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Hi again :) So I read this book when I was about 12 or 13 (which would've been 2003 or so, but I feel like the book was a little older than that) about this boy whose father kidnapped other boys. The man would keep the pictures and the news stories about the boys he kidnapped and when he was doing whatever he was doing... | ["Cameron Miller is the son of a murderer. All he has ever known is the stench of the locked cellar, where he can hear the blows and cries and his father's torrent of terror and abuse. Then a miracle happens: his father is killed in a police shootout. In the aftermath, Cameron grabs his one chance for a normal life: he... | ["Class 507 is the worst class Ms. Bryce has ever taught. And she would know -- she's been teaching forever. They are so terrible that when a science experiment goes disastrously wrong (again), Ms. Bryce has had it and quits in the middle of the lesson. But through a mix-up, the school office never finds out. Which mea... |
I suddenly remembered this scenario and it's bugging me that I can't remember anything about book so help please.Author is definitely femaleI read it last year or may be in 2017.I remember this scenario:So the heroine, the hero and one more person r in hotel room. There r two beds . Now the hero refuse to sleep with ot... | ["Done with being the world's biggest pushover, Haley decides that things are going to change starting with the aggravating neighbor who has too much charm and not enough restraint. What she didn't expect was to be sucked into his world, but Haley has a game plan and she won't let herself forget just what the bad boy n... | ["WARNING: is the first book in a trilogy and ends with a cliffhanger. Due to mature material, it is recommended for ages 17+.What if the person who stole your heart wasn't who you thought they were? When my parents passed away, I grew up fast. Learning to stand on my own two feet has been a challenge, but I'm making ... |
I read this book somewhere between 1995-2000. It was for older kids, but not graphic or scary.It takes place on Earth. It's about a shapeshifting alien who recruits a boy to help him track down another, potentially criminal or renegade, alien of the same species. The aliens' normal form is maybe a slug (it's not Animor... | ['A shapeshifting extraterrestrial cop, Zymel, enlists the aid of shrimpy seventh-grader Frank Dunn and his friend Lauren to repair his flying saucer and recapture Fek, an escaped shape-changing prisoner. As they change in rapid succession, Frank and Lauren find themselves mixed up with a ram, a dog, a watermelon, a bo... | ['Exodus 27 is about to take off for Arbroth, an unspoiled planet seven light-years away. Thousands of Earth colonists are asleep in its cryogenic chambers. Suddenly Troy, a young crewman, sounds the alarm. There\'s an alien girl with tangerine eyes aboard the spaceship. On Arbroth, Eth, a young , awakens from an odd d... |
So the book takes places in LA (and a little in New Orleans) follows around the mega famous actor (believe his name was an alliteration) his son who seems to not be able to hold down a job or figure out what he wants to do (mid to late 20s) has a beautiful girlfriend (interior decorator or storage expert) who seems to ... | ["The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature--his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery--long to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Will are Renn's grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as le... | ["A great deal is happening in London and the country this season.For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There's also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he's not doing a very good job of it--so just what are his intentions?) And then there's Oliver. Eve... |
Year I read was between: 2005 - 2008Can't remember too much, and scared multiple stories maybe getting blurred in my memory but....Involved at least two main characters, the protagonist and then a group leader who I believe was called Salem (or some other name which was odd). There may have been a concept of having to ... | ['"You don\'t just walk into the tribe, pal. First you\'ve got to pass the test."Kevin thinks gangs are stupid - he\'s never going to join one but events spiral out of control when he\'s caught up in a gang fight and the tribe comes to his rescue. It isn\'t easy to join the tribe - but, as Kevin discovers when it\'s al... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
It's a book about a guy who works as an investigator( I think is a forensic investigator) in a dystopian type world. The book starts with a girl being murdered by an icicle whose name is Emily (I think I'm not sure) and the guy steps in for the case, then another another Emily gets killed with poison and at the end the... | ["Luke Harding's third thrilling case involves a series of mysterious murders in which the victims seem to have only one thing in common: they are all named Emily Wonder. In the bitter cold of winter, Luke and Malc struggle to investigate three crime scenes lacking in physical evidence. When a young homeless girl, also... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
Woman escapes abductors in mountains by throwing boiling water on face. Woman then finds man and dog at cabin. He thinks she was sent by his aunt. She stays with him at the cabin, he catches one of her captures and they return to city. He is wealthy business owner; alpha male that basically tells her they will be toget... | ["When Phoebe arrives quite by accident at the doorstep of Harlan's mountain cabin, he is less than pleased. Convinced that she has been sent by his matchmaking aunt, Harlan would gladly throw Phoebe out, but she's in trouble. So grudging host and grudging guest will have to make the best of things. . . . When Phoebe a... | ["Zoe McInnes is used to the stares. The whispers. They started when she and her sisters were young – the triplet daughters of a famous father. Now, the people of Spruce Lake watch her for a different reason – they think she murdered her husband. When her former father-in-law has a stroke, Zoe is blamed. When she's th... |
Hi,I need help with finding a book. It's a harlequin book. The heroine travels to Crete to work for a tourist agency. She goes to this villa where she is supposed to clean en look after the guests(tourists). Hero is the neighbor. He hates her Boss because he thinks the boss is shady. Heroine gets duped by boss. During ... | ['Mills & Boon Sweet series promises love affairs to last a lifetime… Too hot to handle? Lefteris Markakis despised English girls, and now Courtney had stepped into his vendetta by intending to entertain tourists at the Villa Athina which just happened to be owned by Lefteris\'s arch rival, but was sited on Lefteris... | ["Nothing really bad has ever happened to Birdie. And she hates it! She needs drama, angst, torment–something to provide fodder for the amazing book she wants to write. When her parents take a yearlong sabbatical to the Caribbean, she gets her wish. . . . Morgan is a child of the sea. Raised by nomadic Norwegian parent... |
The horse with horns is mostly what I remember. I read this back in the late 90s or early 2000s, but it might have been written in the 70s or 80s. It was a paperback I found in the library at my high school and it was pretty worn and the paper was old, that's why I think it was much earlier. The cover, from what I reme... | ["Priestess, healer, warrior, witch. In a desert world ruled by men Rifkind has always been one apart. A chieftain's daughter, she has learned to wield a sword while all other women are bound by tribal custom to children and the cooking fire. While other women are chattel to their men, Rifkind has been Marked by the Go... | ["He never lost a battle until he met the one woman who might succeed in....Dear Reader,My enemies know me as Lord Bannor the Bold, Pride of the English and Terror of the French. Never in my life have I backed down from any challenge or betrayed so much as a hint of fear—until the war ended and I found myself a relucta... |
SPOILER in the description:I read this book back in 2006 but not sure when it was published. The teen girl was home and her dad was killed by an intruder, I think stabbed. Her dad was either law enforcement, FBI or military. She either hides and there is a time jump or she runs away and goes to the mall to hide from th... | ['It all started with a phone call.In a tense voice, Alice\'s very rational father suggests that she drive his precious Corvette and meet him. But Alice doesn\'t have a driver\'s license. "It doesn\'t matter!" he yells. Yet he never shows up. Something is very wrong.Then Alice hears an announcement over the radio. Her ... | ['Nowhere to run. One place to hide…Sarah Davidson is the lone witness to a brutal murder. After the killer makes an attempt on her life, she\'s put under police protection. But when one of the cops turns on her, she\'s forced to hide in a place no one would ever think to look. Sarah\'s solution? Roosevelt High. She\'l... |
1970'sA short story:concerns a race of merchants who discovered Earth on one of their journeys. One of the traders enters a bar in a drunken state. One of those in the bar receives a pill from the merchant who gives him special gifts or powers. At a certain point, the trader's colleagues enter the bar and take him with... | ["An interstellar trading ship arrived in the moon's orbit two years ago, and the few aliens who have descended to Earth have stayed in their landing craft or at the United Nations building in New York City. When one of the aliens unexpectedly shows up in a Los Angeles tavern, bartender Ed Frazer awakes the next mornin... | ["The Earth is under siege - and no one knows about it, because the invaders erase those whom they consume.A handful of men and women stand on the border between the mundane and the magical. They have a special spark of soul; not quite enough to be naturally gifted in spellcraft, but greater than the average person, a ... |
Historical romance from early-to-mid 80s. Simone and Rudolph are the main characters. He's a Russian aristocrat and she's a maid or servant he sees during some sort of festival in the town. Rudolph seduces, then kidnaps her, falls in love, only to lose her when her true identity is discovered. Her grandmother, another ... | ['"Cry for yourself, Simone. Weep for the girl who is no one. Weep for the woman who dared to love a prince..." Rudolph Nikolaivich -- His was a golden beauty, masking an inner darkness. His was a tormented soul that was Russia itself and the glint of sunlight dancing across the spires of St. Petersburg. And she loved ... | ["One fateful night, Toni Langston seduces her best friend, the guy she's been in love with forever. Two problems-he doesn't remember a thing that happened and now she's pregnant. Toni Langston has been in love with Simon, her best friend, for years. The night Simon breaks up with his long time girlfriend, he and Toni ... |
I don't think this was YA. What I remember of the plot is a bit messy. (view spoiler)[It starts out with a woman who's been murdered by her husband. Her soul is trapped in her grave, until her mother pulls her out and dies in the process. The woman's soul then returns to her husband and they have sex. She then vanishes... | ["Bob was the happiest man in the world. His wife was dead, and no one suspected him of the murder. His mother-in-law was dying, and would probably leave him an inheritance. With both of them gone, Bob could live the good life. But then Bob's wife came back from the grave . . . and she brought her mother with her. Bob ... | ["Stephanie Reymond was just another lonely woman trapped in a miserable marriage. Now she's running from ruthless killers and is wanted by the FBI. Her husband, her sister and her best friend are dead -- murdered for a thirty million dollar fortune. Her fortune.Alone and desperate, she flees to the Caribbean in search... |
I'm looking for a book I read as a teen. I thought it might be part of the Point Horror, Point Romance or Sweet Dreams series but I can't find it.The main character, when she was little, was asked what she wanted for Christmas. Her parents gave her catalogue but she called it a 'wish book' or something similar and poin... | ['"And then you die!" - The grim message is scrawled across the script of the horror film Christina stars in - is it a joke, or for real? While shooting a horror film, of which she is the star, young actress Christina becomes the target of a crazed stalker who threatens to kill her. "And then you die!" - The grim messa... | ["APPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENTName: Elle MedinaMarital Status: I'm separated from my fiancé.Occupation: He was a highly paid attorney.Employment History: You mean mine? Technically I haven't exactly worked before. But I'm motivated and I work well with others. Most others. Usually.Career Goals: I thought I was happy with... |
My gosh! I've had a complete mind blank and cannot remember the title or author of a particular book so I need your help! 🙏🏼 So from memory, it's a group of guys who served in the army together who now are a group that helps relocate and get new identities for abused women, I think they male lead from the first book ... | ["Librarian note: alternate-cover edition of B00DP5IBM6.HerI wanted to have a pity party of one when I went for that beer. I never imagined I would meet a dark and dangerous man. That man took me on the wildest ride of my life. Literally and Figuratively. He quickly became my entire world.HimI didn't know I was looking... | ['A brand new book from the internationally bestselling author of Did I Mention I Love YouThe higher the stakes, the greater the fall.MacKenzie Rivers knows the kind of impact death can have on those it leaves behind. She’s felt that grief firsthand. So when Jaden, her crush and almost-boyfriend, loses his parents in a... |
Okay, so I read this book in fourth grade and that being like five years ago I can't remember the title. My sister is now in 4th grade and I want her to read it, but that's a little hard if I don't know what book it is. Mainly, there is this girl who gets mad at her brother for something (I can't remember what.) and sh... | ["Eleven-year-old Louise Tolliver lives with her mother and her brother, Willie, in Tollivers' Hollow. Like any brother, Willie gives Louise a hard time, but the trouble really starts when Louise calls him a pig -- and he becomes one. And that's not all. Louise's father has been missing for seven years, and the locals... | ["Growing up in a dead-end South Texas town, Mickey had two things she could count on: her big brother, Danny—the football hero everyone loved—and a beat-up copy of The Outsiders. But after the accident—after Danny abandoned her to a town full of rumors and a drunken father—all Mickey had left was a smoky memory, her a... |
This is for my Child. She read this when she was like between 5 to 8 years old and wants to know the title of the book. Plot line: A young white boy befriends a young black boy of similar age, I don’t think the black boy has a family but I don’t remember clearly. The white boy and his mom take in the black boy and hide... | ["There are few picture books written about the Civil War, and none are as powerful as this one. This story, about how a young black soldier rescues a white soldier, opens young readers' eyes to the injustices of slavery and the senselessness of war. Highly charged emotionally, this masterful retelling of a true story ... | ['I awaken in a laboratory. I don’t know who I am. I’m inexplicably drawn to the doctor who cares for me. She tells me I’ve been altered, that I’m stronger and faster, that I’ll be a key component in a war between corporations. She says I volunteered for this. She says I volunteered to be transformed, but I have no way... |
About a year ago I read a book that I thought was a normal book about a girl who is staying over the summer somewhere or moved somewhere new and meets mysterious guy. Dude is a witch and tells her. He wants to teach her about wicca and she is intrigued but unsure if she should learn about it. She also meets a boring ov... | ["Seventeen-year-old Mackenzie Smith is sent away to spend a boring summer at her grandma's. But then she meets Wesley. He tells her exactly what she wants to hear and has information about her past that no one else knows. It's almost like he can read her mind.Only Wesley isn't who he seems.By the time Mackenzie discov... | ["WARNING: is the first book in a trilogy and ends with a cliffhanger. Due to mature material, it is recommended for ages 17+.What if the person who stole your heart wasn't who you thought they were? When my parents passed away, I grew up fast. Learning to stand on my own two feet has been a challenge, but I'm making ... |
Book set in Britain, read in the 90's. Girl is a model. She is on a train which crashes/ derails. She is taken to hospital and ends up losing the leg. She is fitted with a prosthetic leg. She then gets a job as a teaching assistant in a primary school where there are 3 children with prosthetic limbs, 2 of which have co... | ["En route to a West End audition, young Gemma Goodeve is involved in a railway disaster which she survives - but with the loss of a leg. She finds she has to contend not only with her ambitious mother's disappointment at the ending of her stage career, but also with a media circus. En route to a West End audition, you... | ["Martin Roberts has made a successful career from painting, but is finding that his creativity is slipping away - stifled by his family life. That is until he is responsible for running a teenage girl down in his car.Miraculously the girl survives, but stranger than her lack of injuries is her striking physical appear... |
Read this one last summer. Presently driving me a bit batty. A book or possibly series of books set in a California resort town. Cannot remember the title or the author, but the main "theme" revolved around -- duh -- Zombies with said town having a giant wall as their main protection and also being split into three sem... | ["Just one month ago, secret government operative Sasha Trudeau thought she'd tasted victory. Orchestrating détente between the warring factions of the supernatural world had nearly cost her life—but it also opened the door to a future with Max Hunter, her mate and fellow Shadow Wolf.Until now. A poisonous virus is wre... | ["DescriptionDavid's been in my heart since the moment we met.But he's always been off-limits. A close friend of the family, and way too old for me.That doesn't stop me from wanting him. Even his leaving town hasn't changed my feelings.Now that I've graduated college, I'm moving closer to him — right next door. But tha... |
Hi I read this book a few years ago I know it’s not the first in the series they have an enemy whose kidnaping humans the hero finds out you can mate human females and they go on a search for them along the way they come across an enemy ship and as they search it after destroying the enemy they hear a female call out a... | ['No one likes a rebellious captive. I learned that the hard way. I’ve been abducted from earth and cruelly tormented for my fighting spirit until I learned that the only thing that would keep me safe is to be sweet and calm and agreeable. It’s what keeps me alive. When I’m rescued by space pirates, they tell me I’m ... | ['Alternate cover edition for ASIN B00750JZAEPhoenix Light’s world collapses around her when her dad rushes in the house and switches on the television to see enemy soldiers are taking over their world. Luckily, her father knew an attack was imminent and he built a vast shelter in the mountains for their family, and th... |
What I said in the title "scary fantasy in a New York city Dakota-like apartment building and Baron Samedi is a character"--that's just about all I can remember about the plot. The protagonist is a young woman who I think moves in to this Dakota-like building in New York City. (No, it's not Rosemary moving into the Bra... | [':There’s a witch on Riverside Drive...Lise Brown was thrilled with her new apartment; it was more than anyone fresh from the Midwest had a right to expect in Manhattan. She loved it for the river view and the high old ceilings, but even more for the unexpected way she felt instantly at home there—as if the place had ... | ["WARNING: is the first book in a trilogy and ends with a cliffhanger. Due to mature material, it is recommended for ages 17+.What if the person who stole your heart wasn't who you thought they were? When my parents passed away, I grew up fast. Learning to stand on my own two feet has been a challenge, but I'm making ... |
Hi! Thanks for any help possible. I found this book in a Moody Bible bookstore (or something like it) and it was my first foray into dystopia. I believe I was about 7 or so making it roughly 1995+ when I bought the book. It was the second in a series and had a seafoam green cover - a series about a group of kids travel... | ["After a harrowing escape from the army of the Sanhedrin, Joshua Adams and his six young companions are thrust into yest another battle against Elmas, Chief Interrogator of the Sanhedrin and servent of the dark Lord Necros.Fulfilling the legend of old, the Seven Sleepers seek to follow their Spiritual leader Goel's in... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
Hi all, I'm trying to track down the name of an illustrated book I read when I was a child--I believe I read it about 1994. It was about a girl telling her grandfather about an upcoming trip to the zoo. Lots of puns--for example, I remember she said she was looking forward to seeing the anteater, and he playfully inter... | ["Share-a-story books have been devised by Pat Thomson for adults who want to encourage children to read, but have difficulty in finding suitable stories. This story is a comic dialogue for parent and child to read aloud. Ask grandad about a trip to the zoo and he'll tell you what you might find there: big cats in hats... | ["Hi Abby,Bet I'm the last person you expected to get a card from. The island is hot and beautiful and brilliant, but you were 80% right about Davinia. No—90% right. She's totally self-centered and she's trying to force me to date this creep! I'd sooner slit my wrists because I'm in love with someone else. He's gorgeou... |
I started reading this in 2010-2012 (it may be slightly older). I was in the middle of moving house, and it got lost along the way, and I was halfway through, and it's driving me crazy! The edition's front cover is a rendered house with a window and a purple-flowered climbing plant.One of the main characters is the nie... | ["Determined to start a new life, Louisa Forrester has come to Scotland in search of adventure, new relationships and a second chance. She has enrolled on a creative writing course at the renowned Glendrochatt Arts Centre. It is here that she meets Marnie Donovan, a young American woman who has travelled to Scotland in... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
This was a science fiction book I read years ago as a teen or young adult. It would have been in mid to late 80's through early 90's when I read it but I don't know the original publication date. The book is set in the future where population has become a problem. The main character starts out as a young boy born illeg... | ["A boy, who has known nothing in his brief life but love and darkness, forces open a window and sees for the first time the outside world, which also sees him: an illegal immigrant by birth. Arrested, his parents tortured to death, we see through Thomas Windom's eyes a race preparing to deal with overpopulation in the... | ["Here's a story in the best American folk tradition. It combines a ghost, a hidden treasure, and an appealing young character who sets out to make his fortune, and does so by courage, kindness and the sort of innocence that invariably succeeds in folk literature. Thomas is the youngest of seven children. His parents w... |
I've been trying to find this book but everything I try just comes up with the Twilight series.The book involves two teenage girls, one popular one bookish, who get transported into the second girl's favorite book, Queen of Twilight.It's got a fair amount of humor and uses a lot of fantasy tropes on purpose. It has elv... | ["When mortal enemies Veronica and Heather get hit by a bar code scanner while fighting over the last copy of a hot fantasy novel, they are transported into the novel. Having accidentally killed the book's heroine, Vero and Heather have no choice but to try to save the land of Galma from the Twilight Queen. When mortal... | ['In a tale that mirrors "Snow White," eighteen-year-old Bella is leading a carefree bohemian lifestyle the summer before college, living and singing with a band in London and Paris. But over the course of a few weeks, she finds herself in danger more than once--and she can\'t help but suspect the two mysterious women ... |
I read this book about 13 years ago 2008 and I think it was around 8 years old at the time. I'm super hazy on the details because I was fairly young when i read it but it has stuck with me.So spoiler alertIts about someone investigating an abandoned hotel and the story was the builder/owner of it had agoraphobia and co... | ['On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and ma... | ["I thought he'd always be mine, even when I was forced to say goodbye. We were never meant to let go, but it happened anyway. Too bad I didn’t know someone was waiting to take my place, or I would've held on a lot tighter. Two years later, we were exactly where we'd always planned to be. I'd kept my promise. He'd fo... |
Looking for a children’s/ya animal rescue fiction series from around the 2000’s. The first two books involved a feral cat colony and a puppy mill respectively. I don’t recall for certain, but I believe the cat colony book was the first.I particularly recall that in the cat colony book the colony was in danger of being ... | ["Each of these exciting stories, told in the voice of one of the 11-year-old volunteers at the Wild at Heart Animal Clinic, offers a first-hand account of animal emergencies and rescues. This series is sure to win the hearts of readers who are wild about animals!The clinic is swamped with sick and abused puppies. Magg... | ['Nine-year-old Stella Sullivan loves all the animals around her Montana home, but there is a special place in her heart for her puppy, Rufus. When a forest fire threatens a nearby stable, Stella locks Rufus safely in the kitchen and rushes to rescue the horses. The fire grows nearer. Everyone must be evacuated from th... |
Hi, this was probably published in the 80s-90s. H is attracted to h and orchestrated so they had to work together on a project (?) they have sex and H is surprised that she is a virgin. h gets pregnant and they marry but eventually h miscarries after rushing down the stairs. H thinks she is having an affair with their ... | ["Didn't it occur to him that he might be wrong?Shyness and years in Africa's Karoo desert had bred in Carla Duminy a deep reserve that she wore like invisible armor to shield herself from harsh realities. The cold hauteur some people thought she exhibited was just an illusionForeign-affairs-correspondent Revel Braden ... | ['Niki is captured by hostile aliens after Earth is invaded. Once a soldier, she is now a slave. She is sold to the highest bidder, and then lost in a game of cards to a tall Ordanian spaceship captain, who claims to have been sent to rescue her. They work together to survive the dangers of the United Universe, while N... |
I read this about a year ago.The guy is living alone and takes in the girl. It is from his point of view. I believe she is homeless or is living in an abandoned apartment in his building. He helps her get her life back together, gets her back into high school, get a job, etc. There are several time skips throughout the... | ['Ethan Parker gets up every day, surviving the only way he knows how — alone. Orphaned as a child and forced into the child welfare system, he knows better than to depend on anyone but himself. He’s learned trust is a word used all too often, but rarely earned. Ethan believes that his best chance for maintaining a sim... | ["IT HAPPENED IN VEGAS. I can't be held responsible. Things that happen there are supposed to stay there, right? Right? Yeeeah. Not so much. Andie's just days away from tying the knot, but there's just ooooone little glitch. Apparently, she's already married. Or someone with her name is married to a guy out in Oregon o... |
I am trying to figure out the name of this paranormal romance. I don't know the authors name or the book title obviously but I remember a few scenes. Please help! The female is a witch, and the male is a demi-god (I think) I remember one scene where she did some magic and she was watching him have sex (pardon me) with ... | ["When Christine finds his remote Scottish castle, it is to persuade the Immortal to help repel the darkness spreading around the world. But Kalen has a vindictive Sidhe trying to steal his powers and a dark secret of his own to battle before he and Christine give in to ''. When Christine finds his remote Scottish cast... | ['They call me , ‘cause I was made for ridin’. When a member of our MC turns up dead, I know exactly who did it. But when I show up at the witness’s house to confirm my suspicions, she tells me something I don’t wanna hear. It wasn’t the MC I thought. It was someone else. So now we have two enemies. And I have to keep... |
I may be remembering it totally wrong but there were two friends that lived near an art school of sorts and would go down to the school's cafe and hang out. There was also either a professor or famous sculptor who lived nearby and they would climb the fence into the sculpture garden and hang out. One of the girls was a... | ["Lisa sees the life of her gorgeous best friend Celeste as just about perfect: she has a gigantic house, two older sisters to coach her through the hazards of high school, and loving, lively parents. As Lisa's own home has long been a place devoid of joyful noise—her mother has shut herself off in her bedroom for year... | ["One year is all I have to endure. That was the agreement with Uncle Max. One year in a new school, on a new continent, and then I can go home to Ireland.Totally doable, right? Wrong! The boy next door is dangerous. He's a criminal. He's violent. He fills the halls of my school by day and keeps me up at night. I... |
-I read this between 2000 and 2003-From what I remember, the plot revolves around two twin girls who discover they have distinct magical powers-I'm pretty sure they were not raised together, but met later in life-From the cover that I had, I remember the girls being caucasian, anywhere between ten and fifteen years old... | ["Camryn Barnes Smart,upbeat and popular, Cam is best of breed all around. Except for one bone-chilling secret. Cam sees things happening, before they happen. Very bad things.Alexandra Fielding Spunky, Punky and Sarcastic, Alex is all about making it from day to day. Life's tough, but Alex deals. Except for the weirdne... | ["I'm used to being in the saddle.But this time, she wants to ride me.Well yeehaw, baby. You can be my cowgirl anytime.Just remember, I buck like a stallion so hold on tight.I didn't come to help her with the ranch.I came to steal it.But the more we work together, the more I get to know her.And the more I get to know h... |
The book starts on an island of orphans, I believe. The two main characters, both boys, find a stone that marks one as the next king, I believe it was either a falcon or an eagle marked stone/gem. They escape the island and travel through the world (the book included a map, they traveled from the southernmost point on ... | ["There was something different about him. He had no name. He showed no emotion, never yielded. And Griff had always stood by him. Even in this place where cruelty and betrayals were the way of life. So when he decides to escape, he takes Griff with him. Their journey has no known destination, and no purpose except to ... | ["The title characters in are very nearly photographic opposites--8-year-old Carrie, the raven-haired narrator, is timid and introverted, while her little sister Emma is a tow-headed powerhouse with no sense of fear. The girls live in a terrible situation: they depend on an unstable mother that has never recovered fro... |
I read a book a few years back, it was a romance novel....I think it was a historical one. I can't remember how it starts but I know that in the middle of the book the man or woman leaves the other or sends the other away to a country house. Later on the man visits her to check on her before they continue on as a usual... | ['He Had to Marry HerEveryone in London agrees the Byrons are just as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" as their poetic non-relation. But Lord Jack Byron is facing a predicament that is scandalous...even for him!Marry a young woman because he lost a bet? Unreformed rake Lord Jack Byron would do anything to get out of i... | ["The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan. I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home, and with nowhere to live, finds herself hiding out in the sh... |
Another one I am trying to find.It's about a woman who is a violinist, and joins an orchestra where they travel to Wales during the winter, and during the stay there she stays in a cabin with the composer/conductor. The description of the house i remember, as it's one I loved; It had all the bedrooms on the bottom floo... | ["Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0-373-70795-9.Music was her life--until she met Gareth.As a violinist, Anna Pearson couldn't afford to ignore the advice of world-famous conductor Gareth Howell Evans. As a woman, she couldn't afford not to.Because Gareth thought that her musical performance lacked th... | ["The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan. I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home, and with nowhere to live, finds herself hiding out in the sh... |
Hi all,Here's a snippet that popped up in my mind and it's driving me nuts: a little schoolgirl (may have been 1st grader) from a poor-ish background wants to throw a big birthday party, inviting all her classmates by hand-crafted invitation cards (nicer than bought ones, also cheaper), gets immediately slapped down by... | ['Will is sixteen year old Lucy’s best friend. Their lives intersect in dreams, where destiny pulls them together through different times in history. Even though their meetings are more real to Lucy than the present, Lucy is uncertain if Will exists outside her mind. Lucy’s mum thinks there is something wrong when Lucy... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
I am looking for a book that I read but forgot the title and author - its about a guy that is held captive in an medical / research institute - a woman doctor falls in love with him and finds out he's held captive and they almost escape but in the end they wake up BOTH imprisoned again ... there was supposed to be a se... | ['I awaken in a laboratory. I don’t know who I am. I’m inexplicably drawn to the doctor who cares for me. She tells me I’ve been altered, that I’m stronger and faster, that I’ll be a key component in a war between corporations. She says I volunteered for this. She says I volunteered to be transformed, but I have no way... | ["Duty and prophecy get in the way of everything. All I ever wanted to do was read my books, play my sports, and help people. Life and prophecy had other things in mind. Helping people is what I do; as an empath and semi-frequent telepath, I can easily sense and understand people's needs and emotions. Sometimes even ... |
Librarian looking for book that a patron can barely recall! Details: The patron is probably in her late-20s. She remembers reading this book when she was 10-12. She said it was "A coming of age story about a boy who lived with his father. They were low income and his father was an alcoholic who worked at a factory. It ... | ['Nothing ever happened here. Nothing ever would.Fifteen-year-old Kenny Wilson wants nothing more than to get out of , Texas—fast. Only three things stand in his way: getting enough money together, convincing Cindy Blackwell to go with him, and escaping the clawlike grip of his mother. Amidst these problems, Kenny must... | ["Librarian's Note: an alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here. is a story of family conflicts set in Colorado in 1885. Anne Wells has embarrassed her rigidly proper family since she was a child with occasional but grievous lapses from ladylike behavior. They blame those lapses for the disgraceful fact that she... |
This book started out with this girl who went to work and some twins (I think they were twins) came up to her and asked her to do them a favor or something. They asked her to pretend to be their relative so they could get money that the relative would have inherited. They trained her to be like the girl and then made h... | ['Eve, a runaway, finds a new job at a coffee shop on the outskirts of Tucson. When she\'s approached by two wealthy teens who claim she bears an uncanny resemblance to their missing cousin Aurora, her life takes a turn for the dark and mysterious. Drawn into a scheme to win Aurora\'s inheritance, Eve finds herself imp... | ["There were rules in the cash-for-beauty game. The money held the power. The beauty followed the rules and jumped through the hoops.THE BRIDEI knew what everyone would think if they knew the truth about my marriage. They'd be shocked and appalled. And rightly so. I was a young, modern, independent woman, and I'd done ... |
90s or early 2000s adult fiction, female author. Somewhat literary but not highbrow. I think the cover was pale pink or peach coloured.The opening chapter/s were about a woman waiting for her high school or college friends to arrive at her apartment for a reunion. She lived in New York and it was very cold, so she was ... | ['Manhattan, the coldest night of the year -- six best friends rush to attend a celebration. Blown by wind and snow, the women arrive flushed, each caught in midadventure...Tonight\'s the night of nights -- to rejoice in a new lover, leave an unfaithful husband, or decide to have a baby on one\'s own. These "six in the... | ['"I\'m Linda McGee and I don\'t belong here." Elsie McPhee and her brother, Tommy, are hiding a terrible secret. They\'ve been kidnapped -- not by a stranger, but by their mother. It is lonely and scary always hiding, moving, and not being allowed to make friends or to talk to people. Elsie even remembers the kidnapp... |
Adult Crime/thriller/mystery.I 'read' this book as an audio book about 5-10 years ago. It was about an arson, the female hero/cop/detective searches for a suspect whose last name is 'White' whose previous actions (possibly he was a serial killer by arson) had left/sent his girlfriend (first name 'Violet') to a mental i... | ['A different kind of serial killer is terrorizing the city of Santa Fe. All of the victims have one thing in common: they were violent sex offenders who slipped through the cracks in the justice system, and walked on legal technicalities. Someone has decided to make them pay. Forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange i... | ['Do your words and actions help or hurt? In this humorous guide to good behavior, Ollie Octopus, Bucky Beaver, and their friends help point the way to good behavior. For example, when Howie Hogg is finished playing with straws, sticks and bricks at Grandma\'s house, he should: (a) Tweeze his snout hairs. (b) Clean up ... |
I was wondering whether anyone knew what this one is, I think the hero is Sicilian and his sister is in a coma but she calls his ex-wife's name. He decides to bring his ex-wife to see her. The ex-wife was never liked by his family especially his sister who was the reason they broke up in the first place and she can't u... | ["ONLY ONE WOMAN CAN HELP ARROGANT RICO CRISANTI'S INJURED SISTER: HIS ESTRANGED WIFE, ANASTASIA.IN PUBLIC: Rico demands that Stasia be the perfect wife --- loyal, doting and faithful!IN PRIVATE: She will be a slave to his passionate demands. However, Rico hadn't bargained on becoming infatuated with Stasia.Stasia fear... | ["Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father—a professor and leading expert on G... |
In this story the three main characters live on the streets. There is a boy and two girls in their group an they pretty much do whatever they can to have enough cash to feed themselves. The youngest girl had just recently run away from home to get away from her abusive stepfather. One day while she's spray painting som... | ['Dana met Brent and Ashley when she first arrived in town, a scared runaway with nowhere to go. The three of them are like family: they take care of each other; they share the money they beg, borrow, and steal; and they protect each other from the more ruthless street people they come upon. Still, life is lived day-to... | ['Maya has been part of the group ever since the day Candace asked her if she wanted to "do lunch" in the cafeteria. Yet when Candace suddenly deems her unworthy, Maya\'s so-called friends just blow her off. While Maya just wants back like they used to be, she knows that can never happen-because whatever Candace wants... |
around 2011 I read a young adult/ horror book based in a small town during a snow storm, the book centered on two sisters who were stuck alone at home because their parents flight was delayed or something. strange things start happening such as their phone stops working, their dog goes missing. someone in a ski mask st... | ['BEWARE THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERSThe phone and the radio were dead, but they\'d already heard the news: a mass murderer was on the loose. Hannah and her younger sister Meg were miles from the nearest neighbor, trapped in a raging blizzard, home alone. Until the knock at the door. Two strangers burst into the house, wo... | ["I've lived in nine towns in the past six years. I know my mom feels bad about it, but I don't mind. Who wants friends anyway?All I've ever needed are my books. I've lived a thousand lives, had adventures I couldn't even begin to imagine. To me, the places I discovered between the pages of a book are as real as the wo... |
A girl and her mom move to a fancy artist retreat to be chefs for the summer, her dad is separated in some way? She learns poetry from one of the artists there and he says poetry starts with asking "What was? what could be?". He also calls poems "Day dreams". There is some side plot line with the attic having kids livi... | ["It's the summer before seventh grade, and twelve-year- old Raine O'Rourke's mother suddenly takes a job hours from home at mysterious - a creepy, dilapidated mansion that houses an eccentric group of artists. As Raine tries to make sense of her new surroundings, she forges friendships with a cast of quirky characters... | ['There are days when Lire Devon would kill to be conventional...Espresso at Peabody\'s. Lunch with friends. Quiet evenings at home with someone special... Sometimes she\'d give anything to be that girl. But nothing is ever that simple when you\'re the most talented clairvoyant in Seattle.Now there\'s a murder, as baff... |
This book was end of the world, apocalyptic type fiction. Fairly sure that the main characters were a teenage boy and girl (they may have fallen in love through the duration). I believe they were either apart of an end of the world Christian group or part of a cult. There was a scene at the end about them sitting on a ... | ['The world will end on Thursday, July 27, 2000. At least, that’s what Reverend Beelson has told his congregation. That’s why Marina and Jed and their parents have joined the rest of the Reverend’s flock at a mountain retreat to await the end of the world. But this world has only just begun for Jed and Marina, two teen... | ['Finn," he said, "Don\'t go in." What was his problem? After days of climbing and trudging through the snow, I wasn\'t going to turn around now. I pushed past Uncle Stoppard into the cave and then froze. The murky light from the mouth of the tunnel gleamed on something a few feet in front of me. Something white lay o... |
My gran bought this for me in about 1989 or so, I dont know if I ever finished it tbh. All I recall is that there was a young white boy, probably about 13 - I think he was called Rafe, and he was with what I feel strongly was an Inuit girl of about his age. She fed him suet. Im pretty sure the book was written in the 8... | ["No food, all lost,' said the girl. 'We die ever so soon.' She sat on the trunk of a fallen tree. 'No mans here,' she said. 'Land of bears, all ever bears.'Rafe the white boy had been forbidden to play with the 'heathen' Indian girl Tawena. But when the two are swept on an ice floe into the heart of the North American... | ['I gave her a contract. She gave me a baby. It was simple. Rue would carry my baby. My girlfriend and I would raise it. Just another contract in the life of a billionaire. Sounds simple right? Wrong. My girlfriend no longer wants me or my unborn child. She may have given up on this baby, but I never will. And, I thin... |
I had a recent flashback about a chapter book I read as a kid, but I can't remember the title or author.I think I read it in the mid-90's and it was probably published about that time or possibly 80s. Had the kind of 90s Scholastic paperback book feel to the cover art. I think the cover may have had a blue border/spine... | ["Katie believed that spending the summer in a quiet little town would be really cool. There'd be new kids to meet and lots of places to explore. But Katie's dream summer quickly turns into a nightmare. The quite little town is practically deserted, and the local kids don't seem too friendly. Katie believed that spendi... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
I read a book in 2010 about a coming of age girl who was left at the home of an older woman by her mother. The mother and the boyfriend went off to go find jobs or something. The older woman may have been a great-aunt. The girl is understandably upset at this, and is disgusted by the rural life of the older woman, who ... | ['Lenore is Cornelia’s mother and Cornelia’s fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won’t talk to anyone and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she’s read more books than anyone else? She feels strong in the fixing. She cooks vegetable soup so Lenore will eat something other ... | ["Rose, 17, and her older sisters have been evacuated from wartime London to a sea side village. In addition to getting along with out adults or servants, they grow to accept and appreciate one another and the `ordinary' people around them. Rose's friendship with an unwed mother, her observation of her sisters' romance... |
This must be a golden-age SF short story. I read it as a kid, translated into Russian, probably later 80s or early 90s but the story must be older than that. I remember that some kind of personal confrontation happens on a different planet. The distinctive landscape feature are these big dust-filled sinkholes, in which... | ["Otto McGavin is peacefully idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in its mission to protect human & nonhuman rights. The only problem is that the Confederacion needs him as one of its twelve Prime Operators for its secret service, the TBII. The TBII wa... | ["She is doom and madness. She is Thalassia.In 425 BCE, the Athenian general Demosthenes comes into possession of a weapon from the stars. He fears to wield it against his city's bitter enemy Sparta, but he knows that he must, lest it be wielded by others. He knows, too, that it seeks to wield and possess him, for this... |
Heres what I can recall YA The cover was blue with a girls face on the frontThe girl began to suspect she was part mermaid, she has a single father who didn't care for her she makes friends with twins who have just moved in she ends up pushing them apart and seducing the male, as well as many other older males (very Lo... | [" is a merrymaid or so she believes . . . Ellen and Jack are evacuated from London to Cornwall during the Second World War. Ellen relishes the opportunity to better herself. Jack is different. He finds the attention from his new family stifling and seeks freedom in the arms of Selina, the mysterious local girl he sees... | ["home sweet home...Jade loves the house she's just moved into with her family. She doesn't even mind being the new girl at the high school: It's a fresh start, and there's that one guy with the dreamy blue eyes...But then things begin happening. Strange, otherworldly things. Jade's little brother claims to see a glimm... |
Hi there! I read this book back sometime in 2001-2004, and I believe it was written between the 80s and 90s. There is an abandoned post --> https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... that was looking for the same book.The details I remember are, the heroine did not want to marry the evil man who was described as a pig, a... | ["'Twas no laughing matter...When fleeing an odious arranged match, the Lady Elizabeth Hayward found herself under the protection of famed court jester Richard Tarleton. But even disguised as the fool's boy apprentice, there was no hiding the fact that she'd fallen hopelessly in love!Though Tarleton's ready wit had won... | ["Growing up in a dead-end South Texas town, Mickey had two things she could count on: her big brother, Danny—the football hero everyone loved—and a beat-up copy of The Outsiders. But after the accident—after Danny abandoned her to a town full of rumors and a drunken father—all Mickey had left was a smoky memory, her a... |
This book was about a girl on a slave ship. Nearly all of the slaves are sick, and the captain realizes that he'll make more money throwing the sick slaves overboard and collecting the insurance (I think) than by selling them. The first mate (I think) goes down to the hold to do it. When he starts throwing living slave... | ["Inspired by a true story, this suspenseful and deeply moving book chronicles an incident of courage and rebellion that took place aboard a disease-riddled slave ship returning from Africa. The vessel is named Zong, and when illness threatens to infect all on board, the ship's captain orders his crew to seize the sick... | ['"Modeled after an actual slave narrative, this moving first-person tale follows 12-year-old Kofi from his kidnapping in West Africa to his cruel enslavement in Massachusetts and his subsequent freedom and career as a sailor . . . "The well-crafted and compelling survival story juxtaposes two cultures and gives a uniq... |
I read this science fiction book in the mid 90s. The protagonist is a human who is able to telepathically inhabit the "bodies" of an alien race. The aliens are ring (or disk maybe) shaped beings. He develops a relationship with a female ring being. In the end he dies and as he is going to the afterlife he has to choose... | ['Alternate cover edition can be found here In the far, far future the bloodthirsty Solarians, in their rage to find the mysterious Ancient Site, are determined to wipe out the Bands, a strange and beautiful species whose society is an anarchy of peace. Only Rondi, the whirling green Band, can save his race, for he ha... | ['In this gripping exploration of a futuristic afterlife, a teen discovers that death is just the beginning.Since her untimely death the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in , a stark white afterlife located between our world and the next. Along with her fellow drones, Felicia passes the... |
There wasn't much of a plot as it was a picture book meant for kids who don't have a long attention span. The bee's name was either Barry or Jerry. He was about the size of a human child, I think some of the illustrations showed him wearing a red hat, and he basically was just trying to assimilate/make friends but ever... | ['To bee or not to bee? A lonely, overlarge insect tries a new identity onfor size in a wacky, wonderful tale of true friendship.All Jerry Bee wants is to make friends, but that\'s hard to do when you\'re the most enormous bee anyone has ever seen. Then a wig changes Jerry\'s life: when he puts it on, he looks just lik... | ['Neal Moffet had called me "Fat Pat Berry, the Twinkletoes Fairy" one time too many. And when he started going on about what a klutz I was just because a flying tackle got me stuck under a chain-link fence...well, something snapped. So when he bet me I couldn\'t get through the summer without getting stitches or break... |
I thought this was a book by Pete Johnson, but I've gone through a lot of lists of his books and can't find what I'm looking for, so maybe I'm wrong or it's one of his more obscure ones.It's a book and a sequel which both centre on the same group of three teenagers, a boy and two girls. One of the girls is called Mikki... | ['Because everyone around us is being so immature and dishonest, we the undersigned solemnly swear to keep a diary in which we tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the important things that happen to us and what our feelings are. When we leave school to go on study leave, we agree to swap dia... | ['This is the story of two girls: Erin and Irun. One lives now in New York City, and one belongs in ancient Egypt 3,000 years ago. One is fascinated by things of the past, and the other haunted by a voice from the future.For Erin, the "now" she lives in is not all she\'d like it to be. There are problems around her and... |
New Adult, Novella. Read maybe 5 yrs ago. The cover of the book is the first thing you notice; a strawberry blonde girl in a sequin cocktail dress. The plot: this princess has been waiting years till she was of age to attend the ‘season’ where she’d be allowed to chose the alpha mate she always had eyes for. One of her... | ['In a realm of elves, ogres and white witches, where danger is ever-present, Princess Helena Lichtenberg lost her parents at a young age. Raised by her uncle and aunt, Helena values family above all else. Now, as decreed by tradition, it is time to select a mate. HER ALPHA Enormous, scarred and scary, Black Ridge Wo... | ['Can a broken Alpha save her from the Big Bad wolves?Lucas has lost his mate, and he’ll never claim another—his kind of broken can’t be fixed. He’s still alpha enough to rescue a young woman from the predatory Red wolf pack, but when she shows up at his office—as his sexy new intern—she stirs up feelings that need to ... |
This book opens with a eastern woman who has been recently widowed when her husband died in a mining accident. She and her sister and some guy(?) leave to go turn the mine into a saw mill and then find out the dead husband isn't dead but just crippled and hiding in the little town they are in. There's this best friend ... | ["Welcome to Hope Falls where three enterprising young females are accepting applications for husbands-for-hire. With one woman already snagged, Lacey Lyman is one of only two remaining. No one really catches her eye until a handsome hunter arrives. Will Lacey find a way to bag her prey? Determined to investigate why H... | ["IT HAPPENED IN VEGAS. I can't be held responsible. Things that happen there are supposed to stay there, right? Right? Yeeeah. Not so much. Andie's just days away from tying the knot, but there's just ooooone little glitch. Apparently, she's already married. Or someone with her name is married to a guy out in Oregon o... |
I read this book in 2015 and got it from my library. This girl grows up in the south in a house full of sisters, one dying and haunting her memory. She meets the new guy at school, Bud, and they start a relationship, ending up pregnant. They move away so bud can get a job, but he cheats on her and gets the boss’s daugh... | ['In 1963 rural Georgia, with the Vietnam War cranking up, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins discovers the diary of pregnant seventeen-year-old Tempe Jordan, a slave girl, begun as the Civil War wound down. As comes to its surprising, shocking, endings, questions of family, race, love, loss, and longing are loo... | ['It’s senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she is mourning the loss of her father. She finds solace in the one person she trusts, her boyfriend, and she soon finds herself pregnant. Kenzie’s boyfriend and mother do not understand her determination to keep th... |
Hi all!I'm looking for a book I started a couple of months ago (probably in January before the current craziness started) and I unfortunately lost. I only had an excerpt ebook version so I can't even recall if what I read was the beginning or maybe further into the plot. I think it was the first chapter though.The hero... | ['Kidnapped, drugged, and about to be sold to the highest bidder, Desdemona Carlisle is having a hell of a time maintaining her English pride. Then she sees the man in black, galloping through the Egyptian desert on a pure white steed. Desdemona could not have conjured a more dashing savior in her wildest fantasies. Bu... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
It’s about this teen girl either whose father or both her parents get arrested for embezzlement so she moves in with her ??cousin possibly cousins??. She was a rich girl, I'm pretty sure she had to transfer schools but I'm not positive. I think she was trying to solve a mystery. I specifically remember a locket being a... | ["One family. Two sides. A whole town caught in between. In this soap-opera series, the twists keep coming--and no secrets are safe.Hidden Pasts. Unexpected Betrayals.Twisted Friendships.Sweet Revenge. Her mother's in jail. Her best friend betrayed her. Who can Alison trust? Backstabber Kelly has the world at her feet.... | ["WARNING: is the first book in a trilogy and ends with a cliffhanger. Due to mature material, it is recommended for ages 17+.What if the person who stole your heart wasn't who you thought they were? When my parents passed away, I grew up fast. Learning to stand on my own two feet has been a challenge, but I'm making ... |
I read this book a few years ago, but I think it was an older regency.The h's father is a diplomat, therefore she lived with her uncle. There was a Christmas Ball (I think) and she watched the dancing. Her cousin is beautiful and the H was in love with her, but as he was the younger son the cousin rejected him and marr... | ["Lady Caroline Waverly had decided when she was a girl that she would never marry. As a young woman she is mistress of her own estate and wants no man who would mock her intellectual pursuits. Let the charming Lord Nicholas Daventry be ensnared by the bewitching Countess Lavinia Welham. Caro shan't interfere--if she c... | ["A powerful, radiant story about a girl who wears her dreams on her sleeve . . .Aislinn is a girl with a lot of dreams, but due to family issues (caused mostly by her hard-drinking father), there's a lot standing in her way. While she should be enjoying the summer with friends, Aislinn is kept under lock and key and p... |
It was a children's graphic novel/comic book series--I think there were at least three of them? The main character was a young female Old English Sheepdog, and I'm pretty sure her name was Sam/Samantha. She was grumpy and ungrateful. She was owned by a 11-ish girl. In one book they went camping (the girl, the dog, the ... | ["In the first book in the Sam and Friends Mystery graphic novel series, , Jennie meets Samantha, the sheepdog belonging to her new next-door neighbors. No ordinary dog, Sam is a detective with a nose for sniffing out a mystery even in a small town as uneventful as Woodford. No ordinary girl, Jennie has a special conne... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
I can’t remember the title or author but I’m looking for a romance book I read recently. I believe it’s apart of a series, possibly the second one. A young girl, around 19, goes to a bar with her friend and her friend dares her to kiss a guy. The guy she kisses is about 10-12 years older and possibly his name starts wi... | ['I’ve always been a . I work hard, I follow the rules, and I always achieve my goals.But sometimes s want things that aren’t good for them. Or someone who isn’t good for them. Like their new boss.And sometimes they do very bad things to get his attention. Like sell their virginity in an auction. Who knew he’d be so ve... | ['I broke her heart ten years ago and left town.She hates me, and rightly so. It doesn’t matter that the rest of the country loves me, that I’m a starting quarterback with a multimillion-dollar contract. Because when I look in the mirror, all I see is a failure who was too young—and too afraid—to fight for what I wante... |
A girl is chosen to be one of the four queens of a faraway land; where she must pray, memorize silly rules, wear ridiculous dresses, and wear paint on her face. She is taught to never show emotion because she is one of the four queens. She is ordered to go and wed a prince, who is the complete opposite of her. She make... | ["Princess Taoshira of the Blue Crescent Islands is appalled when she is ordered to marry Prince Ramil of Gerfal. And he's not too pleased, either. She is used to a life of discipline, ritual, and splendor. He is used to hunting and carousing. They hate each other on sight. But both of their countries are under threat ... | ["When Josie is evacuated to her aunt and uncle's farm in Essex, she meets and falls in love with seventeen year old Jumbo, a happy-go-lucky optimistic young man who doesn't let his disability interrupt a life full of fun. Their relationship takes off, despite the difficulties of the war, which interrupts their idyll f... |
I'm looking for a light-hearted middle grade fantasy book I read in paperback when I was a kid (early-mid 2000s). It involves a parallel world where 1) everyone's genders are flipped and 2) magic replaces science in society, so that instead of cars people have flying carpets, and so on. The main character meets the gir... | ["It all began the day Chrissie Scott looked into the mirror and saw somebody else's reflection. A boy who looked exactly like her. Nothing would ever be the same again... Chrissie thought she had troubles -- until she fell through the mirror into her double's life. He said his name was Chris, and his world was the ... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
I read this book in early 1997. It was a family drama, and I'm fairly certain it was fiction. It could have been a true story, but I don't think so. There were two girls, Jennifer who was maybe seventeen, and Cindy who was six or seven. Cindy went missing one afternoon, and was found murdered. The story revolves around... | ["She's searching for the man who killed her daughter.\xa0\xa0But will he find her first?In a novel that grips like a waking nightmare, master storyteller Joy Fielding creates a searing examination of a horrifying crime, the limits of the law, and a woman's terrifying journey into a killer's twisted mind.In one tragic ... | ["WARNING: is the first book in a trilogy and ends with a cliffhanger. Due to mature material, it is recommended for ages 17+.What if the person who stole your heart wasn't who you thought they were? When my parents passed away, I grew up fast. Learning to stand on my own two feet has been a challenge, but I'm making ... |
Read around 2011. Cover was an illustration with several characters depicted. Likely from the 90’s.I believe the Indian girl was the daughter of an Indian father and her mother was a kidnapped white woman who had been assimilated. She was sent to live with her mother’s family after her mother died. The family had a dau... | ['When her mother died, she told 14-year-old Walking Breeze to seek out her family-the Chelmsfords of Salem. She will find solace there.But Ebie Chelmsford has other ideas. Ebie knows that her half-Shawnee "cousin" will take her place as grandfather\'s favorite. And Ebie will do anything to stop that--even trying to pr... | ['“You don’t realize someone was missing from your life until the moment they enter it.”Estella Markson is a good girl. She studies hard, stays out of trouble, and is struggling to hold together her family that is falling apart because of her alcoholic father.Vincent Madden is the guy your mother warned you to stay awa... |
I remember majority of the story took place at the school or at her older boyfriend’s house. The story centered around a teen girl that was coming of age and experiencing sexual experiences for the first time. I specifically remember a scene where she gets her period at school and something sexual happens that embarras... | ["A sensational and accomplished novel that made its young author one of the most talked about in Britain last year, is about fourteen -- the age when you know everything, except when you don't know anything. It's about first love and the end of innocence in all its passion and absurdity. It's about the raw transition... | ["When lies become the truth.My name is Reina Ellis.Popular.Beautiful.Untouchable.Problem is, I remember none of it.His name is Asher Carson.Gorgeous.Silent.Dark.Oh, and my future husband.He has three rules for me:I'll bow. I'll break. I'll pay for what I’ve done.Problem is, I don’t remember what I’ve done, but I have ... |
I read the book in 2012 and have been looking for it ever since. the mc (main character) is apart of a religion that worships a fire/fire goddess and treats the goddess as a mother figure. when the mc is looking at said fire she is called by the goddess to walk into the fire. then her appearance changes and not only do... | ['Zahira is a young woman of the conquered Rua people, their country occupied by another, very different culture - the Sedorne. Zahira is an orphan and has been raised to despise and distrust the occupying population, as well as to be a devout follower of the native religion. But everything changes for Zahira when her ... | ['Ariadne is destined to become a goddess of the moon. She leads a lonely life, filled with hours of rigorous training by stern priestesses. Her former friends no longer dare to look at her, much less speak to her. All that she has left are her mother and her beloved, misshapen brother Asterion, who must be held captiv... |
I remember a lot of details of this book but not its title, so here's the general plot I remember:A girl named Hope and her brother are orphans working as servants in a house. The only thing they have left from their mother is a pair of rainbow mittens that smell slightly of Jasmine. I don't remember how, but she ends ... | ["The year is 1867. Twelve-year-old Londoner Hope Glover climbs a tree to rescue a kite, but instead finds the kite pulling her into the sky, over the ocean, and into a storm! She is rescued by a beautiful ship -- the Basset -- and sails into a world where a war rages between centaurs and winged horses. It's up to Hope... | ["IT HAPPENED IN VEGAS. I can't be held responsible. Things that happen there are supposed to stay there, right? Right? Yeeeah. Not so much. Andie's just days away from tying the knot, but there's just ooooone little glitch. Apparently, she's already married. Or someone with her name is married to a guy out in Oregon o... |
Children's book - a collection of tales. It was possibly a collection of tales about animals. Possibly a collection of tales meant to have morals. I read it as a little girl in the mid-to-late 90s ('95-'00). When I read it, it was not an old book. I mainly remember one illustration, from one story. It was about a monke... | ['Do your words and actions help or hurt? In this humorous guide to good behavior, Ollie Octopus, Bucky Beaver, and their friends help point the way to good behavior. For example, when Howie Hogg is finished playing with straws, sticks and bricks at Grandma\'s house, he should: (a) Tweeze his snout hairs. (b) Clean up ... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
Hello, I've just joined the group and hope you can help me.I once read a short review of a fiction book, with a very brief synopsis: in the 60s, in the period of the Vatican Council II, a young Catholic priest is sent to a small village in Ireland, and he tries to introduce the new way of things to his traditionalist p... | ['This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780007172894.One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands l... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
Read this one around 1980, give or take 4 years. It was a short novel, of the kind that were published in multiples each month - think Harlequin, tho I don't think this was by Harlequin.Typical in many ways, tho if I recall correctly the hero & heroine were more interesting than gorgeous, both clever, and at most "well... | ['By leaving England, plain and impoverished spinster Emma Forbes hopes to leave behind the pain of losing both her inheritance and her fiance... She gets a position of governess/English teacher to the wards of Ignace, a cold harsh featured french nobleman living in Arles in about the 1750s. He is bitter and cynical, a... | ['Some think seeing into the future, even if it’s death, is a gift. For me it has always been a curse. Magic rules this new world and my form of it is no blessing. Neither are the walls around me that I’ve been told are for my protection. If there is anything more cruel or vicious in the Wilds than what I’ve experience... |
The book starts with a mysterious ritual on an island in New Englandc. A teenage girl might drown, or is supposed to die but doesn't. A teenage girl returns to her family's town in New England. She has a beautiful red headed cousin who is wealthier than her. The cousin's name might be Cordelia, and the MC's name might ... | ["There are some girls who have everything... She has the right clothes, the right friends, and the right last name, but fifteen-year-old Maddie Crane sometimes feels like an outsider in her clique in the wealthy, seaside town of Hawthorne, Massachusetts. And when her gorgeous, eccentric cousin Cordelia LeClaire moves ... | ["It is 1910, and High Plains, Texas looks like it's about to go up in a ball of fire. At least that's what Tom Greer, the street-fighting, hooky-playing twelve-year old narrator of says. With religious fervor and hard drinking and talk of Halley's comet, Tom doesn't know what to think. Then when Sam Adams, the newly ... |
▫️Dagon fantasy, I THOUGHT it had dragon in the title but now I'm not sure. Low fantasy, not much if any magic. Just... dragons. Maybe drugs.▫️Most likely adult, fairly graphic sexual stuff and violence, irrc▫️Female author (75% sure)▫️Female MC who begins as some form of slave, lives in slums type place, there's mud, ... | ["Like her half-breed mother, young Zarq Darquel can't always hold her tongue. A peasant on a large dragon estate, she goes unnoticed by the Temple of the Dragon - until she accidentally captures the attention of an eccentric and dangerous dragonmaster, unleashing a storm of tragedy. Her clan is plunged into destitutio... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
I think it was a historical romance, the heroine was pregnant when she was abandoned/kicked out by the hero. The heroine got wrongly accused of something (maybe stealing) so the hero tells her to get out. I think her family also kicks her out because of that scandal and then she goes to the forest, meets this weird old... | ["The MaidShe arrived at Darkstone Manor without friends or fortune, welcomed only by the hiss of the sea in the midnight hush. Trehearne had been born a lady, but now she resigned herself to a life of backbreaking drudgery, inescapable poverty . . . and unquestioning obedience to the lord of the manor.The MasterTorme... | ['A casual flirtation between an 18-year-old girl and a wealthy man twice her age leads to love and danger in this engaging but not entirely plausible thriller by popular romance author Palmer (The Rawhide Man). Brianne Martin\'s nefarious wheeler-dealer of a stepfather sends her to study in Paris, where she falls for ... |
Hello all! I'm looking for this book that I read back in elementary school. It's about a girl who loses her grandfather unexpectedly, and feels badly because she didn't get a chance to say goodbye properly. The book was set in some coastal town in the U.S. (I want to say Maine so badly) and was published in the late 80... | ['After her grandfather\'s death, Cassie longs for an orderliness to life -\' a pattern -\' that doesn\'t exist among her raucous, loving family. But during an eventful summer by the sea, she begins to learn that some things do not stay the same forever. Colorful characters [and] Cassie\'s continuing and believable gro... | ["I'm used to being in the saddle.But this time, she wants to ride me.Well yeehaw, baby. You can be my cowgirl anytime.Just remember, I buck like a stallion so hold on tight.I didn't come to help her with the ranch.I came to steal it.But the more we work together, the more I get to know her.And the more I get to know h... |
Hello, this is my first post.I read the book in the last 10 years but cannot remember if it was new at the time. Science fiction, space opera I think. I remember it had huge automated spaceship (haulage, cargo?) and people live all their lives on those ships. Almost everything is automated so there are only a few crew ... | ["Some things are better off . Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the Pilgrim, and he expects to die on the Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him. That's the way things are on a generation starship centuries from home. He's never questioned it. Never thought about it. And why bother? Access points to the ... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
I read this a couple years ago and am trying to remember the title for my daughter to read. What I can remember is that there are teens that may or may not have a power or "enhancement". Those that have it begin to show it in their early teens and are separated to learn about their specific powers. They end up helping ... | ['Almost fifteen-year-old Caleb Hart is a Cadaver-Manipulator in the year 2025.When teens receive a government-sanctioned pharmaceutical cocktail during school, paranormal abilities begin manifesting... making the teens more powerful than the adults.After Caleb discovers he has the rare, Affinity for the Dead, he must ... | ['The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." has his own ideas about rem... |
Would have been read somewhere between 2005 - 2008Two girls get stuck in detention together and have to work on a project. The one girl is quirky and is a misfit, the other girl has a solid group of friends. They work on the project in the library and after school. Slowly the two girls become friends, but the one who i... | ['There are those who are popular. There are those who are outcasts. And there are those who must choose between the two.Megan Tuw has always been popular. As a leader of her high school’s most cliquish group, she’s among the anointed girls who think nothing of ridiculing those who don’t fit in. That includes Perdita W... | ["When a rumor starts circulating that Tara's boyfriend Brent has been sleeping with one of the guy cheerleaders, the innuendo doesn't just hurt Tara. It marks the beginning of the end for an inseparable trio of friends. Tara's training for a marathon, but also running from her fear of abandonment after being deserted ... |
Read when i was maybe young so 1990 to 2005ish. Magical world where the only child of the king and queen cried a lot. Had 3 triplet sisters as nannies, with red hair and freckles. They loved fish and chips. One day they went through a magic door/ cave, that only opens every 10 years or so for a short time. They acciden... | ["A forgotten door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical kingdom--an island where humans live happily with feys, mermaids, ogres, and other wonderful creatures. Carefully hidden from the world, the Island is only accessible when the door opens for nine days every nine years. A lot can go wrong i... | ['The beautiful city of Venice has been Lydia\'s home for many years, a place where she has found peace and fulfillment. Then one day she glimpses a young man\'s face in the crowd that threatens to change everything. He\'s a heart-stopping reminder of a dreadful secret she believed she had banished to the past. As a yo... |
Here's what I can remember of the plot:A woman (the protagonist) here's about her sister-in-law (her brother's wife) and her niece moving back into town. The protagonist has one son (who wants to be a lawyer) and her husband (was a lawyer) recently died. The protagonist does not like her sister-in-law After her sister-... | ["Two families locked in a battle that is fraught with mistrust, betrayal, and lies;a battle that threatens to destroy them all.When Alicia Carlyle returns to the home of her childhood after the tragic death of her husband, she hopes to put the past behind her. But first she must come face to face with the woman who ne... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
Hi, i'm trying to find the name of the author and the titles of the collection of books in the series. I just remember reading these when i was about 6 years old in the 80s and the author themselves was quite young - either a child or teenager themselves. I think it was a girl but can't be sure. the books covers i read... | ["Jayne Fisher, Ladybird's youngest author, has written some new stories specially for this book. All the old favourite Garden Gang characters, and some new friends, come together and have lots of adventures. The stories and colourful felt-tipped pen illustrations are presented in a comic-strip style which children lov... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
I think this book may of been set in Sydney. A young woman starts buying amazing sauerkraut from a deli, and wants to learn how to make it. She waits to find out who makes it and follows her home. The younger woman then persists in trying to get the older woman to train her. The older women eventually relents.SpoilersT... | ["Amelia wants to be the best cook in the world. But being the best cook is not just about preparing the perfect bean dish or cooking a steak so that it melts in your mouth, it's about struggle and learning. Amelia befriends Katarina, a strange, old Eastern European woman who teaches Amelia about tea, bread, bottled to... | ['King’s Trace is run by ruthless criminals, but this made man is no match for a woman scorned.CarolineThe men in my life think I owe them.My father, his associates, the mafia. Everyone has a debt to collect, and somehow that burden falls to me.I’m being forced into a loveless marriage to pay off my father’s debts when... |
I read this book in 6th grade, 2011-2012. The book switches back and forth between the main character talking on her radio show about her childhood and being stuck in a massive traffic jam on the highway. Everyone is out of their cars and making small talk and the main character wanders around and talks to people in th... | ["Del's lived in Los Angeles for seventeen years, bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongued, and a master mimic, she's fed up with her world and with being Del. So she's changing her name and leaving both herself and L.A. behind -- until her escape lands her in an all-day traffic jam. Fast-forward eight years.... | [' tells the story of an alienated young woman who leaves home and in the process discovers that she is a good artist as well as a good person. Marie Antoinette Stalke is failing the sixth grade. Burdened with the responsibilities of being the oldest child in a large, poor family, she lies awake nights staring at the s... |
Okay, I got this book from my school library around 2006/7. It took place in the past, and I want to say it was colonial era. The protagonist was a girl, who lived in a village. She did work harvesting vegetables, and she became friends with older ladies who liked to gossip I think. The plot centers around this girl an... | ["Companion to Firegold, an ALA Best Book for Young AdultsRose Chandler, a fifteen-year-old bondgirl who lives on Greengarden Orchard, fears everything: the dark, the moon, other people, and the Dalriadas from the Red Mountains who are at war with the Valley folk. But Rose especially fears the Thing locked in the attic... | ["WARNING: is the first book in a trilogy and ends with a cliffhanger. Due to mature material, it is recommended for ages 17+.What if the person who stole your heart wasn't who you thought they were? When my parents passed away, I grew up fast. Learning to stand on my own two feet has been a challenge, but I'm making ... |
I read remember reading this book when I was in elementary school early late 90s/2000s), it was a small chapter book. The plot involved this girl going to her aunt and uncles house for the summer and I think they owned a llama farm, but there were murders and I think her uncle was attacked at one point. Like people may... | ["As soon as Molly arrives at her aunt and uncle's ranch in rural Washington, things start to go very wrong. Her cousin hates her on sight. Her aunt falls into a mysterious coma. Then, left alone on the huge property, Molly and her cousin discover an intruder lurking in the barn! Armed and desperate, he drags them to t... | ["When lies become the truth.My name is Reina Ellis.Popular.Beautiful.Untouchable.Problem is, I remember none of it.His name is Asher Carson.Gorgeous.Silent.Dark.Oh, and my future husband.He has three rules for me:I'll bow. I'll break. I'll pay for what I’ve done.Problem is, I don’t remember what I’ve done, but I have ... |
The rich man's father or grandfather dies and leaves an inheritance, but won't release it to the man until he proves he's going to have a family, so he and his female assistant agree that she can carry it, give birth, and keep it. The rich man has an actress girlfriend who is supposed to carry his baby, but she bails b... | ["It was , just a business arrangement. Ryan McKay is a multi-millionaire with a problem. He needs a bride to fulfill the terms of his grandfather's will. Unfortunately, the one he chose just bailed on him and he's hours away from losing his company. Enter Faith Lewis, his demure, devoted assistant. Ryan convinces Fait... | ["IT HAPPENED IN VEGAS. I can't be held responsible. Things that happen there are supposed to stay there, right? Right? Yeeeah. Not so much. Andie's just days away from tying the knot, but there's just ooooone little glitch. Apparently, she's already married. Or someone with her name is married to a guy out in Oregon o... |
HI! Earlier this year I was going through book recommendations on my phone and came across this book. I forget what it was, but really want to read it now. It sort of reminded me of The Selection by Kiera Cass, except with Hades. I don't know exactly what aspect, but I know it reminded me of that. So maybe it had somet... | ['A virus that had once been contained has returned, and soon no place will be left untouched by its destruction. But when Cheyenne wakes up in Elysian Fields--a subdivision cut off from the world and its monster-creating virus--she is thrilled to have a chance at survival. At first, Elysian Fields,with its beautiful h... | ['What if I was to tell you, you’re all evil? In some shape or form, you are. What If I was to tell you, I was the worst kind of evil? Would you believe me? I did not believe that there wasn’t anyone who didn’t contain evil. I was proved wrong, and it stumped me. I became obsessed with her, someone of pure goodness. An... |
Mod Courtney, when did you read this? What was the book about--finding out the truth about who did the killing? Or the hunt for the father? How the kid coped?Until you put your spoiler in, I was going to suggest The Clairvoyant Countess. While this wasn't a main part of the book, something similar happened (view... | ["Along with Jamie and my mother, Laura died at approximately four in the afternoon. It was almost two hours later that Mrs. Hamilton, a neighbor from across the street, saw my father drive away. During those long two hours in which he remained in the house, my father washed my mother's body and arranged her neatly on ... | ["People in Merit, Wisconsin, always said Jimmy was . . . you know. But people said all sorts of stupid stuff. Nobody really knew anything. Nobody really knew Jimmy. I guess you could say I knew Jimmy as well as anyone (which was not very well). I knew what scared him. And I knew he had dreams—even if I didn't understa... |
The heroine is kidnapped by the hero and taken into to boat. She eventually finds out the person who kidnapped her is someone she knows and likes. The hero kidnaps her because of something the heroine’s family to father did. There is a scene where the hero chips off a piece of the heroine’s finger to teach her a lesson... | ["Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ASIN B012HZC11G They say it takes 21 days to form a habit.They lie.For 21 days she held on. But on Day 22, she would have given anything for the sweet slumber of death. Because on Day 22, she realizes that her only way out means certain death for one of the two men she lo... | ['A casual flirtation between an 18-year-old girl and a wealthy man twice her age leads to love and danger in this engaging but not entirely plausible thriller by popular romance author Palmer (The Rawhide Man). Brianne Martin\'s nefarious wheeler-dealer of a stepfather sends her to study in Paris, where she falls for ... |
Hi All,I am searching for a ghost/possession story set in Long Island maybe 20 years ago. It concerns a young family - members of which were named Rachel (mother), Abby & Emma (daughters). There was a father too, but I cannot remember his name. In the story either Abby or Emma become possessed by the spirit of another ... | ["At her dying mothers request, Rachel returns to Land's End - the lonely and isolated mansion where she grew up. It is a painful homecoming resurrecting the bitter memories of her childhood.Rachel is accompanied by her new husband Judd and his two daughters Emma and Addy. At first the girls love the huge rambling hous... | ['The pattern will change . . . because I am here. A girl walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, a backpack full of knitting slung over her shoulder, a green fish kite in her hand.A boy balances on the bridge\'s crisscross webbing, waiting for the girl to pass.Are they angels? Spiders? In love? Or in danger? Once they conne... |
I read this book in the early 1980's. Historical/romance set in late 1800's (or early 1900s) California. Daughter of aristocratic Mexicans is courted by brother of good family. He is gentle and poetic; wants to marry her...but she is introduced to his brother, a bit of a rake and they fall in love. Gentle brother spies... | ['The love story of Amelie -- the sensitive, ardent, young girl whose uncompromising code of honor leads her to choices that will reverberate for generations.The tale of two brothers whose fierce love for the same woman almost destroys them both.The culmination of passion in the next generation when the shy, beautiful ... | ["I may be in the middle of nowhere, but I still have standards! Like it's not bad enough Daddy's in jail for embezzlement (he's a super-successful Hollywood agent, btw, and totally innocent), but since my fashion-model mom died when I was a baby (I'm sure you've seen the E! True Hollywood Story) I've been shipped of... |
I read this probably about ten years ago, but I think it was probably published in the 80's or 90's. I think the cover had a picture of a girl on a beach, or all three girls on a beach, but not so sure about that.From what I remember, there are three sisters and the story is told from the perspective of the middle one.... | ['A chapter book for young readers about three brave sisters who happily live off the land while waiting for their parents to return.Kids often imagine what their lives would be like if they were left on their own for even a short time. The three very different sisters in this story have just that kind of adventure for... | ['The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." has his own ideas about rem... |
I read this book in about 1995. I think it was hardcover. The main story was that a high school-age not-very-religious Jewish girl becomes more religious under the influence of her Orthodox friend/neighbor(?). She might've stayed at the friend's home when her parents were out of town. There was one scene where she was ... | ['Ages 8 and up.Fourteen-year-old Heather Hopkowitz can’t imagine life without bacon, cheeseburgers, or bowling on Friday nights. But she gives them all up when she spends an entire month as the guest of an Orthodox Jewish family while her parents are away on vacation. As Heather begins to appreciate the traditional ri... | ["Book one in a healthy home and grade school story with a pony as a main character- takes Elisa Bialk back to the age group for which her earlier books were written. The heroine is 7-year old Tracy, a new girl in the first grade. Tracy's grandmother has given her a pony, , to Tracy's delight, for she is shy and lonely... |
Hello! Okay I cannot remember the name or author of this book and it is killing me! This may contain spoilers?I remember it opens with a man and his brothers maybe meeting with the head of the family who says they must marry or they will loose their inheritance. (They are all notorious rakes I believe) The oldest decid... | ["Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, needs a prostitute. Not in the usual way, however. His wealthy uncle's will promises to divide his huge fortune among his nephews if each rescues a fallen woman ... by marrying her! And since Jasper's estates were already mortgaged to the hilt before he inherited them, when he cat... | ["The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan. I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home, and with nowhere to live, finds herself hiding out in the sh... |
Female bodyguard protects the billionair and they lock themselves in his saferoom where they end up having sex.She quits but, she gets pregnant and when she shows up to tell him that he dosen't have to take responsibility he thinks she is going to sue him for sexual harrasment.He finally finds out she is pregnant and w... | ["A good girl can be bad for one night... Bernadette Hogan doesn't make mistakes. Not when it comes to caring for her mother, and not at her job protecting Texas's most eligible--and infuriating--bachelor. Maybe that's why she's overcome with guilt after one tiny indiscretion: a passionate fling with her boss that's le... | ["The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate, Sarah Crossan. I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home, and with nowhere to live, finds herself hiding out in the sh... |
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