HELP! My documents, jpegs, etc. missing from Macbook desktop!

A couple of these were pretty important.....like my recently inventoried comic book collection on an Appleworks doc. I had a lot of hours invested in that! It disappeared from my desktop a couple days ago. I tried Time Machine...but that doesn't give an option to restore a desktop item any further back than today. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Without more information, it's going to be difficult to help. We can only make some guesses.
First, regarding Time Machine, did you have it set up and running previously, or did you turn it on for the first time after noticing those items were gone? If the latter, Time Machine only backs up files while it is on, so there aren't any backups for before that point.
If you already had Time Machine turned on, be sure you're using it correctly. See the [Time Machine FAQ|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018] and [Time Machine Troubleshooting guide|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2057525].
If those files are truly gone, not just misplaced, and are not in any backup, then your only choice will be to use data recovery tools like [Data Rescue|http://www.prosofteng.com> or [File Salvage|http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=1]. The results are not likely to be perfect, though.

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