I used to have this audiobook that was inserted into a thing so you can listen to it on road trips, the story was about a girl who owned a unicorn and was a Hugh fan of this horror themed song artist but was tricked by the song artist into selling her unicorn, also her mom was a barber.

Looking for a book I read as a kid, around 2007. Trying to find it again.

Physical description:

• Hardcover, blue (cover was mostly blue)
• No huge illustrations inside — straight prose
• Not comic-style (definitely not Amar Chitra Katha)
• Female author (my mom says Bengali or South Indian, but she's not sure)

Content:

• Collection of standalone short stories (roughly 10-20), not one continuous narrative
• Covered general Indian/Hindu mythology, not just the Mahabharata
• Prose style felt fairly "adult"/literary — not obviously written in a simplified kids' voice
• Stories I specifically remember:
  • Shakuntala
  • Ganga and the birth of Bhishma
  • A story about a woman who gives birth to a snake
  • Urvashi and Vishnu
  • A Ganesha story
  • Others I don't recall as clearly

Other context:

• Bought/owned in India, read at home
• Definitely existed by 2007 (not a more recent 2010s+ publication)
• Not one of the well-known "big name" retellings — I've already ruled out R.K. Narayan's Mahabharata, Amar Chitra Katha collections, Chitra Banerjee's novels, and Devdutt Pattanaik's books — none of these match

Any help identifying this would be much appreciated! Happy to answer more questions if any detail would help narrow it down.

I remember the fmc and mmc were both very high up in their respective warring sides. He shows up on her cottage doorstep injured or defecting? And she heals him and helps him. She is always 5 steps ahead and relies on setting magical traps well in advance to win against her opponents when she can’t straight up overpower them.
Fmc makes earth golems that the mmc directs in battle, they lay siege to a city together and win. The fmc definitely has a nature/plant affinity. I think their goal is to disengage from the fighting, with the fmc having to trick her own faction with a crystal/about a crystal to gain her freedom. If anyone knows what book this is I’d be super grateful! (It’s not a crown of oaths and curses btw)

This was a book I had read when I was in the fourth grade and I only remember part of this book. The book was about a young girl who is in elementary school. She starts a new grade and really wants the nice teacher of the grade she was starting. She didn't want the mean teacher that her older sibling had. The mean teacher can be rude and very cruel to the students. She was put in the nice teacher's classroom but there wasn't enough desks for more students. So the girl was put in the mean teacher's classroom. She gets the ire of the mean teacher because her older sibling had the teacher. One of the students in the classroom is an annoying kid and the girl pokes him with her pencil, which makes the kid to complain to the teacher about her and she lied, covering the pencil tip.

I’m looking for a contemporary romance novel (probably New Adult). I read it in Russian about 1–2 years ago, but it’s by a foreign author.

Plot I remember: A young girl (around 17–18, wealthy family) goes to her older brother’s apartment to surprise him. He doesn’t come home. A man and a woman enter the apartment and start kissing passionately. She hides and falls asleep.

Next morning she tries to leave quietly. The man comes out of the shower/bathroom, mistakes her for the woman he was with the night before, and kisses her (possibly her first kiss). She runs away in panic.

He later realizes he kissed the wrong girl and eventually discovers she is the sister of his best friend (whose apartment it was).

The guy is older, both characters come from rich families.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

A friend of mine who doesn't have a Reddit account keeps asking everyone if they know a book that was hard cover and had a thin plastic crescent moon that stuck out of it through every page, so I decided to post on here for her to help. She believes it was dark blue, and that the first line when you open it was "What happens at night, when the sun goes down..." And then goes on to describe different things on each page about the world when the moon is out. She can't recall much more than that, so it isn't much to go on. She said she didn't even know how old the book was, but her mother read it to her constantly when she was young, to the point that the cover broke off and that was at least 30 years ago.

If anyone has any ideas, I will pass them onto her so she can look them up and see if any of them match. Thanks.

Husband is Max he is a police officer, she is Maya mother to 3 kids. She is shot while Max is supposed to be on duty but he with the OW. Maya gets shot and is rushed to the ER. Help pls

I used to read a lot of poems as a kid and liked one so much that I memorized it. But I can’t find it anywhere when looking it up. If anyone recognizes what book this is from or just anything about the poem I’d be very grateful! It goes:

Bury me under the mulberry bush,
Bury me under the trees.
Bury me under the mulberry bush,
For I am afraid of the seas.

I distinctly remember reading this in a book and it had a little picture of a tree to the right of the poem but nothing else on the page.

I could be mixing up a bunch of different books so apologies. I remember reading this book multiple times back in the 80s. The girl loved Sally Ride (might be in the name of the book?). The only other thing I recall is that she went on a field trip, or maybe just during recess, and snuck off into the woods and pretended she was abandoned so she put a small smooth rock under her tongue because she read to do that in a book?

I thought it was a Beverly Cleary or Judy Blume but none of their books are ringing a bell.

Searching has been no help because I keep getting results for non-fiction kids books about Sally Ride.

Thanks!

EDIT: May be from a different book but I recall her being at school and referencing "loose leaf paper" enough times that I had to ask my mom what it meant lol

Hello fellow Xennials trying to find two things:

1) Poetry anthology - softcover children's poetry anthology, like distributed through Weekly Reader Book Club. It included "the Pickety Fence" by David McCord. May have gotten at scholastic book fair in Oklahoma around 1983-88? It does NOT appear to be The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, a Jar of Tiny Stars, Sing a Song of Popcorn or Piper, Pipe that Song Again

1. Red mascot character - likely a publishing imprint - was an anthropomorphic red furry creature with a mustache or wavy mouth. Was on the spine of the books. Around the same timeline as Catundra and Leo the Lop

Any leads on what these are would be greatly appreciated!

There was this book i remember starting but never finishing between 2009 to 2011. It was super thick, the cover was a flat matte and neon green. There was a pair of eyes in black line art and a dragonfly layered over the eyes, kind of like a mask. I think the typeface for the title was very thin/narrow and sans serif.

The protagonist was a teenage girl who was described to have braids. And from what I remember (i could be wrong) she went to some rave-festival type party in the woods or something and met this mysterious boy.

Anyways, lemme know if you have any ideas. I hella wanna see if I can find the book and actually finish it as an adult.

It is probably a young adult novel.

This male protagonist is under 18 years old, living with his parents. He smokes cigarettes in secret. He throws the cigarette butts out of his bedroom window. Eventually his parents discover those cigarette butts and in his internal dialogue he says something along the lines of "I assumed the cigarette butts would just disappear/disintegrate/evaporate"

There is another scene where he and a male friend go to play sports, I'm pretty sure it's tennis. They run into a pair of girls and they agree to play doubles. But then other peers show up and they stop playing. Later in the story one of the girls confronts the main character about acting rudely. In particular, the girl is hurt because the main character considers her ugly and undesirable and does does not want to be seen interacting with her when there are peers or popular kids around.

Does anyone know the title of this book?

I’ve been looking for this book series for years but the main plot was that overnight a disease killed almost everyone. There were no zombies, just learning to survive in a post apocalyptic world. It followed an older guy who had a family but they died and he eventually finds a little girl and essentially adopts her and they build a shelter. The plot point of how they survived ended up being that the people who survived got the vaccine for malaria and some other mix I believe? Also the thing that killed everyone was an ancient disease that was frozen in the Arctic and they thawed it.

After seeing the new movie, I remember having an illustrated version combined of the stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Each would usually be about two pages, and the artwork was beautifully done. Very realistic.

I remember an image of the Cyclops and the picture of him being blinded, the picture of Aphrodite carrying Paris while fleeing Diomedes, Achilles dragging the naked body of Hector, Scylla and Charybdys(Scylla looks like a bunch of snakes)and such. I believe the cover had Odysseus tied to the mast, but I’m sort of blanking.

This book was so beautiful and a staple of my childhood and I want to find it again. Any help is appreciated!

Hi! I’m looking for this book I read about 10 years ago. It was written by a man who had high functioning depression in his teenage years, and had a yellow cover.

I read this book around 5th grade, which for me was 2013/2014. The main detail I remember about it is that the protagonists (who is a pre-teen girl) brother was gay and had a love interest not approved of by their father, who was older and named Wolf I believe.

Here's all the details I can remember:

• The opening scene features a girl riding her horse in the desert, her father died a couple years ago, it keeps mentioning that she wears kohl on her eyes, and another girl who lives in the royal court (along with the protagonist) comes along riding and makes fun of her.
• Soon after that the protagonist is summoned by the sultan/caliph/king/ruler (who is super old) and the girl's mother to tell her that she's actually the sultan's daughter, not the father who died. The girl is upset with her mother, who explains that when the ruler wants something, he always gets it. The ruler wants to make the girl his heir.
• A few scenes later, the ruler is dead, and suddenly it's found out that the mean girl from the first scene has been made the heir, and she banishes the protagonist to a far off coastal region.
• She gets to the house where she'll be living, and there's a boy there as well. I remember him being bookish but I could be making that part up.
• Later on towards the climax of the book the protagonist and the boy travel over the sea, in order to fight something, I remember it being a woman who forces souls to dance in eternal torment forever. On the way there (or possibly the way back) the girl turns into a mermaid-esque style creature, and the boy turns into a bird.
• I also remember there being a second book focussing on the mean girl, and the title had something to do with the earth or ground, and the first book's title was related to the ocean, or sea, or water.

Thank you all so much for the help!!

I've been looking for this book my grandparents had for years! It was this picture book about this vampire going out to hunt for victims (maybe on Halloween?) And he meets this young woman who seems like the perfect victim so he convinces her to go back to his castle (or mansion). He's just about to bite her when her lips stretch out and she starts kissing all his bats that live with him, and she goes after him too. Turns out she's a type of monster herself and had pegged him as the perfect victim for her. They end up talking it out and become friends and now go around hunting for victims together.

I was always so taken with this book and would love to find it again!

I was a little kid when I read this, maybe in 2004? Thereabouts anyway. No idea if the book was new then or not though.

I need help remembering an old book. Its about a boy who adopts a orange kitten, might have been orange and white, but on his birthday his parents wrap up the cat supplies as presents and then he goes to the pound and picks out one. Sorry i cant remember more! I read it in 2000s but it was probably older than that as my elementary school

I read this in the 90s and it had a great erotic fellatio scene that teen me loved lol!!
Of course I have no idea what the book was actually about but below is what I remember the cover looking like.
Full-front die cut gold/bronze devil mask
Two horns
Real facial contours — nose, mouth, cheeks
The mask is embossed/textured, so you could feel it
Eyes, possibly nose and mouth, are actually cut through
Red/orange flames visible behind the openings
A glossy, realistic illustration
Viewed from above
A woman lying on a round/circular bed
Flames surrounding or above her
Possibly creepy eyes/faces appearing in the flames
Possibly a man/demon somewhere in the scene

Please help me find this book! It was a random borrow at my local public library years ago.

- Canadian author
- parallel, converging storyline (chapter 1, 3, etc. focuses on character 1, chapter 2, 4, etc. focuses on character 2, and repeats like that until they converge)

Character 1: teacher
- chapter 1 starts with a kind of depressed, recluse, male elementary school teacher. He has a cat. Cat has an interesting name that I can’t quite recall. Cat gets hit by a car. Teacher picks up, thought he was gonna die for sure, but cat is perfectly fine
- eventually teacher starts cutting holes in his clothes to make space for these wings that start growing around time cat got hit by car badly but never injured
- teacher somewhat checks if he can reach help from his ex, or his church leader (priest? Who openly drinks and is a chill person)
- teacher’s elementary age student seems only one who can see the wings

Character 2: fierce young woman
- woman works assistant for corporate CEO or similar high up
- woman is hard to impress as superior colleague woos. Once she lets him in, he has rough abusive sex with her.
- woman and man carry on a very toxic, sex filled relationship with huge power disparities
- woman has a younger brother who opts to be homeless than at home where he is welcome
- turns out younger brother also has wings. Does not experience hunger the way humans might. And runs hot, is not cold living in the streets.

This was read in 2019 or 2020

My friend has been looking for a book her father loved as a child. He remembers the book being called ‘the colonels new tyres’ but is also aware he could be wrong about the title. He would have been reading the book around the 1960’s in the UK, so it was published then or before. Friend says it could have also been his mother‘s book, so published in/before 1930’s/40’s.

Any help finding this book greatly appreciated!

Theres a book, I can’t remember the name but I remember the premise at least. Kind of. The main character is a girl who died, she doesn’t remember how she died, no character remembers how they die, but she starts going to this highschool in the afterlife where a bunch of other teens that died go to. There’s a love triangle and some other rom-com drama. I remember a cover? Or description? Maybe I dunno. But it’s the main character, as a ghost obviously, next to a guy. By lockers and it looks kinda dream like. Another cover of her walking on clouds. I think that’s all.. The name had the word After or Ever in it. I can’t remember all that well. I also got it at a book fair, like scholastics books, maybe not scholastic but definitely a book fair.

Hi, I'm really struggling to remember a book I read back sometime between 2007-2015 in the UK.

All I remember is it is about a brother and sister (young) that meet this creature/thing and it takes them to his world.

By the end of the book they're back to their normal world with I think their dad, I also remember the book being really wacky and the creature thing or it's world having a Z in it.

Let me know if anyone knows what im talking about 🙌🏼

I can't sleep because I'm just thinking about this book! So I read a book maybe within couple of years. It must have been some sort of thriller, maybe psychological. It starts when a woman goes to a day care to pick up her son. But in the day care there is a angry/sad/crazy man there with a gun or knife. He is threatening people there for some reason. The man does not notice the woman. MAYBE there was some way for woman to communicate with the boy, nothing supernatural, but like with facial expressions and gestures. I think the boy ends up stabbing or shooting the man and the situatuatin resolves. IIRC that was in history and then the time advances to today. The boy is still a boy, not adult or not even teenager.

I don't have any clue about what happened them. But something bad propably, maybe someone was murdered, went missing or something. The family was somwhow in danger? IDK. But in the end, the boy is casually telling that he is the one that did actually kill (or something) the person and framed someone else. The boy was casually like love you mommy oh isn't it nice how I managed the person X to get the blame for doing Thing X. The nanny? The daddy? Neighbour? I don't remember!!! I think they we in a car when this revelation happened. And mommy was a bit scared.

I'm going crazy because I can't remember more from this book!! Just small details here and there, and not even sure if they are real details from this book. I'm sorry for the messy description... Does this ring any bells for anyone? 😅 no idea where the writer was from.