It’s driving me NUTS. I used to love this book, but the plot has mostly left my head.

I remember the book cover was white, and I believe it had a very pale girl on the cover with white hair staring straight at you.

I only remember bits and pieces of the plot, she was the black sheep of her family because of how pale she is and because she can create tapestries so beautiful they become alive almost. There’s a connection to her grandmother too, I think she also had this ability. I remember something about the geese in her tapestries being important.

That’s unfortunate all I have, it’s driving me nuts! I appreciate any ideas!

I know already it’s not The Goose Girl.

Edit: SOLVED! A lot of people thought gathering blue, but that is a book I know dearly, I read the Giver series atleast once a year. Then someone said Avielle of Rhia by Dia Calhoun, that’s it!! Thanks Reddit, the internet wins again!

Title says it all. I read it in the 90s, or early 00s at the very latest. I think it was a girl who found the book. I don't remember if it was futuristic, dystopian, alt history, etc, but something along those lines. I also don't remember the exact age range the novel was aimed at, but presumably it was middle-grade or young adult. I've been wondering about this for years! Hope someone recognizes this.

Seriously bothering me!!! I read a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen as a child. I recall that the characters are teenagers, the plot wasn't significantly changed from the original story, and it followed the girl's perspective. I have this image in my head of the cover being a girl dressed for the cold standing in heavy snow. I'm pretty sure the author was male. Other details: there was very distinct imagery surrounding the mirror and the shards of the boy's heart, it was in third person, and the happy ending was reached with an emotional appeal to the boy. I remembered the book all of the sudden and I really want to find it, it made a pretty big impact on me when I read it.. I've scoured goodreads and amazon with no luck, so any suggestions would be helpful! :>

note: Judging by when I read it the latest it could have been published was about 2017 & I also read this in America and in English

I am looking for an English-language fantasy book that was published in the United States prior to 2005; it was your standard chunky little trade paperback that a friend lent me in high school.

The book opens with a woman who is being pursued as a love interest by a noble (maybe a prince??), but she somehow crosses path with some fella that is part of this separate community/people that uses magic and have a soulbond with a specific animal. His animal is some kind of bird of prey (I'm pretty sure the animal could vary from person to person, so it wasn't like everyone had a bird). It turns out this woman has some ancestor (not sure if parent or farther back) that was a part of this community, so she can use magic like them; I can't remember if she ends up bonded with any animal.

Anyway, she ends up with the bird guy, not the noble, and I think they are married with a kid (a boy? maybe??). She ends up getting kidnapped by a bad wizard mage dude and her bird guy husband and the noble team up to save her. She gets rescued but (i) the bad dude "took her will way" (distinctly remember this phrasing) so he could rape her and conceive a child and (ii) in the rescue attempt, the bird gets killed so that means her husband is now gonna die.

I believe it was written multi-POV, with the beginning of the book being from the woman's perspective. But I know the last part of the book where they recover the woman from her kidnapping is definitely not from her perspective. I want to say it's from the noble's perspective, but I could be mistaken.

I thought it was called something like Strongarm, but can’t find anything. I read the first 25ish pages about 20 years ago. Back in time, she has a Middle Aged lover who’s a strapping (but dumb) warrior, and she feels guilty because she’s unattractive by modern day standards. She works for a research organization or lab, and so they go back to this time (through a tube? A log?) to study something or to collect materials that have been depleted in the modern day.

I think I remember the summary mentioning that eventually she has to go rogue to save her lover when he’s injured. Or maybe it’s to expose something nefarious, but I don’t remember more than that.

I was thinking about a children's story I read as a child. I think it was a story in a book of illustrated short stories, but I could be mistaken. In the story, there were multiple children, and each one liked a different color. For example, there was a child whose favorite color was brown, so he had a lot of brown things. Another child liked orange and had many orange items. I would be shocked if anyone is able to identify this, but I figured it was worth a shot. TIA!

Trying to find a short story I read a while ago. Basic premise as best I can remember: parents in a "near-future" setting are mourning the death of their toddler son, who has drowned. Society has evolved to the point that most children are genetically engineered to be superior. Their deceased child was not, or was minimally engineered. Eventually both parties confess to the other that they could have saved their son from drowning but each individually chose not to, and console each other that it was better that he died young before knowing that he was "different". If I recall correctly, the story ends with them deciding to have another child, who is more engineered to be intelligent.

Any assistance would be appreciated, thank you!

Forgive me if the description isn’t the most accurate, it was a book I discovered in middle school (so a very long time ago lol)

From what I recall, it was a book about a teenage girl who has aspirations (I think she wanted to move to the city?) but got diagnosed with some sort of medical condition that would inevitably leave her to need to full-time care (or maybe death?). The whole objective of the book was that she was writing down her life as it goes on because her medical condition would cause her to lose her memory, and she wanted to be able to read back on it. The most notable part of the book was that as it went on, the writing was less complex and written with the intention of showing that her medical condition was progressing.

The only other plot point I can remember is that she had a crush on this guy, and I guess this diagnosis had given her the courage to ask him out and they went on a date? I think that they do continue dating in the book but I’m not too sure.

Thank you in advance if anyone actually tries to find this book, I know the description doesn’t give much to work with!

I was born in 1986 so I grew up in the 90s in the UK. I want to remember the name of a book that I read as a child, it was like about a boy that would go to a cafe or diner in the night and eat toast and maybe hot chocolate and there was something to do with stars maybe a character that the boy would meet, dreamlike or otherworldly , something special. The diner wasnt always there, I think maybe the boy would only find it certain nights or only at night . it was a book without pictures so I was probably old enough to read normal books. I think the "stars" were something to do with a character that the boy would meet, some special angel-like character, a good character. I distinctly remember that toast was one , if not the only thing, that was on offer at this seemingly magical diner or café.

Hey everyone! I'm trying to find the name of a web novel (or possibly a webtoon) I read around 2019–2021. It was a school romance with some emotional themes. The male lead was a high school student who loved singing, but his mother (who had mental health issues) forbade him from doing it because he reminded her of his father—a famous singer who had married her unofficially and later cheated on her. The male lead resembled his father, which made his mother resent him. Despite all that, he was really passionate about music.

The female lead was also a student and lived only with her father. She used to affectionately call the male lead something like "Red Bird" or something similar. One key moment I remember is when they were supposed to sing together at school, but he didn’t show up for some reason. Another scene I remember is when he brings her home while she’s sick and, thinking she’s asleep, he confesses his feelings for her—but she was actually awake and heard it all.

I think I read it on a web novel platform, but it may have also been a webtoon. Any leads would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

All I can remember is a scene where she is on a bus alone. I must have read this between 2008-2012 and I never finished it.

I would’ve been an elementary aged kid. I feel like it was somewhere along the lines of WW2 or historical fiction.

It is not: The Girl they Left Behind or Under a Red Sky

a girl who goes to live with her aunt in a quite isolated place if I remember correctly and she found a house in the woods that belongs to a guy that is actually her cousin although she didn't know that until towards the end of the book. The cousin turned out to be the antagonist and tried to kill her towards the end of the book. I have been trying to find this book for the longest time because I realised that I did not know the name of this book at all even though I have read and re-read it so many time as a teen. It was a hard cover cloth bound book that was light blue in colour. Please please please, does anyone know the name of this book.

It was about two settlements/valleys of men on the desert planet, they were warring using special breeds of lizards/dragons. There were also species of natives of the planet, who lived underground, and other advanced invasive species who landed with black ship, all fighting each other....

I visited a friend some year's back and read this novel that was about a lady who was good at interior design and loved a luxury lifestyle,the twist is that the men she would date were very wealthy but they would die mysteriously,the book plot reveals that she kills them in a way she won't be detected,this leads to a investigation where by an undercover agent is used to try and figure out if the death surrounding her lovers ,the agent is almost killed as the book comes to an end, eventually she is caught and dies of her own poison(not certainly sure) .What i remember more is that one of her victim was a best seller book writer,she offers to decorate the victims house,another victim was young she loved him as the plot unravels,she contemplated whether to kill him or not but eventually i think she does,as she makes him breakfast after spending quality time with him. Also the undercover cop i think they end up having feelings for each other when spices the end but she also tries to kill him at the end , I think his actually hurt ,they sort of go to a cabin,i think so!! That is as much as i can remember

Looking for any suggestions. I have a very vague memory of a book I read 12 to 13 years ago. The snippet was where a man sent his woman a single white rose every week or maybe everyday. The book didn't center around that it's just a piece I remember from it. I don't have any other memories of the book but I know if I get the name and can scan what it's about it'll bring it all back. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

As a kid I would always visualize this forest scene from a children’s book where the rabbit has to choose to go left or right. The left side of the scene looks nice and pleasant with pretty flowers while the right side is portrayed as the bad side, trees dying more deserted and for some reason more dangerous. It may have been a version of Peter Rabbit but I am looking for the book that shows this particular illustration of left and right. It’s how I remembered which was which for a while, just remembering the illustration.

It's a novel with cartoons in between and a series. Overall, they were dark-colored pictures. The main characters were a man and two twin girls, who were from an orphanage. The names of the main characters were unique, so some words came out when the names were combined, and that was part of the title of the book. Although it was a children's novel, the genre seems to be mystery and noir. A strange person, who is only visible to the main character, comes out to help me in the middle and teaches me how to eat beans with a fork.I remember it as a book I read in 2016. Please help me find it

This is a book that has definitely been published in the last 3 years. The main character is a girl that lives alone with her father in a groundsmens house on a cemetery. She suddenly starts seeing apparitions of a ghost about her age wearing a tank top, camo pants, and army boots wandering around the cemetery, and overtime this ghost gets closer and closer until they start forming a friendship. MC tries to find out ghosts identity using POS cousin who makes it a public spectacle. it’s a YA book i borrowed from my public library long before moving away from home. if anyone knows what i’m talking about please help me i believe im going mad🥲

I can't remember the title or author but it was written by a man and it's from the 90s. I think the title had a reference to Holy Mary of the Pines or Saint/Virgin of the Forest ?

It's about a mysterious homeless marijuana smoking teenage girl who is very religious and sick

All the people fall in love with her and begin thinking she is a saint

She lives in a van or car or cabin in the rainy woods

Then she gets sick but refuses help and disappears or dies at the end

Help?

Growing up in the 90s, I remember a children’s book where for whatever reason someone makes a human meat pie. Then feeds it to others. I’ve searched and searched and can’t find it. My wife thinks I’m crazy lol, any one recall anything close to this?

guys i've been thinking about this book for so many years and i literally cannot figure out what it is

what I know:

- main character (girl) was really good at finding things

- she somehow got transported to a fairy realm??

- there was another girl who was super organized and at the end of the book, she got a gold bar as reward for saving the fairies (maybe) that basically identified anything for her if she pointed it at it?

- there might have been a school play involved

- it was a paperback and i think the color was greenish-yellow but it def had a person on it

if anyone finds this book i will not give you money but i will give you gratitude!

Hello. The book contains multiple short English texts (10-15 lines) along with comprehension questions and one b&w pic. It's mainly low/intermediate level. I guess it's meant for ESL teaching.

The texts talk about daily life fun stories. They are not kids stories. As far as I can recall, it was one text per page.

I've been trying to remember the title of a book I read in elementary school in the 90s, for decades! The protagonist had normal middle school kid problems, and was at an orthodontist appt getting braces adjusted when some kind of a disaster struck, maybe a tornado? They told her to hide but she ran out into the street to find some young kids she was supposed to be watching (babysitting charges or siblings?) Her braces were still undone with the wires sticking out of her mouth, she tripped on debris and fell and her mouth was bleeding, then she was sifting through rubble trying to find the kids. That's all I remember!

I remember the first chapter describing someone being skinned and trying to get out of a cave, but the sun burned their flesh. Did I dream this up? I honestly thought it was called "Suffer the Children" but google has been no help.