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There's a woman who was/is a Nazi, she gets into an accident, and while she's recovering in the hospital, she experiences this mind meld thing with a Jewish lady where she lives through her memories and gradually learns to sympathize with her.
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I'm trying to remember a science fiction novel. It takes place on another planet. There is an organism like a fungus or plant that grows in the desert that extends life. The only way to harvest it is to spill the blood of a woman who has just given birth on to the sand. There is conflict between the desert dwellers and the evil aristocrats (old men who actually kill their wives and daughters to harvest the life extending plant). The desert dwellers protect their woman by threatening to dig the plant up and expose it to the sun thus killing it. Most the story takes place from the view point of a woman who is the daughter of an aristocrat. She doesn't know the dark secret of the nobles and the deaths of pregnant woman are explained away. I'm pretty sure she gets married and has a child. She needs up running away at some point and learns the terrible secret of the nobles. I read this book five or six years ago. Please help!
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British stage play, probably 1980s, about a highly-strung writer who keeps hiring housekeepers, only for all of them to be too strict, too lax or have some problem that interferes with his writing. The end of act one is him apparently finding a perfect housekeeper, and the start of act two is a police raid on the house, which she turned into a brothel while he was away.
And all the housekeepers are played by one actress, leading to complicated stage directions when one of them is, for some reason I forget, hiding from another one.
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A book about a child, possibly of the nickname Tiger, who is leaving a war zone, and brings a fish from home. We are never told the child's name, or even gender I think, but through miles of hiking up and down mountains and getting caught in mud and avoiding land-mines with Father, Mother, and the guide, the fish (which may or may not have consistent size) comes to a refugee camp, with Father, Mother, and (?) Tiger, first in a pot, then a bottle, then the child's mouth.
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Young adult novel - there's a kid who befriends a girl, and then meets a wealthy relative of hers - he's really impressed with the man and his lifestyle and starts to feel a bit ashamed of his own in comparison (in particular I remember the man listened to a lot of opera, and the boy reminisced about how the only times he ever heard any opera were when his family used to turn the radio to an opera station and would all start mocking it by doing dramatic poses and faux lip-syncing). It then turns out the man was either a hiding Nazi war criminal, or just a former Nazi. I also remember the man had a pet papillon
, and it might have been in another book, but I remember the girl saying something about having another relative who she compared to Archie Bunker, and adding that sort of thing isn't as funny in real life.
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A fantasy novel of some kind, and literally all I'm sure of is that the main character was a girl, and she started on her journey because she kept hearing a deep voice in her mind saying "Follow me to Alderloon". I'm not sure if I'm spelling that right - neither that nor any of the alternate spellings I've tried ("aldarloon", aldairloon", etc) have yielded anything relevant. I know that's not a lot to go on, but for whatever reason the "follow me to Alderloon" bit has just stuck in my mind for the longest time and I have to figure out what it's from.
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Anyone heard of a book involving a woman turned into a mosquito? She was the wife of a peasant, when she died she was taken to a shaman who took a drop of blood from the man and revived her. Eventually she ran out on him for a richer man but the husband asked for his blood as the shaman warned him of this. When she lost the drop she became a giant mosquito. She hunted for her husbands descendants for hundreds of years in order to get his blood and turn back, draining failed candidates completely. She's pursued by the shaman who had become a giant yemen dragonfly to kill her as a natural predator.
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Im trying to find a comic version of Faust. Not sure if it was in Heavy Metal, but it was definitely in an anthology. It showed the story of Faust through the eyes of his servant who he promises to free to become a student at university while he is under sway of Mephistopheles whom he summons through the dark arts. But of course it isn't the already tainted soul of Faust, Meph is after, but that of his virgin and saintly male servant, who of course, loves his master. Meph offers to release Faust, for that of the servants soul. Great artwork, have no clue who wrote it or inked
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A science fiction that I read the back-cover of about of the book six or seven years ago. I remember that a character was a dancer, probably ballerina. There was a disease/virus/ability that causes one person to take away a sense from another person. The opening scene was a dance teacher helping a student and the student starts screaming that she can't feel her leg or some other part of her anatomy. The teacher took away her sense of touch. I'm pretty sure the teacher faced being locked-up or killed, because the ability to take away a sense from someone is such a threat. That's all I remember.
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A book that was part of my required reading in English class either in middle school or early high school (New Brunswick, Canada.) It followed the story of a group of street children in russia. The parts that stick out the most is when one child visited Lenins coffin, and how they all wanted to go to the country because they had the idea the could just get food from fields with ease.
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I remember a book, probably young adult fiction, that was about a girl (probably about 18?) who's mom was a thief (and so was she). In the book I remember she falls in love with a cop. Her mom may or may not have gotten sick at the end or something? I don't quite remember. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me, I have a feeling it's a fairly recent novel?
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This book has crept in and out of my memory since I read it over a decade ago but now it's lodged itself firmly into needing to be identified for the sake of my sanity.
Here's all I remember about it. It's a sci-fi novel with a male protagonist who lives with a form of multiple personalities or dissociative identity disorder. What stands out about this book is that the protagonist also had, I think, artificial eyes so each personality had a different eye color. And when they were plotting something, with the use of a camera and computer, they could effectively have a group discussion despite only one personality in control at a time.
I really wish I could remember more. It might have also had a sequel if that narrows it down any. Thanks.
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A story I remember reading about on The Other Wiki about a world where the seasons lasted two millenniums at a time, thus resulting in the world's societies going through stages of development and decline with the change in the seasons.
Another story I've only read about on Wikipedia, this one was about a nuclear war told in three different stories: One dealing with the immediate aftermath, and the other two with the struggles of rebuilding society After the End. The latter two included Fantastic Racism because of mutants evolving due to radiation, I believe.
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It was a Dr Seuss book. There was a big creature with multi-colored spots. He could put his spots on trees, and make them dance and turn red or blue, and all that jazz. He walked around with two kids, a boy and a girl. I think the title had something about a zoo.
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Low Fantasy starring a woman who acts as a sort of spymaster for the king. The king has a whole system of them, who are always cloaked and masked in public. These 'spies' all have split personalities (only two) which have different skills and temperaments, usually without overlap. The spies use a silver mirror in order to switch personalities.
The plot involves the conflict between the main kingdom and these tundra dwellers who vaguely inuit-like. The king holds a race periodically, the winner of which can request a boon. This year is the first that the tundra land people are sending a runner, who is a shooin' to win. The tundra people are the only ones who refuse to be subjugated.
Anyway, our spy is in the middle of a mission to the tundra lands. After she lets her other personality out to party (and so the 'main' personality loses consciousness), she wakes up broken at the bottom of a tundra. She gets saved, eventually, by some tundra dwellers, the plot plays with the whole Going Native thing while our protagonist struggles vainly against the charms of oh-so-noble and righteous nature loving xenophobes she stays.
Its eventually revealed that the protagonist is a long lost daughter of these tundra people. What happens is the kingdom tortures child prodigies A.) so they'll never become brilliant and influential enough to be threat, and B.) so that their personalities will fracture and allowed to be molded into spies. The protagonist has a third personality, with the memories of her people AND the memories of her torture, repressed. Hooray.
Our protagonist makes it back home, does some espionage, figures the above out, and sides with her people. The runner for her people wins the race with the protagonist's help, and the runner does some voodoo on the king that doesn't do much except make him into a genuinely better person, and the runner declares her people will bow to the rule of the king, 'cause you can't fight progress even if you should (or something. Progress is definitely a bad thing in this book, but they accept it anyway. Probably because that's a stupid message.).
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Fantasy young-adult novel series about an apprentice magician who is usually ignored by his mentor. In order to prove his worth, he summons a daemon without his permission, and through a strange series of events, manages to bind it (and be bound) into service for a series of wacky misadventures.
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This is a pretty popular kid's book, I think. It was about a mouse who was trying to hide a big strawberry from a... bear, maybe? He kept dressing it up and pretending to have dinner with it, and I remember he put some of those funny mustache-with-glasses things on it, and it was illustrated very nicely, warm colors. Another kids' book: Probably a little adaption of the Ants Go Marching song, it had a bunch of ants going to a picnic (At which there were no people for some reason) and then they ate all the food.
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This may be me since I read the book in a dream, but I'm looking for this book. All I can remember is that it was about wealthy Chinese people in mid-to-lated 1910's San Francisco, and one of the earlier chapters took place at some sort of party that began in the late afternoon and there was a charity auction of some sort at the party. Can somebody give me the name of the book and the plot, please? And, no, it's not the fanfic, "Geishas of Winter", which has a party and auction.
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This was this youth series (I'm pretty sure was a Christian series, but I don't remember exactly) that opens with this girl (I thought it was Julie/Juliet/some variation thereof, but again, I'm no sure) getting a bunch of awards at her school because she's ubersmart. While she's on stage, a bunch of people start to insult her because she's getting all these awards until she drops on, and gains the name "Butterfingers".
After this, she and her family move, and the girl decides to try and hide her intelligence, pretending to be kind of... Dumb. Later, a group of people find out just in time for a tournemant or something, and I thing someone says something like "God gave you yoru smarts blah blah blah" (hence why I think it's a Christian series). There's also a missing necklace in a box, and a picture, and a mystery. There were more books after this, all mysteries.
Does this ring a bell with anyone?

A gamebook I remember stumbling upon in primary school (so early-to-mid 90's) - I remember it for being astonishingly creepy for a children's gamebook, feeling like a gamebook version of Solaris; if I recall correctly the gamebook began with the PC arriving at a moonbase - shortly thereafter World War Three breaks out, leaving the crew of the moonbase the only survivors; a later scene had an NPC be seen as outside the moonbase - but the PC could check and see that all the spacesuits were still accounted for; oh, and it also had a You Fail Physics Forever moment where the PC could choose to fire a laser whilst travelling FTL, causing the laser to curve back past them and hit their own reactor, causing an explosion killing the PC.