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Hi. I'm looking for two things.
Firstly, a scifi(-ish?) chapter book that I would have read in elementary school (so 7+ years ago)
It took place in the future, at a point when there were people living on other planets. Earth did have a human population, but it wasn't large and generally consisted of people too poor to live anywhere else. There was somewhere between one and three children who were the main characters. (I'm pretty sure it was two, one girl and one boy, but I might be wrong.) The story began with then in a boarding school or orphanage.
There was a garbage dump or orphanage nearby and the children found a robot there. It was either broken down or just old. For some reason, they ended up leaving the school with this robot and traveling. I don't remember the resolution of the book at all.
I'm also looking for a children's illustrated picture book that I would have read around 10-12 years ago. I remember next to nothing about it, but I think the general theme was people starting to live in tree-houses and basically rejoining nature. It felt very rain-forest/jungle-y. Magic seeds may have been involved.
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I remember this book that the teacher read aloud to us when I was in elementary school (so some time in The '90s) It involved a kid who had Abusive Parents and I think an evil aunt as well. The book deals with him trying to escape them by going to Nebraska (I forget why). Also I think at one point the kid had a elephant as a pet/companion (ya it seems weird to me also) it was a chapter book though not a picture book.
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Trying to remember (obviously) a book I mostly read maybe 9 or 10 years ago. It was science fiction, and I seem to remember it being sort of like The Thing but in Florida (or some coastal US location), and the infection or w/e it was, was caused by nanomachines (I think). I also seem to remember the cover art having lots of red and blue, and I think it was a x-ray of cross section of a human skull with all sorts of weird machinery attached.
This ringin any bells for anyone?
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I had this book as a kid, and I've been trying to track the name down for some time now. I thought maybe someone could help me if I described what I remember from the book
It was a book about a family of cats (mom dad and 2 or 3 kittens). Their owner was moving. They were concerned about moving and tried to stop him by putting butter on the bottom of his shoes. They somehow ended up in storage with all of the furniture and the car (that had eyelashes) helped them get out - I think. In the end they found their owner and moved into the new house and all was good!
I think it was published in the 70's, maybe the 60's - it was pretty beat up by the time I got it. And it was illustrated.
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I am looking for a couple gaming magazines. Unfortunately, i don't know what magazines they were or what issues they are. :( So i turn to TV Tropes for guidance! I'll list anything I can remember about them.
1. This was a letter that ran in Game Players' Magazine. It was one of their monthly gaming ideas, and it talked about a Mega Woman game. "The enemies would be different, and a lot harder." Instead of fighting Dr. Wily, you'd fight his daughter Weaseletta and her terrifying teddy. I don't remember anything about the ISSUE, but that letter stuck to me like... something sticky!
2. This probably ran in Game Pro and was a Lunar 2 Eternal Blue boss guide. It started at the Magic Tester boss and went all the way to the final boss. "Smash Zophar in just four turns!" I THINK the same issue had a Mega Man X5 ending reveal, where it gave away the entire ending. "With his last burst of energy, Zero destroys Sigma."
3. This was either Game Pro, Game Informer, or EGM, and one of them had a Phantasy Star Online guide that showcased Dark Falz, and another set of issues had a Grandia II walkthrough that left off when Mareg leaves the party. I think. I seem to remember a Chrono Cross walkthrough that showcased the Time Devourer, but I'm unsure if it was that or a player's guide.
4. This was a feature of Game Informer where they had character battles hosted by the Vidiot. I remember one being Mega Man vs. Samus and Ash vs. Nemesis from Resident Evil (Ash thought it was a Pokemon because the Vidiot told him so). Samus and Nemesis won, respectively. I also seem to remember one with Pikachu vs. Darth Maul, which contained the immortal phrase "Pikachu shocks Darth Maul in the butt."
5. This one had a Death and Return of Superman walkthrough. Pretty sure it was Game Players. I remember a captain underneath a picture of Superman and Doomsday saying something like "Don't be scared when Doomsday gets back up."
So, yeah. Any idea what issues they are?
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Somewhere between 2000 and 2010 I read a mass-market paperback version of a book that had some sort of werewolves as the protagonists. Pyramids may have been involved. Earth had been forcibly removed from orbit (possibly by aliens), and there was a periodic cycle of renewal of outside energy to replace the sun, enabling the werewolves (who may be the only humans left) to survive. Eventually, I think one of the werewolves sacrificed themselves to make the moon into a stable source of light and energy for the planet. I don't remember what variety of werewolves the protagonists were, but at the very least they belonged to a werewolf centered cult or something of the like.
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I'm looking for a specific issue of Nintendo Power that I believe ran anywhere from Volumes 140-170. The only thing I remember from this issue is the letters page, which talked about gamers' favorite video game endings. I would love to find this one!
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My friend was asking me about a short story she studied in high school. In her words, "it's about a person who is about to make a large purchase, which I think was a piano, and then decides not to, but that decision not to spend the money basically destroys the entire economy through a chain reaction so then people have to go back in time and be like "listen here's the money just you HAVE to go buy that piano" and then the piano seller has the money and spends it on other things and everyone gets the money and spends it to other people and everything is good." Does anyone remember anything by that description?
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I am trying to recall the name of a trilogy I read several years back in the library at my old county. The author was French; the novels had been translated into English. The main character's name, I am fairly sure, was Sam; the villain was named Rudolf. I believe the title had something to do with "The Ring" or "The Rings", or maybe with coins. Basically, the main character's father and the villain were archeologists; while working on a dig in Egypt, they found a device that allowed time travel by putting a coin from that time period into the device. I remember that there were several caveats in the time travel; you couldn't travel to the same time as a previous version of yourself (the villain dies this way, and almost the hero too), and if you used the same coin twice, you would return there immediately after the last traveller left. I do recall that Sam had a childhood friend turned girlfriend named Alicia; a sister whose name I forget who helps him; he was into martial arts, specifically judo I think; his mother was killed by Rudolf in a "car accident"; the first time he went to was an Irish or English monastery that came under Viking attack and he helped save an important manuscript or book; other times he went to included Rennesaince Belgium, France in one of the World Wars, ancient Egypt during construction of the pyramids, and the future where the villain had ammassed a collection of coins from different times; and there was the "infinity ring" or "immortality ring" that resulted in him merging with his past self in an alternate, better reality in the end, where a nosy neighbor prevented his mother from dying.
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A novel that had an Absurdly Sharp Blade that was called "The Cutting Edge" and might be Death's Scythe, I'm quite sure it's not Calliope Reaper-Jones... 'cause no "Cutting Edge", atleast, as far as I can tell from Amazon blurb-things...
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A book where a girl "dies" and winds up in some weird ethereal realm where she can touch objects from throughout her life. Girl's name was something like Madison...
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So. My mom used to have this book, I THOUGHT it was called "The Encyclopedia of the Cat," but none of the searches I've tried using that phrase or any variant have turned up any results.
But anyway, it's a fairly hefty book (a coffee table book, perhaps,) with a light gold fabric cover decorated with a gold embossed image of a long-haired cat.
Most of the interior content is pretty standard catcycolpedia fare, including information about cat breeds, cats in movies and comics, cats in advertising, etc... but - and here's where it seems to be pretty solidly different, and I haven't seen this in any other books - there's also a section about "monstrous" cats. Not just legendary/mythical "demon" cats, but deformed/"monstrous" real cats as well. I distinctly remember a photograph of a two-faced kitten lying on its side (with a face at both the front and back of the head,) and an old illustration of a six-legged cat (with two sets of back legs and one set of fore - it was standing on its hind legs with the front half of its body raised up, like a cat version of a centaur.
There was also a French illustration of a cat with a cannon (rocket?) strapped onto its back.
Pretty specific, I think...
Can anybody help me? This has been driving me crazy for YEARS and I would like to find another copy of this book for my mom.
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A book I saw in a bookshop once. From what I remember from the back, the story goes a little something like this:
Around 200 years ago, a human colony ship crashed on an alien planet. The natives upper classes are all scheming, backstabbing folk, but eventually an island reservation is created for the humans. In the years since the crash, humanity has recovered and now have a space station in orbit. The main character is a diplomat, and the only one who is allowed to leave the reservation.
I think I saw the third or fourth book first, and then checked the first book in the series, so I might be mixing plots a bit.
All suggestions are welcome!
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There was a children's book, about a little girl who helps an old lady take care of a cat, but over time more and more cats start showing up until either a policeman or some government official contacts them and says they have to get rid of them. So they hold a pet adoption, and every single cat is given to a good home except one, which was hiding the whole time because they didn't want to leave the lady and the girl.
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This was a Comic/Graphic Novel from somewhere in the late 80's up to the mid 90's.
The book involved a conflict where dragons and/or riders were attacking ships and throwing/dropping explosives at the ships.
To counter this a alchemist/wizard/inventory develops cannons with a hexagonal/octagonal shape to fire either solid shot or grape/canister shot to shoot down the dragons.
That is about as much as I can recall. I am almost certain the comic was all in colour.
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A book where there's a lot of snow. A girl meets a mystical kid who has a snowflake shaped ocarina. She goes out in the middle of the night to meet him. She has a dad but no mother.
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I was visiting my local library around 2007-2009, and I read a MAD Magazine. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the cover (front or back) or most of the magazine, but I remember the departments page. I saw images, such as a colored illustration of a baby sitting down wearing a bloated diaper, a superhero, a small garbage can (I think), someone vomiting, and a piece of talking pizza (maybe), and I think there were toys designed for kids in the magazine. I do not think this is #427, could be, but my local library told me they mostly store current magazines, and there is no way they can track back to their prior magazines. Anyway, I know this is not much to go on, but can anyone please help? This is driving me nuts, and I already emailed the official MAD Magazine site, and my local library, but no success. Thanks in advance.
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It's a short story in the style of an article in a culture magazine about the career of a film director, except that all evidence that he ever existed is slowly fading. I feel like it might not have originally been in English. I could be wrong about details. I feel like it may well have come up in relation to House of Leaves.
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If I can brag for a moment, then I'm slightly proud of my book-finding skills. Last month, I found a book that I had been searching for for years by looking up a few key words. Earlier, I rediscovered a different book by typing in a partial quote from a review. When I was at the library today, I found a book that I think I've read before. If I remember correctly (and I don't think I do), I read it on a trip with my religious school. The same day, I read a book about a teenage girl in a writing class. She starts a blog and strikes up a friendship with one of the commenters. After many months of joking R Ping, she discovers that the R Per is not the gender they said they were and gets uncomfortable. (Part of the R Ping involved a fantasy story where they were nude, for some reason. I think it involved a river and hygiene.) I can't find the book, despite many different searches. Can you help?
Okay, this one is going to be weird, because I actually can't remember for sure what type of media it was. I'm going to mark it as 'literature', because it being an illustrated book or graphic novel seems more likely than anything else.
I remember seeing a bunch of print ads for something about this group of zombie kids. Judging by the age I was around the time, it was probably aimed at children, and not an adult thing with a cartoon-ish style.
The style looked a LOT like Gorillaz, but I can say with certainty that that is not it. Just a very similar style, and similar looking characters?
I don't remember a ton about it, since it was just a series of ads I probably saw at bookstores, but I remember one of the zombies had no legs, and they pushed themselves around on a skateboard instead.
I remember getting a little insert ad for it in something I bought. That's why I'm having difficulty remembering for sure if it was a book, since I really remember it being a video game I got it out of, but it was more likely a book since I'd know if there was a game series like this. I can't remember what book it would have been in, though.
This would have been like 2005-2010 or so, and I'm just really curious what it was, since all I ever saw was ads.