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Teen novel, probably written in the 70's or 80s, about a girl who is convinced to join a band. Her and the guy in the band sing amazing when she's angry with him, but lose the spark when she's happy. They fall in love, which messes with their dynamic. The band becomes really popular.
I'm not sure I liked the book, but it fascinated me, especially how dated everything seemed. I'm not sure if they were punk or rock, but I could see their big hair and hear their screaming 'music'.
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A young adult novel about a young couple who run away from home to live in the wilderness after the girl's family is killed in a car crash. They live off the land in the deep forest of a mountainous national park, and come very close to having sex but stop because they don't want to risk pregnancy, which would force them to rejoin society. Eventually the girl recovers from her grief and decides to return to their home town, but the boy refuses and is implied to spend the rest of his life in the wild, having rejected the outside world more fully than she did.
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Okay, this is a book - Originally written by a Norwegian and later translated into English - About a guy that has Autism/Asperger's Syndrome - He has one of those toys you have for kids where you hammer blocks into a board - Pretty sure he visits America at some point
Just can't remember the title...
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I went on a wiki walk here and ended up reading a series of short stories, I think at Baen. One of the stories was Bluffing the Advance Scout, the other was the science goes away. The specific mechanism of the science going away was a device that changed the conductivity of metals in a range. For various irrelevant reasons I can't go over to Baen and wikiwalk the webscriptions stories, and a quick read of Bluffing the Advance Scout doesn't help me.
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I'm looking for an old quote, possibly from the Bible. I can't remember enough of the exact wording to find anything with Google or Bartlett's Quotations, but it's about how people of a profession hate all the other members of that profession.
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It was a short story I found in a school textbook, I remember it quite clearly but I don't know what it's called or any way to find out what it is. This elementary school or middle school kid had a teacher that was so boring he thought that the teacher was an alien and was trying to prove it. But at the end it turned out the principal was an alien and he had the boy abducted by a ufo, and the boy is like "No, please no!" and the story ends.
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There was this children's story I really adored, from the early nineties.
It was about a rabbit who ran a "hotel" for animals and the book followed a normal evening/night for him as he placed his guests (IIRC they kept showing up at his door), which were all kinds of other groups of animals that he had to find the perfect environment for. (Like a pond with lily pads for a family of frogs.) After seeing to all of them, he returned home to his own family of bunnies (wife and kids) to eat dinner and go to sleep.
I recall listening to it most in audio book format on cassette, but I'm certain I must have owned the book to go with it. My searches, using all sorts of keyword combination, have been fruitless.
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There was this book that I read two years ago. I think it was published in the mid 80's.The main character's name is most likely Casey.
The book was about her feeelings and conflict with her older sister and her baby sister Charlie, whose relationship with her is the main focus of the plot. One of the parts of the book that I remember the most,is when Charlie had a babysitter who was especially fond of her but ignored and was rude to the rest of the family. The climax is when the babysitter kidnaps Charlie, because she believes Charlie was her baby that was taken away from her.
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This was a children's book about an Asian woman (I think she was Chinese) and an American guy, and their first couple dates. She calls up her British friend to teach her how to eat Western style with a knife and fork, while the American guy gets someone to teach him how to eat with chopsticks. At the Western style date he comments about the British way she holds her utensils, which is where I learned it was apparently different in Europe. I remember the illustration of how the woman speared several peas on one tine of her fork before she ate them. At the Asian style date, he isn't very good at using the chopsticks but gets through and she's proud.
The British friend had glasses, the Asian woman wore her hair in a bun and may have worn a green dress at some point, and the American man had fair hair and I think he wore a blue shirt on one of the dates.
I got this from the library some time in the mid '90s, but I think it was written least 15 years before. The illustrations were rather stylized line drawings, I think drawn with a brush- there was some influence of Asian art- and colored with watercolors. Minimal backgrounds I think, just the basic idea of the setting, or washes of color. It may have been set in San Francisco.
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Couple of series of kids/teenage literature.
The first one was about a group of kids who start bleeding silver blood. Turns out that's because they're actually aliens, only they don't want to be aliens and then other stuff happens. It's not on the Alien Blood page, unless it's the Mindwarp series, but that seems to be about mutants from the future and I swear these were aliens. The first book has the protagonist cut himself and then get shiny silver blood all over a payphone. May also contain a crazy homeless guy in a tinfoil hat, and I think maybe a lake made by a meteor?
The second series was ostensibly horror, I think, but one specific book was more fantasy in tone. Had a girl buy or inherit a pedant with a huge ruby in it, then start dreaming about a rather ugly squat demon. Turns out he's the bastard half-demon son of King Solomon, who betrayed his father's court to the demons and then got stuck in the pendant as a punishment. Or something like that.
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Looking for a collection of sci-fi stories The book was required reading for me in middle school and featured a story about a man who turns to metal after entering a strange valley. A story about a woman reprogramming her home AI to be more motherly. And, of course "There Will Come Soft Rains".
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It was a short story either written by Bruce Coville or in an anthology compiled by him, I don't remember which... It was about a pair of kids who build a forward-only time machine that they test with a teddy bear, and one kid realizes that it didn't account for Earth's motion through space just after the other kid decides to personally test it. Anybody remember what it was called, or the name of the anthology it was published in?
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There was a book that I loved when I was little. It had a talking parrot who got a couple of kids to help him save an underground kingdom where all the magical creatures moved after people began to forget about them. The parrot was the caretaker of a talking Dictionary, a talking Thesaurus (I think) and a book of magic as well.
There was also a sea serpent who thought the boat the characters were using at one point was a blue crumpet. Anyone remember this?
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I'm looking for an Artemis Fowl fanfic I read a while back. It's after Artemis get's mindwiped, and the whole plot is that his Da wants to spend time with him, but there's so much that Artemis already knows how to do, until he finds out that Artemis doesn't know how to drive. Hilarity Ensues. I've been looking on FF.net, which is where I thought it was from? But I'm not sure about it, so...
Edit Nevermind. Apparently my brain decided to give me the one freaking keyword to search for this fic as soon as I posted. -_-;
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The protagonist is a boy living in either Alaska or Canada with his grandfather. He needs to make money (I think his grandfather is sick), and his grandfather won't let him take money out of his college funds. The boy trains his dog as a sled dog and they enter a race for a cash prize. They are about to win and the dog's heart bursts and it dies right before the finish line. Another competitor takes out his gun and threatens to shoot anyone who crosses the finish line before the boy. The boy carries his dog's body over the line.
That was just as depressing to think about the second time.
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There was a collection of horror short stories I remember picking up in a library years ago. The front cover showed the terrified shadow of a kid at the top of the stairs, and we could see that downstairs, there were some autumn leaves blowing into the house through the front door. The front cover's image was from one of the stories in the book, where a boy has to, for one reason or another, rake the front yard of this weird old woman's house. Eventually, the old woman dies, but her spirit comes back to haunt the kid, and the story ends with her entering the house one evening with a bunch of leaves blowing in, and her calling his name. I may have gotten some things wrong about the story, but it has been a while.
Another story in this collection is about a studio exec looking over a movie script sent to him about a young pizza delivery guy (or mechanic, I can't remember which) fighting off giant alien (or mutant) mosquitoes, and eventually triumphing. The story ends with it being revealed that the exec (and presumably his colleagues) are mosquito creatures disguised as humans, and with him saying that he'd love to meet up with the author of the script, and "discuss" it with him.
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I am thinking of a fantasy novel similar to Circle Of Magic; Four children sent to live separate from there families for various reasons and also to learn magic by there "mentors". For the most part the similarities end there. The story has none of Tamora Pierce Anvilicious, though not without a moral, its never the focus. The government is The Empire, and the "mentors" are getting ready to commit treason. The main character has wind power and is sent to live in the house because his parents have died and his siblings are grieving to the point that they can hardly look after themselves let alone anyone else. A Fire magic girl that may be the 28 princess and is the mains love intrest. The water magic girl that I remember little of. And a earth magic boy that is older but shorter then the main. There is another boy that can see when people will die I think, he becomes as important as the main. Everything is fine at first, but after the fire magic girl dies the secret is out and those that don't die go into hiding. After this the main is forced to become a knight to prove his loyalty, which he does because he is. Later on near the end of the story the main kills the other traitors with the help of the now man that see when people will die.
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I read this book in middle school about twins, a boy and a girl, with psychic powers who were separated in foster care, but kept an eye on each other with their powers. The girl was telepathic and the guy could astral-project. In the course of the story the girl teaches a guy she likes some telepathic tricks and the guy has to learn a new method of astral travel because his current foster-family is so messed up that the astral plane around their house is all clogged up and impossible to slog through. He meets someone who gives him a book on traveling "as Soul". While practicing he sees the girl he likes get assaulted and testifies at court for her. In the end, he gives her the book so she can travel as Soul too. I don't remember anything about the title or author, but the cover had a purple-ish background with the twins facing each other and some sort of spiny, glowing, lightning-ball thing floating between them.
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Short story, part of a science fiction collection. It involves a woman whose husband is off on a business trip, so she has a friend of her husband come over to visit her. She realizes her loneliness and her attraction to him, and therefore seduces him (I seem to remember the start of it involving her asking him to stay there while she takes a shower and then coming back with the towel. They have torrid sex and while she's running her hands through his hair, she dislodges the wig and it's revealed that it's her husband dressed up as his friend whereupon he wishes her a happy birthday. I remember that when I first read it (probably around the early 90s), I saw it as her getting caught in the act with him having played this trick on her to let her have her wild fling while staying in the bounds of marriage and when I read it as an adult, I realized that they were probably role-playing from the start.

Trying to remember the name of a book I saw in a shop a couple of years back. it had a picture of the Silence of the Lambs poster (deaths-head moth) on the cover, and it was called something like "1001 Unforgettable Movie Scenes" or something.