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Questions asking for identification of a literary work (story, novel, poem, play, etc) or author, based on descriptive details provided within the question. Please be thorough and provide ALL of the details that you can remember when using this tag. (For questions seeking the original source of a known quote, use the [quote-source] tag instead.)

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Short Story About a Woman Saving up to Buy a Gift?

"The Gift of the Magi", by O. Henry A husband and wife both buy each other thoughtful gifts, but in the process are forced to sell things (his watch, her hair) which the gifts (a watch chain, some hai …
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Hidden-away man found dead, was addicted to a fancy/medical form of opioids

A Chemical Prison, by Barbara Nadel I found the book after doing a major cleaning of the bookshelf at my parent's home. Seems I got various minor details wrong but the core idea (keeping a kid prisone …
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Children's book with "a ring, a stone, a finger bone"

Could this be “The Winter Players”, from Companions on the Road by Tanith Lee? Googling the phrase quoted in the question led me to this Google Books result She could hear instead a priestess, speaki …
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Which Kipling poem is this an allusion to?

The allusion may be to "A Truthful Song". Two verses are of particular interest for the comparison: "Your glazing is new and your plumbing's strange, But otherwise I perceive no change; And in less …
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Hidden-away man found dead, was addicted to a fancy/medical form of opioids

I read this as an English-language paperback book, bought from a discount bookstore in an Australian (likely Melbourne) shopping mall late 2019. No idea how old it was at the time. The title was bland …
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Everyone keeps diaries due to regular, town-wide amnesia

The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron The title is about the expected length and the glowing tree is indeed on the cover of this book. There was actually a series, not just a single other sequel. The foll …
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Everyone keeps diaries due to regular, town-wide amnesia

I would have read this English YA novel in the late 2010s, though I'm not sure how old it was at that point. It was picked up from a local library in the Western United States. I am 50% sure there was …
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Fantasy novel with a skilled female assassin enrolling in a contest

Throne of Glass, by Sarah J. Maas Quotes are from the Fandom wiki's plot summary/synopsis, and are [sic] as I copy-pasted. Name glossary for the below, because YA names are weird: Celaena Sardothien …
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Medical school that brainwashes students, run by drug company that does unethical experiments

I read this English-language thriller novel in 2017 or 2018 (publish date unknown) at a local library in the Western United States. It's been bugging me for a while. I remember a lot of details but I' …
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Did Gaiman and Pratchett troll an interviewer who thought they were religious fanatics?

I haven't found a transcript or recording of that interview, but I did find a transcript of a different interview where the two spoke about that interview: Neil Gaiman: "The first radio interview we …
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