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Does anyone remember the name of an Arthur C. Clarke (I think...) story about nuclear missile troops stationed in high earth orbit on Orion-type ships witnessing a nuclear war taking place on Earth? Any help would be appreciated.
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A children's book - short novel style - that I read in the mid nineties but seemed a lot older about a girl who could lick her elbow? This was a really big deal (obviously) but also meant that she could fly. She had a porcelain daschaund/sausage dog figurine that was her only friend but broke?
I remember it having a ridiculously long title something like 'The Little Girl Who Could Lick Her Elbow and Fly' but not quite that literal? It would mean so much if I could find the name of this book!
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i read this book when i was a kid, it was a small novel about a boy who goes to the markets (i think)and he finds this stall run by a guy selling magic candies. the boy buys a bag of them and they all have different magic powers. i remember in one chapter he puts one in his baby sisters bottle. he goes back to find the stall at the end of the novel and the guy isnt there anymore and doesnt seem to have ever existed. im sorry if this is a little vague, it would have been a good 15 years since i read it! i also remember that the chapters where named after the different candies and the author was VERY descriptive about the colors of the wrapping paper around them.
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There's a book I read when I was younger. It's about these poor kids who live on the street, and there's this older kid who's a thief who steals from homes to bring them food/other supplies. He's their leader, of sorts, and the kids look up to him. Later, it's revealed that he's actually just an upper-class kid taking things from his own house and pretending to be a thief. I'm pretty confident the title of the book is "The [Something] Thief" Anyone have any idea?
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This was a book my teacher read to the class in 2001. It was about a girl who was on a boat and something happened, sending her underwater. While underwater she met a Coelacanth who talked to her. There were also some seal(ions) (can't remember which they were) who talked to her... That's all I've got.
Is any of this useful to anyone? ^^;
I tried looking up the name I thought it was called ("World Beneath the Waves"), but that's not turning up anything useful- not even when adding the addendum "Coelacanth"
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It was a book I read part of in 9th grade, so....2-3 years ago.
It was about the future. The society was very...commercialist as I recall. I remember the main boy and the main girl using like some sort of mind link or something to screw with places trying to sell them stuff.
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Two short stories. I think they were from the same short story anthology but were by different authors:
1) An obese Big Eater goes to a mall's food court, and ends up being put on trial by a literal food court (with giant talking fast food items serving as the judge, jury, etc).
2) In a small town in the 1950's, somehow all the televisions start picking up programming from the modern day. There's a major panic in the town because, based on the content, people are convinced the airwaves have been taken over by communists.
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Okay, this might not really count as 'Literature' since it had more pictures than words, but it was book-shaped, darnit, do it stands.
It was a book I had when I was very little, and lost with no trace long ago enough that I'd nearly forgotten it even exsisted. All I really remember was that there were two monkeys in it, called Miss Chief and Master Cor, and there was something about toffee trees...
I pressed my mother for information, but all she could remember was that the author was one of a British comedy double-act. That's really about all. It's been bothering me for years on end, and I can't seem to find any information with the clues I have. I might just not be looking hard enough, but if anyone has any idea, please help!
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There was this book, not very thick, but it was about this girl who was given five? wishes I think, or maybe three? but if she used up the last one she died. She also died if she gave the wishes away. Along the way, one of her friends,a guy, was about to get hung but she wished and he escaped somehow. He got to thinking he was the one with the wishes.When they ran away, A man wanted her to use one of her last wishes to overthrow the king.
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A picture book about a family trying to find their perfect car. I remember reading it several times. The family test drives a few cars, and they find one that can basically do anything, it can fly, turn into a submarine...etc.
The art style was kind of simplistic, and the family looked like those little people pegs in the board game "Life", and I think they were each wearing different colored shirts.
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Young Adult current-day fiction novel about two teens who visit their uncle's old cabin over the summer and find out that a shed nearby has mysterious time bending abilities, with objects and people in the shed experience time slowing down dramatically. People outside the shed observe this as objects inside speeding up.
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I know what this book is called, but I'm having a hard time tracking it down, so does anyone know who the author is? It's a children's book, and it's called When Pigs Fly (99% certain on this). It's about a girl who wakes up in a strange land. It's mostly Earth-like, except for some mythical creatures and reality-bending storms called 'grunters'. The only visible sign of a grunter is it causing pigs to float off the ground. The stronger the grunter, the higher they float. (This is important.) Grunters not only cause improbable things to happen, but also affect people's minds, such as turning them absent-minded or cranky. As an outsider though, the protagonist is unaffected by the grunters.
The story is about her trying to get home. With the help of an elderly couple and other townsfolk, she finally does find a way, which is spelled out in an old children's rhyme. (I can actually recite the whole rhyme from memory, if that would help in any way.) She climbs onto a pig's back during a Force 10 grunter (the highest), flies into the sky with it, and wakes up at home.
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What I'm looking for is a book about a thief. He's born with an incredible luck. When he dies, though, he wakes up in a tower with a cat he later nicknames Emerald(and then shortens to Em or Emmy). This cat later turns out to be a goddess. His mission is to collect the people who will save the world, including a little boy, a vicious princess and a young man(who later starts dating), a kind of "witch"(or a psychic female) and a priest. There might be more of them. The young man has a special knife, which the main character originally "bought" from the princess for the goddess(in her cat shape). There were many enemies, who had to be defeated in different ways(one had to be confused, the witch had to tear one to pieces, etc.) The whole story ends with the goddess and the thief, having fallen in love(possibly married?). The goddess points out that she's pregnant, and the thief hugs her, muttering 'I really do love you, Em' or something along those lines. I hope you can help me!
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Two seperate books:
1. A boy somehow aquires some little ?statues? of monsters which come alive when he gets them wet. I don't remember them all, but I think one of them was a medusa-like monster. I think he might have had a little sister.
2. A boy lives in the sewers with his father. The dad was accused of murdering someone with the essance of artichoke which is apparently very toxic. Also there are some talking rats who live on a ship. I think it might have been a laundry ship. The biggest and nastiest of these rats has gone missing. It turns out that he made a deal with the bad guy who offered him lots of food. I believe the book ended with the rat being basically hooked up to this machine, there was some serious forcefeeding going on. Then he was set loose on the town, so he wass sort of waddling around causing massive damage, then he got caught on somthing and popped, covering the entire town in a layer of melted cheese.
Looking back, I think I read some really weird stuff as a kid.
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You know that show with the guy that does the things? And his friend is that dude that's always doing stuff?
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The books I'm thinking of are young adult/teen books (though I read them when I was in my tweens). It involved two young protagonists, a boy and a girl (I forget if they were sister and brother) and it was a series involving mythology.
Basically, there was a way they could go into myths (I forget if it was through some computer program) and become the characters inside them. I remember one of them being about this Japanese (or just an Asian one in case I'm not remembering this correctly) lady. I forget if she was a ghost but she may have been. Anyways, this guy in the myth falls in love with her and later on some stuff goes wrong. The teenager in the real world goes into the myth and ends up taking the place of the guy and his partner/sister/whoever she is has to go in there and save him. The cover had a pic of the Japanese lady on it and it had a blue motif.
This was just one of the books. It was a series of books and I think I vaguely remembering on having the Minotaur in it. I really want to read them again and I've been going crazy trying to find it.
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Went to add this to Free-Love Future and suddenly realised I didn't remember what it was called or who it was by.
It's a Free-Love Future where people are pretty much expected to wander into each others' houses for sex at night. The point of the book is that a society like that would develop its own sexual "deviencies". One of the main characters is criticized by his wife becuase he keeps sleeping with the same woman, not because he's attracted to her, but because he's attracted to her brother — it's the fact he won't just sleep with the brother that's considered abnormal, and she attributes this hangup to him studying 20th century sociology.
I think there's a guy visiting from another society who keeps an open mind about the sex, but gets very embarassed when the couple have a blazing row.
And there's one scene where the sociologist, trying to understand 20th century sex-based profanity, repeats the f- and c- words over and over, comparing them with the modern equivilents "top" and "slot".
Got it from the library in the 1990s.
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There was a picture book I used to have about a little boy whose grandparents accidentally left him with the aardvark at the zoo because they had really bad eyesight. The momma aardvark was also confused about why the boy wasn't eating ants or anything, and eventually they got them switched back.
Sound familiar to anyone? I'd like to know the title, as this was one of the picture books I really remember.
I read this book in...third/fourth grade, it was assigned reading. It's set during the whole black racism time in America and while I can't remember very much from the book (I hate to admit it, but I skimmed pretty badly), there are two things I can remember:
-At the very beginning, the main character (the main character is a girl, and the book is in first person)'s brother throws a fit because the textbook he was given has a record of the names of all of the students who used it. It has a part next to it where the students wrote in what race they were, and so at the beginning it's a long list of names with "White" next to it and finally one name at the bottom with "nigra" next to it. (It uses a demeaning word and implies that black people are only fit for secondhand things, which is why he throws a fit)
-The main character has a bad relationship with a white girl (and her parents order her to not get involved with her), and soon they develop a friendship that from the outside looks like a friendship but (and this is where my memory gets foggy) the white girl is just ordering her around and blackmailing her, and finally the main character gets fed up and offers to show her a "surprise" and shocks her by throwing the girl's books on the floor and telling her she's not taking any more of it. (The white girl had forced her to carry her books for her.)
Anyone know? I know I haven't provided much to work off of, but knowing what the book was would be helpful.
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