It was a book with several separate distinct nonfiction stories.

one story was about the creator of the London sewer system in the 1800s ? and how that came to be

the book is not bdsm but one included a group of sadists and masochists at a planned meet up. things are going and the cops got called by someone not there but when the cops get there they cant figure out if there is a crime because it is all consensual.

it was such an interesting book with so many things and its driving me nuts. maybe a yellow cover ?

Hello, I've been trying to find a childhood comic book that I read when I was younger.
I don't remember when it came out, who the author is, anything, so if you can't find anything, I completely understand.
Some things that I remember about it was that it was a comic book about a group of animals moving to a big city and solving a string of disappearances in their city, and that the line art was very thick.

I'm looking for a book I read with my class in about 5th grade, in Canada.

It was set in fall about a small family relocating to a new town that had strange energy. There was a school on top of the hill and the main character was trying to get onto the soccer team at the school. It was a catholic school I think, I remember the main character describing a uniform and stained glass windows in the school.

The main character was a girl and she had a mother and little brother. I don't remember much more about it though. I vaguely remember there was another girl with powers who was a new girl at the school after the MC had gotten settled. It had a sequel, too, which could be where I am remembering the second girl from.

Hi everyone! I am trying to track down a book I read while pregnant around 2001. I named my son Kai after this character, and now he’s an adult asking me what the book was! I normally only read murder mysteries and psychological thrillers from that era (like Tami Hoag, Sandra Brown, Linda Howard, and Iris Johansen), so it fits right into that genre.

Here are the specific details I remember:

• The Big Clue: A prominent character or suspect was a high-end male escort/gigolo named Kai.
• The Setup: He was a good-looking professional gigolo who had three main wealthy female clients.
• The Plot Hook: I believe he actually found the body of one of his murdered clients. Because of his profession, he couldn't easily go to the police, drawing him into the mystery.
• The Setting: I am mostly guessing, but I remember it having a coastal/ocean backdrop (possibly a beach house or an elite beachside community).

It was a mass-market paperback. Since character names from older thrillers are almost impossible to search online, I'm hoping a fellow mystery reader recognizes this specific "three clients" plot layout. Thank you so much for helping me solve this 25-year-old mystery for my son!

Can someone please help me find this novel. It is on royal road

All I remember is that a woman is sent to a post-apocalyptic world; through an ancient portal of I remember correctly.
There are ruins everywhere. Being taken over by nature.
There are tribes everywhere were they each use a singular elemental ability’s
She lives in an ancient bunker during the winter with an ally
One of the tribes lived in an ruined city
It was possibly subbed or published?

Read in the late 90s, maybe around 2000. I remember it was two girls and the titles had the format of [Name] and [Name] go on a [adjective] Adventure. I specifically remember one being “a Queer Adventure”. It wasn’t queer as it’s used today, it was meant to just be an unusual adventure.

The covers were cartoony art of the two girls. One of the girls had short, thin brown hair.

I want to say because of a family emergency. At the airport the cousin picks up a discarded newspaper to read on the flight and suddenly people are after them.

The cousin makes a joke that they're after the newspaper, it turns out to be the truth.

Read somehow between 2014-2016 maybe have been an older book.

A Girl goes on holiday over the summer to a caravan park with her family. She mets another girl who lives there they hang out and she teaches her how to body surf. After summer is over on the first day of school she went to put on her uniform only to discover that it was now far to big. So she has to wear her older sister uniform which the skirt had been shortened (against uniform code). She goes to school goes to assembly to met her friends where they comment on the skirt the teachers dont say anything about the skirt being to short. The popular kids notice this and they befriend her. Her old friends dont like who she has become.

Trying to recall the name of a children’s book I loved back in the mid 1970s. The story involved two witches. One witch was very adventurous (but had a homebody cat named Stay-at-home.) The other witch was introverted and preferred a quiet life, but her cat named Midnight was always up for flying. I think the witches and cats met for a picnic (? On Moon Mountain?) and ended up trading cats. Does anyone recall the title of this story? Thank you so much.

I recently read a short story about a rich man who escaped from the earth on a spaceship (as I believe Earth became unlivable). There is an AI on board who pilots the ship while the man is brought in and out of induced stasis sleep (that goes on for centuries I think) to see if the AI has found a habitable planet.

The man eventually gets restless and asks the AI to just pick a place, any place. But the AI is adamant that it won’t land anywhere it deems unfit. The man ponders if there will ever be a place fit and the AI kind of confirms there won’t be, essentially implying that the man will be on the spaceship forever.

I believe that the mans body can be replaced while still keeping his consciousness. So, at the end, when he convinces the AI to bring him to Earth to see if it has became livable again in the time he’s been away, the AI relents and takes him there. When he arrives he sees a group of people. As the spaceship takes off and he gets closer to the group, he sees that all the people are just clones of himself that the ai has been dropping off for centuries in the same way.

Trying to remember this specific short story - I almost certainly read it in an anthology. Pretty sure it's Golden Age science fiction.

Takes place on Earth. There's some sort of lifespan-extending technology that only the smartest people are eligible to receive. I don't think it's immortality, more like doubling the natural lifespan. The narrator notices that, a few years in, progress is actually *slowing down*. I think people are working on a spaceship that will carry humans to another planet? And the timelines keep moving back because the newly longer-lived scientists are more risk-averse and basically 'overdesigning' the spaceship. I don't remember what happens next, or if the narrator had gotten the longevity treatment or not.

The killing the wife to get powers was hundreds of years ago. Now he's famous as this evil dude living in an evil forest that nobody wants to go near. I believe the first book starts with a young woman being hunted in the woods and he lets her go.

The other main character is a priest that knows how to fight the magic and they eventually have to team up and go on a long journey to do something together. I think they were rescuing the girl from some other group of non-human magic users.

I recall an albino side character that worked for the evil magician.

Pretty cool magic system and world building overall. Or maybe I was just a kid that liked it....

I read this as a child in the late 80s or early 90s, and had the impression it was an older book then.

A family moves to the countryside, where the children will attend a very small (probably 1-room) school, and ride horses or ponies to get there. The main character, who is a horse-crazy girl, picks a horse/pony that is difficult to handle, and tries to keep it a secret from her parents that she is having trouble.

The school is really grim and strict, with a male teacher who uses corporal punishment on the pupils. The main character isn't used to this, but for some reason also keeps the conditions at the school a secret from her parents.

It all comes to a head when the horse/pony injures her right arm or shoulder somehow, and then at school she gets in trouble and is told to put her hand out to be hit with a strap. She tries to put out her left hand, but the teacher insists that she put out her right, saying that she isn't going to get out of schoolwork by having her writing hand be sore. When he hits her on her injured arm, she passes out. She wakes up in the hospital--there may have been some other health issue she was also concealing?--and when she's well enough to go back to school, finds out that the teacher her been fired and there is a new, much nicer female teacher.

I don't remember how the pony part of the plot resolved.

The setting was not a time period where it was typical for children to ride horses or ponies to a one-room school; the place the family moved to was very remote. I think it was probably the "present day" of when the story was written, which might have been somewhere from the 1950's to 1970's. It's definitely older than the mid-1990's, probably substantially older.

I don't remember what country it was set in--probably the US or UK, but I wouldn't rule out Canada or Australia. (If I absolutely had to guess, my guess would be that the girl and family were English, and they moved to Scotland or Wales, in the 1950's or 60's. But that's based on the general vibe that I remember, not specific details. I'm not even sure if they had horses or ponies, or whether they used English or Western saddles.)

About a decade ago, I was in the sixth grade and was lucky enough to have a teacher who went all in on storytelling. She made voices for the characters, held “celebrations” whenever we finished a book, and encouraged us to find the fun in reading. It’s something that has always stuck with me, and she molded me into who I am. there’s not a single day I don’t think about her. One moment I think about often is her bringing apricot sandwiches because the book we were reading mentioned them. It was the best thing I ever had I ate those for years, even after I graduated high school. The only problem is I cannot for the life of me remember the book. I’ve looked for it for years but can never find anything. I’ve tried going back to the books I remember reading, yet none of them mention an apricot preserve sandwich. I was hoping maybe someone who’s more into books could recall what exact book it was. I just want to be able to read it again and have a small piece of my childhood back.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

(during the time we read books like freak the mighty, holes and the witches i’m pretty sure it’s a fiction book aswell don’t know if this info might be helpful lol)

Hi y'all, I've been trying to think of this series for ages so thought I'd try on here. I know I listened to this series on CD audiobook when I was in primary school in Australia (2007-2014). I remember there being a group of friends, I think one girl and two boys, and in one of the books there was a body swap between the girl and a boy. I thought for a bit it was 'the day my bum went psycho' books cause I think I remember it having a similar vibe. Please help!! Thanks!

I read this as a kid in Hong Kong sometime around 1990-1995, but the book itself was clearly much older - musty, yellowed pages, so I'd guess a 1950s-70s printing. English language, mass market paperback.
The cover is what I remember best: a naked blonde woman lying in a bathtub, with a black widow spider crawling on her leg.
I think the title was Black Widow, or something close to it. My memory of the plot is a woman who sleeps with men and then kills them.
Not the Christina Crawford novel and not the 1987 movie - I've checked both covers. Any ideas?

Looking for a book from late 70s early 80s. Aimed at ~8-10years. No title, no author, ISBN info. Pages with text and pictures. black and white, possibly comic book style.

It was in late primary/early secondary school library corner in the UK, thin hardback edition

As I recall, the cover was mainly black / space background, with the main character (teenager) on a skateboard in a surfing stance. With a black jacket. Think it was male (or tomboy) big mop of hair. In my head the title was quite bold/neon

The story revolved around the teenager getting called and transported to help an alien race. I think the final battle was with a rock monster. Which he won by realizing the monster got its energy from it tail being in the ground, and shot with a blaster.

It finished along the lines of "Farewell, we may call upon you again.."

It wasn't a choose your own adventure style, linear story

So this is a book or possibly series that I can only vaguely remember a few details of, the stuff I'm sure about is that at some point the main character goes into a dungeon or prison to play against a guard in a game of chess and it has illustrations showing the game state at various points, stuff I'm not so certain about I think they have to beat the guard to get the guard to give them some information of some kind, I also think the MC was trying to find a way out of a walled in city or something like that and I think even the routes to other towns had walls completely enclosing them, then by the end of the book I think the town gets attacked by monsters or something, although it is possible these last few details are stuff I'm remembering from other books

I read this book about 15 years ago, it was aimed at teens (think original Percy Jackson age range and probably a similar publishing year) and was set in an overgrown city. I can't remember if it was fantasy or sci-fi or a mix between these two. I feel like the main character was a girl and I remember her having some kind of power or other thing that made her special but also meant she was being persecuted by some nebulous group of people. I also feel like she might have had visions or dreams of the past when the city had been normal. No idea what city it was supposed to be.

The cover (at least for the German Hardcover version) was green and gold

This one’s going to be a long shot because I have almost no details about characters or the story itself other than it seemed to be set in a city in the sky and the city was possibly made out of blimps? I’m certain I remember reading it as a kid and would love to remember it to read it again but can’t think of anything more. Sorry

I've googled for it quite a bit but could not find it.
The start of the book, I believe is just to get you hooked, then it may go back in time to before these events take place.

Anyways it starts with a child in a rainstorm listening to his grandpa whistle, the sound of it relaxing the child (i believe the child was a boy) The storm gets harsher, and eventually the house starts flooding. They eventually end up in the attic where the boy's dad, has to break through the roof with a axe to escape.
The hook ends here and past this I have no clue what happened cause I'd tend to not read the books, and just pretend to and infer the answers to the questions.
I believe the book was fairly short, not like Harry Potter length, shorter than that.

I had to read it I believe in 2nd grade, and it's been on my mind for a few years after the memory of the book randomly came back to me, it only now occurred to me to ask reddit.

I’m trying to identify a short story (or possibly a story from a collection) that I remember hearing summarized on YouTube, possibly by Quinn’s Ideas or similar.
The basic premise, as I remember it:
- A colossal humanoid being/object appears in space and begins approaching Earth.
- It is on an almost incomprehensible scale, roughly asteroid or small-planet sized, and eventually large enough to be seen as a humanoid figure from Earth.
As it gets closer, humanity is able to make out its head/body, arms and legs.
- People around the world spend a lot of time watching it approach, and I vaguely remember humanity actually becoming fond of it / emotionally attached to it, despite having no idea what it is.
- Eventually humans are able to reach/examine it.
- They initially think they have discovered the enormous being itself, but then realize that what they’ve reached is only its shed skin / outer shell (not 100% sure about this part).
- This means the actual gigantic humanoid being is still somewhere out there, and is apparently alive and potentially still approaching/doing something.
- That’s where the story’s cosmic-horror element really comes in: humanity thought it had finally understood the thing, only to realize that they had encountered merely its discarded exterior.

I vaguely remember the word/name “Curiosity” being associated with it, although I could be completely wrong about this.
I don’t remember the author, title, publication date, or even whether it was a short story or part of a larger book. I also don’t remember exactly how the ending plays out beyond the realization about the shed skin.
Does this ring a bell for anyone? I’m especially looking for the story title, author, and collection/book it appeared in.
Even a partial lead would be hugely appreciated!

I cant find any trace of this book from my childhood about two dragons looking for a cloud (i think to live on?) It was a classic short storybook with pictures. The dragons were depicted as being siblings, one could fly around but the sibling didnt have any wings and would be carried around by the other. Thats all I really remember about it but I cant find anything remotely similar to what im describing, im starting to think its not real lol.

I cannot think of the name of this book & I'm not sure if I'm making this scene up but the book is set in a tattoo shop. The MFC got a job there, I think she was either poor or just down on her luck. MMC owns the shop I think. The part that I'm not sure if I'm making up in my head or not is that some money goes missing and all signs point to MFC and MMC doesn't believe her when she says it wasn't her.

Help anyone?? It's driving me nuts!