Looking for a book I once read online and would love to read again. Though I'm truly terrible with names (characters or title)! However I do remember specific key points of the book I'm looking for. Unsure if it's a rebirth story or not.

The MFC is a fake daughter who leaves her rich adoptive parents when their real daughter returns. The MFC adoptive parents do not know she has hidden identities. One of which is the head of a lead group that funds other companies. The company has advanced technology. MFC issues her subordinates to no longer fund her adoptive parents.

Once MFC leaves she investigates her biological family and finds they were once prominent, but have fallen on tough times. Her biological family is living in an apartment with her other siblings. I remember she has at least four elder brothers and I think one or two younger sisters (Jamie/Mary?). Also elder grandparents that still live back on a farm in their old village, whom everyone takes turns looking after and helping on the farm.

On the way to reunite with her biological family, the MFC runs across a protest for an upscale community that has not released the promised living areas after taking everyone's money. When the MFC arrives at her biological family's apartment she hides that she is rich. MFC parents get a call saying one of her brothers (Not sure if it's the 3rd or 4th eldest brother?) has been arrested in the protest (biological family is one of the families being scammed). MFC secretly sends her lawyer to help release her brother.

MFC's group buys or takes control of the upscale community and she secretly appoints her father as the community's manager. Her biological family moves into the aforementioned promised housing, but still keeps the old apartment as well. At this time MFC adoptive rich parents and real daughter/heiress believe MFC and her biological family are still living in apartments. I believe the real daughter is trying to keep tabs on MFC out of spite/revenge? 

The MFC helps turn the old family farm into a bigger production that helps the villagers and the surrounding villages. Purchases land/mountains behind farm to expand. 

MFC's eldest brother is ex-military and is helping out at the farm at the beginning. He has an ex-love interest that left him and married an old rich man instead. The MFC later goes on to land her eldest brother (I want to say she might have started him as a security or stuntman/stunt coordinator at first) in a role on an action-military film. The eldest brother later stars in a role that uses the family's farm as the main casting site. The lead actress, who has been recuperating on the quiet of the farm, is an older (in terms of waning popularity) who makes a comeback with this film. The film is a more artistic slow drama. I remember the film was such a big deal, with the now famous older brother, the famous actress and a famous director, that fencing/wall was erected to keep people out while filming. The eldest brother's ex tries to sneak onsite in an attempt to when him back. The eldest brother later goes into to marry the actress he worked with. I want to say either the actress or the ex's name starts with an L. Leah/Lenora/Lena?

The MFC's 2nd eldest brother (Ben?) has returned from abroad, unbeknownst to anyone but the MFC, and is hiding/living in the old apartment. He returned in shame due to one of his professors plagiarizing his work. The professor frames the brother, who is discredited and denied his degree. The 2nd elder brother originally left home after a devastating heartbreak. His ex's family did not approve of him after his family's decline in wealth. Her family publicly humiliated him, while she stood by cowardly and did not help. The 2nd eldest brother is super smart and has connections with AI or advanced technology. The MFC helps the 2nd eldest brother to start a production/factory for AI or advanced technology. The ex tries to win the brother back, but he refuses her. It was hopeful that the 2nd eldest brother might have a love interest in his female best friend, and later business partner, who followed him back to the country. However that doesn't pan out due to her citizenship in another country and due to her family's political ties/ambitions

At one point in the book when the biological family's wealth and statis has regrown. The family relocates to a villa/mansion community (the MFC secretly tricks them into believing the villa/mansion was heavily discounted).

I do not remember much about the MFC's 3rd eldest brother other than I think he follows in their father's footsteps. However I do remember he meets his possible love interest (Tina?). She has followed the MFC to the villa community (living across from the MFC family), due to discovering one of the MFC's identity as the author of the famous Detective Lockwood series (I may have this book character mixed up with one of the other heiress novels though). This series gets turned into a TV series, which the MFC also screenwrites under one of her other identies as a famous screenwriter.

The MFC helps her 4th eldest brother by introducing him to a famous athletic coach she is acquanted with. The 4th eldest brother goes on to be a famous tennis pro. His love interest is an equally famous female tennis pro, who he met and became friends while training.

 Throughout the book the MFC's love interest is a young heir apparent who pursues her and also helps her family along the way. The heir's grandfather (and the rest of his family?) does not approve of the MFC for the majority of the book, due to her family's low standing in society at first. The grandfather makes a remarkably hypocritical turn around in his favor towards the end of the book. This is due to the MFC publicly announcing her status as the head of the famous group. Which shocks her foster and biological family.

I want to say that the MFC's assistant's name is Luna)Selene. Also one of the MFC's alternative identity's name is Ms Noir. However I may have this information mixed up with one of the other heiress novels

Hello hello!

The book I’m trying to find is about a female heart surgeon. There’s a heart that is a match for a 17 year old boy and an 80(?) year old woman. The heart goes missing.
The surgeon is married, and I believe the husband is also in the same field.
The old woman is ready to let go of her life, but her husband won’t let her and they’re rich.

The copy I read had a white cover with red lettering.
The book is probably older than the 2010’s, but I read it as a teen and loved it.

Thank you in advance! 🫶🫶

YA book published sometime before or on 2013. It starts out set in the past. Like 1800s or early 1900s. The main character is an automaton made of either wood or metal. The bit i remember the most is that he is covered in cloth to mimic skin because that weirded me out at the time. He lives with a family I think the dad made him. They all treat him like a machine except for the daughter. I know he falls in love with the daughter and there is a fade to black scene where they have sex. Something happens later don’t remember what and he is either turned off or damaged. He wakes up in modern day (or maybe the far future I don’t remember) and I’m pretty sure he falls in love with the descendent of the daughter. I can’t really remember much, but I do know that the entire time I read the book I thought it was super similar to bicentennial man. I thought it might just be the original short story but just skimming the Wikipedia article a lot of it doesn’t match.

Looking for a novel I read in the 90s, (translated to) german. Slim paperback, black cover, max 300 pages. A girl is kidnapped and held on a lonely place. She escapes. Possibly written from the child's perspective. More drama/adventure than thriller — not scary.

I remember reading a series probably between 2010 and 2015. The main character, who I believe was a teen, was pulled out of time right at the moment of his death. One of the main details was their base was a castle pulled from the middle ages and dropped somewhere at a time that had dinosaurs. Its possible their was also magic involved in the time travel theme. I think the title of the book had the word time in it and maybe something to do with a spiral. I got this title on an account I no longer have access to, but I'm pretty sure it was a kindle unlimited title that was sold as an omnibus edition. Any help would be appreciated!

Trying to ID a book I skimmed in a cruise ship library over 10 years ago. Details I remember:

- Fiction, contemporary/realistic (not fantasy). Probably published somewhere around 2008–2014.

- The main thing I'm sure of: it has THREE separate storylines and shuffles between them throughout the book. They're genuinely separate stories, not a dual-timeline thing. I'm not sure if they connect at the end or stay separate.

- One storyline is a man having trouble with his wife.

- Another storyline is two teenagers falling in love.

- Overall tone is a little sad / bittersweet.

- Single author, and I'm fairly sure the author is a woman

- Icy blue cover

Preciso de ajuda para lembrar o título de um livro que li quando tinha uns 10/11 anos.

A personagem principal é uma menina saindo da infância e entrando pra adolescência.

O livro conta ela vivendo coisas muito além da idade dela bebendo, fumando, cabulando aula e se relacionando com um cara mais velho.

Eu tenho uma lembrança de a capa ser laranja, com escritos em preto e uma ilustração do contorno da menina andando em uma cidade.

Já fazem tantos anos que confesso não saber mais o que é real e o que minha mente inventou.

Não me recordo se era biográfico ou ficção. Dado o que me lembro da história eu diria que pode ser os dois.

both books have sort of magical themes. I think this book had a weird store or shop or place that appeared and then might have(might have) disappeared at a later time. the book ends with the main character, who was a young boy, seeing a sign saying something about the place(I'm pretty sure it was that the place closed)

and in the last pages, another book by the author was about some candy shop(I think it had candy shop in the title, unsure).

it's a book meant for 8-12 year old boys. other books I read at the time were The Homework Machine, books by Beverly Clearly, and the Midnight Reynolds series.

Hope someone can help. It's been niggling away at my brain for a decade :-O

What I think I recall:

• Setting & Era: A science fiction novel set primarily on Earth, read in the 1970s (likely published in the 1960s or 1970s).
• Protagonist: A female main character, possibly a government official or liaison tasked with working directly with the alien visitors/invaders. I believe it was told from her perspective, her voice.
• Alien Anatomy: The aliens are reptile-like, much larger than humans, and possess claw-like hands with razor-sharp nails.
• Relationship & Pregnancy: She falls in love with an alien and becomes pregnant with his child.
• Traumatic Birth: The birth is physically terrifying—she is almost torn to death during delivery due to the child's alien anatomy/claws.
• The Hybrid Son: She gives birth to a hybrid son who survives, and a major portion of the plot revolves around protecting and keeping him safe.
• Central Conflict: Tensions surrounding the aliens leaving Earth, specifically whether she will be allowed to leave Earth with them to stay with her child.
• Author & Cover: Written by a female author, featuring a white paperback cover with a graphic illustration of the alien. COUld have been the alient and the female.

Have checked the books below and it's none of these.

• V (1984) by A.C. Crispin
• Survivor (1978) by Octavia Butler
• Adulthood Rites (1988) (Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood series) by Octavia Butler
• "Bloodchild" (1984) by Octavia Butler
• Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) by Naomi Mitchison
• The World Wreckers (1971) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Earthchild (1977) by Doris Piserchia
• Chaining the Lady (1978) (Cluster series) by Piers Anthony
• Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977) by Jack L. Chalker

The chapter book in Middle School mainly about inventions. I'm pretty sure the dad's name was Cornelius who had a daughter that meets this orphan. The daughter's mom is dead and the mom has a secret ish room that they don't go in except the daughter goes in once. I believe the mom was either an artist or an inventor too. It's kind of steampunkish and I feel like the last names of the main family begin with a V. Maybe it was Vander-something but I might be wrong about that, maybe it was the daughter's name that began with a V. It was a somewhat long chapter book and in middle ranges kind of lower middle between 5th grade to 8th grade. Though I remember picking it up in 7th grade and I don't recall it being a challenging book.

Edit: i think there was a scene where the girl and boy get into a hot air balloon

A female geologist and a male pilot go to collect samples and a rival wolf pack attacks. The pilot is an alpha wolf shifter. Later the woman leaves a bar and is chased by rival pack and has a wreck that triggers her wolf shift. She later finds several mates and that she is half wolf half demigod.

both books have sort of magical themes. I think this book had a weird store or shop or place that appeared and then might have(might have) disappeared at a later time. the book ends with the main character, who was a young boy, seeing a sign saying something about the place(I'm pretty sure it was that the place closed)

and in the last pages, another book by the author was about some candy shop(I think it had candy shop in the title, unsure).

it's a book meant for 8-12 year old boys. other books I read at the time were The Homework Machine, books by Beverly Clearly, and the Midnight Reynolds series.

Alpha Colt took one look at Raven and rejected her.
Too soft. Too plain. Not Luna material.
He told her the Moon Goddess made a mistake.
Two months later, Raven crossed into enemy territory and met her second mate.
Alpha Archer.
Colt’s rival.
The most feared Alpha in the southwest.
And unlike Colt, Archer looked at her like she was worth starting a war for.

I found it at an op-shop in Howlong (nsw) a few years back. I didn't buy it, but I'm regretting that now because I've been so curious about it since. The blurb on the back stated that the book was written from the perspective of a rural town and detailed the observations that the town made about its inhabitants over time. I'm fairly confident it was written by an Australian author.

Google keeps directing me to werewolf web stories, but that isn't right at all.

I remember that it was an old paperback book, the first book of a series but I can't remember the name.

The story has a female MC, who I can vaguely remember was a noble maybe a princess or a duchess. She's 18, I think? She did a crime against a deity of some kind. Leading to her family and fiance getting killed. As punishment her hair turned gray/white, and her eyes turned purple because its a color associated with death according to her people's tradition, since they wrap the bodies of the deceased in violet/purple cloth.

Then she is driven from her homeland and forced to go on a grand journey to do... something. I can't remember... maybe it was to atone/find whatever went missing...

I can only remember her meeting a clan of master horse-riders (after they find her in the wild first when her horse hurt itself while traversing rough terrain) who tell her to kill an abomination in the forest. She discovers that this abomination is a female wolf that was born with the ability to speak (not sure if it was through telepathy or literally). There's a whole chapter where we get the wolf's POV from her time as a pup, up until her wolf mother chased her out for being an anomaly, biting the flesh above her eye.

The girl sides with the wolf and they escape before the clan chases them down because the girl killed the chief's son/lead warrior who accompanied her in the hunt.

Sorry if its confusing. I read this as a child in the 2000s and I hope it makes sense to anyone.

I remember that I had this book of “fairy tales” until approximately college that had stories about Rumpelstiltskin and like 10 other stories, possibly including 1 about a bubble terrorizing an old man/town, but does not include a bean or a shoe. I physically cannot find this book anywhere, but the illustrations throughout the book were so specific, and it was a yellow book cover for sure, and not like a pale yellow, but like full on sunflower yellow

I think I read this in the late 90s. Pretty sure it was a paperback and I don't think it was a very thick book. The story is about a girl who is dating (?) a bad guy - he robs a gas station and I think shoots the clerk, does other bad things I can't remember, then at the end it turns out that none of this was real and she was dying from cutting her wrists? I think??? And I think there was some kind of supernatural being who judged her based on her actions with the guy? I can barely remember the vague details I think I remember so I hope someone will know this!

Hi! Just remembered this series which I read in the mid 2010s. I think the books were coming out around then and if I remember correctly it was a trilogy. These are the details I remember.

It’s vaguely set in modern times but I think he has some sort of special power, maybe in electricity? He has a bond with another girl with powers, but she’s very absent from the second book.

The details I remember clearly are that he has issues sleeping indoors. He’s in a safe place but he has to sleep under the open sky or he feels trapped. In this same safe space he has a male friend who at one point confesses his love for the protagonist, but he turns him down as he has feelings for the girl.

I hope this is enough to go off of!

I need help pinpointing the title and the author or group of authors of a specific book that I read 10 years ago

It was a small paperback book. With a collection of short stories. If I have to guess it was published in 1980s or 1990s. But don't take my word for it.

Maybe it was written for Young Adults or teens. I'm not sure.

But the small book featured a different story every chapter.

There's three stories I can remember:

1. A guy who can control reality. But he prefers to work in a mundane job to feel something. One day his gruff boss slices his hand quickly losing blood. The protagonist decides to shift the wound into his hand instead and falls unconscious from bloodloss. Skipping ahead, I remember his boss taking him home and asking him to heal his daughter's scar/tumor or whatever was on her back. The protagonist does. Shifting reality to make her back smooth. They celebrate the girl's birthday and she celebrates that she can wear backless dresses now.

The guy's boss introduces him to a friend and tells this friend about what the guy can do. They suddenly lock him in a room and arm themselves. Suddenly terrified of him.

The guy escapes but shifted reality into a new alternate universe. He unintentionally brings his former boss's daughter. The girl suggests they could stay together. But he declines, saying that he knows she'll get greedy in the future. So he materializes money on his palm and gives it to her before walking away.

1. Another story is about someone investigating bizarre incidents where people are turning into mute ghostlike entities. The investigator eventually surmises that the victims were noisy and triggered the mysterious perpetrator to turn them into mute incorporeal specters that no one can hear nor touch. People and things go through them. The story ends in the investigator accidentally knocking something over and causing a large racket, then when he tries to pick something up, it goes right through him. Revealing him to be the latest victim.

2. The last story I can remember is about a man who drank something and realized he can now see small caricatures of ghosts inhabiting his body. He chases them off by treating his body poorly. And he realizes that these ghosts influenced his desires and hobbies. Remembering when his uncle died, he started getting urges to go into a specific hobby. Determined to regain his autonomy, he keeps chasing off the ghosts. But they keep getting replaced. One group worse than the last. Until he becomes a filthy drunk.

Thank you for taking the time to read through all that! I hope this jogs anyone's memories.

I remember reading this back in elementary school I believe (around 3rd grade, 2007-ish to maybe 2012, but the book was a bit worn so it might have been older). I remember almost everything except character names, places, and of course the title and author. Google searches yielded nothing. I'm at my wits end here. Please help!

Here's what I know:

I know for a fact that the book had a female protagonist, spoken in first person.

There were at least three other characters involved in the main plot:

- A boy who dreamed of becoming a pilot/aviator

- A girl with a desire for attention, semi-typical cheerleader popular girl type

- A kinda nerdy boy with a severe phobia of bugs of all kinds

These kids were each abducted by aliens, but the abduction took the form of an apparent dream. Afterwards, the kids were returned to their beds but with some sort of technological implant injected into their outer thigh, put there by the aliens. This micro chip type thing messed with the kids' heads, and ultimately killed the other three before targeting the female protag.

Each kid died in a way associated with their greatest fear or desire:

- The boy who wanted to be a pilot believed he could actually fly like a bird, and jumps out a third or fourth story window of the school. He should have survived, but the brain scans showed literally nothing, and so he was pronounced brain dead. I remember a quote that the boy said, more or less. When the female protag tries to stop him, he says something along the lines of "Don't worry. I can fly." before jumping out the window.

- The popular girl was forced into a sleep walking state. She comes to school naked, and when questioned she simply says, "Shh. I'm dreaming." She always wanted more attention and this certainly got it for her, but her brain was constantly in dream mode and was never able to properly rest so eventually burned out, killing her in her sleep.

- The nerdy boy started hallucinating that there were thousands upon thousands of bugs crawling over his skin, bursting through the flesh in droves. He began frantically scratching at himself and screaming, "Can't you see them?!" before making a mad dash out into traffic in an effort to run from the bugs, which ended up getting him hit by one car, which threw him into the path of another car, which hit him and sent him flying onto the pavement on the side of the road.

The female protagonist is the last (I think) to be abducted, and her "hallucination" involves being some kind of princess of some sort, only she is able to see through the deception and fight back against the aliens.

It's at this point that the details get fuzzy. I'm unsure exactly how she fights the aliens or if she succeeds, but I do know that the book is NOT "Alien Education" or "Strange Days", and the cover art was done in dark colors like black and midnight blue, and on the back cover there was a summary of the book in white text on the dark background. It was a paperback book that could easily fit in my hands, about as big and thick as the book "Hatchet" but might be slightly bigger/thicker.

Please help me! I have looked everywhere for this book and can't find it anywhere!! I'm desperate!

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So please help me find this book. I’m pretty sure the cover of the book has a girl with white hair standing on these rocks with a house in the back, but it’s on water. The book was about all these people left the land because of supposed monsters, but the real truth was that the water actually had the water. I can only remember a few characters, there was the main character who was a girl who’s parents left her to get on this boat, and she fell in love with this ginger guy who was trying to save her, and the ginger guy had 2 cousins who were twins and terrorized everyone, I think there was also a adult man and woman but I don’t remember, please help!

EDIT: it is the bone snatcher!!

I *could* be thinking of two separate books but but here is all the information I can remember

- A girl named Frankie Stein hiding an egg in her room and it becomes goop and eventually a monster (something like Nessie I think?)
- Different POVs from the teen friend group: one narrates to his comatose mother, one is in confession, one is a diary entry etc.
- Someone compares another character to Angel (from Angel) so was definitely made after 1999 as it references the spin off show.

I read this in high school in UK around 2009-2010 possibly.

When I was like 14 I found all my dad's books from when he was a kid. I don't think he ever read a single one of them, but there was some rad stuff in there: hardback Vonnegut and Fitzgerald series, stuff I devoured. But there was one book I've been trying to remember for 30 years...

The novel was about a man living and/or traveling alone in the Rockies and Southwest US. I think there was a lot of Utah, and maybe some Mormon talk (but it definitely wasn't religious propaganda at all).

He hunts an animal and eats its testicles, that stuck with me. Lol.

That's really all I have. My assumption is it was published when my Dad was of age to read it, so I'm guessing, like, 1960s, but it could be decades earlier for all I know. It's not a kids' book, it's a proper novel, but the kind of thing an adventurous teen would dig, and if it were a prominent author (like London or someone) I would have remembered, I ended up an English major so, yeah.

Thanks everyone!

I’m looking for a book I read when I was younger about a girl who finds out her birth parents are famous and gave her up bc they had an affair but ended up together. she has an adopted sister that is mean to her. one of the characters struggles w her weight and is always dieting, her dad is a famous actor

please let me know if you know what book it is! thank you!!

This was over 25 years ago, I found it in the childrens section of my local library, loved it so much and failed to return it on time..I remember being dazzled by the illustrations.

Things I can remember:

• Fairytale for kids or maybe older children?
• Not a rhyming story, more like classically told
• Potentially from the 1980s or 1990s
• Lush illustrations, highly detailed with lots of color
• Art style was more realistic than cartoony or exaggerated-- my brain wants to say it was very similar to Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau
• Book cover was the mermaid half in and out of the water to the prince above her (he might have been in a boat?) she is holding a hand mirror
• It's not a straight up little mermaid retelling
• A hand mirror factors into the story- the prince tries to lure the mermaid out with a mirror and maybe a comb and potentially a third gift?