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YA Fantasy series. Boy finds and raises a dragon in a cave while hiding it from his village. After they are found out, the dragon is allowed to live in town and a few other characters get dragons too. (NOT Eragon) Kassidy 4 52 Dec 19, 2020 10:47PM  
YA Fantasy. Teenage girl moves to island & discovers small box which can send objects through Time in abandoned house. She uses information from the future to try to stop a mysterious group on island. Read around 2006. Possible Spoilers ahead. Joshua 6 67 Dec 19, 2020 08:42PM  
New Adult Romance, Mystery. Girl inherits her parent's run down lake house, she can't afford the bills or repairs. Romance with bar owner where she gets a job. Someone's trying to sabotage his business. Read in 2019. The 11 381 Dec 19, 2020 06:58PM  
Adult Historical Short Stories, Classics collection. Set around 1900. Men sit on bench in train station, one arrives by carriage, they exchange stories one by one. Similar to Dickens? Chris 4 24 Dec 19, 2020 04:56PM  
YA/ Children's Sci-Fi/ Fantasy. Children use science to access magic powers. New boy joins after school club run by scientist who invented "magic chambers." Scientist is kidnapped. Similar to Harry Potter & Michael Vey. Read around 2013. Spoilers ahead. Caden 7 62 Dec 19, 2020 03:59PM  
Adult Science Fiction. Genetic scientist/ doctor and wife have children with a rare genetic disorder. He manipulates genes of embryos, has health twins, but this releases a deadly disease (like flu). Plague, apocalypse. Read 1995-2000. Paul 17 186 Dec 19, 2020 03:36PM  
Adult Contemporary Romance, British. Man (doctor?) is self-conscious about a limp he has after an accident, uses a cane. Depressed, he pushes away the woman who loves him. He might be solving a crime with his housekeeper. Read about 2007-2012. Rea_Silvia 5 16 Dec 19, 2020 03:32PM  
YA Fantasy. Young orphan girl finds out she’s a princess. She's taught by a wizard to use her magical powers. She's not allowed to talk to her love interest because he works in castle. Read 2010-2015. Jessica 2 15 Dec 19, 2020 12:18PM  
Teens/Children's Dystopian. Rebellion. Female MC lives in numbered district, told surrounding area is terrifying. Her town is attacked by soldiers & the youth are often taken away. Specialized trades. Bear? Title: incl. name of Bird. Read 2014-2016. GroverTheFore… 16 247 Dec 19, 2020 11:56AM  
YA Dystopian novel focused on all girl school and graduating Karlin 5 475 Dec 19, 2020 11:06AM  
Children's book. African Folk tales, before 1984, orange cover with black and white trees, people. Might be collection. Angela 17 159 Dec 19, 2020 10:21AM  
Adult Romance. Heroine (secretary) and hero (boss) go on a couple of work trips, scene in cabin. She's recently divorced. Cover: man in suit, woman in purple dress facing him? Read around 2014-2015. Jas 2 9 Dec 19, 2020 08:51AM  
YA Sports fiction. Young male hockey player hurt in playoff game. Team wins championship while he is in hospital. Nicknamed "Turkey" because of his backwards skating. Read in late 1970s/early 1980s. Mark 1 11 Dec 19, 2020 06:44AM  
Dystopian novel. Underground society where a test determines the level you live on (e.g., sanitation, mining). Male MC takes test & goes to a new level. People told the Earth's surface is wasteland, and they can't leave. Read around 2015. Spoilers ahead. Baden 7 167 Dec 18, 2020 11:46PM  
Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy. Angels & vampires. Girl is unaware of higher mysteries at the start. Boy is a fallen angel?, he has white wings with red tips. Read around 2014-2016. Agnishikha 2 11 Dec 18, 2020 08:42PM  
Adult Fiction, Postmodern. Multiple plots incl. elderly couple who survived the holocaust? Describes how they had built up so many things that they weren't able to talk about to the point that there are whole (metaphorical) rooms that they don't discuss. Jennings 7 29 Dec 18, 2020 08:26PM  
Romance: heroine is in college and starts to chat with a man online. She later finds out that he is her professor in one of her college classes. It was short book. Melanie 3 318 Dec 18, 2020 05:57PM  
Baby drowns in bathtub. Spoilers ahead. Liz 12 1028 Dec 18, 2020 05:45PM  
Romance novel, woman lives behind her parents house with her daughter. Demaree 2 315 Dec 18, 2020 05:43PM  
Adult Horror. Possession. Realtor and his wife/ girlfriend thought to be insane, possibly possessed. Insanity blowing in Santa Ana winds. Cover: woman with hair of flames flowing out around her head. 1970s or early 1980s. Robin 5 99 Dec 18, 2020 05:17PM  
80's fantasy: woman arrives in small village and must marry the village headman Nancy 10 778 Dec 18, 2020 04:55PM  
Fiction. Never date a girl with fancy manicured fingernails, gives 3-4 pages of good reasons. Seems like an insane author is writing this book. Read before 2010. MarkD60 4 67 Dec 18, 2020 11:05AM  
Christian Historical fiction, Australia. Sister dies from tetanus in Victorian times. Suddenly show signs of tetus while riding in a coach. Published around late 1990's/early 2000's. caroline jone… 2 12 Dec 18, 2020 09:24AM  
Fantasy. Father (merchant? in debt) is dying. Oldest daughter takes over family business and sells one of her sisters to pay off debts. Prince has quest against invaders, involves magic. Read around 2005-2015. Spoilers ahead. Jennifer 3 23 Dec 18, 2020 08:33AM  
NA Paranormal Romance. Demon hunters with sword tattoo are looking for lady who can close the veil to prevent demons coming to Earth. Heroine also hunts demons, her friend was killed. Read around 2018. Victoria 6 22 Dec 18, 2020 08:07AM  
MM Romance. Young virgin college boy porn/ modelling star. Read after 2000. Spoilers ahead. Carol 3 227 Dec 17, 2020 10:21PM  
Adult Chick Lit. Slightly heavy single female author has writer's block. She decides to become a teacher to younger kids. Read 2005-2007. Spoilers ahead. Rebecca 5 21 Dec 17, 2020 07:45PM  
Children's book about a girl with a shirt with buttons that she has named eenie, meenie, miney, and mo? rory 7 64 Dec 17, 2020 06:40PM  
Young Adult Mystery about the murder of a baby. Spoilers ahead. Mikaiah 5 49 Dec 17, 2020 06:28PM  
World War 1 History, Non-fiction. Concise history in small paperback. Cover: gas mask, background is beige. Wesley 3 15 Dec 17, 2020 06:27PM