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Old 12-18-2016, 08:32 AM   #961
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Old 01-03-2017, 03:20 PM   #962
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I'm looking for a book I read a year or so ago. I thought it was a freebie, but it might have been one I read from somewhere else. It was definitely an ebook and not a paper book. I have the strong impression that it was self published.

A woman was abducted by aliens. She makes friends with the AI that controls the ship. The AI kills everyone else on the ship. The aliens she bumps into when trying to escape have difficulty doing music and think her musical talents are great. The aliens are part of a confederacy of multiple species.

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Old 01-03-2017, 04:05 PM   #963
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I'm looking for a book I read a year or so ago. I thought it was a freebie, but it might have been one I read from somewhere else. It was definitely an ebook and not a paper book. I have the strong impression that it was self published.

A woman was abducted by aliens. She makes friends with the AI that controls the ship. The AI kills everyone else on the ship. The aliens she bumps into when trying to escape have difficulty doing music and think her musical talents are great. The aliens are part of a confederacy of multiple species.

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Hi Greg . Book you are looking for is Dark Horse by Michelle Diener.
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Old 01-03-2017, 04:18 PM   #964
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Hi Greg . Book you are looking for is Dark Horse by Michelle Diener.
That's it. I got it as a prime read which is why it didn't show up in my library.

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Old 02-18-2017, 01:06 PM   #965
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Searching for a book by plot

Hopefully this is the right place!

Asking on behalf of a friend. He cannot remember the author however the name of the book could be something like The Last Girl and he thinks a birdcage could be on the front cover. Book possibly released in the 90's.

The plot surrounds a girl who has moved into a flat and an obsessive neighbour who buys her things, makes her dinner. Sounds like a creepy thriller; name of book relates to the previous girl who lived there.

I know it's a long shot but any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!
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Old 02-19-2017, 10:10 AM   #966
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Hopefully this is the right place!

Asking on behalf of a friend. He cannot remember the author however the name of the book could be something like The Last Girl and he thinks a birdcage could be on the front cover. Book possibly released in the 90's.

The plot surrounds a girl who has moved into a flat and an obsessive neighbour who buys her things, makes her dinner. Sounds like a creepy thriller; name of book relates to the previous girl who lived there.

I know it's a long shot but any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!
This came up in a search on goodreads. Sounds similar to your description.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/....The_Last_Girl
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This came up in a search on goodreads. Sounds similar to your description.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/....The_Last_Girl
That's the one! Thanks so much!
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Old 03-22-2017, 12:35 PM   #968
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Any E.R. Punshon readers here? I'm buying the Bobby Owen series as they come up at 99p on Amazon UK, and there seems to be a strange gap at number 19, at least according to Fantastic Fiction. I have 18 (Conquerer Inn) and 20 (Secrets can't be kept), and most of the rest up to 26 (Music Tells All)
I have plenty to read, I'm just curious.
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Old 03-24-2017, 01:09 AM   #969
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I thought of this book again and thought I would check again. Anyone have any ideas?

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I remember reading a short story while in school (late 80's) that was similar to "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell - humans hunting humans. It was part of an illustrated anthology - I remember lots of pictures of conceptual space ships - and the version I remember was an oversized book, not a mass market paperback size. In this variation, the hunters generally had very high tech armaments and did their hunting on a preserve or separated planet and it was planned, not someone being shanghaied. The protagonist had decided he didn't like the use of the high tech tools and decided to go completely low tech.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hunting) and TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...tDangerousGame) don't have the right one.

Does anybody recognize this?
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Old 03-24-2017, 02:24 AM   #970
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Was the story in a school textbook? If so, you should say where you were in school. It may be that the textbook was used in a limited location.
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Old 03-24-2017, 11:42 AM   #971
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It was not a textbook, it was in the school library though.
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Old 03-24-2017, 01:04 PM   #972
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I thought of this book again and thought I would check again. Anyone have any ideas?
I also read a similar book/short story around the late 80s/early 90s. It could be the same one. I just remember a group of people end up on an isolated (and lush?) planet and basically have to survive after being specially chosen for the purpose. I think that although they think they're rebuilding humanity it also ends up that they're in a 'game' and they're being hunted, but I'm not positive on that point. I'm not sure exactly how long it was or if it was YA or just regular sci-fi.

I think I asked here awhile ago and got this suggestion- Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes. It could be the one I'm thinking of but I wouldn't know until I read it again.
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I also read a similar book/short story around the late 80s/early 90s. It could be the same one. I just remember a group of people end up on an isolated (and lush?) planet and basically have to survive after being specially chosen for the purpose. I think that although they think they're rebuilding humanity it also ends up that they're in a 'game' and they're being hunted, but I'm not positive on that point. I'm not sure exactly how long it was or if it was YA or just regular sci-fi.

I think I asked here awhile ago and got this suggestion- Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes. It could be the one I'm thinking of but I wouldn't know until I read it again.
I will have to check that one out but it isn't the one I am looking for.

In the one I am looking for the narrator/protagonist belongs to a "hunting club" (or similar) where the members volunteer for these hunts and spend considerable effort preparing for them. Which is why his going low-tech is important. Although I believe there was also the "boredom" factor as a motivation for him, but I can't say for sure.
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Any E.R. Punshon readers here? I'm buying the Bobby Owen series as they come up at 99p on Amazon UK, and there seems to be a strange gap at number 19, at least according to Fantastic Fiction. I have 18 (Conquerer Inn) and 20 (Secrets can't be kept), and most of the rest up to 26 (Music Tells All)
I have plenty to read, I'm just curious.
I have read some of the E.R. Punshon's books in the Bobby Owen series and according to the bibliography details available in my record, Night's cloak published in 1944 should be the 19th book of this series.

Edit: This list at LibraryThing also confirms the above fact.

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I am trying to remember the title of an audiobook I listened to within the past few years. It was a suspense thriller that opened with a woman taking photos of a dead body she found in her apartment upon returning from a vacation (honeymoon?) with her husband. (She is a professional photographer.) She then becomes obsessed with finding out who the dead man was and how he came to be in her apartment.

Probably the author is a woman--probably British, because I'm fairly sure the setting is London. The book was new-ish when I read it. I've been going through my lists of books read, but I've read a few hundred books in the last few years and I'm not finding it.

Does this ring a bell with anyone? Thanks.
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