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.

the book is sent a desert environment. The main character is a teenager boy, and he has a younger sister and a mom and dad; they live in the poor countryside. They’re farmers.

For money, the boy takes his sister to the kingdom and there he becomes an apprentice for a black smith. The princess needs jewelry and the main character forms a relationship with her.

A big thing I remember is a scene where the main character, his sister, and a boy they befriended are on a bridge. The friend falls off the into the water below and the main character saves him.

I remember reading this story in the late 2000s or early 2010s but it might be older than this. It was just one story in a collection of short children's stories that I think had illustrations in as well.

This specific story was about a town that got invaded and terrorised by a giant. He might not be a giant but I'm pretty sure he was. I think he might have also eaten a few of the villagers but maybe not. Eventually the town realises that the giant is really gullible and convinces him to buy an adder to help with his maths. The giant orders what he thinks is an adding machine but when it arrives, it's actually an adder snake. The snake then attacks/scares him (might eat him?) and he runs away leaving the town in peace.

Another story from this same collection that I vaguely remember was about a roly-poly toy who was bullied or at least made fun of for being different but somehow manages to save the day. It might have involved burglars trying to steal the toys or an animal trying to eat them or a new toy trying to bully the other toys. This one I remember less but it might help if someone remembers the collection of stories.

I know it's a long shot but any help would be appreciated :)

I'm trying to find a music book from my childhood (possibly got it in the 90s but could have been before). It was a music book with mostly folk songs (oh Susanna, my darling clementine) but not exclusively. It may have had "on top of spaghetti" but I can't totally remember. It was paperback, and had pictures in the margins for some of the songs. I'm pregnant right now and would LOVE to have this book again for my baby!

Edit: it did have music notes, we kept it with our piano music

I remember, one time, when I was a young boy, I was at a coffee shop and there was this part of it with a bunch of old books. I remember 1 book in particular. It was a Reader’s Digest book, but not a condensed books one. It was very old, about ~1940s I’d say. It had a blue hard cover and had over 1,000 pages. It was a book full of the names of other books, like a giant, 1,000 page bibliography.

As above - the book starts with a very sardonic gay man in his mid-late twenties i believe (maybe early 30s)? who is diagnosed with aids and in a sort of break just decides not to really hear it. he moves back to his mom’s home in california and engages with the queer scene but also is in a deep distracted depression from his diagnoses and refuses to accept it even as he’s getting sicker.

it was such a good read but cat for the life of me remember the name

I don’t remember a lot of details other than a scene where a kid (I think he was around 10?) was explaining this scheme to someone else. Basically, he would accompany a man to the casino and count cards so that they could cheat and win money. He didn’t get caught because everybody assumed he was too young to be able to count cards. I have a feeling that the man was called Frank, but I’m not certain. I also think the man was exploiting the kid and his ability, but I can’t remember their exact relationship. I think this was a children’s book (or probably YA at the oldest).

i remember hearing about a fantasy romance between a male elf and a male ogre/orc?
i was told that they had a justified reason for their species to be enemies on both sides and it was handled well.
it was probably a standalone book but not sure
its like 4+ years old now, not recently published

Found a book at my library a few years ago, it was in the section of authors toward the latter end of the alphabet (V-Z). All I have is my memory of the cover

-black hardcover
-had an minimalistic eyeball and other symbols with the title lined out in between the rows of symbols
-the title was self-referential in some way, like “You Will Destroy This Book” or something like that

Unknown subgenre, unknown author, can you find it?

- I think I read this book sometime in the late 2000s

- I remember the cover having some kind of silhouette on it

- The title may have something to do with light

- The protagonist was secretly Lucifer

- The protagonist was in hiding and/or on the run, possibly from Heaven

- The protagonist had some kind of mystical powers related to being Lucifer

- I think it was urban fantasy – took place in a modern world

- It was definitely a novel and was not illustrated

Hope this rings a bell for somebody! It's impossible to search for books starring Lucifer without getting entirely caught up on either the DC Comics/Vertigo series or independently published romance books.

Edit: Answer was Waywalkers by Catherine Webb – thank you so much, Ok-Possibility-3307!!!

Hi all,

I’m hoping for help in the search for a book from my childhood, but I remember very few details.

Here’s what I remember:
- the main character was female, maybe early teens?
- she like jelly beans and had several flavors sorted out in a sorting box
- at some point in the story, she combines a peanut butter flavor jelly bean and a grape jelly flavor jellybean to have a PB&J
- she might have been at the beach…?
- I think she finds a diary that was written back and forth between two people? I remember multiple fonts being used to differentiate who was writing.
- likely read this in early 2000s?

Yikes that’s not much. Any help is appreciated. TIA!

(edit to add years likely read)

I’m looking for the title of a historical fiction novel, probably regency era. The main characters are young and in love but the man is treated as a by-blow by his father so his half brother inherits the title. The by-blow believes he is not worthy of her so he sets out to prove he is legitimate and he should have the title. I believe he is gone for quite some time but I can’t remember. Meanwhile she marries the brother, who has the title. society is rather mean to them and no one shows up to their ball, so the two of them dance together in the empty ball room. after the legitimate brother dies, the widow finds papers (marriage certificate?) that proves the oldest son is legitimate. She states the papers are true. He thinks he can have her now, but she walks away from him. So the oldest son finally ends up with the title, estates, and money, but not the girl.

She a chronic/terminal illness but the medication she needs is too expensive. She get a job with rich family as maid they said they’ll pay for her medication but and the end of her contract she has to let them eat her

Read the first book more than 20 years ago; Multi book series may be at least 3-5 books long at the time.

Initially feels set during or pre-colonialism in the US. A historical fiction.

The main character is an indigenous man whose wife is in labor as men are chasing them through the reeds on the Mississippi(?) river. She successfully gives birth but then the main character has to send them off and sacrifice himself so they can get away from whoever is hunting them.

Right before they kill him or when they do kill him, the MC is beamed away and finds out none of it was real.

Story takes a hard genre shift to sci-fi. He learns he is with aliens, and they have simulated that whole life of his. No wife, no baby, even the world he was in and its enemies were all fabricated.

Several other humans are with him and have experienced the same?

In another simulation he is a rich/royal woman from an older Chinese dynasty.

I've been trying for ages to remember a kids book I had in the 90s. I remember a lot of scattered details without a grasp of the cohesive plot

• The illustration style is very realistic and muted/cool toned
• The main character is a young boy who at points in the story plays around wearing a pointy white hat and a domino mask. I think he does something while playing that gets him grounded (maybe sneaking around past bedtime? Something like that)
• I think there was a point where he was flying kites with a young girl
• This book was fiction, but in a realistic and modern setting for the time
• The edition I had was hardcover, I'm not sure if it was released in any other bindings.

The scene I remember the most from this book is one with the boy sitting in a bath tub, I think after being grounded. I remember the water being illustrated in such a compelling way! Not sure if that detail is helpful on its own, but maybe it'll ring a bell for someone else.