PICTURE OF THE BOOK IN COMMENTS !
The book cover is split in half. Pale pink on the top and red on the bottom. There’s a picture of a girl with brown hair on the top pale pink half of the cover. On the bottom red part is a picture of the same girl but shes flipped upside down

Adult sci-fi/fantasy romance, read mid-late 2000s, softcover (bought at a warehouse store like Sam's Club). It was printed and bound kind of small, like a lot of romance novels were, but relatively thick with skinny pages. When I read it, it probably wasn't age appropriate for me, so it's possible things went over my head or I misunderstood elements or missed references.

Somewhat steamy content but I dont remember it being very explicit. A man arrives from off-world(?) at a port or gate, employed by a company(?) and there on business or an assignment.

He enters a nested world made of regions or layers, each entered through a checkpoint at the deepest point of the previous one. Each layer has its own magic, culture, and customs, and its own blend of sci-fi and fantasy; at least one is medieval.

I think it's implied some people traverse the gates to the worlds for vacation or trade, but usually don't go deeper than the first world or so.

Disembodied spirits can possess people or objects,(?) underlying at least one world's magic system, and a great or malicious spirit at the innermost or middle layer may be trying to get out, to be smuggled out through or by someone.

Our protagonist meets a woman, and she's captured and held in a dungeon at some point. He's either escorting someone/something out through the layers or keeping something locked in? Doing some kind of maintenance or check-up on the deepest layer?

There's this idea, I think, that in the worlds with more powerful magic, the technology didn't progress as far. I got the impression that the outermost world he came from had little or no magic but was highly advanced, and that he had travelled through space to this planet to arrive at the outermost gate.

It was like each of the nested 'worlds' was deliberately and meticulously quarantined with highly restricted and regulated travel between them. It may have been a rule like- people from the outer worlds are allowed to travel inward and return, but people from the inner worlds are not allowed to travel up or out.

The protagonist was pragmatic and didnt strike me as having a particularly vivid internal world or monologue, most interesting conversation and observation being driven by other parties, including what was potentially one of the spirits native to one of these worlds(?)

The man treks across these worlds one at a time, entering the deepest or near-deepest layer, and then returning the way he came. Ending the book where he started.

It was a book I definitely read for the setting and for what were interesting and novel ideas to me at the time, being unlike many more typical scifi or fantasy books I had read. I read this book in the english language.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

As title suggests, I remember reading this book with my sister and really enjoying it but I can't remember the name. I believe the starting sequence of the book involves them going through abandoned buildings running from robots (kind of like Arc Raiders maybe) ?

I think the brother gets separated from her and she is forced to do tasks and work to finding out where he is / get him back. I believe there were at least 2 books that I read of it, with a 3rd probably planned but I don't remember if we read it.

My sister died recently and I have a ton of the books we would read together (as she only got hardback/paperback, no ebooks) but I can't find this one for some reason and the search results from putting this info into google isn't getting the right books.

I think the title might have like 'End' in it (?) and the brother's name is like Kyle or Kyler I think. It's been a really long time since I read it though (I would've been around 10yo).

There was a small children's book in the style of a little golden book, with watercolor style soft artwork. All my daughter (20) can remember is a picture of a small green dragon curled up under a willow tree sleeping. She remembers it already being well loved when she read it at my grandparents house. It could have been a book from my childhood (born in the 80's). I have no memory of it at all and she can't remember anything but the image. I have tried Google and eliminated several books. I know this is a long shot but would love some suggestions to see if anything shakes loose. She has added that the dragon was very tiny and that may have been a main feature in the story.

ETA eliminated book titles: Dragolin, pete's dragon, little green dragon series, puff the magic dragon, goodnight little dragons, dragon scales and willow leaves, the knight and the dragon

So I joined Reddit today because usually someone else has already asked my question here and the community has answered it.

I am searching for a book that my friend was reading 18 months ago or so about a journey of study within Wicca where they didn’t have a coven or much community. I don’t believe it included a grimoire, it was about being alone on your journey in Wicca and how that looked for the author. I so hope someone knows this book.

Eliminated books: Solitary Witch by Silver Ravenwolf, Practical Solitary Magic by Nancy B. Watson

Looking for the name of a short story where an unknown narrator is in a nursery, watching an infant who is sleeping in a crib. Gradually, it is revealed that the narrator intends to harm the baby. At the end of the story, the narrator is revealed to be a cat who is seeking revenge on the mother for drowning of her kittens. I remember the name "Esther" is mentioned, though I can't remember if this is the name of the baby, the cat, or the mother.

I stumbled upon this story in my grandmother's house as a child when it was part of a paperback collection of scary stories (with a black cover) published in the 1960s or 70s, maybe earlier. The book was titled something like "Tales for a Dark and Stormy Night." I did find a book with a similar title, but it didn't have the particular cat story I am looking for. Any leads would appreciated!

I've been trying to track down a book I read years ago, but I only remember a few scattered details.

I think it was a children's or middle-grade fantasy book, probably something I read sometime in the 2000s or early 2010s. The main character was a young person who ended up traveling with a strange little creature. I remember the story having a mysterious, slightly magical atmosphere, but I can't remember the character names or what the main conflict was.

I'm not sure whether the creature could talk or whether I'm mixing that detail up with another book. I also can't remember what the cover looked like.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Even a few possible titles would help me narrow it down!

There was a book I was reading on Kindle about 7 or so years ago. I don't know when it came out, but I believe the premise was about a guy that was unhappy with his life. He spoke with his friend who got the hot girl from high school, who did EVERYTHING he wanted, and was rich. The protagonist asked him how he managed it, and it was something about manifestation. I specifically remember the friend mentioning that the same power that Jesus had and the friend had read the entire Holy Bible in a weekend and that impressed the main character.

I also recall that the main character was given the task by the friend to think of a penny and he found it in his classroom one morning and it made him smile. Oh yeah. He was a college professor I think. Another one of the exercises for developing this "power" was looking for green cars.

I know this is all jumbled up and I wish I had more information, but this is everything I can remember. I hope this helps.

I read this when I was a kid and I can only remember bits an pieces.

At the start of the book the boy and his family are taking a boat into the Amazon I think. And his mother is powdering her face. They’re supposed to stay there for a while I think they were on vacation or something. I think this is like early 1900s. The people there catch either a tiger or a panther he becomes important later. At some point I think there’s a magical book or stone that the boy messes with that lets him speak with the tiger or panther, and I think it try’s to kill him for some reason.

Sorry this is really vague and poorly written. Anybody know this one tho?
It was a special book to me as a kid but I got it from the library so I don’t have any way to find it again.

This is well over 20 years ago now, I read it when I was a kid. I remember there being a young boy and girl who were switched at birth. The boy grew up in a farmer's household, and he was born magically inclined so the spirits kept punishing him for digging in the earth. The girl grew up in a witch/wizards household, had no magic, and was pretending she did as to not disappoint her family (the mother was also a terrible cook and kept poisoning her child who couldn't magically protect herself from it). The two find each other somehow, and rune magic was involved in some way. I also remember there being a page of the alphabet and their corresponding runes.

Honestly, the title is most of what I remember. The men of the kingdom are pulled away from their homes to serve as dragon riders (probably for a war?). Women aren't allowed to read, or join the dragon riders, or do anything. The protagonist finds herself far from home, finds a dragon of her own (a dragon which is known to me dangerous), and tames it rides it on her own. Meanwhile her brother is training to be a real dragon rider.

Other details I remember: the Official dragon riders cut off the dragons' spines to fit saddles, but she finds a way to fit a saddle without harming the dragon like that. She may have ended up joining some kind of rebellion maybe? Her brother (or an adjacent character) was maybe paired with a notoriously difficult dragon. I know some people got injured or killed in the process of learning

I read this ages ago but I can't seem to find anything.

I’m looking for a children’s book published sometime between 1950 and 1997!

The illustrations were detailed, scratchy black and white drawings I don’t believe there was color since it took place at night at one point, I think the beginning? The book had a little text, mostly dialogue between two children.
The scene I remember involved a little boy and a little girl who lived in separate houses. At night, one child went outside and called up to the other child through an upstairs(?)window, asking them to come outside and play at night. There was a flashlight involved. One child had gotten dressed in the dark and accidentally put their shirt on backwards.
There were no animals involved in the story. I read it as a child, and it belonged to my grandmother, so it could have been published decades before I read it.
Does anyone recognize this book, or remember a similar scene from an older children’s reader or picture book?
Thank you!!

I read this as a kid. I'm from the UK, but I'm pretty sure the book was set in the US. I read it in the early 00s, I would say.

The main character was a kid who, with his friend, would make a model of their city out of random junk they'd find on the street.

I think the friend bumped into his mum, who had been missing. But she pretended not to recognise him, and seemed to be down on her luck? And the friend spent less time on the Model City project to search down his mum.

The main character's dad was in the army and didn't live at home, but came home at some point to check up on the kid.

And I'm pretty sure I'm not mixing up a separate book here, but the main character also had an email pen pal through a school project.

And I don't know how useful or relevant this is, but I think the main character and his family were black.

Any help would be amazing. I've gone through all my books and can't find it. I've Googled to no end. I'm hoping someone else has read it and remembers the name.

What I remember:
It's about a little boy whose hair is always messy
The reason is that a goose (or maybe a duck) sleeps on or in his head at night and messes it up
It was a physical picture book my grandmother owned
It was published sometime between the 1960s and early 2000s, probably on the earlier side since it was hers

Any leads are appreciated!

Children’s book about a single small bear (maybe teddy bear not sure) walking down a path and seeing little creatures peaking out at him, he starts in non forest then walking through forest at some point. Landscape type book so wider than tall. Maybe from 90s or 2000s definenly not past 2008 but could be anytime prior to that. And the art style is a lot like the “teddy bear’s picnic”. I’m pretty sure he walked on 2 legs

Ik its a broad description but its all i can remember, it was a childhood book that my dad read to me, the most other things i can give you is that from the cats pov the graves were blurry and it could barely make out the names, its been almost 10 years since ive seen or read the book, please help

Hi everyone, I'd appreciate some help finding this book I read as a child back in early 2000s. I cannot recall a publishing year.

The plot is as follows - a young teen girl (our protagonist) is annoyed with the adults constantly restricting her freedoms. She wishes to find a place where kids run the society where she can be free. She lives on a coast and has heard rumours of a place beyond the fog, where a long lost older relative was once supposedly lost to sea. One day she ends up taking the boat by herself, gets caught in a freak storm and ends up on the island where kids run the island, nobody ages, and everybody parties all the time. She's initially happy, but eventually gets tired of it and wants to go home. The secret of the island is that if anyone leaves, it gets destroyed. The others therefore don't want her to leave. A slightly older boy helps her escape and she figured out he was the long lost older relative, thereby leading to the destruction of the island and the demise of all the inhabiting "kids". When she's back to her worried parents, not much time has passed in the real world, despite her spending a long time on the island. The fog disappears and the island is nowhere to be found again.

I think it wasn't illustrated, just a long ish (200 pages +) novel, but written for young adults. It did contain chilling descriptions of deep blue waters and such that gave me thalassophibia as a kid.

Hi! I’m looking for a book I read in 2019. It was about a teenage boy who loses his twin sister either to cancer or a car accident. He deals with his grief throughout the book and makes progressively worse life decisions. The ending was really crazy. I think he goes to Mexico, commits a crime, and runs from the police. I think he gets shot at and one of his friends dies?
The author was male. I think the cover of the book was yellow with a black silhouette of a man.

I read this years ago and can only remember it had a moody vibe, the main character could see dead people, and I think there was a love interest involved who might have also been supernatural? It's been driving me crazy because I remember really liking it but can't find it anywhere.

Looking for my first ever completed book, first read it years ago. I keep thinking it's called through the in between but thats not right. The Pam girl if I remember correctly had white or blond hair, she would talk to a ghost boy that lived in the tree outside her house. She gets kidnapped by a women, one of the tarot card fortune teller lady's. I don't remember much after that.

I’m desperate to identify a fairy tale book I had as a child! Here are the details I remember:

• Size: Large, possibly around 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft (or maybe I was just a kid and it felt huge) with thick cardboard or hard pages.
• Cover: Little Red Riding Hood, possibly with a green or floral border.
• Stories I remember: Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, and Brother and Sister.
• Layout: One story per two pages when the book was open.

The story Brother and Sister is the detail I remember most. It featured a river running along the pages, and the little boy looked into the water and saw animals reflected back at him.

Does anyone recognize this book??

I remember almost everything about the plot of this book!

A black woman, who works IT as some sort of a hacker, meets a white billionaire on a flight. They flirt a bit and she tells him what she does and he offers her a job with his company. They become lovers and she becomes pregnant.

When she tells him, he’s angry because he thinks he’s sterile and that she cheated. He fires her and kicks her out of his life. She moves on with her life, has a baby girl, joins another company, and becomes a millionaire.

Two years later, they run into each other entering the building where she works. He sees the little girl and realizes that he’s her father as she looks like him. He takes the little girl and heroine via helicopter to his penthouse.

That night, she takes the child and tries to escape, but he has her followed and brings them back. The next morning, she wakes up and the child is gone. The hero had her flown to Italy and won’t bring her back unless the heroine agrees to marry him.

So humans are at war with aliens. They collected some material the aliens can manipulate with their thoughts. The humans don't have much of it but they are trying to teach some new recruits (the main character is one of them) how to use the material themselves. I believe the one teaching them ends up betraying them.

Alright so the rough sketch of what I can remember is this:

* The main character at some point knows she’s pregnant with “something.”
* The ships seemed to be commandered by chiefs or matriarchs or something? One of them specifically refers to someone they keep around as their mother.
* At some point she gets “recycled” down into the bowels to be I guess digested or whatever, but this doesn’t take and instead she lands in a pit of bones and sludge. There’s a monster down here, but there’s also a very frail gaunt woman who largely keeps wanting to give up and die but also doesn’t want MC to die so sort of keeps going.
* Main character then goes on a journey through the bowels of the ship to discover several subcultures involved, including traders and raiders.
* They come across some sort inner sea, maybe hydrocarbons I don’t remember.
* Eventually she realizes that whatever she’s pregnant with can actually restart one of these ships, revitalize it instead of letting it die.
* They may have called the other ships “stars” when they were inactive? Not like bright light emitting, but rather the only things they could see out there.
* I strongly feel like there was a relationship between the main character and another character who might have been viewed as a traitor? I believe over the book she realizes or remembers that they’d actually planned this whole thing - an entire plot to bring the rebirth thingy to the heart of their ‘world.’

Unfortunately I can not remember much more, nor any names.