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Sars —
I’m hoping the readers can help me out with my search for a beloved childhood read. It was a YA novel about a teenage girl in post-Revolutionary America (I think Jefferson was president …
I’m looking for a book I read in the mid-to-late 1980s. It was a young adult book and involved a teen boy who has an amulet that causes a portal to another world to …
In middle school, instead of an elective, I was a Library Aide. I was a super goob, but I got to read a lot of really good books — I stumbled across du Maurier …
Dear Sars,
A longtime lurker peeking out into the light.
No amount of Googling has helped me turn up an old favorite from my Catholic school days, so I’m giving it a shot here. There was a …
Dear Sars,
I’m hoping readers can point me toward a poem. In a college Asian history class, our professor showed us a Chinese poem. It was a nice but fairly standard poem, had been submitted anonymously …
Hi, Sars —
I’m looking for a short story, narrated by a guy who I think has a connection with the federal government (i.e., he’s a BIA rep or something like that) who’s been sent to …
Hi Sars,
I want this book to exist, but I’m not certain that it does. It’s such a great concept that it HAS to exist, I figure.
I want a cookbook containing recipes entirely composed from …
Good morning, friends. Today’s Vine will work a bit differently; I have a huge backlog of find-that-book requests, so I’ll post one every hour or so throughout the day and put y’all to work on …
The best part of the Oscars Death Race project is the nice surprises: the films I expected to have to endure that gripped me instead.
I faced Ajami as one does a hated vegetable, and got …
It’s hard to tell if the movie intends to portray Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel as morally compromised and often bratty, as part of a larger conversation about the forging of genius. If so, the script could …