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So I thought the title was China Blue but it's not. Young woman moves with her ambassador parents from England to the Hong Kong area. Her father trusts a young man who is part of the royal family but he is blind. I remember there being a war of some type and the family needs to evacuate the area since they represent the oppressive government and outside values. The blind man steps in to help the family and shows his feeling for the daughter. Takes place in late 1800s if I remember correctly. It's been over 20 years since I read the book.

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The other day I randomly remembered reading a book where some sort of gem (or some similar object) was directly sewn into the necks/throats of at least one character. The gem may have had some connection to magic, but I'm not sure. I probably read this within the past 5-6 years, so I'm 98% sure it's either a YA or middle grade book. I'm also fairly sure it's fantasy. My guess is that the book was no more than ten years old, at most, when I read it.

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I think the genre is fantasy’s/horror.

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Former thief called ten because she had all her fingers, and once stole a tiger but she now works in queens elite guard and goes to town on job for the queen and find the leader of the family there but the father died and his son took over. Rest of the story is about how they both get kidnapped, escape and get to grow to like each other besides they’re major differences and how they battle against their loyalty to his family and to her queen against their feelings for each other

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I used to read this as a bedtime story with my dad when I was very young, around 2002-2007 (I am a teenager). It was an old-fashioned children's book.It was a picture book about a little girl.It had illustrations with very minimal color, mainly black and white with occasional primary colors, in a sketchy style. Overall the tone was pretty sullen, particularly when the girl wasn't playing make-believe.Her mother was dead, and her father was a single parent.They did not live in a lighthouse, but they must have lived near the sea because she and her friend do visit a lighthouse.She was an only child, but she had a friend who was a quirky young boy. She and her friend get stuck at the lighthouse in a storm.The little girl had a wild and overactive imagination, which her father would poke fun of and encourage her to get her head out of the clouds. He always said it would get her into trouble.She spent a lot of her time playing make-believe, especially because she's alone much of the time. Her wild imagination is what causes her and her friend to be put in danger (i.e. stuck at the lighthouse in the storm). They were going there to explore and play a game.Her father worked at the docks and was away much of the time. At one point in the book, he brings her a little kangaroo rat he found, although they only call it 'a little creature' or something of the sort.She may have had a pet black cat, who I could swear was called Sebastian, although I may be confusing this with a different book.The main conflict of the book is a huge storm hitting the lighthouse.Her young friend may have been implied to be imaginary.

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I read it within the last 5 years on Scribd. I think the cover had two girls holding hands, I remember one of them may have been wearing yellow? I am not 100% on if this is the same book though.The story was about a young woman who has a sister who I think had either a syndrome or brain injury that left her nonverbal and developmentally delayed. The sister was assaulted by a worker at her care home and they discovered she was pregnant. I can't remember what happens exactly, but I think their mother wanted to terminate the pregnancy, but the sister ends up having her come live with her and taking care of the baby. I remember it being an extremely emotional and touching story and wanted to read it again, but can't find the title!

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Read free via kindle unlimited within the past 3-4 years. I believe this was a series, this is book 1. Her mother was grooming her to take over her position on the counsel once she got her powers. But when the FMC got her powers she actually took her mom's power's away (turning her human) because of this her mom got kicked out of the counsel and turn mean towards her daughter. She sent her away to the human world, sent her to a boarding school. In the boarding school her best friend is a girl who in defines herself as a man not a woman. So when they have free time they sneak to the attic to smoke weed and she dresses up as a boy. The FMC doesn't get high but she still participates as it's her friend. They are 18 or just 'bouts, The best friend is waiting until they graduate so she can move to California and live the ways she wants. The FMC once she graduates she's suppose to go live in the woods in seclusion from all supernaturals. The counsel calls her every once in a while to come in a stripe people of their powers. She wears powerful talisman to keep her powers in check but they are getting weak. The counsel call her in to strip a wolf's power. They send MMC-1 which is vampire to bring her to the trial. Her mom is now training their neighbor's boy/man to take over the witch's seat. This MMC-2 is rude to the FMC even though they grew up with each other. The other future counsel seats guys (FYI this is where the RH comes in). Theses guys all kind of hate her because of her power. I remember that she takes the wolf's power but she doesn't want to do it but the counsel forces her. But instead of taking his power she swaps it with a vampire. Side note: This wolf is someone (like a brother or a cousin) to one of the future counsel leaders. When she swaps the powers everyone is up in arms about it and they pretty much are even more afraid of her. Oh yeah. I remember when she gets to the counsel building. The announce that she's there on a loud speaker so everyone inside can hide and stay away from her.

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Looking for a YA fiction about the daughter of a female president who is struggling with feeling like her mother's second priority. She finds Alice Roosevelt's diary/journal under slats somewhere in the white house, along with a pack of cigarettes (and a hankerchief?).I remember specific scenes from this book. MC reads about Alice sitting on the roof with her best friend and smoking, so she climbs to the roof and takes out a cigarette but doesn't light it. MC reads about Alice driving a cart madly around the white house green and she does that herself. Things to that end.I remember loving this book and becoming really interested in Alice Roosevelt after reading it. I read it sometime around 2013-2014, and it shouldn't have been published too far before then--probably not before 2010, and definitely not before the 2000s.

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I read this around 2012. A boy had cancer when he was a little kid and he used to have golden curly hair but after the chemo it grew back straight and brown. He is now in middle school and the chemo made it harder for his brain to function and he struggles with math. He needs to pass a math test to go on to the next grade (he is 6th or 7th or 8th grade I think). He practices with this man who is a coach maybe or at least he has coach vibes and the man tells him not to think just to do it and the boy does that and he thinks he's done really well on the practice test but he actually failed it. The coach pulls him aside to tell him and he is devastated. I think at the end he finally passes the test. This book also might be a sequel, I think the previous book was about this boy's older brother. I'm pretty sure the author is a man.

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I read a book about a woman that was kidnapped and had to work on some sort of farm, I believe it was an MC that saved her. I know it was part of a series and another book was about a man who ran a bar that was with her at the farm. He had a tattoo of a woman's name but doesn't remember her (trauma I believe made him lose his memory.) The woman comes in and remembers him.

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The book i read was a hardback with no cover, so no help there. I say 1940's-1970's because it seemed like an older book if you know what i mean, but it wasn't truly ancient.Memory synopsis-Initially unknown to the two married couples who are crew of the spaceship, the solar system they are sent to has no planets. They were given math puzzles and books to help them pass time on the voyage. During the voyage, the crew made several discoveries mathematically that change their worldview from noted scientists into believers in psychic phenomena and the i-ching. They start modifying their spaceship and one of the men dies accidentally, but it is ok because he had advanced enough to return to them as a real enough ghost to impregnate his wife. The wife during her pregnancy decides that she doesn't like carrying the child herself and as the ships botanist, creates cabbages to bring their children to term.At one point during the voyage they use their advancements to look ahead to their destination and discover the trick that had been played on them and one couple during sex, send psychic energy back at earth and in so doing knocks out all forms of electricity on all of earth in revenge.Upon reaching the empty solar system of their destination they use their advancements to create their own planet out of asteroids and meteorites and flourish.Feeling somewhat guilty at what they had done to earth, they send some of their children back to help the people of earth recover.

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Old book I think but read just a few years ago....multiple story lines all about a select group hiding the fact that earth was only one of multiple worlds ruled by an Emperor and that some kind of purge happened every so often. One of the threads is about an artist who can not remember much beyond 10 years, he falls in love with a mystical creature that is able to change shapes. The travel to a second world and learn that this creature is very rare. Other threads in the story are about trying to assassinate the emperor. Theres's an escape from a prison thats surrounded by a substance that is usually solid but will change to a very dangerous liquid. While at the prison a small girl is rescued that has some abilities. There is also a plot line involving a magical blue stone eyeball. At the end of this book the emperors palace is invaded and the emperor is confronted. The books title has something to do with magic...

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The book i am looking for is a ghost story set in a manor during Victorian Era.The main character is a girl from a poor family who is sent by her mom to be a maid in the manor. One of the quotes she says is "if you smell honey in the air there is a ghost nearby" There is also a chapter in which the lake is frozen. The book was read about 4 years back so it should be around 2017 I am trying to find this book for a friend and i apologize if the details are vague, but i would really appreciate any help you can provide. Thank you.

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i read a YA book between 2011-2013 about a teenage girl that was from a poor european family. i think she used to work in a market with her grandmother? a lady approaches her while she is working, at a fruit/vegetable stall i think, and suggests that she go to the USA. she ends up going to america to babysit. the wages advertised were considerably higher than what they turned out to be. she wanted to save money and send some back to her family. she also wanted to learn english, i believe. she gets into america illegally and it takes her a while to do so - it's quite elaborate. the family she is staying with ends up controlling her so ends up being their babysitter/maid/servant - all 3 titles are applicable. the mother is absolutely hateful while the father is somewhat nicer, yet not much when he is letting this happen. the mother had two children, a girl and a boy - the girl was older than the boy. she carries on in their home for quite some time and i think one night she was either crying/washing the dishes when she sees a boy in the next house over - he was pacing his room. they either become friends or boyfriend and girlfriend. towards the end of the book the girl is out getting groceries when she runs down the street and its quite a nice part of the book - she might go to the beach i think. the main character, the girl, was very pretty and quite smart. i feel as if i can remember most of the book besides the details that would be the most helpful -- her name, the european country in which she lived, the title of the book etc. i'm almost certain, however, that the author is a female. i know i wrote quit a bit but i just wanted to provide enough detail because this will annoy me until i figure out the title. i also know those paragraphs aren't correct but that chunk of text looked worse than what it does now. thank you for reading this!!

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I'm looking for a book I read as a child or teen, so it would have to have been written in the 80s at the latest, but I suspect it is older than that. The story at least partly revolved around a girl who came to live with her cousins--I think she was orphaned--and the story was told by one of the cousins as they realized how her talent made her different.I remember a scene where the girl is allowed to play on a very expensive violin. I don't think it was a Stradivarius but it was a similar thing.Grateful for any ideas!

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A little boy either visits his grandparents or lives with his grandparents in a place where mysteriously no flowers grow. The flowers are being stolen by creatures from another world who (I think but not sure) only come out at night, because there are no flowers in their land, and they are considered precious and highly valued there. The little boy somehow travels to that world after spotting some of the creatures, where something bad is happening. He travels with a group of gnomes or something and helps them in their quest. This book is intended for adolescents. I'm not too sure but I think the cover has a forest with some of the characters of the other world in it.

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This will be hard to find, I imagine, because I never had the chance to read the book. I was in a bookstore looking around because it was going to be closing soon when I came across a book I thought was interesting. I left without buying it, thinking I could buy it the next day. Obviously, this is not what happened--when I returned the next day there was only a handful of books left with the book I was looking at long gone.I remember it being about the dead and it had a woman protagonist who likely worked at a morgue. I think there was something about potions or some sort of chemicals involved with the story.The cover, I think, was darkly colored with what appeared to be bottles.I'm pretty sure it was a mystery novel and was set in the past. Maybe victorian?

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-Fiction-Her family whole family gets killed so she sets out to kill the person who murdered her family-I read it in 2014, 2015, 2016.- For older kids maybe even teens/tweens- Read on Kindle fire was on the setting kids on the age 10, 9 years old so more on the younger audince even though some of the stuff was more for older kids. The main Character's name starts with an A, The mom, dad, and sister were the ones killed in the house I think by a gun and I think she was hiding, In the story there some romance, I think she kinda was like a cowgirl and she knew how to handle a gun.- Something about the wild west too.

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I read this book 2016-2018. It is possibly part of a series. It is about 2 girlfriends that live together (possibly Chicago) and work in a diner. The one girl is hiding her identity (possible MOB father) and the other girl goes missing after going to a club one night. The identity girl goes searching for her and meets the hot tattooed part owner of club who later turns out to be an undercover cop. His partner in the club is a childhood friend whose sister he used to date as teens. The sister was kidnapped by drug traffickers and possibly killed in her teens. The guy is still messed up by this and avoids relationships but falls for identity girl. Identity girls father turns out to be some kind of really bad guy who is part of the sex trafficking and drug ring and she has been hiding from him. The 2 club owners are deep undercover and participate in drug deals and I believe do drugs as well.

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I must have read this between 2011-2014 and don’t think it was much older than that. It was very cute, maybe around 200 pages but without a ton of content, since the pages (though black and white) where designed to look like chat messages where each girl has their own username. Sometimes you saw a groupchat, other times individual chats, I don’t remember if there was any non-chat narration. I *think* POVs switched somehow. There was boy trouble and friendship struggles. It had a pink sleeve over hardcover and I kind of recall a white blond girl on it, but maybe all the main characters were illustrated on main cover? I think they were pretty racially diverse, too.

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I'm looking for a detective western (w/ a lot of humour) where 2 brothers (Swedish?) get hired as railroad detectives (even though they loathe the RRs).The inventor of peanut butter is on board(& the oily, disgusting mess it originally was) is humorously referenced a few times within.

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I'm sorry, Aminanimator, I don't understand what you are asking.

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This book is a historical romance about a fortune hunter who meets an oil tycoons daughter. The heroine is named Princess I believe and there are sub-stories involving Princesses father and his mistress as well as her best friend and an arranged marriage. The book starts off with the hero involved with a card game.That's all that I can recall, but I really enjoyed it and hope to find it again.

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My friend is looking for it. He read it a long time ago and gave me a list of some details. He couldn't remember the characters' names apart from their sexualities, which tended to blur throughout the story. It was the easiest way to differentiate the characters.Here's his list:+ straight girl and gay guy regularly sleep in the same bed, straight girl says gay guy is best to sleep with, gay guy says straight girl is worst because she’s a blanket hog. gay guy has to get up to pee early in the novel. those two are bffs from the start.+ lesbian has a girlfriend who lives in a commune I think? she drives with the straight guy (who she doesn’t like at first) to visit her, straight guy expects the girlfriend to be smoking hot and is surprised by how average she is. girlfriend is implied to be cheating on the lesbian with another girl at the commune, and asks if they can have a “communist relationship” or “communist style relationship”+ lesbian and straight guy have an affair, I think? she says something about how she wants his hands on her not because he’s a man but because he’s her friend+ straight guy and straight girl star in a play and kiss many times for their role, I think this part has a confrontation between the lesbian and the straight girl? and they kiss at some point+ straight girl is making out with a different guy, don’t remember anything about him except that the girl later finds out his boner was digging into her leg; she thought those were his keys+ towards the end of the novel, the straight and gay guys kiss and someone remarks that now they’ve all kissed one another.+ the straight girl is lamenting that she’s still a virgin, I think, and the gay guy tells her that if she hasn’t found anyone by the time she’s 18, he can be her first time, but she says that’d be like having sex with her teddy bearHe also said the first chapter is from the straight girl's PoV, and that the lesbian and straight guy come to grow close.Thanks in advance.

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So I read this series about five years ago.Each book focuses on a different kid until they all end up meeting and possibly saving the world together, there is a big battle scene in the last book. The first book focuses on a boy who has to go and live with a woman in rural England, i believe, only to find that everything about the woman, the house, and the village is creepy. It turns out the whole village is part of a cult-ish thing. There is another boy who, i'm fairly certain, is from Rio and at least one girl (i'm sure there are more kids but i don't remember). They may have some kind of magic/powers because one can heal (I think) and they are able to use ley-lines to travel around the world and maybe through time too.The group end up having a shared dream location. A cliff or beach with woodland, in the woods is a library that one of them visits.I don't think I remember any more really hope someone out there knows this series because its been driving me crazy,

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It takes place on Halloween night. There are witches in it, possibly a family of them. There are (5?) cats each with a hex at the end. The closest I can come to it is Nate the Great Halloween, but that is not it.

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This book from the late 80's/early 90's is about a girl who starts hanging around with another girl who is more wild and left to her own devices, but also has to watch her little sister who she calls "Hairball" (I think). Mild mannered girl also has a little brother. Hairball drags around a ratty stuffed bunny. Wild girl teases Hairball by always telling her that a mean woman and guy named either "rat face or rat boy" are looking for her. Hairball almost gets hit by a train towards the end. No clue who the author is or any other character names and it is driving me nuts!!!!

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This book is Christian fiction, the setting is the 1960s. I believe the book begins in Colorado with a mother and daughter traveling in a car. They later travel again, I believe to Arizona. They run out of money and end up living and working at a funeral home. In this book the daughter is the "responsible" character. The mother makes poor choices with the men in her life but in the end she turns her life around. The daughter is the main character. The mother and daughter and up returning a stolen car to the long-lost father of the main character.

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I'm looking for a strange outer-space romance I read a while back. All I remember is the heroine was locked away in a spaceship (under the flooring perhaps) by the captain. Then this alien guy appears to exchange cargo with the captain and the woman sneaks off and hides onto the alien's ship where she spends a week in the walls (without food or anything) and is caught because she begins to smell pretty bad...I think her and the alien are 'soul mates' too.

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Okay, so I read a book series about 3 years ago and I CAN'T REMEMBER THE TITLE! Or the author. Ugh. The cover of the book is like a dark black-green backdrop, with a green leaf in the center I'm pretty sure. It was about an 18-ish year old girl named Ryan who lived in a more rural area. She lived with her mom and grandma who lives on a large plot of forest. She meets this blond haired, green-eyed guy in the forest by a natural pool of water, and his name is Lad. It turns out that he is an elf, and we later find out that Ryan's grandmother is actually a light elf, whereas her FATHER turns out to be this super powerful dark elf. The light elves actually live underground on Ryan's grandmother's land, and when Lad takes her to see it, she also turns that this really hot dude named Nox who she thought was human, is actually a dark elf who was raised up with Lad. Lad is the Crown Prince of his kingdom. Another main plot of the book is that an elf can only have sex with one person, and are then bonded to that person. If that person dies, then the elf's hair will turn white (which actually happened to Ryan's grandma). The elves can "glamor" people into doing their biding (which is what Ryan's father later trys to do over the tv to control the world), and they can communicate mind to mind. Lad or Ryan ends up describing it as sending out a text through your thoughts. Another thing I can think of is that Ryan got lost in the forest as a little girl at night and Lad found her and took her to his home to try and help her, which is why he knows her when they meet again. Lad's parents end up wiping the memory of the underground kingdom from her mind the next morning and send her home to her worried parents.Okay. That's all the important plots I can think of. I REALLY hope it's enough to help find the title and author, as I am desperate to reread the series. Thanks so much for any help! :)

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Hi, I am looking for the title of a paperback horror novel from the late 70's early 80's.Plot is many decades early there was a troubled wealthy family living in a house in this rich vacation community. One night they are all murdered.Many decades later in the present day a family (husband and wife and two kids - Daughter is a bit wild, son is an evil nerd) come to stay in the same house. The husband has an affair with the nanny whom the son assaults later. The son and daughter sleep together.And then they all get murdered like the first family. The murderer is actually a nun who was the illegitimate daughter of the woman (mother) killed in the first murder. She hates the depravity of this community.The cover art was looking up at night outside at a lit window in a big mansion. Thanks

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Read this around 2013-2014. No idea about year of publication or author, but remeber a good chunk of the story.MC witnessed her morther's murder at the hands of her father as a child. They were both actors. In the aftermath she makes friends with the detective working on the case. Later on she lives with her uncle and aunt in a national park thing helping out as a guide for tourists and the detective comes to visit her along with his son (DS from now on). After another time skip DS is a successful author who bases his work on real life crime cases. He wants to write about MC's mother's death so he contacs her - she is now in uni studying biology or something. They get along well, chatch feelings even, but she finds out about his intentions thourgh post-it notes in his room and thinks he seduced her just for this. Misunderstaning happens and that leads to another time skip. She is now adult working at the park from before. At this time her father is released from prison and somehow she and DS meet again and start dating after a while. There were sex scenes. Then investigation happens and she finds out that the one who killed her mother was actually her uncle (i might be wrong) - her mother refused him so he stabbed her in the back with scissors. Then there's a chase scene in the rain through the forest at the end of which the uncle wants to kill her as well, but her father shows up, takes the hit and dies in her arms after revealing who he is.

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i read this when i lived in the uk, that was 2017 so it was published a few years before that i guess. it’s about a poor boy who mother and father isn’t aware of his state of live (i think). he visits the homeless often. one day there was a murder near the river, near bridge in his small town and that’s the only thing i remember. we moved again and i don’t remember where the book is. i have some idea of what the cover looks like it’s background is white, a police car near the crime scene and two X, on the dead body and where the boy was standing near a tree. i think i was one of the Costa Award books but i think that was another one i read before that called Jessica’s Ghost. ai hope i did this right. it was one of those book that made me back to reading and i wanna finish it.

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I read a book in 2018 (adult contemporary fiction, not romance) that was published in 2017 or 2018 about a woman who leaves her husband and daughter at the beach while they're on vacation and becomes a waitress in a small town on the East Coast (US). **spoilers ahead** she was abused by a previous husband and has a rich man in New York who helped her kill her ex husband tracking her with a private investigator, who she falls in love with, and together they accidentally kill a woman who he was sleeping with. I think that she had a daughter with disabilities who she's secretly supporting, too? I liked the author and it's driving me nuts that I can't think of the name of the book! Thank you for your help.

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The first book starts off with a talking four legged animal walking down the street and then tells of how 4 siblings, 3 girls one boy (one girl many have been named jane and skipped a grade) (one girl was a lot younger than the rest and could like talk to animals or something) go to a magical world where morgana Le Fay was. The seco6book they think something is wrong with the magical world, earthquakes happening, they call the cops because the old lady(morgana Le Fay?) Was missing and go to the magical world. I don't remember if there were more than two books

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Hello guys, I'm searching for a dark contemporary RH novel (no paranormal or high school bully stuff) and exhausted my search methods so I thought I'd ask the good people of the GR community. Unfortunately I don't remember many details but anyway, here it goes.The harem consists of the heroine and 3 or 4 guys (there are 3 'core guys' and a fourth man who I'm not sure about if he'll become a member of the harem or not, but more about that later on). I don't remember any names, unfortunately.The heroine is 30ish and a successful business woman or lawyer (?), but I think she is a bit shy/timid/unsure of herself.The core guys are:- a tattoo artist with his own studio. He is the first to fall for the heroine and if I remember correctly he is the only one she sleeps with in book 1.- a mafia guy. She meets him in some kind of sex club (with masks on) and they have a sexual encounter of some sort. If I remember correctly he is in a fake or arranged engagement to a mafia princess he cannot stand.- a grumpy/broody/closed-off personal trainer she meets at a gym (he trains her). He is the most reluctant in regards to his feelings though they share a steamy kiss. After that he pushes her away.There is a fourth guy who is attracted to the heroine: it's the right hand man of the mafia guy and his longtime friend, they shared women before I think though I'm not sure if he'll become part of the harem or not.The twist in the story is that the heroine meets every guy separately but the men are all somehow connected to each other and know each other (I remember an accidental meeting at a night club).The book is part of a series and book 1 ends in a cliffy: the broody, mysterious personal trainer vanishes. I think book 1 was in the time span of early till summer 2021 but I could be wrong.Does this ring anyone's bell?

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This was a series of books based in NYC. The main character was a member of the Fey working with other Fey to police the Fey and make sure there aren’t any recognizable interactions between the Fey and humans. I read the series sometime between 2010 and 2016. They were new at that time. The name of the group created a funny acronym like RATS or something silly. This series was a spin off of another YA fantasy series also set in NYC. Both main characters live in the same apartment building. The character in the original series can teleport and is a thief and in love with a vampire.

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I remember reading a book in the late 80s or early 90s about a group of pilots brought to the Middle East. I don't remember if the group was brought together as mercenaries or on loan from their respective parent air forces. They flew a hodgepodge of fighters and ground attack aircraft. I recall A-10s, Tornadoes, and F-15s. I think the love interest for the main character was a reporter. Also, Bandar Abbas keeps popping into my mind as a location that came up quite often. I know the title isn't Warriors by Barrett Tilman, but I remember reading this book around the same time I read Warriors. Thanks in advance for the help.

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This book is about black women going on a cruise I believe to the Bahamas. I know the name of the book is Cruising or Cruisin'Help!

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It is a small hardcover book with just one short story in it. There is a young lady who is gifted, I don't remember the extent of her gift. But she helps a river horse (a pooka?) and he feels indebted to her. Something happens to her and he does something about it. I believe it was published sometime in the 1990s. There were several books in, what I believe was a series, the stories were by different authors. I can remember the title/author of another one (an exchange of gifts, by Anne McCaffery), but I have been unable to find the one I'm looking for.SPOILER (view spoiler)[he gains a human form to rescue her and at the end they are both swans/humans (hide spoiler)]

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Basically, there is some event. A murder or bomb threat or something. I do not remember.The administration puts in place new safety rules. No gang colors, no this no that. They send emails out to parents.Rules gradually get weirder and stricter and you think the administration is just doing this because they can. It becomes unrelated to actual security.Parents are for some reason still backing the school on it, and these emails about updates and rules keep going out.Some good-for-nothings are "transferred" "expelled" or otherwise mysteriously disappear.Main character kind of clues in that something is seriously wrong when a girl refuses to stop wearing something like a cancer awareness T-shirt (supposed "gang" shirt but it's obviously not) and gets disappeared with a lame excuse.Students start disappearing in droves.I forget the ending. I just remember that it wasn't dramatic. It was more along the lines of the student convincing his parents that they had to leave, and they just do so without telling the reader what was going on or providing closure.

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The cover of this book had a prep school uniform jacket, that was burned. I think the plot may have been about someone setting a fire at the school. It is recently at least in the 2000- present. This book was in my recommended on Amazon, because I was reading coming of age novels. The author had written several books.

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This is a Fantasy book either Children's or YA. The cover has a picture of a girl of East Asian descent surrounded by water and maybe tentacles and the title had Water in it.The summary had something about a mysterious stranger, a girl , and a talking horse. The author of the book is a woman and I believe this came out between 2007-2013?The main character is a girl who is hiding as a child running from this evil aristocrat lady who uses magic to create cancer or a disease from people's hair strands to kill them. There is a guy with a talking horse who helps the main character as well as an older woman who helps her uses her changeling powers. They are seeking help from this underwater king who is like an octopus.

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I read it when I was younger, it makes you feel bad for captain hook and there's all these nannys looking for the children on boats and peterpan is really evil and kills people, a fire fairy is guiding the two(?) people through neverland and they're trying to return I think

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I remember reading this book in the 1980's it was a Children's or YA book about a teenage girl who I think bought an unusual alarm clock from a junk shop which made her time travel. She saw her future self and discovered that her boyfriend was going to be violent and oppressive to her in the future so she dumped him.

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Hello! This is a children's chapter book (presumably - I read it some years ago). What I remember from the plot is, a girl is living with her aunt until one day somebody from this other world/universe finds them after searching for her aunt for some time. This person is able to find the girl's aunt because the aunt has a stone carving of a dragon in front of her house. After the aunt is found, the girl discovers she's apart of this family that has magical abilities relating to wood (something of that sort?) and they live in this other world and they are feuding with this other family that has powers/specialize in stone. So the girl and her aunt (who is actually part of the stone family) go back to this alternate world and the girl meets her "wood family." But she finds out that the king/leader of the stone family (I think the aunt's brother) wanted to marry the main character's mother, so her mother threw herself into this lake that freezes things, so now this girl's mother is a block of ice. Otherwise the rest of her wood family members are generally nice, except for her uncle who is very kind and happy some days and sad and reserved other days (we later find out that her dad and his twin brother have been pretending to be one person, and her dad is the sad twin and he is sad because his wife is frozen in a block of ice). Another thing that happens in the book is the girl has this boy cousin who is apart of her "wood family" except he is actually really good at working with stone (he crafts this small dragon out of stone at some point in the book to show the girl that he is good with stone), and we later find out that he is actually the son of the girl's stone aunt. I also remember there being a passage in the book when the girl is first reintroduced to the alternate world, when she is walking up stairs in the wood family's house she gets this feeling of deja vu, as if she's been in the wood family's house before. The book ends with the girl's frozen mother being unfrozen somehow and everybody living happily ever after.I know this was a lot of information, and it was kind of confusing, but if anybody has any inkling of an idea of what this book is called (if this even is a book and I didn't give myself a false memory or something haha) please let me know! Thank you!

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Read this book a few years ago. It's a modern-day thriller set in France, and revolves around three characters: a mentally-challenged man who lives in a church, rings the bells, and has delusions of angels; a young American woman who goes to Europe to be an escort and ends up getting drugged and involved in some kind of weird religious ritual; and a detective/cop-type cool guy who saves the day. I think the title had "Angels" in it but I'm not 100% sure. Thanks!

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Read this in the early to mid-80s, about a girl who has sex with her boyfriend and then thinks she might be pregnant, one detail that always stood out to me is she used a pregnancy test branded "Quick as a Bunny" which I thought was hilarious.

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Warning for suicide, self harm, and over dosing.Spoilers aheadI think I read some of this book a few years ago, maybe around 2019. It begins with the main character taking a bottle of sleeping pills in hopes of offing themselves. They wake up in a hospital with a tube running down their throat before quickly falling back asleep. Later, the main character meets some of their roommates at the mental hospital they've been sent to. There's a girl who's somewhat loud and has visible scars along her arms. There is also a boy who claims to have spoken to God and believes he must die to save everyone. It was in a library near the Fault in Our Stars by John Greene and Paperweight by Meg Haston, so I'm assuming the author's last name begins with a letter around G and H. Hopefully someone can find this book; I've wanted to read it for a while and regret not picking it upThanks :)

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First of, I need to apologize if my English might be a little bit confusing. I'm not a native speaker, so some words might come out a bit wrong and weird. I didn't have a chance to finish a book, so I will try to cover all the details as much as I can.This is a contemporary romance. The book begins with h drives a car to help throw her sister a wedding. H is a groom's brother and he is somewhat asked by h's sister to take care of h and take her a tour around town. As she arrives, she hears H complains about her on a cell phone to his brother because H knows from h's sister that h works at the library, help in other charity works, and is single, so he thinks that h must be ugly and boring. h is a sweet girl but very low-self esteem, so when she hears it, she feels very depressed. On the contrary, H kinda has an insta-crush on h and goes after h.The story goes on, and h and H starts having feelings for each other. h is really good with sewing and cooking, like a super girl. Something goes wrong with the dress, she fixes it. Something goes wrong with the cakes, she fixes it.Later, H found h's bucket list and knows that h is a virgin. I'm not sure if they have relationship, but H later finds out that h has a bucket list ‘cause she has a heart disease or something, but she can't have a surgery 'cause her family don't have much money. So, she doesn't think she'll live much longer. Things blow out, and I have only read thus far.I'm sorry that I don't know the character's name. And thank you in advance for your reply.

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This was a series of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books- I can remember there being maybe four or five, although there were probably more. I read them sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s... they're large, paperback books designed for children.Details throughout the whole series: each scene took up a two-page layout and was illustrated scenes of dangerous-looking situations. There was a monkey guide/sidekick who appeared in (almost) every page, usually looking back at the reader with trepidation from the bottom corner. He had some sort of cutesy name. There were no other protagonists. Every scene gave you 2-5 (ish) options of where you wanted to go, with corresponding page numbers "(if you want to open the dungeon door, turn to page 23")I remember, specifically:- One book about a tropical island. There was a jungle with plenty of snakes, a wrecked ship on a beach, and an abandoned lighthouse. I also seem to recall some sort of creepy shack...- A carnival at nighttime. Clowns, a merry-go-round with live animals. poisons, and a marquee with burnt-out lights.- One the involved a haunted castle, maybe? I remember the outside of the castle, with ghosts, and a hallway with suits of armor that were actually alive. I think this one also involved a banquet table with lethal foods.My brother and I were talking about them recently and he rattled off a few more than I can't recall right now. When I Google them, I can't find anything other than the R. A. Montgomery books, which are obviously not what I'm looking for.Thanks so much!

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Going out of a my mind looking for a book I'm 90% sure was called "Confessions of a Teenage Psycho" I read when I was young. The title is misleading - its about a girl who wants to become an actress in NYC. I think its written in Diary format, it starts off with her on vacation with her family in the mountains, she somehow ends up becoming a nanny to a little rich girl in NYC. She buys a knife (which I'm pretty sure she never uses) and starts stalking Woody Allen thinking if she meets him she can get into his new movie. Its old, at LEAST pre-2000 (more likely the 70's or 80's), I don't even remember how it ends, but I remember liking it, and I can't find it anywhere...

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I have read this book maybe 5 years ago and can't remember title or author. Book is fake marriage romance book, adult. It's written in English and plot is in the US. Book is part of series about 3 sisters. So she needs money to pay off her loan for spa, 2 million dollars and hero will give her the money if she marries him, she comes from rich family with connections and he wants to use that. They have met each other at college and 10 years later she has spa and I think he is doing something with race cars.When they met she has raced him and lost her car. I seem to remember heros name is Cole, but I can be wrong.

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this book is fairly recent, came out this year I think and saw it last July. I remember the cover being dark, with stars. Possibly on the New York Time's best seller list. (I tried looking there to no avail). Don't think it is set during modern times. The boy and girl reunite or maybe find each other years later? I would appreciate any help!

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I think this book may have been written in the 1990s. Possibly 2000s. Possibly set in the southwestern U.S. Plot concerns a lawyer who defends someone, who I think might be in a motorcycle gang/club in a murder case. I remember thinking the book made me think of Scott Turow books. The author could be Scott Turow, but I'm not able to figure out what book it might be. I read the book in the 2000s. The attorney is the main character of the book and I think it may be written from his point of view. SpoilerThe accused is innocent but the motorcycle club was with the victim, maybe victims, before they were killed. I think the club took the victim up into the mountains with them, Some partying went on. But the victim or victims were then killed afterwards by someone else. I think the lawyer may have been a well known, wealthy defense attorney. May have known the defendant before the trial. Thank you.

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Please help me find it my little sister wanted a good book to read and I remembered this one.In a future time on a different planet a girl has had bad dreams since she was small as if in someone else’s eyes. Recently she has woke up with buses and cuts after. Her parents put her on meds but the dreams come back. The dreams lead her to a twin taken at birth. After her sister escapes, when she uses her gift to make fire I think, they run away and use two illegal fake IDs her father gives her and the girls brothers space ship but run into problems with the people who took her sister. She ends up liking her brothers friend who used to also be her friend butt then started picking on her. He is her brothers copilot.

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Girl works as a kind of accountant for some mob(illegal dealers). She is the ine who always pays the assassin when he finishes a job. She is fired from her job and he is betrayed by the mob. The Girl asks him to teach her to kill in his place since he is so injured he can't do it much anymore. She has a younger brother she takes care of. She rides a bike which she used to escape with the assassin when he was betrayed and ambushed. The assassin has a beautiful and loyal girlfriend I read it 2 or 3 years ago. The cover has an Oriental face holding a revolverAuthor has an Oriental name too

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This was a children's picture book that was available during the late 1970s / early 1980s in the UK. I remember the title as being something like "The Man Who Took (or Brought) the Inside Out", but this could be wrong. It was about about a man living in a house who took all his furniture out and put it on the lawn. I remember the character having a large beard!I can't find anything about it on Google, so any help would be wonderful, thank you.

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I remember having the librarian at school read this to my class in 1st grade (around 2006-2008). I know the illustrations had lots of yellow and oranges in the background. I think the pictures of the glass house had teal and green in it. I think the house also had windchimes made from stuff the old woman found in the junk yard. I remember it was my favorite book as a kid but I never could remember the name of it. I'm going to college to me an elementary school teacher and I would love to have my favorite kid's book with me in my classroom library. Please help me!

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This basic storyline is about a group of friends and strangers thrown together as they travel in a pouring rain. It is raining everywhere and there are no signs of it letting up. Unknown to the group one of their members knows exactly why it is raining and why it won't stop. He was part of a scientific team that pulled an ice asteroid into earth orbit and broke it into a million pieces to use it for energy or something, but they did not calculate correctly and now the ice is melting and flooding the earth on a biblical scale. It ends with the group on an island that used to be the top of an Appalachian Mountain. I think I read it in the late 70s it could be the early 80s. As I recall they were traveling in an RV and of course the Noah refernece is obvious but there was also and Adam and Eve repopulate the world kind of theme also.

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I rmeber there was this girl who a doll and she took her everywhere and one day she took her to a supermarket and accidentally dropped her into the freezer, I rmeber the description describing the doll as like sitting next to a bag of frozen peas and things like that but that’s all. I don’t rly remember the cover either. I think the author was a girl again not sure though

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I cannot find this book or any others by the same author because I forgot the author's name! I know it was a woman who wrote a whole bunch of historical romances. The specific one I remember is that the heroine was named Althea or Athena or something close to that. She was tied up in a brothel while still a virgin, and this rake comes in not realizing she was a virgin. I think he ends up bringing her home and marrying her at some point.If this rings a bell, please let me know!

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I read this book in the mid to late 80's about 5 children who were orphans. Each child had a different set of "skills" One had an affinity to the plants and grass, one an affinity with the very colorful birds, another with animals, storms and weather and the last was a precog. One character was born a hermaphrodite. They grow in power as they get older until they become the aspects for which they had an affinity for. I am hoping this is enough detail to spark a memory for someone to remember the title. I can even visualize the cover of the book but the title and author escape me.

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A boy (12-15ish) and his drifter mom get pulled into a cult. The cult does not educate children and is very strict about all sorts of things (diet, habits, nicknames, etc.). The boy gets into very serious trouble when he's caught (with another girl he's befriended) teaching a young child to read on the sly. He escapes (with some difficulty) and contacts an ex of his mother's, who takes him away. His mother refuses to leave. Read sometime in the late 80's to early 90's.

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¤¤¤Spoilers contained in book description below¤¤¤This book is a historical romance novel which takes place in the 1700s or 1800s. The male lead is a soldier working abroad in spain or portugual. Not exactly sure which country. He is charged with helping a Young woman escape the country to return to england. During the escape she falls for him and at one point he unknowingly forces himself on her while they are in hiding. After returning to england she finds herself pregnant but later miscarries. Once he finds out what happened he wants to do the right thing and marry her.Any help finding the name of this book would be appreciated.

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I can't remember the name of this book! I read this book a year ago about a girl who can take power from the sun. She got the power from her mom who is either missing or dead. The girl has a sister and a brother. She goes to live with someone else for a while and learns things about her mom and other things about herself. There's also a secret society that kills people like her. She meets this guy from the secret society who tries to get close to her to kill her. It's set in the 1800s. It's not the Gemma Doyle books by Libba Bray.

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Fantasy possibly YA read around 2010 about a young girl with a painting (or photo print) of a foggy forest that she sees come to life. She stares at the foggy forest and can see flamesOf a fire flickering and figures moving around. I remember there is a character that isn’t much older than her but she calls him Uncle Tom and he tells her not to because of the book. I believe there’s some romance between the two at one point and that he has a car and/orRides a bike? There’s a house with an old Woman. And there’s an evil old man. I remember the twist at the end was strange like all Of a sudden she doesn’t remember anything about what just happened in the rest of the book and she’s dating and/or about to marry the evil man’s son/nephew. Then she breaks out of this trance. The title was simple like “Fog and fire”, “fog and lavender”, etc and the title of the book was the title of the painting in the book.

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This was a fictional novel written at about an early middle school reading level.The book was set in an apartment building. The main character (a boy) had a pet rodent (I think it was a hamster or maybe a guinea pig?). The rodent kept escaping, and it is discovered that the rodent has joined a community of escaped rodents. The rodents are all intelligent and can communicate with the main character. The main character has to help the rodent community escape (or relocate?) to a different part of the apartment building.The cover of the book has a picture of a bunch of cardboard tubes that have been fashioned into an tunnel on the outside of the building, going from one apartment to another apartment a couple floors below. The tunnel is being used by the rodents for their escape.I found it in the children's section of my library either from 2007-2013.

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I was pretty sure of the title but can’t find evidence that this book ever existed! It must be out of print. The cover was a young girl and her fabulous rockstar mom who looked a little like Betty Boop. I think she may have had a feather boa. The plot details are hazy but I think it was set in NYC during the holidays. The kid was pretty much on her own because the mom was on tour. There was something about a homeless woman that she befriended and wanted to have move in with her. I think it would have been published between 1988-1990. Anyone?

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I read this book in 2012-2014 when I was middle school. The cover was white or cream and covered in black and red curly connected illustrations o magic things like mannequins and a mask person wearing a top hat (these were really small illustrations) the back cover had the main character (the irish boy with i think red hair) illustrated. The book was in english and seemed pretty knew. it was maybe 1.5-2 in thick with a hard cover.Setting: somewhere in NYC probably BrooklynMain character is boy ( i think irish). He does magic tricks and meets a chinese girl named Jin who works as a pyrotechnic with her grandpa. The book begins introducing the antagonist who is not human and has boss called the Sandman or the Boneman or something not human. There are people who are "protectors" of the NYC boroughs and they are in danger. there is one part where the boy and jin go to save a girl who is the protector and they are chased through a house by the antagonist's allies. Jin and her grandpa have a firework cart and "cinnabar" is really important to them because it has healing/power properties. There are a few pictures in the book (maybe 10 in total) that are realistic and black-and-white. One was a close up of Jin with cinnabar red drawn on her forehead or somewhere on her head. another picture was of a fight scene between the antagonist and jin's grandpa who sacrifices himself. there was another picture of a Catherine wheel firework. it was when Jin and the MC are sitting somewhere and just watching it. The book in general is about trying to defeat the antagonist and save the NYC boroughs' protectors. The MC has a connection to Brooklyn b/c his dad helped build the bridge and it's implied that he died building it. LIGHT SPOILER AHEAD!!!!at the end they find the antagonist and it comes down to a card game between the MC and the antagonist. the cards are special cards and I think "devil's advocate" was a big deal. They were cards from whatever world the antagonist is from. MC figures out a trick to win the card game. the antagonist goes to report to his boss at the end and he gets turned to dust by the sandman/boneman ( i think). Jin and the MC are implied to get together.

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Historical romance: girl moves west to be teacher, lives with Scandinavian (?) family, marries the widower with teenage son, brutal winter, at some point someone survives a storm by sitting inside a horse’s corpse

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I have been searching for this book series for about 2 years now and I still can't find it. All I remember about the book is that in the end of the series the king and queen die and because they don't have any children, the kingdom crumbles under the rule of some new guy. This happens in he last few pages of the last book, and it is being told by a old man. I also know the book was published between the years 1970-1999 but that's about it.

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This was a youth or young adult book I read sometime in the 90s. It featured aliens, a father and daughter, who come to earth and try to assimilate. The father falls in love with an earth woman and the daughter is desperately in love with an alien named "floop?" who is back on their home planet. Normally on their home planet they can read each others minds.Thanks to anyone who has ideas.

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I think the book came out this year. If not, it came out pretty recently (within the last 3 years). It’s about a widow, she had just lost her husband although she wasn’t super in love with him, and is on vacation with her 4 kids. They’re about age 6, 5, 3 and 2. I remember one is named Charlie, Jack and i think Gracie. They meet a guy (a former military/navy guy I think) at the beach and his name is Matthew. There is an obvious attraction between the mom and Matthew and the kids love Matthew. They hang out every day while on vacation but eventually they have to go back to reality and they live far from each other. Matthew and the widow kiss before they go their seperate ways but eventually find each other again.

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So i read this good book a while back and i just can't find the name anymore. It was about an Italian girl who came back to where she grew up with her 2 sisters. She ended up bumping into her ex and finding out that the kid she gave up for adoption was adopted by him, although he thinks she just abandoned the baby. It was at least a trilogy. The second book being about the second sister and all i remeber is she wanted some plot of land but some guy got there before her.Anyone one know which books im talking about?Thanks for the help!!

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I read this book probably between 1991-93, so when I was 10-12 years old, and it was definitely for young readers. Short novel. It was written from the perspective of the younger sister of a teenager who ran away from home. It describes the fear and grief the rest of the family goes through not knowing where their daughter/sister is. If I'm not mistaken, she is found in the end and comes home. This is really as much as I remember, but the book left a lasting impression and I actually want it around my house for my kids to read because I think it prevented me from running away from home once or twice! ;)

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Mod Abigail and company -- You can bump your book every month or so to keep this thread at the top of the folder. This lets new eyes see it and older eyes reflect on it again.Good luck!

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Hi. I am looking for a book I read as a kid about a grandfather who takes his granddaughter to the theatre. She drops her toy from balcony onto the stage by mistake and he has to fetch it. He ends up on stage and the sctress who is playing the wicked witch helps him get it back. Ive googled it and cant find anything and i am gettin desperate

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I loved this book and can vaguely picture the cover - a girl playing with her dolls, looking sad possibly - but can't remember the title or author for the life of me. I read the book probably anywhere between 1994 and 1998.It's set in the US, I think New York state or city. I think her parents had split up. She has these dolls that are maybe colonial dolls, or Little House on the Prairie-era potentially, and she created these vivid stories for them all in her head. If I recall correctly, she was deemed a bit too old to be playing with dolls. One of her parents, or perhaps the new love interest of a parent, tried to connect with her by buying her some doll related item but it was too modern to go with the stuff she had. I think a parent takes her to FAO Schwarz where she buys something small but more fitting. I thought the title was The Secret Family, but all my searches with that title have been fruitless.Can anyone help??

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Does anyone know of a teen book that is about a young gal who starts off not liking a boy name Bram... she or he rescues a scotty dog and she really tries not to like the boy Bram... she works in a vet hospital (i think) and it seems that he likes her best friend Cindy (natural pretty blonde) but in the end, he ends up liking her and not her best friend... there is a scene in the middle of the book where he shows up at her home and watches "gone with the wind" with her and possibly her mom or aunt, she considers this to be totally out of character for him. While she watches the movie, she says her feet are cold and he says to put them under his leg to warm up....... I AM SORRY, THIS IS ALL I REMEMBER, I READ THIS AS A TEEN AND FEEL IN LOVE WITH THIS BOOK AFTER THIS SCENE. ANY HELP OR SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE HELPFUL, I KNOW IT'S A LONG STRETCH. I THINK THE TITLE HAS THE WORD DOG IN IT BUT AGAIN, NOT SURE. THANKS

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I'm trying to find a book I read and loved when I was younger! It was a short anthology (i think it was short, at least; the version I had was paperback, less than an inch thick, and for children. i'm not sure if it mentioned "collection" or "anthology" in the title--i don't think it did, though i could be wrong). It was definitely published pre-2003, most likely in the '90s, though it might have been a reprint. I don't remember any full-page illustrations, though, though there might have been.I read it at home, so it was likely brought in Barnes and Nobles?I remember a few stories from it! - One was about a bean, a straw, and a piece of coal escaping a woman trying to make soup. They used the straw to cross a stream(?) and the bean got across safety, but the coal burned up the straw, and they fell in, and then the bean split its side laughing. He was later sewn up. - The chapter image for this was of a bean, I believe, next to a coal and a straw. or just a plain green bean.- There was another story about raindrops but I remember little about it other than the picture above the name, which was of a blue raindrop or of three blue raindrops. in the folktale, they might have been bragging about which was the best raindrop.- Another was about Sedna/Sanna-- from what I remember about the version chosen was that . . . things happened, and then she was gripping her father's boat as he cut off her fingers, which turned into whales and seals?- There was My Lord Bag of Rice! The illustration for that one might have been full-pages- the giant centipede was blues and greens. The protagonist spat on his arrow to kill it- I think there was also a tale about a raven with a big of wind, or swallowing the sun that helped the run rise.- There was the story of a smith-- he had been maimed by a king, and forced to make objects for him. He killed the king's two sons, and turned their bones and eyes into things-- a skull for the goblet, teeth for a brooch (or necklace). He fashioned wings to escape, and before he did, he arrived at the king's castle and announced what he had done to the king's sons, and how they still used their bones. He then flew away. (his name might have been Volundr-- I found the actual myth that it was! it might have been translated as Wayland, but I don't think it was)- the last story I remember is about two princesses, both sister. The elder had dark hair and was cruel, the latter golden-haired and kind. The elder drowned the younger one day, and her body was found by someone, who turned her bones into a harp and her hair into the strings (I'm pretty sure there was a line about turning her fingerbones into tuning pegs, but I might have made that up). The harp made the most beautiful songs, but when it was brought to the castle, the murdered sister's voice came out, telling what had happened to her sister. (the story is known as the Cruel Sister, Twa Sisters, Binnorie, or the Wind and the Rain)I know there were more, but those are the only ones I can remember at this moment!

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Read this book recently but completely forgot to write down the details. I'm on meds that mess with my memory so please bear with me.Set in USA and modern times.So a girl ends up staying in a rich guys apartment (can't remember why) and he owns the apartment block. It's an older property which he has split into about 3 or 4 flats, his (and hers) being the top flat. He has a weird relationship with his step-sister who slept together once and she wants to be more I believe but he throws her out (apartment block tenants are happy about this as she was not very nice). He also (unknowingly to the girl) is being set up by his mother to marry some other girl.So they're living together and start to fall in love. Meanwhile the dude is trying to get a paternity test for his (much younger) half brother who he may be the father of. His (and his 'brother's) father is abusive and he wants to try and get custody if the boy is his to save him from his father.Turns out the boys is his and he begins a custody battle with his abusive and rich father. (Who it turns out is also not his father, both his wives cheated on him and produced illegitimate children, but lied about it) At the same time, the girl finds out she's pregnant but doesn't tell him. During a conversation between the lovers he mentions something along the lines of "Glad we're not having a child" due to all the stress this custody battle is causing him. This upsets the girl and she leaves him one day, trying to get away. She lives in her car for a few days then someone finds her and comes to get her and take her home and they live happily ever after.So, now onto some things which I am unsure about. I think the brother/son is called Winston/Wilson/Wesley type name. I think it's set around North or South Carolina (I am English so my USA geography is pretty bad.) and I have a funny feeling this might actually be the second in the series (as I mentioned, meds affecting my memory) and the first part she works for a woman who's very rich as a house maid. Her sister has down syndrome and she needs money to pay for her care in a home. Her mother has just died. The rich woman's son falls in love with her, but before their relationship can get too far, the rich woman explains that the reason she hired the girl is because she is her aunt (sister of the girls dead mother) and is actually the mother of the girl's sister with down syndrome who she gave away at birth to her sister (the girls mother). This makes the couple cousins and so she moves out and is offered a place with the guy mentioned above who is friends with her cousin/ex lover.Now this may seem really weird and stuff, but in the book it was written better. The other reason I want to find this book is because there was a passage in there about down syndrome I wanted to research for personal reasons. I know this description is weird and long and confusing, but please help me.

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I read this book in either 2018 or 2019 I'm pretty sure. The cover was bright blue with yellow and pink butterflies on and I think the title had the word butterfly/butterflies in it. It is written in a 'now - then' alternating format. **Spoilers ahead** The main character is a girl whose mother was a world renowned opera singer before she damaged her voice and became depressed I think. The first chapter I distinctly remember her putting on insect repellent after them landing in a small plane in the middle of nowhere. She is carrying a small bag of belongings and realizes they won't be staying in a "resort" type place but camping outside. She is on this programme with other youths, one was a moody girl I think who refuses to sleep in her tent with the other girls and one is this really dominant menacing boy. Later on they camp on a small beach by a river and they are all in the water when the horrible boy in question grabs her and I think he says something disgusting like :"I can r*pe you and drown you at the same time' She is rescued I think and he gets in trouble. In terms of the 'then' perspective her mom was an opera singer but got depressed because her voice was changed forever, no one wanted her to perform anymore. She finds this new boyfriend who gets on really well with the daughter after a while and they try to cheer her mom up all the time. The daughter had a part in the school play (Wizard of Oz I think) and her mom didn't want to help because it brought back memories. One day the boyfriend comes home and the mom has gassed herself in the garage with carbon monoxide and died. It's just been bugging me so much that I couldn't remember the title!

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This book came out 1980-2000 The story starts out in a town (1880s maybe) where the orphan train has stopped. There are two brothers the oldest is named Jamie (I think). The younger brother doesn’t speak so a couple wants to adopt Jamie but not the younger brother. The brothers don’t want to be separated so they run away. There is a man who was injured and has a messed up knee. He can walk with his special brace, but doesn’t. He is in a wheelchair. During a thunderstorm he hears screaming and thinks that he is finally losing it. He finds the boys hiding under the table on his front porch. He brings them in and feeds them and lets them spend the night. The man has a friend, Max or Mack (I think) that comes over to help him. He goes into town and finds out about the boys. The orphan train woman is going house to house looking for the boys. When she gets to the man’s house the boys hide and the man tells her that she is an awful person to separate two brothers and said he would adopt them himself if he could. She laughs at him and tells him that there is no way he could adopt. He gets mad because he thinks it is because he is in a wheelchair. She tells him it is because his house is a mess and his land is a mess and basically his whole life is a mess. The oldest boy asks the man if he was serious about adopting them. So the boys and the friend help the man clean up his life. The lady comes back to his house and sees the boys working out in the hot sun and gets mad. Short version: He goes to adopt the boy and since he is a single man she can tell that they won’t let him so she pretends to be his bride to be. They do get married and the boys’ mother shows up to claim them, but she is after something, (don’t remember what) but of course it all turns out in the end with the man and woman as the boy’s parents and the friend as the grandpa and the little boy starts to speak at the end.

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Hi, I read this book years ago and it was about this young girl who was slightly insane and she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. She would space out and she would drift off into this other world and there was this Queen/ruler of that world with an odd name. She would space out and talk to the imaginary characters. I want to say the time period was 50s-70s. The main protagonist was kind of young. And its Not "Girl, Interrupted" they're similar in away.

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help find a book title/author ... turn of the century 18th or 19th century American Romance Story ... Hero showed up in first book (possible sequel but read alone) ... At the beginning of the story:Scene remember: Woman driven by a suitor in his carriage, this man is having a hard time handling his horses and I believe while crossing a bridge (maybe outside of town) … the horses kick up a fuss and the woman is thrown from the (open) carriage and straight into the rushing water … heavy skirts are dragging her under the river as the current is tossing her down stream … o Hero, who is not liked by the heroine’s family (forget why) goes into the water to safe her i.e., tears at her clothes to alleviate the weight and save her … he does get them both safely on the river’s edge … I believe the Hero’s horse is on the other side of the river … o After the Hero safes the heroine he then walks her to where the suitor is waiting with his horses under control … the heroine is clutching to the Hero for warmth and once the two reach the carriage the Hero has strong words with this suitor as it seemed very clear that the man seemed more concerned about his horses and carriage then the woman …  The suitor does not like our Hero and calls out this man’s last name as he reaches the heroine to drag her back to the carriage. The heroine then realizes who saved her is the man that her family does not like and wants nothing to do with. The suitor and the heroine are in the carriage and return to town Hero: self-made man not sure if he owns and runs a gambling salon but I do run into the heroine at a town event where her father is mayor, and the Hero does end up in the heroine’s room and has made his attentions very clear with the heroine that he will marry her.

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I'm pretty sure the book I'm looking for is a series but I only ever read the first book. anyways, girl moves around and is involved in many sports and she is always the best but everywhere she goes she follows the name of a boy who is just as good. she sees his name on trophies and things like that. she finds out that the kind of life she leads is fake and everything is a lot more high tech. there are more kids like her which someone attempted to kill when they were younger. ill try and remember more and update.

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A woman realizes that this teen girl is missing, and she searches all over and speaks to her guardians several times. I remember one scene in which the female guardian comes to the door and the lady searcher/narrator points out that her manicure is so perfect that her own nails feel like they are popping out with hangnails. I know that the teen's guardians were the ones that killed her. Any ideas?

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The magic, paranormal beings are trying to co-exist with humans. Very stressful. The woman is a police woman who can detect magic or the presence of paranormal beings and she is helping solve a murder. She meets a werewolf in human form. They bond, like Jacob in the Twilight series. Only they discover they can't get too far from each other. Her grandmother tells her about this bond. He eventually takes her to the pack. Sorry, I can't remember more, but would like to re-read. Thank you, Dennise

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It was a book I read at least 4 years ago, It was about a man who finds himself trapped in a fox's body, and it is all told from his perspective, that's about all I can remember! It would be greatly appreciated if someone could please help me find out the name or author of this novel

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Trigger warnings for sexual assault and underage drug use.I read this between 1998-2004. I got it off a library bookshelf. It's YA, specifically older teens. I remember when I finished it, thinking I was waaaay too young to have read it, considering the subject content. The protagonist was between the ages of sixteen to eighteen or a little older, and I remember thinking that was super old (I was a tween when I read this). It was written with similar details to Francesca Lia Block's works, but this one wasn't written by her. A close-knit group of girls go to mostly the same high school. They're all creative or performers in some way. One runs a zine and writes for it. Another plays guitar in an amateur band. The protagonist helps them both, but her creativity is in something else. She loves a band and is excited to see them perform in a hole-in-the wall venue. She has a huge crush on the guitarist, who I think is named Kyle. I think he's met her a few times before, just to say hi.She meets with him after the performance. I think for a date, maybe? He takes her hand and she thinks, "Kyle is holding my hand. I'm never washing it again." They wind up in a car together and he tries to assault her. She panics because he locked the doors and she can't figure out how to unlock them. They were probably automatic. Two of her friends smash the windshield with a baseball bat, screaming, "Kyle, let her through!" meaning, "let her out of the car!" She runs away with her friends, crying. Kyle hates her now and she's horrified that she ever had a crush on him and liked his music.I remember liking the beginning of the book because the friendship between the girls was so strong, and how they were all creative in some way. The ending was low-key and had a sense of resolution to it. The main character was going to be okay. Someone's name started with A. One of the characters was Asian-American. One of the girls wore plaid skirts, or possibly a school uniform even though she was eighteen and was almost graduating. There was underage drinking and some drug use by older teens; I think maybe crack or ecstasy. Something you'd get at a club.I'll comment if I remember anything else.

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Hi, sorta new at this. I need help finding this book I remember reading in 4th or 5th grade. It had a closeup of an apple on a tree on the cover, and I dont necessarily remember the title; the plot consisted of a girl who was an only child and she would go down to this creek in the forest. Other than this, I cant remember anything about this book. Just hoping ANYONE could give me an idea. :)

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Hello, this is my first time posting on good reads so please be gentle. The book been on my mind for a long time but can't seem to recall the name.The Hero is in love with the heroine but she doesn't know this. Heroine thinks he is in love with her neighbour (could be a friend too, not sure). I think she likes him a little bit too. Heroine thinks she is plain. Hero shows up to her house drunk one night and heroine catches him stealing flowers. She decides to help him get the girl she thinks he is in love with. I think they eventually get married without knowing how both feel about each other. That's all I seem to be able to recall. It's a historical romance. Possibly regency but I could be very wrong. Can anyone please help me with the title? Thank you so much in advance to any help you can offer. :)

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I read this book probably 20+ years ago and it wad older than too. It is set in England some time after the French revolution ibelieve. A young girl is sent to live with relatives after she causes some kind of scandal at home and they hope to refine her a little. Hero cousin hates her because she is beautiful and easy going and she invites several suitors to their country estate but she is only really interested in the French hero , who wants to marry her for her money so that he can rebuild his chateaux in France. He meets the heroine while she is in a fountain and is instantly attracted but stays away since he's pursuing the cousin. Heroine charms all of the suitors and makes friends with them, i remember them calling themselves the terrible triumvirate or something. Hero can't stay away and they end up falling n in love and meeting by the lake where they have sex. They get seperated somehow and the rest of the book is slightly fuzzy. I remember she ends up on her own in London and he has to track her down. This is driving me crazy, please help.

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I read this in the mid-late 2000s. This was a Christmas book I believe, about a young orphaned girl and her younger sister. The elder became a worker for a doll shop, which was significant as she sewed the hearts on all the dolls made. At night, she snuck her sister in so she could sleep in a warm place.

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I read an ebook within the last year and I don't remember much, but I think I remember that the main male character was somehow involved with a professional hockey team. This part, I honestly could be getting mixed up with Hammer and Nails by Andria Large, but I think that I remember that the hero had a good friend who was a hockey player who was briefly mentioned in the book, which is why I think the hero worked for the hockey team. What I do remember about the book is that the heroine and hero had some trouble getting together, lots of angst, which is pretty typical. I wish I could remember exactly how they met, but I can't. However, there were two supporting characters, one of them the heroine's best friend and the other her firefighter brother. The heroine's best friend and her brother begin a relationship and get engaged. It's mentioned a couple times about how the heroine's 2nd brother isn't particularly friendly with the best friend and doesn't seem to like her. In one scene, they are having a family game night and the 2nd brother barely speaks to the heroine's best friend and is pretty rude to her. It's never really mentioned why he doesn't like her though. Towards the end, the firefighter brother and the best friend get married and during the reception, he asks the hero to look out for his new wife in case anything were to happen to him. Then the book ends with the heroine receiving a phone call that her brother has died in a fire, about a year after the wedding. I believe the author was setting this up for the next book in the series to be about the best friend and possibly the hero's hockey player friend, because it was mentioned earlier in the book that the two met and the hockey player was attracted to her but was upset to learn that she was already engaged.Any help would be so much appreciated! Thank you!!

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This book had a female protagonist that has the ability to go to different time periods (maybe with the help of an artifact? I can't remember) and she is working for a professor of some sort in the present day. The main conflict is that a group that is anti magic made it so that anyone who passes into Manhattan Island (I think?) can't leave or suffers the fate of having their magic stripped. The girl goes back in time and works with a team to try to steal artifacts from the anti magic group. I don't remember the ending being very satisfying but I really want to know the name of this book haha.Thank you!

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When I was on a caravan holiday once there was a collection of Ghost stories. I would have been 10 or 12 at the time but the stories where adult ones. One particular story stuck in my mind and I haven't been able to track it down since. It was a kind of Hound of the Baskervilles where people were being killed by an animal out on the moors, but his animal turned out to be invisible to humans. The discription went something like as their are sounds that humans can't hear then there are colours that we can't see. I have thouht that it is probably best not to find out what the book is as I would only be disappointed, but I think I would like to take that risk and lay this one to bed. Any help anyone could give would be most welcome.

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Read around 1995-2002I think it was based around the Eastern part of the U.S. (VA?)Book cover had a house and possibly a fox ? I think it had something to do with horses and hounds/fox hunting...Heroine witnesses a crime (not sure what) and goes blind from the trauma. Her husband sends her to a type of institution where she is medicated. She fakes taking the medication and ends up escaping.SPOILERSHas a daughter; doesn't know she's from true (first?) loveHer current husband is hiding things and is not a good person...Remember something about horses, a farm and sex in the barn?Kind of like a Nora Roberts type book but I can't find it.

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I only know the main characters name is Richard. I cant remember the woman's the prologue of the book starts in Richards office she is about to reveal a secret to him. The book interweaves their story the first chapter is the girls mom needing help at the christmas party of a wealthy family she is a bit goth at this point. The family eeally likes her and she becomes a babysitter for their younger daughter, richards stepsister...this is as much as I can remember...its a fairly recent book and for some reason I feel like the authors first name is jessica but im not definite..any help ive been searching forever.

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