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Young adult fantasy book about a girl who accidentally kills her boyfriend and decides to attend an academy for witches or magic
Curse of Stone by Veronica Shade.
Supposedly, witches can’t kill. But Madison accidentally killed her boyfriend, and now a girl at her witch academy is dead, too.
Madison spent her life avoiding her ...
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Book about a boy and girl whose family believe the world will end and need to meet at a mountain top
Possibly Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville?
The world will end on Thursday, July 27, 2000. At least, that’s what Reverend Beelson has told his congregation. That’s why Marina and Jed ...
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Looking for Urban Fantasy Novel Taking Place In NYC Written in Past 10-years
After taking a pause I went back and re-indexed and search my Calibre library. I found it! (I'm not nuts!).
Bad Witch: A Cat McKenzie Novel #2 by Lauren Dawes!
Yay ME!
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Book where a game dev's daughter gets stuck in the game
I know this is an old post, but I reckon the book you are after is The Luckless by A.M. Sohma.
Kit, gets stuck in a virtual reality game due to a practical joke played on her by her cousin, making her ...
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Young adult or middle grade fantasy book from the 90s-2000s about a girl in a town or village who thinks she doesn't have magic
Shot in the dark, but it kind of sounds like Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede? Magical frontier times, her twin brother is the 7th son of a 7th son, and is supposed to be the one thats good at ...
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Book about a girl who is sentenced to death by robot elders for idolizing a man who was considered dangerous to her society
As it was confirmed in the comments, it is Genesis by Bernard Beckett.
There is an entrance exam for entering The academy (not a paper written as a school assignment), where protagonist focus on the ...
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Navola: Series or Standalone?
According to the author, a sequel is intended.
AdamBomb: What a tale, an absolutely luscious tapestry of characters and setting! I couldn't put it down, especially the last 1/4 of the book. ...
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Novel. Parents drugged kid(s) to lower intelligence due to blackmail/threats. Attempts were made to kill/kidnap the kids when they were younger
I suspect this is "Sporting Chance" (1994) by Elizabeth Moon (author of Vatta's War). The story involves a prince who had been drugged to make him less intelligent to avoid a risk to the ...
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Kindle Unlimited book where people use rocks to gain powers
This is Set in Stone: A Progression Fantasy by Frank Morin.
The protagonist lives near a granite quarry.
Connor stopped on his favorite vantage rock and rested, hands on
knees, breathing hard. He'd ...
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A novel (and a movie) about a village in southern France where a strange succession of events happens
I bet this is Colline (Hill) by Jean Giono (1929).
The story is set in Provence (southern France), next to the mountain of Lure, in a very small village called "Bastides Blanches". Giono was ...
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A SF novel where a very poor girl finds a "talking book" meant for daughters of extremely rich people
Sounds like the 1995 novel "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.
The protagonist in the story is Nell, a thete (or person without a tribe; equivalent to the lowest working class) living in ...
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A SF novel where one character makes a "light portrait" of another one, with huge consequences
This sounds very much like a vital plot point in The Naked Sun, the 1957 novel by Isaac Asimov.
The detective, Elijah Baley, is interviewing the suspect Gladia Delmarre, and she explains to him about ...
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Book about submarine style warfare in space
Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke
is not a book, but one of the short stories featured in Clarke's 1953 anthology "Expedition to Earth". Bending the "surface" of space to sneak up on ...
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Book or novel about an intelligent monolith from space that crashes into a mountain
I believe you're looking for A. E. van Vogt's short story "Dormant" (1948), first published in Startling Stories, November 1948 and subsequently collected several times. You're most likely ...
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Story where character has "boomerdisc"
C C MacApp's novel Bumsider includes this excerpt
The man that slung the boomerdisc was careless
There's not much about it online, but this Amazon page has this quote which might spark a memory
A ...
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Story where character has "boomerdisc"
A Google books search turns up Bumsider (1972) by C.C. MacApp. The blurb on Goodreads says:
THE BARRIER
Jeff Adams stared northward. From this spot he could see over the hummocks and just make out ...
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Book ID: knife fighter with magic face tattoo
The Burning city by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Whandall Feathersnake is the character whos tattoo lights up, it does so every time he kills.
Heres the blurb -
In Tep's Town, nothing can burn ...
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I'm trying to remember a novel about an asteroid threatening to destroy the earth. I remember seeing the phrase "SHIVA IS COMING" on the cover
It could also be The Shiva Encounter. According to a review:
Cook repeats this line near the start of most chapters: ‘Shiva is coming….’ People debate the pros and cons of striking the asteroid that ...
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I'm trying to remember a novel about an asteroid threatening to destroy the earth. I remember seeing the phrase "SHIVA IS COMING" on the cover
Could it be Shiva Descending? See the last line of the description:
From the far reaches of space an immense ball of orange flame hurtles toward a doomed planet. Terror sweeps the earth. City after ...
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Young fantasy book about a group of teenagers who have magical beasts
Could this be Wild Born by Brandon Mull?
Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the ...
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SF novel where the story, or part of it, is narrated by two linked brains taking turns
"We Fused Ones", a novelette by Perry A. Chapdelaine; first published in If, July 1968, available at the Internet Archive; reprinted in the anthology Mind at Bay (Christopher Evans, ed.), ...
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1969s-1970s novel, mankind needs to emigrate to escape Sun going nova, women are higher status than men, men have artificial snake familiars
And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish from 1971, originally published in parts over several issues of Amazing Stories.
From Goodreads reviews:
A SF story of futuristic earth that has become ...
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Old UK novel with travel through soap films
Occam's Razor, a 1957 novel by David Duncan, can be borrowed (for free but registration required) from the Internet Archive. You may have read the 1962 Four Square Books edition.
From the ...
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