How to find books you've forgot the name of?

[Chantilyvamp]

Help...does anyone know anywhere online that you can search for books by character and setting location?

I've been searching google but have found crap all...

I'm trying to find a couple of my favorite books but cant remember the name of them. And no use asking my mom as all my books from that time burned in the house fire.

 

[cloudy]

Help...does anyone know anywhere online that you can search for books by character and setting location?

I've been searching google but have found crap all...

I'm trying to find a couple of my favorite books but cant remember the name of them. And no use asking my mom as all my books from that time burned in the house fire.

Try Amazon search? You may have to look through quite a lot, but I've found books that way.

Good luck.

 

[buxxxom]

Cloudy beat me to it, but I was going to say Amazon, too. Also, how about asking at your local library? The librarians there may be able to steer you to genres or authors that can narrow your search.

 

[Stella_Omega]

If you remember a scrap of the text, try googling that. I just found the etext of E. Nesbit's "The Story of The Amulet" (And two other Nesbit books as well) because I was looking for the completion of the phrase "Stared out of [countenance]"

Would those books, by any chance, be some that you're looking for? Because this is a fabulous resource!

 

[Equinoxe]

I have been trying to find the name of a book that I had when I was a child for years now, so I share your frustration.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I have been trying to find the name of a book that I had when I was a child for years now, so I share your frustration.

what was it? I love children's literature, it's vaguely possible...


By the way, my English friends- do any of you remember the books of Elanor Farjeon?

 

[angelicminx]

Help...does anyone know anywhere online that you can search for books by character and setting location?

I've been searching google but have found crap all...

I'm trying to find a couple of my favorite books but cant remember the name of them. And no use asking my mom as all my books from that time burned in the house fire.

What are you looking for? There's a good chance that someone here may know the title.

 

[oggbashan]

Abebooks

1. Go to abebooks.com and type in the remembered part in the keyword field.

2. Ask Og.

3. Ask the AH membership.

Og

PS Yes, I remember Eleanor Fargeon. My wife has some of her books.

 

[Stella_Omega]

...
Og

PS Yes, I remember Eleanor Fargeon. My wife has some of her books.

I have two in my possession; "The Little Bookroom" and "Martin Pippin in the Daisy Field"
I would LOVE to find her novelettes, and the other Martin Pippin book- as well as any other anthologies.

I had them from my local library as a child. But then the Librarians' Guild decided that she was "too florid' for children to enjoy, and her books were removed from the shelves. Grr!

(edited to say; I just looked- they're all at alibris.com )

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Ok I'll give you the details that I remember. Romance novel that came out 1990 or so...main character his name was Dane. The girl I cant remember her name...she was the housekeepers daughter i think. She came back from University and her, the mother, dane and one other brother lived on a ranch outside of dallas. The other brother (cant think of the name either loved fast expensive cars.

I have no author and I cant remeber to many specifics of the text as it was a long time ago. Just the house keepers daughter went to work for them and the other brother played a trick on dane and her by putting them in bed together while they were drunk.

Not a lot and I dont know why I have the sudden become obssesed with finding that book

Edit: hell maybe it was set outside austin...i just got myself confused.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ok I'll give you the details that I remember. Romance novel that came out 1990 or so...main character his name was Dane. The girl I cant remember her name...she was the housekeepers daughter i think. She came back from University and her, the mother, dane and one other brother lived on a ranch outside of dallas. The other brother (cant think of the name either loved fast expensive cars.

I have no author and I cant remeber to many specifics of the text as it was a long time ago. Just the house keepers daughter went to work for them and the other brother played a trick on dane and her by putting them in bed together while they were drunk.

Not a lot and I dont know why I have the sudden become obssesed with finding that book

Edit: hell maybe it was set outside austin...i just got myself confused.

hmm, maybe a Romance Reader's forum somewhere?

The things are so ephemeral, most of them, and they just don't show on the mainstream literary radar...

I have a couple of those kinds of fruitless searches myself!

 

[oggbashan]

I did a search for dane+dallas+ranch+housekeeper+novel and had thousands of hits...

A 1990 novel is too new for me.

Og

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Well I didnt find that specific book but i found a whole lot of others that I loved so I'm giving up for the moment.

There was at least 3 diana palmer books i recognized when hunting an old book club list from 1989-1991.

I had a *coughs* serious thing for texas boys at the time I was reading these

 

[starrkers]

I have been trying to find the name of a book that I had when I was a child for years now, so I share your frustration.

Me too. I took the book to school to be read to the class by the teacher and someone souvenired it.
All I remember is it was about a pixie at the bottom of the garden, the title was the name of said pixie and the book was "old" to an 8 yr old in the 1960s.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I spent 30 minutes trying to find a sci fi book I read 25 years ago about a very distant future where technology had advanced to such a degree that any fantasy could be realized (including changing your body at will into whatever form desired, and creating "temporary" beings that to all intents and purposes were human beings that could be used for any imaginable purpose, but without raising any moral issues [I forget exactly how the author pulled that off]); every material need was taken care of; no work was required; and people essentially lived forever, or until they chose to die. The challenge was to find some meaning in life, rather than be a bottomless dilletante. I think there was a character named Jared, which was a keyword search term I tried. I remember one character reproduced a vehicle that aped an internal combustion car of ancient history, and there was a discussion about how absurd those ancients had been to use up vast quantities of useful hydrocarbons for fuel, and how their vehicles were so inefficient that they actually had radiators to dissipate the wasted energy. Given the advanced (and invisible) technology it was a merely academic discussion, however; it wasn't like anyone was suffering any hardship due the folly of the ancients.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I spent 30 minutes trying to find a sci fi book I read 25 years ago about a very distant future where technology had advanced to such a degree that any fantasy could be realized (including changing your body at will into whatever form desired, and creating "temporary" beings that to all intents and purposes were human beings that could be used for any imaginable purpose, but without raising any moral issues [I forget exactly how the author pulled that off]); every material need was taken care of; no work was required; and people essentially lived forever, or until they chose to die. The challenge was to find some meaning in life, rather than be a bottomless dilletante. I think there was a character named Jared, which was a keyword search term I tried. I remember one character reproduced a vehicle that aped an internal combustion car of ancient history, and there was a discussion about how absurd those ancients had been to use up vast quantities of useful hydrocarbons for fuel, and how their vehicles were so inefficient that they actually had radiators to dissipate the wasted energy. Given the advanced (and invisible) technology it was a merely academic discussion, however; it wasn't like anyone was suffering any hardship due the folly of the ancients.

Damn, that is so familiar!
I wonder if that's one of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books- maybe This one

 

[starrkers]

Damn, that is so familiar!
I wonder if that's one of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books- maybe This one

Doesn't sound quite right for Moorcock - his usually had some mediaeval style twist somewhere, but I haven't read them all.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

I spent 30 minutes trying to find a sci fi book I read 25 years ago about a very distant future where technology had advanced to such a degree that any fantasy could be realized (including changing your body at will into whatever form desired, and creating "temporary" beings that to all intents and purposes were human beings that could be used for any imaginable purpose, but without raising any moral issues [I forget exactly how the author pulled that off]); every material need was taken care of; no work was required; and people essentially lived forever, or until they chose to die. The challenge was to find some meaning in life, rather than be a bottomless dilletante. I think there was a character named Jared, which was a keyword search term I tried. I remember one character reproduced a vehicle that aped an internal combustion car of ancient history, and there was a discussion about how absurd those ancients had been to use up vast quantities of useful hydrocarbons for fuel, and how their vehicles were so inefficient that they actually had radiators to dissipate the wasted energy. Given the advanced (and invisible) technology it was a merely academic discussion, however; it wasn't like anyone was suffering any hardship due the folly of the ancients.

*giggles* Rox if you find it I am now interested in reading it so let me know!

Thanks all for all the suggestions and last night I found it. It was a Diane Palmer book and it was put out by silhoutte (sp?). I have since ordered the thing off of ebay and it should be here by monday

I however had the guys name wrong it was matt not dane...ah well it was such a long time ago.

Now to find my pirate book, that should prove even more interesting as I have even less details

 

[angelicminx]

*giggles* Rox if you find it I am now interested in reading it so let me know!

Thanks all for all the suggestions and last night I found it. It was a Diane Palmer book and it was put out by silhoutte (sp?). I have since ordered the thing off of ebay and it should be here by monday

I however had the guys name wrong it was matt not dane...ah well it was such a long time ago.

Now to find my pirate book, that should prove even more interesting as I have even less details

Congrats on finding it!

My favorite pirate story is "Island Flame". Whew, that one's hot. I read it for the first time when I was about 13. I had it forever, then it disappeared. I'll buy another copy eventually. I learned a few spanish phrases from that book. Castillian Spanish. LOL. The phrase I liked the most? Llama di mi corazon. *Swoon*