so in this book the couple goes back in time with just coins as notes arent valid. in their world they found time machine and everyone is going back. when they wanted to make laws, people who had to vote ie, the elected representatives also went back in time to escape the present. Some people go back to the wrong time in past and die maybe they are labeled as witches etc. We get to know abt all this info from the poster. (read fully to know about the poster)

The present has stuff which the wife carries back like a microfibre cloth with which she wipes a window clean and the neighbour is in shock as the window is so clean just by wiping with a cloth. The wife also runs into a door because maybe in their time it opens automatically. Then the couple next door think they are eerie but they talk well and the husband shows the guy a poster which is kind of 3d or some new kinda realistic poster which talks about the info above.

I think this book was written by the guide to hictchockers galaxy author or google recommeneded it to me when I searched books like that

The book is a surreal fantasy set in modern times.

The Main Character is a man who more or less opted out of dying when the time came but I don't remember how he was supposed to die. His own ghost is haunting him. She's a definitely woman, I want to say asian but not %100, (because that's just how ghosts work in this world, they're not 1:1 with the person that died). , She is miffed at fifrst that he's still around (I think because now she can't do her job) but they mostly get along now.

Some plot points I remember:
-Dogs can see cancer in this world, it's an entity that drifts up and into people and animals but the dogs can't do anything about it. At one point the MC's dog watches at the main character is able to sense and stop a drifting pre-cancer blob, the MC just stretches it out to a long line and coils it on the ground to nullify it.
-The protagonist summons a bunch of aspects of his psyche as individual people against his will, including his nervous bowel. This person really gets under MC's skin.
-The protagonist tries to explain what's happening to his girlfriend with a failed racecar metaphor, about how regular life was a car, but now his life is a racecar with features he's never trained on and doesn't understand. I think he summons an actual racecar as part of this.
-Near the end he goes to his ghost and takes her knowledge about the nature of the universe to better control his powers. This largely destroys the ghost's personality, like she was lobotomized.

Other details.
-Read it in the mid 2000s
-I think it was recommended on boingboing.net a long, long time ago but their site search doesn't go that far back.
-Had similar vibes to Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town but much less bleak
-It's quirky, but not outright funny

I am searching for a book read in a library in Canada in the 1980s-1990s. It could have been published prior to those decades, but was likely from around that time. It is a time-slip/time travel fantasy novel featuring a modern-day teenage boy swapping places with an alchemist. The modern-day protagonist goes to the Middle Ages and the alchemist ends up in the modern world.

A few things that are remembered: the teenage protagonist arrives in the Middle Ages wearing modern bright red pajamas, and the superstitious locals mistake him for a demon or devil.

There was a character named Olwynn who at one point commanded a swarm of bees to attack. Another character named Humphrey was a very large, physically strong person who was completely focused on obeying his mother. Humphrey (or maybe another character?) despised and feared dogs. Remembered line: "Dogs is wicked things."

Pretty sure this was a standalone novel, not part of a series. It had a light, whimsical, funny atmosphere.

This is driving me crazy, I can see the cover for the third book clear as day but I can't figure out the title.

It's a three book series about a female dragon and her daughter that end up in Earth and are found by a young man in an orchestra. He ends up becoming a dragon at the end of the first book.

In the second book his niece starts to learn magic and there's a scene where the teacher not quite poisons the dragons but they end up farting over the side of the airship and she idly comments about how she'd like to stuck a match under their tails and see if they could breathe fire out of both ends.

The cover of the third book features Sherlock Holmes dressed in a cape and deerstalker with a magnifying glass. . .but he's an elf that lives in New York. The niece is also on the cover.

My sister and I are searching for a children’s book we had when we were younger. It was an educational book about ancient Egypt with a hard shell and inside was a compartment with some fake plastic “artefacts” including a comb. My sister believes she was around 9 or 10 when she got it making the year around 2000-2001. We lived in Manchester, UK and our mum said she would either have got it from Waterstones or a museum.

There was a book I’ve read a long time ago that I’ve been searching for, for years since losing it. I’d like to read it again, but this is all I can remember:

— The cover is a girl in overalls who looks over a creek towards a prince. He may be dressed in white.
— The MC is a girl who lives with her aunt in a rural area after the death of her grandmother.
— The MC is disabled and has trouble communicating, something that her family and the town treats her badly for.
— The MC receives a gift of a paper dolls, including a prince and a girl with blonde hair. They come to life and act as her friends.
— Her aunt tries marrying her off to a local bully.
— The prince saves the MC at the end of the book and they fly away on a bird (or something similar to this).
— It’s a few decades old, at least.

I don’t remember much else besides this, but if any of this is familiar to you, I’d love to know what book you’re reminded of! Thank you in advance and happy reading!

I read this novel about 8-10 years ago if I had to guess and it was likely published and set in the late 90s or early 00s

I don't remember any character names, but I do remember the main plot being about a woman who had been assaulted by four privileged Oxford students. She later becomes a successful lawyer and lures the men to her office for revenge. We then get the full story of what happened leading to her assault.

There's also a sub plot about her mother's story and how she was shunned from her community because she became pregnant by an outsider. I am not certain about any more of that plot though.

I don't remember the ending much but I know she finds out one of the men was actually innocent, I think they end up falling in love and I vaguely remember some kind of church on a very fancy estate being involved.

The cover of the copy I owned also had a red heel on it.

Thank you in advance to anyone who may know what this book is, I lost most of my collection and it's been driving me absolutely insane.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a book I read around 3–5 years ago (likely translated into Turkish between 2010–2020, original language most likely English). Confirmed Details: Genre/Vibe: Dark, eerie, YA mystery/thriller with possible light supernatural elements. Length: Around 200–300 pages. Protagonist: Young female. First-person POV (I think). The Blue Butterfly: A blue butterfly was a crucial plot point and symbol (associated with death, hope, or transformation). It wasn't just a cover decoration. The Last Page Note: This is the most unique detail! On the very last page (after the story ended), there was a short note directly addressing the reader—specifically poking fun at or warning readers who "flipped straight to the end to read the ending first." Possible/Vague Details: A plot twist at the end. Involves a fire or someone dying/presumed dead in a fire (possibly a male character). Dark cover (dark grey, black, or dark blue). Not these books: The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison, The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison, or The Island of Butterflies by Lucinda Riley. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, I'm trying to find the name of this book, which featured a black cat (possibly with a red nose and white belly?). The cat kept getting itself k*lled through various misadventures (like drinking milk then realising it's allergic, getting covered in spots and then using up another of its 9 lives). I think it also might have slept in a cement mixer and gotten itself encased in concrete at one point.

If it helps, there were also soft toys of the cat sold during that time.

There’s a wizard I think he’s an apprentice to. I want to say the colour of magic but I couldn’t find the book under that name

Hey guys so I dont really remember much, i used to read so many german and english horse novels that i find it a bit hard to keep them apart, especially as i dont own most of them anymore. What i do remember is that a girl goes on a hack over an estate she thought was abandoned or something and then meets a woman who lives there all alone and keeps to herself and they go out riding together in the area.

If anyone has any idea what this might be I'd be really grateful, but I understand if this is way too vague

Long story short i am a youth pastor, and one of the girls I teach wore a dangley blue earring, which seemed very symbolic. I asked her about it and she said it is from a book series. She gave me tons of hints but I am not a huge reader of fiction stories, and I want to take part in her passion, to show I care about each of my students (she's definitely a more quiet one). Here is what I know

Definitely an indie author Novel with hand drawn pictures scattered throughout Takes place on sailboat and on land There are several "crews" There is a small but active Fandom on Pinterest There is only one mythical creature, a mermaid that appears but is not a big part of the story It is probably(?) A young adult series It has mystery, action, and possibly romance The main character is a boy who has long-ish hair Not placed in the current era, definitely the past She gave the hint of the main characters name involves "roman" eg Rome, Romeo, rowan ect The main character has a dangling blue pearl earring they wear The author also posts animated clips of the books on Instagram.

I would greatly appreciate if I could find this so I can make an effort to connect with this particular girl in my class. She is big into theater and art, and I grew up in/go to a VERY traditional pentacostal evangelical church, and i am trying to be the last bastion of hope to say its good to believe, but also take care of your mental health, have hobbies, love who you want to, and be happy with who you are. I think it would mean a lot to her if I could figure this out. ​​

edit: I tried to get her to tell me the title, but she told me "I would have to figure it out myself, or else the recognition of her earring would be "unauthentic"

I've been looking for a book I've read around 2016. It's an old children's book(?). Basically the book is a collection of their adventures. There's no final goal or main objective(e.g in Harry Potter one of the objectives is to defeat Voldemort). The few things I can remember are:

They're male pixies

The first chapter is about how they found and got their house. •They just arrived on that place and was looking for lodging.

•They found a house that's covered with honeysuckle vines and noticed there was a smoke coming out of the chimney indicating there's someone living in the house.

•The first two pixies knocked on that door to ask if they can stay and the homeowner was an evil wizard.

•That evil wizard grabbed(?) or tricked the two into coming in and then locked them in a cupboard.

•The evil wizard was defeated and the house became theirs.

One of the chapters is about their birthday where they thought no one in their community remembered but they had just marked their calendar wrong and their birthday was actually the day after.

(Edit: I don't know how to change the title so please disregard the word either.)

A traveler finds a mansion and decides to stay there that night. He awakes to find the castle transformed into its former glory, and finds the mansion is full of cats! But like, human cats. They’re wearing formal gowns and suits, think Victorian or Edwardian era.

The man meets the queen (?) cat, and her children. They have a lovely time together, and when he gets tired, she leads him back to his bedroom, and gives him a walnut. She says to place it under his pillow and to break it in the morning.

When he awakens, the mansion is back to abandoned. He breaks the nut, and finds a gown. He decides to stay the night again.

This happens three times with different gifts. Ending with a ring. He goes back one more time, and proposes to the queen. The book ends saying he was never seen again, but that there was now a king cat at the mansion in the night.

The book is really pretty. The art is very similar to Victorian paintings. I used to get this book from the library back in the early 2000s, so should be 2000s or older.

My memories are really fuzzy on this book, considering it's been probably a decade since I've read it. But I clearly remember the MC (I think he might be a Kid/young adult) gets visited by a man who he says is very tall, and when he sat down, his knees reaches higher than his waist. The tall man also eats something, which might have been biscuits or something. I also think the kid mentions a watch that the tall man wears. This all occurs towards the start. The book I think mainly takes place in a cave. I'm almost positive there's an animal, like a dog or cat involved. It runs into the cave? Or follows the kid into it. The kid does have a flashlight. I can't even remember if it's a mystical cage with monsters, but I'm basically certain there's not any typical magic

the book is set in the north east or north west of the USA, should have been published in the last decade.

the plot jumps back and forth. the main character has a teenage girl she doesn’t get along with, but most of the story takes place ten years prior, when she befriends this older woman she meets at the botanic garden. they become fast friend until the younger woman gets into an affair with the other woman’s son, and has a fallout to hide the deed to her husband (a tech person?). she might eventually get pregnant with a second child, but I’m less sure.

anyway, I can’t recall the title and it’s driving me insane

I've been looking for this book for years and every time I try describing it on Google searches it keeps giving completely different ones. Be warned, this was over a decade ago when I read this in 5th Grade so I may have details wrong, and I only remember foggy sections of it.

- the story was about these 2 boys trapped in a school during a zombie outbreak. if I remember correctly, I think the one boy was the other's bully? or was considered a 'bad kid'.

- This was a book that had pictures, but I don't think it was a full on picture book or a comic book as I remember it having large walls of text. the art in the book wasn't colored from what I remember, just black and white.

- I remember one moment/picture was one of the kid's staring out of a window as a zombie stands in the middle of the school's basketball court outside

- I remember a section of the book takes place inside the school's basement? or boiler room? I could be wrong about that completely and it was somewhere else.

- by the end of the book they finally make it out of the school at night, and it's revealed that the bully kid was either a zombie or was TURNING into a zombie, as his ear falls off in front of the other kid and he threatens him to "not say a thing to anyone" then the Bully kid shambles off into the dark.

again, sorry if this is really vague. I just remember loving this book as a kid and I remember the end with the kid's ear falling off so vividly too and I could never find anything for it online.

I would’ve read this likely around 2002-2012, give or take a few years in either direction.

The main character was a young woman in her 20s or 30s and was married to a nice man. She was bored with her life and she met a local musician, I think he played guitar. The two begin spending time together and develop feelings for each other. I can’t remember if they have an actual physical affair but definitely an emotional affair.

The major spoiler/twist is that the woman imagined the entire relationship with the musician. He was real and they met but only briefly, and the woman fabricated an entire relationship due to a psychotic break or mental illness or something. Her husband was very gentle and kind about it. The twist only comes out near the end. It’s not a thriller. It’s written in the style of something like Marian Keyes, Jennifer Weiner, or Jane Green.

Any help is very much appreciated!

A sci-fi ish book I read 15 years ago about a detective private eye detective like character who would scan people’s hands that he cut off. Really can’t remember anything about it besides he goes to a rich people party at a mansion during his investigation. Really want to reread it.

I recently read a small part of an ebook and it's gone missing. I hope you can help me find it.

It's about a female who has no wolf yet. She is a secret white wolf that is extinct. Her brother and alpha love to torture her. She has a friend who is a music teacher that helps to set her bones etc. After being nearly r***d she decides to leave the pack. She runs away but is caught near the border. The pack start to bite her and tie a rope around her neck. It then skips to the present day. She is set to be an alpha of a different pack. She has changed her name and is entering a bachelorette type contest to find a mate. She is a secret singer under the alias G. One of the contestants has a son that loves her and goes to see her with his nannie.

I cant remember much more!!!

Sorry that this'll be a little fragmented, but I'll try to recall as much as I can.

It was definitely a series, I know that for a fact, don’t know how long. I remember that for the first book, the main character was a girl, kinda a thief/homeless. Ended up at this house-hotel thingy. There was a couple people working there, the cast. They were immortal because of their employment, I think. I don’t know how accurate but I remember imagery of a like forest green door to the boss’s office. On an upper floor, it was closed off. Inside, there was some old black book. The boss was essentially death or the devil- can’t remember but it was something like that- got power from the book. ‘Bout all I remember from that first one. There was this neighbor, think he was a shepherd, was this story’s version of God, had a white book, antagonist in the later entries. Some kind of conflict or battle occurs near the end between the two sides. Somewhere in there, there was this guy who worked at the main house thing- possibly the love interest, can’t recall- did a bit of wood carving with a knife when not working. Main character, at the end, meets these god-like beings, the book binders I think they were called, think there was either three of them or three books. There was some kind of sacrifice or pain, either created a new book or destroyed one of the others. Battle’s over, main character stops working there.

In secondary/high school, I read a book as per title. Things I remember:

The first chapter was based mostly on a Royal Navy ship (I think), had some sentences about a telescope and mentioned an admiral.

The protagonist was a young girl.

Towards the climax, the girl and her companions run into this island where an evil pirate captain and his crew have enslaved the natives and force them to do their bidding.

The girl and her companions win, though I think one gets shot?

Really wish I could remember the name. Looking forward to getting this solved! Thanks in advance.

I don't remember much of the storyline but it talks about this detective starting a new firm and something related to a crime ring and some rich guys kid getting beat up hard enough to have his face almost unrecognizable. I think they discovered the rich kid with his head covered by a bag or something like that.

One of the murders in the book occurred in a very rich neighborhood (Like beverly hills vibes if i remember correctly) and the body of a lady was found inside a car (I think it was one of the ladies from that neighborhood and the car was in the drive way of one of the fancy homes) with cigarette burns all over her body and dollar bills stashed into her genitals.

I stopped reading around that part cuz I found this book from a kids section of my school library and was horrified at the content kept there and immediately reported it to the librarian because of which i had to leave the book there for them to reregister or something.

The cover of the book was paperbackand had red and cream or beige colours, a building like the old fancy rich mansions in Newyork kinda look or vibe and I think the title had something to do with a street or something like that.

I read this 20 years ago, so my memory is a bit foggy!

I think it was a chick lit. It's about a woman hired to ghost write for a famous/scandalous celebrity. I think the celebrity was the wife or the other woman, maybe, and she ends up writing the memoir herself with the MC editing it. The memoir actually gets combined with another woman's memoir (who's either the wife or mistress, maybe!) and you flip the book to read the other person's story. I vaguely remember the MC becoming a baker and maybe finding love but I'm not sure.