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Have you ever lost track of a favorite book from your childhood because you can’t remember the title or author? Do you have the story on the tip of your tongue? Can you explain the plot, describe the cover, or know the era, but just can’t remember the one detail you need in order to actually find the book? We’ve been there and know exactly how frustrating this can be. Below are a few tips we’ve used when searching for a lost book we love.
Tips to Find a Book When You Don’t Know the Title or Author
If you’re currently suffering from a case of book amnesia, try some of these tricks to see if they can spark your memory and help you remember more than a vague cover image or a quirky side character you loved.
First, Wrack Your Brain for Book Memories
When it comes to finding a book you have only a vague recollection of, you need to fish out everything you can possibly remember about it from your memories. Answer the below questions to see if they help you recover any additional information about your book.
- What did the cover look like? Do you only remember a fuzzy image that’s predominately one color? Even that is a clue! If you think hard, do you remember any elements on it? Was the author’s name in large print, or was the title large? Any of these details can be the difference between success or failure.
- Can you remember a phrase, quote, or a particular paragraph of the book? Sometimes you can remember lines you felt were funny or meaningful or just plain weird. Write them down as best you can for your search. Odds are that same phrase may have stood out to someone else too.
- What can you remember from the plot? Even if you’re not entirely confident, write down what you think you remember. You might find your memory looks something like “boy gets kidnapped. Girl best friend says she’ll find him. I think she becomes a detective at some point or runs into him later in life and they fall in love. The boy may be involved in drugs or something sketchy when she runs into him. I think at one point he wakes up in a dumpster.” Even though you’re not one hundred percent certain, you can try different searches with the elements you think are there and hopefully in one combination, you’ll get a hit. Or, hopefully your details will be close enough that someone else can piece the elements together.
- Can you remember any characters’ names? Remembering one or two of the characters’ names will also be a huge help in your search. Even if they’re side characters and not main characters, write them down.
- What genre was it? If it was fantasy, do you remember any details to narrow it down to a subcategory of fantasy?
- Do you remember any other story-related details, like a city name, street, location, pet, era, etc.?
- Do you remember any details related to publishing? Do you remember whether your school or library that you got the book from often bought books from a certain publisher? Do you remember when the book was published? For example, if it was a book you read from your childhood, then you know you can exclude any recent publications. Or, perhaps you remember that it was a new book that came out when you were in high school, then you’ll know to look for books published only in those few years. Do you remember any other similar authors that people seemed to also read if they liked the book you’re trying to remember?
Remember to write down as much information as you can, and maybe you’ll remember some more details in the process of finding your lost book.
Google and Other Search Engines
When you first try to search for a forgotten novel, you probably turn to Google or a similar search engine. Unfortunately, your average search may not be able to get you the results you’re looking for. Because of the vast volume of novels with similar plot elements and various SEO tactics and companies skewing the search results to favor their products, unless the book you’re searching for happens to be one of the most popular books of its kind, you’re going to have to do a deep Google.
Let me explain. If you’re looking for a book about mermaids, but you’re definitely not looking for something super popular like Disney’s The Little Mermaid, you may become frustrated that no matter what variation of “mermaid” search terms you try, you still find Little Mermaid results popping up on top because Disney can afford to pay people a lot of money to make sure their products stay on top of the search results.
So when searching for a forgotten novel, you’ll often have to use all the different details you remember from the book with Google’s different search functions. For example, quotations will be your friend to make sure Google doesn’t try to eliminate distinguishing details. The addition symbol will be useful for linking multiple elements into one search. Try using the Advanced Google Search Page with filters like subject, publisher, language, and publication date as well. Another tip is to always check the image results. If you’re on the right track, then sometimes an image result will appear more quickly than general search results. There are other advanced Google search skills that you can give a try too, like excluding specific keywords or using the wildcard operator to guess the name of a character.
Google Books Search
The Google Books Library Project now makes it possible to find books by searching through their text and content. The Books Search reference page also displays book specific information like various covers, tables of content, common terms and phrases, and popular passages from the books. You can quickly view sample pages to ensure that the book you’ve found is the book you’ve been looking for.
There are several other book databases you can find as well, such as Book Finder, Word Cat, LibraryThing, Book Sleuth, Goodreads, Amazon’s Advanced Book Search, and Library of Congress. However, if you haven’t been able to find the book you’re looking for with a Google search, you probably don’t have enough information to find it in one of these databases either. If you want to give some of these a try though, these are some of the ones we find the most useful.
- Book Cave: This site has the unique feature of being able to search through a rated books database. So if you know a book was a children’s book, you can avoid any adult rated book. Or if you know it’s an adult rated book you can exclude anything milder.
- The Library of Congress: This the biggest online library in the world and has a search engine capable of combining search parameters with keywords. There’s also an interesting option called “Ask a Librarian” where you can send an email and try asking for help in finding your book.
- Worldcat: Worldcat is a catalog of over 70 thousand libraries in 160 countries. Here you can look for a specific keyword, and you’ll get a list of book titles in various languages. There’s also a “Fiction Finder” section where you can search for a book by a character or place in addition to a keyword.
- Big Book Search: If you can only remember what the cover looks like, try this cover-search tool.
- If you can remember just one word of the title, use the search function on Goodreads or Library Thing to find long lists of titles with a particular word.
- Goodreads’ browse-able lists of titles that readers have shelved in unique categories, such as authors’ professions or decades of publication, may also be helpful.
Turn to Reddit or Other Popular Book Forums
Is there anything that the people of the internet don’t know? If computerized searches fail and you need a personalized touch, there are thousands of fellow book lovers out there who would love to help you out. Places like Reddit, Tumblr, Goodreads, and several other bookish forums have book sleuths that seem to be able to solve even the vaguest of mysteries. Reddit in particular has several dedicated sections such as Tip of My Tongue, What’s That Book, Books, and PrintSF for when you can only remember the cover. Just take a scroll through the book section of Reddit to find a thread that best meets your needs. If Reddit isn’t your thing, check out some of these other book forums and groups:
- Goodreads What’s the Name of That Book? is a group that will help solve your book mystery after you’ve done a valiant effort to first find it yourself.
- LibraryThing’s Name That Book is another place where you can post about your forgotten novel. Just follow their instructions and try to wrack your brain for as many details as you can, and fellow readers will do what they can to find your book.
- Stump the Bookseller is a blog run by a cool indie bookstore in Ohio that offers a $4 dollar service to help readers find lost books, specifically childhood books. Plus they have large searchable archives that you may find helpful as well.
- The Fiction_L listserv is another place where you might be able to get some help, although they don’t seem to have a section dedicated exclusively to finding lost books.
Ask Your Own Social Network and Community
Post on all your social networks, reach out to friends from the time when you were reading the book, and ask a local librarian or even old school teachers. You might be surprised to find that your personal community is the missing link needed to find your book. Communities often have similar interests, so the books you enjoyed as a child might be the same books your friends and others in your town also enjoyed and borrowed from the library.
Your own circle may be especially helpful if you can remember the time that you read the book. If you know you read the book in junior high or high school, reach out to your friends from that era and see if they remember anything about the books you were reading back then. If you’re like me, you probably have a whole friendship circle of readers and you probably not only told them about every book you read but also offered to let them read it as well so you could talk about it. You never know what odd memories a person may be able to recall from their past.
When All Else Fails
If you’ve gone through all of these things and still aren’t able to find the elusive book you’re looking for, then you may have to accept that it’s not going to happen or even that you may not be remembering it correctly. I remember one story about a person looking for a particular Danielle Steele book who later realized the book she was looking for was actually by Daniel Silva. These kinds of close but not quite recollections are understandably frustrating because while you’re confident you’re looking for the right thing, in the end you were actually going down the wrong rabbit hole the entire time and may not even have realized it.
Another consideration is whether what you’re looking for is even real. There have also been times in my life that I’ve been convinced something that happened in a dream was real life, and oftentimes my dreams take up various elements of books I’ve read. Could you possibly be remembering a detail wrong or combining several different books from your past? Whatever the case may be, hopefully you can at least be somewhat cheered up by the list of books you’ve uncovered in your search that at least have many similar elements to what you were looking for.
Happy reading!
I am looking for a book I read in English class in the early 1970s. It was the story of a woman who lived in the arctic (or somewhere extremely cold). I remember it was so cold that they had to leave their vehicles running all the time. I also remember that many children died because that weather was so harsh. It was stated that many women had two sets of children because their first children died.
in this book the main characters name is Chamomile, she has just returned from holiday, where she had a holiday romance. She is back home with her boyfriend having breakfast together, when, on the radio, the chap she met on holiday is trying to find her, and asks if anyone knows Chamomile who has just been on holiday to….(can remember where) to please get her to contact him.
I would love to read this book, anyone any idea what it is called?
many thanks
I like books reading.
Was in 6th grade I read a paperback book It mention living in the ghetto there were writing like from different stories of the neighbors, how she was scared to pass by a drunk that was laying on the stairs , taken about how some was beating the wife children crying .
Girl quits her job, travels, living in a van with her dogs in the dessert.
Perhaps your looking for Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia ?
Dying man has 2 sons, a priest and an FBI agent. In his confession, he admits to killing JFK from the grassy knoll and has a video he has hidden to prove it. Others are willing to kill to get this tape.
contemporary romance book about a member of the british peerage who was captured in a war and his affair which ended with her becoming pregnant
The book is about love story. Both men and women they meet by chance and they fall in love. They have a wonderful love movement. But they are always arguing. As result, they are separated. after years later They will meet again by chance, and They having a good time and but As usual, they arguing and separated. they met many times over the past twenty years separated many times. But they both love each other more than we do. But after 20 years, they both meet by chance and decide to live together. The book is a compilation of Hum Tum’s 2004 Hindi-language romantic comedy film and the 1989 American romantic comedy-drama film of When Harry Met Sally.
I’ve been looking for this book that I read a couple years ago. It was an ebook, with a cover that has a leaning tower. All I can remember is that its about magic, the MC has a bell, there’s magical frequencies, and its a 3 or 4 book long series. I also recall there being quotes at the start of each chapter, kind of foretelling what would happen. I know its very vague, but I can’t find it anywhere.
Could this be either the Darkness or Collector series by Stacey Marie Brown?
I read a book in early 80s, so it was a book from 70s or early 80s. Fiction or non fiction. The husband died and the wife is sad and doesn’t want to go on and I believe she has kids. The husband sees her and even describes heaven I think, something about flowers but he is trying to think of a way to save his wife.
Read this book in high school in Ontario in the 80’s. I am not sure when the book was published. It was about a young boy who was caught as a stowaway in a barrel on a tall ship and was made to work in the rig. He loved the sun on his back and the wind in his hair. It doesn’t show up in moonfleet. What could it have been?
Shape shifting spy found on an iceberg in the North Sea paperback from the sixties or seventies
Hi,
I’ve been searching google over the years to try and find this book that I started reading back in middle school in the mid 2000’s, but I’ve never been able to find it. I checked it out from the local library, and could never find it again. I only vaguely remember the plot since I never finished it, but from what I remember, it was about a girl named Grace(I think, I’m not entirely sure but I feel really confident ). She has a best friend named Katie(?) and they live in a kind of secluded town. It’s winter and the two of them go skating on the frozen lake nearby. The ice cracks under Katie and she falls in and drowns. The town is furious and blame Grace for Katie’s death, and exile her by making her drink some kind of poison and then forcing her to leave forever. I never made it past this because middle school me was not ready for Katie’s death, I remember there was a passage that stated the two of them made eye contact when the ice cracked, and Grace could see the fear in Katie’s eyes.
I remember the cover was predominately blue and had a picture of a girl looking out a window. I want to say the title had Grace in it, but I’m not sure. The story makes it seem that Grace will die by the end because of the poison, but I want to say that there’s an underlying implication that the poison wasn’t effective in the end and she lives, because there was a sequel or two. I could be misremembering some of the details because this was a long time ago, but I’ve been dying to find it for years now!
Hi! This book I think is called Glory by Jodi Lynn. The main characters name is apparently Glory but I also thought the main characters name was Grace which is so strange and I think it’s unlikely that it’s just a coincidence. I’d been looking for this book forever!! I also thought this book was apart of a series with other girls in other historical time periods (One during the Great Depression?) but I think I might be mixing it up with something else.
Hello,
I’m trying to track down a couple of things. The first was a horror book I read back in the early 90’s. It had three zombie like girls coming out of a lake. The book title might have had the word ‘ice” in it. The plot was about a little boy who lived close to the lake and these three dead sisters kept trying to get him into the lake to murder him.
The second is actually has to do with a book club I was enrolled in back in the early 90’s. It was a monthly book club that would send suspense / romance books (maybe supernatural). The covers were almost like Harlequin books with ‘borders’ around the books, but I don’t think they were Harlequin. I remember one of the covers had a woman laying on a couch in a dark room while someone lingered in a doorway or window. I seem to recall another book cover that had a orange border and a female vampire on it.
Im trying to find a book, where a young girl goes through a still birth pregnancy by herself and meet a grieving widower at counselling groups. He is also a football player Its been driving me.crazy! If anyone could help that would be great.
I read a true book in 1983.A rich woman that lived in Houston, Texas was kidnapped beat and electocuted died yet came back to life. She was held in a closed hospital. God told her how to excape and how the kidnppers died and how they were caught. she was on different tv talk shows
Did you ever find the book? I’m looking for this one too!
I’m looking for a book and there is two girls one with black short hair and i think she is in a green striped tee shirt and black track shorts and the other girl had medium black hair and i think a pink flower dress and the girl with brown hair had kind of a perfect life and the girl with black hair her life wasn’t so perfect and i think the brown hair girl was on her porch and then they like became friends
read a book in 1967 about an Irish man who comes to new york city marries and his daughter falls in love with a Jewish man and ends up pregnant and dies in child birth. Father throws Jewish man’s ashes from top of the Statue of Liberty.
I’m trying for a book I read 12 years ago,it had a fold out map on the inside,the clues were in the map,the reader uses the map to follow the story,it’s all played out in England
in third grade i read this book about a girl in like apartments or something all remember is her making this friend and then she finds out shes moving into the same apartment complex and then she like house sits for this lady and then she tries on the ladys wedding dress and the ladys like rlly nice and MAYBE THIS
IS A DIFF BOOK but i remember something about a cheese shop idk
Trying to find a 1950’s decade book of the month club cookbook that has a recipe for coco indian’s a brownie like sweet. I’m thinking it is a mid 1950’s selection not sure.
I don’t remember the name of the book i read around 2006-2007 about a dominating boss of a cruise ship. He fells in love with the main female character working as choreographer on the cruise ship but is too egoistic to tell her directly. Instead ties her down with marriage contract in times of need to avoid her leaving him. Vaguely remembers the book cover was all in black and white. There was mention of Grand Canyon very often in the book. Maybe the male character had word BLAKE in his name and female was called TORY. Male character was very fond of flying planes and super rich.
I’m looking for a fictional (I think) book about a girl being stalked by a woman who believes she is the girl’s mother. The girl recalls seeing the woman at her birthday party in a restaurant, and seeing an odd car parked near her house before the woman and her boyfriend kidnap the girl. She escapes them by using a finger code system with her best friend at a school event.
I’m looking for a children’s book I read at school in the late 90’s. It’s about a girl who sends a parcel/letter but is then warned by an invisible supernatural creature that if she doesn’t retrieve the parcel/letter from the post office, she’ll be turned into a supernatural creature. I can’t remember much else but it’s been on my mind to find out how the story ends.
I remember the cover very much
It had a yellow background with a little girl 8 or 9 in a pink shirt or sweater I think she had blonde hair (or brown i could be wrong) holding a kitten with gray fur and black stripes
And I remember some things from the book she had a sleepover with her friend (also a girl) and made brownies with walnuts and mnms with her, she got the cat for her birthday her dad got it for her on his way back form work and I think they did a paper for school where they explained what they find interesting and her friend did a paper on how a praying mantis eats the head off of the mate
I am looking for a horror novel about a woman who goes into the woods to lose weight. It is a relatively newer novel. Something happens in the woods, she gets lost, there is something in the woods????
Looking for a book about how a girl uses spiders on her father to stop his sexual abuse of her
Looking for a book I read back in the early to mid 2010s. It was YA fiction. It followed two sisters who had recently become rich when their mom remarried. The parts I remember mostly follow the younger sister, who is notorious for envying other people for things she doesn’t have, namely her older sister’s boyfriend, (possibly named Kevin??) who she has a secret crush on. The older sister knows about the crush, but doesn’t mind it. There’s a whole scene where the younger sister artfully rips her mom’s old wedding dress (from her first wedding, I think???) to wear as a stylish outfit to a party. The older sister starts crushing on, and even hooks up with some guy with tattoo sleeves (in a sleeping bag?? In the bed of his truck???) while she’s thinking about how she’s over her bf but I think is still technically dating him. She does dump him, and the now ex-bf immediately hooks up with the younger sister and then ditches her. The older sister finds out and is just sad that he used her younger sister and her crush like that. I think it ends with a flashback of the two girls (pre rich stepdad) sharing a bed during a stormy night because the younger sister is too afraid to sleep alone, but won’t go to their parents because they told her they’d buy her some charm bracelet that other girls have if she stayed in her own bed for a month. And one of the sisters (can’t remember which one) reflects on how the younger one always wants what others have.
With all this info, you’d think it’d be easy to find on Google, but I’ve had no luck and I’m about to lose it!
Hey!! I have been trying to find this book for years, Its about a mentally unstable girl who lives with her two friends one a girl and one a boy, she meets this shrink named Helen and starts to get obsessive over her. The last couple of pages are the main girl in the shower cutting herself all over screaming out Helens name until the guy friend takes her to the hospital??? i know it’s weird but that all I can remember. Thanks!
Looking for the name of a book I started reading somewhere between 10 & 20 years ago, written by an actor. Can’t think of his name. Would know it if I heard it or saw it in print. Can’t think of the name of the book. It was a political book. Can you help me, please?
Looking for a book where the MFC, Evangeline, is rejected by her mate and finds her second chance mate who is an alpha that just came back from being feral because his first mate died during childbirth. Does anyone know the title?
Looking for a book I read a few years ago. A girl moves to a stable to work there (I think it’s set in the U.K.). There she falls in love with the owner of the stable, who is married. He shows her how to ride a horse. They start an affair. Later she has to leave the stables without saying him goodbye, as she has a stalker who find her, which is the reason she came to the stable in the first place. It turns out she swapped the identity with a girl she met before while backpacking(?).
Looking for a book I read a few years back around 2010 – all I remember is int was about a kid who beat another kid very badly and ended up at a log cabin and. jumping into ice water every morning I think he was at the cabin chopping wood and with a probation officer or guardian of some kind.
Sounds similar to one my son read for school last year, could be Holes by L. Sachar
Looking for a book from about 40 years ago i loved as a child. Im sure the name of it was POG, but that maybe incorrect.
Pog was a tip hog type creature that built a bicycle out of scrap feom the tip, like an old mop or rake and other bits. The bike eventually falls apart and pog is upset. Cant remember what happens after that.
Grug and his bicycle – Ted Prior????
No definitely not that, but thanks for trying. The character was kinda stig of the dump looking, but im almost positive its not that too as all the pictures ive seen do match my recollection.
Hello, I’m looking for a book that may have been a trilogy. It’s about a girl who saw ghosts and was an outcast in high school in a small town. A mysterious new guy in town shows up and offers to help her by taking her to a school or something with people with powers like her. She meets his friend who is an empath and father who is a physicist who time traveled and was stuck in time. The girl has a Colombian best friend whose family owns a coffee shop and is too curious for her own good. This is all I remember about the story. I do recall the cover being purple/pink with a blonde girl walking on the ceiling or something like that.
Does this story sound familiar to anyone?
hi i’m looking for a book i’ve read years ago the book is a trilogy i think, im just not sure…but the book is about a half witch half wolf with elementsl powers like fire, water, wind, earth and divine something…,the name of her wolf is rose i forgot her mates name but her alpha mate had a shield power something and both of them had guardians that has elemental powers too…
Wolves And Roses by Christina Bauer maybe
I read this really creepy book in middle school with a robin or something on the cover. It was about this family, I remember the main character was seen as weird and quiet. The only other thing I can remember is that the protagonist’s cousin (her Aunt Jessie’s daughter) died, and her Aunt Jessie kept the body in a drawer (????). Yeah.
I found it! It’s called Chasing Redbird 🙂
Hello I’m looking for a book that I read in elementary school.
It is a book based from the Holocaust or WW2, it is about a Jewish boy and he is disguised as a Hitler Youth. I remember he had about 2 friends and one best friend. They all were trying to be a superior hitler youth and they got into a fist fight. And the boy won. And they helped with the one night were they broke all the glass of the Jew’s houses and buildings, it was a famous night. And towards the end, it is just him and his best friend that’s left and the best friend went crazy and tried to kill the boy, but instead the best friend died in snow.
A BDSM book about a straight couple who end up on an island. The woman has had dreams of this other woman with bright hair. Someone said the guy knows her from a club and she is a service.
They have their own private house
Friends are there too
Looking for a fictional book set during the Civil war. A young girl kills her abusive father, runs away from home dressed as a boy. Being a girl during that time would have been dangerous. She meets a clergy man who believes she’s a boy. He takes her under his wing and eventually finds out he’s a she. They marry then get separated because of the war.
Hi, I am looking for a book that also has a movie I watched the movie very long time ago and I realized it had a book to it and I wanted to read it but never got the chance too. I do not remember the name of the movie but I do know Wing was in the book title The girl named was Wing and she had a older brother who was very popular in her high school he was a star footballer and he was drank driving with two other dudes and he got into an accident and one of the boys died and he was in a coma and everyone called him a killer. Her father died he was a police officer I think and she likes to run. Please I goggled search and everything and nothing came up i am really desperate to find this book
Is it The Heartbeat of Wing Jones by Katherine Webber?
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Ohh I forget I do remember a little detail of what the book cover looks like. Uh it had like these pair of running shoes or sneakers and I think it had wings idk but it had running shoes in the book cover
A book called twist of fate I think on the front cover its a young teenage girl it’s fuzzy maybe by a road infront of a big old gate ,in the first few pages of the book it basically says that she runs away from this orphanage where this older guy was giving her attention ,but now she’s on a bus and falls sleep dreaming about a boy she never seen in her life before and they in a place where it snows and thn she wakes up from this dream she had on the bus and she gets off and comes across an old house where she suddenly meets this boy she’s been seeing in her dreams and it turns out his been have dreams about her too, that’s all I can remember from the book could u guys plz help me thank you
A book I had back in the late 70s as a child. It was a states and capitals illustrated book. It said things like “toe peek a” and had a drawing of a toe peeking.
It was NOT the Jerry Lucas Ready Set Remember.
I’m eighty-five. I have forgotten many many books that I have read. However,
it galls me that I can’t remember the title and author of this: The main character is a gay English teacher perhaps in Junior College who writes about his partner and their visits to their very charming parents in the country. They eat ham salad sandwiches. Between each chapter was a wonderful lesson in grammar. Please, if this rings a bell I would love to know whatever information you have, I believe I read this between 1993 to 2000 but I don’t know how old the book was.
P.Bova
I read a book a good few years ago. I can’t remember the title or author but it’s about a woman named Leah(main character) who always loved a rich guy. The rich guy never knew about her existence accept for one night when she visited the pub where her sister works. She then meets her crush there and spend the night with him. She fell pregnant and on a Sunday her father dragged her to church to ask which one of the rich men impregnant her
River Lady by Jude Deveraux
Please do you recall a short story about some parents who decided they needed to sell their child on ebay – the child was bought by a couple in a big house – it turned out these people had like a pet dragon and they had bought her to feed to the dragon – sounds awful it was a really good/tongue in cheek dramatic book….
Looking for a book I read at least 30 years ago….fiction…rich man’s family is brutally murdered and he finds someone to use the occult to exact revenge
If you just remember one word, utilise Goodreads or Library Thing’s search option to find large lists of titles that contain that word. Goodreads’ searchable lists of works shelved in specific categories, such as authors’ professions or publication decades, might also be useful.
I am looking for a book where a professor and students act as urban archeologists and enter into an old hotel due to be torn down. They find a man who was keeping women and saved their bodies. They also find an old suitcase in one room with a dead monkey in it. I think the hotel was near water way maybe in Jersey where there were rides like the Farris wheel.
I cannot remember the name or author of a book I read back in 1998. I think at the time it was new or
fairly new. Essentially it was a fantasy crime drama. There was a cop trying to solve a case. The
antagonist group were using the four horseman as a naming scheme and communicating through
some sort of message board if I remember correctly. I do remember that one of them had the ability
to mentally conjure a golem or creature. It may have been the same one but someone was able to
slow/stop time. There was a part in the book where they were inside of a warehouse party and the
golem creature was going through the crowd as time was slowed/stopped and he was maiming/killing
people in the crowd. I don’t remember very much else and would like to reread the book. I have
googled until I am blue in the face. Hopefully someone here will possess the knowledge that I do not
have and cannot seem to obtain currently. Thank you for humoring me. Lol
I’m looking for a children’s book where the main character is a bear. The bear thinks that the moon gives him a hat, then the bear buys the moon a hat. During a windy day, the bears loses the hat due to the wind. The bear climbs up a mountain to have a talk with the moon. During their echo conversation they both have lost their hats and in the end, the echo says that’s ok, I still love you.
Happy Birthday, Moon
That’s it! Thank you Emma!!!
Uhh I’m looking for a book with a red cover, a little girl i think she was 5, she goes too kindergarten or something and I think grade 1’s bully the kindergarteners and, I remember she was in the mud or something in the rain and she gets stuck and can’t move so some guy helps her, some sort of road guy or builder
hello,
I’m looking for a book about a girl who is an orphan, and is a woodcarver, she is so good at wood carving that people in the town think she is a witch. Her only friend is her cat. Somehow, she meets a strange guy and he takes away her shadow in payment for her deepest desire. Her desire was for her cat to talk. I can’t remember the plot of the story but her travels with a Bunge of gyps like people and eventually gets her shadow back. Her cat dies in the end, but comes back to life, but without the acuity to talk anymore.
I vagally remember the cover of the book being a drawing of her laying is a clearing in the forest surrounded by flowers.
Hi I’m looking for a book I think it has like a moon and stars and I think maybe a ladies foot on there. Basically about two kids in foster homes and they like eachother and I think they go there separate ways because one got adopted and I think earlier in the book the guy finds rose (that’s the girls name) and he’s like a
Heroin addict. That’s all I remember. Please help!!!
Hi sorry, I don’t know the book from which you are talking about. I wanted to ask if anyone knows that book that I am explaining in the following,
It is a fictional teen book about a girl who is in a academy for teens and young adults. It is an academy just like the air force. This girl and another girl, her partner, are flyers for the fastest jets on the air force. He father is the commander or general of the academy, but does not accept her and does not accept her attending the academy. The plot is with a war happening. I think the war is with a type of Chinese or Asian country/people. The enemy has a new jet, or machine, that is faster than the jets the girl and her country are flying. Then a new team of flyers arrive at the academy and she falls in love with one of the boys. I left off with the teams trying a simulation to try to match the speed on their enemies new machines. All I know is that the cover of the book was orange.
Please help me find the book, anyone!! Any little suggestion will help. I have been going crazy trying to find it and I have searched everywhere and anywhere for it.
Never mind, found the book. It is called Breaking Sky if anyone’s interested.
Looking for a book a part or a series. It’s about this woman who finds an alien baby/child in a spaceship. The alien race the child is from has some sort of mental powers which humans are wary of and label them as dangerous. The Woman is a ship captain (I think she is a salvager not 100% sure), she decides to protect the child and return him to where he belongs or somewhere he can be safe. Many people are after them including the child’s uncle, The woman not knowing the man is the child’s uncle runs from his as well. He thinks she wants to use the child for nefarious reasons and she thinks the same of him.
Am looking for an adult fantasy book featuring two siblings (girl and boy) – there is a prophecy about a white witch and connecting with a black. The boy is harassed by the sister and her cronies. He owns a cat that turns out to be a mythical creature that saves the community by defeating the evil sister.
Hello, I am looking for a book I saw on Facebook. The title they had was “The Rogue”. It’s about wolves. Does anyone know the real name of the following story. Main characters is Katharine Reed, Justin the alphas son who rejected Katharine and the rogue Alpha Ryan Knight (wolf Luca). I’ve looked on google and Amazon just trying to find it.
looking for a book in which most of humanity is in VR and the ones that aren’t are mutated and some of them have super hearing hearing so strong that the strongest one if he touches you can hear your thoughts another one it has super smell and he can smell emotions
I’m looking for a book I read in 1994 that was 3 or 4 different yet connected stories about women who are witches, or have powers. One of them falls in love with a werewolf. It’s like a romance novel with some funny and mostly dramatic parts. One of the characters might be named Paget or Palance
AM LOOKING FOR ABOOK ABOUT ASERIAL KILLER IN BOSTON, MASS WHO PREYED ON YOUNG PORTUGUESE WOMEN. ONE PART I REMEMBER IS THE POLICE CRACKED THE CASE BY FINDING ACAR WITH ONE OF THE VICTIMS IN IT AT A RUNDOWN PARKING GARAGE. I READ THE BOOK BACK IN ABOUT 1980. THANKS.
I am looking for a romance book that had multiple (3 or 4) series. I do not remember much but she cooked a lot, his friends liked her food and kept her company. One of books ended with her getting on the elevator and leaving him. I am not looking for Fifty Shades of Grey.
I am looking for a book that I loved as a child, I believe the title was I once knew. I do remember a line from the book went something like – I once knew a kangaroo who wore one red and one blue shoe.
I AM LOOKING FOR A BOOK THE POLT IS ABOUT A PLANTATION OWNER THAT WOULD LOCK UP HIS SLAVES IN THE CELLAR AND IN THE END THE MAIN CHARACTER SHE LOCK HIM IN THE CELLAR AND WALKED AWAY.
i am looking for a book i read to my son as a child which had a young black girl on the front cover with a basket on her head. I think it was something journey
Looking for a book about 3 women who were best friend. Simone one of the character got infected with aids had a baby girl who was born with HIV. Simone end up dieing leaving her friends to care for her daughter who also died
I’m trying to find a book from my childhood I think it was something like the whale who wanted to change his color about a whale going through a jungle trying different colors on from different animals I’m wanting to find and purchase a copy for my children
I think the book your talking about is called The Animals Who Changed Their Colors by Pascale Allamand.
This book where they or next door neighbors, characters hate each other until they meet years Later fall in love, marry- The guy is military. Has a sister, Elder brother. Book andr with him going off on a Mission & dies at was
not a book but an anime i watched a few years ago, it was a movie i watched on netflix and the etails are fuzzy, i do remember howver a girl with a terminal illness, her mother was an alchohalic, she meets a boy, the boy tays with them for a bit, she falls in love i think, an then dies on the beach. while this is going on there is a parallels with some medieval japanese lore connecting the two as like lost soulmates i think. please help.
This would be AiR. It was a visual novel turned anime. Produced by Key and Kyoto Animation
Marry me please….
The book I’m looking for is a retelling of mulan but has cinderella elements. The MC’s name isn’t mulan though and it is set in China. It goes with the original story that she needs to go fight because her father can’t, and since her father has trained her from a young age to be a swordsman she’s going to be ok really but she can’t go as herself a girl, so her stepmother uses magic to disguise her as a boy. She gets to the training camp and meets her love interest who is the son of the emperor and thinks he’s the best swordsman. They fight and she beats him and calls him something like a puffed up rooster, and they eventually become friends. I also remember towards the end of the story she puts on a pair of golden slippers that her mother used to wear and maybe loses one at the palace….. in the end I remember they fall in love and theirs a scene at the end of the book from their wedding night. The frustrating thing is that I can’t remember the name and google can’t find this book.
Book I’m looking for, takes place in the future and there able to travel to different planets. People have the internet now planted in there heads where they can see messages and stuff. Guy meets a girl while with friends. She had the internet implant later in her life. Her family doesn’t have that stuff and she made the choice. But it does have a sad ending.
The book is about a detective or private detective he wakes up in a dingy hotel room with a young dead women covered in blood beside him and it’s been filmed he likes his jack Daniels then he has to go on a dangerous persuit and he s best friend gets killed I’m not sure how f James Patterson wrote it it’s over ten years ago it was published
Hello!! I’m looking for a book which I can’t remember the title or author of. The plot is about a young boy who loves running and wishes to pursue it in the future but for now he finds a toy shop which is magical and has an elderly man working in it. Eventually the world discovers this talent of his and he is of to competitions and promises to visit the man but this promise soon slips and he misses more and more occasions. That’s all I can remember about the book.Thank you!!
Hello! Looking for the title of an interracial book (bwwm). The plot is that the heroine has had multiple miscarriages, and finds out her ex-boyfriend has been drugging her because he did not want children. The hero saved her when she had to pull over due to suffering from a miscarriage. The hero has a young child. The heroine also designed this watch for the hero’s son. The heroine also meets her birth father near the end of the book. That’s all I can remember about the book. Thank you!!
My daughter (now in her mid 30’s) posed a question about a book she read from her childhood to her mother, sister and me. All she can remember is this rather vague description: “I’m looking for the title of a book I LOVED as a kid/teen. Its about a girl who snuck up to an attic in her grandma’s (?) house and found a trunk with a dress in it. She put it on and time traveled. There was a also a Christmas book about time travel I believe with the same girl. I think her name was maybe Mandy/Molly?
It’s NOT the Mandie and the Secret Tunnel series i know that”
Does not ring a bell for me but both my other daughter and their mother recognized the description but can’t come up with the title, author or anything additional.
Any help/assistance/suggestions greatly appreciated.
I’m not sure if this is the book your talking about but it sounds similar to this: the Magic Attic Club, The Secret of the Attic written by Sheri Cooper Sinykin.
If this isn’t it, I’ll keep looking.
I’m looking for a book with a man name Troy, he’s a Pastor/ Christian which I believe is married. A lady, or old time friend came along and she started to lust deeply at Troy but I’m not so sure if Troy had the same feelings or probably he did. The book describes how Troy looked in the eyes of the woman and I remember it mentioned his eyes were blue. I got this book many years ago for my birthday but wasn’t able to even read 5 chapters because my cousin pressured me to lend her in which I wasn’t going to. Then I went to her house with it one evening because I was resting when she called me over and I went, I left it there my mistake and I never got it back. Help me please someone.
There’s a book about this little girl had a sister and they had to share a room but they didn’t get along and eventually she used all of her buttons to create a curtain to separate the room.
I don’t remember much more.
There was this kids book where this village boy was friends with this troll or giant named Destra and she was the smallest of her kind? I think she was some kind of ice troll or something and there were like three books in the series I think and one of the book covers was purple and some kind of chess game. I remember specifically that the girls name was Destra and she was either a giant or a troll and that she was the smallest
Do you mean Thrones and Bones?
Okay, so here’s what I remember from all those years ago 1972-1974. This book is about two boys that find a crusty old book in their garage. The book is about a secret club. Inside it has lots of illustrations including instructions on how to make a paper mask, a spear and other things that are used in the secret society. It’s a short book, I remember it having a green cover with kids in masks. I don’t even know where to start looking for this book and I need to show it to my 5 year old boy cause he would love it! Thanks!
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Set in 1930s Moscow. 2 or 3 British businessmen on a trade mission dealing in some banal product. Excellent conversation and character description as well as the conditions in Russia at that time and how foreigners were perceived and treated. Deep and thought provoking.
I’m looking for a book I read back in the 1970’s, about a high school girl from a small town is beaten and r_-_- in a park by the “rich, popular guy on campus”. She didn’t report it to the police because the few people she shared her story with were very unsupportive. Although her life feels shattered she continues by moving to another town across the country to attend college trying to forget this nightmare. Years later she sees that this same “rich, popular guy” has risen in the political arena and is now running for Senator/Congressman, she then volunteers to work on his election committee … after all the years that have passed he has absolutely no idea who she is … and she turns the table on him … don’t want to give away the ending!
I’m looking for a book about a girl she ends up lying to her mother and sister saying she has the perfect guy named Adam that is a business man so they wanna meet him and she says she’ll bring him to her sister’s wedding
She finds a hot guy named Adam at the gym they start hanging out for a while and beome close sleeping together but one night she wasn’t in the mood and he force’s himself on her and he neighbor walks in fighting Adam
That’s all I remember please help
Cover of book has 2 chickens with mouths open
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looking for a romantic novel with a cute baby picture on the cover with a quote be careful what you wish for about a virgin girl who travels across the country to get married to a guy who had an ugly scar on his face. It was an arranged marriage but she ends up falling in love with him and they have a son. the only name I remember from the book is Lucein .
I’m looking for a book about a lady who’s husband and daughter go missing, the lady doesn’t know if there dead or alive. Years later the main character is trying to solve the mystery. The cover is blue. The main character is a girl. There are one or two LGBTQ+ characters. I think it’s for teens. Mystery.
So I don’t remember the title, author or book cover all I remember is that it’s about a girl who lost her diary and now these group of boys have it and in order to recover it she has to face her fears of what she wrote in her diary so the boys dare her to do the what they say or they will expose her diary (for example she wrote about having a crush on a guy and wanting to kiss him but doesn’t have the guts to do it but the boys dare her to go to a party and kiss the guy by the end of the night. Another example is when they read that she is scared to sing out in the public but they force her to sing karaoke in a coffee shop) I been trying to look for the book for a long time pls help me!!
I’ve looked everywhere to find this book I read long ago. I only remember vague details. There was a teen girl who moved to this big house in a small town right next to the ocean with her younger brother and mom I believe. It was written from the teen girls perspective, I believe. She had the room on the top floor and there was a point when she jumped or fell into the ocean. There was a passage in the book where she goes outside and sees her brother playing by some trees in their yard. I can’t remember if there was a boy involved for a love interest, but there may be. That’s all I can remember. It’s driving me insane that I cannot remember this book. Thank you so much for any help. I’ve googled every word combination I can think of but nothing is helping.
Looking for the book i thought was a Dr. Seuss Book where the Character is stuck in the middle of the road, can decide which way to go.
Romance book:women either cheated on or left at the alter decides to move to the beach. Meets wealthy neighbor who I think is ex military . She ends up with her bridesmaids with a bonfire burning their dresses. Her and the neighbor get to get her . He does work in another country trying to help them become more self sufficient.
I remember the beginning it was girl who’s mom got a call from the hospital and her uncle was in the hospital (potentially??)) her mom had a jeep they drove in. When they arrived at the hospital there was a church in the hospital. A girl who had cancer talked to mc and mc would pray for her. Later on something happens where her mom put up a T with her arms to sign it ment a time out. Mc later meets up with an old friend and ends up spending the day with her. They make brownies (i think) and she goes to a diner with them. They ride boats on the lake and one of the boats has a ladybug on it. This is all I remember about it.
Main person is Robyn, she was a journalist that was investigating hotel or building fires and her husband or boyfriend died in a hotel fire. She testified and was put in the witness protection program. Robyn is a teacher now. While out for a run she met a new tenet in her apartment which she became involved with and he turned out the be a lawyer. In the mean time her protection officer Shelia shows up and gets involved with the lawyer’s brother. In the end Shelia is being paid to kill her.
Sorry I can remember the name’s of the males just the females.
I found the book.
real helpful i found 1 book i forgot about when i was 5
Book I read around 5th grade I’m 21 now it is two book it’s a sequel written by a women I think about a bunch of kids on some bus and I feel like the word twist or twister or something like that is involved and the cover is red with like a bus and kids on the cover and the other is purple and I think yellow with a. Bus and kids also !! That’s all I know but I rmeber the covers
I am looking for a story about a little girl named (Tatulia?). Her mother made her wear fancy dresses to school. She wanted to dress like the other kids. She did not want to be different.
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was the book “presenting.. tallulah” by tori spelling?
Looking for a fictional crime book, based in Scotland, Leith with Inspector McGrath as the main character
Looking for a book with the names Filly, Hunter, Fiona,Bonnet,Storm and Newmarket
Children ‘s book … It was sponsored by a paint company. It was 3 painting bears who each liked to paint one of the 3 primary colors they fell & made a mess & the book showed all the colors red, blue & yellow made…my son loved it but I remember it…I Xerox it but lost it & the book was falling apart.. I got it at a 2nd hand store so 1970’s or 1980’s he is 30 just wondering if you know of this book
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The Color Kittens?
The book I am trying to find was from a book club I was in from the 80’s to 90’s. It was a paperback knitting book. It showed a girl hanging up a scarf (?) and her back was all it showed. I let someone borrow it. My first and last mistake.