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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!
romance book both main characters come from money female main character mom was a famous model and dad is a head coach and male character dad is a sport agent. Also night stand end in a kid little boy. His parents are stilling money from him.
Hi! I am trying to find a series about a group of brothers I think there might be five books in total? The first one is about a guy that works for like a mafia type person and he ends up falling in love with a girl that works as a waitress and she lives with her abusive step father and she is raising her brother. I can’t remember the second one but the third one is another brother and he goes on like a camping trip and the girl he is in love with is with him but they end up trying to get away from killers? He tries calling his brother but the phone is breaking up?
Trying to locate a copy of a paperback that I remember reading vaguely when I was a teenager that was either a diary or memoir about a young female’s adventures & discoveries of her sexual awakening & her relationship with 2 gay men who were friends of hers, etc? I had thought the book was called something like; The story of O, or Diary of O / Anais??
I am looking for a book where the girl got pregnant by the guy, and was forced to marry her after they found out she was pregnant, they guy would beat her, he even got her locked up because of the sister, while pregnant, he beat her one night and left her for dead and his uncle took her to the hospital and they fake her death, she came back years later with her daughter. Anyone know the name of the book please? When she came back she open a antique shop
It was a japanese bl manga. Historical. About 2 slaves who were from different teams and were after something. But their teammates all died and their wrists got tied to each other by the thing they were searching for. So they travel together to find a way to get rid of that.
They both have their own scars from the past and they slowly open up to each other.
The first season was not exactly a bl (ie, was not yaoi and didn’t feel like shounen ai either) – it felt more like 2 friends/soulmates who trust and care for each other. But, if im not wrong, there was a second season or a side story which was somewhat shounen ai.
If this isn’t enough, I can explain another story by the same writer but I don’t remember the name of that story either…
I was reading a book I cant remember the title or author but I know her name was brianna and she wore bright clothes and the boy was dared to male her fall for him but he couldn’t speak to her
Looking for a book I’ve read about a boy who was to go to California, Palo Alto I believe. He was to take a bus but hitchhiked instead. Got in an accident & lost his memories. Got taken in by an old couple who named him Charlie Whipple. Was in this school library
I forgot to add I believe his family was from Joliet Illinois
A childrens book I read in the mid 90s – about a child who asks their Mum if different friends can come for tea. Mum says yes expecting children to arrive but makes tea for the child’s toys. Some of the lines of the book were ‘please can Helen come to tea, she wont be any trouble. she likes banana sandwiches’. Please help!!
Hi i’m looking for book opening pages about ex army type who engaged in finding something to do with snake that eats it own tail. Adventure in the desert, different factions all after the same thing.
Hi, i am looking for a book. Historical Romance
At the start of the book, there had been a wedding and the lady had prevented an assassination attempt on the man. Someone had shot at him with a poisoned bow and arrow, and she had jumped in front of it with a big book to catch the arrow but it had still pierced her. He had taken her to his home to treat her, he had a child as well. PLEASE HELP
Girl was left alone in a dystopian world that she can’t leave due to multiple groups of murderers, one who killed her parents who she later figured out led everyone into there. She gets kidnapped by a group led by her moms, friend. But when she’s running away from a group she sees one of them trying to take a little girl who she protects but then she hears a gunshot and passed out waking up to discover she’s in a weird place. She asks to see the girl and she talks to her discovering she’s mute and later on named her mouse.
I’m looking for a romance novel about 2 lovers Jack and Caroline, they never wanted to get married due to failed marriages from their parents but Caroline got pregnant along the way and wanted to start a family.
The book was in a series of about babies but not so sure
The Pregnancy Secret – Maggie Cox ?
No, it’s not it. This particular novel, both of them are already in a relationship. They had an agreement never to have kids due to their parents failed marriage, the heroine started wanting a child, her biological clock was already ticking, making them have issues in their relationship
Werewolf romance about a woman named Grace (only have first name) who is rejected by her mate and thrown in prison, tortured, and has her shifting taken away after she loses her baby. She is then released and lives in the human world working when she is attacked by a man and is then saved by a mysterious Alpha Jason (Reed?).
I think this book is called Filthy Rich Werewolves, found on the KISS application.
Werewolf brother and 2 sisters youngest 15 thry each have special fivhying skils their mom is dead snd their pack id being attacked their sloga father wants an alliance. The other alpha agrees after seeing the youngest sister if he csn marry her. Takes her home n ignores her n carries on with his mistress. Gets angry n marks his wife she runs away to her family
Young girl pregnant, moved in with Ant – who is a former nun – gives up child for adoption. Woman becomes famous photographer – later the son finds her
As she is in final stages of life.
Cover of the paperback showed a view from indoors out to a cobblestone New Orleans street. The scene included a Mercedes Benz with blood on the street. The protagonist is encountering strange deaths by people whose tongue swells enough to suffocate them. The time is contemporary.
Please help……. Looking for a Novel name were the Alha is called Damien and finds his mate in the Dungeons and apparently she is human after he mistreated her he takes her to the doctor she starts with nightmares as her father torture her …. Didn’t read more and lost the novel
This is a series of books. The main guy is a single father that lives with his parents. The mayor is named Finley. I think. There is a sign of sort about 13 crows. The mayor’s son delivers bottles of water. I know there is also a drive-in movie in the books. I can’t remember much more except they were great books and I would love to read them again if I could just figure it out. They are one long mystery story.
Promise Falls trilogy – Linwood Barclay ?
Apocalyptical book where the villain puts a bomb inside the heroines vagina and blows her up at the end. Late ‘70s early ‘80s
hello dearie, i am looking for a book written by a korean woman earlier, it was about her life. where she sufffered in korean during and after war, she had 1 child by then she also didnt believe in christianity, later became a christian , got married , and and had more children, 1 died with time… she prayed and read a bible verse which said God is the one who gives and takes away. can you help me find it
Hi, I am looking for books where girl met 4 boys in school when she started to living with grandparents after her parents died.
There was a orphan girl recruited to be an assassin. She was kidnapped by an Italian mob boss. All she had to do is kill his rival and he would let her go. I think they called her” Bloody Mary”
An orphan girl was recruited to be an assassin. She gets kidnapped by the Italian mob boss. He wants her to kill his rival. I think they called her “Bloody Mary”
Hello, I am looking for a book a lady wrote about marraige. She explained in the book that marraige is like a book. We start at chapter 1 and the move on. But sometimes one of the partners move on to the next chapter and the other partner is left in the previous chapter. Looking for the name of the book please.
I am trying to remember the name of a book and the woman has a tattoo on her thigh. It was her boyfriend’s name but they fight and break up. She covers his name with another tattoo of flowers/vines. They get back together and she shows him his name is still visible under the flowers/vines.
Was thin book. Man buys an old chess set and realise when played the loser dies, so he starts playing people he dislike. Twist comes when he loses himself
A woman is living in a small town having moved after her husband died during a call. He was a firefighter. She ends up meeting some guy thinking he is a ranger, but he ends up being a firefighter too. She is conflicted at first but ends up dating him. Close to the end she is spending christmas with his family and he gets a call because of a massive fire on the woods or something like that, he goes missing for some time but manages to get back.
A 17yr old orphaned girl lives alone and is tormented by something in her apartment. She has a beneficiary that pays her bills. She calls him Ben. She finally meets him and he has been living next door to her apartment. They fall in love and do the dirty when she turns 18. The creature that was tormenting her ends up being a great friend. Pretty sure they’re all a type of fairy. Some crazy queen takes over jack frost. And there’s magic doors. Oh, and she finds her brother that she thought was dead.
The book I am looking for was publish by a publish co. In Connecticut and is no longer in business. The book is base in the beginning of Portugal thru wars and crime been that all Pope at that time was in Portugal century’s ago been that the Pope
owned most everything. All the peplo that occupied Portugal came from all over. Etc . Etc.
About a girl living in Brighton, England with her ex-girlfriend. It’s been a year since they broke up and the ex-girlfriend now has moved on and is now in a relationship with someone new. The MC moves in with her best friend. The MC’s relationship with her ex is still friendly. Over the course of the book, it’s about self-discovery. The main plot in the book is a group trip to California where she realizes she’s still in love with her ex. Near the end of the book, she finds out that her ex never stopped loving her too.
There is a girl in high school with matchmaking abilities (soulmate finder). She has a best friend that’s soulmate is a vampire named Vincent. Her best friend thinks he’s really annoying. The main girl works at her moms witch shop on a peer.
so the stories were funny and this boy worked on his dad’s cottages or cabins and hilarity ensued. Then the author started writing serious books, but his first ones were so cute and I can’t remember the name of the author. For some reason I thought Linwood Barkley and then William Bernhart, not sure about last name and his other stories were good but not funny. Who is it?
I remember reading a book in High School about a girl that comes from a generation of females with powers. I remember the girl accidentally melts her lipstick in her school bathroom with her powers that are like sparks or lightning. There was also a boy whose father was a priest and another boy that this girl likes who is a demon or something bad as in its supernatural, and he smelled like smoke and pines. I remember the cover having smoke on it and it was black and grey. I would like to read this book again. It was my favorite.
Adult book, some language and light sexual references. Rich, retired lawyer with girlfriend who may be a cop. Main character loves dogs. Has a dog who is really funny and also owns a dog rescue run by a friend who is also a dog lover. Friend who who runs dog rescue is also rich from being wrongfully imprisoned. The lawyer friend won a mega $$ settlement for this wrongful conviction. The Author also runs a dog rescue in real life. He is funny and can sends out zingers that make you laugh out loud. Series.
Trying to find a werewolf story about a man who escaped a secret lab where he was turned into w werewolf.
He comes back and rampages through the lab. He fights with a man who is mentally ill. (He thinks he is a knight in medieval times fighting monsters)
I loved this book about a girl who when she fell asleep she would go into a different world n was in like a prison waiting for judgment day whether she would go to heaven or hell. Got picked for one of them n got wings . N when she woke up she actually had scars of wings . She lived alone in a quite town. N barley slept. Her family didn’t talk to her because they thought she was crazy.
Please help find a book, I do not know the name of it,, a book where a female nurse dives into a pool goes back in time, horse and buggy time, she ends up falling in love with a man with kids, they join a wagon train, one of daughters ends up need surgery, the nurse talks a doctor into doing the surgery which at this time was never done before, they end up in an idian attact the nurse gets shot with an arrow falls into water ends up going back into the pool she first fall into
Search instead for a book where a female nurse dives into a pool goes back in time, horse and buggy time, she ends up falling in love with a man with kids, they join a wagon train, one of daughters ends up need surgrey, the nurse talks a doctor into doing the surgrey which at this time was never done before, they end up in an idian attact the nurse gets shot with an arrow falls into water ends up going back into the pool she first fall into
Omigosh, I know which book you’re talking about, but not the title! The nurse’s name was Stacy, and she performed an appendectomy. There were actually two books in that set. I’ll look and see what I can find.
Did you figure out this book? It sounds like the same one I was looking for.
Im looking for a book its a fantasy book where theres four different types of wind and people who belong to those winds and this girl has been assigned to a bot who diesnt knows hes the last of the one type of wind blood, i dont remeber the titles or author but theres several book in this series does anyone know what book im talking about?
I am trying to find a New Yorker story about an unattractive girl who is asked to a dance and then sexually assaulted. Years later she sees him on a cruise to a frozen climate and then gets h
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I’m looking for a book I only read the first chapter of and kinda lost it some how
The female lead name is Eden she wears glasses and has pretty eyes. Her friends take her to this club called crush; I think one of em is a YouTuber the other a tomboy and another one is something. They’re waiting in line in front of the club and a group of rich guys in expensive cars pull up in front and try to cut the line but she goes in front to them and tries to talk to them about cutting the line and one of em is the male lead. He is a ginger with blue eyes
Romance novel , they live next door to each other in the same building….. he is from a wealthy family … and they both work at the same magazine .. he is a free lancer there… she loves to write .. she loves a writer as she loves to write and she doesn’t realise that it’s her actual biological mother that is the author .. and her long lost family is in France …. Her brother finally finds her and takes her back to them
Meanwhile she finds out that the guy she loves is made to marry another through an arranged marriage …. But she is actually that person she just doesn’t know it …
But in the end they find out when he comes and asks her to marry him.
I think he’s bake is Arianna … and I think his name is Justin … she has a step mother called marina … can’t remember her step sisters name ..
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I am trying to find a book which I read in my college days. I don’t remember the title or author not even the cover. I have a vague idea about the story. The novel starts by introducing the central charater of the book. He come to new place and meet the heroine. He was shocked to see her because he has a picture of her. He hasn’t consciously kept it and he doesn’t know how she got her picture or about the identity of the girl in the picture. Many times her picture has saved him from many accidents so he kept her photo. She gave him job and her dog shelter to look after dogs. He then slowly an attracts to her. She has a boy. She one day knows about the picture and misunderstands that he came to meet her with a purpose. He tells everything to her and finally convinces her. Then they start to date and story continues. In the end her son gets in an accident but the heroine helps him to rescue. I think he hero had already given her picture to the boy and thus save him. This is the plot. I don’t know how to find this book
This sounds similar to the plot line of a film called “The Lucky One” starring Zac Efron.
I’m looking for a cowboy romance novel…the main character’s sister, brother-in-law, and parent are killed in a plane crash in South America…he tries to take his niece and nephew back to his ranch by plane, but they’re afraid, so he drives them home by car.
I’m looking for an ebook. Before I start you need some background info, but be warned because this is going to sound really weird. When I was around ten I got emails from some book recommending website. The site would send daily recommendations based on books/genres that I liked. It was written by a woman (I remember this because I remember thinking “the book this lady wrote is weird”) and I think it has a gray cover. I remember only a couple pages of the book I read, which coincidentally contained a sex scene. Basically it was a prince who was sleeping with a woman who was selling her body for a living and was getting frustrated that she wasn’t reacting to him manhandling her harshly (I don’t remember the context but it was consensual) and at some point during the book he pissed himself because he was so scared. That’s all I remember. Looking back I probably should not have read the ebook (which was free, if that helps).
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I’m trying to find a book from when I was a child about a tree that animals couldn’t remember the name of. I remember they had to remember the name of the tree but kept on forgetting in. It would have been in the 80’s or published around then
Can someone please help! I was born in 1972, my friend was born in 1971. Both of our mothers were reading a Romance novel with the name Clarissa, Carissa or maybe charisma in it. That’s how they chose our names. My mother has passed on, my friend’s mother can not remember the title. Can anyone help?
Read this book in — probably — the early 1960’s. A young-adult or maybe children’s story — the main character was the youngest boy in an isolated farm family who had difficulty distinguishing his fantasies from reality. He had a “whockleberry farm” at the back of the woodshed — whockleberries were raisins squashed on the top of a stick of kindling stuck into the ground. His older brothers encouraged him in the belief that a bunch of weird ingredients kept in a box for long enough would spontaneously turn into a “gold mass cat” figurine. These elements were spread through a story of farm life and other doings. At the end, for Christmas, the family gave him an actual cat figurine while more or less gently disabusing him of his other notions. Title or author anyone??? Thanks!
I’m looking for a childhood book that I had. I was born in 1956, so I’m guessing I had this in my younger years like 1960s. Best to my knowledge, this was a hard cover army green or faded brown in color. The story I remember is that of a mother was baking cinnamon rolls for her little boy that was out in the sand box. When the little boy was given a cinnamon roll, there was 3 dogs. A St. Benard, Afghan and Dashound. The two big dogs took the cinnamon roll away from the little boy, but the boy did share his cinnamon roll with the Dashound. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I’m trying to find a book that my dad read years ago. It’s the autobiography of a girl who, when she was 7 years old, was put in charge of moving cattle by her dad (she was the boss over other cowboys). Her parents had divorced and her mom was trying to take her away because the dad put her in such dangerous positions when she was just a little kid. The girl grew up on the Mexico and either Arizona or southern California border, where her dad had a ranch. It was at a time when they were moving Indians onto reservations, and wild bulls would come from Mexico once a year.
I read this book ten to fifteen years ago. It’s about a group of people who are tenants in a hotel/apartment building? and have various interactions. I think it was billed as a romance. There was one couple, where the wife couldn’t cook at all, but pretended to; she would order out from upscale restaurants and have dinner on the table before husband got home. (ends up he saw through the ruse but played along because he really loved her) Oh yeah and the husband also paid all the ne’er do well brother’s debts. Another tenant may have had a dog. Yikes, that’s all I recall, except it was kind of cute.
I read this book in sixth grade. It was a realistic fiction novel about two male best friends who have just entered their freshmen year of high school and are finding themselves gradually growing apart. One guy in the duo is Hispanic/Latino and has experienced a growth spurt. This growth spurt makes him popular among his new classmate. The other guy of the duo is Jewish kid who whilst nerdy has a good heart and is really trying to keep the friendship alive. The Jewish kid comes from a wealthy family and the Hispanic kid’s parent help maintain this families house with housekeeping and gardening. The Jewish kid has a older sister who is described as beautiful and popular. She takes an interest in the newly transformed hispanic kid and begins to take him under her wing. This as expected, horrifies her younger brother as he fears his friend will forget about him. I remember the cover of the book being blue and having white lettering, whilst the chapter headers on the inside appeared in an early 2000’s text like font.
Two brothers in a band and the mother is their manager but they don’t no thier brothers
I can’t remember the name of the book.. I originally thought it was one of Sandra Brown’s, but I haven’t been able to find anything of hers that jogs my memory.
What I remember of the book was there were two sisters(one older and popular, then a younger one who was the “ugly duckling”). They came from a well to do family and I want to say they had a ranch or bred horses.. something like that. There was a guy working for the family that the younger girl ended up falling in love with.
There was some sort of crime that took place. I don’t remember what but I want to say maybe the older sister was murdered after a town dance and the town was trying to pin it on the guy that the little sister loved, so she helped him escape. I do remember there being a love scene between the two of them and there was something taboo about it because of their ages or social status. The book time jumps several years and I think the case gets reopened. That’s really all I remember. Hopefully this is enough for someone to help job my memory on the title and author.
Thanks in advance!
Needs to find a novel with the name of you are my fatal obsession
I don’t remember the name but it’s about lianna and Dante and Jeremy wolf that are mates lianna is a doctor the got blind by a bomb on her way to help injured that are strapped and Dante and Jeremy are alphas of a southern pack.
I tried to find it but can’t find it anywhere
I can’t remember the name of a book with a monster scaring animals like a monkey, zebra, elephant, and rhinoceros, before being scolded by his father, who takes it home in the end. Can you help me figure out what the book is called?
book where guy kidnaps people and locks in basement with spiders from all over the country and injecting himself with their venom to turn himself into a spider
I need help in finding a book that I found in 2016 on the bus home it had a ark blue star-y look form what I remeber the book consisted of:
teenage/young adult book about children who wake up at one am each night and have special types of powers with the help of a vampire against an evil force.
One of the children’s names was Monica and she had a little brother. One of the guys father owned a car wash and there was either one or two more people. One of the teens had the power of communicating with all types of animals. The entity lived in an abandoned warehouse behind a emergency door/locked door every night they would get a pull to go there. At the end of the next day when the children would go back they would see dead pigeons and birds which had died due to something that was emitting from the closed door. The vampire wore clothes that Darth Vader would wear and every time the sun set he had to leave as he was a vampire but none of the kids believed him so onetime I think they held him back but they let him go as he was literally begging and think some of his skin got sunburnt or something. At the end of the story the entity managed to get out as before this all the animals in the area ran away and it was a stampede and only the teens new why. In the end they had to go into the warehouse (I think the inside looked like a cave and maybe looked volcano like) They went in there something happened in the end the vampire and this other girl woke up inside after defeating the entity and he left and the teens remembered everything but no longer wake up at that time and they stayed friends. Another information about the vampire in the night he spends his time wondering around and looking for people that are about to break into people’s house. quote on quote “it was to late for them as by the time they found out what he was it was over for them.
Thank you
I’m looking for a book that I read years ago. I bought it in a school book fair. The cover page looks something like this…. a girl knitting some beautiful butterflies.
The story goes like this… A little girl lost from home, wanders everywhere, makes friends with animals…..
I believe it’s Alkali’s magic needle and other stories.
I’ve been searching it for years. Hope to find it one day!
Looking for a book that is black in colour, with red writing on the cover and some dark green. It is about a girl who is neglected by her Father and wears raggedy clothes and doesn’t have any friends. And i think it is based in rural Ireland, and maybe a priest is involved in the book? There is a point where the girl leaves her house and is in a field of some sort, or maybe a grassy area? near a church i think
Need to find this book so I can finish it…The Billionaire’s Pregnant Contract Girlfriend by J.P.Price
In the early 1950’s I read a library book that I believe was a science fiction book about a colony of people who lived in a compound near a riverbank, and they were controlled by the rulers of the community. A young man and a girl could not accept the way they were told to think and live. They noticed the way the birds flew above the river and they were curious about where they went. I think the title had something about the way the birds flew.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm. It was published in multiple versions so you might have seen an earlier iteration; in any case it is later than you remember. There is a good history of its evolution on Wikipedia and a summary of the plot that’s very like what you describe.
Was reading a book about a billionaire who was getting to married to Angie Grant, who had her sister Madeline and her fiance’s grandfather killed blamed Madeline. Madeline had triplets from the billionaire. She faked her death and one child was given to the billionaire and his name was Colton. I think the name was the Quincy family something happened to my phone and now I can’t find the book title doesn’t anybody know or has anybody read it? It was a romance novel
a book about a girl who has two dads and she has a bestfriend but her bestfriend moves to london with her sister and mom after her parents divorced
Looking for a book about a girl living in a cave in Afghanistan. She then moves to village where she makes Burkas . Sorry I have nothing else to go on.
A book that’s about a girl who is initially at a boarding school and then ends up staying with her nan, in the countryside, she loves art and her nan is very posh and well put together. She works in a hotel while there, but she then finds a mysterious island with this boy she befriends? I thought It was called Lune, but cannot find it anywhere ?
I’m looking for a paperback novel I purchased in the 90s. On the cover was a skull hand knocking on a door knocker. The book had to do with Voodoo, zombies and such. The name to my knowledge was “ZOMBIE HOUSE” or something similar. There was a character, a young 15 yr old black girl named Nikki, and another character was a married white woman whom was unhappy in her marriage. There was something about a “warped room” and throughout the novel was sex, magic, and god how I wish I could find it again. Please help, as it was an extremely entertaining read.
Looking for a book about a biker who is going to his ex’s house to have dinner with his kids her and new husband. But he is still in love with her. Her husband helps the club out but gets killed. In the end the biker and his ex wife re marries
I’ve read that book. cant remember the name of it,but it is in a series. If I come across it I will reply again.
I’ve read that book. cant remember the name of it but it is in a series. If I come across it I will reply again.
I am looking for a Chinese novel. The novel is about two sisters who are identical twins named Diana and Emily. They were separated when they were babies because their parents got divorced. Dianna lived with his dad and stepmom in the city and they were very rich while Emily lived with her mom in the countryside ( they were poor). When Emily became 18 years, her mom got seriously ill and needs huge money for the surgery. At that time Emily brought her mom to the city where her dad lived and asked for the money. In the meantime Diana got engaged to a billionaire called Louis. Emily’s dad asked Emily to replace Diana during Diana’s engagement night as a Diana and spent wedding night with Louis as a condition to give her mom the surgical money. In this way the story carries on.
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book where hero loves heroine and is her boss and thinks she loves her best friend Ben who also works at the same company so he marries her
im looking for a book i read a long time ago its about a twin with a kiss mark tattoo on her butt cheek trying to find her twin sister with a sexy cop to clear her name can yall please help me remember the name.
I saw the novel on WeRead there is lady who wants to be a doctor but needs more qualification apart from her good grades to get into the university, so she had work in a clinic as an assistant nurse to gain such qualifications, she’s a sex addict and sleeps with different men just for self pleasure, She got an offer from the chief in charge of the clinic to work as a 24/7 nurse for a patient who’s name is arches and his elder brother is Ares she must not lose this opportunity else she won’t get the qualifications from the clinic . That all I could remember please can you guys help me get the name of the story
I know the Novel as well as it’s author name perhaps I wasn’t able to find it anywhere. I’ll be greatfull if you help me to find it . Book- “Love from my stepbrother”, Author- “Ashley” .
The story starts with ” Today is my boyfriend Sean’s birthday…”
The main character of the story is Susan Grant and Lance McLean. Total no. of chapters 224.
I’m looking to read the complete story “ trapped by him” by T.H Jessica
im looking for a book i think its set in the US about a guy and his dog ( possibly gets killed) who i think is psychic i think its part of a series of books not much to go on really sorry any help would be appriecated
I’m looking for a fictional book about a group of women who grow up together. After high school the group sort of splits up during college. The main character was raped at a college party. She ends up marrying her college sweetheart to keep the rape and pregnancy a secret. Two of the other friends both are in love with each other since childhood. I would say the book falls under LGBT category. I don’t know the title or the author. If someone knows please let me know. The front cover is two hands holding each other.
I am looking for a book where there are monsters that live only in the fog near a village that terrorize the village by eating people. There is only one type of person that can kill them(Some type of ranger I think) and one of the main characters is a girl that has a big family.(I now that is all very random stuff but it is killing me not to remember the name of this book)
I have already tried to look it up but it only comes up with the Stephen Kings’s “The Mist”.
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I read this book in school a long time ago
Looking for a trilogy (fantasy) I read at least 20 years ago. They were paperbacks. A brother and sister ended up in another world or time traveled back to an old time of no conveniences. The key figure was like a wizard, wearing robes. He was fighting, with the help of the brother and sister, different little wars for the good of the area. Eventually, the brother came back to current times and the sister stayed with the old guy. The main thing I remember they had to watch out for were low black clouds that were evil entities called The Dark. Thank You.
I’m looking for a book YA Romance were the boys best friend dies drunk on a tractor. He is also grieving the loss of hus grandfather his mom is pregnant and getting married to a guy he doesn’t know and he falls in love with a Christian girl that his dead best friend was in love with.
I am looking for the name of a love Inspired suspense book about the eyes incorporated series the man’s name is Bradley Stone and he works for EYES he has a woman put under his protection. I used to own the book and I’m wanting to find it again
I’m looking for a book (true story) about a rich man and a homeless man, how they meet and their life experiences together
Could this book be Same Kind of Different as Me?
Hi, I’m looking for this fantasy book, it’s about a girl who lived out in the country while she was young, the world was in ruin because there where monsters coming from portals, one day she was about to be attacked and she made a pact with 11 hellhounds who can shape shift from being as small as a bug to as big as a house, once she got older she went into the city to become a bounty hunter and that’s all I remember, I think the cover had like a wing of something on it, and the name was something along the lines of creatures or monsters, I also think it was from scholastic but I’m not sure
I’m looking for a book where a teenage boy accidentally puts his hand his stove and doesn’t feel pain. He then finds out he can move things with his mind (Telekinesis). Others like him (Mostly Teenagers) find him at his job and take him with them. He comes to find out that he is a dragon and each of them have different types of powers. I hope someone could help me find this book, please.
Looking for the name of a book we’re a young she-wolf that speaks Spanish becomes the Alpha of the pack but needs to move to a different country but everybody thinks because of her name she is a male Alpha. She finds out that the Alpha that help her with the new land for her pack its her mate .
a book with a angel named gurtrude or somthing that fell from heaven all his magic was given to a town turned magical.A half angel boy lives in a cottage in that town which I think got burned by the hunters that is trying to hunt the boy down for some reason.
I REALLY LIKE THE BOOK SO PLEASE HELP ME
i would like to know the name of a book i read before a women and a guy vampire meet in a cabin. I believe it was around Christmas time. i don’t believe anyone else comes to the cabin.
Looking for the name of a book we’re a young she-wolf that speaks Spanish becomes the Alpha of the pack but needs to move to a different country but every body thinks because of her name she is a male Alpha
I want to know the name of the book that black man tries to kill the doctor who did not save his wife’s live by making people’s dreams. I read this book last 10 year ago.
I’m looking for 2 books. The first one is about an American soldier who went back to Vietnam 10 years later. He toured on a motorcycle while he was there. The 2nd book was about an American whose girlfriend was from Israel but she couldn’t join him on the trip, so he went by himself.
Just here to say that public library staff get these questions regularly and are an amazing resource!
I’m looking for a book that is in the style of Billie Eilish’s book that she released, it’s about a girl who plays the piano and ends up being a big part of her doing like performances and stuff like that, during this time, when she’s a child, her mom passed away, and I believe a motorcycle crash, later on as she gets older, this boy moves next-door to her, he’s Latino, and he is a boxer, they end up, falling in love with each other, and it becomes this whole forbidden love type of ordeal. If someone could please help me find this book, that would be amazing!
I think the book was called Ella or Ellie . The story covers her life story before 2nd WW she lived in Europe . She was left on the steps of a church as a newborn & given to a family I think. She met an Irish chap.
I gave the book to so many people it fell apart. But I would love my granddaughter to read it , it touched my soul. I wan’t to read it again. Please help.
Looking for a book. A girl went overseas. This was written before the big hype with werewolves but it was about werewolves late 90’s early 2000’s. A man turned into a wolf and had come up to the girl who had scrapped her knee, licking the knee. I remember this scenario because I read the book multiple times.
Kelley Armstrong Books
Looking for a book titled something like “… Retreat”
The heroine’s name is Maude. She is a southern girl who marries into a rich white family. Strict mother in law. Every summer they go to a vacation sort of retreat with all other aristocratic families. It is very hard for her. She makes friends. Survives and grows old. Goes through motherhood, scandals etc. Set in USA.
I am trying to remember the name of a book I read about 30 years ago. It was about a serial killer and the cop who was trying to find him. The killer picked his victims or places to murder them from Monopoly Board squares. One of the board pieces that related to a murder was Oriental Avenue. I believe the Author was a Male.
Tom J. Sandy- The Monopoly Murders might be what you’re after
I read the description but that is not it. I will probably read this though. It just drives me nuts I cannot remember. Thanks for responding 🙂
There was a human girl her brother was is werewolf but she isn’t her mom is also. her mom turned her dad into a werewolf after they found out they were mates. The girl was trying to find a job and her brother helped her find with alpha as his assistant. And she found her mate the she never thought she would find he was the beta
I’m looking for the author of a book entitled “Ponies” hard back, out of print. Possibly a Scandinavian name. I think I lost it in a flood. It is profusely illustrated with photos.
Ponies – Hardcover Book by Lorna Howlett ?
Looking for a book where boy has to go through a multiple of games to get back home. One game I remember was when he was put in the very game he had made. Something about chocolate. That’s all I can remember. I read this book in my childhood probably around the early 2000’s.
Looking for the name or author of book I read in early 90s. Set in a small KS town group of teens belonging to a religious sect try to stop friend from going away to college using power of their minds. Friend has accident same night and kills girlfriend.
I am searching for a book with a plot about a girl who befriends a homeless boy after meeting him outside of the café where she likes to draw. The boy is nice in the beginning but becomes super toxic, he even burns her cat. also, there is this other homeless girl that’s a lot younger the boy beats her up so badly that she had to go to the hospital.