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Science fiction book about a world where bioengineered animals are used for common functions
A novel/book from the 90's. Society used genetically modified animals to perform basic tasks. For example, birds were genetically modified to be large enough to carry passengers like our passenger ...
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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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Elf Left In the Humans' World, Came Back To A Magical Farm
I believe there were four or five books in the series, maybe more or less. I remember the protagonist being female. I read this approximately three years ago, and I think it was relatively new then, ...
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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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Help identifying a novel about repeated doomed expeditions to a deadly alien structure [duplicate]
Years ago, there was a sci-fi novel that I read about a series of ill-fated expeditions to explore an alien structure in space. It popped into my head for some reason, and it's been driving me crazy ...
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Book trilogy about teenagers with superpowers in an industrialization like era
I'm trying to figure out the name of a trilogy of books I read 7 to 10 years ago. I read the books in German and don't know if they where translations or what language they were originally written in. ...
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Science fiction novel featuring a hillbilly roadside mechanic
I'm looking for an old sci-fi book. It features a hillbilly roadside mechanic who turns out to be some kind of super genius with mechanical things, but has poor money and social skills. He fixes the ...
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Help finding the name of a book about/containing a self harming angel?
I come here one more time to help my friend again, she's trying to remember a book she read around 8 years ago.
What she remembers is that it depicted an angel covered in scars, each scar she ...
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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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YA novel about a girl in dystopian society who gets surgically altered to be a double for a dead girl
The series is set in a dystopian society where everyone takes a test at 17-ish to determine their “number” which determines their place in society. I think 7 or 8 is the highest but only the founding ...
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Book with a unicorn stampede on the cover
I found this book on a shopping website. I know which shop but the problem is that the shop isn't returning the book when I search via the site's search bar when I try to find it again.
The front ...
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Looking for the title of a novel about a divine/heavenly being turned into a dog
I read the book about 19yrs ago (2003/2004). I think it was published by Orion books as I seem to remember a dog-looking-at-stars logo.
In it, a being is maybe banished from the heavens...either was ...
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Old scifi book title about a woman learning psychic powers from aliens
I recall that the aliens all have telekinesis and use it to unlock their doors. The woman is learning to use that same power. I can't recall why the woman was on the alien planet, but it was ...
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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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Story about two sisters and a winged lion
I read a book about 7-8 years ago about two sisters. I think it was (kind of) a young adult's book, but I really want to finish the series, so I'm asking for help finding the book I read. Okay, these ...
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