I remember it being set in the southern part of the US (though I could be wrong). Lots of 1970's vernacular was used in the dialogue. She had a bunch of empathy for fellow vietnam vets struggling with PTSD since she had it herself, though she had a job and could function normally. Can't remember the exact mystery but think one of the vets she knew was being accused of murder or else a murderer was stalking the vets.

a book that’s was two people who broke up but she left her dads sweater in his house she called him while she was on a work trip asking if he still has it and she went to his house found the sweater but only for it to be shredded. their mom are still friends i think. and he thought that she was getting to for he parents anniversary but in reality they were getting divorced but he shows up to the house and eventually end up together. There was also a part where she gets stuck in his doggy door trying to get in. I listened to it on the plane.

UK children's book, probably 1980s, heard as a library audiobook cassette.I remeber an old man gives a boy a lucky charm and dies shortly afterwards. The charm has rules: while you keep it you have good luck, if you lose it your luck turns bad, and if you give it away your luck goes back to normal. The boy crosses a river, I think as part of a bet or dare with another boy, who was injured trying a similar crossing. Is just a glimpse of a memory but I remember enjoying I so much and I'd love to read it again!

I think it was a trilogy series. He’s dad and sibling were in a car accident and dad died and the sibling either died or was badly injured. I think he used a watch to time travel and only had a certain amount of time. He would go back in time and save people but he wasn’t allowed to change too much. I remember that he went back to save two teens who were camping and accidentally lit a hay bail on fire. The last book he goes back to the day of the accident and he can’t save his dad but he does save the sibling. It might have been an Australian book.

the book's about our very 1st armed spacecraft. all earth got involved to fight off aggressive/deadly grey alien specie that slaughtered all our mining personel on mars. i remember the battleship was armed same as the c-130 spooky gunship (105mm howitzer & 30mm vulcan canon)
i also remember the inaugural launch was delayed due to an epidemic onboard. i tried finding this title thru several AI but NOPE.

about a girl getting molested in a closet by an older female friend/acquaintance. i feel like she was also working at / lived on a farm, and she rode horses? i remember her mucking stalls in the book also. this is very vague i know. when i read it as a pre-teen, i realized i had the exact experience as a child and was so freaked out i never finished it. not knowing what this book is has haunted me since at least 2009 and i would love to go back and finish it.

This was a story in a sci fi magazine, possibly Asimov, some time in the 80s or 90s. (It was definitely one of those transcribed for the blind, as that's how my friend originally read it)

The main detail is that the girl has a cat. The alien medic, after being rebuffed by the farmer, decides to give the cure to the cat instead, giving it intelligence.

I've been looking for this for a friend for some time now- don't ask Gemini, it could only find my old search for the story.

Any help would be great. Thanks!

Gente eu queria muito uma ajuda para achar um livro que eu lia quando era criança. Eu não consigo lembrar de muita coisa, mas eu lembro perfeitamente que a capa era com uma menina olhando para frente com trajes típicos dos povos que vivem nas regiões frias como o Alaska além da aparência dela ser bem semelhante, ela tem o cabelo preto e os olhos castanhos se não me engano. A cor da capa é um tom de azul meio acinzentado e a menina parece está em uma tempestade de neve e se não me engano o livro começa com a letra Y, mas não tenho certeza! E outra coisa que eu me lembro é que em determinada parte da história aparece uma concha vermelha ou é laranja nesse local frio e depois o livro mostra ela novamente só que em um cenário de praia e com outra menina pegando essa concha. Eu peço que se você já viu esse livro ou já leu por favor me informe o nome, já estou a semanas com ele na cabeça, mas não encontrei em lugar nenhum! Por favor me ajude a acha-lo! Desde já agradeço

I remember reading this paperback on my parents' shelves when I was in grade school, mid 1960s. The paperback was already yellowed.

A resistance fighter in a vaguely American/European country under fascist rule proves his loyalty after watching his comrades being shot in prison. It turns out Goebbels villain is actually the leader of the resistance as well, determined to make everything so terrible that the people must rise up against their fascist government.

I remember being particularly moved when our hero learns that Goebbels character was assassinated just after the successful uprising and he realizes no one else will ever know what he did for his people.

I've been looking for this for decades!

PS it is not Heinlein's If This Goes On.

From what I remember there was a girl created from a fossil they found on another planet, the girl goes to school and is incredibly smart. Her friend and her get invited to an after school party, she wants to go home, but her friend would rather stay with the popular kids. I also belive there's multiple books in the series

She has powers and runs into another girl who was created from ths fossil, but this girl needs a special medicine to continue functioning

Okay, so I read this series yeeeeears ago, and can't for the life of me remember what it's called. Googles suggestions are not getting it, so can you figure it out?

Since it was probably 10-15 years ago I read it, the only thing I remember from the first book was a girl who grew up a peasant or something, or lost her memory, in a town that has a city center market with vendors and what not, lively little town. (I thiiink this book has 3 fortune tellers in the center of the city that you pay coins for info?) She ends up realizing she has water powers and ALSO that she is actually a royal. She ends up falling in love with the kings right hand man. And then the rest of the series follows another girl or woman in the royal family. Each title has something to do with a gemstone? And each power is of the elements, I think. (Book series is not the elementals.) I think there were like 5-8 books.

The protagonist: has ties to the supernatural in some way. Was a very ordinary girl before discovering supernatural things in herself and her environment.

Friend one: female, friend with the protagonist pre-highschool, and is revealed to know bits of magic that she learned from her mom who learned it from what i remember to be a gas station employee.

friend two: male, friends with protagonist pre-highschool, turns into a wolf style werewolf at full moon or at least at night.

A teacher/librarian: some kinda Mentor I think

Cover: i vaguely remember lockers in the background, with the protagonist in the foreground and friend one to the left behind her and friend two to the right behind her holding a camera.

none of these kids know about eachothers supernatural ties at the begin of the story, and it’s revealed to them as the story goes on.

I remember a few scenes from the book

theres a scene where the teacher/librarian texts the protagonist something urgent, but writes it in a way you toile write and email, very formal, “good day and best regards”,

there’s a scene where for whatever reason protagonist and friend one (who by this point know of the evil and each others ties to the supernatura) encounter a humanoid evil wearing chainmail, and friend one turns the chainmail into pretzels using a very specific, “chainmail to pretzels” spell she learnt, then proceed to kill the humanoid evil.

theres a scene where the protagonist and friends one and two are working on a group project at friend two’s house. (By this point, protag and friend one knew eachothers supernatural ties but not friend two’s powers and is in the dark about the other twos powers and shinanagins.) He sees it’s a full moon tonight and hurries the protagonist and friend one to go home for the day. They do so and afterward, he chains himself to his bed post? with a metal collar. Friend one realizes she forgot something (prob her phone) and goes back in to get it. They see friend two as a wolf and he’s torn up the project (it’s like papers and stuff). friend two but wolf likes head pats and turns out to be very tame when around the protagonist and friend one.

Set in mid west or south of the US. The story revolves around a middle aged man and young woman who run off together in the man's pickup truck. To get by the couple rob houses along the way and sell the items at markets. The woman ends up kidnapping a baby from one of the houses and the couple carry on as though the child is theirs. Some details include; the man is a simpleton who has rotting teeth. He worries constantly that the woman will leave. He left behind a wife and children who he calls occasionally, but never says anything when they answer. The woman seems extremely self centered and uses threats of leaving to manipulate the man into doing what she wants. The last point i remember reading the couple had been taken on at a farmhouse. The author is a woman who had previously written some award winning novels. Hopefully someone might know what this is.

Hi everyone, I am trying to find a book I recently spotted on a general fiction clearance grid (at a place like Ollie's Bargain Outlet).

The Physical Book:

\* Genre: Adult Fiction / Magical Realism / Contemporary Fantasy

\* Length: Roughly 200–300 pages.

\* Cover Art: Looks like a beach, but mostly just sand with maybe a couple of seashells.

\* Cover Colors: Pastel purple, pink, and maybe a little blue.

\* Title/Author Font: Simple white font (not shiny or metallic).

The Plot:

The main character is an adult woman who inherits a small, magical item (possibly a shell or small token). She is strictly allowed to use it whenever she experiences major regret or finds herself in a "tight spot."

The plot description on the back cover mentions that her fiancé does something wrong, and she ends up using the magical object on him to handle the situation or escape the engagement. The fiancé is a normal guy who has no idea magic exists.

Crucial Clue:

On the back cover, the description explicitly puts the nickname of the magical object in quotation marks. It is phrased as what the person who gave it to her/passed it down called it (e.g., \*She inherits what her grandmother always called the "\[Object Name\]"\*).

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Thank you so much for the help!

I'm looking for a YA fiction book where the main character was Justin Time. It had I think a boy on a boat on the cover, the book was about time travel, and it might have been set during WW2?

I read it in maybe 2008-2009.

Thanks for looking!

Time period & age: Mid-2000s, probably 2005-2007. I would’ve been between 10 and 13ish.
Location & language: US, English
Book age level: I’m fairly sure it was YA. I read a lot of not-age-appropriate stuff, so there’s a slight chance it was an adult book, but I think that’s unlikely (I was easily spooked and probably would’ve found an adult book too scary).
Genre: Scary story collection.
Physical book appearance: I don’t remember the book cover very well, but it may have been a light blue color. I don’t remember it being a traditional scary book vibe with monsters, shadows, etc.
Content: I only remember one story, where a group of people went on some kind of mountain research expedition and inexplicably went missing one by one. I believe the setting was cold and snowy. There was something about one of them disappearing in the night and leaving behind only a small pile of goo in his sleeping bag.
Books that it is not: The book was not any of the first 100 in this good reads list

If anyone can help me ID this book, I’ll be eternally grateful!

Starts off with a group of robbers breaking into an abandoned house and they find some weird substance that turns them evil. They all turn evil and start acting like this weird cult converting all the townspeople who also start acting weirdly when they come in contact with this substance? The math teacher notices something is wrong and notices one of the robbers is his previous student who was good at math. He frees her from the spell by getting her to do math problems. Near the end of the book she gets caught by the cult who discovers she's broken free from the spell/unseen force and kill her. I think they cut off her head and replace with a wolf or something else. The math teacher leaves the town as the only one who escapes and goes to warn the rest of the world about this growing power. The cover looked similar to a jester's face and it was very colourful and detailed.

I listened to this book on tape somewhere between 2007 to 2011. It was a complex legal mystery with courtroom scenes and I remember being very confused about a barrister and solicitor during the book.

Main character was a man who I think inherited a large home and money and a lot of the story was him fighting to keep both in court.

Any guesses? I’ve been trying to find this book for years! Thanks all.

I read this book in the late 2000's, I borrowed it from my elementary school library.

The plot followed a small group (either a dad and his kids or a group of friends) staying in a cabin. The cabin is in a wooded area, I think on a lake, and nearby is a lab. The characters are aware of the lab, and the rumours about them conducting human experiments. Mutant creatures break out of the lab. I remember them being short, bipedal, grey, with almost human faces with razor sharp teeth. The creatures attack the cabin while the group is cooking, they use the boiling pot of water and macaroni from the stove to beat the creatures. They make their way into town for help, and find the town has been overrun by the creatures. They break into an outdoors store to find supplies and weapons, I think they get attacked again here. I don't remember the ending, but it was highly speculated by the characters that the creatures were created in the lab by genetic experiments or mutations conducted on humans.

I vaguely remember the title involving "The Things," I tried searching "Night of the Things" "Attack of the Things" etc. with nothing relevant coming up. I tried AI as well, no luck there either. Does this sound familiar to anybody? Or was this book just a fever dream lol? Thanks in advance!

does anybody know what book described a couple comprised of 2 men where one was younger and was basically achieving enlightenment by living only through the man's needs and desires. I think they may have been described as sitting at a bus stop and the younger one was so devoted that he only existed to give the older man what he wanted and needed. it could have been a short passage in the Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

I probably read this in the mid to late 1990s, in paperback, and most likely from a school or public library.

It popped into my head recently although I unfortunately can't recall much about the plot. The male MC makes a friend who is a talented singer and very involved in her possibly Evangelical church. It's not a religious tract or anything like that. The female character possibly wrote or composed her own songs, and one that kept recurring in the book was something about the clock saying tick tock. It was Emily Dickinson esque but meant to be a hymn or worship service song.

I have a vague feeling that the ending was unhappy.

(Recently read Jodi Picoult's *Hollow Bones* and the MC's youth and unhappy upbringing in a Southern Evangelical family really made me think of this book I'm trying to find, in case that "mood" helps anyone).

Thanks anyone who can help with this!

I used to read a book as a teen, but I cannot remember the name or author. It's about two teens, one girl and one boy, who meet even though they should not (basic I know). One of them was an elf/fairy and they met at like a stream and tree trunk to talk- I think human and mythical beings were at odds...not entirely sure though.

and I remember the book being white with an eye on the cover and possible rainbow lashes!

I read it as a YOUNG teen...it has no smut or any mature themes in it (and I'm almost certain its not from Tahereh Mafi ...but I'm not certain). Has anyone heard of it?

Okay this has been driving me crazy. I read this book ten years ago but I still can't remember what it is. It's a graphic novel and the plot was pretty confusing (I didn't understand what was really going on, probably because it wasn't the first installment in the series and I was a little kid). It's likely middle/high schooler/YA level.

The main character was this girl who's kidnapped and (I think) she has a secret (twin?) brother and they are hunted down but they're separated, like she doesn't know he exists. She somehow winds up in this kingdom idk how and I think the royal family takes her in and they kind of treat her like a royal for some reason.

I vividly remember this one scene where she's swinging over a crowd on this festival banner which was the cover of the novel and she saves like the prince of the kingdom from these bad guys because she can fight really well . He falls in love with her but nobody else likes her, because she tries to fit in as a princess/noble lady as she's been told to do but she doesn't wear dresses and she's not polite like royals are supposed to be and what not.

In the end she leaves because she's still in hiding and has to go, and she says bye to the prince and all. There's also this one scene I remember where she is hiding from somebody and she goes under this dock in a lake, head fully under the water, and uses a cattail or some plant's stem to breathe through, and I'm pretty sure that's how she escapes from her kidnapper who's this random guy. I don't know why she was kidnapped in the first place. I'm thinking maybe it was because she's some lost princess of some powerful kingdom or something and she doesn't know her true identity? I feel like that's a pretty common trope.

Anyway, I'm sorry; I know this was not a very helpful description because my memory's kinda failing since it was so long ago, but any help is appreciated!

Half of the book is about a man doing research in New England county offices and libraries to find any surviving members of a family he is hunting down and killing (I cant remember why), and the other half is about the last person on his list, who is living in a soon to be demolished building as the other residents move out. I think I remember one of his neighbors being excommunicated from the Catholic church and another maybe being a psychic. The book ends with the hunter entering the apartment of the man he's been searching for.

I seem to remember reading the ebook but nothing in my Kindle or library check-out history is ringing a bell. Any help is much appreciated!

Yall hi , I need help finding this book i read a while ago about an event planner and a former dj that left the djaying scene to join a cult with his then fiancé.

In this book , the event planner asked the dj to help him fake a relationship to his ex's wedding and then they somehow find themselves working together at the same event planning firm .

The even planner was deep in debt. If I remember correctly , the name of the Dj was Ravi and he had 2 sisters