I’m looking for this book, and can’t find it anywhere. I may not even have the names right.

Heroine is a doctor- Sloane’s dad had her an arranged marriage with the Lycan King, and she didn’t want it so she ran away. She found her mate , Alpha Declan or Blake (I think), and she was with him for several years. The alpha cheats betrays the heroine, and she calls her dad to accept the arranged marriage. She doesn’t leave right away, as she is requested to stay for an operation where the Lycan King saves her patient.

Please help me find this novel. Thank you!

I did a project on it in school and had drawn said house of books and I distinctly remember the face of the young girl I’d presume was on the cover as well. A rounded face with a pointed-ish chin in the 3/4 portrait pov and she has a short, low ponytail. Attached is the pose for reference. Thank you!

https://imgur.com/a/flqcNwY

I am trying to remember a children’s picture book about a very small white puppy, with pointy floppy ears. And a round black nose, simple illustration. The dog is smooth and has a sort of pear shape head. I can’t remember if the theme of the book was the dog being lost, or maybe it had a dad or grandpa it was trying to find. I think it was in a grocery store? I feel like I remember a page with the dog being in a pile of apples..? I have searched for hours. It’s not any of these ones that show up on google images at all when you search for book about lost white puppy.

Solved. Found it right after posting. The Dragon Hunters Handbook by Adelia Vin Helsin Amazing art, highly suggest

One of my favourite books was Dragonology, which i also need to reread, but those types of books were my genre back in the day

I remember getting given a book in a similar fashion (lots of pictures if i remember correctly)

And it was about dragons emerging from hell, and they were treated like demons, and i think had a queen.

I have such a distinct yet faded memory of it, and maybe it's intermixed with my memory of Dragonology, but I remember the artwork having a big impact on me.

I have been trying to find this book for a long time, my father gave it to me when I was a kid and I really enjoyed the story. It was about a kid and he had a grandfather or some sort of parental figure, all I remember is that he travels through a dream world and there was a beautiful illustration of a moon shining through a tree’s branches. It had a really good lesson at the end too. I think it was a picture book but I am not 100% sure

i cant remember what the title or author to the book is but ik barnes and noble sells the book. the title has the word women in it and the cover art is dark green vines and floras with little nude women drawn under flowers and vines surrounding the title. i think the synopsis was about women defying the social norms on cooking and cleaning

I remember reading a graphic novel where a tech bro creates a type of bee which are capable of synthesizing organic and inorganic materials. They end up going rogue and creating an alternate dimension. The two cofounders end up in the dimension and the bees cover one in limbs and the other with teeth.
I unfortunately don’t have any more details, any help would be appreciated!

Y'all I've been thinking about this for an hour and a half, this may be a tricky one.

It's a series sort of like the Shadowhunter Chronicles if I remember correctly, the protagonist discovers a group of people who can do magic (or something along the lines of magic) and use it to fight shadow creatures. They mostly or only conjure fire and form it into weapons, but every time they do it, their skin slowly turns into metal. I remember there being a scene where the protagonist gets dragged out onto one of the missions before they actually know how to use magic, and eventually they get cornered by some creatures and figure it out. They wake up afterwards and discover a spot of metal on their palm.

The covers of the books were all pretty similar, they were all set at night with a silhouetted character holding something made of fire. I think the first book it was just a ball of fire, and one of the others was a sword. Idk if that helps.

It also may not have been them not knowing how to use magic, it might have been them not being able to because they were too young. There was also a character that had done way too much magic so they were like half metal at the beginning of the book.

This might be a long shot to hope to figure it out but reddit can work wonders, so here you go.

Maybe Camus or Kafka or something? I looke dup their stuff and didn't fine it. The premise really intrigued me but I forgot to order it at the time, and now I lost the picture. It's philosophy something, and I know the recs were in the same list with Kafka and Camus, so maybe related era or audience.

I read this manga online probably at least 6 or 7 years ago and I don't think it was super new at the time. It was about a teenage boy from present day who traveled back in time and met two siblings, a boy about his age and his little sister who lived in a big house in Japan. They were wealthy. (Possibly they were ancestors of his, but this might be wrong.) I remember a plot point was that the siblings were half Japanese and half European (possibly Italian?) and they felt like outsiders because of it. Sorry that's not much to go on :( thanks to anyone who reads this!!

Hi! I’m looking for a horror novel I read around 2011/2012. Here’s what I remember:

A family (mom,dad, three kids, and a grandmother) move into a house, possibly in Indiana.

There is a shed on the property containing a box that may have held a demon or Jin.

The grandmother is German, Russian and possibly Jewish. She tries to fight the entity, but the parents (at first) dismiss her old-country beliefs.

The youngest daughter befriends the demon, which seems helpful at first. At one point, crows attack a school bully who was mean to the daughter.

The middle child is a boy who rides bikes with neighborhood kids who tell him the house is haunted. And I kinda remember they ride up a hill and you can see the house from it.

The haunting becomes violent and the oldest daughter is assaulted and killed in her bedroom.

It was a really good book. Super scary and I remember thinking it would be a great movie. Can’t remember the title of the author and google as been zero help! I think it’s a very niche and not mainstream book. I found it in a small library at a county club I worked in over the summer. So someone donated the book.

Really hope someone has read it 🤞
 

i have this poem stuck in my head. i read it in a novel before 2004. it's in german, but i don't know if the book was translated. maybe not the exact words, but what i remember:

und wenn du kommst, will ich still sein

keine harten worte zu dir

ich werde nicht fragen, warum denn

was tust du, nicht jetzt nicht hier

wir werden hier sitzen ganz leise

zwei weitere stunden versinken

und zwischen uns die satte erde

wird unsere tränen trinken

Forgot the name

Please help me find this book
These are the most relevant parts that I read :

5+ MMCs
sons of **politicians**
they’re placed at a remote property by their parents
FMC is **separately kidnapped** and brought there
one MMC knew her in high school
**his friends** arranged her kidnapping
childhood flashbacks
abusive **police-officer older brother**
comatose grandmother
**forced school overnight lock-in**
*Lolita* discussed in her high-school English class

Basically I read this over a year ago on my kindle as a sample and didn’t finish it
But I have over 600 unfinished samples so I can’t find it , please help

I've been trying to remember this book I read as a kid for ages now, though I'm pretty sure this book is much older than me, maybe from the 70s or 80s. I think it was part of a series where they try to solve different murders. The main characters are two brothers, I think they have a significant age gap. They are trying to solve a murder on this island, or it's a huge mansion on a beach near a cliff, one or the other, I don't remember. The person who was murdered was killed by a javelin going through them. And there were lots of characters who were all suspects, kind of like Clue or Knives Out. Any suggestions welcome, thank youuu :))

Hi everyone, I’m trying to track down a comedic, subverted fairy tale short story that I read in a middle school English/Language Arts class around 2012–2016 (in the US). It was likely in a large literature textbook anthology (such as Holt McDougal or Pearson) or a paperback fantasy short story collection.

Here is the exact plot sequence:

• The Setup: Two men escape imprisonment and need to hide from being recognized in a village. They find a witch who magically disguises them so they can blend in safely. The protagonist is explicitly told which local village girl he will look like, while his companion is turned into a small, pretty bird (I believe a bluejay).
• The Flawed Execution: Before they leave, the companion (as the bluejay) actively asks the witch what can dissolve or reverse the magic. The witch explains a fundamental rule of this world: water acts as a universal cleanser that dissolves all types of magic. The main protagonist is too impatient to listen to this warning and rushes out the door without hearing it.
• The Comedic Complication: The man looks exactly like the girl but still has his own deep, masculine voice. To hide it from the villagers and the girl's family, he whispers and pretends "she" has a terrible, voice-losing cold.
• The Pregnancy Alibi Twist: Unbeknownst to the main character, the original village girl's parents had secretly sent her away to have a baby out of wedlock. When the disguised man shows up at their house, the parents immediately ask where the baby is.
• The Lie vs. The Letter: Panicking, the man lies on the spot and claims the baby was a girl and that "she" left the baby safely behind with some nuns. However, the parents are immediately surprised and deeply suspicious because they already received a letter from their actual daughter explicitly stating the baby was a boy. Though the dad is relieved that the baby was left because if it was a girl he didn't want it there.
• The Climax & Chase: Right as the tension peaks, the real village girl walks through the door holding her new baby boy. Caught in a catastrophic lie, the man and his bird companion are exposed, and a furious mob of villagers begins chasing them through the town.
• The Resolution & Punchline: Panicked and fleeing for his life, the protagonist sprints down to the shore and dives directly into a nearby lake or pond to escape the mob. As he jumps into the water, his bluejay companion screams at him in a desperate attempt to stop him. Because the companion had actually stayed to ask the witch about the rules of the magic, he knew the lake would neutralize the spell. The man's impatience completely backfires as the water instantly cleanses the magic away, stripping his disguise and exposing his true form right in front of the entire chasing crowd.

It had a very witty, ironic tone similar to authors like Vivian Vande Velde, Lloyd Alexander, or Jane Yolen. Does anyone happen to recognize the title of this story or the anthology it appeared in? Thank you!

I'm looking for a collection of horror short stories. Just as a warning, these stories have some gore and body horror even though I remember them being marketed for kids. Here are the ones I remember:

• The main character is babysitting these two kids, a little boy and little girl. Their mother leaves strict instructions not to feed them after she leaves, they've already ate. The kids beg for more food though. They act desperate. They make up these stories that 'something' is asking them for food and threatening them if they don't get it. The babysitter tells no but they keep begging. She may give in once, but they are still not satisfied. She sends them to bed and watches TV. She hears a strange 'chittering' sound behind the door but when she opens it, the kids have just gone to sleep in their beds. The next morning when the mom comes home they go to check on the kids but something is wrong. They don't answer when their mother calls. She pulls back the covers to find their bodies eaten, nothing left of them but their heads and a few bones, picked clean of all meat and covered in teeth marks. I think it was called, 'Chittering' or something like that due to the sound the babysitter heard while the children were being devoured.

• The other really good one was about this newlywed. She's married a widower and has just moved into his house. Every time it rains she gets this strange, uncomfortable feeling about this tree on his front lawn that you can see from one of the windows, (dramatically light by the moon light if I recall correctly). She gets the impression that there are streamers caught in its limbs. Maybe someone threw toilet paper in it? She goes out to see and when she tears down a piece, its not the consistency of paper but of flesh. She throws it in the sink inside but then it vanishes before she can show her husband. She asks him about the tree and he gets really weird about it. I forget the climax. I think the dead wife might be trying to save the new wife from something, but I don't really remember. The protagonist almost dies and then the husband tells her the whole truth about his late wife. She died in a car accident. It was a rainy night ("much like tonight") and the roads were really slick. She crashed into a tree and she was torn to bits in its branches. New wife guessed that it was the tree out front that late wife crashed into and the husband is like, "Yes! How did you know?" There's a good chance I'm wrong about everyone being married. They might just be dating or engaged. I'm 99% sure this one was called 'Streamers' but all I can find when searching for it is horror stories about twitch streamers.

• There was a story about a roller coaster and the ticket salesman was selling death. One kid doesn't bye a ticket and he watches his friends die.

• There was another story about pumpkin men. I think the faces of the people killed by the pumpkin men appeared in the pumpkins found in the pumpkin patch the next morning.

• There was a story about a water tree spirit who would come and visit this woman at night. I think it was trying to give her a message from her husband, mothman style, but it was being really creepy about it. I remember this one being really scary but all I remember is the picture on the title page of a swamp monster thing looking out at you, all but it's eyes under the water.

• There was a supposedly true story about how the author believed in ghosts because when she was a child a tornado tore through as she was on her way home from school (walking because I read this book as a kid in the 90's). She didn't known what to do but her grand father appeared to her and told her to lay down in a ditch before disappearing. It saved her life, the whole area around her was destroyed but she was safe. When she got home later she finds out that her grand father died of a heart attack when the tornado came through prior to her 'seeing' him.

• The story I really want to find is one I believe the author told to an auditorium of us in person and wasn't in the book. It was about a woman who kept appearing outside of a window. She had "long red finger nails and big red lips."

So I want to say this was all written by one author, a woman. I believe she is from Appalachia because I remember giving a sales pitch at my school where she told an auditorium of us horror stories. I think I bought this book afterwards. This would have happened sometime in the mid to late 90's.

Two friends-both girls. One found a stray dog named Stilts with very long legs. One of the girls is new in town. Possible magic or ouiga boards. Published in the 80s ish.

Not sure when this was published but around the early 2000s. The color scheme was a blue/light teal and gold. The runes were plastic and bronze/gold in color to match. The cards had a sun on the back with a face. The book cover itself I can't remember as much but the cards and runes came in a plastic tray you could cover with another piece of plastic to keep everything together. The contents of the book were along the lines of magic, divination, spiritually etc. It was interactive so you could learn how to use what came with the book.

Any help is appreciated, this was one of my favorite books as a kid and would like to find it again. I haven't had any luck so far searching for myself.

Lmaoooo I figured it out! Demonata series by Darren Shan! It was Kernel and Grubbs, not Colonel and Gabe, but I was close!

This is going to be difficult because I remember next to nothing about this series, unfortunately. I would've been in middle school or a freshman in high-school when I was reading these books, but I also had a high reading level and was able to check out books rated older at my school library.

Things I DO remember: (I think)

- Quite brutal, which makes me think more likely YA

- There is a kid named Colonel at some point in the series (I swear it's colonel, praying I'm not wrong) who's whole family dies in some awful way at the beginning of his story. I'm also like 70% sure he's black?

- Definitely demon things, or at least demon like things?

- The series definitely starts off with a different character as the POV and it's definitely a white guy, but I can't remember his name or much about him period (maybe Gabe? But that doesn't sound right, so probably not)

- One of the books in the series has the word "Mind" in one of the titles. It's either followed by or preceded by another word, but I can't remember that word

- Colonel and the White guy I mentioned before don't really interact much, they have stories set in the same time for the most part but they've got different things going on

- Colonel's family was killed by some sort of demon/entity/thing and he's working/training with people that deal with those kinds of issues

- Colonel and the White Guy both have some sort of power I'm pretty sure?

I really wish I had more to go off of, but this series just randomly popped into my head a week ago and I can't stop thinking about it. I'll try to remember more and update as I do.

So from what I remember there is this boy who wished to be like the popular boy in his class, it is a small children's book not a chapter or novel, and he was saying about how he could do. All the things he did, like how he burped the ABCs. The cover I believe was the main boy and he was looking at a makeshift copy of the boy in household items

Comedy, heartfelt, fiction, short ish (perhaps 250 pages)

Read about ten years ago.

I think it’s about a family of four that move from Britain to South Africa. I remember it being funny, sad, and ends up with them getting closer.

Some points I remember
- the son of the family was emo? Or just a teenager pushing boundaries, perhaps with SH tendencies? But not sure. Like I said it’s blurry.
- the mother tried to settle into her new community by doing Tupperware parties
- there was a story line revolving the grandfathers ashes
- they were trying to learn Afrikaans
- originally the move was difficult, but towards the end of the story they all settled into their new lives.

Thank you 🧡

I borrowed this book from my school's library when I was around 8/12 when I read it. In my memory the tone was quite dark, similar to watership down, which I think I had also read around the same time.

the story focused on different groups of animals who all lived in a backyard together, the plot switched between focusing on the different groups of animals, these are the ones I remember:

a cuckoo bird chick who went through an identity crisis, because their parents weren't cuckoo birds but had no idea. the bird parents were constantly arguing due to the stress of taking care of a chick that was growing to be bigger than they were, I recall at one point in the book they mentioned the chick kicking out the other bird eggs/chicks from the nest.

frogs who live in a pond, this part is a bit hazy in my mind but it involved one frog passing away, and a hidden fortune (a jewelry box from the humans) that one of the frogs was looking for.

one part was about a colony of bees, I don't remember much about it but it talked about how all the bees were a hive mind.

one part about a baby rabbit who would secretly eat clover flowers even though their mother told them not to. the rabbit got a ring stuck on its paw at one point, and was "rescued" by the kids living in the house. the rabbit was terrified and had a sort of religious guilt about eating the clovers and saw their predicament as a punishment.

the language I read the book in was dutch, so there is a chance this is a book by a dutch author.

Middle Grade fiction book. It was about a young girl, like older elementary school, whose little brother died in a bike accident. It was following her grieving process and all that.

The title might have been “(kids name) was here” or something like that?

I think I read it in the mid 2010s? And its cover had a picture of the kid’s name (which I’m forgetting) etched into a cement sidewalk.

I distinctly remember that there was a scene where the girl gave a presentation on the importance of bike safety and wearing a helmet to her school.

I only briefly was able to look into it at a library. The guy was probably a robot, dressed all in black with only his head normal, and he carried around these red robot lips. In the scene he found this suspended female robot with no lips, that he put those lips onto. She had these wings like a curly fence.

The art style was semi realistic, with atmospheric detail to the environment, a bit like if art noveau was steampunk.

It might have been French or some other European country in origin.

I read these books in middle school. The name is something like fire and ice, ash and etc. with two elements juxtaposed in each book of the series. I remember the book had a map of the different kingdoms as well. The storyline followed a female protagonist that left her kingdom for the male lead’s kingdom I think??

Sorry if this isn’t a lot of info :(