whatwasthatbook

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 I didn't actually read this book, it was suggested to me, so what I remember about it is pretty muddy.  A couple of researchers invented a fake person (I think he was a soldier, maybe French, and I think they invented him as being part of the Seven Years War).  After they've fleshed out this false person, he starts showing up in books/reports/etc., as if he had existed all along. 

I read this book in middle school . I borrowed it from a friend was part of a series i think.
The only thing i remember is the two main characters r a man and a woman . The get sent
To another world by a demon who lets them pick what they r going to be when they arrive.
The man says well im part indian i would like to be an indian worrior . The woman asks to
Be a fairy. Later in the book she finds out that shes not just a fairy shes a succubus. She
Keeps getting more and more angry with every man she is compelled to sleep with.
Then she finds out she makes them feel better by taking thier bad feelings away and
Storing them. She uses the feelings as power i think . Thats as much as i rememeber .
Thank you for your help . Sorry about the spelling im a reader not a riter .

the first book was about a girl who's cousin may be possessed. I can't remember much about it other than there was a big dog train to attack , but only when ordered by his owner - the lead character. there's was also a scene where a girl falls into a fast river and is rescued by a guy hanging upsidedown from a log over the water. and something about vultures, or vulture spirits.

the second was about a widowed man and his 2 daughters (one was nicknamed bug or tadpole). they move after their mother dies so their father can work on the stainglass at a cathederal. An evil spirit gets released and the younger sister is pulled into a stain glass window. the older sister rescues her by making a glass locket with some of thier mothers ashes in

3rd was about 2 children, brother and sister, who are sent on a mission in the Australian outback and end up being chased by timeslipped transported convicts.

any help appreciated!

I'm looking for a book that would have been published about 20 years ago. It was a (possibly historical) fantasy novel about nine priestesses that represented the goddess on Earth, and they could shape-shift (into seals and dolphins, like silkies, I think). It was set on the coast in a city called Lys (maybe in France?) that had a huge port-gate that protected the city and was a marvel of engineering. I think maybe the story had to do with some sort of treachery that caused the gate to be broken and the city was besieged (possibly by Romans).

ETA: Found, thanks! :D

I'm looking for a book that was published in 2011, and I think it was published in October 2011, but it could have been published earlier. It won some award or was on some book list. I'm pretty sure the title is either "The Seventh" or "The Thirteenth" something or other, like "Guardian" or "Warrior".

The cover is blue with I think a sword on it, and it's set in England and there are a bunch of magical objects scattered about and some evil guy is after them and kills the keepers of these objects, and there's a woman and a guy named Owen, possibly (I'm pretty sure it was an "O" name and her name was Jane or Janet or something like that). And he is the grandson of one of the bearers and she just happens to get pulled in when his grandmother is attacked in front of her.

It's pretty brutal/violent, so not really a YA book.

I feel like this should be an obvious book to remember but I just cannot think of it, and of course this is one book I forgot to add to my Books-Read-in-2011 list...

When I was in 10th grade (1994) I read a novel that was set in Africa about a girl.  I do not remember many details of the book other than she was taken from her family and married off to a man.  I believe she was abused in the book at some point.  I'm also not sure if this book was based on true events.  Strange that I can't remember many details, but at that time in my life, it had a huge impact.  Please help me remember!!  Thanks!

FOUND! the two princesses of bamarre, gail carson levine (thank you, masu_trout!)

hi,

i'm looking for a book i read as a child at least 10 years ago. i'm not sure if it was part of a series, but for some reason i feel as though it were? the only one i can distinctly remember is just the one book, though.

it had a young female protagonist on some sort of an adventure/journey/quest all on her own, and something about saving her sister, i think? she only possessed a few magical items to help her, i think there were a pair of boots that instantly allowed her to travel many leagues (seven?) with just a single step, and i think they made her sort of dizzy the first time she used them. there might have been a magical map too, and some sort of a magical spying/scrying/magnifying glass? she might have been a princess or a noble lady's daughter -- at this point i might be confusing a few other books i read around the same time. it always reminded me a bit of ella enchanted, in that the general fantasy time period they were both set in seemed vaguely similar and there was a similarly clever, plucky female protagonist.

if anyone knows or is reminded of anything, please let me know! i'm not confident in the details of what i've recalled, haha. thanks!