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The Vine: May 2, 2008
May 2, 2008 – 9:50 AM | 19 Comments

This may be a tricky one — I’m looking for the title and author of a short horror story. It came out a year or three before the Internets got big, so I’m having trouble …

The Vine: March 7, 2008
March 7, 2008 – 11:24 AM | 20 Comments

Hi Sarah,
Your readers have done such a good job of finding books and music I thought I’d give you all a shot at this one. My sister and I are looking for a children’s book …

The Vine: February 15, 2008
February 15, 2008 – 10:27 AM | 7 Comments

Dear Sars:
Maybe you can help me find a baseball book. I saw it a couple weeks ago in Barnes & Noble. It was a book about baseball, but specifically about the hidden rules or etiquette …

The Vine: December 11, 2007
December 11, 2007 – 7:22 PM | 22 Comments

Hi Sars,
I’m looking for a horror movie I saw on TV as a kid sometime in the early ’80s — it could even have been a TV movie. It was about a house that kills …

The Vine: November 28, 2007
November 28, 2007 – 5:43 PM | 16 Comments

Sars —
Can you recommend a book on New York City that chronicles its historical, political, and social evolution from its discovery to today? I want something that is thorough, but readable, more like Peter Ackroyd’s …

The Vine: Find That Book Fest V
September 28, 2007 – 3:29 PM | 19 Comments

Hey Sars,
Yet another help-me-find-this-book question for the readers, if you don’t know off the top of your head. A book intended for probably the 12-14 audience, or slightly older. Some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario where …

The Vine: Find That Book Fest IV
September 28, 2007 – 2:40 PM | 2 Comments

Hi Sars,
I read a book about five years ago that I think was sort of recent at the time (2002-3). In those days I chose books to read almost purely by the graphic design, so …

The Vine: Find That Book Fest III
September 28, 2007 – 1:18 PM | 13 Comments

Sars,
As a child I had a favorite book that was, my mother says, a folk tale from some Northern European country. Russia? The Ukraine? Norway? We can’t remember, or in any case disagree. It was …

The Vine: Find That Book Fest II
September 28, 2007 – 12:18 PM | 71 Comments

Dear Sars,
I always thought that my first letter to you would contain at least a LITTLE drama or ethical dilemna, but here we have it.
I remember reading a wonderful book when I was around 10 …

The Vine: Find That Book Fest I
September 28, 2007 – 11:16 AM | 8 Comments

There was a children’s book I loved as a kid. It was the story of a brother and sister who were transported to an alternate reality to rescue their grandparents. Their grandparents had fallen through …