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Storm Mountain By Tom Birdseye. I thought about the title and the picture. It did look interesting and eye catching. The book was very interesting and suspenceful. This book is so good, it is about a girl named Kat and she wants to be the first cover of the new fashion line Glitter Girl! Her best friend Jewels is not into this kind of stuff at all and she is having some ups and lots of downs lately with Kat because of Glitter Girl that Kat is all caught up The Boundless By Kenneth Oppel.

I LOVE this book!!! I love that its a mixture of different types of books. It has something in it for everyone. It is action, adventure, fascination, mystery, and a little bit of romance between the Characters Maren and Will. The story has many messages. It also talks about the Canad The Fault Is All Yours.

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Please let me know the name!! I need help on a book title I have very limited plot story. I know the series of book was based on a girl and her family but follows the girl growing up. The book front page has the outline in silhouette of family linage and each book in series shows them getting older and added to family as events occur. The setting I think is civil war and they live in south but the have slaves but treat them well or pay them.

I know there house burns down. In the end the girl grows up and Marrys a northern but her dads best friend! Think there is like 8 books or so in series. Hi, I read a wattpad story. She is a medical student and has a dog and is a reckless driver and her her old Vespa and her mate is ruthless. I read a book like 7 years ago and I can never get it out my head.

It started off with a new girl at school who used to walk home the same way as this guy and he tried to walk slower to start conversation. They became good friends and then bf and gf their parents were part of the story. There was a shop they used to go too. He said her eyes were as blue as a pool or an ocean. I'm looking for a book for a friend. It was about a group of boys that escaped from a boys' camp and each one had a specific hat. These hats symbolized their inner struggle or something like that. A book about a group of boys that ran away from a boy's camp.

They each had a specific hat that symbolized their inner struggle or something. HI, I read a book in the early to mids titled, "Wasted". A mother I think wrote this book about her son and his desire to live in communes. I read a book a few years ago about a teen girl who could draw peoples thoughts. In the book she had alot of problems with drugs and such but had went to rehab and gotten better. I cant remember the name of the book at all. Read a book about a teen girl who can draw peoples thoughts and had trouble with drugs but had recovered when she went to rehab.

I cant remember the name for the life of me. I read this book or series a long time ago and I cannot figure out the name of it. I have tried countless google searches with no luck. It's a fiction book about this kid who lives in a super old abandoned town because everyone is moving to the big new city. They city is growing by itself everyday. The kid has powers and can levitate stuff and there are these twins that are super strong and good at athletics.

The kid goes to the city and he has a girl with him and they play in these athletic games or whatever and someone kills someone else with a metal ball on a chain. The cover of the book or one of them is a floating building. I read a book about three mice that's all I can remember aside from the cover, it had the three nice and a fluffy white cat with two different coloured eyes green and blue I believe and at the beginning of the book the mice get stuck in a pet shop and have to escape before they sold to a boy who wants to feed them to his python.

I think one of them due but I can't remember, please tell me the name if you know the book!! Okay i could use some help when I was around 10ish my aunt bought me a book, I can't for the life of me remember the title or anything about the other than there were Three nice and a white cat which two different coloured eyes on the cover the only other thing I can remember about it is the nice got stuck in a pet store early on and had to escape before being sold to a kid who wanted to feed them to his python.

If anyone can remember the name is really appreciate it. I read a book series? For the life of me I can't remember anything else about these books and it's driving up a wall. I read a book once about a girl who is in an accident and goes into a coma in hospital Whilst asleep she dreams about her dead pet cat who entertains her whilst she recovers my dreaming her up different scenarios from history. Her step father who she didn't get on with features heavily. Be is dead but pops up in her dreams. Before he died he was making a labyrinth in their garden with her mother.

Eventually her grandmother joins her as she also dies. Driving me mad, what is the name?! I read a book, possible series, in late 90ss early 00s about a girl who escaped a facility where she was GMOd, she has a barcode tattoo and possibly a dolphin necklace? I read a book as a tween late 90s. It was a series im pretty sure, it was about a chick with a barcode tattoo, a dolphin necklace, who had been GMOd as a warrior who escaped facility and then went back to save the others..

I had it as an Ebook and now I can't find it anywhere. I think it was called spelled or enchanted or curses and the cover had two hands reaching towards eachother with green fire wrapped around them. They were detectives and their boss bound then with a spell that wouldn't let them more then a few feet from eachother.

I just wish I could remember the name or at least the author so I could find it again! I think this book was called stay. I read a book in eighth grade; the book was about a young girl that was beautiful with black hair and her stepmother was jealous. This was pretty much like the modern version of Snow White.

Anyways, the stepmother, when younger, had red hair and a big nose, the kids called her a witch and ugly. The stepmother gained magic from another lady down the street which made her be beautiful. The stepmother revived a bird, which scared her classmates. Back to the main character, the girl plays in the school play and ends up falling in love with one of the cast members.

However, the guy is super short and pessimistic. Together, they have to fight the stepmother who brainwashes the father of the main character. Okay i remember reading a book about 5 or 6th grade. I believe it was about three children that are in an orphanage. They are the only kids in there. The rest of the kids are sent to the person who literally puts them in holes before Eating each of them.

The kids escape the orphanage and run somewhere. I have been searching for a book I read a long time ago. It's a Christmas time romance clean. A woman loses her daughter one Christmas and the following Christmas the child is looking down from heaven wishing her mother would smile again.

The mother leaves the city to get away from Christmas. Wrecks her car in a storm and is rescued by "Santa Claus" his name is Nick and he rescued her in a horse drawn sleigh. He takes her back to his place which is called the north pole. During her stay she learns that in his barn he is part of a group doing a Christmas play with some kids. I read the book so many times I can picture many points but it got lost in a move and I cannot remember the name.

Any help is great! Thank you and Merry Christmas! I am searching for a book I read in that was about a young girl looking for her father or he may have died.

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He was an inventor who left behind a lot of inventions that she used to find people. There was a character who would drain the blood of his enemies from their wrist in order to get them to be his mutations. Looking for an early 70's book- autobiography. Looking for an autobiography from the early '70's. Talks about her experiences training and showing her dog. Was available through scholastic.

Hi there as a 90s slacker a friend if mine told me about a comic novel he was reading about a producer making a film about the Wreck of the Deutschland. I think there was some problem with the nuns' costumes being too racy, or maybe safety issues, but I can't be sure. Happy times in Hammersmith pubs and semi derelict houses. I'm looking for a children's book from either the 's or late 70's. It was an illustrated storybook that was accompanied with an audio cassette of a man telling the story along with sound effects. As I was only a child when I had it I can't remember much about it apart from there was a young person with a small wooden dog possibly that was on wheels and they head into a dark forest covered in snow.

Sorry I know those details are very sketchy but thats all I can remember! I do remember loving the story so much and would love to get my hands on it again after all these years to read with my own children! If anyone can help I'd be forever grateful!! Kaung4life the last book you described sounds like Thirteen Days to Midnight, hope you find all your books!

Kaung4life Thirteen Days to Midnight sounds like the last book you described, good luck in finding all your books!! The events of this urban novel focuses on the husband after his wife kills herself in front of him and his mistress. Has anyone heard of this story? Hi I've been looking for this book hoping its not a figment of my imagination because the same year I checked it out from my middle school library, I went to go back to look for it and there was no record of it. I can't remember BIG details but its a girl and her best friend who want to train to become soldiers for their town?

And there also exist healing magic that everyone looks down upon. She visits a healing doctor in which she becomes somewhat interested in magic. I believe this magic involves talking to plants. The cover of the book, the print is a girl holding a leaf to her chest. The hard copy of the book is just a brown book with the outline of a leaf in gold. I'm looking for a book that I read in Middle or High school about a girl who draws her own comics and gets bullied a lot for it so she retreats to an online RPG to meet a guy on it who helps her feel better and then later finds out he's a guy who goes to her school and is one of the most popular guys in school.

The cover is white and has a drawing of 2 girls meeting in the middle of the book at the waist and are opposite to each other horizontally. One girl has long blonde hair and is an Elf and the other girl I think has brown hair. It is probably a teen novel. I am looking for a book that I read in highschool around This boy found a book or a box of some sort that allowed him to go to this like spirit world.

There he learned about this prophecy that he was involved in. Come to realize it was him and his sister that were needed to defeat the evil immortal. I think the sister had this blossoming relationship with one of the knowledge immortals or something like that. I have a hard time remembering the author, titke, and basic ploy of the book but I would really love to read the series again. I think it was like 3 or 4 books. I'd appreciate any help from the very vague description lol. I am looking for a book about these girls that live in a time where people are all broke and oppressed and like this girl and her best friend who pretended to be her sister to got to the same like boarding school and like the one girls parents had money and the friends didn't and so like they trick the school with like fake id bracelets and they like have their entire lives on like technology and the school takes it away from them and they go in to some remote place in the woods and they learn survival skills and like how to use guns but it turns out the school is really an enemy like spy training school and so they escape and like they meet some boys spend the night in a cabin that is also the enemy's and so they run away that's all I know tho so.

I need help finding a book I believe its a short series, maybe 2 or 3 books total. Its about a boy that was born and mother was killed while he was young. A man took him in and raised him. He grew up and had powers many people in the book have a particular power but most keep secret. He gets arrested and has to help a King's youngest son get landed or face execution. One of the King's advisors is also someone with powers and is trying to kill and take all other powers from those that have them.

This is a fantasy series and for the life of me cant remember the name or author. It's a harlequin romance book. Hero and heroine are in love and heroine becomes pregnant. Hero's father tries to pay her off. So heroine leaves hero and have the baby. Hero meets his son. I need help with a title and author of a book i read in the last year or so.. Female teacher possibly named Holly who is dumped before Christmas holiday break and a male teacher a widower possibly named Simon invites her to go to a cabin in Scotland with him.

It is a novel I believe it's called believers or something of the sort. The author I believe is a native American, and the book is very complex I didn't get far enough to find the underlying plot. It's filled with underworlds and corrupt cops and murder and there's a scene where children are in hell and helping each other survive while a corrupt god tortures them.

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In the scene with the kids in the beggining of the book, they escape from the back of a cop car and run for hours while they're epoxied zombies bodies fall apart. The book bounces around a timeline and different settings, making it like a puzzle. There's a scene where the cop talks about how his dad would show him a crop circle or something which led to the underworld, and another scene where they find the pieces of children sewed together in the back of a native Americans car that the cops framed or something.

It sounds fucked up but it's a great book and it's been years and I am unable to find it. I thought I'd take a shot and ask around. I don't believe it's a very famous author. And the cop had took a young girl to prom and killed her. The cop could smell a storm coming.

I read this book when I was younger. It's about a woman who is in a relation ship with a singer, but they fell apart because she fell in love with another man. I know the woman had a small animal. I am pretty sure the Title had the word diva in it, but I'm not completely sure. I read a book when I was younger It's about a woman in a relationship with a singer, but they drifted apart after a while. The woman fell in love with another man, but he left her because she couldn't make up her mind at first over which man to choose in the end she chose the second man.

I know she had a little dog. I'm pretty sure the title had to word diva in it, but i'm not entirely certain. I read a book maybe years ago about an older gentleman whose wife had died and he was just existing. The wife had a beautiful garden that was just overgrown and neglected and I think a college student or grandchild - maybe - came and was trying to get him to reconnect to life.

Seems there was a flood towards the end. I might be mixing books, but would love it if someone could help me remember this book. I read a book series in the early 's called Seven. There were seven books in the series, each titled the name of the main character I believe. I cannot find a mention of this series anywhere. The characters are all former childhood friends that share a secret and have drifted apart because of it, yet believe their ill-fortune all stems from the secret they each feel responsible for shooting a friend at a birthday party when they were 8, even though it was an accident.

I can't remember what all they go through, but I do remember a few of the books plot points: One girl was an Asian adopted as a baby by a white couple and is assaulted by a friend of her parents, one boy is half-black and paralyzed in an accident, another boy whose parents run a shelter and is a sports star at the high school struggles with being gay, another girl that is a cheerleader tries to hold onto her romance with her boyfriend that went to college but he uses her instead, the other boy is trying not to outdo his brother in football, but ends up playing and stealing his brother's scholarship or maybe just gets a better one.

I would like to get this book series to hold onto for my daughter when she is in high school because it did help me and others I knew that read it get through certain traumas and hardships in school. Trying to find a book where starts of with a young lad on his way to school and on his way be picks up random objects. These were used then at school. The elastic band to keep some artwork together and the safety pin was used to help pin a girls broken dress strap.

I read it when I was at school in the 90s. I read a book about 6 years ago, it was so good. Theres this book i read about 5 years ago and i cant remember the title or anything but it was about this boy who felt like he was being watched by these strange people. He starts having these dreams of horrid scenes and his best freind whom he has a crush on later finds out they are moments in history like when he had a dream of being on a slave ship.

Later on in the story the people who watch him reveal that they along with him have live basically foreverbut in different bodies and by different names.

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Well thats all i can remember about it at the moment but ide like to know what its called so i can read it again. I was reading a book i was admitted in a children's hospital back in And when I was there they had a LOT of books to read. There was a particular book I keep rememb but not a lot of details of it.

The book was about a kid who lived in a zoo. He never went to school, I think, and mer this kid that became his friend. She would play games with him and stuff. She tells him about a event of this big ball of knots that no one is able to until. And he comes along to try to untie it. That's all I can remember of it. I'm hoping someone here can help me find the book again.

I believe there was a story about this blind person going on a blind date with someone who was not blind, a character had two different eye colors, and another thing I remember are these two characters a guy and a girl who met in a church and there was this electric connection between them. Anything would be helpful, thank you. I partially read this book in college, someone had suggested, but never had the chance to finish it before returning it. I forgot the title, but I think the title was a double entendre. The book is a story being told by a primate, chimpanzee or ape.

The primate is discussing where we are heading as humans, a kind of warning about how we are impacting the environment. I do recall a metaphor where the primate describes a person believing they were flying a pedal powered craft, and the primate said, from the pilot's point of view they may believe they are flying even as we can observe they are falling, and until impact they may maintain their belief; something to that affect.

I wish I could remember the name of this book as I was enjoying it before I returned it. I read a short story in college as part of Southern gothic literature course. Story is from perspective of adolescent black boy who lives with his grandmother in Jim Crow south. I read a southern gothic short story in college that has always stuck in my mind except for the title. The girl has nothing but disdain for her uneducated poor family and neighbors. She wants the items to decorate her city dwelling and to impress her intellectual circle.

When a dog gets hydrophobia he becomes convinced that there are only bones. The dog becomes jealous when his mistress acquires a male admirer. I am looking for a romance book, I do not know the name or what year it was published just that I read it before Here is what I know. The heroine is from England and the hero is not English or American. She had a child with him, that he did not know about. The heroine was hit by a car while walking across the street, she is very sick, has pneumonia, but the hero thinks she is a drug addict because when DFS was called on her to check on the child, because they live in poverty the heroine, the DFS person noted a white powder on the counter top, which was actually flu powder, the heroine also had a knife because she was cutting carrots.

The hero hires a nurse to take care of the heroine also. My boyfriend read a book when he was about 15, he said it had the word game in the title. He does these things for money and the price increases with every new task he is given. Samantha - I don't know the title of the children's ghost story book you're looking for, but I do know the story about the marble knight is called Man Size in Marble, by Edith Nesbit. The one about the artist may be Schalken the Painter, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - the artist paints a portrait of a young woman called Rose.

Sorry I couldn't be more help! I'm trying to remember the name of this horror book my brother had in the 90's, i can vaguely remember the plot and the cover and nothing else. I don't know why i'm thinking font in the title was like goosebumps but this was from what i remember it was way to dark and graphic for that series. I am looking for a book I read a few years ago. I remember there being a unicorn somewhere.

Looking for a book I read a while ago about a blind woman who was raped while in college after the ordeal she isolates her self. One day a doctor shows up at her door about a surgery that could help her regain her eyesight. She's hesitant to trust him at first but eventually does.

Some of its a haze but I believe her sister was getting married and while preparing she discovers the man her sister is about to marry is the man that raped her. Looking for novel I read years ago about a man who is on a ship, does something wrong and is penalized to sail on ship after ship through many many years sailing with some of the most famous captains of all time and I believe some pirates..

Would love to read again if I could remember what book it was!!! Looking for a book that I read in the 70s about a Native American girl. It was basically about her life but what I remember is that she had a pet rabbit that she loved and which she eventually had to sacrifice to save a sibling's life. Looking for a book that I read in the 70s. It might have been a Scholastic book. It was about a young Native American girl and her life with her tribe.

What I remember best is that she had a pet rabbit that she loved and which she eventually had to sacrifice to save the life of her sibling.

American couple, baby and nanny on flight to Ireland when the plane crashes. The sole survivor is the baby, who is rescued and taken to Ireland. Story ends with the baby's brother meeting her and falling in love. American couple, baby and nanny on flight to Ireland. Plane crashes en route to Ireland, only the baby survives. American brother meets her years later and falls in love. Small book - Christmas theme - daughter becomes sick and a male visitor appears and acts as an angel to save the child. Twin sisters from the same coven, one is really without a soul as a bad woman who was murdered by a demon centuries bf, who betrayed him, split the soul of two sisters The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant but she has a vision of what the end will be.

The bad woman who is working with another, end up dying and only one of the two sisters can survive, as there is only one soul. Also, the coven is murdered, her sister is taken to hell, where she is impregnated by the devil or another demon, who is the one working with the bad woman. The 2nd sister is glamored into not remembering she had a twin during that time. It ends with the 2nd sister and her baby dying as she gives the remaining soul to her sister.

Some details may be a little mixed up. Twin sister comes home to join her coven, after a death in the family, and there are strange neighbors with powers, who murder someone, bury and glamor all evidence away. They take an interest in her and she ends up falling in love with the main male character, who I believe is part demon or something. There is a prophecy that this demon tries to prevent, which is by killing each woman reborn, of the love of his life who betrayed him and he inturn killed her, after she cursed him.

Lucifer or another demon, r working with this woman, and they entwines and split a soul between two sisters to hide the evidence of her rebirth, kill a lot of the coven and then steal and impregnate the other sister. She becomes preganant and the bad lady tries to kill her and the only way to save herself and her sister, is to sacrifice her life and that of her child, so her sister gets the good soul.

I think it somehow was entwined with the baby but some areas are vague. What is the name of book where girl is taken in by bird people and raised in a library and threatened by dragon people I know she had a friend that clung to her hair and her shoulders a lot. Please help with the name of the book? I cant remember the title if someone could please help i would appreciate it!! This may be a short story and it's about two young boys that are twins. The "bad" twin does bad stuff and the "good" twin tries to cover it up or be helpful But in the end there is a twist and you find out it's only one boy.

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I read this in an English high school class in the late 80's. For some reason I think of Ten Little Indians but not sure if that's part of it. I read a book in when I was a 6th grader about a guy who is struck by lightening and wakes up in a war. The war had Japanese or Vietnamese soldiers I forget which. I believe the story begins with him in the attic or basement of his house and looking through old war items his father had because he was a veteran.

He is struck by lightening when he is riding his bike. I am not sure of anything else but I remember this book being short. I'm looking for a book I read a few years ago when I wasn't quite a young adult. I remember that it had like a pink and green cover, it was a young adult novel. The summary of it is that there were 2 girls who were best friends but the best friend of the main character was getting "too popular" for the main character and they split ways because of that.

She became a bully towards her. Then our main character went to visit her dad at work and met his new assistant and they clicked. He brought her to parties and such without the dad knowing. They had a secret relationship. But then at the end, when it was her school dance, her former best friend was trying to take away her man because she didnt deserve someone so hot. But main character just laughed and her bf asked the former best friend to dance, knowing that former best friend was way to insecure and main character knew that he loved her for her and not because shes hot or unpopular. It was an illustrated childrens' book in the library of the small private Catholic school I attended til I was 10 and I can still remember the pictures so clearly, and have searched for almost two decades with no luck.

It has several short stories and there's faint blood splatter on nearly every page. There was a story about a couple who moved into a cottage in a small town -- the husband is warned about the stone knights in the church coming to life on a certain night and he goes to see if all is well, but only notices two fingers broken off one statue.

When he returns home, his wife is dead but in her clenched hand are the stone knight's fingers. There's one about a cowboy set to be hanged but his neck stretches crazy long and he runs around terrorizing everyone with his eyes bulged out until someone shoots him dead. There's one about a painter who meets this young woman and something about a rose and he paints her portrait and at the end finds out she was actually a ghost.

And one about a homeless? They move into a castle her aunt and some cousins are in but is maybe really supposed to belong to her and her sister now I think. She meets a handsome land owner, Adrian who has a black stallion. And then in the end they find out it was the crazy aunt the whole time trying to make her think the place was haunted and to drive her away.

I am looking for a book It's about a woman who owns a civic center for her neighborhood trying to keep kids off the streets. She teaches pole dancing classes to elderly women to. He is the leader of a rock band and is known as the dark prince. He chooses her as his mate when he is a child and now other races are hunting her to get to him.

Because if they kill her they can weaken him. That is the basics of the story I remember way more than that but I can't seem to find the book anywhere now. Can someone please help me? A short story about a Native American? After the week her brother and her are brought back home and while her brother is in bad shape after spending the week eating crickets and berries, she's healthy as ever. They ask how they did it and after she explains they don't consider it cheating since she did survive the week in the woods.

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She works at a marketing firm and rarely goes home to visit her father and step mom on the farm. She gets laid off and goes home to the farm to regroup. She ends up using her skills to help her parents create a vacation spot out of the farm. Her brochure gets the attention of the high powered executive she had worked for and eventually gets her an even better position at the marketing firm.

There's this book that I've been looking for. I remember a phrase on the front cover but not the title itself or the author. The phrase is something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love. In both lives, she looks exactly the same but her lives are very different. In one, she's really rich and has the ideal family and boyfriend. In the other, she's really poor and only lives with her mom.

Whenever she turns 18, her parents throw her a huge birthday party at her house. She's afraid that the party is going to last past midnight and experience the switch herself, which she's never done before. She's also met another guy in her other life where shes poor and starts to fall in love.

She starts contemplating what life she wants to stay in and plans to kill one of her selves just to stop the cycle. I don't remember the author or the title, just a phrase on the front cover. The phrase says something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love.

She switches at midnight every night while she's sleeping. Her 2 bodies are exactly the same, but her lives in each are very different. In the first one, she's really rich, has the ideal family, and has the perfect boyfriend. In the second, she is poor and only lives with her mom.

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In the life where shes poor, she's also met a man that she's starting to fall in love with. One day, in her second life, she injures her ankle. She's worried that she'll wake up in her other life with an injury as well, but the injury doesn't transfer over. She starts to contemplate what life she wants to live in and starts experimenting on her body.

She starts off by cutting herself to see if the injury transfers over. She dyes her hair to see if it also changes when she switches back and forth. She ends up in a mental hospital because her mom thinks she's suicidal from all the injuries and changes and stays there for a while. The man that she likes works there and she tells him about her switching. He doesn't believe her at first but she ends up proving it to him. A girl gets in trouble for partying. Gets in trouble with drugs. Judge sentences her to Africa to help at an orphanage. The kids get kidnapped sometimes to either be used for soldiers or sold.

A favourite book of mine 35 years ago Two sisters? One is grateful for life's basics. One wants the best of everything even though it is beyond her means and she loses it all. The poorer sister is the happier of the two. The book alternates between her perspective and the perspective of an alien living on the same planet. The alien finds her hiding in a cave, approaches her, and they tentatively eventually become mutuals. There was this one part I remember about the difference in a smile between species — humans smile by showing their teeth, which the alien viewed as threatening, and the aliens smiled by sticking out their tongues, which the girl didn't initially recognize as a smile.

Theres this book, that has a lot of short stories in it, and I remember reading it when i was in 5th grade. An example of one of the short stories was about this kid who wore shoes for a few months straight without taking them off to fend off bullies from killing a turtle. Another one of the short stories was about a boy who wanted to whiten his teath with whitneres, but in the end, his teath had liquified because he kept them on for too long. I am looking for a book with a sub plot of a dad working extra hard to buy his son a coat he wanted, that all the cool kids had.

Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — China Dolls by Lisa See. In , Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightcl An exciting new novel set in the "Chop Suey Circuit" of San Francisco right before World War II, from the beloved bestselling author of Snowflower and the Secret Fan and Shanghai Girls.

In , Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. At times their differences are pronounced, but the girls grow to depend on one another in order to fulfill their individual dreams.

Then, everything changes in a heartbeat with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly the government is sending innocent Japanese to internment camps under suspicion, and Ruby is one of them. But which of her friends betrayed her? Hardcover , pages. San Francisco, California , United States. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about China Dolls , please sign up.

Would you recommend this book to a teen who likes Dystopian and some Historical Fiction? I agree with Annalie I didn't relate to this booik. See all 5 questions about China Dolls…. Lists with This Book. Jun 07, Polly rated it it was ok. I'm a Lisa See fan. I preordered this book. I'm kind of disappointed in it. Something about it just wasn't up to her usual standard. I never really understood why these three girls were friends.

The only basis for that friendship seemed to be that they were all pretty, and that's it! Is that what the author intended? The jumping back and forth between narrators was disjointed - it didn't flow smoothly at all. And the actions of the characters didn't match what they were thinking, and what they w I'm a Lisa See fan. And the actions of the characters didn't match what they were thinking, and what they were thinking didn't match what they were saying.

This was just a weird mish-mash. All that said, the history of the time she's conveying is really really interesting. At the back of the book were some links to videos of the Chop Suey Circuit performers, plus references to other books that might put that time period into a truer perspective. View all 30 comments. Apr 09, Estela rated it it was amazing. I am, by all accounts, a fairly voracious reader. I love books of a variety of genres and writing styles. I do, of course, have preferences and pet peeves. One thing I do enjoy in fiction books is an ending that ties up loose ends.

While I appreciate a reader desiring to create their own version of a character's future, I highly value when an author delivers me to the end of the journey I embarked on when I cracked open the cover. And with certain novels, I become so intimate with characters and I am, by all accounts, a fairly voracious reader.

And with certain novels, I become so intimate with characters and so invested in their outcomes that an ambiguous ending results in a few curse words directed at the author and frustration that seems to permeate my day. Lisa See's novel is the story of Helen, Ruby, and Grace, three young women living in San Francisco in , who meet and become dancers at the Forbidden City, a nightclub near Chinatown. Though they come from very different backgrounds, the three become fast friends, navigating the world of prejudice of their Oriental backgrounds and their own dreams of the future while battling the rollercoaster of their pasts.

Helen comes from a privileged and highly respected family living in Chinatown's largest compound. Grace hails from the Midwest and went to San Francisco seeking a new life away from her physically and emotionally abusive father. Ruby is a seductive vixen with no qualms about using her wiles to get ahead. Each of them, though, harbors secrets which lead to chasms within their friendships and tumultuous years ahead. The novel is written in first person accounts by the three, each one narrating various different chapters throughout. It is easy to get wrapped up in their storylines, to cheer them on when they do good, to get frustrated when they are being naive, or to feel disdain when they do something offensive.

The story ends 50 years later, when the characters gather together for a 50th Anniversary show for the Forbidden City. It does a phenomenal job of resolving the fates of all the characters, tying up all the loose ends in a neat bow, just the way I like. View all 12 comments. Mar 20, Miri rated it did not like it Shelves: I tried to give this two stars, but the more I think about it, the worse it seems, and I just don't think it deserves the second star.

I'm a devoted Lisa See fan, and the premise was so intriguing, so I don't do this lightly. But I really did not like this book. Now I wonder if this is a deliberate style, because I've read Lisa See's other books and the writing was beautiful. But why would she c I tried to give this two stars, but the more I think about it, the worse it seems, and I just don't think it deserves the second star.

But why would she choose to write like this? Because it is terrible writing, it really is. For a moment I thought it might be that she wasn't good at writing first-person narrators, but no, all her other books had those Then I wondered if it was the time period, that she was going for some kind of historical feel—but Shanghai Girls takes place in the same setting, and it was beautifully written. True, some of it is a Chinese style, with the proverbs and hyphenated adjectives that I have to admit, I just hate. But the narration is a different thing, and I don't understand why such a good writer would intentionally use such a painfully unsophisticated style.

Could we really be such prima donnas? Around noon, Joe arrived, wanting to check on us. He looked just as unsettled as we felt: This is bad, very, very bad. Before Grace could answer, someone pounded on the door. Terror shot through my body as my woman parts constricted, yanking in fear up to my heart. I'll say this for Charlie: He was patient with them too, as long as they kept quiet. To put it mildly—ughhh. Here's the other thing, besides the writing: I hated the main characters. Hated them, especially Helen.

They've all been through terrible experiences, things that make me feel for them, make me willing to forgive a lot—but even so, each of them went beyond what I could tolerate. When I wasn't cringing at the writing or seething with rage over the racism of the 40s, I was furious about whatever new despicable thing a character had just done usually to one of the other protagonists. Why were those women friends for so many years??

Relationships can be convoluted things even in less extreme circumstances than our characters faced, so I don't doubt that such a friendship is possible. But I read nothing in that book that could justify their continued connection over the years, and with how horrifically they treated each other, I just couldn't care about any of them anymore. I read most of China Dolls in less than 24 hours, but what drove me was the desire to have finished it, to know whether it stayed as bad as it seemed to be.

For how excited I was to read it, for how much I've loved Lisa See's other books, this experience was a major disappointment. View all 10 comments. I am partial to historical fiction set in the 's that include WWII, and was really looking forward to reading this novel chosen by my local book-club, but it unfortunately fell short for me.

The story does have an interesting and engaging start, but as I became more acquainted with the deceitful main protagonists, Grace, Irene, and Ruby, their "so-called" friendship just did not click; and despite the secrets not yet revealed, I just did not especially care about these three self-absorbed da I am partial to historical fiction set in the 's that include WWII, and was really looking forward to reading this novel chosen by my local book-club, but it unfortunately fell short for me.

The story does have an interesting and engaging start, but as I became more acquainted with the deceitful main protagonists, Grace, Irene, and Ruby, their "so-called" friendship just did not click; and despite the secrets not yet revealed, I just did not especially care about these three self-absorbed dancers or the storyline that flatlined for me mid-way through. View all 13 comments. May 16, Nethra Ram rated it it was ok Shelves: Perhaps I took too long to finish reading this book; perhaps the intervals led to me getting bored over the story, I don't know.

I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt, seeing how many others have been captivated by this story. The book traces the life of three female Chinese dancers and a plethora of other characters through their time together performing at night clubs, being friends, turning enemies and trying to figure it all out.

For such a sparkling premise, I expected a moving tal Perhaps I took too long to finish reading this book; perhaps the intervals led to me getting bored over the story, I don't know. For such a sparkling premise, I expected a moving tale, or an emotionally wrought tale. I expected to feel sad, lost, poor, angry and furious in tow with each of the leading ladies. But I felt only a diluted version of these emotions, the narration starting lightly, and disappointing with not building up into a powerful force as the book picks up.

I felt all three characters sounded the same, with similar thought processes, contemplations and a readiness to accept anything thrown at them, reacting briefly and going back to being all lovey dovey. With the amount of crap each character has gone through, they have stunning backstories that bring them to the point where the book begins , they seem to have no depth, taking them at face value for the reactions they portray.

There are just too many incidents that come across as convenient and hence unconvincing. I feel this book would've worked better if it had been a second or third person narrative instead of first. Most of the time I was confused over who was speaking. That and tighter writing would've made this a stellar novel. For now though, it did not quite satisfy my appetite I absolutely love the cover! Feb 21, Elyse Walters rated it really liked it. NOT that other book I never heard of.

Each girl had their own issues - secrets - struggles - and gifts. When 3 wom Forgive me When 3 women have a very close friendship - it's a wonderful - but different dynamic than a close friendship with 1 other. My favorite parts were in S F.. Well, the SF Bay Area is home to me Juice is running out..

I couldn't stay away - even while on vacation - because when you are happy -- you want to share with people you care about This book had many great 'relationship' qualities.. Grace, Helen, and Ruby, three young women from very different backgrounds, meet by chance at the exclusive and glamorous Forbidden City nightclub. Grace Lee, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest with nothing but heartache, talent, and a pair of dancing shoes. Helen Fong lives with her extended family in Chinatown, where her traditional parents insist that she guard her reputation like a piece of jade.

The stunning Ruby Tom challenges the boundaries of convention at every turn with her defiant attitude and no-holds-barred ambition. The girls become fast friends, relying on one another through unexpected challenges and shifting fortunes. When their dark secrets are exposed and the invisible thread of fate binds them even tighter, they find the strength and resilience to reach for their dreams. But after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, paranoia and suspicion threaten to destroy their lives, and a shocking act of betrayal changes everything.

This is not any ordinary story about friendship and love, instead it's a story that traces friendship across caste and race even though the friendship is layered with hate, revenge and greed. Grace, Helen and Ruby- three Chinese girls, among whom one lied about her identity since it was the period when America was at war with Japan. So revealing your real identity as a Japanses would have turned fatal for your existence even though you were born in the United States. And all three belong from a torn up past and homes.

Grace- survived from the abuses of her father in Ohio by running away to San Fransisco and earning a living by becoming a dancer. Unfortunately her attempts of being a dancer proved futile when people rejected her because of her Oriental face, which finally leads her to The Forbidden City, where she meets Helen. Together they audition for a show in a club where they meet another Oriental girl, Ruby.

Soon they become friends, and eventually becomes soul sisters, until Ruby's promiscuity forces Grace to leave town thus weakening the bond of friendship. More challenges like attack on Pearl Harbor to stealing one's role in a feature film to harboring secrets to betrayal forces them to move apart from one another and threatens to destroy their lives. After reading this book, all I can say that Lisa See is an incredible author, and since I always love to read books about Chinese culture and history, I loved reading this book which captivated my mind with it's Chinese grace from the very first page.

Being of Chinese origin, See crafted this novel about Chinese culture and family structure with ease and vividness. Moreover, the three characters belong from three different backgrounds, one is American born Chinese and never followed her original culture, one is completely Chinese, and the other act as a Chinese yet born in America. The writing is fantastic layered with that authentic oriental tone thus creating a likely atmosphere for the readers.

The prose is articulate and flawless, thus keeping us engaged to the core of the story. What really kept me on the edge was Grace, Helen and Ruby's friendship of how their quick friendship turning into something promising and something even stronger than blood to how it was dissipating and fading into nothingness. The timeline that the author drew in their plot is evocative and striking enough to take us back in time in the year the period when Japan attacked America. The author also sheds light on the backdrops of this oriental culture, of how women were demeaned in their every decisions.

Not only that the author captured the 40s night club era when too much flair, frill, loud music and lights were so into the time. The glamor in and outside the Chinese bars, restaurants and clubs in America was distinctly portrayed. The narrative is really since since each chapter is a first person account of each primary characters- Grace, Ruby and Helen.

Moreover, the conversation between the girls is free-flowing. Although it's a personal person narrative plot, the author leaves us enough space to look at the story through our own eyes, thus provoking our thoughts. The characters reflect the grace, charm and the pain of their time period very distinctly and the author molded each character very precisely from one another with enough depth, pain, emotions and flaws.