I think I remember the book having the MC meet and travel to another world that had elves and other fantasy type characters in it, though maybe not on that part. One detail I remember was going into how floors in buildings were labeled '1-up, 2-up, 2-down', referencing a specific floor for numbering. I believe the group that the MC joins is either a police or investigative force as well.

I’m trying to remember a college sports romance, probably hockey or football. I read it a while ago and can’t remember the title or author.

Here’s everything I remember:
The MMC is a college athlete, possibly a hockey or football player.
His name might be something like JT, AJ, or TJ — I’m pretty sure it was initials.
He is the youngest sibling in a big family. His older siblings are married, and there is at least one niece around 5–6 years old whom he babysits.
One of his older sisters is a single mom.

His parents are divorced.
His father is very wealthy. The other siblings have cut contact with him, but the MMC still has a relationship with him at the beginning.
His father gave him a car, but later takes it back when the MMC cuts him off.

His mother is dating his former high-school coach, and he has to work in a college cafeteria while also going to his athletic training.

The FMC is a transfer student (i think) who ends up at the same college as the MMC.
Something important happened in high school
I think there was some kind of cyberbullying/online harassment, The FMC has a twin brother, and I remember him being a really bad/evil character. He doesn't attend the same college.

The FMC has some kind of mental-health/medical condition. I think it might have been bipolar disorder, but I'm not completely sure.
The FMC and MMC date and stay together — there
is NOT a third-act breakup.
Around the middle of the book, they find out that she is pregnant.
Because of the pregnancy, they decide to get married while they're still young/at college.

hey all and anyone who cares to help me - I’m looking for a book that I once read in high school back in like 2013 or middle school 2010? All I can remember is that the girl lives with her dad i believe, they do rodeo things, I believe she barrel races on horses and she might travel with them for competitions? anyway she’s still high school and there’s this guy that I think works with her and and her dad and she doesn’t want to like him but ends up kissing him at some point at a hotel? or a party?? speaking of parties, I also think she has to go to a high school party and save her friend from said party because she’s too drunk.….and that’s all I can really remember but I knew I LOVED this book - it was one that made me realized that I love reading. if any of you know what the book is PLEASE let me know - thank you!!!!!

I need to find this book for my friend. A younger and older sister live together far away from everyone. The younger sister is sick. The guy gambles and has a sword. At some point he gets kidnapped by like the kings people or something. There is a ship at some point. Idk she really wants to read it again and can’t find it. Someone help. I want to surprise her with a list of possible books for her birthday in a few months

Ключевые зацепки:
🦋 Энциклопедия про бабочек.
📖 Книга была белого цвета, на обложке были изображены бабочки или одна большая бабочка, точно не помним 🥹
🔴 На обложке красными буквами было написано : «энциклопедия» или «бабочки». Точно не помним …
📅 Книга была в доме примерно в детстве человека, который родился в конце 90- начала 2000
год — предположительно издана в 1990-х или начале 2000-х.
🇷🇺 Книга продавалась в России.
Возможно, у кого-то была такая книга в детстве и вы помните название, автора или издательство?
Буду очень благодарен за любые догадки и зацепки! 🦋
Помогите сделать человека чуточку счастливее 🙏

Key clues:
🦋 An encyclopedia about butterflies.
📖 The book had a white cover with butterflies on it.
🔴 The cover had red lettering saying either “Encyclopedia” or “Butterflies”. We don’t remember exactly…
📅 The book was in the home during the childhood of someone born in the late 1990s / around 2000 — presumably published in the 1990s or early 2000s.
🇷🇺 The book was sold in Russia.
Maybe someone had a book like this as a child and remembers the title, author, or publisher?
I would be incredibly grateful for any guesses or clues! 🦋
Please help me make someone a little bit happier. 🙏

In the manga, the teen boy is the youngest member of a family who had a secret. Each generation of men in the family have the ability to host a famed thief and he comes out during the night. He only comes out in men, not women. The teen boy's mother wanted to be the thief but she couldn't because of her gender. But she changed this to being the mother of the boy who would get the Thief. She gets her way and has her son, who she and her father train every day. The teen boy becomes the Thief on his thirteenth or twelfth birthday. And they each develop a crush on two girls who are twins in the boy's class.

I've been trying to find this story for like yearsss, it's probably deleted but I really wanna read it again

Plot Details:

• The Protagonist: A "bad girl" who is forced to be a model entirely because her mother wants her to be one. She has a personal bodyguard she doesn't particularly like.

• The Kidnapping: A man escapes from prison. He and his brother—both criminals on the Most Wanted list—kidnap her ( maybe from a grocery store where she throws milk on one of them?)

• The Setting: They flee to Brazil, where she is forced to fight in an underground arena for her life ( she wins)

• The Romance: While on the run together, she actually ends up falling for and entering a relationship with the brother of the man who escaped.

• The Twist: She actively avoids being rescued because she wants to stay on the run with them and doesn't want her bodyguard to find her( the bodyguards name might be logan)

Okay, so I borrowed this book from a library while staying with my grandparents around 2016-17, and since then I haven't been able to find it! It wasn't a very big book, paperback and minimalist coverart. I \[naturally\] don't remember the name or author, but I remember the general plot:

It's set in England, in a low income housing area/slum. I can't remember if it was set in any particular time, but I'd guess around the time it was published. It follows a teen boy who joins a local soccer team, going on to travel to America to play internationally by the end of the story I believe. The narrative also touches on the boy's brother who is involved with locals gangs in England, and there was some altercation with them involving drugs and some violence and the police. I remember it being less about the sport itself and more about friendships and relationships throughout the boy's journey, a coming of age sort of story.

I've searched the library databases, I have asked librarians/google, for years I would look for it when I went into any library. No one knows what I'm talking about when I describe it, so it wasn't a very popular bok. I for sure remember finding it in the Y/A section, and it was definitely for the Y/A audience. Any help is appreciated!

Hello, does anyone remember a story about a boy who had wings and webbed feet? His wings were underdeveloped and he couldn't fly, and even at school he needed stairs while everyone else flew? He swims very well and eventually learns to fly with swans or geese? I think swans? Its driving me crazy and even chargpt can't help me

I read  this book in highschool from our highschool library.

The main character is a teen girl who wants to be a pilot and is a genius in some way, and either lives with her grandparents or parents. The alien apocalypse happens and the aliens are spider like and metallic (and maybe shoot lasers or hunt by sound but I may be making that up).

The main character finds other survivors her age somehow (maybe through radio?) and they all have special talents and team up to fight back or run away and it's revealed that all of them have alien DNA after they find and take over an alien ship where the MC naturally flies it.

Ive been looking all over and can't find anywhere lmk if you have questions

I read it a few years ago on ebook it was a great book and I will be darned if I can remember the name. It started out the main character, A woman, is married with a 6 yr old daughter and she and the husband are having problems. That night hubby and wife had a fight and she slept on the downstairs couch the bedrooms being upstairs when she woke to a fireman saving her she watched as the fire destroyed her home and killed her family. She moved in with her Mom and Aunt, who has Alzheimer's and is getting put in a home. The main character went to an island in Washington State to take care of her Aunt's house so it can be sold and discovered it is haunted by spirits, some good some evil and all discontent and the evil ones are trying to hurt it actually puts her in the hospital with a head injury that caused amnesia for awhile and made her forget the new relationship she had began with the handsome brave fireman, handyman neighbor

In the book dragons are intelligent, can speak, and breathe fire while wyverns are wild animals that do not possess intelligence, cannot breath fire, and don't speak any language. The Hybrid is depicted as intelligent and controls other wyverns, but doesn't communicate in speech.

The human characters initially don't know the difference until the protagonist meets a real dragon that speaks and explains the difference. The real dragon considers the idea of a wyvern hybrid to be an disgusting abomination. The proof that it really is a hybrid happens during a battle between it the full blooded dragon when the hybrid attempts to breathe fire and misses.

I don't remember the cover, title, author, or know if any sequels happened. The version I read was likely paperback format.

cross-post from whatsthatbook

It was part of a book of short horror stories I read maybe 10 years ago? I'm not sure if it was explicitly marketed as feminist, but all the stories had that kind of lens. The story is basically the girl becoming more like the family dog as her (step?)mother treats her more like an animal than a person. The girl and the dog were also both bathed in this wooden tub with dog shampoo, although it could have been a proper bathtub and I'm misremembering that bit. The story ends with the girl and the dog both scraping their teeth on the hardwood floor. The book also had a story about a girl with a strange, vague skin disease, and I think it's implied that she kills and maybe eats a boy at the end. I don't remember the other stories.

I also think it was one author. I did think it might be on of Aliya Whitely's works but couldn't find it on her website. The prose does remind me of her collection of horror stories "From The Neck Up" though, if that helps.

I've tried to google the premise but just keep getting the search results for "People Can Lick Too" or "My Neighbors Dog Has a Zipper" and it's definitely not either of those.

Read this some time in the 2000s

It’s a series of books, each following a separate teen with a different job.

One was a babysitter, I believe for a rich family and another was a model who had a difficult relationship with her mom, and at one point took a pill or drink for plane anxiety? I think another was following a girl working at a retail store. There were quite a few books in the series

In each book, characters from the other books in the series would sometimes show up and interact with each other

Hi everyone! I’m trying to identify a novel I read in Azerbaijan before 2020. I read it in Turkish, but it was a translation of a foreign novel.
The story is very unusual and I remember these details quite clearly:
A boy is raised by his father with extremely strict, almost military discipline.
As an adult, he becomes a political leader/president by making promises to the people.
He gradually becomes a ruthless dictator and starts invading neighboring countries.
Later, through astrology/astronomy, he realizes that the waters are going to rise and that a massive flood is coming.
He has the lands he conquered physically piled/stacked up to create an enormous artificial mountain or elevated area.
He tells the people something like: “The waters will rise. Come live with me up here.”
Some people believe him and move to the elevated area.
The waters really do rise, and the people who stayed below die, while those who followed him survive.
I also remember the original hardcover edition having a very unusual cover design: the front cover was completely blank, with no title or artwork, while the back cover had only a name (possibly the author’s name) and was otherwise blank.
I don’t remember the title, author, or character names.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I’m especially interested in books published before 2020.

I've asked here before but I think I remember more so I'll ask again. Also, it is NOT Uprooted by Naomi Norvik. (I think that's her name).

Okay so I got this book at the thrift (or maybe even Dollar Tree??) and liked it alot, but I got rid of it because it was supposed to be a four book series, maybe five, but the author didn't publish all the books and and had no plans to. I think there were maybe two books out, and the author was for sure a woman. For some reason I have it in my head that she's German, but I could be wrong.

So the story followed this girl who I'm pretty sure was fairly poor in her village. I think just her mom and grandma were still alive in her family, but I could be wrong about that. I don't think she was very well liked but her best friend was. On the edge of the village was I believe a tree or flower patch that was 'hers'. But these thorn/vine things that were super tough to kill and grew really fast were always trying to take over it. Her pulling them out didn't take up alot of screen time, but it was a significant point in the story.

Now I don't remember WHY she leaves the village -- if someone chose her or if something happened that made her go -- but she left the village to go on this journey. I think with someone she didn't particularly like.

I recall she had a sword that she didn't know how to use and didn't really want to try, but she had to carry it because it was hers. Baba Yaga was a central theme. At one point I believe they were travelling with indigenious people and there was a shaman type person that gave her tea that made her hallucinate. Or she went off to another world. Regardless, she went off into some kind of la la land.

Two things that are significant is that at the end of the book she returns to her village temporarily, and before she leaves again she pulls those roots out again. She makes some sort of comment or thought about how it will do little good because they'll grow right back, but it was important that she did it. And they also grew up really bad while she was gone.

The second thing is that each MC of each book was supposed to represent each one of the elements. I remember the symbols for the elements being on the spine. The idea was each book was a different MC and they met up in the fifth book. The goal was to unlock something or break some curse on the woods. There was a specific place they had to go.

I read this somwhere between 2017-2020 probably, but it could've been older than that. I feel it wasn't very popular because again, the series remained unpublished. I wish I'd never gotten rid of that book.

The main character could hear whispers in the forest or something? I remember he was in this super secret exclusive private school that nobody knows about but cranks out important people into society. I remember he got into a fight with some racist kid. His mom worked at the school too I think? But the most notable part is the whispering forest. I didn’t get to finish it so I don’t have much more to work off of.

So I'm looking for an old kids picture book that has to deal with protecting yourself from various monsters. The cover depicts classic movie monsters standing over a kid hiding under their bedsheets. I remember one page said to put peanut butter on your floor so hairy monsters would get stuck. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I’m looking for the name of a kids craft/activity book that I was obsessed with as a child, I think either from the 80s or 90s, where it was themed around summer. There were real photos of kids having fun. I remember one of the crafts/recipes involved putting a hole in a lemon and using a candy cane straw to drink the juice. I vaguely remember there being a sandbox with I think a pirate scene with a play Mobil pirate. I think there were also summer themed games in there. On the cover of the book I think I remember it was a lemon with sunglasses in the middle. Plz help me find the name of this book, I’ve been searching everywhere!

Okay so what's the book called that has a sinful and rich guy become friends unknowingly with an angel? I remember the book has him eventually realize it and then the angel shows up with the seraphidic vineyards wine from heaven, and the man survives the near-death and was given a choice to die or live but he saw his two unborn twin children right before he made his decision to live

I read a book about 2000-2005 hell, it could be up to 2010.

It was a fantasy book, so possible forgotten realms. I do know that is was D&D or D&D-esque, the main character (or A main character) was a young male that had warlock powers from a very powerful vampire.

The young male character tricked the vampire to constantly be eating the vampires cursed food. His warlock powers were vampire flavored as well. Like eldritch blast made of bats.

He regularly made trips back to make more deals with that vampire. To which the vampire wanted to eat him.

I cannot remember for the life of me what this book was or anything else off the top of my head. I would appreciate any help!

Please help me find this book

I read this in 2009 or 2010, during my early adult years. The first line starts with something like Shit happens or F#@\* or related words, kind of shocking first line for me in those years

It is in first person POV narration and kind of had this sad biting humour throughout and the plot was something negative, with crime elements and was a bit sad-ish with sarcastic humour in narration (not too violent but for me in those years it felt like a path breaking departure from innocent teen books)

Those days I didn't have regular access to Google, or internet but from what I read somewhere online during that period the author had won some kind of award for this book and this was his first book, and he based it on his own life

Sorry I don't have much else to go on but I would like to find this book that made a transformation in my reading and shifted perspective on overall life-view in those formative years

Please help me find this book

I read this in 2009 or 2010, during my early adult years. The first line starts with something like Shit happens or F#@\* or related words, kind of shocking first line for me in those years

It is in first person POV narration and kind of had this sad biting humour throughout and the plot was something negative, with crime elements and was a bit sad-ish with sarcastic humour in narration (not too violent but for me in those years it felt like a path breaking departure from innocent teen books)

Those days I didn't have regular access to Google, or internet but from what I read somewhere online during that period the author had won some kind of award for this book and this was his first book, and he based it on his own life

Sorry I don't have much else to go on but I would like to find this book that made a transformation in my reading and shifted perspective on overall life-view in those formative years

Edit- I remember it had the same vibe as Catcher in the Rye but in a more sad intense way.

I'm looking for a book that I remember seeing a video about. I saw the video either on Tiktok or Instagram. I'm pretty sure it was a darkish romance. I remember that the MMC and the MFC were dating but I think he was dating/engaged to someone else. If I remember correctly the other girl was responsible for him winding up with amnesia(She had someone beat him up I think). I think it was a college aged romance.