I read a book sometime between the late 70s and early 80s, whose title I think was Eldorado (though I could be wrong). The plot centres around a brother and sister, whose father dies in the Alps. They go up there to bury him, and end up in bed together. Years later they take over their late father's enterprise, amidst a lot of tension between them, and the brother trying to rekindle their one time incestuous fling.

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My mom has told me since I was little, that my name came from a book she read while pregnant. The book, as she tells it, was about two twin girls Samara (my name) and Savannah (jury is still out on whether this was truly the second twins name). Samara was considered the “good twin” while Savannah was considered the “bad” girl. They end up being separated and go on to live in separate places in the world - my mom seems to think it was London, England and somewhere in the States.

Do these names / books sound familiar to anyone? I’ve searched the internet time and time again, to no avail.

My mom liked the book enough to name me after a character but apparently not enough to remember the title of the book 😂 help?

TL;DR: My name comes from a book of unknown title in which there’s twin girls, Samara and (maybe) Savannah and they get separated and live in England and America.

Its a novel where soldier in the middle east has to make it home during an economic collapse. Hes a SNCO so he is allowed to be discharged in country, flies to England then uses a gold coin to buy a bike and ride up the coast until he finds a ship going to the US and trades his services of security to get a ride.

Any help is appreciated

The premise of this book is a writer finds out about a killer who commits murders that are based off of famous murder mystery’s. TIA

My friend has talked about a book from his early teens (2007ish) he read at his grandmas • Told from the POV of a woman • Mystery involving the chalice that hold the blood of Christ • She was either haunted or being stalked by something paranormal • Very spooky and was frightened

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I chanced upon the book once and shelved it but never found it again. As far as I can recall there was a review of the book in a New York times or similar magazine.

The author is Thai, the stories Originally written in english, it’s probably the author’s debut collection.

It’s a contemporary book ( last 10 years or so) - a collection of short stories by the same autho.

The last name of the author was long, probably starts with s.

the short stories were set in modern Thailand, I started reading one , probably urban domestic setting.

Two brothers go to a school where one brother is the smart one and the other is a troublemaker. Their father is the mayor and in this book, education is used to make kids obedient. One of the brothers overhears their father using education as a punishment and decides to run away trying to take his brother with him but ultimately leaves him. He becomes a vagrant and starts recruiting other vagrants to join his group( I think one of the vagrant's name is Red), which he plans to bomb the school with as retaliation. The brother who left went by the name of Z and on his journey as a vagrant rescued a mute girl who was being punished by the police because they believed she had stolen an apple. Later in the book the two brothers fight and Z wins because the other brother is being held back mentally. The mayor is trying to find his son Z but is keeping the matter very private so he commands his best officer to go out and look for him. This officer who he put in charge of finding Z is very cutthroat and also has a son of his own who he neglects and abuses. The officer's son and the other brother eventually cross paths and end up knowing one another.

Title was something like 'little people' 'tiny folk' but searches have turned up nothing.

Cover was plain white with a spooky black and maybe red cabin/tree house on the front.

Story is a young adult thriller set at a house that backs onto a Forrest and is Written from the perspective of the youngest brother.

Plot: Two brothers spend their youth growing up playing in the woods and believe in these tiny folk (elf like) that live there. They meet a girl that joins in with them. There is a lake that someone drowns in. Over time the older brother starts growing out of the imaginative play and becomes attracted to the girl. The younger brother finds them sleeping together in a cellar/cabin in the woods and locks them in there, leaving them to die in order to protect his fantasy world in the woods. He gets sick and goes into a weird dream like coma where he interacts with the little people. After he wakes and grows up he sees out his days alone in the woods missing his friends that died/he murdered.

Desperate to know! Any help much appreciated ❤️

I'm trying to remember a series, but the only thing I remember is the cover. It was a white cover with an orange paw (I believe) from an animal on it, and I think it was YA, supernatural, and maybe it was on campus or school setting... I'm not sure, but I think it had werewolves or something with supernatural elements. I don't remember anything besides that. I've never read it, but I've seen this being recommended in a YouTube video.

I read this book 15+ years ago I was about 13 it was a random book I just grabbed from the school library and it's been rattling around in my head the past few weeks. I remember very vague details so I doubt I will find it. Fingers crossed 🤞. This girl was sent to a relatives house (not sure why) its in a beach town setting with the house being either on or near the beach. She ends up meeting a boy/kids and sneaking out to bonfires on the beach. I feel like the title had match or fire in it. I can't remember if the girls parents died or if she was just there for the summer. She ends up falling for a boy and kind of coming to terms with herself r/whatsthatbook

YA Fantasty book i read around 2018 /19. The plot happens in modern times after 2010s or 2000s. The MC (who goes to school, most probably a boy) has some sort of ability to go into an alternate realm. His body physically can't go but his mind can go an alternative side of reality (similar to a ghost world parallel to ours) where some limited character with powers like MC can visit. They can do all sorts of stuffs with people similar power in the other realm. I don't remember how or when MC got his power. A particular scene where "black crows" were present MC was on his car. Then some guys following him. Only thing after that crow part i vaguely remember is that he was in his car heading somewhere with his mom. Some people from some secret organization who knows about his powers were chasing them in a black car. The mom wasn't suspicious of anything but MC could see black car following in the rearview mirror. And they had a little accident. The place of accident was cliffside along with a beach. He fell unconscious on the beach. "But then MC went to the other side of the reality". He confronted those guys (the organization guys have the same special power as the MC) . Those guys said what they knew about him ...... And at last those agents convinced him that they were there to recruit him to some facility where he can meet other peers like him and also researchers who experiments on them to improve their power. All the confrontation happened on the "other realm". On real world his mother woke him up on the beach as his was still unconscious. He's consciousness was in the real world now. His mother wasn't at all suspicious. And at the end of the book he did go to the headquarters of the secret organization and discovered something surprising that i can't remember. The MC lives with his mom, dad and possibly a younger sibling and goes to school. His family isn't aware of his special power however one or two friend of MC could be aware. I forgot. Read it in an ebook format. That's all i can remember. This is not a horror novel. Could be in fantasy category.

I read this book years ago about a woman who was taken into care as her parents were drug addicts or neglectful. She had a younger brother who didn’t get taken with her.

Years later she is a successful criminal lawyer and I think she ends up defending her brother who has a criminal enterprise, in the end she takes it over.

I think it was either called Katherine or Caitlyn or maybe that’s the name of the author

Thank you

Kid's book about the dish and the spoon running away together. They rob a bank and get tied to train tracks and killed and then reunite years late in an antique shop.

I am trying to identify a book I read in my teens. It was most likely released around the mid 2000s to mid 2010s if I remember correctly.
I remember that the main character was a male lead who loved virtual video gaming as virtual reality was a part of gaming consoles at this time but didn't have the newest console. So he befriended a random kid from his class who had the latest console that was gifted to him from a mysterious figure who had a guitar on his back that wasn't plugged into anything...weird i know. Eventually the second kid gets addicted to the game and starts thinking that he's still in the game even once he's longer playing it and so the story unfolds where the male lead battles between what's real and what's not trying to save his friend and tries to fight back against this mysterious figure who keeps giving out these consoles, even finding romance along the way.
From what I have researched it fits a similar description to a litRPG book. It was definitely written by a gamer, as multiple scenes take place inside of the virtual video game console. Probably not a popular book either as the plot sounds terrible now that i think about it...

A girl gets kidnapped by pirates (the captain was a goat with a peg leg i think? And there was a bushbaby with a fake hand) and they sail around finding pieces of an 'X'. One of the pieces was on a necklace when the girl beat someone in a milk drinking competition. I don't remember much but when i was a child it was such a captivating read and i want to show my little cousin.

Its possible this is a graphic novel? Any help is greatly appreciated

The man was going to do something, or something was going to happen to him, that was going to endanger his descendants. So they kidnap him and trap him on a ship (an oceangoing ship, not a spaceship) for his whole life against his will. At the end of his life, he points out to them that they forgot to give him the opportunity to actually bear any children, so after all their effort they're all going to die anyway.

I might be screwing up some details, but I'm pretty sure about the broad details that people from the future isolated him on a ship, but then forgot to let him have children so it was all for naught.

I don't remember where I read this or what it's called. (I think I might have read it in some really obscure speculative fiction anthology book I found on the Internet Archive and can't remember the title of. Never mind, I managed to find the anthology an hour later, but the story isn't there. Maybe I was really thinking of some other anthology, but if so I have even less notion of which one.) I tried several relevant tags on ISFDB and couldn't find anything.

I don't remember when I read it, but it was probably less than ten years ago. I feel like the story itself was older than that, though; it had the vibe of classic science fiction (i.e. 30s-70s) more than modern science fiction. But I might be wrong about that; maybe it's modern after all.

I read this maybe 15 years ago and I can't remember if it was print or eBook.

There was a woman (plus size) who went to work as a Dr (I think) on an oil right that was being decommissioned. Wherever it was there was snow and ice. She didn't hit it off with the limited crew that was left to maintain the rig. She would walk around the rig and all the restaurants and lot of the areas were closed off. She spent time getting fit on the rig, started running and getting into shape as there was nothing else to do.

Something happened and they lost communication with the main land. Tensions started to rise. Supplies started to run out. Then they encountered an abandoned cruise ship. I can't remember if they took a boat to it or were able to walk on the ice. When they went inside they were able to get supplies but also encountered what looked like people turned into black crystals.

This black crystal disease then started to affect the crew on the rig and I think it came down to her and one other guy who were still alive when the book ended.

The book is about a young woman/ girl that meets a creepy man online, she even installed this cute "kitty" game to hide her history from her parents and when she doesn't like the direction the interactions go She ghosts the man, only to discover the man is also grooming her younger sister

I read it in 2012 so I can only remember a tiny bit. A woman is carrying her dead baby on the train or bus, to a graveyard where she buries it inside someone else’s grave because she is too poor. I believe that is how it starts, I don’t think I finished the book so I can’t remember the rest D:

I read a book as a teenager, I’ll be 30 next week so we are talking about 15 years ago. It was about a woman who’s ex gave away her massive shoe collection after they broke up (90% sure about this or maybe she sold them?) and then she travels the world to find them all again. I’m sure there’s a scene where she’s at a funeral or something and she decides not to take the shoes back and stop trying to find them all.

I don’t even know why I want to remember this book again but I’ve been reading more light hearted stuff lately and I keep thinking about this book and it’s doing my head in that I can’t remember it.

I’m sure the title had shoes in it too, obviously. I thought it was a Sophie Kinsella book but none of her books match.

I read this book my senior year for a class but can only remember bits of it. The novel is set in a country with a corrupt government and possibly in a war I’m not sure. The main character is a boy who opts to become one of the “spies” (there was another word for it in the book) because he wants to get money to pay for his grandfather who is sick. His grandfather is very outspoken against the government and I believe we find out he isn’t actually sick and he has been getting poisoned over time. I don’t remember if he dies or not. The MC however is assigned someone in his class to spy on but I don’t remember much more with that plot line. At one point there is a foreigner that he encounters at one point and he hears all about the world outside of his corrupt country. I remember he drinks a coke at one point which is something against the rules for some reason. He befriends a girl and at one point towards the end he finds out his sister has been a spy as well but she’s been doing the work against her grandpa if I remember correctly. In the end another country overthrows the government, the characters end up in hospitals, and the boy’s sister dies.i think it’s a relatively recent book but not sure. I know this is a spotty description but it’s all I’ve got.

Family of 4 was in a car accident; the parents died but the 2 brothers survived. One of the brothers was driving and got rear ended and the car was pushed into the turning lane. Title of the book has something to do with empty picture hooks.

i don’t remember the name of the book nor the author name i only remember it was tape recorded therapy sessions with a troubled teen, a part of the book i remember was the therapist was running to this patient( trouble teen )because he tried to escape i think and the teen went to a alleyway believe in the book said it was based on true events and author makes books about true events of other troubled teens the cover was person but they’re in a place with a lot graffiti and it looks rundown but the person is mostly covered by their shadow and theirs a headlight showing some of their body

I read this book probably when I was in middle school and I'm pretty sure I remember getting it from the children's/young reader's side of our public library.

I'm fairly certain the copy I read was hardback, but I can't remember anything about the cover, title or author.

The book centers on a young Jewish girl and her family living in America. This is set either during WWII or directly post WWII because there is mention of rationing things like sugar and meat. There is also a great deal of animosity toward the girl and her family for being Jewish. I can remember a scene where the main character is cooking with her mom and they are adding onions to the meat to make it stretch farther. The girl has an older sister who is very pretty. The girl herself is somewhat plain or tomboy-ish.

The main character gets to go to summer camp. I remember there is a girl bully at the camp who is bigger than the other girls and specifically picks on the main character. By the end of the summer they are friends. I think there is a summer crush storyline with either a boy at the camp or a camp counselor.

I read this book multiple times in my adolescent years and it's been on my mind lately and I would love to read it again! I appreciate any help!

I don't remember the name of the series I think if was dark stones or dark gems or something. Women were inherently more powerful, everyone was born with a gemstone and the darker your gemstone was the more powerful you were, you could potentially raise your power and darken your gemstone by losing your virginity if it was gentle and loving, but being raped would also rob you of your power entirely and break your gemstone. I remember talking about a "Fire festival" where the young men in a village would dance naked around a bonfire, hoping one of the unmarried girls would grab one of them and take them away for sex. I remember one of the evil mages having the greatest male prostitute alive come to her chambers and being pissed off that he didn't seem to take any pleasure in it, and I remember the good guys having sex the night before the army of bad guys arrived to make one of them strong enough to power a magical trap like a spider web.

Alright guys, I've exhausted my searches and I'm racked with torment.

I'm trying to identify a book I read as a kid. The book was pretty thick (400 pg. maybe), and it had an Orange cover. The cover was the sun setting (in Egypt I presume), with their shadows on the sand. The book was about two kids (Male & Female), that more or less had a few different adventures. The book in its entirety had probably 3 or 4 stories, all of which had the same main characters (I believe). One of the stories took place in Egypt, and they explored a large underground tomb and they retrieved talismans that were blue tears. I'm pretty sure they were just friends, but they were in Egypt because the dad was an explorer or something.

I literally have no more details to give, but I need to find this book for my sanity. 😮‍💨

I’m looking for two books I read years ago

Book 1 is about a detective/pi who follows a girl he sees on a train and ends up somewhere with magic there was a descendant of Thor but when he throws the hammer it’s super old and doesn’t always come back I remember the moon was a girl but she was mentally broken because the sun who was a snake I think hurt her real bad I think there was also a werewolf

Book 2 is about a writer who keeps blacking out and waking up covered in blood and people he knows dead on him , each time he blacks out he wakes up to part of his book being finished he keeps seeing monkey monsters outside his window any way at the end I’m pretty sure it was his publisher turns out to be the devil and they made a deal to help him write his best book and then the devil lets the monkey monster kill him cos his book will be more famous if it’s thr last book he wrote

The book may have been about the weather, but I can't remember. The cover (at least I think it was the cover, but it could've been an illustration) was yellow with an old couple and I think the concept was that the guy was rain and the lady was sun, and the illustration has them in front of their house. I keep thinking it's called The weather house, but that's not it. Something like that. I was very young when I had the book and it was between 1984 and 1989 when I read it most.

Hey guys I’ve had trouble finding a pretty decent book from a while ago, it’s a foot ball book and the kid is really good at football but in the end of the book he ends his career because he got too many concussions. Also I’m pretty sure his brother either sold drugs or hauled them on a bike and his dad caught him. The title was something like “Hit” or something to do with impact it had a football helmet that I think was red on the cover.