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YA book about kids who have powers but lose them when they get to puberty
I’ve been looking for this exact book for such a long time (I very distinctly remember the penguin test you mentioned being a part of it). I’m 90% sure that “The Ability” by M.M. Vaughan is the book. ...
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A ship goes into a void and discovers a missing space station and also a legendary ship from the past. Working together they recreate the legend
I just pulled together a few threads in my brain, and I'm wondering if you read one of the Diving Universe novels by (2009-ongoing) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, especially with the additional details ...
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Fantasy series about a red-haired orphan girl raised by an old woman in a house within a tree
This sounds like the Witches of Eileanan series by Kate Forsyth.
The first book opens with Isabeau, a red-haired orphan who lives with her guardian Meghan in a house built inside a tree — the upper ...
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Book about a girl who is a thief and learns to transform into a puma or cougar
I agree with nebogipfel that this is the Midnight Thief series by Livia Blackburne, but the book you remember is the first book of the series Midnight Thief.
Growing up on Forge’s streets has taught ...
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Book about a girl who is a thief and learns to transform into a puma or cougar
Well, Daughter of Dusk by Livia Blackburne has some of the characteristics. It is about an orphan girl who is a thief and discovers she has connections to a group of feline shape-shifters. And it was ...
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Early 90s book of interviews with scifi authors, includes Pratchett talking about translating jokes to different languages
The book you're recalling is probably Stan Nicholls' Wordsmiths of Wonder (1993), which contains an interview with Pratchett titled "Terry Pratchett: Leaves the Furniture Alone."
I don't ...
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Boy from Earth who later finds out he can teleport accused for the murder of the leader of another planet
This might be Space Crime Conspiracy by Gareth P. Jones. A plot summary from Google Books follows because the book is not on Internet Archive.
In prison, accused of murdering President Vorlunar, ...
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Science fiction story with a boy and girl protagonist and spider-like alien abductors
I found the book, thank you all; it is The Doom Machine by Mark Teague.
The Doom Machine by Mark Teague is a science fiction novel for children that was published in 2009. It is about a boy named Jack ...
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Trilogy about technologically advanced society that sends "actors" to an alternative sword and sorcery type world and streams VR
Possibly Matthew Stover's Caine Heroes Die?
The novels are set in a future dystopia Earth where a parallel world called Overworld reminiscent of the worlds featured in post-Tolkien secondary world ...
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Looking for scifi book similar to The Day of the Triffids
Certainly never too late to solve one of these - or at least to offer a solution. I believe the OP is querying about The Flying Eyes by J. Hunter Holly (1962). Radioactivity, disembodied eyes in the ...
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Book about a space traveler who meets a cat-like alien on another planet
Murdoc Jern series
Book 1 Zero Stone
Book 2 Uncharted Stars
Author: Andre Norton.
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Chapter book where a scientist with lung cancer is abducted by aliens
This sounds similar to Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer. It isn't a chapter book, but it has the plot elements you describe. The protagonist Thomas Jericho is a palaeontologist and he does get ...
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Fantasy fiction book about a man in search of crystals or gems that gave power
The description is very vague, but this could perhaps be The Way of Kings, the first book in Brandon Sanderson's ongoing Stormlight Archive series.
One plot thread in that book involves Kaladin, a ...
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Book series about a female detective partnered with a part-human, part-demon, male cop
Could this be Living with the Dead by Kelley Armstrong?
Key characters include Hope Adams, a half-demon reporter and John Finnley, a necromancer homicide detective.
It's been six months since Robyn's ...
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Late 80s early 90s young adult fiction sci-fi series with teenagers in space stranded on a planet
Could it be Timothy Zahn's A Coming of Age?
Danger in Paradise.
The first colonists to reach Tigris thought they had found Eden... but the planet had a horrifying effect on their children. Babies ...
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Sci-fi book series in which time travellers from the future salvage valuable equipment from moments in time that won't impact the future
The story you describe may have been inspired by All the Time in the World by Arthur C Clarke.
Time travel is only back in time.
Time travelers salvage precious artworks from moments in time that ...
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Book about an engineered human who can change his body and calculate the future
This could well be the Transformer series by M A Foster. The Morphodite (1981), Transformer (1983), and Preserver (1985). The main character is a genetrically engineered assassin who has been loosed ...
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Book about an engineered human who can change his body and calculate the future
I wonder if this is "Consider Phlebas" by Iain M Banks? Some details match, though not all.
The main protagonist is Horza, a Changer, a species that can, well, change their appearance over ...
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Sci-fi book series in which time travellers from the future salvage valuable equipment from moments in time that won't impact the future
Is this Time Salvager (2015) by Wesley Chu? It's the first book of a series by the same name.
Quoting the blurb from Google books:
In a future when Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humanity has ...
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Looking for a book where there was a drug that permanently increased intelligence
I think this is probably The R-Master by Gordon R. Dickson (1973), later reprinted in an expanded version as The Last Master (1984). As the book starts, the protagonist, Etter Ho, has the ...
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Story from Middle-earth about the events of "The Lord of the Rings" being a lie
So I found the book by randomly browsing local used books shop (they had several copies)
It is Tajemství Morie by Vladimír Šlechta or The Secret of Moria in English.
In my knowledge the book was never ...
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Book series in which a girl in a village is taken away by soldiers
It could be Red Queen, one of four novels (although the last was published in 2018, so could still have been three when you read it). Not all elements match, but enough that it could be the answer ...
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Book series in which a girl in a village is taken away by soldiers
I think the book you may be remembering is Gardens of the Moon, the first of the Malazan Books of the Fallen series written by Steven Erikson.
After a prologue, Gardens of the Moons opens with a scene ...
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Book with a man on an alien planet who cooked biscuits for the aliens in a copper kettle
It's not an exact match, since the metal involved is titanium, not brass or copper, and the "frontier man" isn't the one who does the cooking, but this is a partial match for Fuzzy Sapiens, ...
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Book (I think book series) about siblings being hunted because they have innate magic powers
This could be Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee.
This is a 1979 novel set in Auckland, New Zealand, but made into a movie in released in 2009, starring Sam Neill. The novel was re-released at the same ...
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Book (I think book series) about siblings being hunted because they have innate magic powers
It’s called Witch & Wizard by James Patterson. It’s a series.
The novel follows fifteen-year old Wisty and her eighteen-year-old brother Whit in a dystopian future, where people can be brought up ...
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Young adult book fantasy series featuring a knight that receives a blood transfusion, and the Aztec god, Huītzilōpōchtli, as one of the antagonists
This is surely the Everworld series by K.A. Applegate. From the summary on Goodreads:
There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are
creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to ...
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Fantasy book about a boy with a set of 7 apparitions, one of which is very loyal and another has a jackal head
Could this be the Host series by Leo Hunt? The three books in the series are 13 Days of Midnight, 8 Rivers of Shadow and 7 Trees of Stone (published in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively).
There's a ...
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Story from Middle-earth about the events of "The Lord of the Rings" being a lie
You're probably thinking of Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer, a Russian book that re-tells the story of LoTR from the point of view of Mordor.
From Wikipedia:
Eskov bases his novel on the premise ...
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Trying to remember book title: dystopian world where people have to have sex every day to survive
Is this "The World Inside" by Robert Silverberg? It's not a perfect match by any means.
The Urbmons are a world of total sexual license where men are expected to engage in "night ...
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Young Adult book about a Teen Witch Girl
Possibly Frogs & French Kisses by Sarah Mlynowski. This is book two in the Magic in Manhattan series and the first book is Bras and Broomsticks, which may be where you are connecting frogs and ...
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