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Children Non-Fiction. Children around the world are interviewed about their wishes. For each: child's name, full-colour photograph of child, country, biggest wish and why they wished that. Pocket-size book, square, thick. Read around 2006-2008. Halah 12 643 Jan 29, 2021 09:56PM  
Alien Romance. Girl is abducted with other girls for breeding, and the human city is promised that the girls will be returned in a few years. Read around 2015-2016. Write 3 16 Jan 29, 2021 09:08PM  
Children’s book series (at least 15-20 books). Little girl and her father, no mother. Read around 2012. Isabella 5 27 Jan 29, 2021 08:30PM  
Adult Paranormal Romance, Wattpad. Young woman is rejected by man she's having an affair with, set around 1800. She becomes a companion (not prostitute) in brothel, there's a deadly fire. Ghosts. Years later, it's a hotel. Read in 2017. Spoilers ahead. Celina 3 11 Jan 29, 2021 04:57PM  
YA book. Female character named Fred/ Winifred, her bedroom has a bay window. (Not Tuck Everlasting.) Cover: blue? Read around late 1990s/early 2000s. Megan 19 60 Jan 29, 2021 04:55PM  
Adult Literary novel. Female protagonist sitting on bench (in NYC?) is approached/ threatened in a park during day. She manages to talk her way out of an assault by inviting assailant to a bookstore she likes. Female author. Read in mid 2000s. Brendan 4 14 Jan 29, 2021 04:29PM  
Young Adult series. Boys (boy scouts?) have a device that enables them to see into the past. Cover: boys looking into a scope-like device. Possibly from 1950's/1960's (viewed recently). Bruce 5 10 Jan 29, 2021 03:18PM  
Children's Puzzle, Search & Find book. Modern objects are hidden in scenes/ pictures of Ancient cities/ countries (e.g., person wearing a wrist watch in Ancient Egypt). From 1990's? Gayle 5 622 Jan 29, 2021 02:04PM  
Adult Romance. Girl gets pregnant before cheating boyfriend dies and she's sent away. Later she moves back and dates his older brother. She works at bank or is hair stylist, he works construction. Lee 3 16 Jan 29, 2021 01:42PM  
Adult Historical Romance. Heroine wants a child after her friend has first child. He sleeps with drunk hero, he doesn't remember, she becomes pregnant. Read in 2020. Spoilers ahead. Eva 2 22 Jan 29, 2021 12:28PM  
Fantasy. Vampire moves into house with woman and son. Woman tricks vampire into making her a vampire to protect/ save her son. Read 2015-2020. Dannye 3 30 Jan 29, 2021 11:32AM  
Adult book. Female ER doctor works in rural hospital (Appalachian mountains?), investigates a pattern of tumors in her patients. Spoiler ahead. Jane 2 11 Jan 29, 2021 10:59AM  
Children's Short stories & Limericks (rhymes). Lessons. Girl learns to share crayons. Table manners. Pick blueberries. May dance. July 4th picnic. Cover: girl & boy wearing paper crowns & blankets as capes, one sits in chair like throne. Read around 1998. Halah 22 1046 Jan 29, 2021 10:01AM  
Adult Travel Memoir or Novel? Woman in her 20s/30s travels from Europe (UK?) to Asia (for a year or so?) after break-up. (Online?) acquaintance back home becomes stalker-ish & follows her. Mostly about her travels. Emails friends. Spoiler ahead. K 4 30 Jan 29, 2021 09:52AM  
Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Estencele 21 778 Jan 29, 2021 05:06AM  
Fantasy book. Dragon picks its riders on choosing days, it picks two riders (one rides & other fights). Chosen boy and girl are main characters. Courtney 5 32 Jan 28, 2021 11:15PM  
Adult SciFi? Medical Thriller? Plague where bluish skin coloration is a symptom. Title: (The 7th?) Plague. Cover: arm upstretched. 1970s. Tom 3 256 Jan 28, 2021 09:40PM  
Children's Picture book. Robot who bakes pies and sings at bakery owned by a family. Early in early 1980s. Katherine 2 15 Jan 28, 2021 09:36PM  
YA Fantasy. Female protagonist secretly participates in competitions because she's forbidden. Different courses like rings, trees, river. She starts to get romantically involved with boy competitor. Read 2015-2018. Maren 5 29 Jan 28, 2021 06:48PM  
Non Fiction, contemporary. Young French girl (under 10 years) before she passes away from an illness. She's very religious (Catholic?) unlike her family. Focuses on her faith. Read in early 2000s. Abigail 6 12 Jan 28, 2021 06:35PM  
Adult novel. Military family with a few kids. Father retires or is stationed at home, mother wants a new baby. Sailboat accident when this child is four. From 1980s/1990s. Spoilers ahead. Silver Goddes… 2 12 Jan 28, 2021 06:13PM  
Adult Humorous fiction. Stories of multiple disparate characters in San Francisco 1960's and 1970's. Waiter, wealthy guy from Ivy League, different types of workers. Katie 5 20 Jan 28, 2021 06:02PM  
Adult Historical Romance, 19th C. Mother asks daughter if she had sex with servant (stablehand/ groomsman/ underbutler). Read around mid-1990s. Agnes 8 938 Jan 28, 2021 05:42PM  
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Adult Mystery. Woman with short memory. She finds a journal which she updates depending on her flashbacks. A movie was made based on the book. Spoilers ahead. Richa 3 22 Jan 28, 2021 03:11PM  
Adult Psychological Thriller. Married woman is told her child died at birth. Person from clinic where her child was born tells her the child is still alive (6-9 years). Husband in medical profession. British? Written around 2006-2016. Spoilers ahead. Anna 6 21 Jan 28, 2021 03:02PM  
YA book. Girl must take care of her younger sister, gets job at diner/ small local shop. She also falls in love with her best guy friend. Cover: lightning bolt/ flash of light. Read 2014-2016. Grace 3 27 Jan 28, 2021 02:19PM  
Kids Mystery? series? Boy likes science, he wears glasses. He zaps bully with electricity from his finger on the school bus? Another story: he sees a movie around Halloween. Published before 2008. C.T. 9 57 Jan 28, 2021 01:18PM  
Adult Chick Lit? Visitor to remote place in UK. Cluttered gift shop run by young woman who can see more colours than most people. Read in 2018-2019. June 8 263 Jan 28, 2021 09:39AM  
Adult Romance, enemies-to-lovers. Rich guy doesn't trust his father's female secretary/ manager, goes back to hometown to investigate her. She's from an Amish community. Read around 2017. Amelia 5 13 Jan 28, 2021 09:18AM