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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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Two men traveling through desert with sheep, older one holds water in mouth to reduce thirst...
I am certain that this is "Old Ramon", a short novel from 1960 by Jack Schaefer, the author of Shane. It deals with the relationship between an old shepher, Ramon, and the son of his employer who has …
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Children's book - genius kid makes intramolecular level sword, builds spaceship out of cardb...
This must be Gravity Buster: Journal #2 of a Cardboard Genius, by Frank Asch, the sequel to Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius.
In the first book, the child genius Alex built a spaceship out o …
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Native American story about Night and Day?
This sounds very much like The World on a Turtle's Back, an Iroquois creation story. Originally passed down orally, a version was written down by the Iroquois author David Cusick in Sketches of the An …
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Novel set in London where a "May" sets up a cleaning company
I think this is very probably The Rose Revived by Katie Fforde. This is indeed what could be called "chick-lit", and being published in 1995 fits with the date you remembered.
A goodreads summary give …
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Book about a girl who finds out she's adopted
I think that this is Where We Belong by Emily Giffin, which has the birth mother as the protagonist instead of the girl.
From the summary on Goodreads:
Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old televi …
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Trying to remember a novel about a young man in treatment
This is an excellent summary of The Beautiful Miscellaneous, a novel by Dominic Smith, first published in 2007.
The protagonist is named Nathan Nelson (rather than Nathaniel), and after a car crash in …
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YA Novel: main character Juniper falls for her best friend's brother working together at a l...
Could this be Alive at Night by Amelie Rhys?
The main female character is Juniper St. James, and she works at a law firm with her best friend's brother, Julian Briggs. He indeed calls her a variety of …
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Fantasy book with character that used ing instead of swearing, all the time
I think you're thinking of Mr Tulip, one of the villains from The Truth by Terry Pratchett. From the discworld wiki:
Mr Tulip (other names unknown) is, along with Mr Pin, a member of the
New Firm, a …
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British 1990s/2000s crime novel featuring twin gangsters
This mostly fits the plot of Flesh Wounds by John Lawton. First published in 2005, it is just about compatible with the OP's memory of having read it in the early 2000s.
The story concerns a police of …
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Thriller novel which opens with an amnesiac child in bloodsoaked shoes emerging from a forest
This reminds me of "In the woods" by Tana French. It was published in 2007 which is consistent with the date you give. The opening chapter describes the search for a 12-year old boy in Dublin who has …
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Looking for a book where a young girl finds and hides a baby dragon, and the girl's guardian...
This sounds very much like Hatching Magic by Ann Downer. Published in 2003 it is certainly consistent with being read in 2015 ("a long time ago ;), and weighing in at about 250 pages it is a fairly sh …
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Looking for an Aliens novel (not graphic) in which Newt and Hicks (an android) are dating
Short answer: I think that the Aliens novel that the OP is looking for could be Aliens: Earth Hive by Steve Perry, although it does not involve Ripley, and the names of the characters were altered - " …
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Novella about man reminiscing about his girlfriend/wife while standing by her dead body
Could this be A Gentle Creature (also known as The Meek One) by Dostoevsky?
It is of novella length, and opens with a middle-aged man pacing about his room, where the body of his wife lies dead on the …
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What is the name of a short story where a computer insists 2+2 is 5?
This sounds very much like Trurl's Machine (Maszyna Trurla), from Stanislaw Lem's collection of short stories The Cyberiad - except that the computer insisted that two plus two was equal to seven, ra …
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Book where a parent recounts an anecdote about a painting of a Russian sled pursued by wolves
This sounds very much like Henry Reed's Journey by Keith Robertson, first published in 1973.
The titular Henry Reed is a teenage boy, and the son of a diplomat. The book tells the story of a car-trip …
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