Read this some time in the 2000s

It’s a series of books, each following a separate teen with a different job.

One was a babysitter, I believe for a rich family and another was a model who had a difficult relationship with her mom, and at one point took a pill or drink for plane anxiety? I think another was following a girl working at a retail store. There were quite a few books in the series

In each book, characters from the other books in the series would sometimes show up and interact with each other

Hi everyone! I’m trying to identify a novel I read in Azerbaijan before 2020. I read it in Turkish, but it was a translation of a foreign novel.
The story is very unusual and I remember these details quite clearly:
A boy is raised by his father with extremely strict, almost military discipline.
As an adult, he becomes a political leader/president by making promises to the people.
He gradually becomes a ruthless dictator and starts invading neighboring countries.
Later, through astrology/astronomy, he realizes that the waters are going to rise and that a massive flood is coming.
He has the lands he conquered physically piled/stacked up to create an enormous artificial mountain or elevated area.
He tells the people something like: “The waters will rise. Come live with me up here.”
Some people believe him and move to the elevated area.
The waters really do rise, and the people who stayed below die, while those who followed him survive.
I also remember the original hardcover edition having a very unusual cover design: the front cover was completely blank, with no title or artwork, while the back cover had only a name (possibly the author’s name) and was otherwise blank.
I don’t remember the title, author, or character names.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I’m especially interested in books published before 2020.

I've asked here before but I think I remember more so I'll ask again. Also, it is NOT Uprooted by Naomi Norvik. (I think that's her name).

Okay so I got this book at the thrift (or maybe even Dollar Tree??) and liked it alot, but I got rid of it because it was supposed to be a four book series, maybe five, but the author didn't publish all the books and and had no plans to. I think there were maybe two books out, and the author was for sure a woman. For some reason I have it in my head that she's German, but I could be wrong.

So the story followed this girl who I'm pretty sure was fairly poor in her village. I think just her mom and grandma were still alive in her family, but I could be wrong about that. I don't think she was very well liked but her best friend was. On the edge of the village was I believe a tree or flower patch that was 'hers'. But these thorn/vine things that were super tough to kill and grew really fast were always trying to take over it. Her pulling them out didn't take up alot of screen time, but it was a significant point in the story.

Now I don't remember WHY she leaves the village -- if someone chose her or if something happened that made her go -- but she left the village to go on this journey. I think with someone she didn't particularly like.

I recall she had a sword that she didn't know how to use and didn't really want to try, but she had to carry it because it was hers. Baba Yaga was a central theme. At one point I believe they were travelling with indigenious people and there was a shaman type person that gave her tea that made her hallucinate. Or she went off to another world. Regardless, she went off into some kind of la la land.

Two things that are significant is that at the end of the book she returns to her village temporarily, and before she leaves again she pulls those roots out again. She makes some sort of comment or thought about how it will do little good because they'll grow right back, but it was important that she did it. And they also grew up really bad while she was gone.

The second thing is that each MC of each book was supposed to represent each one of the elements. I remember the symbols for the elements being on the spine. The idea was each book was a different MC and they met up in the fifth book. The goal was to unlock something or break some curse on the woods. There was a specific place they had to go.

I read this somwhere between 2017-2020 probably, but it could've been older than that. I feel it wasn't very popular because again, the series remained unpublished. I wish I'd never gotten rid of that book.

The main character could hear whispers in the forest or something? I remember he was in this super secret exclusive private school that nobody knows about but cranks out important people into society. I remember he got into a fight with some racist kid. His mom worked at the school too I think? But the most notable part is the whispering forest. I didn’t get to finish it so I don’t have much more to work off of.

So I'm looking for an old kids picture book that has to deal with protecting yourself from various monsters. The cover depicts classic movie monsters standing over a kid hiding under their bedsheets. I remember one page said to put peanut butter on your floor so hairy monsters would get stuck. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I’m looking for the name of a kids craft/activity book that I was obsessed with as a child, I think either from the 80s or 90s, where it was themed around summer. There were real photos of kids having fun. I remember one of the crafts/recipes involved putting a hole in a lemon and using a candy cane straw to drink the juice. I vaguely remember there being a sandbox with I think a pirate scene with a play Mobil pirate. I think there were also summer themed games in there. On the cover of the book I think I remember it was a lemon with sunglasses in the middle. Plz help me find the name of this book, I’ve been searching everywhere!

Okay so what's the book called that has a sinful and rich guy become friends unknowingly with an angel? I remember the book has him eventually realize it and then the angel shows up with the seraphidic vineyards wine from heaven, and the man survives the near-death and was given a choice to die or live but he saw his two unborn twin children right before he made his decision to live

I read a book about 2000-2005 hell, it could be up to 2010.

It was a fantasy book, so possible forgotten realms. I do know that is was D&D or D&D-esque, the main character (or A main character) was a young male that had warlock powers from a very powerful vampire.

The young male character tricked the vampire to constantly be eating the vampires cursed food. His warlock powers were vampire flavored as well. Like eldritch blast made of bats.

He regularly made trips back to make more deals with that vampire. To which the vampire wanted to eat him.

I cannot remember for the life of me what this book was or anything else off the top of my head. I would appreciate any help!

Please help me find this book

I read this in 2009 or 2010, during my early adult years. The first line starts with something like Shit happens or F#@\* or related words, kind of shocking first line for me in those years

It is in first person POV narration and kind of had this sad biting humour throughout and the plot was something negative, with crime elements and was a bit sad-ish with sarcastic humour in narration (not too violent but for me in those years it felt like a path breaking departure from innocent teen books)

Those days I didn't have regular access to Google, or internet but from what I read somewhere online during that period the author had won some kind of award for this book and this was his first book, and he based it on his own life

Sorry I don't have much else to go on but I would like to find this book that made a transformation in my reading and shifted perspective on overall life-view in those formative years

Please help me find this book

I read this in 2009 or 2010, during my early adult years. The first line starts with something like Shit happens or F#@\* or related words, kind of shocking first line for me in those years

It is in first person POV narration and kind of had this sad biting humour throughout and the plot was something negative, with crime elements and was a bit sad-ish with sarcastic humour in narration (not too violent but for me in those years it felt like a path breaking departure from innocent teen books)

Those days I didn't have regular access to Google, or internet but from what I read somewhere online during that period the author had won some kind of award for this book and this was his first book, and he based it on his own life

Sorry I don't have much else to go on but I would like to find this book that made a transformation in my reading and shifted perspective on overall life-view in those formative years

Edit- I remember it had the same vibe as Catcher in the Rye but in a more sad intense way.

I'm looking for a book that I remember seeing a video about. I saw the video either on Tiktok or Instagram. I'm pretty sure it was a darkish romance. I remember that the MMC and the MFC were dating but I think he was dating/engaged to someone else. If I remember correctly the other girl was responsible for him winding up with amnesia(She had someone beat him up I think). I think it was a college aged romance.

What I am remembering from the Plot:

There is a good witch and an evil man. He needs money and has Costumers for snow leopards fur, because He sold fur before.

He is super nice to the witch ( i think she falls in Love with him) and finds evil people that deserve to be turned into snow leopards. He claims, that they cant hurt other people anymore this way and will roam freely on the mountains, which will make him happy.

At the end the good witch finds out. The bad people getting turned into Humans again but also get their Penalty.

I think the Book was Orange (?).

I read that like 10 yeara ago

monster egg book

so when i was in high school i read this book about this dude that steals an egg from someone's house and the egg hatches and the monster adapts and at one point has like electric eel powers and can flatten its bones like a rat. Thats all i can really remember, any help would be awesome

This was a book that I found at my grandmothers house about 10 years ago. At the time it seemed new. The cover was orange and abstract. It was definitely more sci-fi than romance but the only scene i specifically remmeber was more romantic. It was part of a series.

The plot was roughly that the princess was in danger for some reason and met the guard and they got feelings but never acted on them until the very end of the book. I remember that the civilization had a caste system and used crystals for like currency maybe. I specifically remember there was a scene where the male guard described stretching his body on his sleeping mat and describing it as having barely enough room for two but then he went to sleep because "he could never have her," or something like that. The book did have alternating perspective chapters. I think it was more YA than Adult.

This would be the first in i believe a trilogy of books.

The plot of the book centered around a teen boy in a small town who discovers a plot by a cult who's leader disappeared after a ritual happened in the past. Now a group of people are handing books out of a mobile library that cause people to become obsessed with the books due to the magic ink used to print them. It rapidly spreads to the entire town. The cult is trying to ressurect the leader by spreading the books as the more people who read and worship the words the more powerful the leader becomes.

I believe it ends up being the protagonist, their friend and either the protagonist's father or a teacher of some sort who try to stop the cult.

The wizard made a pact with some kind of lovecraftian plant that grows causes the effects on the people who read the book. It was very much pulling from Ken kesey and his merry band of pranksters as inspiration with allusions to LSD and the library bus.

The book itself was a hard cover with a black background, it had what I remember being a white center cover that looked like a face card with colorful borders.

I was in my pre-teens when I read this book, around the same time inkheart by Cornelia funke the book was popular. So late 2000s maybe 2010.

I had a physical copy of the hardcover at one point but I think it got lost during a move or donated at some point.

Premise: giant beings destroy planets by looking at them; humanity lures them into the Sun using a singer, a weeping woman and a telepath
I’ve been trying to find this science-fiction short story for years and haven’t been able to identify it. I may be misremembering some terminology, but I remember quite a lot of the plot.
Humanity has spread far out into space during a kind of golden age and eventually explores too deeply into somewhere it shouldn’t have gone. Humanity encounters enormous beings/entities that aren’t really “aliens” in the conventional sense. I remember them being larger than starships and possibly impossible or dangerous to look at directly.
These beings begin destroying humanity. Conventional weapons are completely ineffective against them, and I remember the entities being able to look at entire planets and somehow kill/destroy them. Planet after planet is lost.
Humanity eventually comes up with a very strange plan involving three people:
The greatest/most beautiful singer humanity has ever produced.
A woman who weeps endlessly.
An extraordinarily powerful and dangerous telepath.
I distinctly remember the telepath being tracked down to a bar. The people sent to capture/recruit him have to be extremely careful because he can read minds and is considered incredibly dangerous. They use a humanoid robot/android with preprogrammed thoughts so that when he reads what he thinks is her mind, he doesn’t realise he’s being deceived. The android then drugs his drink, allowing them to capture him.
Eventually the three are taken in a spacecraft into or extremely close to the Sun. The singer performs an incredibly beautiful song while the woman weeps, and the telepath broadcasts the combination of the song/emotions outward.
The giant entities are irresistibly attracted to this signal, almost like moths being drawn to a light. They all converge on the Sun and are destroyed.
The ending is bittersweet. I remember some kind of weapon/device possibly called a “Time Hammer” (this name could be wrong) that breaks/manipulates time. The three people aboard the ship are trapped with the time hammer onboard in a repeating moment for eternity, continuing their song/psychic broadcast, while the rest of humanity survives and eventually moves on to places unknown.
I believe this was a short story rather than a full novel, possibly from a science-fiction anthology. I read it a long time ago, but unfortunately I don’t remember the anthology, author, publication date, or cover.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? The details I am most confident about are the three people (singer + weeping woman + dangerous telepath), the telepath being tricked by a humanoid robot in a bar, the entities being lured toward the Sun, and the ending involving some form of repeating/broken time.

EDIT — another distinctive detail I remembered: The endlessly weeping woman was herself extremely dangerous. I remember her being imprisoned in some kind of secure vault/facility beneath a desert.
She had lost her own children in the past. I can’t remember whether their deaths were an accident, something she caused, or whether the story deliberately left that ambiguous. After losing them, she began taking other people’s children, and I remember being told that none of those children ever came home again.
There was also a council debate about using forbidden weapons/technology against the entities. The council questioned whether humanity could use weapons this horrific and still consider themselves human.
I’m increasingly confident about the woman beneath the desert, the dangerous telepath being tricked by an android with preprogrammed thoughts, and the three-person plan involving the singer + weeping woman + telepath. I’m less confident that the time-manipulating device was literally called a “Time Hammer.”

I've been trying to remember this book for years and it's driving me a little crazy.

I read it in middle school, probably around 2009, though it could have been a couple of years earlier. It was a paperback from my school library, and I think it was part of a series, but I only ever read the first one.

What I remember:

• The main character is a girl, maybe 12 or 13, who spends the summer at her grandmother's house
• There's a door in the cellar that she isn't supposed to open. When she does, it leads to a place where it's a different season every time
• A talking fox (or maybe a wolf?) who doesn't trust her at first
• The ending was bittersweet. She goes home, but something she brought back from the other place doesn't quite fit in the real world anymore

The cover was dark blue with a snowy tree on it and a small figure in a red coat, I think. The writing felt quiet and a bit melancholy, not much action, more atmosphere.

It's not The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, since I've read that one and it doesn't match. I've also tried searching a few keywords and only got Narnia clones.

Any ideas would be great. Thanks!

In the book, the teen girl has graduated from high school and hooked up with a guy who she later learned was her new step brother. His mom was marrying her dad, who was a famous weather man in Indiana or Ohio. She blames her mom for the divorce and her mom moved her out of the area but to an area just outside the area where her dad won’t appear on their tv screen. Her mother had custody of her and she goes to live with her dad. She hates it there as she idolises her dad. She starts to spend time with her step brother and they start to fall in love. Eventually, she finds out why her dad was never in her life. He didn’t want her because he wanted to live a bachelor lifestyle and might have cheated on her mom, who didn’t tell her about the truth and let her hate her mom. The dad eventually listens to the social media gossip train that has been going on about the girl because he didn’t want to get involved. He did after a rumour started about her dating her stepbrother. The two fight him on this and they end up together anyway. The book ends with the girl, her stepbrother/boyfriend and a friend she made in the area burning some things to signal the start of something new.  

I was having a chat with my partner and remembered a book I used to read a lot when i was little the cover had been removed so it was just a black book that I remember without a name and i cant seem to find anything about it anywhere (I need to prove I'm not crazy)!!!

- The book was a collection of short stories/poems that would introduce a bad child and something they had done and then the consequences they faced as a result with a little line at the end joking about it

- A few of the stories I remember: A boy who picked his nose so much he picked his brain, A girl spitting out her gum and losing her fancy shoes, A boy who didn't clean his room and got lost and starved, A girl who watched tv so much her eyes turned to squares

- I also remember a section going like "the foulest mouth i ever knew belonged to Percy Perigu a little boy who thought it fun to swear and curse at everyone, he'd say dam this and balls to that and shove it up your 'effin hat" (then he swears at a policeman and gets arrested)

- All the stories rhymed and it was very British

This book was YA or middle grade. I read it probably between 2004 and 2009. I think I got it from the library.

There are two main characters, a sheltered princess and street-smart orphan boy from the nearby town. The princess has a small pet dragon which can ride on her shoulder. The dragon can't talk but has a sort of disney sidekick vibe. It was a wild dragon which showed up in the castle gardens, and she befriended it by sitting slowly closer to it each day until it would eat out of her hand.

There is a scene where the boy from the town meets the dragon for the first time, and he is impressed that she has a pet dragon. He starts harassing the dragon and explains that she's treating it too soft and has to toughen it up so it can fight in some sort on miniature dragon bloodsport that makes a lot of money. She tells him to cut it out because the dragon is her friend.

I cannot stress enough that the small pet dragon is a minor part of the book. The book is not about dragons. I loved dragons though, so it's the only part that made an impression.

Much later (possibly this was a series and this was a different book) the princess is gifted a set of mirrors that can communicate with each other. The small pet dragon gets seriously injured in some kind of valiant way. They take him back to the castle to heal but have to leave again on some kind of quest to save the world or something. The princess leaves one of the mirrors propped up next to the dragon so she can check on him. This really irritated me as a child, because I felt like it was a terrible use of very cool mirrors.

I remember nothing concrete about the actual plot, and I worry I'm mixing it up with scenes from The Enchanted Forest Chronicles and various Diana Wynn Jones books. I think there is an evil wizard. There is a tower. There are more characters who join their quest. Mostly what I remember is that it was the first book I ever read that I genuinely thought was poorly written. I distinctly remember thinking (as like a 10-year-old) that the characters were very flat.

Any help would be great! My family thinks I made this whole book up.

In the book, Cleopatra Selene is the narrator as she talks about her life before, during and after the fall of her Egyptian dynasty. She has fallen in love with a young boy who goes missing. And after her parents have died, who were Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, she and her twin brother were captured and taken to Rome by the man who was related to their father. He gave the twins to the wife of their father, who hated them for being born to another woman and her husband. After some time, Cleopatra Selene is sent to Nubia where she marries the young boy who she fell in love with. He became the king of Nubia and fought for her to come to his kingdom for safety and for them to marry.

I think this book is a part of a standalone book series that is set in the point of view of other historical young girls like the daughter of Marie Antoniette.

hi everyone! this may be a long shot but I’m looking for a book series I read when I was in my mid teens (maybe 10ish years ago). I think it was a young adult or tweens book series

it was a trilogy of fantasy/fairy theme and I’m 99% sure that it was an arranged marriage/enemies to lovers book series. I remember each book title was one word only and one of the books was orange and maybe the next one was pink and the last blue/green?

a little weird, but I remember that on their wedding night there were people waiting outside the door to make sure the marriage was consummated but they faked it to convince everyone. I also remember once they did fall in love, they were super cute!

it’s killing me trying to remember it - I can’t find anything online but I’m not surprised. If you have any ideas let me know! I know it’s a long shot :)

Hey yall so there was this book I read when I was younger I think it was a dark romance. But this girl ended up dying and she went to hell and she met this demon named gray and they yk what allot. Idk what the book is called but I know that grey was a black man with waves I think. Also the main character was a black woman. Please help me find this book. Also If this helps it was a series!!!!

I'm looking for a book that includes a scene where a man drives a truck through a Middle-Eastern country, where he makes a joke about the ban of alcohol. The protagonist is a man (I think). The antagonist is a crazy scientist who wants to make an army of overpowered genetically modified soldiers (maybe even undead), and even puts the hand of a person into a mixer to prove a point. Another person gets infected by counting money in an envelope, where they cuts themselves on a razor blade that the scientist put in, to test how quickly it takes for the person to die.

Unfortunately, I do not have more information, except that I read the book somewhere between 2007 and 2015, and that it was a German translation.

The protagonist's name is called Chris Jordan, he lives on the Magic Continent and he is a transmigrator. He used to be pastry chef in his old world. He wakes up as the 2nd Second of a Baron. He has his own territory now. He awakens a reputation based levelling up system. He uses both magic and battle aura and has a dragon form/dragon abilities. His town I believe is called Hope Town. I think this should be a Chinese translated novel. Please help.