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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Curry toothpaste?!.\nWhen I was maybe 11-12 (around 1991 so the book is at least that old) I read a YA book about a boy who was a wannabe entrepreneur. He had a good friend who was a girl and I think it was told from her perspective. Anyway he decided to make and sell toothpaste out of bak... | [
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"content": "The Toothpaste Millionaire.\nSixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus develops a step-by-step production plan with help from his good frien... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Story] Children's story where a girl on an orphan train gets separated from her younger sibling and is the last one adopted (NOT Orphan Train novel)?.\nI remember reading it sometime probably between 2nd and 4th or 5th grade in one of those McGraw-Hill reading books, would have been early-mid 200... | [
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"content": "Train to Somewhere.\nMarianne, heading west with fourteen other children on an Orphan Train, is sure her mother will show up at one of the stations along the way. When her mother left Marianne at the orphanage, hadn't she promised she'd come for her after making a new life in the West? Stop after ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s].\nHi! I'm looking for at book I read as a child. I don't remember that much, unfortunately, but these are the things I can recall:\n\nIt was about a boy who lived at an orphanage, when he got the message that his parents(?) had died at the Titanic and that he had inherited a mansion.... | [
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"content": "The Valley of Secrets.\nStephen Lansbury is an orphan. He thinks he has no relatives at all -- until the day a letter arrives telling him that a distant uncle is dead. Suddenly Stephen finds himself the only heir to a great estate in the countryside. So Stephen sets off to claim his inheritance . ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [NOVEL] [2000s] Book about pirates kidnapping babies that were floating in a bay.\nThe pirates stole the children and proceeded to raise them and they had a hard time caring for them and etc.. There is also a vivid picture in my head of a pirate holding a baby up in the air and it peeing down its... | [
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"content": "The Babies of Cockle Bay.\nIt's nap time for the babies of Cockle Bay. As they rock gently in their little boats and fall asleep, Captain Bilge and his pirates sail into the bay. They plan to kidnap the babies! The hilarious story and lively watercolor illustrations make a very entertaining combin... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Novel where two brothers who are the main characters die at the start and the end.\nI remember reading this book when I was young, the two main characters are brothers and both die in the real world at the beginning of the book. They wake up in a fantasy Kingdom and fight for the good guys... | [
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"content": "The Brothers Lionheart.\nThe Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Bröderna Lejonhjärta) is a children's fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. It was published in the autumn of 1973 and has been translated into 46 languages. Many of its themes are unusually dark and heavy for the children's book genre.... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000-2010s] a Young adult/teen novel about two siblings who explore this old abandoned asylum in the woods.\nI remember this book was a mystery novel about these two teenagers—a boy and a girl, siblings—who go to this old town (perhaps a relatives town) and start exploring around and find t... | [
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"content": "The Ghost of Graylock.\nDoes an abandoned asylum hold the key to a frightful haunting?Everyone's heard the stories about Graylock Hall.It was meant to be a place of healing - a hospital where children and teenagers with mental disorders would be cared for and perhaps even cured. But something went... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book series] - Kid that cannot do magic hidden away from a world full of magic users til his father dies. When the dad dies his apprentice discovers the kid and everyone vies to use him as the ultimate spy.\nI believe the first book is called The Unmagician but every time I Google it the only sea... | [
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"content": "The Un-Magician.\nThe most dangerous boy in the world? Timothy is a freak, a weakling, an impossibility. He's the only person in existence without magical powers and has spent his entire life hidden on a remote island. When Timothy is finally taken back to the city of this birth, he is fascinated ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] with a swimming moose.\nIt was a children’s book, came out in the 90s or earlier about this moose that swims animals across the river on its back. I swear it was called “All Aboard moose” but google says no and I can’t even google “swimming moose book” and get results. ",
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"content": "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose.\nIllus. in full color. Narrated by Mercedes McCambridge. A paperback edition\nof Dr. Seuss's tale about lovable Thidwick, the moose who becomes the reluctant\nhost for a whole group of greedy guests, is paired with an audio cassette. The\ncassette features original ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Early to mid 2010s young adult book based on Jack the Ripper..\nBasically the book is about a girl who moves to London, and goes to a boarding school. She ends up seeing the ghost of a man, and murders go on mimicking that of Jack the Ripper. I know it's a young adult novel because I read i... | [
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"content": "The Name of the Star.\nJack the Ripper is back, and he's coming for Rory next....Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school just as a series of brutal murders mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper killing spree of more than a century ago has broken ou... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Trying to find the name of a novel I read about a French(?) nunnery/church.\nI've been reading a lot in the past few years, and I can remember almost all of the ones I have read. There is one book that evades my memory though and it has been bugging me for a long time now.\n\nIt was a ficti... | [
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"content": "Holy Fools.\nIn the year 1605 a young woman, hiding from her past, takes up the veil becoming Soeur Auguste. Five years later the past has found her and to protect herself and her beloved child she'll have to perform one last act of dazzling daring more audacious than any she has previously attemp... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A boy raised by wolf dies while saving kids from school bombing.\nI don't know when this book was written, but I read it in 8th grade. This has been bugging me for awhile now.\n\nThere are three main characters and I don't remember any of their names. The book is through the perspective of ... | [
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"content": "The Pack.\nBecky is convinced that Akhil Vyas is the weirdest person on earth when he shows up in her English class. He refuses to sit in chairs, stares at her with spooky eyes, and has scar-covered skin. But soon Becky’s revulsion turns to fascination. The National Institutes of Health is studyin... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Novel] A really thick, green space opera novel from the 70s to 80s whose title is something like, \"Year 4000,\" or something, has a muscular shirtless guy on the cover, and has something to do about Earth battling an alien empire..\nI've never actually read the book, but that's what I remember a... | [
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"content": "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000.\n\"Nonstop and fast-paced. Every paragraph has a big bang-up adventure.\"\n—Kevin J. AndersonSuspense, thrills, action and adventure. Earth has been dominated for 1,000 years by an alien invader—and man is an endangered species. From the handful of survi... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] This teens' book I read like 6 years ago, the world is divided in 3 levels, some guy on the bottom one tries to climb to the top for a reason I can't remember.\nThe world was in [a shape roughly looking like this](https://i.imgur.com/402tSqO.png), there was maybe class division between the ... | [
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"content": "The House of Power.\nFrom the creator of the Land of Elyon comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary satellite world created as a refuge from a dying Earth that begins to collapse and forever change the lives of its inhabitants. Edgar, a gifted climber, is a lonely boy scaling the perilou... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Neighborhood of houses that all look the same.\nI believe this was on my middle school reading list. It’s a scene in the book where they go to maybe another planet and describe how eerie it is that all the houses in the neighborhood are identical. Same driveway and front yard. Maybe also de... | [
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"content": "A Wrinkle in Time.\nIt was a dark and stormy night.Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.Wi... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] Schizophrenic guy with 4 spirits in his head with fantasy elements.\nLooking for a book that I believe was the first in a trilogy. Teenage guy has I think 4 voices in his head, at least one female voice. I think the voices were spirits. \n\nI think he lives in an orphanage/halfway house fo... | [
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"content": "Intertwined.\nThere’s something about the new guy at Crossroads High…Most sixteen-year-olds have friends. Aden Stone has four human souls living inside him:One can time travel.One can raise the dead.One can possess another human.One can tell the future.Everyone thinks he’s crazy, which is why he’s... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Back in the 90's I read a book about a kid who goes to a boarding school where the principal uploads his and a girl's consciousness into a computer..\nIt may not be a boarding school precisely, and the villain may not have been a principal, but like a headmaster or something. I just remembe... | [
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"content": "Shadows.\nThey call it the Academy. A secluded, cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. A school for children gifted -- or cursed -- with extraordinary minds. Children soon to come under the influence of an intelligence even more brilliant than their own -- and unspeakably evil. Fo... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book series]Series about a group of high school/college students that are part of a dnd type game..\nProfessor starts them on a new game, with some having to make new characters, some using established characters. Reason for new game turns out due to new student being asked to join the game, prof... | [
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"content": "The Sleeping Dragon.\nCAPTIVES OF SORCERY...It began as just another evening of fantasy gaming, with James, Karl, Andrea, and the rest ready to assume their various roles as wizard, cleric, warrior, or thief. But sorcerous gamemaster Professor Deighton had something else planned for this unsuspect... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Kids book about a lonely man.\nThere was this one book that my teacher read to the class in preschool. I only ever heard the story once but I remember it quite clearly for some reason. It’s about this man who lives alone and works an office job I think. The first part of the book just talk... | [
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"content": "Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch.\nMr. Hatch leads a lonely life until one Valentine's Day when the postman delivers a huge, heart-shaped box of candy with a card reading \"Somebody loves you.\" Knowing he has a secret admirer gives Mr. Hatch a bright new perspective on life -- until it turns out the... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book about cities above clouds.\nI read it when I was younger. In the books there were cities above the clouds, they didn't actually float, but we're on top of tall mountains or something like that. \n\n\nI think the main character was some sort of royalty. People used to go from one cloud... | [
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"content": "CloudWorld.\nImagine a planet entirely covered in clouds. . . . Imagine peaks rising out of the cloudscape. . . . Imagine a citadel standing on each peak. . . .Heliopolis. A citadel divided into five layers, every citizen sure of their place and purpose. But there is one uncertainty that haunts al... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] - A young pregnant woman befriends a black man in the south in the 70s.\nThis was a book written in either the 60s or 70s. It was most likely a young adult book. It was about a young white woman who was pregnant somewhere in the south and she befriends a black man, or possibly falls in lov... | [
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"content": "My Sweet Charlie.\n\"They were born enemies -- the seventeen year old Southern white girl fleeing trouble... the Northern Negro, hunted and on the run. But since they were both fugitives -- since they were forced to share daily bread, shelter and fear -- they were forced to do one other thing. To ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] YA science fiction read in 2010.\nYA fiction, story with a young guy (possibly a character named Simon), the concept is a book controls certain elements of reality, the main character has the book that controls physics. One scene in particular there is a heavy storm centered around a clear... | [
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"content": "Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper.\nSixth-grader Simon Bloom can't believe his luck when he finds a book that enables him to control the laws of physics. By simply reciting the formulas it contains, he can cancel gravity to fly around his bedroom, or decrease friction so he can slide down the street... |
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"content": "[TOMT][children's book]book about a boy and his sentient purple ball.\nLate 90's/early 2000's a family member bought me a book about (iirc) a boy who is in bed when a spaceship arrives at his bedroom window asking him to help them with a problem. He goes and they replace him with a robot that looks like... | [
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"content": "Akiko on the Planet Smoo.\nFourth grader Akiko finds a spacecraft hovering outside her window one night, is whisked off to planet Smoo to find kidnapped Prince. How can Akiko head a rescue mission when she's afraid to be on the school's safety patrol? The team includes -- Spuckler Boach, Gax, Poog... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Fairly recent (00s) YA sci-fi novel about teenagers. Title is one word, ends with \"wood\"..\nI've read this book maybe a decade ago, and honestly I can only remember some vague details, like the kids having superpowers. I can also remember the plot twist in the end: >!it turns out that th... | [
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"content": "Idlewild.\nIt is a not-too-distant future in our all-too-recognizable world. It is the late twenty-first century and a deadly virus has seeped into human kind's genetic make-up. In only a few generations this plague will have wiped us off the face of the planet, but we're not going down without a ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Children's book about anger.\nI read this book when I was young. I would say it is at least 1992 whem it was published. \n\nI believe it starts off with him being semt to his room as punishment. He begins with being pretty annoyed, and then his anger grows more and more and it begins to af... | [
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"content": "Angry Arthur.\nWhen Arthur's mother won't let him stay up, he becomes angry -- angrier than he's ever been. His anger creates a thunderstorm, a hurricane, a universe-quake! But the storm finally calms, and so does Arthur -- who makes a surprising discovery as he falls asleep.",
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"content": "[TOMT][STORY] Short story/fairytale about a girl who cuts her cat's whiskers and is cursed with living hair.\nI had (have, somewhere) a compilation book of short stories targeted at children. It had artwork - I think in black and white - to accompany parts of the stories but was not a picture-book, it w... | [
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"content": "The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories.\nA collection of nine fairy tales including: The Last Slice of Rainbow / Clem's Dream / A Leaf in the Shape of a Key / The Queen with Screaming Hair / The Tree that Loved a Girl / Lost - One Pair of Legs / The Voice in the Shell / The Spider in the Bath... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] I can’t remember the name of this book to save my life.\nI read this boom series in middle school (like 2012-2014?) and i cannot for the life of me remember the name. i’ve been trying to find it for YEARS. the basic premise is the apocalypse, the sun explodes. it creates zombie-ish people w... | [
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"content": "Poison Princess.\n#1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces The Arcana Chronicles, post-apocalyptic tales filled with riveting action, the dark mysticism of Tarot cards, and breathtaking romance.She could save the world--or destroy it.Sixteen year old Evangeline\"Evie\" Greene l... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] A children's picture book about sending messages in bottles..\nI tried posting about this once in /r/whatsthatbook but never got a response, so let's try here...\n\nI'm not entirely sure how old I was when I read the book, but it would've been some time in the early 90s, although that is l... | [
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"content": "The Secret Three.\nThe discovery of a bottle containing a coded message leads two boys to a new friend with whom they form a club.",
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][80s-00s?] Dystopian Russian novel, cover is white and shows a teddy bear on top of Barbie doll in missionary position..\nI remember the striking cover but forget the name and author. This was assigned reading for a college class on Russian history, around 2005. I didn’t read it then, but wa... | [
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"content": "Homo Zapiens.\nThe collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a talent for putting distinctively R... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] girl falls in love with boy who has radiation sickness.\nI read this book in the early 2000s but I'm fairly certain it was relativity old at the time, the book is about a girl who lives with her mother and dog, her father died of radiation poisoning prior to the story, her mother ado... | [
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"content": "Phoenix Rising.\nNyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruption... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Teenager stuck on a tree branch with 2 girls during a storm.\nThis book is about a teenager who lives with his dad and dog inside a RV. One day there's a big storm coming and a girl asks him to stay over at his house. When the storm arrives the teenager's dad goes out of town for some suppl... | [
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"content": "Terror at Bottle Creek.\nIn this gritty, realistic wilderness adventure, thirteen-year-old Cort is caught in a battle against a Gulf Coast hurricane. Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Cate... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][YA] Help me find the title for a book about a teen boy who lacks telekinesis in a world of people who have the power..\nI read this book probably 6-7 years ago and really liked it, so I remember the basic plot. The protagonist is a teenage boy(can’t remember name) who lives in a society whe... | [
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"content": "Freakling.\nIn twelve-year-old Taemon’s city, everyone has a power called psi—the ability to move and manipulate objects with their minds. When Taemon loses his psi in a traumatic accident, he must hide his lack of power by any means possible. But a humiliating incident at a sports tournament expo... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][80s-early 2000s] Horror novel about a disabled lady cop, druids and a murderous forest.\nI got this paperback in around 2003-4 from a second-hand bookstore, so it was presumably something that came out in 1990s, maybe as early as the 80s. The story was about a female police officer who beca... | [
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"content": "Still Life.\nParalyzed from the waist down during a shoot-out, Caitlin Brook has moved back to her childhood village overlooking the Fasach Wood. Visited by Martin Thornton, a reporter who witnessed the shooting and ran to protect her, Caitlin initially believes that he is interested only in her '... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book] A kid who learns how to fly.\nI'm looking for a book about a boy who is taught how to fly and then the guy who teaches him that makes him perform in shows and in the end he loses his ability because he grew too old",
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"content": "Mr. Vertigo.\nIn Mr. Vertigo, his eighth novel, Paul Auster introduces a quintessentially America hero who, early in his life, masters the art of the unimaginable, and then must live out his days long after the magic has been lost and forgotten.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Early 2000s book about a teen girl who moves to L.A..\nThe girl is 17-18 and her entire family moves from the Midwest to Los Angeles. Her mother is a preacher. She becomes friends with a lot of people her church does not approve of, particularly one friend who is known for partying a... | [
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"content": "Amen, L.A..\nWhen Natalie Shelton and her family move from Minnesota to Beverly Hills, more changes than their zip code. Natalie's mom accepts a position as pastor with the Church of Beverly Hills—and Natalie's along for the ride. Before she can blink, she's living in a mansion once owned by Ricar... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A guy finds a town full of characters from his favorite childhood book.\nIt's about a guy, I think that he is obsessed with masks, meets a woman, can't remember the circumstances but they don't know each other very well, and they find a town where people are acting strange. Turns out that ... | [
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"content": "The Land of Laughs.\nHave you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be.Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [NOVEL] [MID TO LATE 2010s] My girlfriend is trying to remember a book she read..\nShe says the cover is black with a knife on it, and purple mist. Its a coming of age story about an Ottoman empire. Theres an ugly princess and a cute gray prince.",
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"content": "And I Darken.\nNo one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is th... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1940s-1950s] So a nuclear war happens and the fallout is heading toward Australia. Everybody’s waiting to die basically and they have suicide pills with them just in case..\nComment.",
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"content": "On the Beach.\nAfter a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] Book about shadow kids.\nI remember reading this book in school about two kids who die from a fatal accident (I think car crash?) and become shadows. Nobody but other shadows can see them. Around the end they find shadow kids eventually forget who they are",
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"content": "Everlost (Skinjacker, #1).\nNick and Allie don't survive the car accident...\n...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1980s?].\nSet in the French Revolution. Book about a boy who works for a set type printer. Gets mixed up with a traveling ne'er-do-well who works with a dwarf to dupe townspeople. They are on the run and collect a girl from an orphanage, I seem to recall that for a while she is disguised... | [
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"content": "Westmark.\nWhen Theo agrees to print a traveling showman's pamphlet, he only thinks of the money it will bring in. Instead, it sets off a chain reaction that results in the smashing of the press and the murder of his master. Caught on the wrong side of the law, Theo must flee the city. Soon, he ha... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [YA book].\nIt was a book I read when I was in like fifth grade and if I remember right it had a blue cover with a fish jumping out of a bowl on it maybe it might have been written by a guy named David or somebody in the book was named David.\n\n It was about a boy who lost his mom I think and wa... | [
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"content": "Eggs.\nNine-year-old David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Sarcastic and bossy 13-year-old Primrose lives with her childlike, fortuneteller mother, and a framed picture is the only ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] Short story in a kids' scary stories anthology, about a young graffiti artist who defaces an Egyptian museum and then is punished by Anubis.\nI think this was a story in one of those spooky story anthology books, like the Midnight Library. It's about a teenage graffiti artist who sne... | [
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"content": "Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.\nFilled with humor, adventure, and imagination, these seven short stories go from the lighthearted to the bizarre. From a teenager who drives a museum curator to mummify him for signing Phantom Snake (an anagram of his name) all over his exhibits, to a boy who's da... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Clinical trial is hiding results to get FDA approval.\nI read this book from a collection when I was about 16 (2000) but it wasn’t a brand new book so I’m not sure when it was actually written. The main character gets his dad signed up for a clinical trial for a medication. I think it was ... | [
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"content": "Miracle Cure.\nThe master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well....After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he's been chosen to joi... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book] Book series where time breaks.\nAll I can remember is that time essentially \"fractured\" with different areas being sent back or forward different amounts. The protagonist was a girl who's guardian was a cartographer, who was kidnapped near the beginning, and she's attempting to find him."... | [
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"content": "The Glass Sentence.\nShe has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World—a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, w... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A book about kids finding money.\nI read this book when I was a kid (late 1990s or early 2000s). The plot was about two teenagers finding a bag of old money and they try to spend most of it before the euro is introduced in their country (which would be soon). Obviously, two teens having bec... | [
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"content": "Millions.\nIt was a one-in-a-million chance. A bag crammed with cash comes tumbling out of the air and lands right at Damian's feet. Suddenly the Cunningham brothers are rich. Very rich. They can buy anything they want. There's just one problem -- they have only seventeen days to spend all the mon... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Two friends find out they're from Atlantis and they find a celebrity swimmer who is like them and convince him to take them out on a boat to prove it and they end up in Atlantis but they have to escape?.\nOkay so I read this book about 5 or 6 years ago as part of a book trade with this girl... | [
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"content": "The Crystal City.\nPolly Jenkins is good at school, but really excels at one thing - swimming! She is always top in any swimming competition, and living near the coast in Cornwall is able to swim every day in the sea as she never feels the cold. One day she notices a birthmark on her back shaped l... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Children smuggling Nazi gold in Switzerland?.\nBook I read in the 6th grade (around 2003) about a group of children during the war, a mix of boys and girls. I feel strongly that one was named Bertha. The book centered around them smuggling gold on sleds under the Nazis noses. Anyone?",
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"content": "Snow Treasure.\nIn the bleak winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lundstrom's tiny Norwegian village and held it captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated--until Uncle Victor told Peter how the children could fool the enemy. It was a dangerous plan. They had to slip past Naz... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2004] Sailing Adventure.\nLooking for a novel I read in Elementary school, around 2004. Novel takes place sometime between the late 1600's and before the late 1800's. Only remember that the main character learned languages using two bibles in different languages, and there was a chapter tit... | [
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"content": "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch.\nReaders today are still fascinated by “Nat,” an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign ports crowded the wharves. But Nat didn’t promise to have... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A Sci Fi novel about a human woman who rescues a female alien who crash lands on her planet and then invites the alien into a polygamous relationship with her and her family..\nThe book starts off with the woman describing how boring it is living on her mining planet and then a space ship ... | [
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"content": "Vigilant.\nTwo species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye Smallwood saw the horror firsthand, caring ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Dark graphic novel about two friends and a game.\nI'm trying to find a graphic novel I read a while ago about two children that made up a game where you would kill things. They start at things like mice then move onto bigger objects. One of the friends becomes engrossed in the game and kill... | [
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"content": "A Friendly Game.\nFriends play many kinds of games with each other: cops and robbers, checkers, tag. The best of friends will make up their own games.Todd and Kevin's friendship is built on such a game. However, the rules and premise are far from the typical childhood games. A dispute amongst the ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Girl moves into haunted house and brother can see ghost.\nSo yet another book I read this past summer and can’t remember the name (I should really do a better job of keeping track of the books I read during the summer). It was about this girl who moved into a new house and it was haunted by... | [
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"content": "The Dead and Buried.\nhome sweet home...Jade loves the house she's just moved into with her family. She doesn't even mind being the new girl at the high school: It's a fresh start, and there's that one guy with the dreamy blue eyes...But then things begin happening. Strange, otherworldly things. J... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][TimePeriodUnknown].\nI remember reading this book around when I was 12 or so which would have been in 2010. I don’t know when it came out or how old the book was when I read it, though. (hence the title) I got it at the library as a YA novel so it had to already be a few years old. The cove... | [
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"content": "Darkhenge.\nIt's been three months since Rob's younger sister, Chloe, fell into a coma after a riding accident, and his life is in disarray. Rob's parents spend most of their time at his sister's bedside, and his best friend is afraid to talk to Rob about Chloe. To distract himself, Rob takes a jo... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] YA Fiction about a break in and someone falling down the stairs.\nThis is a hard one I've been looking into for a few years now. I read the book in the early 2000s so it's gotta be pretty old. The most I can remember about the book isthat it was about a couple of guys who break into a house... | [
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"content": "We All Fall Down.\nThey entered the house at 9:02 P.M. and trashed their way through the Cape Cod cottage. At 9:46 P.M. Karen Jerome made the mistake of arriving home early. Thrown down the basement stairs, Karen slips into a coma. The trashers slip away.But The Avenger has seen it all.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book involving Native Americans.\nEver since I finished Where The Red Fern Grows, another book I can't recall the name of has been on my mind. \n\nThe book itself has elements of Native Americans, I think Cherokee tribespeople, and scalpers. In the book, there was a boy and his mother and ... | [
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"content": "The Sign of the Beaver.\nTwelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the family to their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indian chief's grandson, he is invited to join the Beaver tribe and move north. Should Matt abandon... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] girl was sewn together by her father and given life, lives on a farm with other chimeras and a farmhand who has 2 heads..\n She has two younger brothers and an older brother who was kidnapped by the government. She also helps to house a man who was shot and turns up on her doorstep looking ... | [
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"content": "House Immortal.\nOne hundred years ago, eleven powerful ruling Houses consolidated all of the world’s resources and authority into their own grasping hands. Only one power wasn’t placed under the command of a single House: the control over the immortal galvanized.... Matilda Case isn’t like most f... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000’s] young adult book about a young god and the woman he falls in love with.\ni read a book years ago about a relatively young god meeting a woman at a wedding and falling in love with her. he poses as a servant to sneak into the wedding and ends up accidentally/on purpose doing magic an... | [
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"content": "Ever.\nFalling in love is never easy, but falling in love with an immortal god while your days on earth are numbered is almost more than a young girl can bear.Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine has created a stunning new world of flawed gods, unbreakable vows, and ancient omens in this spellb... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK]A graphic novel about a knight and his horse.\nI read it as a kid and I remember it having some adult themes and it not being appropriate. I thought the knight's name was Sir Glame and the horse's name was Bill but I couldn't find anything on Google about it. I also remember the plot of one ... | [
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"content": "Plotless, Pointless, Pathetic.\nThis comic novel follows the hilarious misadventures of a knight and his horse. These two inspiring characters are about to leap into another death-defying adventure. Only the noble knight, Sir Glame, and his faithful horse Bill can save the sweet land of Sausagopol... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] [Late 90s] Young Adult suspense book about kids that sneak into tunnels/labyrinth under their school. Possibly RL Stine or Christopher Pike?.\nI'm trying to hunt down a book i read when i was a young teen. It was a horror/suspense book, likely published in the 90s. I used to read a lot of ... | [
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"content": "Trapped.\nSome kids in the sixties used to party in the tunnels under Shadyside High, until something left a bunch of people dead. But that's just a story, right? Besides, exploring the tunnels is more fun than being stuck in Saturday detention. Too bad there's no turning back--because in the tunn... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010ish??] YA dystopian book about turning dead people into purple eyed servants.\nI really don't have alot to go off of, but I remember reading this book somewhere in middle school (so it was written at least by 2018, but could have been written earlier.)\n\nI dont rememeber alot about the... | [
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"content": "Beta.\nElysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist. Elysia’s purpose is t... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Book about the background around Chernobyl and Rita Hayworth on Enola Gay, etc.\nI read this book ~7 years ago in high school about the nuclear age kind of like investigative journalism? Don’t remember all of it but I remember it had summaries interviews of interviews with Chernobyl worker... | [
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"content": "Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster.\nWritten by the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureOn April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK].\nI read this in junior high and I remember loving it so much. So there’s a cottage in the middle of nowhere and there’s a little girl who lives with her dad, and she has a pet dog. I think the cover has a dog (maybe a beagle)? And it’s set in a place where it snows/is cold a lot. The girl... | [
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"content": "The Leanin' Dog.\nMore than anything, Dessa Dean needed a friend. A friend to love and confide in, a friend with whom she could share her heart. A friend who would delight in all the beauty and joy and fun of Christmas, only four days away.Hope had just about run out, but then . . . there came a s... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Picture Book] A children's book about a man on a farm that changes fall to winter.\nThis one will be a challenge because I can't remember very much about it. I'm looking for a picture book that my teacher read to the class once when I was in elementary school. That was over ten years ago, so a lo... | [
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"content": "The Stranger.\nThe enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost?",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] 2014-2016 Hades and Persephone story with Middle Eastern elements?.\nYears ago one of my teachers recommended a book to me, and I can't remember what it was called. \nIt was a retelling of the Persephone and Hades story, but it took place somewhere in the middle east, possibly Saudi Arab... | [
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"content": "The Star-Touched Queen.\nFate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen?Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to fol... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] sci-fi children’s novel about magic/occult possibly with circle, sun, or moon in title.\nI barely remember anything about this book. I read it between 1994-1998. I don’t know when it was written. It was a children’s science fiction or fantasy chapter book. The only scene I vaguely recal... | [
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"content": "The Dark Is Rising Sequence.\nCooper's highly acclaimed series—Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree—is now available in its entirety for the first time in an attractive, sturdy boxed set that's perfect for gift giving.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] A girl nearly dies after falling through ice and afterward can sense when people are about to die..\nI don't remember any of the characters' names. But I know that the premise was about this girl who should've died because she was underwater for eleven minutes. But then after she feels a p... | [
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"content": "Fracture.\nBy the time Delaney Maxwell was pulled from a Maine lake's icy waters by her best friend, her heart had stopped beating. But somehow Delaney survived - despite the brain scans that show irreparable damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be fine, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Kid in a summer cross country tour program who hatched successful schemes to earn money at each location.\nThis book was about two guys who became camp counselors and drove these kids around in a bus that looked like an ambulance. I remember there was one scene where they were mistakenly es... | [
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"content": "No Coins, Please.\nA zany cross-country tour where cash is king and the laughs are large in classic Korman style! Dennis and Rob find perfect summer jobs as counsellors on the JT Juniortours cross-country driving tour. Dennis is in heaven - he thinks he and his friend Rob have scored the perfect s... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] A YA book about teens with superpowers.\nI know the title doesn’t quite narrow it down, so here’s what I remember:\n\nThere were about 5 or so main characters. I can only remember some of the powers and personalities. One was either a comedian or just a class clown type of character ... | [
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"content": "True Talents.\nIt’s been over a year since fourteen-year-old Eddie “Trash” Thalmeyer and his friends from Edgeview Alternative School found out about their special hidden talents. Trash can move things with his mind, Torchie is a fire-starter, Cheater reads minds, Lucky finds lost objects, Flinch ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [1990s ?] Sci-fi childrens’ book about a shuttle leaving Earth and colonizing a new planet.\nI can remember a teacher reading this book aloud in class, maybe in the late 1990s - early 2000s. It was narrated by a child who was among a group of settlers sent to a new planet. I think the plan... | [
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"content": "The Green Book.\nPattie and her family are among the last refuees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been success. But as they begin to settle this shining world, t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][2000s] Series of short stories aimed at young boys.\nI read this book when I was younger. I remember one of the stories was about aliens that were controlling this kids parents and they made him live outside and their only weakness was broccoli. Another story was about a school project in w... | [
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"content": "Funny Business.\nIt’s here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arran... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][1990s or 2000s].\nFirst time posting and on mobile, so sorry in advance!\n\nLooking for a young adults chapter book about a girl who moves into a new apartment building and loses her keys. (They actually get yanked off of her bag by a bully.) She winds up visiting neighboring units and mee... | [
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"content": "Olivia Kidney.\nOlivia Kidney's new apartment building is crazy Talking lizards crawling everywhere. A tropical rainforest growing in 7B. Even an apartment made entirely of glass Maybe her father will get fired from his job as the building super, and they can leave. But Olivia is tired of moving f... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [book] about horses i read as like a 12 years old in 2014ish.\nOk so the book was set in this kinda medievalisque fantasy world. It was super matriarchal and i think the main characters mom owned some land and was a really respected woman? The main character was a young girl with a passion for ho... | [
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"content": "Silverhorse.\nIn the country of Breda, men are forbidden a home to call their own. They live as nomads, resting only at the mercy of the ruling women. Kat's mother, Tess, the Maestra of Crowfoot Inn, is one of these powerful women and Kat has always known it is her destiny to follow in Tess' foots... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A foreign-translated book where a man’s wife points out things he hadn’t noticed about himself prior, and attempts to see his life from an out-of-body perspective.\nHello! I read this book in the 2018 timeframe on the Gutenberg project, I believe. It consists of a man whose wife points out ... | [
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"content": "One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.\nThe great Pirandello's (1867-1936) 1926 novel, previously published here in 1933 in another translation, synthesizes the themes and personalities that illuminate such dramas as Six Characters in Search of an Author.Vitangelo Moscarda ``loses his reality'' whe... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] A book where a kid goes back in time with his friend to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand..\nI can’t remember much about it, I read it in about 2009. It started with the main character ‘dying’ in a war situation but it turns out it was just a video game. Then him and his friend(... | [
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"content": "Day of the Assassins: A Jack Christie Adventure.\nFIRST IN AN EXCITING NEW SERIESJack Christie and his best friend, Angus, find themselves at the center of a momentous event that will shape history for decades to come. Their dilemma: Should they intervene? Their problem: Can they survive? Join Jac... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Old children’s book with yellow hippo like weird creatures that may have lived underground.\nI remember the book being like a large rectangle and it was just about the lives of these weird creatures. It was kind of dark and I remember one page was them in battle armor. I can’t remember wha... | [
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"content": "Trouble for Trumpets.\nJust as the Trumpets, summer creatures who live in a world of warmth and sunshine, prepare to hibernate, the Grumpets, winter creatures who live in the dark, frozen mountains of the north, prepare to take over their land.",
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"content": "[TOMT][NOVEL] book about crew of boat who dock on a mysterious island and they find strange creatures.\nI’m pretty sure it’s called “island” and then is followed by a 3 digit number but I can’t find it. In the book they eventually discover that experiments are going on there and it’s kinda horrorish ",
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"content": "Island 731.\nThe high adventure of James Rollins meets the gripping suspense of Matthew Reilly in Jeremy Robinson's explosive new thrillerMark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working on board the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] time travel children's book series.\nthere was a series, perhaps a trilogy, that had a brother and sister move to a new place for the summer and they meet two friends and somehow time travel. in one of the books I think they go to Egypt and meet cleopatra. at some point the group loses the... | [
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"content": "The Golden Hour.\nThirteen-year-old Rowan and his eleven-year-old sister Nina, still bereft by the death of their mother the year before, experience an unusual adventure through time when they come to stay with their two eccentric great-aunts in a small town on the Maine coast.",
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][older than 2008] Book about a young (tween/young teen) girl named Rose, I believe she shoplifted during the story. Cover is a close-up of a girl’s face.\nHello,\n\nI’m looking for a book I read as a kid. The book had a (I believe black and white) picture of a young girl’s face as the cover,... | [
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"content": "Permanent Rose.\nIt's a long hot summer - to Permanent Rose it seems never ending. Rose misses Tom, Indigo's friend who went back to America. New friend David is not a good enough replacement. Caddy's fiancee, Michael, tries to cheer her up by delivering a rose every day, but that just provides te... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000/10s(?)].\nThere was this book I had read years ago - it had a black and yellow cover with I think a door? - and it's about this boy who had commited suicide by drowning himself and is now in this place where there's no other person until he suddenly stumbles upon two people: this bla... | [
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"content": "More Than This.\nA boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Mig... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] A book I read maybe 7 years ago. Frozen fjord or somewhat related title, the cover showed someone smashing ice with a hammer IIRC..\nSolved Icefall\n\nI remember a book I read in elementary or middle school likely 7 years ago. I specifically remember not understanding the title at my age wh... | [
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"content": "Icefall.\nTrapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig, along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an army of restless warriors, anxiously awaits news of her father's victory at battle. But as winter stretches on, and the unending i... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Book where the main character gets a job in a small closet changing a lightbulb and finds out it's for talking to the dead.\nHey, maybe somewhere between 10-15 years ago I remember my mom had an audiobook that we would listen to in the car from the library. Like the title says it had a main... | [
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"content": "The Fandom of the Operator.\n'To call Rankin irreverent doesn't begin to describe just how good he is at playing with the rules' MIRRORGary Cheese is twenty-two years of age and works for British Telecom as an operator. Gary's hobbies include watching TV, walking his dog Princey, going down the pu... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] The book was about German Nazi and espionage..\nThe book starts off with the main character (guy) inherited a painting? from his relative who happens to be a hotshot Nazi in the past (He died in a senior home). A (I believe Russian) spy was sent to recover the paintings so that the country... | [
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"content": "A Matter of Honor.\nIt seems innocent enough. A disgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. But the moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, he sets into motion a deadly chain of events that threatens to shake the very foundations of the free world.Within days, ... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] help me find a grade school book?.\nRe-posted with correct title format \n\nHoping the nostalgia hive mind can help:\n\nIt was a book I read for class in fifth or sixth grade (I believe) so between 98 and 00. All I remember is there was some kind of time travel involving a coin (I think) b... | [
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"content": "The Castle in the Attic.\nOne of the classic fantastical adventures of all time!William has just received the best present of his life—an old, real-looking stone and wooden model of a castle, with a drawbridge, a moat, and a fingerhigh knight to guard the gates. It’s the mysterious castle his hous... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] A book for kids teaching mathematical concepts, black and white illustrations, \"pig eyes\", 1980s?.\nI would say it was probably published anywhere from 1970-2000, but I'm thinking sometime in the 80s is most likely. It was in english and probably written by an American.\n\nThis was not a... | [
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"content": "Math for Smarty Pants.\nText, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.",
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] Pre-teen novel about girls at summer camp, themes of roses.\nThere was a janitor at the camp who pretended to be mentally handicapped because he didn't want the girls to talk to him or something. The protagonist knew the truth though and would talk to him. One girl in the bunk has a tattoo... | [
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"content": "The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place.\nI Prefer Not To.... That's Margaret Rose Kane's response to every activity she's asked to participate in at the summer camp to which she's been exiled while her parents are in Peru. So Margaret Rose is delighted when her beloved uncles rescue her from Camp Tal... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2010S].\nOk, so there's these aliens that promise to help earth, and they say they're gonna bring back the icecaps, but then there's too much ice and it's really cold. so then earth goes to war with the aliens, and the main character who I think name's Alice goes to mars with a bunch of o... | [
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"content": "Mars Evacuees.\nThe fact that someone had decided I would be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.I’d been worried I was about to be told that my mother’s s... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book][early 2000s?] Christmas book about a little girl that asks for a family on a giving tree!.\nI used to own this book, and I loved it as a teenager. I have no idea what it's called or who it's by, but it was about a little girl who sneaks a thing asking for a family onto a giving tree. At on... | [
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"content": "What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story.\nNot everyone is lucky at Christmas. Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it doesn't feel that way to her. It seems that only a miracle can give 8-year-old Katie her holiday wish. She wants a family, something s... |
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"content": "[TOMT][book][late2000s-present].\nI checked out a book from the library within the last 6 months and forgot to record it in Goodreads. Now I can’t remember the name or author and my library has updated their system which wiped out all previous history. \nI would say it’s set modern-day, but I don’t real... | [
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"content": "The Salt House.\n*Real Simple “Best Books of June” *Refinery29 “Best Beach Reads of 2017”This gorgeously written, heartbreaking, yet hopeful debut set during a Maine summer traces the lives of a young family in the aftermath of tragedy.In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly have ... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2000s] It's a fantasy book where people go into mass collective dreams together as a form of entertainment and the people in power are the \"directors\" of the dream. There is also a weird gollum sand man that the main character creates by looking at a secret book..\nThe protagonist is a gi... | [
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"content": "Dreamhunter.\nLaura comes from a world similar to our own except for one difference: it is next to the Place, an unfathomable land that fosters dreams of every kind and is inaccessible to all but a select few, the Dreamhunters. These are individuals with special gifts: the ability to catch larger-... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] Tom Clancy novel taking place in Singapore (not Point of Contact).\nI'm looking for a Tom Clancy novel that took place in Singapore and was written between the mid-90s or early 2000s, so it's not Point of Contact. It may not have even been Tom Clancy specifically but a similar writer.",
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"content": "Ruthless.com.\nEncryption technology keeps the codes for the world's security and communication systems top secret. Deregulating this state-of-the-art technology for export could put a back-door key in the pockets of spies and terrorists around the world. So when American businessman Roger Gordian... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] “murder” mystery, young adult/teen.\ni read this book many many years ago but i don’t remember the title. \n\na girl thinks she killed her father, wakes up in a bathroom having written “i killed him” all over the walls. she thinks she’s been raped but gets a kit done and hasn’t been. \n\nw... | [
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"content": "Oblivion.\nLisa McMann's Dead to You meets Kate Ellison's The Butterfly Clues in a psychological thriller full of romance, intrigue, and mystery. One year ago, Callie was found in an abandoned apartment, scrawling words on the wall: \"I KILLED HIM. His blood is on my hands. His heart is in my soul... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] containing a scene in which a religious figure burns their religious text in order to keep a religious enemy warm through the night.\nSo this is a bit of an odd one. I don't actually know this book. I read a description of this scene written by someone who failed to recall where the scene w... | [
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"content": "Carpe Jugulum.\nIn a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intentio... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK][2010s] A book about a group of young teenagers who get trapped in a store when some sort of bio weapon or virus is airborne..\nOne of the details I remember is that the teenagers are affected differently by this bio weapon/virus depending on they’re blood type I think.",
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"content": "Monument 14.\nYour mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not-you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the cor... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] [2000s] A young adult/juvenile novel about an orphan named January.\nI had picked this book up at my middle school public library. It began introducing an orphan (I think a girl) named January. I believe January got lost at a certain point and stumbled across an old man living behind a wat... | [
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"content": "Heaven Eyes.\nErin Law and her friends are Damaged Children. At least that is the label given to them by Maureen, the woman who runs the orphanage that they live in. Damaged, Beyond Repair because they have no parents to take care of them. But Erin knows that if they care for each other they can p... |
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"content": "[TOMT][BOOK] ____ Bones, i think. scary kids book about a witch cooking a kid?.\nit was a book i picked up at the book fair when i was a kid, the child was told by his/her mom to take a basket of food to (somewhere) and along the way the kid runs into a witch or something. there was a page about the bat... | [
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"content": "Bony-Legs.\nWhen a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a mirror and comb given to her by the witch's cat and dog.",
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Fantasy book in which the protagonist is an Android.\nAll I remember about this book is that it is part of a larger series and that plot is “After an alien attack, humanity has reverted to medieval technology” and that the main character that we follow is a robot.",
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"content": "Off Armageddon Reef.\nHumanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the e... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [Book] YA-ish book I read in the 80's.\nI remember a few of the major plot points of a book my aunt made me read over one summer to keep my brain from turning to mush, but can't for the life of me remember the title:\n\n1. The story is about a kid (pre- or early teens) who is fairly introverted a... | [
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"content": "The Cartoonist.\nBy the author of the Newbery Medal-winning The Summer of the SwansThe only time Alfie feels at peace is when he's drawing pictures in his attic room, away from his unhappy family and the outside world. So when his mother makes other plans for the attic, Alfie barricades himself in... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book][1990s or earlier]I read this book when I was younger, but I can only remember this one scene.\nHowdy solvers! This scene has been hanging around in the back of my mind for awhile now, and I just can't figure out which book it happens in.\n\nHere are the vague details I remember:\n\n* Fairly... | [
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"content": "The Last Battle.\nThis edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction is packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive P.S. section about the history of the book, plu... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Edgier Encyclopedia Brown.\nSo when I was younger I read a book that was about a young teenage boy who solved mysteries that his mother, a policewoman, brought home. It was a bit like Encyclopedia Brown, but these were (for the most part) murders. There are two stories that I'm able to rem... | [
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"content": "Kids' Whodunits: Catch the Clues!.\nThe challenge is on for young amateur sleuths: how do their skills stack up against a brainy pre-teen who helps his detective mom figure out “whodunit?” Ever since Jonah Bixby’s father—also a detective—died in the line of duty, Jonah would come down to the stati... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [BOOK] Not sure when it was written. I remember it being written as a diary, and the end was like The Outsiders where it starts over again. Revolves around a young girl and her family who go thru space and make a new home on a new planet, and I’m pretty sure there were giant bugs involved..\nIf i... | [
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"content": "The Green Book.\nPattie and her family are among the last refuees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been success. But as they begin to settle this shining world, t... |
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"content": "[TOMT][Book] Children's book set in WWII during the Blitz.\nI would have read this book in the mid- to late-1980s. It was set in WWII England and it was about a group of friends and the air raids of the Blitz featured prominently. It's not the Machine Gunners, nor another Robert Westall book, as far as ... | [
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"content": "Dawn of Fear.\nDerek and his friends, living outside of London during World War II, find plenty of opportunities to explore bomb craters, collect shrapnel, and identify the fighter planes that fly overhead. When a bomb hits close to school, causing classes to be canceled, the boys are overjoyed: T... |
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"content": "[TOMT] [POEM] poem about astronauts that are stuck floating in space?.\nit ends with one burning up in the atmosphere, to which a child makes a wish upon, thinking its a falling star.",
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"content": "L'homme illustré.\nHe was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.\nThe Illustrated ManRay Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his o... |
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