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Book about wooden sailing ships with FTL
I read this book in the 1990s; I'm trying to remember the name. It seems like a the start of a series I'd like to read the rest of now.
It's a space opera about humans traveling our galaxy with giant ...
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Story Identification: Novel in which aliens drain sun's energy
I read this book in my school's library and that was a long time ago (long enough ago that I don't remember). I will give my best to reproduce the important parts of it. Few scientists, while working ...
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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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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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Book about a girl escaping beyond her kingdom walls
I don't remember much since it was so long ago but there was this girl who lived in a kingdom surrounded by walls. Beyond those walls laid a deserted land of sand which had no life. She escapes and ...
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Fantasy Novel where the main character could summon shadows
This was a book I read several years ago. It was in the Sword & Sorcery genre, and the main character can summon shadows. He had a connection to the world of shadows and was the child of a human ...
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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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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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looking for a 90's fantasy I read it in trade paperback woman falls in love with leader of rebellion (who is actually a prince)
-it was a Fantasy book trade size paperback, I remember it being a light-colored cover, like pink, peach, or light yellow or light green. It had a symbol on the front like a labyrinth I think).
Plot ...
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Trying to find book about monster that hides in dreams
I read a book as a child about these kids that find this guy at the zoo who talks about this mystical almost-extinct animal who was hidden inside a secret place which could only be accessed through ...
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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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Trying to identify book I read as a child. With hindsight, possibly politically incorrect
I am trying to find the name of a book I read as a child and thought people here might know. I asked this question here before some years ago, but some more details have occurred to me so I thought I ...
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Help identifying a young adult book series from the 2000s (closer to 2010-2017) about vampires
I can't remember the title or characters so here we go.
Young adult book series (2000 closer to 2010-2017) with female protagonist in high school who turns into a vampire (missing several days of ...
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Looking for a fantasy book I started reading but never finished
I don't remember much about it I just remember that it started with the place where a kid lived is destroyed.
The main detail I remember is that the portal to the other land is an imperfect street ...
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