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Kids eat everything in a random house and think they ate the dwellers' baby
I'm looking for the name of an old children's book where the kids smell something nice. The kids then stumble along a house full of food and eat everything in the house. They are tricked into thinking ...
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What’s this book? Teen girl novel
This girl is walking with her friend to somewhere and she trips over at this tanned older boy catches her fall and end up getting together and the parents don’t approve of it. There was one scene they ...
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Greek myth about an athlete who kills another man with a discus
I was wondering if someone could help me identify this story from Greek (I'm almost certain) legend that I read when I was young (in the 80s or 90s).
Anyway, an athlete is competing at the discus, but ...
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What is meant by "I was blue ribbon" and "I broke my blue ribbon"?
In The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (a Sherlock Holmes short story):
"'I was blue ribbon at that time, and we were putting a little money by, and all was as bright as a new dollar. My God, ...
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Forced marriage in children's fiction? [closed]
I'm looking for children's books that include forced marriage. Any time period/genre will do as long as the book was written for children. I'm researching how forced marriage is depicted in children's ...
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What was the theological pamphlet attributed to Thomas Middleton?
The Wikipedia article on Thomas Middleton contains the following claim:
Due to a theological pamphlet attributed to him, Middleton is thought by some to have been a strong believer in Calvinism.
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Postapocalyptic sci-fi book with robot "Angels" suppressing human knowledge
I'm looking for a book title about a postapocalyptic world where the survivors live in isolated villages and knowledge and technological progress is suppressed by "Angels" that turn out to ...
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Are these two novels referred to in The Overstory real, and if so, can anyone identify them?
The Overstory is a 2018 novel by Richard Powers, in which the lives of nine characters are intertwined with each other and with those of trees. At one point, two of the characters are tree-sitting in ...
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What does Athena mean in this passage of book 3 of the Odyssey?
In book 3 of The Odyssey, Athena says this to Telemachus after he says that he will never gain her favor (in Robert Fagles' translation):
“Telemachus!”
Pallas Athena broke in sharply, her eyes afire—
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Popular science book(s) about industry [closed]
I'd love to read something about how modern industry produces all the stuff arounds us: cities, vehicles, household appliances - and everything used for the production, like plastics, metals, and ...
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Book title 'Money' in Martin Amis's 'Money'
In Martin Amis's book Money, published in 1984, the narrator, John Self, refers several times to a book he is reading called Money. Is the latter supposed to be a real book?
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Asking for author of a short story "The postman and the old woman"
I've just read a touching short story "The postman and the old woman". Strangely, I can't find the name of writer anywhere. I think it's from "Chicken soup for the soul" series but ...
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Book Identification: Chapter Book about Father's Alcoholism
I remember reading this book way back when I was a kid. Though, but I can't remember when. I believe it was a chapter book. I don't remember much, but this is what I can piece together about it:
The ...
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Where is Hardy's Carriford?
In Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy writes of a village named Carriford. Being close to Kingston Maurward I assumed it to be Stinsford, but Hardy refers to this place as Mellstock. Did Hardy make up ...
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What does Athena mean by 'slaughtering his droves of sheep and cattle'?
In book 1 of The Odyssey, Athena says to Zeus (in Robert Fagles' translation):
While I myself go down to Ithaca, rouse his son
to a braver pitch, inspire his heart with courage
to summon the flowing-...
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