I read an American graphic novel five years ago about a girl in middle school (but not by Lynda Barry) and I wish I could find it again.
[more inside]
posted by stinker
on Mar 20, 2013 -
3 answers
Hello dear Mefites. I am looking to buy or borrow this very-hard-to-find book:
Ramacciotti, Sandra and Rodil, María Victoria (2006): Economics: Glossary of Metaphorical Usage - Glosario Económico - Financiero Uso Metafórico de Voces. Buenos Aires: Editorial Quorum.
[more inside]
posted by ipsative
on Mar 11, 2013 -
9 answers
[BookFilter] Help me find this children's book about a fox that turns out to not be a fox after all!
[more inside]
posted by anaximander
on Feb 9, 2013 -
7 answers
I need to cook a lasagna by Friday for a large party. But in
the great book purge, the cookbook that has the best lasagna recipe got removed! I am prepared to buy it new on Amazon, but I can't remember the title, and my fuzzy memory is supplying only generic terms. Please help me either find this cookbook, or recommend an even more awesome lasagna recipe! Clues follow.
[more inside]
posted by corb
on Jan 16, 2013 -
21 answers
There is some insane YA trilogy that no one can seem to track down. Anyone here have a clue?
[more inside]
posted by cereselle
on Dec 17, 2012 -
8 answers
Looking for a book. It's based in a nearish future where something (I think the destruction of the moon) has given the Earth a ring. The protagonist was a young Inuit (I think) girl. I think the cover was blue.
[more inside]
posted by sparklemotion
on Aug 13, 2012 -
6 answers
ChildhoodBookFilter: Help me correctly recall/find this awesome book I had as a kid about giant prehistoric animals.
[more inside]
posted by lovableiago
on May 10, 2012 -
5 answers
About ten years ago, I read the first two books in a sci-fi trilogy involving a world that had some kind of accelerated decay problem. Also, there were giant, intelligent ants.
[more inside]
posted by thehmsbeagle
on Oct 16, 2010 -
5 answers
Tattoo time! I need help tracking down the artist or book that this illustration is from. Bonus question about what to tip my tattoo artist/bff.
[more inside]
posted by a.steele
on Aug 21, 2010 -
5 answers
I'm looking for a book I read a long time ago. It was set in some hilly country, quite cold, somewhere like Iceland. A boy working on his farm developed some sort of need for a quest (but I have no idea what this actually was). He had a 'typically' Viking name, and there was a girl involved, physical but seeming quite ethereal. Possibly they were somehow married (though they were—I don't know, but less than twelve, so when I say 'married' I mean one of those close friendships characters in children's books have with destined soulmates). Things I seem to remember but may be mixing up with other books: a sword, longships arriving (the settlers were Viking too).
There were gods around, because Loki was quite prominently featured in the story while the boy was questing alone. I think this quest had a fairly pathetic basis, and that's one of the things that made the story interesting.
[more inside]
posted by westerly
on Jun 20, 2010 -
10 answers
I'm looking for a book. It was about a kid who didn't like the prescriptive way his teacher used the dictionary and so he invented another word for pen and the epic battle he had with his 5th? grade teacher about getting his new "slang" recognized as a word.
[more inside]
posted by saveyoursanity
on Mar 2, 2010 -
5 answers
I'm trying to identify a book. The book was called, I believe
Aeroflot, and it was a diary written by an American expat running a bar in Paris just after WWII. The book's packaging was a brown cardboard restaurant ledger on which the diary entries were written -- it was bound in a tall, narrow pad of restaurant cheques. My attempts to search retailers for "aeroflot paris" have only turned up aviation-related books. From what I recall the book was published in the mid-90s, but I don't have an author's name. Does this ring any bells?
posted by pxe2000
on Apr 22, 2009 -
2 answers
Booksearch: Content: Bob Newton / Death / Rajput Regiment / Hong Kong c1941 / Tonga Trench. Fiction, c1986(pre), Purportedly well known author & well reviewed book. What was it? Ring any bells?
[more inside]
posted by DrtyBlvd
on Oct 31, 2007 -
8 answers
BookFilter: I need help figuring out which book this is. Very little information inside.
[more inside]
posted by Destroid
on Apr 30, 2006 -
6 answers
