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L. Ron Hubbard

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Premise labels used: missing time, memory loss, supernatural pursuit, skeptical protagonist, unreliable reality, paranormal investigation, psychological descent

Setting labels used: university town, academic setting, small town, academic community

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Stephen King · 2009

A bookish English instructor buys a mysterious Kindle that opens onto alternate realities, lost books, and future danger.

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Premise labels: alternate realities · parallel universes · future sight · mysterious device · literary discovery · dangerous knowledge · technology gone wrong · obsessive reading

Setting labels: small college town · university campus · contemporary setting · alternate realities · parallel worlds · digital age · technology-centered

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1843

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Ricochet Joe

Dean Koontz · 2017

An ordinary volunteer is swept into a cosmic struggle between good and evil, with reality, time, and choices at stake.

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Premise labels: ordinary protagonist · chosen one · good vs evil · cosmic battle · supernatural power · parallel universes · time manipulation · crime prevention

Setting labels: small town · college town · contemporary setting · alternate reality · parallel universes · cosmic reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2095

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The Taking

Kimberly Derting · 2014 · The Taking

A teen returns after five missing years unchanged, and must uncover what happened while her world moved on without her.

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Premise labels: alien abduction · missing time · memory loss · returnee · special powers · identity crisis · lost life

Setting labels: small town · contemporary earth · high school aged world · roadside gas station

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Distance: 0.2164

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Things Not Seen

Andrew Clements · 2004 · Things

A 15-year-old boy wakes up invisible and teams with a blind girl while his family races to explain and reverse it.

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Premise labels: invisibility · blindness · missing child · secret identity · coming of age · disability parallel · finding oneself

Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · library setting · home setting · urban setting

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Distance: 0.2180

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Hourglass

Myra McEntire · 2011 · Hourglass

A grief-stricken teen who sees the past joins a secret time-travel world to stop a death and unravel her own gift.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · ghost visions · secret organization · psychic abilities · prevent a death

Setting labels: Southern town · boarding school · small town · present day · historic buildings · secret facility · mental institution

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Distance: 0.2183

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The Death and Life of Dominick Davidner

Shawn Inmon · 2017 · Middle Falls Time Travel

A murdered man wakes up in his childhood body and races through new lives to find the wife he lost.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time loop · second chance · lost love · childhood reset · memory retention · quest narrative

Setting labels: fictional town · small town · military school · school setting · afterlife · parallel worlds · dimension shifts · multiple timelines · childhood setting · adult life revisited

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Distance: 0.2254

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Everyone We've Been

Sarah Everett · 2016

After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.

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Premise labels: memory loss · memory erasure · missing memories · mysterious boy · medical mystery · accident aftermath · first love · identity crisis · family secret

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · high school · clinic setting · medical facility · post-accident · present day · teen life

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Distance: 0.2266

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Mixed Up

Gordon Korman · 2023

Two middle-school boys start losing their memories to each other and must uncover the strange link before they lose themselves.

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Premise labels: memory swapping · memory loss · identity exchange · grief recovery · found friendship · mystery solving · body-switching trope

Setting labels: same town · different sides of town · different schools · middle school · post-pandemic · contemporary · real-world setting · light fantasy · science fiction element

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Distance: 0.2291

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The Leaving

Tara Altebrando · 2016

Five abducted kids return eleven years later with no memories, while one sibling hunts for the missing sixth child.

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Premise labels: missing children · returned abductees · memory loss · identity mystery · unsolved disappearance · search for answers · missing sibling

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · school setting · kindergarten · eleven-year gap · teen years later · homecoming setting

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Distance: 0.2317

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Reborn

Jennifer Rush · 2015 · Altered

Haunted by erased memories, Nick follows a trail to a secretive small town and a girl tied to his missing past.

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Premise labels: memory loss · missing past · shared past · search for answers · haunting memories · branch remnants · secret organization · genetic alteration · mystery girl

Setting labels: small town · sleepy town · Illinois · lab setting · secret facility · dystopian future · science fiction world

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Distance: 0.2326

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A Dark Inheritance

Chris d'Lacey · 2014 · Unicorne Files

A boy who can alter reality joins a secret agency to uncover a father’s disappearance and a strange school mystery.

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Premise labels: missing father · supernatural ability · reality manipulation · secret organization · paranormal investigation · detective mission · school mystery · child protagonist

Setting labels: modern-day · school setting · coastal setting · small-town setting · alternate realities · supernatural reality · contemporary world

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Distance: 0.2329

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The Good Parts

Evann Normandin · 2026

A grieving husband follows his wife after a memory-erasing treatment, hoping to win back a love she no longer remembers.

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Premise labels: memory erasure · second chance · lost love · love after loss · fresh start · identity reset · trauma escape · reconnection

Setting labels: Edinburgh · Scotland · college setting · Vermont · American university · contemporary setting · present day · past timeline

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Distance: 0.2332

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