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The Vine: February 15, 2013
February 15, 2013 – 10:06 AM | 32 Comments
The Vine: February 15, 2013

I need a bag.
This is for a friend. She likes this bag. Well, she likes the size, and she likes the style, the way it’s designed to rest against the body. She really doesn’t like …

The Vine: February 8, 2013
February 8, 2013 – 8:59 AM | 40 Comments
The Vine: February 8, 2013

There’s a historical romance I’m looking for. I can only remember some parts of it. I read it in the early ’90s.
It starts out where this girl is with her father in this field (United …

The Vine: February 1, 2013
February 1, 2013 – 9:53 AM | 12 Comments
The Vine: February 1, 2013

I’m hoping you can help me track down a book I loved as a kid so I can give it to my nieces. It was a collection of fairy tales (predominantly European), set up so …

The Vine: January 25, 2013
January 25, 2013 – 1:00 PM | 52 Comments
The Vine: January 25, 2013

One for the great Red Cloudsource: I watched a movie when I was very young and only remember bits and pieces, but it is now bugging me as I cannot remember the name and I am …

The Vine: January 18, 2013
January 18, 2013 – 9:03 AM | 16 Comments
The Vine: January 18, 2013

I’ve got a question for the TN readers, particularly those who have access to the BBC. While studying in London in 2001, I saw a television show that was so weird and twisted that it …

The Vine: January 11, 2013
January 11, 2013 – 1:00 PM | 21 Comments
The Vine: January 11, 2013

When I was young, I read a couple of kids’ books that were way older than me. Probably published no later than the ’60s, possibly quite a bit earlier. A family purchased an old estate …

The Vine: January 4, 2013
January 4, 2013 – 9:16 AM | 21 Comments
The Vine: January 4, 2013

I’m hoping you can help with a song that’s been stuck in my head ever since the late ’80s or early ’90s.  It’s a silly little pop song sung by a female artist, it went …

The Vine: December 28, 2012
December 28, 2012 – 8:06 AM | 17 Comments
The Vine: December 28, 2012

I could use some help on this, please. It’s a short children’s story (I think I found it in an English/Literature textbook when in 7th grade) about this fairy/elf-type being whose job it is to …

The Vine: December 21, 2012
December 21, 2012 – 9:03 AM | 34 Comments
The Vine: December 21, 2012

 
Since we’re all still here, let’s track down some books, eh what?
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I’ve searched for this book on Google and came up with nothing. I read this book in middle school (late ’90s). It’s about a …

The Vine: December 14, 2012
December 14, 2012 – 11:32 AM | 46 Comments
The Vine: December 14, 2012

Here’s two for the readers. The first was a book on tape that I listened to but never finished, probably sometime around 1998, although the book itself definitely predated that — I want to say it …