Searching for stories about infidelity. Specifically, stories about emotionally-involved affairs (not one night stands) where one party in the affair is married or in a long-term relationship and the other is single. Can you help?
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posted by houndsoflove
on Sep 15, 2012 -
22 answers
Please recommend me classic children's literature to read aloud to five-year-olds.
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posted by schmoo
on Sep 15, 2012 -
32 answers
I am looking for literary works about mountains. I imagine they exist, because being in mountains and climbing them and seeing everything from up high is such a powerful experience. I know there are movies about this (for instance the silent ones by
Arnold Franck), and I suppose there must be an equivalent in writing. Ideally, they would be rather lyrical or poetic texts. Any ideas, hive-mind?
posted by MrMisterio
on Sep 14, 2012 -
21 answers
Book Filter: What children's sci-fi book (written for kids around 5th to 6th grade age) included scenes where the border between the parallel universe and our universe would open up and household items would travel between the two universes?
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posted by lea724
on Sep 14, 2012 -
4 answers
What kind of art project(s) could I create with old paperback edition of Muldoon's Handling a Criminal Case in New York (that I'm willing to take apart)?
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posted by 168
on Sep 14, 2012 -
6 answers
What one book could pretty much give me a new, useful superpower if I follow it and put the methods inside into practice? In my life, I've come across a small handful of books that have really allowed me to learn to do some things that were previously unthinkable to me, and which I'm able to use all the time in my life. I'm most interested in a book that has actually worked to change your life, rather than one that seems like it would be good if you one day got around to following it. Thanks.
posted by surenoproblem
on Sep 12, 2012 -
77 answers
I have lived in New Jersey for over 10 years, really don't know much about it, except for the town I live in. I'm looking for books, fiction or non-fiction, that will give me a broader view. It doesn't have to be about the state, but could take place in it.
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posted by katinka-katinka
on Sep 11, 2012 -
27 answers
So the quote "Array of spectres that once beleaguered Prague" is a quote out of HG Wells's the first men in the Moon. Any idea what the reference is?
posted by monkeywithhat
on Sep 10, 2012 -
11 answers
I have never been a reader. I want to be. Recommend where I can start; online at lunchtimes at work. Bonus points for shorter stories (at first).
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posted by Cogentesque
on Sep 7, 2012 -
29 answers
Trying to find a book from the mid 1990s. It was about a painter/criminal who gets involved with stealing high tech stuff from big wigs, rich people, and his accomplice was a cocaine addict, I believe the character's name was Annie. They would break into houses and steal hard drives, if I am remembering correctly. One time they kill a guard dog in some dudes house, and another time Annie gets shot by some thug with a zippo lighter pistol. Eventually they are confronted by I think the FBI in a hotel room.
The cover was a tech Matrixy looking cover, matte black with shiny red lettering. Any ideas? I swear it was a two word title that was futuristic, computery sounding. Read it when I was in like 5th 6th 7th grade when I was about 11 or 12. Any help would be much appreciated thank you.
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posted by partial
on Sep 6, 2012 -
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Swahili book filter: A Tanzanian, probably Zanzibari novel about Julius Nyerere or a character based on him, portrayed in a bad light.
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posted by ChrisHartley
on Sep 6, 2012 -
1 answer
What fantasy/SF/steampunk/cyberpunk novels feature guns or other modern or futuristic weapons with enchantments or magical effects on them?
posted by shivohum
on Sep 4, 2012 -
16 answers
I need help with a book suggestion! All my particulars found within, within, within..
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posted by kbanas
on Sep 3, 2012 -
3 answers
Can you recommend a popular history of Scotland--book, documentary, TV series, whatever--that I can consume before our trip there next summer?
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posted by WorkingMyWayHome
on Sep 3, 2012 -
12 answers
Bookfilter: Please help me re-find a book about the effects of "spiritual tourism" on 1970s India.
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posted by eric1halfb
on Sep 2, 2012 -
2 answers
Can you help me expand my “popular epidemiology” book collection by recommending books that are similar to
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett and the following titles?
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posted by pupus
on Aug 29, 2012 -
24 answers
Please recommend books that are similar to 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' (not just ones about autism).
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posted by fix
on Aug 29, 2012 -
22 answers
Book recommendations for a Marine with PTSD? I'm looking for some escapist adventure/expedition books that do NOT involve people dying at the end or eating their friends.
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 28, 2012 -
21 answers
I'm looking for great fight scenes from literature. I've seen the questions on fight scenes from movies and I'm not looking for those (or TV or comics). Books only, please (I suppose plays count, but you can safely assume I'm familiar with every fight scene from Shakespeare).
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posted by zanni
on Aug 28, 2012 -
25 answers
I'm looking for novels where the protagonist loses weight / gets fit. This doesn't need to be the central thing in the book, but while the protagonist saves the world from the zombie apocalypse, finds true love or destroys the ring in the fires of Mordor, can s/he also get in shape?
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posted by uncreative
on Aug 27, 2012 -
44 answers
I need a more in-depth guide on the proper care of my old (1800-1960) books. I know the basics, (no sun, no moisture, no dirty hands) but I have some questions whose answers I cannot find.
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posted by windykites
on Aug 27, 2012 -
5 answers
No longer a Luddite! I've finally given into reading books electronically on my Droid phone, and am now hooked. Paper no more! I've amassed a nice collection of Overdrive library books, Kindle titles and Google eBooks (depending on whose prices were better) on my phone but it's too tiny for extended reading, and doesn't do well in sunshine, and the battery gets rapidly drained.
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posted by Neeuq Nus
on Aug 25, 2012 -
14 answers
There's a book (
possibly a movie or tv show) with a scene in it of an evil man slowly depriving his senile mother of water and keeping her in a very hot room in a bed with the covers on until she dies after several days. There is one moment when she regains lucidity and almost calls the police, but he stops her. What am I remembering?
posted by shivohum
on Aug 23, 2012 -
4 answers
Starting a blog that shares snippets of advice from old books. Help us name it, please.
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posted by MsMolly
on Aug 22, 2012 -
26 answers
I would like to read some of the Buddhist sutras but I have no idea where to start. I am looking for both A) a wide (not limited to a single tradition) anthology I could use to get an overview of what is available and to guide further reading and B) sutras that are particularly well translated into English and/or have a particularly good commentary.
posted by jarekr
on Aug 22, 2012 -
7 answers
Bookfinder filter: Book from 60s or 70s. People on a tropical island, who would have their feet tickled with razor blades, and would bathe in scalding hot water.
posted by Remote Network
on Aug 20, 2012 -
8 answers
What are some sources for inexpensive college text books (used, rentals, etc.)?
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posted by MikeKD
on Aug 17, 2012 -
27 answers
Help, mefites! Y'all're amazingly great at tracking down obscure music and books with little info, so I hope you can help me.
Two YA books, both read in the late 1970s:
1 - urban kid gets involved with a gang called the Scorpions. Also, his family was so poor he had to eat cereal with water.
2 - fantasy novel - there were goblins who were destroyed/harmed by butter.
Any ideas?
posted by Bourbonesque
on Aug 17, 2012 -
6 answers
Please help me ID/ find a source for a specific ghost story about starved ghost children eating the new occupants of a house! Quickly...
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posted by Jeanne
on Aug 15, 2012 -
0 answers
There are plenty of non-fiction books on the subject of startups and entrepreneurship. But what about when you don't have the energy to learn? Please recommend me some novels on the subjects of creating products, building companies, etc. Inspiring tales of business and innovation...
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posted by ChristopherS
on Aug 14, 2012 -
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I am looking for a book that lists the favorite/most influential books of a wide array of writers, thinkers, scholars, philosophers, experts, intellectuals. The book in question has a list of the books that most influenced the legal scholar Richard Posner, a thinker whose intellectual origins I'm curious to investigate.
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posted by RapcityinBlue
on Aug 13, 2012 -
1 answer
Help me remember the titles of two books I read as a kid. I've Googled extensively and came up empty on both.
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posted by Fuego
on Aug 13, 2012 -
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"Name that book" - a novel set in Australia, deals with a young male protagonist with a somewhat crazy father and no mother. There are also South-Asian smugglers and lottery tickets involved?
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posted by permiechickie
on Aug 10, 2012 -
4 answers
Is there a last.fm-esque website for movies? I want something that allows me to keep track of what I've watched (really, any media tracking website)
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posted by apip
on Aug 9, 2012 -
10 answers
What light, humorous, and humanist genre fiction should I read after I finish the Discworld series?
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posted by X-Himy
on Aug 6, 2012 -
24 answers
Please help me find contemporary literary/fictional characters that make you want to love them, hate them, or -- even better -- both.
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posted by GnomeChompsky
on Aug 2, 2012 -
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