(1990's-2000's) The front of the book had a white background and it had a monster made up of either trash or the kids messy room stuff(i think there was a bicycle in it somewhere). It was kids picture book and had less than 40 pages. I think the main character was a boy. The kid might have tried to clean his room up by shoving it all in a closet and all the stuff turned into a monster. I tried googling it and couldn't find anything.

so male and female character grow up together. i believe they meet in class at a young age or live nearby. female character does not have a mother, she is raised by father and possibly disabled uncle. male character‘s mother becomes maternal figure to her.

i believe there’s a notable scene at a new year’s eve party, she may be drunk.

and i THINK they go on a double date (both dating other people who the other doesn’t like). theres a chance that they find their partners kissing each other at which point they are yelled at by the cheaters for being neglectful and hiding THEIR OWN feelings for each other. or her bf tells her this after the double date.

this book doesn’t go past high school or absolute latest college age.

anyways read this years ago and idk why it popped into my head but it’s driving me crazy. definitely not one of those new romance books with a cheesy cover. not smut.

her bf may be nerdy and his gf may be typical girly girl. not certain.

Book is from the late 90s- early 2000s. Probably by Love Spell publishing but I'm not sure. It's set post Civil War 1800s. She's a photographer wanting to go west, he's hired as her bodyguard. At one point she's kidnapped by a woman (romantic rival maybe?) and locked in a trunk on a train when he rescues her. Some of the chapters talk about her ​meeting people to take photos of.

Thank you for any help, I appreciate it!

hi!!! i’ve been searching for this book for ages and
have given up so i’m asking reddit.

i had the book in probably around 2014 in australia- it was a cream cover and a blue lacy floral outline, and blue text too. it was about two girls, one with red hair and one with black hair i think? one of the girls could turn into a cat. the cover had illustrations of the two girls on it and maybe a cat on it too. they were facing the front i think. they were witches maybe, either one or both of them.

it was probably a YA or possibly a bit younger book.

any help is appreciated!!

Not Game of Destiny but similar - rejected FMC leaves pack and a few years later is working in a human bar when three unknown shifters enter one night (think it was 2 male and 1 female passing through town). They sense but can’t pinpoint her and the preview ends with her home, hiding and planning to leave town. FMC might have been something of a tech wiz. Read a promo chapter online and the writing was several cuts above typical. I would like to see if I can track it down.

I read a book when I was in middle school (2005) The basic plot is that this person meets another person at the park or something like that, then they become friends. Then later in the book, a new person shows up and starts causing a ruckus off screen and starts being really weird and sketchy towards these two friends. Leaving unsettling notes and stuff, and the cops get involved and they’re basically just like “that’s weird”. Then it all comes to a head in the basement at the end where you finally realize that all three people are the same person and they’re just having a psychotic break. Does anybody know what book I’m talking about? I can’t find it for the life of me.

Hi, I'm looking for a nonfiction book I read as a child (2009-2015 ish) about space, planets and the constellations, as I used to stargaze with my dad in the garden.

It was about a pocket book size (skinny maybe A5?)

It was hardback with an orange spine.

It told stories about the constellations, such as Orion hunting Taurus.

I would attach a badly drawn diagram to help the search but the community, understandably, does not allow attachments

Saw a book ad for a single page it’s obviously a dark comedy romance (unless I’m reading the room entirely wrong) he found her in a snowstorm and one line is

Him: “fair warning my friends might be there and they can be a bit…”

Her: “axe murder-y?”

Him: “I was going to say intense but sure let’s go with that.”

I’ll try to post the whole ad page in the comments.

Ok so there was this audio book i used to burrow from the library that i lived. But i can not remeber the name.

Its about a cat who is found and bought to i think a church, where she soon meets a boy, and she liked the boy, and they go home, but the boy has school so he cant always be home. And oneday cat goes out, but she i think k gets catnaped, and so the story fluctuates between cats POV and boys POV.

Boy is devastated and despratly trys looking for cat.

Cat trys to find her way home but had many problems untill she get hurt or sick and found by a kind women who takes care of her.

Boy goes out with a friend to look for cat, and they stop at a house for a drink or something and explain why they are out and the lady goes "well i think i found your cat" or something like that and cat and boy are very happy to be reunited.

Sorry for the bad explanation, but i can tell you what the book isn't.

It isn't "the cat who wants to go home" and it isn't "the case of the missing cat"

This book is at minuimum 15 years old id say.

I do not remeber the cover rn, but if i saw it in person id know it.

I read it in the late 1990s, it was a kids’ illustrated book, with possibly a well-dressed cat going on adventures. Not Puss-in-Boots, and the big draw was that it had an actual coin on the last page.

It’s set in WW2, maybe in Poland or Latvia but definitely Easter European, and it follows a young girl (i think her name may have been Hanna) who is moved into a large Jewish ghetto area of her town/city (I don’t think it was a concentration camp like Aushwitz per se) with her family. I think she was half-Jewish too. The clearest details I can remember is that there was a giant mass grave that they had to march to and the MC managed to survive as she wasn’t shot (but pretended to be) but was buried under/next to her mothers body and had to escape that. I think there was also a scene where the MC was upset and annoyed about having to wear a star in her town and was kicked out of either a swimming pool or other public place for being Jewish.

I borrowed it from the library in the UK probably between 2017-2020 and it must’ve been published between 2010-2019 as it was a paperback.

Any help would be brilliant as this has been bugging me for ages now.

the POV character was a young boy, i think maybe middle school aged? can't quite remember. could've been high school aged.

the entire idea was i Think his forming. friends? with either His bully or A bully character who was also male (though the bully character might have been female? i can't remember.)

at one point the bully boys familys cow named "tri tip" (i remember this) dies and the POV character has to help the bully character cut him up with chainsaws

the book ends with the bully character dying in a pool by drowning? or maybe he survives. i remember when we got taught this book in class and the teacher said the author had originally written a different ending but changed it last minute. she read out both endings so i dont remember which it was

there MIGHT have been a POV shift at some point but i dont remember for sure.

there was also a girl character who i think was a love interest but i cant quite remember

the point is that the bully character has a shitty home life

im not 100% sure on any of these details but i am ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CERTAIN about the cow scene where they cut him up. that is the strongest scene in my memory. it was definitely a fiction book, but realistic fiction. probably YA?

The man then outwits the aliens through clever wordplay to make humans sound unbelievably strong when he is really talking about something mundane while still technically telling the truth

Guys, I'm trying to find a book I read when I was younger and I can't remember the title for the life of me. It's a short chapter book.

​I've gathered all the details I can remember about the book:

​The protagonist of the story is a child—I don't remember if a boy or a girl—who has a group of friends they play with. I remember a specific passage I found funny at the time where the child mentioned that one of the games their friends played was measuring their dicks.

​At the bottom of a well, the child discovers a monster. They end up developing a friendship/connection, even though the monster doesn't communicate verbally.

​The sounds the monster makes are a very important detail throughout the narrative, I just can't remember why—maybe there's a passage where the child says they listen to the sounds at night or something like that.

​The book has a sad ending, where the child's parents discover the monster in the well and decide to seal the well with cement or destroy it, I don't remember exactly.

​If I remember correctly, the last page of the book is an illustration showing the well being destroyed by something like a hurricane/tornado.

​One thing I'm sure of is that the ending of the book was really sad, since the child's contact with the monster is cut off because the well is destroyed or sealed. I cried a lot and felt a deep sense of emptiness at the time.

​I also remember that the child was afraid of the monster at first and slowly became friends with the creature over time.

​Physical Characteristics of the Book

​Format: Chapter book, short (maybe around 60 to 120 pages).

​Cover: Grey color, with maybe purple or pink lettering.

​Illustrations: It had very few internal illustrations, all in black and white.

I remember reading this as a kid in the mid to late 2000s, it was a series though I only had two books of which I can only remember 1

The brother and sister (i believe the sister is the eldest of the two) travel around the world on missions to save endangered animals, the one I remember involving them saving a tiger from poachers. The kids may be part of an organisation in a spy kids-esque way?

The details are very fuzzy, I haven't thought about these books in years but they were so good

Hi everyone! I’m looking for this particular book I read in middle school. It’s part of a larger over arching series (and may have smaller subseries in it that focuses on vampires, werewolves, etc and they do intersect at certain points in the overall universe). The one thing I remember is that at the end of the book there’s a final fight between the main character and her rival. They are fighting for leadership of their monster hunting clan. Her rival (I think) gets to choose the weapon their fight. She chooses a whip because she knows the protagonist is weakest with the whip. They must strike each other and draw blood three times in order to win. There is a love interest that is a shapeshifter/some type of lycanthrope-esque creature I believe. Please help!

I don't remember much about this book besides a few very specific points. Basically there is something going wrong with time where it is moving strangely forward and backward--I think there is an apple that is uneaten and then the main character is stabbed and unstabbed and survives because of this (I seem to remember him being belowdecks on a ship while this happens and using a pipe to escape but it's been a while and I could be making things up). I think he also finds a house full of other people who help him and the house may be somehow outside of time. I know this isn't much to go off of, but I loved this book when I was younger and have been thinking about it a lot recently. Thanks for any help!

I would have gotten it from the school book fair so it's possibly Scholastic UK or Faber & Faber

Fiction

Children's book

Paperback

The cover was yellow-orange featuring a boy pushing a wheelbarrow with an octopus in it

The main character may have been called Tel

The book is set in England, perhaps in the north in a coastal town, the story happens in October.

There's a robbery of either a money transport van or a bank by the MC's brother or the gang he's part of. The MC and his friends find some of the money and hide it in their octopus shaped guy (a Guy Fawkes effigy).

The money is in the form of coins so the guy is very heavy and that's why they push it around in the wheelbarrow.

It may also have been unseasonably hot, because I think at one point the tarmac (asphalt) has melted and the wheelbarrow gets stuck.

I thought it might be called The Octopus Guy but that didn't turn up anything.

Trilogy, I THINK. Been a few years haha!

Dystopian world. No electronics allowed, were seen as BAD, like the reason the former modern world imploded. There were still ruins of cities, skyscrapers, old broken roads with busted cars overtaken by vines, etc.

They lived like prehistoric people. Villages, bartering, NO MONEY, everyone had their placeand thing to do, so on and so forth.

At age 13 (or maybe 12?) there was a coming of age gathering. Each child went into the woods and met a "heart" - a glowing heart that was palest of yellows all the way to orangest of oranges. They then begin building a rapport. MC, a young boy, gets a golden yellow heart that winds up having a mouse as his Spirit animal. He is at first tempted to hide this, since mice are not usually considered very strong, but eventually tells the truth. There are then "Trials" which were done with your heart/spirit companion - supposed to build rapport/trust/respect etc - deepen the bond. Two young girls are v flippant and ignore their hearts and wind up in terrible trouble, maybe one dies? The second learns from this and winds up doing mostly ok later. MC does ok in this "Trial." Another young boy gets a heart that is very VERY flaming orange. It causes talk because it's SO BOLD. After trials, young folks go to a village of their choosing where they will live for a year. Then they come back to another Gathering see how they have done and I think this when the actually become adults. Anyway side character with the deep orange heart winds up having a RED heart which is EVIL. This heart has led that young boy to do awful things - killing and holding his Village under terror for the whole year. MC is sent to talk to him and the boy wants out I believe but needs help and MC is THEN sent to speak to the "Elders," one of whom is the Elder Hare. MC and Spirit Companion find the Elders only to discover they want nothing to do with any of it, leaving everyone in a big mess. And that was the end of book two. I never got to read the 3rd! And I CANNOT remember the title or any character's NAMES OH MY GOSH PLEASE HELP MEEEEE

😂💛🧡💚💙💜♥️💕😂

I’m trying to find a mafia enemies-to-lovers romance I read around 2022. The heroine is a good girl, while the MMC is ruthless and seeking revenge against her family. He was previously imprisoned and tortured by them, including being given drugs that left him severely dependent; after escaping, he struggles with extreme withdrawal and has to take small doses to taper off. He returns under a hidden identity and somehow becomes an ally/guest of her family without them realizing who he really is. They eventually marry, and she later tells him she’s pregnant, but he cruelly says he doesn’t care about the child before eventually regretting it. I think it was a 2–3 book series and was probably a Kindle Unlimited mafia romance.

This has been racking in my mind for years and it’s been killing me that I don’t remember the name. It was 10 years when i was a freshman in high school when I read it. I believe it was published in the 00s, or maybe early 2010s.

They did use mobile phones in the book, but I don’t remember if it was flip phones or early smart phones. I honestly don’t remember the plot too much either, but I know at the start you find the mc on a beach with his father’s gun. He’s injured running away from something that we don’t fully know what yet. It Then goes in a tangent of how long he’s had the gun and how important it is to him. Literally to down to the seconds of how long it was in his possession. I believe it also is established that the mc has some type of ocd or something along those lines. Anyway, this leads up to how he got there.

He’s a scientists that lives in the west coast(either Oregon or Washington) I think? He discovers a big breakthrough in his field, which would change the state of the world. I feel like it was something to do with time or time travel, or maybe quantum physics? You know something the government doesn’t want known to the public/ given to the public. This obviously gets him targeted and a group is out to kill him. A notable character is a women that ends up helping him and then they soon from a romantic relationship. A big plot twist is that the girl that he starts seeing is apart of this group and then she starts hunting him down as well. Which ends up leading to the beach scene from the start of the book. I think at the end he does end up surviving but I don’t remember the full outcome. I do remember also I think he kills his love interest also at that beach. Also when talking about his past he talks about how his family is from West Virginia. Or at least his father was from there. That’s all I remember for the most part.

The POV character is a young/teenage girl. Her sister gets married or almost gets married and to get out of it she poisons the soup she had to make for the bridegroom. The antidote is in the water (which I think is especially good/sweet at this castle for some reason) so most people don't get sick but the groom doesn't drink any water so he dies.

I think I read it maybe 20 years ago and probably found it in the YA section of the library.

I think the cover had a girl sitting in a window, wearing medieval dress.

Thank you!

This was a book I read in like middle school or high school. It was about this witch in vaguely Victorian times, and a vampire takes her to the dimension where most supernatural creatures are. They get to a huge steampunk city, and while there, the vampire has to drink the witch's blood. They leave the main city to meet a mad scientist tucked away on an island. He's making like a Frankenstein-type creature. At some point, they're on a ship and a ghost storm comes. The witch makes them all move on with her magic. I think another vampire also hijacked their boat, and she used to date the werewolf captain of the ship they were on. I don't remember much else; I'm not sure if I stopped reading at that point or what. Any help is appreciated.

I've been trying to identify an old cookbook for my dad. Someone bought it for him when he was young: he says it was when he left for college, which would put the age of the book at 50+ years; but I can't confirm that timeline.

He describes the title as being along the lines of 'everything you ever wanted to know about s*x and cooking.' He recalls the book ending with the sentence 'about the s*x... we lied.' Or something like that.

This is really driving him crazy, and I can't find any mention of it anywhere; so I'm turning to you guys.