story set in our current time line. it's about our 1st armed spaceship which was armed with a 105mm howitzer & 30mm vulcan to fight the greys flying black triangle ships & these aggressive aliens slaughtered the people on our mar's mining colony. i also remember the inaugural launch was delayed due to an onboard epidemic. there were also several references to how fragile the battleship was from the tensioned guy wires everywhere.
Anybody have any clues for me what this exciting novel is named?

Been looking on and off for ages for a series (pretty sure it wasn't one book) about 3 girls. Read it in middle school (early 2010s). Each girl had a flower name and that's how they bonded. MCs name is i think rose, then she meets a girl named lily? And the 3rd girl they meet is named Iris. I think the names of each book changed according to who was introduced.

I do not remember the plot. All I remember story wise was i think MC moved to a different town. There was a skeletonized cat in a crawlspace. And i think there was a fire and they had to stay in the school gym. There might have been horses? If there was fantasy elements I didn't get that far

I think Iris, the 3rd girl, was like a feral kid or didnt speak English or there was some sort of thing to her. She might have lived in a hut or something and the other girls would visit.

These books have stuck with me for ages and I have always tried to find what it was called

Searching for a shortish novel I read about 20 years ago, back in primary school. Here’s what I remember:
- the main character, a girl, fell into a fire pit and suffered severe burns
- she was a swimmer
- book was potentially written in second person, unless I’m mixing it up with another. I don’t think I am, since it was the first book I distinctly remember reading in second person!
- the MC’s name may have been Katherine?

i was a kid in the 2010s and I’m trying to find a picture book set in a foggy fishing then I believe it followed a girl and her cat, I remember it maybe having somewhat of a dark story that mentioned her father being away a lot..maybe he was a fisherman can’t remember.. the picture book was sizeable, I read it in English, I remember the colors being dark

I read this book a long time ago and I remember it had at least one book after.

A girl moves into a new neighborhood and learns a man on her street is tossing his dogs poop onto the sidewalk. Everyone else go around and doesn't confront him but she does so he cursed her. She learns about, I think it's a class, to remove curses. The setting is on a farm where she has to pick potatoes along with others. I remember there was a Spinx, a Kelpie, a girl I believe was a wood nymph and a frog who couldn't speak.

The Spinx couldn't remember the answer to his riddle, the Kelpie couldn't go into the water during a full moon, and the girl was covered in scars from her trees catching on fire.

I don't think he was technically part of the FBI, but he was part of a secret organization that filled a similar role in the supernatural underworld and used the FBI as a cover. It may have had the word paranormal in the name.

He was specifically described as a "witch," not a wizard, and I believe he was of Latino descent. There was also something about sensing magic through his nose, unlike most witches, which he thinks is embarrassing because it sometimes makes him sneeze.

It's an occult detective action story, so he ends up accused of the murder, so he runs off, and looks for a necromancer or possibly medium, who can question the corpse for him, and the plot twist is that he actually did kill the woman. The second plot twist is that he killed her because she was a hit woman sent after him by a local incubus / gang lord who he'd pissed off on a previous case. Also, I think she was something called a "grey," which might have been a half-human half-monster thing.

I also remember there being a secret street in the city (which I want to say is Los Angeles, but I could easily be wrong) which witches had allied with a demon lord or so forth to make invisible to normal people.

My memories of the cover or vague, but I think it was him holding a gun (possibly cocked or at the viewer?) on a blue background.

I remember as a kid having a beautiful edition of the original little mermaid tale where she dies and becomes sea foam but I can't seem to find the right illustrated edition.

I distinctly remember the last page or so when she becomes sea foam being like a gorgeous pink and yellow and blue sky or heaven scene with a lot of clouds i think but I can't recall anything else. I think she was blonde, the mermaid.

This would have been early 2000s for me so the book could have been made anytime before 2010 era.

Thanks for the help! This is driving me nuts!

Hi,

I am looking for a title of a book that I read a few years ago. I lent the book to my sister and she lost it and neither of us can remember what it was called.

It was about 5 sapphic short stories and the cover had a severed finger on a white background.

The first story was about two lesbians who steal a baby and there is also a lot of cannibalism.

The last one is a ceo and a lumberjack or something.

Any ideas?? I cannot find this on the internet lol. probably was published within the last 2-5 yrs

That is all I remember about them - they were medieval/mystical serious chapter books that I read when I was 11/12 in 1999-2000. I later studied Parsifal and Niebelungelied in college probably because I was inspired by these books.

I am having no luck in finding this book abouy slumber party hosting that I was obsessed with as a kid, around the mid 2010s (2012-2017 would be my guess as to when I had it).

I remember it being somewhat square and on the smaller side, I think it was a mostly blue cover perhaps with accents of pink and green. Very girly for sure.

It came with many different party themes and then outlined food, game, and decorations. I definitely remember a candy themed party because it reminded you to brush your teeth after, and also an "Arabian Nights" party that probably hasn't aged the best.

Possible leads are that I may have purchased it at one of those classic Canadian scholastic book fairs but I do not know that for sure.

I forgot most of the things in there but what I remember about it was the fml give birth after divorce? (I honestly don't remember if it was after divorce or during the time that the husband was with his mistress) Then during the fml's stay at the hospital her doctor found out that she was his long lost niece. Then he confront her and told her they were looking for her and that they lost her when her biological mother took a call. The doctor/uncle also mentioned that she has 3 biological brothers. One was a lawyer, another was a famous actor, the third one I forgot what he does but he's also someone prominent. She was deeply surprise that they dotted on her after they found out and met her in the hospital because all her life she wasn't really treated fairly by everyone around her.

If you happen know the title of this novel please let me know.

Thank you ❤️

I’ve been trying to identify a book I read sometime between 2010 and 2015, but despite remembering some very specific plot details, I’ve had absolutely no luck!
I borrowed it from my older sister, so it could have been published well before I read it.
What I remember most clearly (major spoilers):
The main character is a young woman who arrives somewhere by a small boat, possibly a dinghy or kayak. She meets a man and develops a sexual relationship with him.
During one of their sexual encounters, he pays very close attention to her naked body, studying every detail, including a tiny ladybug/ladybird tattoo (possibly on her ankle).
Later, it’s revealed that he wasn’t the good guy she thought he was. I believe he’d deliberately pursued the sexual relationship for sinister reasons connected to a supernatural ritual.
The ritual involved burying an accurate likeness of someone, either a photograph or a hand-drawn picture, to transfer some kind of curse, impending death or accelerated ageing.
I remember the man’s careful attention to her body being significant because he needed to know exactly what she looked like, including identifying marks that wouldn’t normally be visible.
I think both photographs and a drawing were involved at different points in the story, but I can’t remember who used which. It’s possible he used photographs of her and she later had to draw someone else from memory, or vice versa.
I believe she eventually discovers what he’s done and finds a way to save herself.

Other details I’m less certain about:
I think she was a young adult, possibly in her early twenties, with red/auburn hair and freckles.
She may have been backpacking alone in a foreign country.
The setting felt warm, possibly tropical, and somewhat isolated.
I remember a river being important. She may have travelled downstream to reach the man’s house, and escaping was difficult because of the strong current and needing to row upstream.
I think the man was already living there, and much of the story involved just the two of them in his house.
I believe the man may have inherited the curse from someone else, possibly an elderly woman.
I have a vague recollection that the curse was successfully transferred to the protagonist, and she only realised what had happened when she began experiencing its effects.
I think she ultimately saved herself by deliberately transferring the curse to a female roommate back home.

Genre/tone:
It felt mostly like a contemporary mystery or suspense novel with a supernatural twist, rather than fantasy or horror. The world was otherwise normal, with no fantasy creatures or elaborate magic systems. I don’t remember it being particularly frightening or disturbing.
I suspect I’m struggling to find it because the ritual and the man’s true intentions are major spoilers, so they wouldn’t appear in most book descriptions or reviews.
I’ve already ruled out The Haunting of Kulah by Janet MacLeod Trotter, which has a few superficial similarities but is definitely not the book.
The detail I’m most confident about is the man deliberately studying the woman’s naked body, including the small ladybug tattoo, and a supernatural ritual involving burying a photograph or an extremely accurate drawing of someone.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I’d be incredibly grateful for any suggestions!

Hi all! I'm looking for a book I read as a kid, likely from the 90s or early 2000s. The general premise is that a boy becomes interested in a girl (I believe romantically, but they may have just been friends) who is nonverbal(?) and acts strange. She is described as having ice cold eyes, either blue or green. She may have been cold to the touch? The boy concludes that she's a zombie, but this wrong (she's not undead). As he investigates to try to help the girl, the boy discovers that there's some kind of powder causing this zombie-like state. I don't remember a ton about the plot, but at the end the mystery is solved, the antagonist is dealt with, and we see the girl is returning to her old self. Does anyone know what book this was?

I remember these pages so vivadly but I'm having trouble finding the book

It's vintage, maybe 50s?

The art makes me think Francis style illustrations

Each page a little anthro animal child gets into trouble and it's like Better safe then sorry!

So a page a little girl gets into her mother's sewing pins and you can see pins sticking out of the tips of her fingers

A page one touches the hot iron ouch

One a little boy eats mysterious berries and gets a tummy ache.

And so on and so forth

Charming illustrations of animal children getting hurt over every day objects

As a child I thought it might be British because one child had an odd shopping cart I had never seen before?

God I miss this book

As title explains, it was a decently long series, I read it back in middle school (2016) and to my knowledge the entire series was complete then, I remember reading up to book 6 or 7 or so, and being unable to finish because 7 or 8 I don't remember wasn't in the school library and I refused to jump over an entire section, the main character was a girl, I swear it had to do with powers of some kind, either like vampires/witches/werewolves something like that, but it had romance and the only main memory I can remember is that somewhere around book 5-7 the main character gets romantically involved with one of the staff/teachers/professors at the school? It was a really good read and I really want to find it again, I've been looking for it for the last week or so when I was reminded of it and I'm losing my mind, but point being, all I remember is the first book was titled something along the lines of midnight academy or whatever, and believe me I've tried searching up ever possibility, but it is a fact that the series had over 7+ books, and I wanna say the books were around 300-400 pages minimum

Claude sent me here because he couldn’t solve it.
Colourful cartoon style like Where's Wally, with each double page a new location. Must have been late 90s or early 00s. One page was called "Suburbia", and possibly another "Downtown". My brain might be making this up but there was also a scene where they were all inside a giant mouth. The characters were a gang of goofy, cartoonish villains, and one was called pimpernel or something pimpernel. The villains gradually disappeared as the book went on, though I can't remember why.. maybe caught by police or heroes.
Driving me nuts. Send help! Hope I didn’t just dream this…

I’m gonna go here first before the other subreddit

From what I remember because I was like 5, I use to always “read” this square book. It had a bunch of stories, was decently thick, and the illustrations involved were scary as hell. I think I remember a moon possibly involved in one of these stories? It was styled very olden(like medieval almost?)

In terms of cover, I think the book was white w the title and then characters all around it

I don’t think it’s brothers grimm but I could totally be wrong

i haven’t read this book in years, over 10 years to be exact, so this might be a long shot.
- the cover was blue and white, with red lettering . i’m not sure if there was a silhouette or figure on the cover.
- got it at the school library
- main character was a girl
- the only vivid detail i remember reading in that book was that she was in a bus with, i’m guessing classmates, and then the bus either stopped or got into an accident . i don’t know if they died on the bus or disappeared.
- it was snowing when that took place ^
- i don’t remember if this involved wolves or vampires, i think wolves. but i’m not entirely sure.
- im also pretty sure it was a paper back, a long wide modern sized one. not the small ones.
- the years i would’ve read it, would be between 2009-2015 .
it was my first ever thriller, i fell in love with thriller books after that. im just so sad that i can’t remember anything about it.

I'm trying to remember a book I read when I was younger, probably sometime between 2008 and 2015.

I remember the main character being a young girl who discovers a hidden room somewhere in an old building. Inside, there were old letters and strange objects that seemed connected to something that happened years earlier. I think the mystery gradually revealed a connection between the people who had lived there before and the girl's own life.

I remember the atmosphere being mysterious and a little eerie, but not outright horror. It might have been a middle-grade fantasy or mystery novel. I probably borrowed it from a school or public library, and I can't remember the cover or author's name.

I'm not completely sure whether the hidden room was in a house, an old library, or another building, so that detail might be slightly off.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'd really appreciate any possible titles!

I remember running across this book in some list that sounded really cool. It was a fantasy series with dynastic houses, mech suits, and it had a kind of Victorian Fantasy/steampunk vibe. It came out within the last 3 or 4 years I think...

It had something to do with a young woman in a noble house connecting with this guy who was a kind of mech mechanic to help repair her family's mech. Advertised itself as having a swashbuckling tone. Can anyone help me find this book???

I vividly remember picking out a comic at the local library when I was a kid that was about this girl who's father was some kind of evil scientist. He ran some kind of experiment on her genetically modifying her cells which made them unstable. She needed some kind of device to keep her from growing continuously until she died and at the end of the book that is what happened. I know it sounds like some kind of weird fetish book but I swear I got this comic from the library along side spider-man and a few others over a decade ago. It was one of the weirdest things I have ever read and I need to make sure it wasn't some kind of fever dream.

Looking for a children's book from a UK primary school library around 1980-1984. It featured two tribes/clans of creatures. One group were shaggy and hairy all over, perhaps with only a long red protruding nose visible through the hair. The illustrations had a Scandinavian/Nordic feel, similar to the Gnomes books. Half picture-book, half chapter-book.

This is all early hazy memories so it may have all been a dream!

I’m trying to identify a book I remember seeing around 2005 as a kid, though it may have been published earlier.

It covered lots of different subjects, not just ghosts or the paranormal. I remember topics along the lines of animals, science, history, and the human body. I don’t know whether it was technically an encyclopedia, and it wasn’t necessarily a children’s book.

There was a small section dedicated to supernatural phenomena. In that section, there was a small photograph surrounded by text showing what I remember as a smoky, floating apparition against a dark background. It looked like a photograph rather than an illustration.

I remember staying at a friend’s house and he pulled that out and I was genuinely terrified of it. I wanted to see if I could relive that lol.

I read this book in primary school but don’t remember much:
- a boy lives with his mum, who is obsessed with the colour yellow. The boy is not allowed to leave the house.
- he runs away in the night to explore. He meets lots of other children, all staying with another boy.
-there is a girl in the story who has cut all her hair off, because another boy liked it. She visits the main boy.
-there is also a scene where they all spit watermelon seeds at each other.
- the story ends with all the children running away and joining the main boy at his house. They all sleep in his house.
I would be incredibly grateful if this rings a bell for anyone!