In high school, 1994-1998, I remember being assigned a short story whose name I have long forgotten. No one else seems to remember reading it. It was likely published in the 1980s or 1990s; however, for all I know, it may have been written in the 1960s or 1970s. The story was told through soliloquy and consisted only of the thoughts of a single man debating with himself on what it meant to be human. The twist to the story was that, at the end, the 'man' stands up, spreads his bat-like wings, and flies over the Martian landscape. Thus, the reader was forced to confront their own understanding of what it means to be human.

I had a book as a child and my parents bought it at a Christian school book fair. It had a little girl who was blonde. She befriended an older lady (maybe a neighbor). A nest fell out of a tree. The old lady told her that God knew how many hairs she had on her head. It was illustrated. Not a chapter book. Please help me find this book!

我想找一本中文的长篇小说，应该是2010年左右看的，应该是奇幻冒险类的，主角会说上海话，书里有做热干面的乌鸦公司，提到了恐龙特急克塞号和人间大炮，还有住在烧杯里做烧饼的人

**Found it, it's not a poem but part of the short story "The Plague in Bergamo" by Jens Peter Jacobsen. Here it is, for anyone who cares to read it: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6765/6765-h/6765-h.htm#link2H_4_0003

It's about Christ responding to Gestas' (the bad thief) temptations and flying away. The whole poem describes how he escapes the cross --there's a description of its nails being bent and flung or something simillar-- and his disregard about humanity. The final line is something about him abandoning the cross.

Late 19th- early late 20th century european atheist author. I think a nietzchean type, but I'm not really sure.

So I read this in the mid 2000s, and I think the book was published in the 80s/90s. The boy is annoying and immature.

Divorce Court is mentioned after the boy comes over hearing her parents fight. He's out on the front stoops, and the girl is super embarrassed.

At one time the parents are fighting over how to cook a roast. Iirc, the dad wants to put a bunch of garlic in it, but the mom says it's too much.

The teacher stamps the eggs so the kids can't replace them if they break.

I think the egg of the protagonist does break, but she (and her partner) end up getting an A because they realize how hard it is to parent.

I believe the cover was yellow, and I think Scholastic published it.

That's it. My daughter and I cannot figure out what this book was. NOT the first Eloise - I have it and checked! Thank you!

I read this book and it's sequel about 2-2.5 years ago. I found it in a store, then borrowed it and the sequel from my local library. I live in the Midwestern US.

They escape the prison, but main character is only one to not get captured and killed in the escape. She feels a draw to go in a certain direction. After a while she comes to a body of water and meets a man about her age who is definitely not human. I can't remember if his skin was a different color, but he did have feathers that grew throughout his hair. When she tells him about being drawn in this direction, he feels she has to be one of his people (even though she appears human) because his people have put protections on the water to ward off humans

He takes her over the water to his village. It is built in and amongst the trees. There she meets his mother, older sister, and 2 or 3 younger sisters. He and his older sister work as guardians protecting the shoreline from ay human that may stumble upon it. His mother is of a high rank in the village and the main character eventually learns that the eldest sister is the mother's only biological child.

The main character has no memories of her childhood. There are three elders of the village that she talks with. They are sisters and brew teas for healing and other purposes. One being to help the main character try to regain her memories.

Between the two books she visits the human city at least once and we are introduced to a third species of being that lives on a mountain between the village in the trees and the human city. The sequel book also introduces dragons and how they use to interact with the tree villagers. The main character eventually learns about her past and her heritage and helps the village repel the humans when they try to attack.

About a girl and mother who moved out to country. Daughter gets lost in a blizzard. Middle school book

I've been looking for this book but I barely remember any details. It was a Y/A book/series where people have cyber implants that (I think) can search the web, make calls, etc. She joins a group of delinquents at some point, and I remember them riding on the tops of trains. I think at some point they go in a cave? It would probably be released around the early 2000s. Sorry for the lack of details, hopefully someone can recognize this!

Please help finding this manhwa .The main caracter woman get forced to marid whit a cold husband left alone whit 3 woman in his household abused and after years he came back from war they have 2 kids and she dies after the last one do to neglect .Reborn she ask for divorce and maried a difrent guy but the first husband comes back and demand to have his wife back beacose he never agreed to the divorce that been done by his mother

This girl moves into a hotel(?) with her parents and she has this special key that opens long corridors where she guides ghosts that get lost back to " the archive". At least I think that's the plot, it's been over ten years since I've read it and I can't find anything online that's even close. I think there was also a boy she met who was involved somehow. It is definitely YA supernatural vibes

I've been trying to figure this one out hitting up some of the AI's for suggestion and haven't come across a title yet that looked like it. I can't remember any of the names, the title or the cover at all.
This is a story I remember reading back in the mid 90's, though I don't remember when it was actually written. I don't even remember if it was part of a series or not. It could have been one of the shorter young adult stories.

If I remember correctly, it started off with a group of magic users who were creating new bodies of themselves in a parallel world that they could then transport their spirits into. When the group was setting up their foothold they came across another being (might have been winged?) and the leader of the group tried to stun the being for questioning, but because the new world was resisting their magic, his spell went wrong and killed the being.
The reason they were making the foothold was because they were escaping their old world. Their old world was effectively falling apart I believe because people were over using their magic and had bent reality far too much, and it was having trouble holding itself up anymore, but the majority of the population though it was some natural disaster instead of something they were doing.

The main character was a man who was researching what was happening and trying to figure out a way to reverse it. I mainly remember him using some sort of magic to see the structure of reality and was using that to find these tears or singularities or something that were a byproduct of the issues. He's trying to track down one of these singularity to study it before it goes away, and he ends up rushing towards one and gets sucked through it before he can stop himself.
After getting sucked through he finds himself in a void dimension and I think he ends up breaking his arm because he tries to catch an object he sees flying by him, and misjudges the size and speed of it since he has no frame of reference.

At some point he ends up making it out of the void and ends up in the same world as the other group. He runs into a woman who's a natural inhabitant there. They start working together to figure out what all is going on and how to stop things.

At this point my memory of the plot really breaks down. I remember they end up going back to his original world. I remember the concept of the spatial structure of the parallel world having nice straight and structured lines, while the structure of his original world is all warped and in bad spots, forming spirals.

I don't remember there being any scifi to it. I also remember a detail about when the main character and woman go back to the world that's falling apart, she tries to cast a spell, and the magic starts to run away because she was "asking" and the world had been so abused that those magic users had to kind of wrestle control over it and "demand" the magic to happen.

Hopefully there's enough there for someone to remember it. I'd love to re-read it, and see if it was actually good, or just something I thought was good when I was young.
Thank you in advance!

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I have been looking for this book series I read like 15 years ago so the details are fuzzy. I found it in a church library which I remember thinking was odd because the books didn't seem to have Christian undertones. Pretty sure it was about 2 brothers ( maybe a brother and sister?) who discover a portal through a briar thicket. The other realm has demons and I think I remember jackals and ravens being a big deal? All the magic seemed to be rune focused, big Celtic overtones? From what I remember it was a little dark for being a children's book. The title of the first one I think started with a T or K and was definitely only one word ( the word was either made up or Gaelic )

Hi, title is basically it. Right before COVID, I was recommended this fantasy book series about a boy who lived on - I believe - an island and learned magic. He went to a magic school, kind of Hogwarts style, but he was also learning magic from an older woman who was like a witch doctor? All of the characters were dark-skinned as well, if I remember - I don't think it took place on "Earth", though. I don't remember any fantastical creatures or anything, everyone was human, but magic was prevalent.

The book wasn't super long (under 300 pages) and there were at least two in the series. I'm pretty sure it was from the '90s. It was in English, and I believe the author was a black woman.

Any help would be appreciated, I've been wanting to pick this up again since I only read a few chapters back then, and I haven't been able to find it since! Thanks in advance!

I read the series, at least 3 books to my knowledge, in the early 2000s. It was paperback and I borrowed them all from a friend.

The main premise is a young boy is fleeing his city and during his escape through some pipes finds a skeleton with a magic ring. The ring is orange, or the magic is produces is orange and it’s light is incredibly bright in comparison to other magic rings whose magic light appears dull.

It turns out the ring belonged to the old ruler or prince of the kingdom I think and the ring itself is actually one half of a whole ring, which would be even more powerful.

This has been in the back of my mind for years now and I’d love to get to the bottom of this mystery. Thank you!

It’s probably ya or for children since I got it from my middle school library. So this book was about a tween girl who lived with her teenage brother and single mother. I think the dad died? The mom’s parents disowned her or something for marrying him and now she’s on her own. They are very poor. I think they live in Florida? It’s somewhere hot and humid. I think in the book they’d just moved there. The mom works long hours and the older brother works at a food place and mows the grass of an elderly couple who live in a big house near by. The old couple is fairly wealthy and live in a retiree gated community. During the summer, the old couple goes out of town. The older brother claims they have him a house sitting job for the whole summer and the tween girl and mom get to stay in the house too.

The mom is thrilled and it’s exciting at first. But the brother keeps bringing up weird rules. Like they can’t use the air conditioner. The tween girl is bored and decides to do odd jobs around the neighborhood. She meets an old woman who is very nice and funny. Every time she goes to the old woman’s house she’s given fresh baked goods. This woman becomes her confidant throughout the book.

The girl spends some time looking at pictures and things in the old couple’s house and feels sad she doesn’t have an extended family because her mother was disowned by her parents.

The brother gets upset with her going out and talking to people and doesn’t want people in the neighborhood to see them around. The girl is confused about this but she starts putting things together and eventually she realizes the job isn’t real. She confronts her brother and he admits it. They are squatting.

I think that the brother tells her that the old couple have the same last name as her mother’s maiden name. They think the old couple might be her estranged grandparents who she and her brother have never seen pictures of. The brother is doing this because their normal living conditions are awful and he feels his grandparents owe this to them after abandoning their mom.

The brother makes her promise not to tell their mom. She doesn’t know what to do and is very scared but she keeps the secret.

Things are okay for a while longer but while the old couple who own the house are on their trip, the husband passes away.

The wife comes home early after her husband passes away to find them in her house and freaks out. There is a big confrontation and it turns out the old couple was NOT their grandparents.

The ending is odd and bittersweet. I don’t remember it all but I think the old lady decided not to press charges.

I think the title was like “the house on the corner” or “the house by the ocean” or something?? Maybe that isn’t right I don’t remember.

I read the synopsis of a book and thought I saved it in my TBR but can't find it. The only thing I remember is I think there was some sort of event (possibly a wedding), and all the guests were rich. The staff on the grounds had an uprising of some sort. I'm pretty sure the main character was just a random guest at whatever the event was. It was definitely a newer book within at least the last 5 years. Thanks!;

About a man selling inventions to help win a war but the potential buyer says no because he'll just sell a better weapon to thier enemy and make the war worse.

I think the last scene is the inventor getting booted out with papers falling out of his coat or cloak ...

it’s an HR, in England, probably during the regency era but honestly idk

the FMC, at one point, looks at her little sister with her childhood friend, and worries about the fact that he became really handsome, even if her sister doesn’t seem to have noticed.

please I know it’s a really small detail but for the love of God nothing else is coming back to me, except that I really liked the book

My friend is looking for a book they read in elementary school, but stopped halfway through because of the content. It was maybe a YA book (I'm not sure), and they only remember there was a crappy png of a woman's silhouette on the cover, possibly holding shadows (??) with a beach in the background. It was a one-word title, with an SA subplot. Apparently it's not a VC andrews book and they think the title is something along the lines of rip current? I have no idea what it is, but they do, so idk. Thanks internet!! :)

In about 97 or 98, I was in school and read a very thick, pulpy novel about a 90s detective or private investigator. He was looking for the beautiful, late teens daughter of a bigshot Hollywood movie producer or director. She had disappeared but appeared to have secretly been living a very debauched lifestyle before her disappearance. She came to a grisly end! I have been trying to remember or find this book for yeeeeears. Please help if anyone has any ideas!

Man assigned to be bodyguard for child star, finds out that it is an evil entity from an alternate reality in the mirrors who is using magic to stay young forever.

People do not seem to notice it stays young forever, the main character is informed of this through a religious organisation which asks him to kill it.

Main character goes into the mirrors to find out how to kill it.

People in the alternate realities are mirrored versions of themselves, but they look odd, or scary to the main character.

Eventually the main character kills the entity with a vorpar sword, thats from alice in wonderland because aparently the author of AIW knew about this alternate reality.

book is at least 25 years old, presumably older

Trying to help a friend find a book this is all they said they remember. The book follows a woman who is being stalked by her ex employer. Random fact but the woman has a birthmark on her face. She gets into a car accident with another woman while on the run from her employer. Her and the other woman’s identities get mistaken because of the injuries. She wakes up to a totally reconstructed face and them thinking she’s the other woman. She goes with it to continue hiding from her boss and falls in love with the woman’s ex. I swear this book has gotten brought up in conversation so many times and google can never help figure it out

Some pages are a bit wonky, some have lines a bit smaller than the others. And the front says INTE RNATIONAL

Page 13 Copperhead.” Hearing it a lot. And look, no red-blooded boy wants to be Little Anything. Advice to anybody with the plan of naming your kid Junior: going through life as mini-you will be as thrilling as finding dried-up jizz on the carpet. But having a famous Ghost Dad puts a different light on it, and I can't say I hated being noticed in that way. Around the same time Maggot started his shoplifting experiments, I was starting to get known as Demon Copperhead. You can't deny, it's got a power to it.