I am looking for a book with a Jack Russell Terrier named Harley, a homeless girl with white hair the main character called December because he had a friend that was named after his birthday.
He had a mother who worked in a diner and gave them comp food and the girl December did not want to put ketchup on her burger to taste the beefy flavour of it more.
There are several other books I need to find, but I forgot the descriptions of them.

My mother, once upon a time, had several books she loved very much, but lost in a cross-country move. Since then, she has forgotten anything about them except for a few plot points, but there is a particular one she wants to rediscover (and that I would like to buy for her, if I can).

Three children -- possibly a brother and two sisters -- are very bratty, very naughty, and they are sent to Mother Goose Land -- via a portal? Or a tree? -- to be taught valuable lessons (sharing, caring, manners, etc.). It was not a picture book, but rather a chapter book, and my mother does not remember there being illustrations (though there may have been in another edition than what she had). When they have taken to heart the lessons they've learned, they come home the same way they arrived in Mother Goose Land, and live much more happily than they had before.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks,
AngelVixen :-)
ETA: Though I wish it was, it's not any of Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree books, as some have helpfully suggested.

i desperately want to remember this book but i can't recall anything about it.

i vaguely remember it was about a group of girls, and a group of boys and it was set in the 1880s. a very louisa may alcott type of novel. it was about them growing up and learning to be good people and coming of age and such. i'm not sure if it WAS by L.M.A because i checked a list of her books and it doesn't seem to be any one of them.

i think there was a girl who was an invalid.
i also think there was a death in the book, of one of the boys/girls.

i remember one line, about one of the girls sitting under a trellis or something of calla-lilies (or some white lily), and one of the boys looked at her and thought to himself that it looked like the calla lily was emptying its fragrance upon her as she sat underneath it. and i think he fell in love with her.

i know how the cover looks like, - it was pale-ish green with a sort of pattern and there was an oval shaped picture on it, surrounded by a gold border. the picture was of some boys and girls seated at rectangular table. i'm not sure this will help, since covers tend to vary, but i do hope somebody will remember it!

please help! i'm so sorry i can't be any more specific. thank you so much!

 Anybody know about a short story that featured a man who bought a puppy, hur the puppy intentionally, then nursed the puppy back to health?  And then kept repeating this loving cycle?

Thanks much!

I'm looking for a series of books published in the late 80s. I remember reading some of them in 1988, at least. I think each book was titled after the female protagonist, who always had to choose between two different men. I think they were always shown on the cover--the woman/girl a larger picture in the middle and the men smaller pictures on either side of her. Each story took place in a different time period, and I think one was on the Titanic where the woman had to choose between a rich man and a poor man. I think the titles were like "Rebecca" and "Emily" and that type of thing. Does this ring a bell for anyone? I'm having a hard time because I can't remember any titles for certain, the plots were pretty cliche and I think they may have all been written by different authors. They were sort of my intro to pre-teen romance books though, and I'd like to find them again.

I'm hoping someone can recognise this book, I read it a good decade ago and have never been able to track it down. The main character can travel through time, he doesn't need a machine or any fancy experiments, it just seems to be a natural talent. When he's growing up, an older man comes to visit and takes him on trips through time - later in the book, it becomes clear that it was our time traveller himself, visiting his younger self.

He doesn't just pop in and out of various timelines though, he ends up living there, I remember one section where he's in some Middle Eastern type setting, maybe 8th century and then somehow ends up in a colony somewhere on another planet. I think someone was chasing him, or there were other time travellers who wanted to control him - that's a bit hazy. I think his name was Jack, and I want to say that the book was set in Britain but I might have misremembered that.

Any ideas?

I'm going crazy. I can't really describe much of this book,
but I read it quite a few years ago. It was about someone who had twins on or around her 16th birthday, and the twins had names that started with either a C or a K, but one of them I *think* had the same name as their Mom. =/

I know it isn't much information, but it's ALL I can remember, and I'm trying SO hard to find it. :(
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

An older woman lives in a house with a guesthouse in the back she rents out.
A young woman moves in and tries to become friends with her.
A guy, who was the boyfriend of the previous tenant (who mysteriously disappeared) is hanging around hoping he can find out what happened to his missing girlfriend.
Cut for major spoiler.
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Okay, my brother checked this book out of the library once 4-5 yrs ago and I just happened to read it.  I don't remember much at all but I do remember that I loved the book and I am pretty sure it has a sequel.  At the beginning of the book a girl is going to an Island on a ship that her people don't know much about I think but they are going either for some special trees or their leaves or possibly their fruit.  But I think there is a legend about the Island that there are dragons or something else that use to live there.  She wanders off meets a man and eventually finds out that he is a dragon.  I think he was the dragon (king) leader.  I do remember for a fact that the dragons were worried because they were not breeding as much for several hundred years (and yes they live a VERY long time) and their population was down.  Anyway the dragons are in trouble and the girl tries to help them and either she or the king dies but they come back, that part is fuzzy but i know it happens.  I don't remember if the first book is just on the island or not but I don't think so I think there is a lot more to it.  I do know that she eventually goes back to her farm and her father.  I think at the end of the book she is at the farm and dragon dude asks her to marry him and she says yes blah blah blah...

I know that isn't much help or much to go on but any help is very welcome.  I have been searching for this book for years and could probably go straight to it in the library but it is two states away now.

The book is a fantasy book and set in an original world and set in sometime like the middle ages. It is not some girl from NY.

Please Please Please help me this has been driving me crazy for 5 years now!            Thank You!!

ETA: Book is _Song In the Silence_ by Elizabeth Kerner.

The recent post about a girl going from France to Canada in the 1700s made me think of a book that I read ages ago and it's been bugging me for ages that I can't remember it... so it finally occurred to me to actually, you know, post here myself and see if anyone can help.

It would have been set in about the 1700s as well and also involved the sea voyage of a girl of probably 18 or so to Canada - I believe from Scotland. It was young adult, or possibly even children's, and not very long. The only bit that really sticks out is that the girl's brother (or possibly another male relative, or friend) was already in Canada, and I think she had some kind of psychic feeling that he was in trouble, so she decided to rush to his side... by boat from Scotland.

**possible spoiler if I have my facts right** - in white so highlight (don't wanna ruin it for anyone else who decides they want to read the book if/when its title is figured out!)

And I am pretty sure that she took so long to get to Canada that by the time she got there he was already dead. So her psychic feeling was right after all. Yay?

Her name might have been Mary. But it also might not have been. I didn't particularly love it, but it's annoying me that I have NO idea what book it is!

This is a REALLY weird thing to ask, but... it's been driving me crazy forever.

I remember literally nothing about this book (which I read when I was in elementary school, in the early '90s) except the following.

( Cut for nasty grade-school homophobia. )

Yeah, it probably got banned right after I read it. But does anyone have any idea what it might have been?

Looking for a book I read about a decade ago. All I can remember is that there was a young man (a student I think) who found himself transported into the past in an alternate reality (or something of that nature) where the words he spoke were magic.
(Might have been Latin words = magic words, not sure.)

DAVID TENNANT IS GOING TO BE AT COMIC-CON AND NO ONE TOLD ME!!!

And there's gonna be Neil Gaiman, and Hayao Mizazaki and... well I know there are tons more but I'm not going!!  *cries in a corner about not being able to go to her heaven on Earth*  One day I'll attend Comic-Con.  ONE DAY!!

It's a book about a girl who comes to Canada from France to marry a guy, in the 1700's or something (back when they needed women in Canada. they would get a trunk of supplies and I think they were called 'daughters of france'). (I think she actually decided to take another girl's place.) She tells the girls a story about her when she was little and a guy on a white horse rescues her (and she throws something in his eyes and they sting?) and they all think it's really romantic. She meets the guy she's going to marry and she looks just like his dead wife. he calls her his wife's name (amy?) when he think she is drowning. At the end he thinks her and his kids were scalped by natives because she hangs her hair in a tree so the natives would think they were already killed. She hides with the kids in a root cellar. Earlier in the book she pretends to be a man so she can claim some land or something, and she also meets the guy who rescued her when she was little.
I'm pretty sure it was a Canadian book. It's at least 5 years old. The cover was blue with a drawing of a girl? I think? I've been thinking and thinking but i can't remember the name :( Any help would be appreciated :)

does anyone know of a command-line tool in debian that you can use to get the dimensions (in pixels) of an image?

So here's a bit of a twist: my friend is trying to figure out the title of a book not from the past but from the future.

Earlier this year (probably spring or early summer) she read a synopsis or review of a soon-to-be published book that she recalls as "sprawling, Americana, multi-generational fiction". She further recalls that its author was Frank McCourt, which is where she started this morning when she decided she wanted to order a copy, but came up with nothing. So, either it's been delayed and has disappeared from Amazon accordingly, or it it was never Frank McCourt's book in the first place, which is more likely.

A search of Amazon's upcoming fiction titles month-by-month from now through October doesn't yield any results, so I told her I'd post here.

Does anyone recall reading a review/synopsis about a book like this? (She can't recall where she read it, either, so that's no help.)

Thanks!

This one I'm actually trying to find on my mother's behalf so I, myself, know nothing about it. I'll be having to relay the titles to her to see if it's right.

What she remembers from the book is that it was futuristic set and people lived on planet with alien structure made of green stone that could cause telepathy. The only other real fact she remembers is that it involved some sort of living dust bunny creatures. It's a series of books and she's pretty sure the main character was male.

Any idea what she might be thinking of?

I don't remember anything about this book, not even the plot.

The one thing that stood out to me though was a short conversation.

I remember the main character--a girl, I'm sure of this--saying something sweetly. The boy she was talking to replied, and she (pretty sure this isn't word-by-word) "injected more sugar into [her] voice". I distinctly know the boy replies with, "When you have that much confection in your voice, you're out to kill," or something similar to that.

At first, I thought it was Jellicoe Road, but now I know it's not. I think it may be "Something, Maybe" by Elizabeth Scott, but as I do not have the book, I'm not sure. I am absolutely sure that the girl and the boy fall in love though.

Any help would be appreciated!

schad wasn't grooming himself well (the vet said he's old, fat, and lazy), so this morning he went to the groomer for a lion cut. she said he was a doll and she liked working on him. i was expecting blood.








this next one is pretty blurry, but it was the best side standing shot i could get:

What do you need to do to prove your and even bigger geek than anyone else?

Sign up for the Dragon*Con attempt at breaking the Guiness World Record for the largest Thriller dance every recorded.

It's only bee a couple days now since the announcement was made at various Dragon*con places, and you need over 250 people to break the record. Already 80+ people have signed up, and with a convention that has over 30,000 attendies you can bet a lot of people will be joining on on the day it takes place.  I can't wait. Question is will I be in zombie make-up or not... I so want to now.

Maybe I'll do the makeup on top of my American McGee's Alice costume to be Zombie Alice.  Steven and Scott had already planned to go as Marvel Zombies superheroes.

You can bet this will make youtube easiler, what with most of the people already going to be in random costumes, zombie or not.  Aparently we already have a dragon*rider from Pern in the midsts.  Zombie Dragonrider!  Zombie... *goes off on a zombie rant* 

Oooo, I wonder if there are gonna be a group of Umbrella Corp people at Dragon*con.  That'd be awesome too.

God damn do I love Dragon*con.