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resolved Mother abandons wolf pup Literature
When I was in elementary school my teacher read us a book where a pregnant wolf forces a fox or coyote or something out of its den and uses it to deliver. One of the pups has a deformed paw or something so the mother leaves it to die, but it survives.
Edited by CosmicGhostresolved 2 series mashed together or 1 Literature
I apologise for how all over the place this is going to be as I remember details.
I think this was a single series, but I could be mashing 2 together. I know for sure it was a series with different books though.
I think the title was something like "the grimorie ofthe dark woods" but that doesnt sound right, at all.
What I can remember plotwise:
A girl (13-16) finds a grimoire, and discovers she's a witch that can control animals, shortly after her mother is hung for being a witch.
She got out of this fate by subconsciously commanding the magic hounds to ignore her.
Theres these woods near her village that like no one is allowed in. Big bad lives there.
Except hes not really bad? He was cursed by his friend, I think. But the woods are sworn to protect him so it attacks outsiders.
I think she tries to avenge him and starts fighting a monster?
He explains that to use magic, all witches must give up something. Emotions, looks, humanity. She chose memories and slowly forgets everything.
Her best friend joins the witch hunt, and she helps, cause now the witch hunt only looks for bad witches.
The hunt collectively skips over one girl and shes like "well that's weird, why do they all blindly trust her" come to find out that girl is a witch and enchanted them
I think theres a part where her and her brother (?) Takr a train, and shit is HAPPENING on this train. When they stop they go to some like hourglass place where time stops. And brother person signs his name on the door and some creep comes out from the shadows and is all like "well, the demons behind this door wants you now" and she says no take me, I'll come back later.
The dude finds her years later and says "the demons demand a soul." And she says "yes, but it will not be me" and uses her powers over creatures to lure the demons to take the man.
Aaaaalllll over the place.
EDIT: Found it! The series is "The Thickery" by J.A. White
Edited by Zee-Trayhorneresolved Fantasy novel. Literature
Younger readers. Protagonist sent to another world, lands with two others. The other two might have actually been from other worlds. Each had a unique ability. One seemed to be the power of inference.
Residents were Beast Men. The main one was part man, part orca.
Villain is an evil wizard who sends the heroes all around during the final battle.
Edited by Caswinresolved Elementary level book about gum that makes you invisible Literature
I read a book in 3rd grade about a kid that got a strange kind of gum from a machine, and it was called Gum-X or something like that. It turned out that it could turn him invisible and his older brother used it to prank people without getting caught. And I remember a prank went wrong when he tried to steal an old woman's dentures and she thought that he was robbing her. The art style looked like it was from the 80's to the Late 90's.
resolved Vampire book Literature
Book about a Vegetarian Vampire guy who reveals the existence of vampires to the world, and the cover had a yellow smiley face one it with fangs
Edited by Tremmor19resolved A reincarnation novel with a fat crippled Literature
I forgot the name of a novel, if someone can help me please.
The mc transmigrates in a game or novel world. He is in the body of a fat child. Because his father hates him he locked his potential after birth, poison him and even put a gu inside his body so he will die painfully when he turn eighteen. The reason the mc is fat is because of the parasite. Each day the mc had to drink a sort of tea that fed the parasite and made him fat.
Iirc the father did that because a ghost once take possession of his body and the mc body is the child that was make when he was possessed so he doesn't consider him his own and killed his mother, the woman he married when he was possessed.
It's not a a cultivation novel. The power system has mages and knights. If I remember there something called Mage and Mana gates, the original body had the chance to be born with both opened but the father poison him.
At some point the mc explore a place with a treasure and met an assassin sent by his former fiancee, the assassin is a woman who used an artifact to conceal her gender.
resolved Short story starts with interrupted suicide because earth uninhabitable, probably asimov Literature
I'm trying to remember a short story, pretty sure by Isaac Asimov (which does NOT reduce the field by that much lol)
- It's set not on earth, but can't remember if it's mars, the moon or some space station
- It's stated that they can see the Earth though
- It opens with a guy attempting to commit cyanide suicide and another interrupts him
- They're on a a small colony with other scientists
- they escaped because (can't remember if implied or outright stated) of nuclear war
- Earth is stated to be uninhabitable anymore
resolved Children's novel Literature
This was a novel I read in elementary school some time in the early- to mid-1990s. It was about a student who had learning challenges, especially in math, and an active imagination when he came home from school.
He had to see the guidance counselor, who helped him, but she got in trouble when she pointed him towards a Buddhist book (something along the lines of "Zen and the Art of Home Construction").
resolved Comic - Man joins brand design team Literature
I'm trying to help my brother find something. He thinks it may have been one story in a larger book, possibly one that mixed prose and comics, or not. Here's his description:
Man joins design team finding a brand for google-like corporation
I remember it was in an anthology of the best American works of fiction or something similar. It may have been the best american nonrequired reading anthology. I read it in the last two years and I believe it was published in the last five, but am not positive about the latter. The story is somewhat dystopian - the corporation has become a huge player in world affairs.
The main character is a young man who joins a design team creating a new brand and logo for a google-out-of-control like organization.
During the story the man is afflicted by a mysterious cold-like sickness supposedly cause by plants on the property. He gets medicine from a semi-sinister doctor at the company, which helps him. They tell him that the sickness is due to allergies, but we never get the full explanation.
The main character goes for a swim each day and sees a woman sitting by the pool that he lacks the courage to talk to. During his last swim, he looks up and she is no longer there. He wonders whether he imagined her entirely.
The design team is led by a man who is somewhat obsessed with primality. He leads the team to break in to the headquarters of their rivals in the final act of the comic.
The last scene is the main character looking at a bloody handprint after injuring himself during the break in. He decides that this will be the new logo of the corporation.
Edited by Subsetresolved Please help me! I need to find a book! Literature
It's a non fiction about the writer and his teacher or mentor, a very intelligent man who's mind and memories are fading because of dementia. He gets progressively worse and he even knows it. I read about it on Tear Jerker.
resolved YA novel Lindquists Literature
I read this some time around 2014, iirc there's a young girl who's father is a geneticist in a nuclear winter Russia. Her father is trying to make creatures that will preserve the genes of all mammals(?) and creates these little fuzzy things that he calls "Lindquists". His goal is to smuggle them out of the country, but he is arrested before he can, and so the girl MC is tasked with caring for them all on her own while trying to keep herself alive and out of the secret policy's custody. A lot of the book is her struggle to feed herself and stay warm in the harsh elements, and angsting over the health of the little Lindquists. (Idk if this helps but the Lindquists were described as small ferret like creatures)
resolved Ancient Structures on Mars Literature
I'm trying to remember a book (I think it's a full novel, but it might be a short story) where an expedition to Mars discovers ancient ruins, but no bodies/graves, at least until one of the members of the expedition falls over and sees slight mounds indicating the graves of the Martians. I recall one of the side stories being that a meteorite hits the surface some distance from the main camp, and biologists are excited to discover microbial life deep inside the crater, and decide to put a dome over the crater as an experiment.
Anybody know what I'm talking about?
resolved A Filipino children's picture book about bath Literature
I do not remember the name, but I do remember reading it. It's a Filipino Picture Book about a boy who doesn't like taking a bath. His grandma pursuades him to do it but refuses. He even tricks her one time but really he just wet his hair. Suddenly, he realizes he smells awful and gets mocked by his classmates. He finally tries a bath and realizes the book's aesop. Baths Are Fun.
resolved Christian apocalyptic novel Literature
I remember I read this book is about the reign of the Antichrist. I remmeber the False Prophet was a Catholic cardinal who was corrupt and assumes as Pope calling himself Peter II, and at the end Jesus come backs, opesn a wormhole and throws there the Antichrist and the False Prophet and a 1000 years later Satan and they all say constantly "Jesus is Suprem!" Thank you.
Edited by TVGuyresolved 2000s-2010s fantasy series Literature
A book I read in elementary school, the first in a series. The cover shows a girl with a brown braid looking down at a glowing green stone in her hand. I distinctly remember in the book she describes herself as having "knobby knees".
resolved Domestic Dungeons and Dragons Literature
An orc decides to retire from adventuring so she can open up a coffee/pastry shop. She hires a succubus and a rat-man. An awkward bard tries to busk in her shop. A humongous cat wanders in and out, fortunately not bothering the rat-man. The orc takes a long time to figure out that she's falling in love with the succubus. In the meantime, there's somebody trying to sabotage her coffee shop. Somebody else, the local mafia boss, tries to extort money out of the coffee shop, but then changes her mind and decides to be content with sampling the produce.
Edited by Miss_Desperadoresolved The New Girl published 2002 maybe 2006 Literature
Title is The New Girl and I forgot the author. The new girl is a glamorous teacher going to a small-town high school, and the big twist revealed at the end is that she hid away teaching at a high school because she had an affair with her colleague's husband at university, so that colleague told everyone that the teacher plagiarized a paper from her, so whether anybody knew the truth of the affair or believed the face-saving lie her career was over. There's a student who dyed her hair to imitate this teacher she admired and she wanders the streets laughing like she lost her mind at the end. She had two friends at the co-ed high school both girls, and there was a mean boy in their class who had a lisp and wanted to do a book report on Jonathan Livingston Seagull for the easy passing grade.
resolved Green Aesop Book Literature
A boy sees a girl with a tree sapling and makes fun of it. Then he is taken through some trippy future sequence things involving various sorts of pollution. What I remember most is a factory that produces smoke that makes you cough and gives you watery eyes. An employee from the factory sells the exact treatment for these two symptoms.
Afterward, the boy changes his mind and does not make fun of people for planting trees.
Hello! I remember reading a novel that was probably aimed at teens in the 90s or very early 2000s. After having some kind of vehicle-related trouble and getting injured, the protagonist got trapped in a mysterious town or village that I think was in a mountainous area. Every time he tried to leave, he couldn’t. It was like there was some kind of supernatural force field around the town, so that even if he walked for a long time, he would just wind up back where he started. He eventually did get out, though.
At one point, characters went swimming, and I think they had a dance or party on another occasion. Characters might have done some kind of traditional healing, though I could be confusing this book with a different one. At the end of the novel, there was an author’s note about how the culture of the townspeople had been inspired by the real-life Melungeons. The cover of the book might have been blue or green with an image of a person and white writing, but I’m not sure. I would really appreciate any assistance in finding the title or author.