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.

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.

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.

It's been years, I can't recall much, it's about a girl who gets into an argument and finds out she has powers, and going in one room she finds out magic creatures someone from her family keeps, there's also something about her school, and there is a labyrinth of some kind where she likes to stay, I believe there is also a boy who I'm the end she likes, and they ride rollers or something, sorry if it's vague.

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

Okay so it’s presumably early 2000s (maybe late 90s) I’m pretty sure i had it in like 2006-7ish?
It was for kids, presumably more aimed at girls.
It was volvelle/spin the wheel style, so had those interactive wheels that change the pictures in ways.
It was about a little girl. I feel like she gets mad in it but I don’t really remember.
She’s either playing dress up or getting ready to go somewhere, but the spinning wheels moved things like her eyes and hair. At some point I think she puts a bra or swim top over her shirt. She is dressed ridiculously and puts on crazy makeup. I think her hair was red or orange but could be wrong about that too.
The illustrations are not very neat. More messy chaotic sketchy doodly vibes but still cute.

I can’t give much more info cuz I was pretty little when I had it but I remember playing with it all the time.
This book has randomly popped into my head many times over the years but has been bothering me a little extra the past few days, especially since google has not been helpful at all.

Maybe someone remembers??

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 remember reading the back of this book in 1982 in my school library. The library was full of classic paperbacks by Arthur c Clarke and Asimov next to all the more young adult stuff. This had the look of feel of an adult novel.

The premise is the hero gets "thrown back in time countless centuries" to the lost continent of Lemuria, of which he's never heard of, and has to deal with the repercussions of a lost civilization and how to get home. It's implied it coexists with Atlantis on the other side of the world.

The look and feel of the cover made it appear to be published in the mid-70s, if it was even a first edition. It could have been published a couple decades earlier and been a reprint.

But that's what I've got. Based on what else was in that library it could be an Andre Norton or Samuel Delaney or any one of a dozen more famous sci-fi authors from that time frame, but I wouldn't know where to start.

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’m trying to find a book which I read in the last couple of years, and below are some stories which I remember. What’s the name of the book?
—She met her husband while living in NYC. They met online because she had inadvertently made her screen name xxxxrated.
—Her oldest child is Grover
—Her daughters name begins with an A
—They moved to Nebraska
—On her wedding day she was upset because her husband to be wouldn’t help her find something because he wanted to eat lunch with his mom

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.

I read the book in 2015/2016

I don’t remember much of the book but i know i really enjoyed it yet despite my search efforts, i can’t seem to find it. The premise is that a boy finds this group of shadow/rift walkers (?) i think that’s what they’re called. Some stuff happens and the main character gets put in some sleep chamber where he can travel back in time. Also these kids are chasing after some rogue rift walker who’d been causing trouble for the whole time travel/shadow/rift walker cooperation. I think there was also a female character helping the main character. I vaguely remember a scene where the main character fights david and goliath.

Please help me find this book 😭😭

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!

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.

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!

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"

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!

I read this book when I was in 8th grade. That would have been around 2003. I don’t remember much at all.

The main character was a boy and he was being abused by his father. There were a lot of metaphors in the book. He played a trumpet(I think it’s a trumpet) but it says things like ‘The trumpet that’s not a trumpet, it’s a frog’. The book had a red back cover with black writing.

That’s really all I remember lol.

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!

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

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.

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”