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Childrens book. Girl lives above a restaurant with her dad, who is a chef. She climbs on roofs, watches a barn & people. Next day, there's a murder & she thinks she had seen the men involved. Read around 2014. Laurien 4 30 Feb 06, 2021 03:17AM  
YA Fantasy. Male? protagonist sees an old Painting of a woman, later meets her (Witch/ magician?) at her house, but she hasn't aged - looks the same as the painting. Read around 2007-2010 (in German). deleted member 15 651 Feb 06, 2021 01:13AM  
YA book love story girl leaves poems everwhere maybe set in america in the modern world taryn 10 362 Feb 05, 2021 09:31PM  
kids flying and a city with a dome - might be scifi/fantasy TC 5 417 Feb 05, 2021 09:13PM  
YA Fantasy. Young orphaned boy lives in small town with grandmother. Saves his friend from drowning? & finds a soldier watching him. Worried grandmother sends him away with old friend. He goes on a quest with dwarves? Read 2015-2017. Spoilers ahead. Daniel 12 48 Feb 05, 2021 08:25PM  
Adult Romance. 18 year old heroine falls in love with mysterious, disfigured recluse who's a friend of her dad. He conceals his face with a mask or hat. Investments in real estate? Cover: moon/ moonlight. Read 2012-2014. Krysty 3 18 Feb 05, 2021 08:19PM  
YA Historical Romance. Older teen girl's family is attacked by Native American Indians, but she escapes with little brother & some friends. Plan is to split up and meet at a fort. Mysterious mountain man helps her. Read 2012-2014. Spoilers ahead. Dannah 4 29 Feb 05, 2021 08:15PM  
Boyfriend dies in a shooting; after mourning she gets on with life -- she's a journalist Asra 5 650 Feb 05, 2021 04:38PM  
YA? Short Stories. Woman is stalked by a rejected suitor, she picks up prescription eye drops at pharmacy, but discovers they're a caustic acid (damages wooden table), set in England. Includes Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter". Read before 1989. Lori 27 1138 Feb 05, 2021 02:04PM  
Kids Fantasy chapter book. Young girl's family are witches? Black cat from the future? shows up. She has a little brother. Miyong 3 33 Feb 05, 2021 01:58PM  
Young Adult Historical novel. Life of an English farmer's teenage daughter growing up racing horses and exploring romantic relationships. Read in 2000's. Spoilers ahead. Iona 3 14 Feb 05, 2021 01:38PM  
YA novella in anthology. Young female medical student (15-17) in love with boy who has drug problems & in a gang (he's called "swastika" in Italian edition). Her brother also has drug problems. Set in New Zealand or Australia? Read in 1990's. Beatrice 6 23 Feb 05, 2021 01:24PM  
Adult Romance novel. Two mothers have their sons switched at birth at the hospital but they both know that the hospital is wrong but no one believes it. A secret baby romance where the mother is the secretary of of a Spanish guy. Spoiler ahead. Karen 4 360 Feb 05, 2021 01:12PM  
African American Romance where, I think the Hero's name is Dexter..... Melissa 3 339 Feb 05, 2021 12:07PM  
Guy gets crippled in chapter one after a girl cheats on him. Spoilers ahead. marta 4 356 Feb 05, 2021 12:05PM  
A man whos in the law force and falls in love with his partner's daughter who is 15 years younger than him Yana 4 528 Feb 05, 2021 12:01PM  
Adult Non-Fiction, Spiritual book. Different types of spiritual relationships: soul mates, twin flames, etc. Female author with Italian surname. Written in 1990's/2000's. Creative 2 6 Feb 05, 2021 11:57AM  
Adult Fantasy: defiant heroine who was sold to a king/prince because no one wanted her Clara 6 412 Feb 05, 2021 11:57AM  
Government experiment 30 days in prison 30 days in nice house Dana 5 355 Feb 05, 2021 11:54AM  
Rockstar romance, college girl whose friend takes her to a concert by a group that she's never heard of. The lead singer spots her and has her come backstage after the concert. Andrea 10 593 Feb 05, 2021 11:53AM  
Teen/Young adult book that was a apart of fantasy anthology series, each book about a girl with special powers. Cassie 3 362 Feb 05, 2021 11:50AM  
Children's chapter book. Fictional sea creatures. Eel eats everything (fish, rocks, boats) & itself to death. Flat fish lies down on seabed with one eye facing up to watch for predator bird. Each chapter has facts on one creature. Read around 2003-2006. Mike 10 622 Feb 05, 2021 11:47AM  
Children's/ YA/ Adult? fiction. Character (with memory issues? not dyslexic) learns to read and thinks letters are alive, moving and playing musical chairs while unobserved (move when book is closed). Book related to a movie viewed around 2000-2010. Андрій 3 11 Feb 05, 2021 11:39AM  
Fantasy. Kidnapped girls kept "safe" in a garden by "aunt". She convinces girls the outside world is corrupted/ evil/ destroyed. Set in real world (UK) with fairy tale themes. Unreliable narrator is a favorite of aunt. Published 2010-2017. Spoilers. Gena 6 137 Feb 05, 2021 11:37AM  
Children’s/ YA? book. Dolls with interesting names, long thin talking dolls with fancy clothes (like Marie Antoinette?) in a child's room. Illustrated. Older book from 1920's to 1950's. Sarah 3 21 Feb 05, 2021 10:22AM  
Adult Thriller. Kidnapping of group of scientists? in Frozen North/ Antarctic?, use backdrop cloth they're standing in front of for ransom demand photo to show their location by cutting their position in Solar System (like stars in night sky). Read 1980s. J R Leech 7 35 Feb 05, 2021 05:33AM  
YA Coming of Age series. Young girl is raised by her single father, she and friends visit her mother living on beach. Cover: Mona Lisa painting with sunglasses, drawings or stickers? Alex 4 79 Feb 05, 2021 12:40AM  
Children's? vaguely Medieval book. Cook is paid with the feathers from the peacock she cooks. Laura 2 13 Feb 04, 2021 09:40PM  
YA Fantasy Romance. Very similar to "Phantom of the Opera", but not about opera or singing. Boy and girl go to a school academy. He sees her through a one-way window (so he's hidden). Read in 2017-2018. Celine 2 20 Feb 04, 2021 07:42PM  
Sci-Fi novel. Adult male loner (main character) has no legs and hovers/ transports in a mechanical device (concave disk) attached to bottom of his trunk. He has a supernatural power that's not broadly accepted. Bleak and moody. Read in early 1970s. Christopher 5 23 Feb 04, 2021 07:40PM