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Novel. Young female searches for her mother, traveling from one country to another. Read in 2017.
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Balaji
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Dec 15, 2020 04:20AM |
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80s or 90s middle-grade fantasy, American or British. A girl goes on a quest in a magical land (via a portal?). She meets up with a boy who lives there and guides her. May also be an old wise man involved, possibly the grandfather of one of the kids?
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Kristi
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Dec 14, 2020 10:51PM |
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YA short story. Girl named Juliet is jealous of popular sister (possibly a twin), but roles reverse at the end. Set in 1950s? Picture of unhappy dark haired girl sitting in blue dress. Read in 2006-2007.
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Sarah
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1
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Dec 14, 2020 09:59PM |
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Baking and a girl who has a hard time at home.
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Elena
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Dec 14, 2020 08:00PM |
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Fiction. A teenager who is anti-Semitic learns he was switched at birth and is really Jewish. Mother is a pianist, brother is ill.
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Teresa
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4
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Dec 14, 2020 07:53PM |
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Adult Contemporary Romance. Rich cattle baron and his estranged wife, set in Australia. They married because of her father wanted the hero to control the business. She ran away to Sydney or Melbourne, worked as teacher. Read before 2000.
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Elizabeth
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Dec 14, 2020 05:52PM |
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Adult Horror. A group of women, old friends meet up and realize one of them is acting very creepy and strange (incl. memory problems, injuries?). Modern day. Read in last 5 years.
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Victoria
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Dec 14, 2020 05:29PM |
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Adult Contemporary Comedy. Teenage son and his strange American family. Ironic tone. Cover: floating house. Published before 2019.
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Creative
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Dec 14, 2020 04:11PM |
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Children's Poetry anthology, illustrated. UK, read in 1980's. Titles of 4 poems listed in comments (incl. Wadsworth, Mearns)...
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Adam
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Dec 14, 2020 02:16PM |
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Fiction? book with the little boy called Fox who had an emerging friendship/connection with an older woman and the significant thing was he trusted her because of her smile lines/wrinkles. He said they were soul lines or something.
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Naomi
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Dec 14, 2020 01:35PM |
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Adult Contemporary Short Story, Literary fiction? Wife? finds neighbor's gruesome dead body. Husband? (main character) is upset with her lack of a reaction. Read in 2004.
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Jess
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Dec 14, 2020 09:17AM |
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Boy's mom is in jail for manslaughter, she's his only family. He goes to school. They have friends in the jail. Read 2015-2017. Spoiler ahead.
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Melie
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Dec 14, 2020 08:54AM |
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Adult Romance, might be Mafia or MC. Girl needs money and works in strip club to support herself maybe family, gets raped and rescued but won't tell him who did it. Read 2018-2020.
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Rebekah
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Dec 13, 2020 06:58PM |
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Adult Romance, enemies to lovers. Hollywood actor and live-in assisstant 2012-2015.
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Cinderella
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Dec 13, 2020 06:03PM |
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Adult Romance Sci-fi book. Female human hunter is caught doing something 'illegal', hunting on an alien planet that's dying. Spoilers ahead.
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Romance
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Dec 13, 2020 05:28PM |
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Paranormal book. Heroine pays the hero in stones for his help, specifically when she kills her step dad/ dad and he eventually comes to collect. He's a king of the dark in his world, he has wings.
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Tanya
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Dec 13, 2020 04:50PM |
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Children's/ YA Historical book. Jewish girl is sent away to live in Sweden during the war. Read around 2010.
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Jelena
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Dec 13, 2020 02:53PM |
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Fantasy series? Mage travels to Bubble world to help king, also mage sister in mage tower. When mages sleep, they travel to Earth. When humans dream, they travel to mage world. Read around 2012.
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Connor
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Dec 13, 2020 02:05PM |
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Adult Fiction. Little girl and father move to a lake house after mother dies. She befriends neighbor boy & who reads to her in a secret room. Years later, she tries to find the boy now a man. Read 2017. Spoiler ahead.
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Travis
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Dec 13, 2020 01:07PM |
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Adult Historical Fiction. "Pride and Prejudice" retelling. Darcy meets Elizabeth again, doesn't understand why no one mentions Jane and then learns she died. Read in 2020.
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Sam
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Dec 13, 2020 12:08PM |
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YA novel. Starts with girl and her mother moving back to mother's childhood home after father dies. She uncovers family secrets. Read 2012-2015. Spoilers ahead.
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Wednesday
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Dec 13, 2020 10:53AM |
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Supernatural Thriller. Couple renovating a house, man becomes obsessed with broken Chinese pagoda in garden. Weird whispers and ghostly beast scratching at a stable door. At least 20 years old.
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Lorayn
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Dec 13, 2020 10:15AM |
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YA/ NA? Romance. Girl and rich boy had been involved or semi-involved, but boy doesn't show up to girl's birthday party or dance (or similar event). Read in 2019. Spoiler ahead.
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Andrea
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Dec 13, 2020 06:46AM |
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Childrens Historical chapter book. Boy's poor family lives in Louisiana? shantytown (early 1900s to 1930s?). Cover: nice country scene. Read around 1992.
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John
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Dec 13, 2020 05:02AM |
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YA novel. Girl moves to a new school and people are mean to her. She is a TA (teaching assistant) for a science? teacher. She runs track. Read around 2014. Spoiler ahead.
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Tyra
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Dec 12, 2020 10:36PM |
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Fantasy. Heroine finds a word of power (used by magic system) after solving a puzzle in a garden. City is guarded by angels, avian people? Read around 2010.
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Scribs
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Dec 12, 2020 10:28PM |
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Fantasy about a young man who draws/paints the details of murders
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Joanne
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Dec 12, 2020 09:00PM |
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Science Fiction Book published 1950s/60s. They were possible time travelers that on their journeys they could find trees that provided them with shoes (and maybe clothing)
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Brandy
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Dec 12, 2020 08:57PM |
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YA/MG. A story of Theseus as a young man before and during the Labyrinth
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Heather
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Dec 12, 2020 08:56PM |
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Contemporary Romance: Married couple head to mother's house in Canada(?) and get involved in a car crash on the way there. Stranded in a small cabin until brother rescues them. Winter time.
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Ana
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Dec 12, 2020 08:55PM |
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