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Book about a girl who drains your life upon touching you, is hunted by a group which wants to weaponize her
There was a book I read but I can't remember the name of it; I think it was "Shattered" something.
It was about a girl who drained your life upon touching you. It was set in the future and there was ...
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Novel about a tattoo that comes to life and jumps off the person's body
It was a sci-fi book with a red and orange cover on the hardcover edition. I'm pretty sure the author was male but wasn't by Bradbury or Asimov or anyone like that. I think it was published in the ...
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80s Novel series about post apocalypse world where 4 soldiers try and bring order
Looking for a novel series I read in the 1980s about 4 soldiers (the leader was a US Marine Force Recon member). There was also a Navy Officer, Green Beret soldier and Air Force fighter pilot.
They ...
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Fantasy series about powerful mages outside of space/time and King stranded on a water world
I read a series of books which I don't believe is the Castle Perilous series as those came out at the end of the 80's and I think I read this other series in the mid 80's.
It involved a castle and it ...
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Fantasy novel where magic is granted by knowledge of words of power [duplicate]
Several years back, I was on a backpacking trip with a guy whose whole family were huge fans of classic SF/Fantasy. One of the fantasy books he brought for the long car rides piqued my interest, but ...
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Novel series with students at a magic university
I read two books in a series and have forgotten the author and the titles.
The first book was about a young man who was a student in a magic university who became very powerful and was able to travel ...
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Book about a kingdom invaded by another world
This is a series my father read when he was younger (he was born in the 60s) and had me read as a kid, the book cover had the look and feel of classic fantasy novels such as the Wheel of Time series.
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Looking for a sci-fi book about a steampunk type world that is powered by brightly coloured particles that almost everyone can see
I only read the first book in the series and that was about ~8-10 years ago. It was in English.
It starts out with a woman manipulating these brightly coloured particles to build a statue. The ...
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Novel about humans on a frozen planet
I'm trying to remember the title of a science fiction novel I read years ago about a frozen planet onto which some Earth explorers crash land. The natives don't smile except as an act of aggression(?) ...
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Book ID: Boy plays a video game and has to to solve different tasks (the last being a maze that's an IQ test)
There is this boy who plays a video game where he has to solve a multitude of tasks. One was a tactical space battle and the last one was a maze.
Later, it's revealed that it was some IQ test and he ...
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Name of a YA book series about Dragons and wyverns
I only have so much to work from my memory but here it goes:
The story was about a normal child that was pulled into a fictional world where Wyverns stalked the land. The protagonist (a youngish boy ...
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Help find a childhood book
Okay so from what I remember the story takes place in a (boring?) gray world and the main character is a girl (maybe around 12). I don't remember how but the girl ended up in a different (realm? world?...
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I'm looking for a book where a family go camping in the woods and aliens start attacking
So the book starts off with the family deciding to take a trip to a cabin in the woods. The daughter also has her best friend with her.
The points I remember from the book:
The father has an affair ...
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Fantasy series where people have ID tattoos on their earlobes?
It was a series, possibly a trilogy. I would have read it around 2005 from the local library. I have a feeling it may have been from the 80's. Was a paperback and I think each book was a different ...
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What's that book that ends with the preserved head of a political genius?
In this society, bisexuality is seen as fashionable. In the past, they perfected a method to accelerate equine pregnancy. That method is later used in humans, with the result that now humans grow up ...
