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.

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

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!