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SOLVED. Adult Non-fiction. Male author describes his experience of Social Mobility, leaves his current job (journalist?) to test whether the American dream is still alive. He moves cities and has very little money. Read around 2008-2014. Spoiler ahead. [s]
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Teddy
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Jan 23, 2021 05:45AM |
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SOLVED. Adult Non-fiction, Autobiography. Woman builds her own cabin by herself in Canada (incl. cuts down trees). Lives with her dog who slept under the cabin. Read 2000-2010. (Published 1960-1990??) [s]
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Bonny
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Jan 13, 2021 12:59PM |
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SOLVED. Adult Non-fiction, Comedic Memoir. Author is an implied gay man, probably Canadian or American. Read in 2015. Spoilers ahead. [s]
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Smriti
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Jan 12, 2021 10:07PM |
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SOLVED. Adult Non-fiction, Alternative History. Theory about human origins with religious elements. Cover: chariot/ angels?, red letters. Read around 2017. [s]
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Christopher
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Jan 10, 2021 03:52AM |
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SOLVED. Non-fiction. Woman meets ex-con while volunteering (at a restaurant?) in Ontario, Canada. They date and have a relationship. Ontario author. Read around 2016. [s]
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Alicia
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Jan 03, 2021 12:31PM |
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SOLVED. Teen Contemporary Fiction. High school girl wants to defy beauty standards, so she follows a beauty guide book from the 1920’s-1940’s. Specifically, she puts Vaseline on her eyelids. Read 2010-2014. [s]
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Scarlet
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Dec 14, 2020 03:14PM |
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SOLVED. Adult Non-fiction, Humour/Travel/Biography. Young man unexpectedly ends up on a coach trip with a group of senior citizens, ends up loving it and writing about his experiences.
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Lauren
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Dec 12, 2020 09:35AM |
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SOLVED. Comp Lit book with strange title about creation myths and other early culture beliefs. [s]
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Lomendil
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Dec 03, 2020 09:54PM |
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SOLVED. Adult Non-fiction. Intellectuals from different fields receive the same cryptic, mysterious book wrapped in newspaper by post/mail. Read around 2010. Spoiler ahead. [s]
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Fiora
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Nov 26, 2020 09:30AM |
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SOLVED. Biography, Historical. Last Indian in New York. [s]
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deleted member
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Nov 24, 2020 10:37AM |
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SOLVED. Adult Realistic fiction. Protagonist is boy with absentee father. Set around a bar on U.S. East Coast. Written by journalist. Read 2017. [s]
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Ellen
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Nov 20, 2020 04:25AM |
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SOLVED. Humor/Home Entertaining. 2000-2006. Female friendships, essays about having friends so good you needn't clean for them, holidays, etc. Poss. fwd by Ellen Degeneres. 6x9 Trade paperback, ~350pp. Illustrated but primarily text. Poss. 2-column text.
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Kip
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Nov 16, 2020 10:39AM |
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SOLVED. True Crime. Girls killed in guest house by boyfriend. Older teens/ young adults
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T02
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Nov 13, 2020 06:01PM |
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SOLVED. Psychology/Counselling Non-fiction. Short stories/cases from a councillor in London one case involves a client who talks to him on the phone and ends the conversation by saying the house in France he has been talking about doesn't exist. [s]
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Peter
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Nov 11, 2020 09:26AM |
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SOLVED. Historical Autobiography/ Memoir of a Count who becomes a Ship's Carpenter. About his years at sea, before steamships took over (late 1800's to early 1900's). Published around 1900-1930's. [s]
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Barbara
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Nov 08, 2020 04:03PM |
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SOLVED. Nonfiction, photography book about birds
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Amy
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Nov 04, 2020 01:59PM |
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SOLVED. Adult Nonfiction. Women & their relationships. Popular, controversial, VERY large book. Read in 1990s. [s]
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Shawn
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Oct 27, 2020 06:19AM |
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SOLVED. Cookbook (nonfiction) by blogger. Baking sweets, focus on parties and easy celebration? Cover: pretty table, pink and white. [s]
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Karen
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Oct 19, 2020 06:44PM |
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SOLVED. Memoir: a boy’s abusive childhood in the Pacific Northwest. [s]
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Carole
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Oct 18, 2020 09:38PM |
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SOLVED. Memoir about a woman who finds out her husband is a child molester. [s]
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Rainbowheart
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Oct 17, 2020 08:40PM |
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SOLVED. Adult fiction set in New York 1970s. Man strikes up a friendship with a neighbourhood girl who is strange and funny and enchanting. She's a champion hot dog eater, swore a lot, obsessed with name Jesus. Spoilers ahead. [s]
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Cassandra
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Oct 02, 2020 12:00PM |
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SOLVED. 70s Paperback Nonfiction Book on Vampires, Demons, Witches etc - NOT Usborne [s]
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Kieran
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Oct 01, 2020 06:39AM |
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SOLVED. Non-fiction alternate history (?) that collects speeches that were never delivered, included within were JFK's undelivered Dallas speech and Nixon's speech should the Moon landing fail. [s]
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chvang
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Sep 23, 2020 06:30PM |
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SOLVED. MetaPhysics Dowsing Pendulum book by husband and wife last name Llewellyn. [s]
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Don
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Sep 20, 2020 02:36AM |
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SOLVED. Nonfiction about innovative policing strategy. [s]
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Daisy
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Sep 18, 2020 03:20AM |
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SOLVED. Non-Fiction about Forensic Pathologist who works on Waco incident. [s]
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Debs
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Sep 14, 2020 04:22PM |
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SOLVED. Factual Biography, about a young women's troubled life. Written by her father. She suffers from bouts of depression and is intermittently successful as a writer I think. [s]
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Georgina Walk…
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Sep 14, 2020 09:54AM |
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SOLVED. Autobiography by Ellie ___, Holocaust survivor during 1940's. Read in ninth grade. [s]
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Sep 02, 2020 10:49PM |
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SOLVED. 70s - Non-Fiction - Compilation of Women sharing stories of sex and sexuality [s]
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Deborah
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Aug 19, 2020 10:47PM |
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SOLVED. Family's Boat Sunk By Whale. [s]
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Patricia
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Aug 18, 2020 06:47PM |
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