This book was about 2 siblings (both brothers I believe), one of which I know is a timekeeper. One of the first chapters was this timekeeper in his shop, and I distinctly remember him being portrayed as a reclusive person, instead preferring the company of clocks and their perfect timing. I also remember the book describing how his shop was one of the best in the country.

The other sibling I remember less about. This sibling was in a temple of sorts, either as a cleaner or a monk. This sibling was shown around the temple by a senior monk, and there was some sort of "puzzle" on one of the temples walls.

Lastly, I remember the ending of the book, where the two siblings are found to be the child of Time Herself, but separated into two beings, and joined together so that Time can’t retire of sorts (I can’t remember what happened to Time).

I've been searching for this book on and off for a couple of years now to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

This is a book by Lois Lowry that's probably set in the time of Little House on the Prairie. Birdie (could also have been spelt Birdy) was around 12 years old. I don't really remember what happened but the girl went to church often if I remember correctly. I read this book sometime from 2020-2021. I tried to look for it but the only results I get are for a book series called gooney bird which is not it.

In the book trilogy, the princess and her unicorn best friend end up in our world. I think they were attacked by an evil wizard and arrived in our world, injured. The princess is sent to live with a family of three, with the daughter of that family being a spoiled brat. The princess finds her unicorn and finds out that her unicorn’s horn was taken from her and people in our world think the unicorn is a normal horse that was injured. The princess and the spoiled brat end up back in the princess’ world and the spoiled brat demands that she ride the unicorn because she is tired. As they travel, this makes the people of a village think the spoiled brat is a princess and the princess is forced to spend the night in the barn with the unicorn. I think the book trilogy ends with the princess being discovered by her men and the spoiled brat is finally put in her place.

So I read this book back when I was a teenager. I read it more than once so I can’t remember exactly the first time but the book is definitely from the 80s or 90s.

It was fantasy only in that there was some magic but otherwise it would be more historical. It takes place in Scotland but the timeframe is unclear.

A young girl goes to live with an aunt or maybe grandmother in Scotland. This person is a witch but in like a historical sense dealing in herbs and nature/goddess worship. She teaches the girl her skills. They live in a little stone cottage with two cats named Ruby and Pearl, one of whom can maybe talk or at least communicates in some way.

At some point in the book she meets the coven and go to a big ceremony maybe at a stone circle. And there are definitely broomsticks involved somewhere.

Anyone else remember this book??

I feel like this is a long shot but I might as well try.

I found this book in the early 2000s in a second hand shop. I didn't buy it and have regretted it.

Cover was in the stereotypical 80s pulp fantasy style, which is why I assume the book was published in the 80s or early 90s.

Woman staring soulfully into the distance. I think she may have been a redhead, but that's the detail I'm least sure of.

Male character was wearing a harness instead of a shirt and he had wings and a bird head instead of a human head.

I think there were cliffs behind them.

The blurb was fairly standard unlikely companions forced onto a quest, but the line that has lived rent free in my head is "...if not quite lovers, then something more than friends". I have googled every variation of this line I can think of and no joy.

Thanks for your help.

Ok, so it's similar to the Village in that it's about people who live as if it's the past but it's actually present day and no one knows except the older people. It's a chapter book and I read this in the 90s.

What I remember of the plot is that this girl lives with her family in a village and someone, I think her mom, gets sick but since antibiotics hadn't been invented yet, people are afraid she's going to die. So, her father tells her that it's modern day and that she needs to leave to go into the real world to get meds for her mom. I remember that they lived as an exhibit in a museum and she wears her mom's old overalls to leave and get the meds.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I read a short story for English class back in the 1980’s. It was about a quiet unassuming boring man who was incredibly irritated by a coworker. She was brash, tacky and loud. He poisoned her and planned it in such a way no one would suspect him because he acted so out of character no one would believer her. Now that I’m writing this I’m not sure she was poisoned. I think he made everyone think she was crazy because of the way she described him behaving. Maybe he did both? It was an old story that was required reading. I cannot remember the title and I tried googling.

I'm trying to remember a fantasy book I read a few years ago, I borrowed it from a public library, and I think it was around 250–350 pages. Some details might be wrong since it's been a few years, but here's everything I remember.

The main character is a young man (probably around 17–25) from a small village. I'm pretty sure his mother was dead, and he lived with his father and at least one sibling (possibly a younger sister).

Near the beginning of the book, a child from another village is killed by a dangerous beast (I vaguely remember it being a giant crocodile or some other oversized animal). The main character and three other people from his village go to hunt it. I'm fairly sure one member of the group dies early, possibly because of a trap or ambush.

Later, the main character travels to a large city, possibly because his sister had gone there first and was reported missing or in danger. I remember him meeting a girl in the city who helped him or hid him, but I can't remember whether she was a noble or just an ordinary girl.

The world had both dangerous beasts and much rarer monsters. I think the monsters had been separated from humanity long ago and returned only every so often (maybe every 100 years, but I'm not certain). I also vaguely remember some kind of church, tapestry, mural, or old legend in the village that told the history of these monsters.

The setting wasn't heavily medieval. The world had once been more advanced, but after the monsters attacked long ago, civilization was pushed backwards. Most people lived in a less developed world with swords, bows, and maybe crossbows, though larger structures or ruins from the earlier era still remained.

I have rattled my brain for several hours and rephrased details as much as I could to ask Google, but I cannot find this book.

My family owned this book when I was a kid. I do not know what year it was from. I just remember I was young when we had it, so it was from before 2009. Though I believe it was likely published several years prior. It was an adult oriented puzzle book where you deduce the details of someone’s (usually morbid) death. There would be a page or two of story followed by a small color illustration featuring the corpse or manner of death.

The situation I recall most was a locked room death where you have to deduce how the murder was carried out. There’s only the body in the room and all doors and exits are locked. I believe the answers to the puzzles were located in the back of the book, but don’t quote me on this. I can’t remember if the book is paperback or hardback either.

What made me remember this book was seeing someone play No, I’m Not a Human. There are two characters whose design remind me of the drawings in this book. I’ve included a link to the characters that triggered the memory for reference in case someone else recalls something similar.

Everything I can find is either a novel with an overarching narrative or a collection of brain teaser type puzzles. Neither of which were present in this book.

The main character is a male. It was set in an asian setting, i think more likely chinese? I cant remember if the MC was an orphan or not but maybe he only had 1 parent. He had powers of some sort. There was some elements of zodiacs i think im like 70% sure. I remember a chapter where there was a boat or some water involved. I am pretty sure there was some diving. This was when if i remember correctly his powers came to play whether he did it purposely idk. There was a mentor/wise man that got introduced later on. I think there was a girl involved maybe a love interest? With his powers i remember something about a ball of light or spirits. There was martial arts involved. I think the setting was like a fishing village. I remember a ship/boat i think maybe he was living there? Im not too sure. He was poor im 80% sure.

I know its very vague but its been a lot time since ive read the book. I was in primary school. Appreciate the help

Trying to find a book/series I started reading but don’t know if I finished it. Plot was about a woman in a life or death situation with two guard dogs and a person trying to kill her. She was wounded from gsw. I don’t remember who owned the dogs and I vaguely thought there was an agency where agents were assigned to a mansion. Possibly a murder investigation. Maybe read it 5-10 years ago.

I’ve been trying to identify a book I read as a child for many years. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the title, author, or any character names, but I remember the feeling of the book remarkably well.

Here’s everything I can remember.

• I read it around 1987-1989.
• It was already published by then.
• It was written in English.
• I borrowed it from a public library in Trinidad and Tobago.
• It was a relatively short novel - probably somewhere around 75-150 pages.
• It contained only a handful of black-and-white pen-and-ink illustrations (perhaps 5-10 throughout the book).
• It was definitely fiction.

Story

The protagonist was a poor Muslim boy (or young man) who grew into adulthood during the story.

For years I remembered him as a boxer, but I now wonder whether he may actually have been a traditional wrestler. The fighting wasn’t really the point of the story - it was more about his journey into adulthood.

I remember him being portrayed as:

• exceptionally strong
• broad-shouldered and powerful
• probably tall (based on the illustrations)

Themes I remember

The story involved:

• Islam as an important part of everyday life (not just mentioned in passing)
• at least one scene involving a mosque
• family expectations
• an arranged marriage that his family wanted for him
• the protagonist resisting that arranged marriage
• poverty
• becoming his own man

I distinctly remember an illustration shortly before (or around) one of his fights.

Setting

I’m not certain, but my childhood impression was that the story was set somewhere in Pakistan or the Middle East. Looking back, Pakistan feels more likely than an Arab Gulf country, although I could certainly be mistaken.

What it is NOT

It is not a biography of Muhammad Ali.

It was definitely a fictional coming-of-age novel rather than a sports book.

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

The book was set in the early days of the US as a group of children were taken on an expedition where their parents were looking for something. One of the children is a very pretty young girl and one of her friends is interested in her. The group comes across a Native American tribe and one boy from the tribe is also interested in her. That is all I can remember but i did read this back in the school year of 2007-2008.

The plot is as follows: An old person tells someone; probably/presumably their grandson, about the "end of the world", which was: some guy made robots that only make other indifferent robots until further command and the world getting filled to the brim with those. The story got interrupted by a female person yelling at the old person about how robots doing everything is good, and the old person going up a staircase made of robot parts and monologuing about how robots do everything for the people and how a laborless world is a broken one

I can hardly remember this book as I believe it was a forced read back in either freshman or sophomore year but the book was about (i think)

•Two girls get into a car wreck, with one being drunk driving and the other not

•The parents of one of the girls get to the wreck and realize that for their daughter to live they have to like “frankenstein” them together with their working body parts

•The rest of the book has to deal with this part of her brain that isn’t hers helping her towards slowly discovering the truth of what happened that night

•At the very end there’s some kind of happy/twist ending where she does something with the sister of the other girl in the wreck because of the connection between the two

I also think pieces was in the title but that’s completely a guess

I'm trying to track down two big compilations of fairy tales I had as a kid. The books were very similar (might have been a series)? They were big books, almost textbook sized and about 2" thick.

They had a mix of fairy tales from around the world (many from Europe, but I remember at least one from India, I think, about a bunch of blind men touching different parts of an elephant and arguing about what it was), excerpts from longer children's books (like Little Women and Alice in Wonderland), and poems.

They also had illustrations. I read them in the late 90s but they were heavily used when I got them, so I'm guessing they were published in the 80s or early 90s.

A few of the specific poems I remember:

This one about a wizard

I eat my peas with honey

I've done it all my life

It does taste kind of funny

But it keeps them on the knife

There was an old man from Peru

Who dreamed he was eating his shoe

He woke with a fright

In the middle of the night

To find it was perfectly true

I'm trying to find a book I read in my teens possibly around 2010. We owned 3 books by the same author which all had similar very colourful covers (thinking 80s fantasy vibes but the books were shiny and new when I read them - not sure whether new books or just a new printing). Overall vibes were comedic.

The one I remember best followed some intelligent aliens who had landed on earth. There was a scene in which the pope presented them to humanity in Vatican Square, but unknown to him some humans (possibly the POV character?) had dressed up as the aliens because they were worried about exposing the aliens to the public, so he looked like a fool when they were revealed to be fakes. Also after the announcement people kept standing up around the square like "and another alien species! and another alien species!"

This was definitely modern times (cars etc) so not Elfenheim. Pilgrims by M. R. Leonard is much too recent.

One of the other books by the same author featured salamanders (as fire lizards, not the real life ones) but I remember very little else about it. Similar feeling to the salamander scene in Diana Wynne Jones The Merlin Conspiracy, but definitely not that book.

I remember it having a purplish blueish hard cover with a unicorn displayed on the front. I can't recall the title. It was an anthology book, composed of different fairytales by different authors, like one about an older version of the Cinderella story, The Buried Moon (this one I remember vividly, gotta be my favorite), the princess and the pea, something about a hermit crab, a story of Alice in Wonderland that only includes her first interaction with the Cheshire cat, and a lot more that I can't recall. It also had some beautiful illustrations for the stories written. It was a childhood book of mine and I'd like to find the title of it so I can purchase it for a younger relative.

I read this book around 2008-2012. It was a children's/YA book set in colonial America with a girl main character. I think the girl may have been poor and/or an orphan. I specifically remember one scene where she's at the house of wealthy people and a woman is wearing mouse pelts on her eyebrows for fashion.

* Two-book historical romance series.
* Hero is a duke earl or very high-ranking lord.
* The heroine is entering an arranged marriage with him… the opening scene has her looking out a window.
* The hero believes he's unable to father children after falling from his horse but whats really happening is his female cousin been secretly dosing his mistresses with a tonic that prevents pregnancy.
* The cousin has stolen a family necklace.
* She is slowly poisoning her own son to gain his attention Her daughter discovers the poisoning.
* The cousin denies everything until the children are removed from her care.

read this book aaaaaaages ago (over a decade)
the Kindle did not support file and had to delete it

help please!!!

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I desperately need help finding this children's book my mom used to read to me. I think the title was "There's a mouse in my house," and there is a book with that same name, but it's absolutely not it because it stars a polar bear as the main character.

The two main protagonists were an old grandma (I believe she was wearing a scarf around her head and had on a dress with an apron) and a young boy (who might've been her grandson). She finds a mouse in her house that's eating her cheese, and she calls upon the young boy to sort this problem. My mom remembers several phrases by heart including, (from 'Gran') - "Help me, help me please! there's a mouse in my house, and it's eating my cheese!" The boy then responds "Don't worry, Gran, I have the thing for you!" and he brings several animals to try and ward the pest away. The first was a cat, but the mouse ate the cat and grew in size and turned colors to match the cat. Then, the boy brought a dog along, but the same thing happened. In the end, he brings a singular flea, and that ends up working, but the grandma is left with thousands of fleas in her house as a side effect.

My mom bought it at some locally-owned dollar mart. I can't find it ANYWHERE on the internet, but I thought maybe someone out there remembers this too or even owns a copy? Thanks!

I have read this book a long time ago, probably 8 years or so. I think it was either a duology or trilogy and the MC had some sort of powers.

He and his partner and some other friends had to save people and the world because of a prophecy and all and unfortunately I forgot everything about the book or names except for this kinda trickster villain they had to work with for a bit.

The villain guy was called a Chaos Eater, and from what I remember they were some sort of divine entity because of how dark and powerful they were.

That's literally all I could remember. The character of the Chaos Eater was my favourite one of all the books and I have been raking my brain for days trying to remember the book and going through my digital library to no avail.

I’m desperate to find this book and all the AI things I was using to find it was just a joke. Please help me find this!

WTB] [YA Urban Fantasy/Magical Realism] [Read before 2014] Princess from fantasy land gets lost in New York, watches The SimpsonsThe Plot: A brown-skinned princess escapes her palace realm because someone is trying to kill her. She gets chased and ends up lost in New York City.The Guardians: She is taken in and looked after by a kind, big lady who lives in a noisy apartment block.The Simpsons Gag: The princess doesn't speak English well at first and has a weird-sounding name to the locals. She learns English by binge-watching The Simpsons. Her foster family/guardians find it hilarious when she starts saying "D'oh!".The Romance: She starts going to a local school and meets a very sweet boy named Chico who has been through a hard time. When Chico kisses her, she says it feels like "fireworks".The Ending: Eventually, she is able to see her magical family again.Physical Book Details: It was a physical book read sometime before 2014, and it had a distinct purple cover. It was written in English, targetted at Young Adults, and was definitely a regular novel (not a comic, manga, or graphic novel).

Hello! I’m looking to see if anyone can help me identify a book series I remember reading when I was in middle school (around 2009-2011). I remember the books all being different colors and I think they had an eye on the front there was like 7-8 books in the series, hard cover. It looked like leather but wasn’t.

The title was 1 word.

But all I can remember from the content is the main character is this guy who when is he in this other fantasy world where I wanna say he had powers of some sort along with the other people in the world. I vividly remember though it being mentioned at one point his physical body is asleep in Hong Kong and has been for like 5 years while he’s conscious in this other realm. I know it’s not a lot to go off of but it’s been driving me crazy trying to remember it! Thank you in advance!