This was over 25 years ago, I found it in the childrens section of my local library, loved it so much and failed to return it on time..I remember being dazzled by the illustrations.

Things I can remember:

• Fairytale for kids or maybe older children?
• Not a rhyming story, more like classically told
• Potentially from the 1980s or 1990s
• Lush illustrations, highly detailed with lots of color
• Art style was more realistic than cartoony or exaggerated-- my brain wants to say it was very similar to Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau
• Book cover was the mermaid half in and out of the water to the prince above her (he might have been in a boat?) she is holding a hand mirror
• It's not a straight up little mermaid retelling
• A hand mirror factors into the story- the prince tries to lure the mermaid out with a mirror and maybe a comb and potentially a third gift?

Li esse livro provavelmente em 2016. É sobre um diplomata que desaparece mas a filha não aceita e vai atrás. Me lembro que ela vai mudando de país pela Europa, provavelmente no leste europeu. A capa era no estilo passaporte, vinho com um brasão dourado. O nome era uma palavra só e teve uma sequência que a capa era azul marinho. Tem anos que procuro esse livro porque emprestei e não lembro o nome. O livro termina quando a menina encontra o pai.

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I probably read this book in 2016. It's about a diplomat who disappears, but his daughter doesn't accept it and goes looking for him. I remember she moves from country to country in Europe, probably in Eastern Europe. The cover was passport-style, burgundy with a gold coat of arms. The title was a single word, and there was a sequel where the cover was navy blue. I've been looking for this book for years because I lent it out and don't remember the title. The book ends when the girl finds her father.

I am unsure if I am remembering two books mushed together or one book in total but this is what I have so far.
Illustrated, somewhat dark-covered middle-grade novel available in a U.S. school library around 2015. A boy lives with his father or grandfather, who has exhausted the family’s savings publishing a memoir or novel that fails to sell. Facing the loss of their home, the boy enters a Millionaire-style television quiz show. A magical voice in his head converses with him and supplies answers. Earlier, the boy and a girl get jobs together at a bakery. They eat enchanted bread that makes each eater fall in love with the first person they see. The girl’s mother previously ate the same bread, fell for a stranger, and abandoned the family.

Any help would be appreciated. I know for certain it is not Just Add Magic or Jenny’s Ear.

Would be so happy to find this book.

Greetings! I've been after some of Friederich Lustig's works for a while.

Lustig was an Estonian monk who lived in Myanmar and published translations of Burmese poetry. I'd like to very much to read them since I really love Burmese poetry and translations are rare.

His Wikipedia page lists his works as follows:

"Burmese Classical Poems (1967, some say 1966), A Glimpse of Contemporary Burmese Poetry (1968), Burmese Poems through the Ages (1969), and the collection of his own poems, Fluttering Leaves: a collection of 60 poems (1970)."

While "Burmese Classical Poems" can be found easily through the internet archive, his other poetry translations are nowhere to be found.

Both his translations and the original poems are very beauiful, and it would be a pity for them to be lost.

There’s a book from our childhood where Andy pandy wallpapers the inside of his room and he gets stuck and has to find his way out. I don’t think it’s Andy Pandy paints his house as it’s a specific page and I don’t think I’ve seen it in this one. Please help! My very pregnant sister wants a copy for her child.

I read this book years ago and have tried, to no avail, to figure out what it was called. I remember that the MMC is a laird and his ancestor cursed the FMC's to die if they ever fell in love/had a baby, I think because FMC's ancestor rejected him? Not entirely sure on that. One scene I remember vividly is that the FMC's aunts cast a moonlight (?) spell that created a double of the FMC who attempted to seduce the MMC. I'm pretty sure he said no, because it didn't seem like FMC. They end up getting married at the end, which breaks the curse because a descendent of the curse-caster was 'foolish enough' to fall for someone in the family he cursed.

If anyone has any idea, that'd be so great!

My girlfriend is trying to find a book she had, all she can remember is it was bigger than A4, was a hardbacked choose your own adventure book with full illustrations in a sorta 1980s ish design for the art, she thinks the cover was white with dwarves or something similar on it, any ideas would be appreciated

Okay so I read this book a LOOONG time ago at a library near my house. Late 2000s/Early 2010s. It was a fiction novel for teenagers, I started reading it and got so invested.

I don't remember much details, only that there was this boy who wanted to know more about a lost city (I think it was the lost city of Z? I tried to look for books related to that city but couldn't find any), and he starts digging information in a library I think? Then he meets a girl around his age on that same library, and she gets invested in his search, she is willing to go and look for it? He asks her why and she tells him that she feels like if they already knew each other, like if they were friends already.

Later I think he gets contacted by his "lost sister" apparently, and they leave in a car, get in an accident and I think she died but he survived so he just started walking on the side of the road.

That's all I remember, as you can see, it's not much, I was trying to read the book in one sitting but we left the library and I never went back to look for the book.

Hopefully some good soul who knows more about books than

Can anyone help me find this horror teen book?

Almost twelve years ago, my dad suggested me a certain author he was reading at the moment and his books were so good that I was reading them on my small phone while I had plenty other physical books available in the multimedia library.

So what I remember is, that some of the stories are linked (same protagonist), the first bunch the events were centered in Latin America in the 1700s I guess or a little later, some books were centered in the United States before the independence. I think the author was french but I'm not 100% sure.

Your help will be very much welcome !