r/Findabook

So I want to read his book but I dont want to contribute ANY money towards him. I find it hard to read from my phone screen, and harder again on my laptop.

I was wondering if anyone knows where I can either buy the book secondhand (money only goes back to a random individual who once had this book)? Or perhaps an A4-printing-friendly PDF version? That way I can read from a physical page and maybe even use my screen reader too (ADHD + dyslexia combo means visual + audio is needed sometimes).

I'm interested in true crime. I know he tells horrid stories of his past in that book. I'm going down the rabbit hole and it is dark. I wanna read the words he wrote so plainly all those years ago, I want to see if he is twisting stories to make himself seem less awful, I want to see who even edited that book and allowed it to go to print.

If it comes to it, I will just not buy his book if buying a new copy is the most reliable way to get my hands on it, and put my curiosities to bed. Thank you for any help!

Read this in high school in the mid 1970s. Female lead character. For some reason - family issues, divorce maybe? - she moves to a school in a far distant state for one year, I think her junior or senior year? She feels like a fish out of water and is homesick. She struggles in Biology class, especially. I think she ends up meeting a boy who she gets involved with who helps her out of her shell and help her feel like she belongs. She finds a peer group too. At the end of the book, she realizes she has grown and can adjust better. She even realizes she has learned something useful from Biology - she explains the reason that cutting a carrot lengthwise is better (preserves the cell structure). This book has stuck with me for 50 years, and I always think of it when I cut carrots! Would love to find the title and track it down. It was NOT a series.

Y'all I'm tryna find this horror book that I read as a kid but none of the search results are bringing me the right book. It's like about these two kids who are beset upon by a bunch of monsters because their uncle is a monster hunter or something. It's filled with a bunch of pictures of creepy monsters that are superimposed onto real photos and then at the end the uncle turns into a Jack Russell Terrier. The uncle also looks like a Tim Burton's Houdini and in the photos he's portrayed by someone in live-action. Please help me!

in my head this is from one of the david lubar weenies books but i have tried to find summaries of them and can’t find anything similar to it so i think i’m wrong. the story is: there’s a bully at a school who likes to pick on like weaker kids and nerds. he finds a flier for a school for kids that get bullied to go to like to be safe or something like that and is like wow this is a perfect opportunity i can go and pick on all of these easy targets. so he transfers to that school but when he gets there it turns out that it was a trap and all of the bullies from all different schools got the same flier and now the schools are safe from the bullies and the original bully is now going to be bullied by bigger bullies. it’s like a there’s always bigger fish in the sea lesson. someone please help i’ve been trying to find this for like years and at this point think maybe i just dreamt it or something because i can’t find a single thing about it.

So I heard about this book AGES ago and thought I had purchased it, but turns out I purchased something entirely different.

Basically, the book followed an elderly lady in a small town where a rumor had spread that she killed someone. She decided it was easier (and better) to let the rumor spread, but people eventually start going to her for advice on how to get away with murder and to help them do it, and chaos ensues.

If anyone knows the name, please let me know!

I just assumed it would be a folio society Arabian Nights, but did not find it.

Is the partial enough for one of the eagle eyed amongst you? Horse, crescent, old Arab type city with minarets.

This was a science fiction book that followed multiple stories that all related to the advancement of technology. The chapters would switch perspectives between the stories and from what I remember, the stories did not converge (could be wrong about that though).

Here’s the kicker, I only really remember one story. It followed a boy that was genetically modified to be part monkey/chimpanzee. In this story, he was trying to assimilate into normal life. During a particularly climactic part of the story, he started flinging poo at some bullies.

There were definitely other stories in this book, but that’s the only one I remember. I read this book back in the late 2000s/early 2010s. The only other detail I remember was the cover was white with a silhouette of a person/monkey. Sorry it’s not too much detail, but hoping the scifi/book community can help me remember this 😅

My Mum described a book she’s reading and I want to read it myself to surprise her and have something fun to talk about. Asking her what the book was called would give the surprise away. Here’s everything I remember.

The main character is an educated maidservant to this eccentric author, and was in an emotional affair with his first wife before she died. After she died she stuck around to care for their children. Then he remarried a poor uneducated woman.

The story is about the two of them attending a trial where a woman put out a big reward for finding her lost son and this obvious imposter was declared her son and then she died. So the courts are trying to decide if he gets the money.

The trial is like rich vs poor and then the two women are also “one is poor, one is rich” kind of dynamic. Sounds interesting.

I know it’s historical fiction but I’m not sure of the exact time period. I also know it was written by a woman.

I thought it was written by Aliya Whiteley but I couldn’t find anything in her bibliography that sounded like this. I say that because my Mum mentioned she read two books by this author, and I thought the first book she mentioned was “The Beauty”. But I might be misremembering?

I read this book in elementary school with my mom and we both loved and and have been trying to find it for literal YEARS!

I also believe the book is red. The title of this post is what i remember/ presume was the main plot. I also faintly remember something about like a bridge and the dad being in a car chase over said bridge in the woods and all the people in town watching in on the news in the town bar. This is a very minor detail but i remember the main character (who was a young girl) her mom had a new boyfriend and said main character couldn’t stand him. One of the main reason was because he would “pour himself a glass of milk” when her dad would just “take a swig” from the carton. If anyone can find this book I will seriously be indebted to you for the rest of my life lol thank you!!

Hi guys!

I feel like I read a book as kid, about other kids who'd developed 'powers' because of the Thalidomide their parents took during pregnancy?

I don't remember anything else about it, but hopefully this rings a bell for someone else! I've been thinking of it for a decade now or so and would love to finally have an answer.

Help! I work in a library and I have a patron (kiddo) who wants a book they used to check out and the most information I have is that it is red. And the author's name MIGHT be Beth or Jane. It has crafts in it like bracelet making, acrylic painting, and other stuff. I know its a stretch but thank you!

Update: She also mentioned that the letters spelling out the title were crafts? So the letters looked like little sewing projects and things like that? And pom poms.

Hoping that someone out there has the same disjointed memory of this book as i do. Much of this is vague, but i know some things. Fantasy- adjacent, read it in 1995-2005. Set on Earth, but an Earth that has had either a magical uprising or a dimensional shattering, so that fantasy creatures roam. Pretty sure there were cyclopses and vampires. I believe at one point a character travels to some major pre-apocalypse cities like Paris.

The cover was mainly red, and i believe it was intended to be the first in a series, titled broken lands or broken world or shattered lands, or something? I know what its not. Its not :

- Vampire Earth series

- Shatttered Suns

Its been on the tip of my memory for 20+ years. Help me redditors!