How to Use the Search

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. On the Home Page, I'm using the search box on the right side of the brown strip a the top of the page, with a magnifying glass in it.
I entered the title and author, "Unshackled by Kathleen Sullivan". and it says that book is not in LT's collection.

But I had found it just a few minutes earlier, and was able to retrieve the page from my browser history:
https://www.librarything.com/work/6990487/workdetails

I'm still trying to find my way around Library thing, and I'm wondering if I'm searching in the wrong place?

It looks like you can't search for a title and author at the same time

Are you including the "by" in your search? It's not forgiving enough for that. I get the expected results for
https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=unshackled+kathleen+sullivan&...
and https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=unshackled+sullivan&searchtyp... just fine, but you won't get a result for https://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=unshackled+by+kathleen+sullivan&a...

>3 Aquila: Also "by" is just a word, so it could occur in the title of a book. (In Danish "by" means "town" or "city" , so it shouldn't just be removed from a search :-)

>4 bnielsen: Stop words are difficult to implement in a search that has to find words in all the world's major languages. "Thé" is tea in French, "an" is not an article in e.g. Scandinavian and French, etc...

searching for titles or authors through LT's search field should be conducted separately (either author name(s) only or title-string terms only, for best results. For your purposes, i.e., in the English-language version of LT, leave out any colons : , quotation-marks, or, as mentioned above, any extraneous terms such as "by" in the author-name search.

a search of
Unshackled
or
Unshackled A Survivor's Story of Mind Control
or
Kathleen Sullivan

all return the data you were trying to find.

these search-string requirements ought to be indicated somewhere in the site's user-guide / information / "How To" pages.

If your search's objects return a very large number of results (such as an author name "Smith" or a title "introduction to chemistry" ) you can search within those data with a CTRL+F key chord and enter the additional data which narrows your desired result.

If you want to do a search (site or collection) with content from two or more fields, separate the values by commas:

Unshackled, Sullivan

This brought up the work in a site search.

I trust this is what you are trying to achieve.

James

>7 Keeline:

Nice. I-D(id)-N(ot)-K(now)-T(hat)"