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Yet another Plant People Invasion book title
I read a novella many years ago that I think was written in the '50s or '60s. The story centers around a couple of teenagers who live in a small desert town. They notice that adults in their town are ...
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Book about a girl whose hair changes with the seasons
I read this book probably early 2000's but it would of been published in the 90s. (I think)
In the story it's a girl who has to go journey somewhere (I don't really remember the main bits of the book)...
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Fantasy series about a disabled protagonist
I've spent years trying to find this book series. I can't remember the name of the book I read, the author, or the characters, but I remember some key parts about the protagonist.
I think he was an ...
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Looking for a book: title contained a number (maybe), story was about a female humanoid operative
The book documented the adventures of a female humanoid being whose body was altered to enable her to be a message/document carrier as well as a highly trained military-esq operative when needed for ...
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Book from the golden age about insect-like aliens pretending to be humans
I read a sci-fi book a long time ago and really enjoyed it, but for for the life of me, I can't remember its title or author and only remember a few details (really few).
I'm almost certain it was ...
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What poetic old detective noir book has mutants smuggled out of a ghetto being blackmailed?
Years ago I read this old science fiction book that was written in a poetic noir style, and I remember bits of the plot, but not any names to google. Could you help me find it?
It was from my Dad's ...
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80s Sci-Fi book about kid who fails magic test / woman martial artist (The Nin?) who leads revolt
I need the name of a book that I read in the 80s. Here is what I remember:
It starts on a spaceship where a young boy is being sent back to his family after failing magic school.
He failed because ...
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Book about a boy and future earth?
I can't remember the title and it's killing me. It's about a boy, teenage I think and he gets slung forward in time. Old medicine woman or something, name begins with an M. Apparently the earth had ...
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Book with a crazy cult which eats vat-grown flesh of Jesus for Communion
I think this book came out 5-10 years ago. It's a near-future dystopia that takes place in a very Balkanized America. There's a teenage boy who lives with his family in a gated community compound. ...
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Looking for a book with a talking cat
I know the title is a bit vague :\
I remember reading a book with a cat that in the middle of talking would stop to groom himself. I think he talked mostly in riddles and ambiguously (As would befit ...
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Female hacker who sees how a lot of people die; possibly called "Beautiful Net"
I remember I once read a book (around 2008) about this hacker girl who mysteriously sees how a lot of people die in strange circumstances. The story takes place in a very near future (I hope), when ...
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A series of books involving reptilian-alien protagonists
I'm trying to track down these books I read when I was younger. I've done some fruitless searching online and am stumped. It's been a good 10 years since I read any of them. Cover is very 70s/80s (...
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Trying to remember a book that had people (I think they turned white?) segregated into a compound
I think the main character was a prince or high born person, who one day wakes up and looks in the mirror and his hair is turning white, I think his skin bleaches out too... His servants notice and ...
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Fantasy novel about a boy with a streak of white in his hair, as the book progresses his hair gets more white
I need to know the title of a novel I read a few years ago (90s).
It's about an orphan boy that has a little white in his hair, meaning that he has magic powers, and as the book progresses his hair ...
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Identify a trilogy about Earth and its colonies in a civil war
I'm trying to find this book trilogy. It is set in the future when earth and its colonies are engaged in a civil war. It deals with battles and strategies of the war, but also the politics involved ...
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Post Apocalyptic Series With Alien Species
I read this series when I was younger but cannot remember the name to save my life. I remember a species of Aliens saves humanity from the ashes of an apocalyptic nuclear fallout and in the resulting ...
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What book has a space station orbiting a sun
I remember a few details of the book I'm looking for. It is a space station in close orbit to the/a sun. Only children on board who are the children of the adults. But the adults were criminals and ...
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