I'm trying to remember the name of a young adult novel I read (in the 80's or 90's) where a character is forced to do some work with radioactive materials at the bottom of a pool.
posted by Jahaza
on May 23, 2013 -
7 answers
I have very little information. Maybe you read this too, though. Fiction with fantasy/paranormal elements, early or mid-90's, female author, gay romance/sex, ghosts, condom factory, divorce, maybe some Wicca?
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posted by blnkfrnk
on Apr 9, 2013 -
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Somewhere between '80 and '82, I read this book that featured spiders... [arachnophobes: do not click!]
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posted by batmonkey
on Mar 28, 2013 -
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I want to improve my parenting skills for my almost-2-year old. I don't have a lot of role models nearby, so I'd like to do some reading. I tend to put off reading non-fiction, even if it is well-written about a topic I am interested in. However, I will read novels even if they aren't very good and I don't really have time to read them.
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posted by SandiBeech
on Jan 15, 2013 -
15 answers
I'm looking for books, stories, films, documentaries, articles about the birth of dystopic societies. Examples could be a prequel to the Hunger Games (how did this fictional world come to be?), an article about people's lives in a nation where democracy was overthrown, stories about how Jews and non-Jews reacted to the early days of Hitler's rise, explorations of the slow realization that an ostensibly democratic nation is now really run by a strongman or single powerful party.
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posted by croutonsupafreak
on Jan 9, 2013 -
8 answers
What are the best non-Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories, collections, and novels?
posted by jsturgill
on Dec 7, 2012 -
20 answers
Looking for specific book recommendations that are
superb and by female authors/female authors of color.
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posted by jsturgill
on Nov 8, 2012 -
53 answers
I'm looking for a fiction novel I read in the early 90's. I think it was called something like 'Wire World'. Set in London, present day, about two opposing groups who got around via secret zip-lines attached to the buildings. It was written by an ex-screenplay writer. I remember it being a fun read and would like to find it again.
No such luck with the Google, you're all I've got to turn to, askMeFi'ers!
posted by drinkmaildave
on Jul 12, 2012 -
2 answers
Recommend mystery fiction, especially mystery fiction by authors whose works were adapted into
Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes
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posted by GlassHeart
on Jun 11, 2012 -
14 answers
Please tell me that the book described below actually exists, and is not a hallucination resulting from my troubled childhood.
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posted by OompaLoompa
on Apr 4, 2012 -
8 answers
Forgotten-YA-Novel-Filter: Help me remember a book I read when I was in middle school. It involved a teenage girl, a church, and grave rubbings!
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posted by WidgetAlley
on Dec 1, 2011 -
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Identify This Book-filter: My partner has a vague recollection of a book he read as a kid, and we're curious about what it might have been. Here's his description: It would be from the '80s, or possibly early '90s. It was a novel for children or young adults. It was small press, possibly from Atlantic Canada; I'm fairly sure it was Canadian. It had something to do with an old house, and there was a giant, and a magic gemstone of some kind -- I think it was an opal.
posted by bewilderbeast
on Oct 25, 2011 -
3 answers
I've been asked to type up and edit a work of fiction for a friend / relative / neighbor, and it's driving me nuts.
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posted by bad grammar
on Sep 16, 2011 -
27 answers
What-was-that-book-filter: 70's or 80's (?) heist (?) novel that involved shutting down L.A. by closing a couple of freeways and the central telephone switching system.
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posted by dersins
on Jul 15, 2011 -
10 answers
Novel plotting filter: how do YOU do it? Do you think of a character first, devise the end and work backward from that, have a world/location in mind and try to discover what stories would occur there, what?
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posted by jasondbarr
on Jun 2, 2011 -
19 answers
RaceWIN? Native American-written dystopian/fantasy/science/ speculative fiction. I am looking for the name of the text and author of a contemporary Native American novel that is satirical and dystopian.
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posted by MidSouthern Mouth
on May 31, 2011 -
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BookFilter: I am looking for well written fiction/novels where the main character is a woman in a relationship with another woman. Whether they are lesbian or bisexual doesn't matter.
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posted by deborah
on Jan 11, 2011 -
40 answers
Identify a post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel for me - the only thing I remember about it is the hero(ine?) following the rusting stumps of electricity pylons through a bleak, post-apocalyptic (nuclear?) landscape.
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posted by Happy Dave
on Dec 7, 2010 -
14 answers
Looking for books and/or movies about fiascos and disastrous but avoidable situations
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posted by reenum
on Nov 22, 2010 -
25 answers
What are some short stories or novels (probably in the fantasy genre, but not necessarily) with the most awesome, clever, and/or thought-provoking depictions and conceptions of magic?
posted by shivohum
on Oct 22, 2010 -
40 answers
Help me identify this SciFi novel. I can't remember the title or who wrote it.
I read it back in the late 1970s or early 80s, so it is at least that old.
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posted by governale
on Aug 10, 2010 -
4 answers
This question contains spoilers for the second Mercedes Thompson novel "Blood Bound" by author Patricia Briggs.
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posted by ayc200
on May 16, 2010 -
2 answers
I'm looking for fiction that vividly describes the physical and social atmosphere of a city or town, the way Dickens captures Coketown in
Hard Times.
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posted by cirripede
on May 7, 2010 -
36 answers
Name that children's fiction from the 70's/80's: it was a mystery that two kids (I think a boy and a girl) needed to solve. The solution turned on a note. It was in shorthand, but it turned out the shorthand was in German. I wish I had more, but that's it.
posted by lionelhutz5
on Mar 26, 2010 -
2 answers
Please recommend an excellent historical novel about life in 17th-century North America (preferably New England). I'm re-reading Toni Morrison's
A Mercy right now, and I'm looking for more stuff about the day-to-day life -- chores, food, bartering, the intersection of European colonists with indigenous American populations, etc. I s'pose I'd be okay with a nice non-fiction book, too, but the preference is for fiction.
posted by Greg Nog
on Mar 10, 2010 -
34 answers
Book filter: can you recommend a good political/journalistic novel set in Washington, D.C. that meet the following criteria?
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posted by Tin Man
on Jan 10, 2010 -
17 answers
With NaNoWriMo looming ever nearer, I would like to hear your best tips, tricks, habits, and techniques for staying chained to the keyboard.
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posted by BitterOldPunk
on Oct 22, 2009 -
26 answers
What well-known novels lack any character descriptions aside from names?
posted by odinsdream
on Oct 9, 2009 -
17 answers
Is this a real book? All I remember is that 1 or more characters could activate some kind of special powers or transformational abilities by imagining the shape of a particular object in their mouth.
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posted by vytae
on Oct 3, 2009 -
4 answers
It's time for another round of 'name that childhood story'! Please help me identify a novel about a society that (literally) lived underground...
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posted by ghost dance beat
on Sep 7, 2009 -
7 answers
Someone I know named a loathsome character in his novel after me. Is this sort of not cool?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 27, 2009 -
47 answers
Please help me understand aspects of the ending of the novel "The Terror" by Dan Simmons! Super spoiler-icious details inside (definitely don't read unless you've read the book, or are sure you never want to)...
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posted by taz
on Aug 21, 2009 -
12 answers
How can I find sales stats and chart statistics for books released over the past 30 years?
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posted by arniec
on Aug 4, 2009 -
4 answers
I crave a great novel that's as addictive as a popcorn movie. Please recommend me some
literary page-turners.
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posted by Beardman
on Jun 5, 2009 -
105 answers
