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I'm looking for a book I read 10+ years ago. It was a large format book (not large print, just larger than the airport paperback.)
The main character was a woman who worked with fabric for the royals (I'm thinking purple, but it could have indigo)
I'm thinking she was either a Dyer or a weaver.
The book was set in ancient times and I'm thinking it was in Istanbul but it could have been Greece. I do remember it was a coastal city. The original purple comes from the phoenician city of Lye, so it could have been there.
Thanks in advance.

kxthleen

bear with me here, cause I have very limited info! I read a book when I was a pre-teen (between 2001-2005, probably) with a female protagonist who, from what I can remember, lived with a lot of other girls, who she doesn't get on with. there's a line in the book about her dying her hair 'dandelion fluff/fuzz white/blonde' and leaving her roots brown to give them something to talk about. I believe there's a reference in there to a romantic novel, of some kind, but that's about all I can remember! really hope someone can help me cause this has been bugging me for years...

nella_sweet2

So I read this book early 2000s when I was in high school and remember loving it. Here are some details I think I remember, hope someone can help.

1. I think it's an apocalypse/post-apocalypse/sci-fi/sci-fi horror themed with a strong focus on female protagonist.

2. The catastrophe on earth (think it was a series of natural diasters and combination of gases?) has killed a lot of people but most importantly to the plot, it has pretty much knocked out modern technology and modern conveniences.

3. I remember the heroine best and her along with several other characters grow scars but through their actions the scars eventually reveal a face fitting their character.

4. Another prominent plot line was that some of the characters have visions which is what leads their journey particularly the girl who is portrayed as kind and she has a band of others travelling with.

5. The story is at times brutal with survival of the fittest emphasised and the stronger but cruel of the remaining population hunting others.

6. There is also a male protagonist who also has visions of the heroine.

7. A point I remember vividly is when her scar falls away and her true face is revealed she is beautiful with flowing hair of multiple hues. I remember how the highlights in her hair was vividly described.

8. I think there may be something about a printing press or trying to restore means of communication (not sure if this is ftom that story or something else I was reading at the time?)

I hope someone can recognise this work. It's been plaguing my memories for years and no Google search has yielded any results.

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fancifuldelights

2010 or earlier-This book takes place in winter and a young woman is hired to babysit a quiet boy and they bond. The boy’s parents (I assume) are dead (under suspicious circumstances) and he lives in an old castle with an old woman and other family members and now the young woman. She isn’t liked by the family (they’re very mysterious) and they try to poison her by giving her a (cherry?) pie slice with poison but she doesn’t eat it. She ends up falling in love with a young man (not sure how they meet but he visits often). The two are chased by an assailant with a gun (possible shootout and they hide behind some stone pillars?) but they get away. There’s also a great pond surrounding the castle, there’s a lot of fear surrounding it (I believe the boy is afraid/there was an incident on the ice/drowning?) and someone falls through/left on the ice as punishment and the boy plays ice hockey on it I think. The young woman warms the boy up after he falls through? Thank you for reading and for any titles you suggest!

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.

full_metal_ox

(Crossposted to

whatwasthatbook.)

I seem to recall that said author was a woman, and the series as fairly recent/ongoing. The Species Hat of these mice was a compulsion to imprint religiously--the way that ducklings will imprint filially upon the first living creature they see--on whatever might happen to awe them; I recall objects of worship including a cake, an oak tree, and a chicken (I imagine the last was a short-lived denomination, to judge by various YouTube farming videos.)

The most fortunate bunch chose the protagonist and her family--who were prepared to deal with and protect eccentric sapient critters--as their pantheon.

ETA:

nocowardsoul has identified the source as Seanan McGuire's InCryptid series.

corvusk9

Around 2014-2015 I was assigned a book in my eighth-grade reading class

It was about a girl whose family had to move to a new area because her father had murdered someone and they were under witness protection. The story started on her first day at her new school. I remember a scene before she left where she was talking with her mother about how she and her sister had to go by different last names in order to stay safe.

The main character was very reserved I think. She ate lunch outside by herself, writing poems in a journal. Either during the same day or later that week a boy sat nearby with a sketchbook and began drawing. Eventually, he approaches the main character and shows her a portrait he had drawn of her, They continue talking and the boy Invites her over to his house. Shortly after, thr main character learns the boy's last name and realizes that he was the son of the man her father murdered.

Upon finding out about this, The main character leaves school early, not before throwing up in the parking lot.

I didn't read much past that.

I can't remember many details but I think the book cover was dark green and the love interest may have been named Brandon or something similar?

I also distinctly remember the writing being very emotional? A few classmates and I had talked about how it was difficult to read through some chapters in class without crying.

doctormexicanmd

I read the first one of this series between 2008 and 2009. The parts that I remember about it was that the main character was a virgin and somehow her being a virgin gave her abilities of some sort. early in the book she got drunk and had a one night stand, also there was a horse that ate a human in order to get three wishes one of which was the ability to digest meat so he wouldn't die, the other was the ability to breathe fire and the third was to be giant.

jaecheondaesong

Im not quite sure if im mixing up two different books together, but i remember this one scene, where an older lady (an elite) is pretending to be good but is in fact evil, she puts these bracelets on the mc girl which forces the girl to do exactly as she is told against her will. As a demonstration of this power she forces the girl to lick the feet/sandal of her son(s?). Otherwise she leaves the girl to work with her servants.
Im fairly certain the girl is friends with a dragon, a young one who cannot fly very far or cannot carry her far.
I think she met the evil lady in a secluded or secret area where she was being taught magic before she was enslaved.
I believe the girl is part of a prophecy including the dragon friend.
Unfortunately this is all I can remember due to how i remember questioning the slavery part in what im sure was otherwise a children's book. (just seemed a bit more explicit than i was expecting)

eliasveturius

Ah I'm getting kind of desperate trying to find this book lol ;-;

Basically, I'm doing a project with someone and their summary of their book was "a mother with two kids who have been raised by their grandparents their whole life has to step in and be a mother for the first time in her life. She also have to find a way to change her kids to a different school so they could experience a better childhood. She has to find a way to understand the identity of her kids so they can trust what she does." They're busy today and they haven't told me what the title of the book is and I need to know it to do my part so please help me! [I posted this on librarything and Reddit as well but got no replies yet]

faz_rach_92

I read a book a couple of years ago (2016-ish) and cant remember the title for the life of me.

It was about a girl whose younger brother goes missing during her childhood. He was a bright boy and a bit strange, always drawing something (I think it was a map or a maze)
The book follows her through several stages of her life, from the 1970s/80s in her childhood to an imagined near future when she is a grandmother.

I cant remember any characters names or even much of the plot but a few scenes and details stick out.

She runs away from home and gets a job picking fruit at a farm. There's a boy on a bike who she has a romantic link with, they sleep in a barn one night.

There's a moment where she sees a woman fishing on a dock by a canal and she draws something in the dust, it becomes significant much later in the book when some time travel elements come into play.

She witnesses a horrible double murder but gets her memory wiped.

There's a secret society that was involved in the vanishing of her brother. I think her actual brother died very early on and one of its members came to use his body.

she gets married to bike boy and they have children who have children.

In the closing chapters she's raising her grandchildren in a dystopian Ireland where Global resources are running out and society has regressed. the secret society save the children but the whole think is pretty bleak.

I read it in Australia but I think it's set in the UK. I always thought it was Labyrinth by Kate Mosse but having recently got that book and read it i realised its completely different and I'm now very confused.
Please Help.

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lookingforbooks

I read a book some years ago about a woman who is searching for the main spirit of a city. The spirit's name is something like "The Grey Lady" and she has not been seen in a long enough time that people are starting to worry. The book is a mystery novel. (SPOILERS) I remember that the ending reveals that an older lady at the supernatural experiences club the main character attends ends up being the grey lady. The explanation is that a group of businessmen had sacrificed one of the cleaning ladies(?) in order to summon the grey lady and request a wish when the woman dies. However, nothing seems to happen and they end up leaving. It turns out that the cleaning lady wasn't dead yet and the grey lady only appears right before the sacrifice dies. With no one in the room except the woman being sacrificed, the Grey Lady grants her last wish. The woman is unaware the Grey Lady can grant wishes and says something along the lines of "I don't want to die". The Grey Lady can't save her but ends up taking over her life in order to fulfill the dying woman's wish. Somehow, she ends up forgetting that she is the Grey Lady. However, when the main character confronts her after having put it together, she remembers and returns to being the Grey Lady.
This has been driving me nuts all week.

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!

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Entries tagged with cat: female protagonist

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The Grey Lady?

Need help finding this book, thanks in advance!

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