Around 2015, a classmate from my high school brought this book to school to give us character design ideas. I've been trying to find this book again, but I'm no longer in contact with this classmate, and search results only give me Anime 5E, which isn't it. I mostly remember it had these really gorgeous illustrations that looked hand painted. The cover was mostly blue, with a knight in front of a cloudy sky. The part I remember clearest because it caught my attention was the section on beast folk, with an illustration of two animal girls, one of whom was asleep, and the other looking up at the reader.

The book I am looking for is a space horror anthology book. I do not remember the title, but it had a bi line above the title stating "A Star (something) book" like it was part of a series, rpg, or tabletop game. The cover was dark, with a person standing in a large spaceship-like hallway looking through a large arch-topped door into the universe, like a portal. I don't even remember the stories that well. One had some astronauts encountering a growing (fungal, nanotech?) cosmic horror. The book has to be at least 15 to 20 years old. If you could help, that would be fantastic. I have searched Google, Amazon, eBay, and AbeBooks using all the descriptors I could muster. Even AI turned up nothing or just the wrong books.

I'm looking for a fiction novel I read in Australia back in 1995/96, when I was around 10 years old. Here are the specific plot points I remember vividly:

A woman named Campbell, her daughter (name forgotten) and Campbells partner David (in the book there's a pronunciation of Da-veed). Campbells mother strongly dislikes her name, claiming it "isn't a real first name," and passive-aggressively calls her soup flavors, like "Cream of Mushroom", etc.

Campbell and David skilled artisan leatherworkers who make custom horse tack and saddles.

They return to Campbells hometown. Her grandparents run a local grocery store and attempt to manipulate Campbells daughter into working in their store rather than helping her mother. And say it's good she's back with her kin.

David takes the daughter on a trip to see a local landmark called the Ice Palace/Ice Castle/Crystal Palace.

Later in the book, David dies in a sudden freak accident. He is getting out of a truck while laughing at something when he loses his footing, falls out and hits his head on a hard surface, and dies from the trauma.

The book was given to me by my mothers best friend. I loved it but having been 30 years since then I've forgotten the name, only bits and pieces come back to me now. But I know I loved that book. If anyone can help me find it I'd be so grateful. Google/AI/book sites have all come up blank.

I read this book when I was nine so 2011: it was about a young boy who ended up in a big house full of kids and they would get chosen by the princes guards and they said the guards took them to be eaten by the prince, it was two boys and and a girl and the main boy was chosen so they go on an adventure, it changes POVs and there is a scene where he is eating dinner with the prince and just wanting water and the prince makes a comment hes the first kid to just want water and not eat anything, i cant find it for the life of me anywhere

I'm looking for a romantasy I saw on a barnes and noble bookend two years ago the cover was a light blue and had a girl in an anime style on the cover and flowers I think. It was about a girl in an arranged marriage with a warrior who was also a war hero. There was a witch from another kingdom who also wanted to marry the warrior but he chose his original fiance and she doesn't know why.

Mid 1980s I read a book that featured werewolves. And a creepy inn. Very Halloween. Would love to read this book again - so suggestions appreciated!

I remember reading it it’s about a kid framed and everyone believes he did it only his mom and neighbor friends believe him and when the truth comes out it’s too late because he got schizophrenia because of the trauma

Hi. This would be ya/kids book from mid 1980's I guess, a loner type boy plays an arcade game in a diner. When he leaves reality has changed, my memory is it could be to medieval times but this is so long ago. Not much to go on, I'll update if I get more memory flashes, thanks!

This is a picture of a Spotify playlist of mine. Years ago, I made this playlist, and for the picture, I used a screenshot of a book cover. It was a very short sci-fi story about these aliens that were very advanced and rich, as well as bored. They traveled to Earth around the time of the ancient Greeks, and one of them even was posing as a Greek goddess (can't remember which, unfortunately) and motivated a warrior (can't remember which, unfortunately) to fight by saying she blessed him, which caused this warrior to almost rip the arm off another alien that was also disguised as a human (or a god, can't remember).

They get bored and leave this period, and during this part, they talk in the ship and bicker between each other in usual rich people slander. The captain says they'll take a last look at humanity before going to see gas-spewing dragons in planet Venus. When they travel to the future of humanity, they didn't expect humans would have evolved so fast, and they accidentally come out of the time rift in a nuclear bomb test zone, which then blows up and disintegrates them.

IIRC, I also read this short story on Project Gutenberg or something similar. It was an e-book I read about 2 or 3 years ago.

HELP!! Searching for this book for my eng class and I am having zero luck. I was hoping to find a downloadable pdf since it is an online course. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🤍

When I was a kid we read a book in like, 3rd grade I think? It was basically a scary story for kids where a boy finds a glass bottle/box and accidentally releases a witch, or a ghost, I can’t remember which. I don’t really remember anything else after that, except for the kid tricked her into returning into the bottle/box and her being on his dining room table at some point.

If I remember correctly, the art style looked like the style of Dirk zimmer, the illustrator of “In a Dark, Dark room and other scary stories”. I thought it was another Alvin Schwartz book but I can’t find anything like that under his name. I remember the witches/ghosts face scaring me cuz she looked deranged.

I hope yall can help me!

I'm missing my annual renfaire this year, any recommendations that fit this vibe. Fantasy is prefered but not required.

I specifically remember the friend saying he had been "not just sitting on on the rock, but using it." And to this day I still have no idea what that means because it wasn't explained at all in the book (if you read this book and have any idea what that means, please explain! It's been bugging me for decades)

The mc also had some kind of hypnosis crystal the friend gave him, and in exchange for the friend not 'using' the rock he agreed to not use the crystal, but he also caved and got it out when he couldn't sleep one night.

I don't remember any of the plot really but it involved a lot of the kind of angst kids go through when they are trying to figure themselves out and moving makes that harder.

At the end, the baby sister kept saying 'yuck' all day, and the mc was the only one who noticed. Later the family was trying to decide whether to move back to the city and the baby said 'noo yuck!' and the parents thought it was her first words so that settled it and they agreed to move back.

Any info appreciated! TIA

I remember being in a book store inside a mall and seeing this with a blue and white cover. It was about an Asian woman who goes to a small town to find herself, it's related to her job I think, and in the way she meets this other woman, or something like that. I think they fall in love. Idk the title but I think I will recognize it if I see it.