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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!
Ok so looking for a book ive read twice! ♀️
I have posted before but no luck, but thought id give it another shot incase it jogs memories members may be able to help….
So girl arrives back to her home town ( its a seasonal small town i think) to help her parents out working in their cafe, by becoming a waitress in the family business. I rememeber she does the early shift and cooks fry ups really well
Her sister also lives in the town (very small community) with children (2 girls) and hubby.
Anyways the main girl in the story left years ago when she was 16 ish as her boyfriend died in a car accident, whilst she was in the car also, the night they were planning on running away to get married as she was pregnant but couldnt tell anyone.
I think the boyfriend was really clever and possibly a scholarship was heading his way….
Fast forward years later to the point she returns to help her parents.
The deceased boyfriends parents and most of the town hate her and call her a killer, blamming her for the accident. However. I do remember it wasnt her fault, he had actually been drinking or had taken drugs. He was a well known popular boy, brains, scholarship for college coming his way etc and she never set them straight as didnt want to tarnish his memory or their thoughts about him…
The girls now has a snob boyfriend, who comes to see when she is coming home and he makes it clear doesnt like the community as he is a snob and he feels they are benath him type thing. But the girl is starting to enjoy being back there where she grew up.
I remember she gets close to a guy who works in a garage (possibly with male cousins and uncle) and helps him babysit his sisters kids and go to the beach, with her sisters kids?
Towards end of the book something kicks off at a bbq or a wedding, hippiestylee, bare feet and the boyfriend and some of his snob friends laugh as she is now wearing summery girly clothes, rather than snob clothes?
Possibly set in Ireland? But not sure!
Such a lovely easy read and im gutted I cant find the dam book
Ive looked on my good reads, purchased list , kindle unlimited etc but nothing.
Again ive read it twice (last time was years ago) and remember i was really happy to be reading it again.
I dont want to say the ending incase people want to read it but theres a big twist to it all…..
Thanks everyone!
Called ” shatter me ” by tahere mafi
I read a novel about eight years ago that talks about 3 protagonist who had to make major decision about what course to study in the university. One was known to have artistic talents right from when he was a child, he was also very intelligent and his parents believed studying any other thing apart from medicine was a waste of his intelligence. He eventually studied medicine but lost interest in medicine while he was in his final year as a medical student at the university of Lagos, he was eventually banned from practicing medicine for fifteen years after someone died due to his lackadaisical attitude. The second protagonist choosed chemistry even though he could have gotten admission to study medicine if he hadn’t decide that he couldn’t risk not gaining admission that year, a decision he lived to regret everyday eventually. The third protagonist had plans to study law, until his father decreed that he must study pharmacy even though he was not good in science subjects nor interested in them, his father’s decision was based on the fact that he wanted his son to study pharmacy, being his only son, in order to take over his lines of pharmaceutical companies, the boy eventually committed suicide after his father disowned him for failing jamb again.
I need to know the title of the book and the name of the author. I think it was written by a Nigerian author
The book was a you could say anime sort of type .. it was about like i think 8 or so kids / teens that had some sort of “power” and they didnt have parents .. they were running from scientists that wanted to kill them .. most of them could fly with wings and stuff like that !
It sounds like the book Maximum Ride by James Patterson. There is a series of Maximum Ride books.
I’m looking for a book that is about a girl that has a photo graphical memory and an ability of some king and there is another person a boy who has the same ability I think there are some people trying to kill them
Olso the tittle had something to do with citt
I’m looking for a book but I can’t remember the title…. He’s a prince of a country, but he was a playboy until he’s brother died why skiing, he was supposed to marry his dead brother’s wife but instead he fell in love with an actress who didn’t know who he was
Am looking for a book about a guy called goldie who is an artist was a pampered child, he got a woman pregnant then he died. When he died his brother had to claim the child and marry her but he didnt like his brother.
im looking for a northern european tale where a man gets captivated by a wizard and his wife belives that he is alive and will return…later she goes on a quest searching for her husband and goes into a forbidden place where witches,dragons and wizards exist. she sacrifices her body in exchange for her husbands whereabouts..
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I’m looking for a romance novel but I can’t remember the name of it. The books is about a model who’s sister died. Her brother-in-law has one son. The deceased sister and brother-in-law had eggs frozen. So the Model deceases to be a surrogate for her brother-in-law so he can have the other child he and her sister dreamed off. During the pregnancy she falls in love with her brother-in-law and the baby; he also falls for her. If anyone knows the name of this book please let me know.
I’m looking for a book that was written by a college student about all of his escapades in school… the book was very very graphic about a guy and all his rendevouz to put it nicely and some of his adventures with different women very graphically written… it was later made into a movie
I am looking for a book I once read in Elementary school. It has a single dad of a son and daughter in the middle of nowhere. He played poker and always came home late at night? It involved them having to run away cause there dad got into bad debt. Mentions trading posts as travel points in the book. I believe the daughter ends up trying to raise the son once they got to the city and the dad ended up disappearing…. The title page I THINK was a brown beige and possible had poker cards?
book written by a Indian woman about her growing up in a poor family in India. She had worked the streets to help them out. Written in the 1950’s?
I’m trying to help my friend out he wants finish this story so fair he told me it was about a girl that need money or somthing and this rich guy called her and as she got there to the house he was on a rodetrip or somthing and as she started working at this rich guys house she had rulls and she cant brake them rulls becase if she does this ghost will get and she have to leave the tv on at night at all times
A historical fiction book about about first century Galilean woman. Author lives in Chapel Hill, NC
the book is a true story of a young girl and her brother coming bnack from school, and her father has murdered her mother, and then she is taken in care system set in uk
maybe similar to he book called the kid
I read a book about a young woman who was ill and took a boat to an island and lived off of the land til she was well
I’m looking for a book its about these 2 girls that get kidnapped a babysitter and the little girl she is babysitting I believe the older girls name is Amy they are kidnapped by 2 adult men and I remember one of them having a temper and the other one being more friendly that’s all I remeber
“Stolen Children” by Peg Kehret
I believe it is called Stolen Children
by Peg Kehret
Here’s the Summary just in case;
Amy learned a lot in her babysitting course, but not what to do if two thugs show up, intent on kidnapping. Armed with misinformation and a weapon, the men take Amy and little Kendra to a remote cabin in the woods. There they make videos of the girls and mail them to Kendra’s wealthy parents in an effort to get ransom money. After several of her escape attempts fail, Amy is forced to make one last, desperate move. Award winner Peg Kehret crafts a suspenseful thriller with a spunky heroine who uses her wits to save herself and the toddler.
i hope you can help meeee
hi i really want to find a book its about a girl who tries to make her mom not marry the milkman also the mom doesent let her go to the movies or the local pool or she could get a disies i remeber a little of the story she goes to the pool and then gets a diseis and goes to the hospital and thats all i remeber
A book set in the Kimberly’s about a mother who lost her husband,now raising her daughter. Also trying to run a cattle station,with the problems of weather plus getting cattle to the sale yards.
The Author is a lady and has written several more books after her first.
These were written in the early/late 90’s.
Looking for vintage ca. 1970s house plant book. Author was formerly make-up artist for Lucille Ball. Tall, thin hardback. Simple how-to-grow and care for house plants; illustrations. Author gives witty comments about plants.
Young adult book, bought at school bookfair about ghosts and cemetery. Set in 1700’s, black and white illustrations. I remember the trees in the illustrations as being willow trees. Maybe a love story.
A book set in rural Australia about a kidnapping being investigated by a female detective who has flashbacks to her own childhood.
A bok about a girl and her brother and her little siter there parnts dided and know that have to stay with somepeople and the person who she is with taking care of her wants her money so that he can have it but she cant have the money untill she truns 16 i think it is seris of infortunat events but idk
The book I am looking for is about a girl who lives in a small town and is gay. Her mom found out and didn’t support. Eventually the mom suggested she should go to a conversion therapy camp over the summer. The girl felt that this was the only way to make things go back to how they were before so she agreed. The camp was strange and they basically did a bunch of exercises that focused on gender norms and homophobia. The girl started to like another girl at the camp but she tried not to focus on it at first because she genuinely wanted this to work. I don’t want to spoil it but I read it on the mackin via program and couldn’t find it. Does anyone know what it is called??
Looking for a book about 2 women friends, second world war , europe , one is killed in the bombing in London and the other assumes her identity.
I think it’s a book by Kate Morton but can’t remember which one.
Hello,I am looking for a book that i read 2 years ago,its about a girl who lives during the holocaust period and makes fake documents with the help of more people and teens to help people get sneak out and to no be killed.
I am looking for a book, possibly published in late 1970s or early 1980s, about two men, one in his 20s or 30s, the other 70s or 8os drifting down a northern river in the NWT, CANADA or in ALASKA, on a crudely made log raft
The book is a series of photographs, high quality, each with a quote from the PSALMS
The title may be something like “and what do we wait for ”
Thankyou for your gracious help
I’m looking for a children’s fantasy chapter book that was read aloud by my third grade teacher. in 1957. It was about a boy who bribed large mythical creature (either large bird or dragon) with sugar cookies to fly him on his back. Possible scandanavian orgin.
looking for a book about a teen or kid pre teen who dies has the chance to stop her death if she doesn’t she does all others who died have tried it book its a kid or youn adult book chapter book.
Hello, I’m searching for the name of a children’s book. It’s about 4 or so houses that learn they will be knocked down soon so they get up and leave. They settle somewhere and people see the houses, like them and move in to them. that’s all I can remember. Any help appreciated. thanks!
im looking for a book when a woman infant child is kidnapped for 10 years so she start an organization to find missing children but never her own turns out it was her friend who payed someone to kidnap her child oh and they were doctors before
Hey! I’m looking for a book from my childhood the cover was black and I swear it had a little white dog in the middle of the cover, there was a poem at the start “there was a boy upon the stairs a little boy who wasn’t there, he wasn’t there again today, I wish he’d go away than stay… That’s George”.. George is described to have a red baseball cap and old dirty clothes.
Any help would be great thankyou!!!
I recognise this poem from my childhood. Could it be a Spike Milligan poem?
I am looking for a book I read about 20 years ago about an oil man and his company. The book begins with a murder of a husband and wife in the middle east. Big oil companies are trying to run this small oil company out of business. His friend is patterned off of Howard Hughes and his other friend is the company Lawyer. He has a daughter. I thought the title of the book was OIl but it is not by Upton Sinclair so I don’t know.
The book I am looking for was purchased as a mass market paperback from K-Mart in the 70’s. The main characters are two college friends, one from the USA and one who has an uncle in Scotland who is researching time travel. It takes place in the future because they have autos that drive themselves. They visit this uncle and help with his research. At this time, in Scotland, a reactor with a new form of energy is about to open. After it does, tiny black holes begin to show up and as time goes on, they become larger. Meanwhile, the uncle is having small success with sending messages back in time. As the black holes become a problem for the world, a message is sent back to before the unit is brought online with what will happen and they have to try to convince everyone that they shouldn’t let it start. Can’t remember how they do it but of course they are successful. There is also a romance between the USA student and a female member of the staff at the facility involved. I am reasonably sure the word Time is in the title. I have searched all the permutations of that word but none of the books I have found is correct. Any ideas anyone?
Found the book, its title is Thrice Upon a Time and the author is James P Hogan. Thank you all and good luck finding your books!!
There was this book I read in middle school about a girl and a boy who grew up on an island. The girl has a family and they eventually find her and take her away. Turns out that the mother ran away with her daughter and this guy with his sun and they raised there kids on this island. I think the boys name was lake or something like that and spoiler the boy gets stabbed in the end. Please help me find it, thank you.
It will be amazing if you can help me find a book that I don’t remember the title or author of. Years ago, my mother loaned this book to her coworker and they never returned it.
I remember the story involved a boy who lived in an apartment building and his neighbor or mother was a woman that drank alcohol out of a trumpet and was always throwing loud parties. There was another illustration that shows the boy sitting on a woman’s tongue with a saw. It was either a babysitter or his grandmother. I guess the babysitter would not stop talking or nagging the boy. Do any of these descriptions remind you of a book with illustrations?
Thanks for your help!
Aimee
Hi, can you help?
I’m looking for a short story series written about a native american indian who lived on a modern day reservation. The series revolved around one main character that I can’t remember his name. It must’ve been published pre-2000. Not much to go on but maybe someone can help
Thanks
Looking for a book about a vampire girl. I think she was called a striga or something. It was a kind of special vampire that if she was next to a certain person then she was literally toxic to him. She a friend who became a werewolf. The werewolf smoked a brand of cigarette called winston reds. And he had a black leather trenchcoat. What is the name of the series or the first book?
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I read a book in 6th grade about this girl who lives in India. There is a wealthy man who controls everyone with his resources. Her family is in debt to this man, as is everyone else. They try to avoid him, and tell their kids to do the same. One day the main character sees a man at the market who does something mean, I can’t remember what. Anyways she tells him off and then sees her dads reaction. She realized that was the man they owed money. He makes her his servant, and she learns to read and makes friends with the other maids. He lives in a mansion so she never really sees him and eventually she hates it less and less. She is assigned to his wife who is actually really nice. Please help me!! I also know for sure that the cover has her hands like together and they have henna on them
Hi I am looking for a book about a contaminated water supply that gives people mutant powers. I don’t remember much about it but there was a boy who had a deadly touch
Book about an English Colonel who falls in love with and Indian shopkeeper.
major pettigrew’s last stand 🙂
also i think it was a pakistani shopkeeper
Please am looking for a particular book I read while growing up and I have forgotten the author but I remember the title was girls hostel it was about a girl named grace who was very brilliant and got an admission into the higher institution and she lived in the hostel she later had a boyfriend named niyi who she met in school
HI! so I’m looking for a book, I read it quite a while ago but I remember it. It’s about a young boy ( i don’t remember his name ) and an older brother ( i don’t remember his name either) and their parents split up. and the younger brother really liked swimming and music, while his older brother liked sports and video games/stuff like that. and the younger brother really wanted the older brother to like him, but the older brother hated him. And just to mess with the younger brother the older brother made the younger brother do a bunch of stuff like steal perfume for him to give to his girlfriend and to steal a girls bra and then took a picture of the younger brother with the bra and post it online to make him look bad. but then one day the younger brother and older brother were hanging out and the older brother thought it would be funny to jump across a river to impress his brother, but he fell in and nearly drowned. But the younger brother is really good at swimming so he saved the older brother but he was in a coma, but the younger brother visited him every day in the hospital and he read to the older brother a lot and they became best friends. It’s funny how I can remember all of that but I don’t know the name of the book or the author 🙁 if anyone knows this story please tell me it is such a great book and I’m only saying the tip of the iceberg of this story it is amazing! I do recommend it ( if I actually knew what it was called ) also it’s a teenagers book like an age rating for a 13-16 or something like that. Thanks if anyone knows this book and if you do please tell me it would be much appreciated!
I’m looking for a novel, it has to with a lady who got a job at a new location and she didn’t have a place to stay . Her best friend who was already married told her that she could move in with her elder brother. The elder brother was away on a job . Her best friend forgot to tell her brother that her friend was staying at his place. Another thing I can remember is that the lady like her best friend’s brother since they were little. While staying with him they grew to love each other.
I read a book in middle school about 5 kids going to a haunted house because they revived letters for different purposes ( they didn’t know that it was haunted) when they get there they encounter 5 other kids but they are ghost and they wear masks. One has a bunny mask, another wears a bear mask, another wears a cat mask, another wears a dog and the last one wears a mouse mask. Please help me find it. Thank You!
It was on one of the reading sites, the girl was engaged to the brother(Benjamin) but she walked in and caught him with his brothers fiancé.(Jennifer) The the brother came in and saw them. He was called Commander and he was in a wheelchair. The guy in the wheelchair decided to marry the girl that was jilted. Please help me find this book.
Thank you
there was a chapter book in elementary where they would yoyo a lot for fun and this girl has a sleepover with the other girls and they decide to make a list about positive and negative things about each other and they all get really upset and then they play hide and go seek or something that’s all I remember there is way more though
That kind of sounds like Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, by Judy Blume. I remember the slumber party scene with the “slam book.”
So there was this book I read and it is about a girl and her best friend died and then her best friends family kidnapped her and made her pretend to be her best friend they died her hair made her use body wash that smelled like her they made her dress like her and made an Exact exact replica of her room in the basement
I don’t know what it is, but that does sound like a really good book.
So there’s this couple who eat a lot of soup, it’s all they do. One of em dies & the other one just keeps on eating that soup. A bunch of other stuff happens but I just remember the soup
Hi, I’m Indhu, age twelve. A couple of years ago I read a history- fiction novel about three kids – one girl, a cousin boy, and his friend – who make a movie. It’s set in the first few years of Hollywood, I think. They buy their own camera film and edit the movie in his friends lab, and I think the friends’s name was Bubby or something. I remember that the cover was something of a white cover with a girl running. Could you please help me find the book? It’s 10-12 age line. I think I checked this out in the Thayer Public Library. Thanks.
I’m looking for 2 books. 1st was one that funny enough I heard being talked about on Walmart radio. It’s about a woman who wants to die but decides she’s going to wait until her grandmother (who has cancer) dies. She makes acquaintances with a man who is curious about committing murder, and he agrees to kill her after her grandmother’s passing.
The 2nd book is a fantasy story, and unfortunately, I have far less details about it. I remember my friend reading it years ago when I was in high school. It had a character who beheaded a man and then presented it to the man’s girlfriend/wife while on a ship. I remember distinctly there was a beheading, a ship, and that it was a guy showing it to a loved one. It could’ve possibly been a woman who was beheaded instead. I also remember it was definitely a fantasy book.
It’s been killing me not knowing either titles, and I have been trying for over 2 years to find them. Any help is appreciated.
Book I a desire romance about three brothers,one was a playboy and he got a girl pregnant the other a rich boy, the playboy didn’t want to marry her so the rich one did the girl was a artist with a shop in rich boys building and he didn’t tear the building because of her
I’m looking for this jokebook, it has illustrations, its written in taglish (mixed tagalog and English) and I cannot remember anything about the title but I remember things about the cover, I remember the cover having vibrant colors like vibrant pink, cyan and yellow, i think there was also ‘ha ha ha ha’ on the cover, and I think it had the word quirky in it but I’m not sure, it has different short stories and I remember there was one about a cockroach
A very unique looking book; its very small and was completely red i’m pretty sure with heart in the title but it was about two girl best friends and one of them died in a car crash I think. I remember a specific scene where the girl who dies is trying to call her other best friend but she went out with this guy who took her to an airport I think and they layed down on the top of his car watching the stars. Anyone recognize it?
I’m looking for the title of a book I think I read in the 1990’s. It was a romance. An American woman went to China on business and met a wealthy Chinese businessman and they fell in love. The woman had two children back at home in American I think. She extended her visit to China somewhat but finally determined it wasn’t meant be—he wouldn’t be fulfilled in American and she and her children would not be in China
So I read a book a few years ago and can’t remember the name of it. It is about a community of people that farm different regions of the oceans, like the different types of fish and seaweed and kelp. The main character finds out there is a gang that is in their community and the leader of the gang has a genetic mutation that allows him to change his appearance like a shape shifter, and he is actually the main characters brother the she knew nothing about.
Read this book in elementary school. about a tortoise that lived in forest, name started with an e, something like earth but not that. title was like, his name and then birthday or something. he finds fox cubs in the forest at one point, get in fight with a fisher like creature at end. i think at one point he came across a cabin. please help me find title i am desperate. chapter book.
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kind of rouch textured cover, not much color, i think had the turtle/tortoise on front.
Late 1970’s-early 1980’s.
Fiction book.
An elderly couple, I’m pretty sure their name was Amberson (or something similar). Wife was dying of cancer, husband had a bad heart. They had a cat. They took a cross country trip to see their daughter(?).
Along the way, they picked up a young female hitchhiker.
Story goes on, wife dies. Husband gave cat to hitchhiker.
He then goes to football field and starts running the track. He runs until he has a major heart attack and dies.
I really want to know the title of this book so I can search for a copy of it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I read a book but I am not sure what year the book was written in. It is a murder mystery book. The plot of the book goes like this. A detective wife just loses her husband and he was murder. They both have a three year old daughter. The husband’s family is rich and very secretive one. The wife tries to find out who killed her husband and why but he husband’s family suspects her. She finds clues after clues which leads to her sister’s death and she was also murdered not long ago. In the end all these searching and suspecting was a part of a big a show and the wife was the one who killed her husband because her husband killed her sister.
This what I remember from the book. It would be a great help if someone could tell me the title. Thanks
This is short and all I can remember. A YA book and this teen stayed home while her mom and sister went to a dance class. A storm (tornado or hurricane can’t remember which) happened and she eventually found out what happened to them (very sad!) thanks in advance
I read a book not so long ago but can’t remember the title or author. It was a psychological thriller. A woman who was very much in love with a man she met at university but from a different culture than her. He disappeared after is brother who is a doctor came to persuade him to leave the woman and marry someone from his own race. The woman is pregnant and she cannot afford to keep the flat on as she doesn’t earn enough money. The flat has been bought by a man who then comforts the woman after she has found out her parents are now dead from an accident in their house where she was going to live. She is so taken in by this man who she thinks is very caring. The have 2 children of their own. The eldest child is a girl and very dark, the 2 younger children are fair. This man is so controlling. He has cameras throughout the house to watch what she is doing. The story progresses where the woman has eventually escaped the house with her children with the help of a friend who she had lost contact with for the 7 years since she has been with her husband. The man finds her friend, who by the way is a war hero, and assaults her and her mother trying to find out where is wife is. Although the friend didn’t disclose anything he has put a few things together and believes she is on Aldernay. The police are now realising that this man is a liar, a controller and a potential murdered so they are trying to find him before he finds his wife. The police had one time thought he had killed his wife and children but they now know she is trying to escape from this man. I can’t remember anything else but if anyone could put a name to this book I would be very grateful. Thanks
okay in trying to give as much as i can because i have been looking since forever. this is a book i read in like fifth grade which would be like 2016/2017 and it stated by the main character waking up from her dad because she has to go to ex best friends funeral who died in a drive by shooting in her own house. she sees a guy she doesn’t recognize but she ignores it. a little while later he starts telling her stuff and she’s getting clues and figuring out she was murdered and not killed by the drive by. the main character goes swimming and she almost drowned because she thinks seaweed is her best friends hair and the guy from earlier saves her. the main character starts dating this guy and his brother acts weird around her. eventually finds out the guy she’s dating is mentally ill and he killed her best friend and the brother protected him by making it look like a drive by and a gang did it. her boyfriend takes her to an abandoned house and tried lighting it on fire and as she’s fighting back she cuts herself or something and before they die the brother and the guy from earlier saves them both. sorry i’m horrible at explaining
A few years back I read a book from the library I really loved, would like to find it again, a remember a few things, how do I go about it?
I read a Book about a young girl who’s past in high school she is trying to forget.. She moved on to nake a better life for herself but something comes up that makes her have to go back to her childhood home and go through things in the attic and face her past..
She tells about how she wasn’t proud of how she had slept with everyone on the football team and one night at a Lookout she “accidentally” hit the guy who was trying to sleep with her and she killed him. Never telling anyone. He fell off the cliff eventually. She gets away with it I believe..
I’ve been Googling the bits and pieces that I remember about this book for years with no luck… In the late 90’s I read a book about a young girl (maybe even a boy, can barely remember) who moves to a new home in what seemed like a rural area and befriends a girl who I always remembered as Cora, but I might be wrong… Cora’s appearance was described very vividly as being very thin, almost looking malnourished, very pale and black hair. She was very poor and lived in a dilapidated home with a parent/s who didn’t take care of her. She was almost described as depressed and I think the book ended with her dying/disappearing. This book could be from the 80’s/90’s and I think it had this ‘Cora’ character on the cover… Might be a teen/young adult book but it had a very dark and sad theme to it. I can’t get it out of my mind and would love to find this childhood book. Help!
also regarding the cover, this book was an oldie from the days when books didn’t have paper covers. I’m pretty sure the artwork was printed right on the hard cover and it might have been purple… brain muddled and memory might be a bit tainted after all the google searches!
I read a book in 6th grade about this girl who lives in India. There is a wealthy man who controls everyone with his resources. Her family is in debt to this man, as is everyone else. They try to avoid him, and tell their kids to do the same. One day the main character sees a man at the market who does something mean, I can’t remember what. Anyways she tells him off and then sees her dads reaction. She realized that was the man they owed money. He makes her his servant, and she learns to read and makes friends with the other maids. He lives in a mansion so she never really sees him and eventually she hates it less and less. She is assigned to his wife who is actually really nice. Please help me!! I also know for sure that the cover has her hands like together and they have henna on them.
There is a book i read when I was younger. It was about a rich white girl who moved to colonial Jamaica and meets her half sister and they ran away after the white sister shot a guy who tried to r*** the black sister. The black sister’s mother tells them to escape and she fed the body to crocodiles or something like that. The white sister also had some ruby earrings that had obeah that cause her fiance to be able to follow her and he tries to kill her for her inheritance (I think) and they end up becoming pirates. The black sister becomes a captain and marries her 1st mate after the fiance is killed (she is pregnant and the fiance tied her to the Hull of the ship to stop white sister and black sister’s husband from attacking his ship. Someone behead him.) And white sister goes back and claims her inheritance and they each take 1 of the rubies cause fiance guy is dead. And they promise to meet when black girls kid is born.
pls help me find the title
Susan The Huguenot is the title of the book … i cant recall the author…. True story of an incident furing the French Revolution Years Susan as a child was taken by two Catholic Priests while she was on an errand for her mother… The Catholic priests placed her in a convent there the Catholics tried to persuade the child to denounce her faith as a Protestant
Her parents had to escape to England but her father made several trips back searching for his lost daughter …until some years past he did found her ..
Can you help me find this book ??
Brother and sister move into their aunts house and the sister looks Exactly like her dead cousin who’s trying to kill her and her brother and live through her dead body
i read a book a few months ago and i lost it when i was moving. A girl got sent to prision or whatever the place was called for stealing because her family needed food and stuff but she found out they had princesses and stuff in it and she made new friends one was named Jax. pls someone help me
there was a book i read when i was younger, maybe in middle-high school, so it was a chapter book, but something a young kid could read. it was a book about girl in france, (it might’ve taken place in the past). i think she was an orphan, and she was taken in by a man, but i don’t remember whether or not it was through an agency. she loved hanging out on the rooftop of this guy’s apartment building. i think there was a specific part in the book where there was some kind of inspector coming to this guy’s house, but they didn’t do so good because this guy’s house was either so messy or it didn’t have enough in it to be able to house 2 people.
Siyavuya mndi and luthando
A girl falls pregnant and hides the child for 4 years from her family and the father and the nanny is the childs granma..
A short story began with a tree climbers prespecriver he saw an old man goto lake to commit sucide his view from the top of the tree
I’m looking for this book I read a while ago, I think it was one of those desert novels and the girl has been dressing has a boy for her whole life and she’s skinny and had no feminine features yet. She lived in the streets with her mother but then her mother died and it was the day hanged met the hero, I’ve forgotten what happened but he took her to his home and then she met his family, they took care of her, giving her food and taking care of her until she started looking like a girl and then she later got her period and he started picking her. I’ve forgotten the title. Please anyone who knows the book should pls send me the title or author
I have searched for this book on and off for the last 20 years. I read a sample of this book at the end of another book. It is fiction. It involved time travel. A young woman was driving along a costal highway/road, had a blowout and ended up in the water, the next thing she knew she was in the 18th or 19th century. A bearded guy was callinged her a wench, and I think he was about to behead her or kill her. Any help is appreciated. Thank you
Thank you,
Martha Perryman
I am looking for a book that Abraham Lincoln read during his presidency that persuaded him to sign the Emancipation of Proclamation. The book was written by an American that was a captain of a crew member on a ship that was captured in Africa and walked through the desert with his crew and then convinced a man to purchase them and made it back to I think Morocco where a missionary paid for there lives. He later came back to America and wrote about his capture.
hi, I am looking for a book which has the plot like what happens when two lovers meet at three different times in their lifetime. The book is named after the two
lead characters and has a bracelet picture in the cover. the cover is red
hi, I’m looking for a book with short stories in from my childhood. As I want to now read to my daughter. Iv searched everywhere but no luck. If u can help would be great its the actual book I want. I remember a story in it called the children who wouldnt go to bed. Other stories were to do with wizards n fairies. Was a soft back book. Would of been from 80s time but not certain.
Hi there, I’m just another person reading this article and stumbled upon your comment and got compelled to help. Does it happen to be this book?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387904.The_Boy_Who_Wouldn_t_Go_to_Bed
If it’s not I’d still like to try to help!
It talk about sugar would be 5.00 a pound conneling things that happing in the streets talks about mail being delivered about 3 times aweek a young man who else this book in the 70 came to my church I think it might be call what going to happen or something like that
i read this book in 6th grade and i’ve just now been thinking about it a lot. it’s about a young girl maybe 15 and she died in a car accident, so now she’s in a “heaven” type of place wear she can visit places in history. the one book i really remember is that she goes to the colosseum in rome, italy. there is a fighting match and she tries to save a guy she has feelings for. it is a fantasy/romance novel.
A fantasy novel from the 40’s, I believe, about a group of people who wake up on an island with no idea of why they’re there or how they got there. They go to the huge house on the island, and each person is shown, one by one, where they took a wrong turn in life and suffered for it. I thought it was called Strange Ports of Call, but apparently that is not correct. I read this as a teen in the 60’s.
I just found it on alibris – it’s called First Port of Call. Thanks anyway.
In the late 60’s, early 70’s, while attending an English Literature class at Ohio University, in Zanesville, Ohio, our class was invited to read and assess a book of which I have forgotten the title. I cannot recall the author. As I recall, the theme was around the idea that, in his life’s experience, white people in association with black people do not look at black people’s eyes. White people tend to look at blacks “other than” directly through their eyes. I’m afraid those are my key memories from that experience. (I must admit, prior to this research, I looked thoroughly among our library; I believe I kept my copy over several years. But, I’m afraid it’s now missing!!! Wishing you the best of luck, and, in addition, THANKS for your offer and help!!! Best, Mike McNeely
Sorry, I just finished the request, above, and realized on review, I didn’t have an opportunity to identify myself and include a means to communicate back to me.
Mike McNeely
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phone: 601-916-1992
Again, thanks!
Hi mike did the book have a person in it called Kade?
Wow! Thanks for your timely response!! That name sounds “familiar” to me, but I cont relate to that time era and that book!!!
A teen romance novel. A poor boy who is a senior in high school, his father is a town hero (pass away) his mother town drunk. He fell in love with rich girl (Sadie), who mom was the housekeeper/she married the rich guy when the girl was little. She has older stepbrother who marrys the boys cousins, in books the cousins is r___ by another boy who tries to harm the main girl .
I read this book 2 years ago when I was in 6th grade. I was just now thinking about how much I loved it but I cannot remember the title or the author. It is about a girl who had a boyfriend I think his name was James but I don’t remember but he got hit by a black SUV and she started to unveil some odd things about him she found out that he was living in an abandoned amusement park in a tent like a circus tent and she found a journal had a lot of interesting things in it I don’t remember much of the middle part but I know in the end her best friend got kidnapped by the person that killed her boyfriend and the best friend how to jump out the window of a two-story house. I wish this was enough information to Google it but I’ve tried so many different things if you know what this book is called please help me.
In school we read a book about a man who lived in a forest. He escaped from a prison or camp and lived in a cave at some point, he used a bears furr to make clothes for himself during winter. The would set snares for squirrels, he would then dry the meat.
In a part of the story he gives a dear a ‘Coup de grâce’.
At some point he got reunited with his wife and son.
+Book about a research station in antartica. the story has monkeys that go crazy.
I read a book in 6th grade about this girl who lives in India. There is a wealthy man who controls everyone with his resources. Her family is in debt to this man, as is everyone else. They try to avoid him, and tell their kids to do the same. One day the main character sees a man at the market who does something mean, I can’t remember what. Anyways she tells him off and then sees her dads reaction. She realized that was the man they owed money. He makes her his servant, and she learns to read and makes friends with the other maids. He lives in a mansion so she never really sees him and eventually she hates it less and less. She is assigned to his wife who is actually really nice. Please help me!! I also know for sure that the cover has her hands like together and they have henna on them.
There’s a picture book, that you read folding out from the book. It is about two girls, from different sides of the world, however, doing their daily life routines. However, one thing is common in the book. They both look at the moon. I don’t know what the book name is though, so please help me!
I read a book similar but it might not be the same one. I think it might be called something like the good girls or the good sisters. I think I’m the story I’m talking about they are born on the same day?
There’s this one series I read a couple years back and I can’t for the life of me remember the title but it’s like 39 clues but more messed up I think at one point a character dies and a person she grew close to makes a necklace out of her hair to stop his shakes and ticks any help would be appreciated
Was it the Endgame series? There is a scene just like that in the second book, Sky Key.
Iam looking for this book that I read in 8th grade. It’s about these boys who get sent to an island for being bad and no its not lord of the flies so anyways and the man in charge sticks up his sword and gets struck by lighting and dies so the boys dress as him to trick the people delevering the food. That’s all I can rember
i AM LOOKING FOR A BOOK THAT I READ QUITE A WHILE AGO, AND WANTED TO RECOMMEND IT TO A FRIEND, AND HONESTLY WOULDN’T MIND REREADING! THE STORY INVOLVED A WOMAN WHO TRAINS HERSELF TO INHABIT ANOTHER PERSON’S BODY. THERE IS ALSO A MYSTERY INVOLVING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SOMEONE THAT IS EVENTUALLY FOUND DROWNED IN A BACKYARD WELL. CLOSE TO THE END OF THE STORY, THE MAIN CHARACTER IS TRAPPED IN A HOUSE FIRE, AND THE TWIST IS THAT WHILE SHE IS PLANNING TO INHABIT ANOTHER PERSON’S BODY, IN A TWIST, SHE IS ACTUALLY THE PERSON WHO BECOMES INHABITED. THE ENDING ACTUALLY EVEN HAS ANOTHER TWIST TO IT, WHICH ACTUALLY MADE ME GASP. I HOPE THAT SOMEONE WILL RECOGNIZE THE STORY LINE, AND IDENTIFY THE BOOK FOR ME. THANK YOU!
Behind her eyes by Sarah Pinborough?
Also I remember the cover, there are a couple holding hands in a park, and in the background a small girl in a swing. I believe is a HarlequinRomance.
I have not been able to find a romance novel. It is about a young woman who leaves with Mother and brother. They a bakery by their house. One day the young lady notice that a cafeteria is open, so she went there to offer the bakerie’s goodies. She found a young man working in there.
Hi,
This is a long shot but I was looking for the title to a romance novel.
The plot was the main character – a girl moved back home after she found out her sister and her fiancée were having an affair. She fell for her married neighbor who was in a bad marriage but he and his wife (who was actually cheating on the husband) were killed in an automobile accident before he could leave his wife for her. The dead wife’s brother came to the funeral and the girl (the main character) and he ended up falling in love. Whew that is a crazy plot but I cannot remember the name of the book. Thank you!
I read these series years ago. Each series is somehow related to the other. I only remember one of the series a character falls in love with one of his employees after being friends with her and her sister for some time. He has twin sisters and a cousin that he is very close with. They each have their own book. Main character and twin sister were abused by their parents, and the cousin was also a victim of abuse. The parents were involved in some underground orgy where a character (rockstar) is introduced leading to another series. That series he falls for a photographer after seeing her in a picture. Later on finds out he has seen her before years ago when she was younger. His band mates named her Priscilla.
Children’s book about a young girl runs away from her guardians back east, travels by train all the way across the country to find her father. He was a school teacher who had gone to work in the mines out west. She has lots of adventures along the way. A Pinkerton agent is sent by her guardians to bring her back home. In the end she is reunited with her father.
It’s Journey of Natty Gann, also a decent movie.
I’m looking for a novel that takes place in London . It’s about 2 sisters whose parents are dead, in fact the father died in bed and the sisters had to bury him. The younger sister played the violin. Their life was difficult and complicated. An older gay man who lived near them helped save them. I have forgotten the title, I thought it had the word ‘bees’ in it.
its about a girl from the noth of England
who has a tough childhood she was interfered with by guys that were either in her family and strangers then ended up as a prostitute in her later life and then married.i can’t remember if it was fact or fiction but I remember it being the first book I read completely and feeling a lot of compassion towards the character
It’s a book about a boy whose last family member dies and he has to leave to find work in the city, but when he gets there his stuff gets stolen and he has to beg for money on the streets. After that, one of the other orphans tells him about this orphanage and he goes to it. While he’s there he finds out that when kids misbehave the adults inject something into them that makes them change. I have been looking for the book for years and it is killing me!!
The One Safe Place