two on each side of him. Two boys and one girl. A boy in the middle, who I assume to be the eldest of the three, had blonde hair and a red scarf that covered his mouth. I do not know how the other two children looked(they were all ages 10-14 or something, I think). The background before them was mixes between light grey and dark grey. There were probably designs of trees in the back, but I really do not know.
The plot is something I can hardly grasp. I'll explain it the best I can, though. I know that the three siblings had lost their mother and I think lived with their single father. The eldest son lost his ability to speak at age 8, when their mother died. Also, I don't know if the mother died or disappeared. I think she died, though.Then, the brothers and sister went on adventures??? For a reason I cannot recall??? And then something about a middle-eastern prince or princess. Maybe they were middle-eastern. I don't remember, really.
Please, I would really appreciate it if someone were to help me with what this book is called! I would be extremely thankful. Thanks for reading this, if you did.

devildog2901

Although I read this book in my elementary school, I believe its demographic was that of teenagers. The details that I am about to list are very vague and I apologize for that but its been 7 years since I read this book and my memory of subject is very hazy.

The genre as listed in the subject is Fantasy
I read it around 2011, but the publish date was most likely well before then

details that are still lingering in my memory are that i believe it was about 3-5 teens or young adults on a "quest" in search of magical "artifacts" or items. I don't remember if these items had any sentimental value of the characters or played a part in the history of the characters. With searching for magic items, enemies are usually in pursuit and this is no different, for the duration of their journey they are followed by not so friendly people and attacked by pirates when on a bout at some point in the story.

At least one character was a male and 1 female, the other characters i am unsure.

At the time of me reading the story, it was a hard back book.

Thick chapter book from what I can remember.

Rectangular shape

the cover, if i'm not mistaken had circles on the front of it with the gems or magical items they were looking for.

Four gems possibly red, blue, green, and yellow or some other final color.

I apologize again for providing very little detail and quite vague details of the ones provided. I have been stuck searching for this book for a long time so if anyone can help find this book I would really appreciate it. Thanks to anyone willing to help.

holly_mae

I’m trying to find a book I read about 2014 but was probably published a while before that, the front cover looked cold and icy, it was textures and blue, I can remember something about winter in the name of it. From what I can remember, the book started with a group of people travelling away from their village because it was being sort of, invaded? And they all had weird names like stark or raven, and there were also like ninja kind of people and they kidnapped one of the girls and held her in a canyon type thing where she was to maybe have kids? I don’t really know if any of this is true or I’ve just made it up so :’)

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.

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Entries tagged with cat: cover description

Lost Book! Pre-2000 sci-fi book, the cover has a galaxy like Andromeda in the sky of a planet

Book of spooky tales/articles for children

Book with a green hand on the cover

Fiction with a gem and a bridge on the cover?!?

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Fantasy series

Lit fiction about being held at gunpoint?

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

Looking for this book for years.

Tween/Teen Book Series about Viking girl?

YA Fantasy - Princess(?) makes peace with giant talking snow leopards

Don't know title, not sure of genre

YA Novel with white and grey cover

A book about three siblings with no mom and adventures.

Fantasy book, read before 2011 in an elementary school.

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