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The Twenty Year Thaw, by denynothing1
Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Pairing: Sheppard / McKay
Category: AU, McShep
Warning: None
Author on LJ:

denynothing1
Link: http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/692866.html

Why This Must Be Read: This AU is just such a great read. It unfolds in a wonderfully humorous way, with all our favourite SGA characters having appearances in this Ski-based universe. Rodney's voice in particular is spot-on. I generally love Stargate Atlantis AU anyway, but this is one I've re-read many times already, because it just feels *good* to read.

Do Over, by Crysothemis [NC-17]
Rec Category: John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard / McKay
Category: John Sheppard
Warning: None
Author on LJ:

crysothemis
Link: http://crys.mrks.org/sga/fic/doover.html

Why This Must Be Read: This story is a very fun look at how falling in love can be remarkably like falling up the stairs - it takes a strange combination of luck, effort, and pain to make it happen. This is a great John story (though told from Rodney's perspective) because it shows how utterly inscrutable John can be, especially to Rodney, and how obvious he *really* is at the same time.

women tribe?
I once read this book about a tribe of all women.
I think there was some connection to horses but I wouldn't bet on it...

The main character was the daughter of the chief.
I remember that they would go out and fight other tribes bringing back male captives if they were victorius. They would have a victory feast were the women would seduce the men in order to give birth to new tribe members.

The plot was either the chief had a son or the daughter of the chief had a son and the daughter had to take it away and kill him.

I think she eventually leaves the tribe or her mother dies and she takes charge, but the boy returns to his father???

I really don't remember too well. I want to read it again.

Abigail Dawning

Current Mood: confused

Under the Mistletoe by dreximgirl (PG-13)
Rec Category: Sheppard/Weir
Pairing: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir
Categories: SGA; romance, humor, pre-established relationship
Warnings: N/A
Author on LJ:

dreximgirl
Author's Website: Unknown

Link: Under the Mistletoe
Why This Must Be Read:

Because we all deserve a little Christmas season Sparky romance and fluffy goodness; a fun little fic about Atlantis and Sparky during the holidays. *grin*

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Loving Me - Jon McLaughlin

YA book, about ghosts or seeing ghosts?
Sadly, that's pretty much all I remember about the book. It was part of a series, I think, of maybe 3 books? The main character was a girl (and I think there was a boy too, either in all or just one of the books) and I have a feeling it was about seeing ghosts or haunted places.

It's not the 'Mediator' series by Meg Cabot/Jenny Caroll, but its something like it.

And I seem to remember an old Church being involved in one of the books. The girl and the boy were locked in there or something. And for some reason I keep thinking of 'Cornwall' or some costal town; either that or it was a small village where this took place.

I would have read this early 2000's, but it was probably published late 90's - early 2000.

Any and all help would be appreciated :D

Game, Set, Match by Azar (PG)
Rec Category: Sheppard/Weir
Pairing: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir
Categories: SGA; romance, humor
Warnings: N/A
Author on LJ:

azarsuerte
Author's Website: Author's Fic Site

Link: Game, Set, Match
Why This Must Be Read:

Rodney plays match-matcher... 'nuff said. *grin*

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Inama Nushif - Azam Ali

FILK:Tony we have heard him sigh sung to Angels we have heard on high
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Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: The service of nine lessons and carols at st. George's Cathederal, Perth.

Living Dolls
Not the Mennyms, though that was an awesome series.

I read a YA book in '97, probably published sometime in the mid-nineties, about an unhappy orphan girl. It may have technically been a children's book, but it was so steeped in depression, I got the impression it was for older readers. I remember it being a softcover, about 300 pages, with the yellow Scholastic border around the cover illustration, but I could be wrong about this.

The orphan girl ends up living with an older woman in a dilapidated mansion in the country. The older woman is a tea-drinking Victorian lady type, though I think the book was set in modern times. The girl didn't get much attention. She had a bad temper, and her hands were always cold and chapped--she chewed her cuticle skin. In the house, she found a dollhouse full of living dolls who became her only friends. They had sweet, silly, whimsical personalities. I think she got mad at them and stopped visiting them for a while because they were too silly.

Eventually, the girl leaves the dollhouse people behind. Maybe she breaks them? Or she makes a real friend so she doesn't need them anymore? Or the lady she lives with takes them? I remember the girl had to keep it secret that she played with them. I don't think this book had a very happy ending--It made me cry.

*Got it-- Behind the Attic Wall

...apparently a better-known book than I thought, judging by the Amazon page.

Animal Books
I am trying to remember two separate books, not related. [The first is a request from one of my non-lj relatives.]

#1 -- Found! "The Grey Horse" by R.A. MacAvoy.
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Current Mood: rushed

Tragedy, Romance
I read this book last year and for the last couple months have been searching for the title and author. I cannot remember any names and the details might not be accurate because I read at least 50 books a year. I cannot remember what the cover looked like.

The story is about a girl who's father passes away in homicide. Either her or her mother decide that it's best for her to go to a different school where no one would recognize her. A boy gets to know her without knowing that his family was involved in her father's death. The family had some sort of history of feuds. I'm not sure if a diary of some sort is involved. Also her family owned land that they didn't want to sell to his family. His family is rich and owns a lot of commercial property and wants turn that land into some mall or something.

There's one more detail, either in the book or on the back cover it mentions something about it being a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Please help!

Any details about it will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
NeNa

* Got it! Thanks Lemondrop 217

Dead Bury the Dead
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Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Atreyu

One middle reader, one YA, both fiction
I am always so loathe to come asking for help here because I am never sure if I am thinking of one book, or if several got jumbled up in my head.

I have two (I think...?) today, one middle reader and one a YA novel along the lines of Ellen Conford.

The middle reader book:
Probably late 70s, early 80s, Scholastic Club sort of deal. A girl had vaguely hippish/ alternative parents, who always made her eat super healthy stuff. Somehow, in a Tom Sawyer like turn of events, all the other kids decide that the natural sprouts and stuff are super cool, and she ends up hiding under the bleachers. The kids all form a club called GHOST or something? Maybe?

The YA novel was probably late 80s, also featuring freaky parents (I am pretty sure they are different books... LOL). The family moves to a college town, the dad is a professor. There is an overweight teen girl who lives in that town, who befriends the daughter of the professor. Clear things I remember: a turret bedroom, the mom batiking and sketching cobwebs, sushi (the mom says something along the lines of "It's not raw, the lemon juice cooks it, of course"). Very early in the book, as the Freaky Family is entering the town, the parents turn down the university-provided housing because it looks "like a saltine box" (maybe "cracker box"?). I remember there was a sequel that followed the overweight friend the following year, after the family had moved away, which began with the overweight friend getting a letter from the daughter. FOUND: Me and Fat Glenda. Thank you!

teen romance books
Between the years of 1986 and 1989, I was an avid reader of Sweet Dreams, Wildfire, and Crosswinds/Keepsake books. There are a few I'd love to read again, but I can't remember the titles or authors.

Book 1: Either a Wildfire or Crosswinds/Keepsake, I think. It was about a spoiled girl who was talked into going camping and/or white water rafting by her best friend. The friend has a crush on the girl's brother, who is into outdoorsy stuff and I swear they nicknamed him Ranger Rick. The girl is scared to part with her hair styling equipment and makeup. The tour guide is her brother's friend and the guide picks on her for being such a princess. The end up falling in love. I think she tries to run away because she feels like she's just being a burden, and the guy goes to rescue her so she doesn't end up lost in the wilderness. He has an accident and she keeps him awake all night because she's afraid he has a concussion. I think he's afraid he isn't good enough for her because he doesn't have much money and they talk all night and work out their differences. I think in the end, the best friend and brother end up together too. I found someone else looking for the book and they describe the cover (which I would only remember if I saw it): "The cover of the book is a photo of a blonde girl, laying on a bed of pink satin with a white phone twirled around her finger. she is wearing white trouser pants and a hot pink/white striped sweater." Found: Princess Routine by Tonya Wood

Book 2: Is a sort of mystery/paranormal YA romance. A girl moves into a house and I think there's a ghost in the turret or something. I remember a hatch in the ceiling that people are afraid of. There's two boys in the book named Carey/Kerry and Loren, I think they might be brothers and rivals for the girl's affections. The book Haunting Possibility by Susan Fletcher sounds like it might be the book, and I requested a copy on a swap site so I can read it and find out. Update: I found a reprint of Haunting Possibility on Amazon with an excerpt and it seems really familiar. I'll update again when I get my copy in the mail.

Book 3: This one was pretty gruesome. I read it either during or just after the 1988 Winter Olympics because that's when my mom and I moved to a basement apartment and I got a really bad flu, so I read a lot while I recovered. I think this might have been a Point book (I was obsessed with Christopher Pike, so I started getting other books from his publisher). A girl moves to a new town, I think and falls in with some spoiled rich kids. She has a crush on the bad boy leader of the clique, who I think has a sister. They go boating one day and I think they are drunk. The boat crashes and I think a girl gets cut in two by the accident. This isn't one I want to re-read, it's actually one I want to avoid reading again. LOL

Thanks for any help.

I am looking for a young-adult lit series about a girl or woman who wrote in the upstairs of her home (mayber her attic) only by candlelight. She may have been in a city like London. She had to smuggle candles into the attic in order to keep writing. I have never heard of it, but was hoping to find out the name or the author for someone. If you know, I would really appreciate it - and so would my friend! THANK YOU!