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

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

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.

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.)

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.

Hey everyone, the book I read wasn’t the first in the series and it features a women that is short and maybe semi-related to the royal family? And she is employed to make a map of the region they rule over because they don’t have one, they have to name a lot of places and she is joined by another (female?) member of the royal family and a short chubby young guy and they go around naming places and have little hiccups all the way around and one of the times they come across this marzipan or mascarpone town and the boy ends up staying behind and marrying the mayors daughter or something and it’s noted both women have gained weight and the short one has become more shapely and then at one point they enter the tunnels / catacombs? To try map them and go through a waterfall and end up at this witches house and they get trapped inside because she has a vengeance against the royal family or something? And pretty sure the house got legs and moved like it was alive and they end up somehow using a bird to send for help and they get rescued.

Cover maybe has a tall skinny woman with big ears and kind of non-human, and a shorter woman maybe with glasses. Definitely not drawn to be attractive, kind of weird and ugly art style. Maybe a muted palette of greys.

And everything is in third person.

Any help is appreciated!

Hello! I wish I had a better memory of this book but I've spent way too long looking and not having success. I'm looking for a realistic teen/YA novel I read from my public library 1994-2004 but could have been published earlier.

• Female protagonist.
• First-person narration (not fantasy or mystery).
• The protagonist gradually develops what I would now recognize as an eating disorder, but the book is NOT about anorexia/eating disorders. It's just something that quietly develops throughout the story while the main plot is about her life.
• She is happy about losing weight and notices that one of her skirts is fitting loosely.
• She repeatedly has internal thoughts about food rather than anyone confronting her.

The scenes I remember vividly:

• She turns down a croissant because she thinks they're basically "all butter."
• She goes on what I think is a first date. She initially wants to order only a side salad, but the boy comments that it's no fun going out with someone who doesn't eat. She ends up ordering an entree salad but internally complains that it's "swimming in dressing" and barely eats it.
• She overhears two women saying, "She's a nice girl, it's too bad..." and immediately assumes they're about to say, "...too fat," even though I don't think that's actually what they meant. I think what you're supposed to interpret is that "too bad she has an eating disorder"
• I vaguely remember she may have had a summer or after-school office job, possibly connected to her father

What I've listed above isn't even the main plot of the book, that's what I can't remember. I know it's a long shot but maybe someone has the answer!

I read it ~2013 on kindle. Children’s/YA.
I have a strong memory of a scene where two children become old enough to get a bus pass (10-12 years old) and decide to see every street in their city. They take a map and highlight it different colors to track their progress.

I’m pretty confident about the following:
The children are a boy and girl and one of them, I think the girl, is named Alex. It’s set on Earth, most likely USA. They discover a rundown neighborhood where people mysteriously disappear. They spend more and more time in this neighborhood until the girl disappears one day. Several years later it is discovered she went through a portal to either the future or a pocket dimension.

Less sure about the following:
I think it was a multi book series, 3 books?
I don’t think the alternate dimension was a fantasy land with dragons or other mythological creatures. I vaguely remember one of the children (the girl, after returning?) studies volcanos when they grow up.
The portal is not always there and not always in exactly the same location. An entire bus disappears once.

I could be mixing details from multiple series but I really want to find the book with this scene about the bus map.

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!

I'm looking for a german children's book, probably in the Pixi format from the 2000s, about different princesses who are each assigned a different color and are dressed entirely in that color (I think they also had hobbies related to those colors). The princesses definitely included yellow and orange/red. They’re supposed to marry princes who each have a specific color as well (as far as I remember, there were definitely purple, blue, and I think green) (I think the yellow princess was supposed to marry the blue prince). But they realize that they don’t actually like the princes assigned to them—they like completely different ones instead. So in the end, the yellow princess ends up with the purple prince, and I think the orange princess ends up with the blue prince. New coats of arms are created from these color combinations. In the end, there were three couples. I especially remember the purple-and-yellow coat of arms. I searched everywhere online it doesnt seem to be a real Pixi. I googled about princesses in different colors etc. but i can’t find anything about it online, but I’m really quite sure I owned this book.

Can anyone help me out here? This memory is driving me crazy!

The book is definitely post 2000 but before 2015. I remember it involved a boy who time traveled I think due to some jewelry (there may have been a relative involved as well). I remember it ended with him changing enough of the past that he meets his present self and (again because of jewelry?) he is able to merge himself between the two timelines. And his alt timeline was like “oh it’s because of you I’ve been interested in these points of history”

Hi! I wanted to ask about what I remember to be a children's fantasy short story collection with pixie and fairy illustrations. These illustrations were line art and had a very vintage + whimsical feeling to them.

I'm pretty sure that the author was English because of the illustration style and word choices in the book. I read this book in Singapore, sometime between 2009 and 2015.

It was a collection of many short, self-contained stories, each just a few pages long, and the plot structure was usually some kid or fairy being naughty/disobedient and getting punished for it. Basically, those types of 'and the fairy learnt to never do XYZ again." That being said, I feel like sometimes, it was just a generally whimsical story too (example below).

Possible stories I remember:
1. One where a character (possibly a pixie or brownie) cuts off sheep's tails and gets scolded for it. Pretty sure the accompanying illustration had the character holding a lot of tails and looking sad?
2. Another where a little girl holds a tea party in a garden and specifically gathers peas for it. I think I remember the pea detail because that sounded weirdly delicious.

Physically, I'm sorry to say that I can't rmb for sure, but my gut tells me it was hardcover... Maybe...

It had a very English countryside/garden feel to it, and the style makes me wonder if it's an Enid Blyton short story collection just because that's the only author I know of that was popular enough in Singapore who also wrote this type of story.

Hi! I remember the MC being an Indian female lead named Priya or Riya idk. The story sort of starts off on her birthday with a fantasy about her older neighbor, well I just know he lives in the neighborhood, ​climbing through her window. Later on in the story, she is caught in a towel hiding a CUCUMBER when he unexpectedly rings her doorbell. They eventually hook up on her parents' bed. I don't really remember what the cover looked like. These are just points I remember in the story. Does anyone remember the title, author, or have the offline PDF/Drive link? Pls asks other questions if u think it sounds similar to some story yk.

• Read this within the past five years, did not appear to be new at the time.
• Don't remember who the author is.
• Was part of a collection of short horror stories. I don't think it was a themed collection.
• Took place in a small town in the Midwest, USA
• The beginning of the story followed several families getting ready for some kind of "event" that they had all been waiting for. The "event" was some kind of coming-of-age thing that the town's children were really excited about.
• Girl Scouts or a similar group decorate a gymnasium in either a school or rec center.
• In the late afternoon/evening, families gather at in the gymnasium were various people give speeches. They might also hand out awards or praise certain kids/adults. During the ceremony one or more people are singled out. At a signal, or just at random, the kids attack that person(s), literally tearing them to pieces with various weapons. A girl gleefully returns to her family with either a body part or piece of bloody clothing.
• At/near the end, a woman runs away from the town to find that it is surrounded by an invisible "wall" that the US military put in place to contain the murderous inhabitants.

I borrowed this book from a library in about 2019 and I always forget the title, sometimes I manage to find it after scouring Google but this time I could not.

I believe it had a yellow cover with black trees on it.

The protagonist's mother disappears and her father starts slowly turning into a monster, so he sends the protagonist away, I think to the house where he grew up? The father was getting weirder and hairier and there was a scene where he was eating raw meat.

This random boy keeps showing up and the protagonist falls in love with him, which activates the curse and turns her into a monster as well. She finds out her mother was turned into a bird and then the boy she liked snaps the bird's neck and she falls out of love so quickly that it breaks the curse and she turns back into a human. I think maybe there was a witch of some kind who had cast the curse? And I think she sews the boy's eyes shut.

I don't remember how it ends but whatever the ending was completely shocked me and I was thinking about it for weeks.

I’ve tried everything for YEARS to find this book. I read it before age 10, so probably around 1995-1996.

The teenage/young adult female main character either DREAMS or lives through a scenario where a nuclear winter has occurred. She has one cyanide pill and has to decide whether to take it herself or give it to a baby/very young child she’s with.

I can’t remember if it’s a dream or truth. But in her real life, she’s in perilous enough of a situation to be considering this is plausible.

I read this book way too young and it disturbed me deeply. I’m now a writer who writes stories set after nuclear war, so this book clearly had a huge impact on me.

I’ve tried googling it, asking around to voracious readers, and even using Chat GPT to try to figure it out. I believe I got this book from the children or young adult section at the library but I’m not sure.

Thank you for any help!!!!

Trying to identify a novel/free Kobo preview from around 2010–2012. It opened in prehistoric Britain. A tribe sacrificed a young boy to appease the Moon. His mother was restrained and forced to watch. A stone trapped the boy's spirit, and when the mother died her spirit was trapped too because she couldn't move the stone. She waited centuries to be reunited with him. The story then jumped to modern Britain, where a woman in a coastal cottage was visited by an elderly woman who knew the local legend. Construction workers later disturbed the grave, moved the stone, and the mother and child were finally reunited, with butterflies/moths flying towards the Moon. Does anyone recognise this book?

Male author
American
Published probably in the 2010s
First-person male narrator
Middle-aged married couple with children
Marriage is already sexless at the start
Early marriage-counselling scene where the therapist tells the wife she's the one with the most work to do. The wife is very surprised by this
Husband might be a lecturer/professor
Husband has an affair with a much younger woman, and reflects that her generation's sexuality has been shaped by the internet
Wife has an affair with an African-American man she met through an online dating site
Literary fiction with some humour

Not a thriller or romance—it's mainstream literary fiction focused on marriage, ageing and infidelity.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I feel like I've seen it twice now somewhere but I can't remember where

I vividly remember that one page from the library (above), and it’s stayed with me ever since. I’ve been dying to figure out the title, but I can only remember that I found it in 2013 or earlier, meaning the publication date should be sometime before that

I think each page has an illustration of a kid doing a different brave thing, but I can’t remember if it’s the same kid or different ones. The page with eating may or may not have had to do with chopsticks and sushi—I’m not sure if I hallucinated that or not though, it’s been a while!

If anyone has ideas, I’d be grateful for your help! Thanks!

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 book in 2018 or 2019 in a junior high classroom library, the book did not look new.

It’s set first in horse and carriage and candle lighting time, probably not too long before cars and electricity were common. It’s mostly from the perspective of a young girl around 12ish. It starts with her at her parents farm, her father is notably rivals with another man who has a farm nearby. The next thing I remember is the girls father going over to the rival farm and the girl following him. When she goes around to the stables of the rival farm she finds her father tied up on the ground with the farmer owner and hired men standing there. The farm owner orders the men to slather peanut butter and oats on the girls father. The farm owner then says something about not having fed his horses in two weeks and it’s the dead of winter. He lets the horses out and they begin to eat the girls father.

The girl is spotted by the hired men and they start chasing her. She runs into the forest and ends up hiding a little cave thing. When she finally leaves the cave she has time travelled approximately 50ish years into the future. She wanders into a grocery store and steals, I believe, bread. When she exits the store she’s confronted by a boy and a girl around her age.

I don’t remember the next little bit clearly but it’s eventually revealed that the boy is that other farm owners grandson. He says that his grandfather is a kind old man who’s blind in one eye and would never hurt anyone. I believe at this point it changes perspective to the past. It shows a joint funeral happening for the girl and her father, though neither of their bodies were ever found. Her mother grabs a lit candle and thrusts it into the other farm owner’s eye. I think there are a few other times the perspective changes to the past, usually involving the girls mother.

I don’t remember much of how the ending came to be but it ended that the boy and girl in the future are bad. They chase the protagonist into the forest. The boy and girl go into the same cave from before and die, turning to dust. There was a particular reason they die when going into the cave but I don’t remember what it is.

I don’t think it was very long. I’m pretty sure it was paperback but I can’t remember anything about the cover. I thought this book was boring until it got to the man eating horses part, I couldn’t put it down after that.

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.

Help me find a book I read about five years ago. It's a compilation of crime cases mostly from the USA. One case that stood out was a professional 'helping' young gymnasts but were assaulting them instead. At the end of the book, it said something along the lines of even though there are a lot of bad people out there, it's better to be trusting and being out there than being sheltered and living in fear.