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Laurell K Hamilton - Merry Gentry 1-7

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:03:24 GMT

Aha! Thanks for meanddee96 telling me about 7 being out...decided it was time to add an entry for this epic series. :) Links in author/title list, there is a batch file with all the books for those not just looking for the one.

Laurell K Hamilton's Merry Gentry series is, believe it or not, even more hardcore than her recent Anita Blake ones. A Lick of Frost ended on a very...interesting note. (Parentage, anyone?)
<Book 1: A Kiss of Shadows> "Meredith Gentry is a private investigator who specializes in supernatural crime. She has, however, a strange secret. She is in fact a faerie princess in hiding. Her aunt wants her back in the faerie world and the penalty for refusal is death."

<Book 2: A Caress of Twilight> "As long as my cousin and I both live, we are in a race for the crown: Whichever one of us reproduces first gets the throne. So now the men of my royal guard- frightening warriors skilled with blade, spell, and gun-have become my lovers, auditioning with pleasure for the role of future king and father of my child. And they must still protect me from assassination attempts-for unlike most of the fey, I am part human, and very mortal. Now, in the City of Angels, people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways. What the human police don't realize is that the killer is hunting the fey as well. Havoc lies on the horizon: the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk...."

Ember Series - Jeanne DuPrau

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:25:11 GMT

Link to books in author/title list, friend-locked.

(From Wiki) The City of Ember is a 2003 apocalyptic book by Jeanne DuPrau. It revolves around the underground city of Ember, the one known surviving settlement and "the only light in the dark world" that's slowly dying as supplies run low and the electrical system starts to fail. The main character is Lina Mayfleet, who, along with her friend, Doon Harrow, watch as the light of Ember flickers and work together to discover a way out.

2x Chuck Palahniuk's Book-to-Movie Babies: Choke and Fight Club

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:31:35 GMT

So I just watched Choke tonight at a preview, and I loved the movie. :) Touching yet funny, and twisty too. The book seems as good if not better, from the two chapters I've read. Anyone else who wants to have a look should check out the friend-locked author/title list (second post). And, of course, Fight Club requires no comment..

Fight Club: Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, pairs of young white-collar men meet to fight each other barehanded. For Tyler it's all part of a plan for revenge on the world.

Choke: ...a vision of life and love and sex and mortality that is both chillingly brilliant and teeth-rattlingly funny. Victor Mancini, a dropout from medical school, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking and the person who 'saves' you will feel responsible for the rest of their life. Between fake choking gigs, Victor works at Colonial Dunsboro with a motley group of losers and stoners trapped in 1734, cruises sex addiction groups for action and visits his mother, whose anarchic streak made his childhood a mad whirl and whose dementia now hides what may be the startling truth about his, possibly divine, parentage.

Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series: 1-6

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:30 GMT

One-line verdict: Kinda like Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series without the gratuitous sex and requisite multiple-facet love entanglements. Friend for links to all six ebooks in second post.

(only covers for 5 books, lazy to find last. XD)
The lazy summary from fantasticfiction.co.uk - Sexy bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan prowls the dark streets of Cincinnati, keeping tabs on the vampires and other creatures of the supernatural who prey on the city's innocent and vulnerable inhabitants.

Book 1: Dead Witch Walking
Book 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
It's a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pressing the limits. Confronting an ancient, implacable evil is more than just child's play -- and this time, Rachel will be lucky to escape with her very soul.

Book 3: Every Which Way But Dead
There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and her soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice. Between "runs," she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor. Rachel must also take a stand in the war that's raging in the city's underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpin -- and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation. And now her dark "master" is coming to collect his due.

Book 4: A Fistful of Charms
Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned, haunted by his secret past. And there are those who covet what Nick possesses -- savage beasts willing to destroy the Hollows and everyone in it if necessary. Forced to keep a low profile or eternally suffer the wrath of a vengeful demon, Rachel must nevertheless act quickly. For the pack is gathering for the first time in millennia to ravage and to rule. And suddenly more than Rachel's soul is at stake.

Book 5: For a Few Demons More
Bargaining with demons has left Rachel Morgan in constant danger of losing her soul. As if being famous in the underworld - for all the wrong reasons - and sharing her home with a vampire and her jealous girlfriend didn't make her vulnerable enough, one night Rachel finds demons ransacking her home with no fear of sanctified ground. They are searching for something they believe Rachel to possess - a danger that Rachel thought was well hidden and secret. But when the human morgue starts to fill up with partially-turned lupine women who have been brutally murdered, Rachel realises that someone else knows the Focus still exists and that she may have been betrayed

Book 6: The Outlaw Demon Wails
To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her. As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace threatens, for the demon Algaliarept will stop at nothing to claim her, and the discovery of a shocking family secret throws Rachel's entire life into question. If she is ever to live free, Rachel must first walk willingly into the demonic ever-after in search of long-lost ancient knowledge. But when you dance with demons, you lay your soul on the line . . . and there are some lines that should never be crossed.

VC Andrews's Dollanganger (Flowers in the Attic etc) Series 1-5

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:11:44 GMT

Friend for ebook links in author list.

Book 1: Flowers in the Attic
The four children have perfect lives in a happy, golden family. Suddenly their father dies and the children now live alone, hidden in an airless attic. Their mother promised they would stay only long enough for her to inherit the fortune but gradually she forgets how much she adored them.

Book 2: Petals on the Wind
Written by the author of "Flowers in the Attic", this book continues to follow the story of the children, who are now growing into adults and have escaped from their confinement in the attic to the world outside. However their past continues to haunt them.

Book 3: If There Be Thorns
The story continues with the family now living as far as possible from the haunting scenes of their past, in the sunshine and joy of their new life. However the hidden secrets of the past rise up to trouble them again.

Book 4: Seeds of Yesterday
Cathy and Chris, haunted by the tragedies and sins of the past, return at last to Foxworth Hall, where they were hidden long ago. Despite every endeavour, they find that they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape and the past comes back to prey upon them once more.

Book 5: Garden of Shadows
Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread...an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives...a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever!

Jessica Inclan's Magical Temptations 1-3

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:35:50 GMT

First book as requested by meanddee96...friend to see post with ebook links.

Book 1: When You Believe
Running from three thugs, Miranda Stead seeks safety, plunging through the first unlocked doorway she finds,into a place she should never have been able to enter. Surrounded by a room full of suspicious, robe-wearing people intent on remaining secret, Miranda recognizes a new danger - one she is only able to avoid when Sariel steps in to protect her. He must now use the power of his touch to erase her memory of all she has seen that evening, but first he'll use his magical powers in another way.

Book 2: Reason to Believe
Meet Rufus Valasay. As a member of Les Croyants des Trois, a powerful clan of telepaths and healers, he is sworn to protect the ordinary world of the Moyenne. But now, with his memory gone and danger approaching, Rufus has nothing to go on but his passionate feelings for the only person he can trust... One thing's for certain: he's never kissed this woman before, because if he had, he'd never have forgotten it. Even more alarming, he is able to read her deepest thoughts...and those thoughts are very interesting, indeed...

Book 3: Believe in Me
For a Croyant, Felix Valasay lives a charmed life of blender drinks and pleasuring women, so he's less than thrilled to be interrupted mid-hookup by notorious Croyant straight arrow, Sayblee Safipour. If Felix is pleasure first, business later, Sayblee is business first, last, and always....Lothario. Cad. Sayblee doesn't need magic to find the right words to describe Felix Valasay. Figures she'd find him 'entertaining' when they have important Council business to attend to - setting a trap in Paris for the most dangerous, powerful sorcier their world has ever known. To do that they will need to hide in plain sight, living together like an ordinary Moyenne couple, using no magic at all. But keeping Felix's hot body and make-you-melt smiles out of her thoughts is nearly impossible. And sometimes the only way to avoid temptation is to yield to it...

Amy Lane's Little Goddess 1-3

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:38:58 GMT

My first thought were these covers are really...weird. But the summaries seem interesting enough. ('More Anita Blake?!" I hear you groan. XD) Thank goodness they aren't documentaries! XD

Book 1: Vulnerable
"Vulnerable" is a solid first novel by newcomer Amy Lane. In the Alpha-*itch tradition of Anita Blake, Victory Nelson and Sookie Stackhouse, Corinne Carol-Anne Kirkpatrick (a.k.a. Cory) must face a variety of supernatural phenomenon in her job as night-clerk for a rural gas station. After she meets Adrian, her first lover--and her first vampire--she is sucked headlong into a world that is a mix of elves, vampires, and danger, and in which she is surprised to find herself a key player...

Book 2: Wounded
Green: "If someone gives their life for you, it is because they can not bear to live in a world without you. This is a great gift and a terrible burden, and if you are going to live, you need to be grateful for the gift and prepared to bear the burden." Cory: "I do fearsome things, when I'm touching people who love me..." Cory fled the foothills to deal with the pain of losing Adrian, and Green watched her go. Separately, they could easily grieve themselves to death, but when an enemy brings them together, they find out what a great and terrible force love can be.

Book 3: Bound
Humans have the option of separation, divorce, and heartbreak -- for Corinne Carol-Anne Kirkpatrick, sorceress and queen of the vampires, the choices are limited to love or death. Now that she is back at Green's hill and assuming her duties as leader, her life is, at best, complicated...Cory needs to get her act and her identity together, and soon, because the enemy she and her lovers are facing is a nightmare that doesn't just kill people, it unmakes them. If she doesn't figure out who she is and what her place is on Green's hill, it's not just her life on the line...

As always, ebook links put up shortly on author list (friend-only).

Philippa Gregory's Tudor Series

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:04:00 GMT

Philippa Gregory's epic series (Books 1-6), friend for links in author list.
1. The Other Boleyn Girl (2)
2. The Queen's Fool (4)
3. The Virgin's Lover (5)
4. The Constant Princess (1)
5. The Boleyn Inheritance (3)
6. The Other Queen (6)
(Brackets indicates chronological order)

The Other Boleyn Girl
Fabulous historical novel set in the court of King Henry VIII. Mary Boleyn attracts the attention of the young king and becomes his mistress; when he tires of her, she sets out to school her sister, Anne, as a replacement...

The Queen's Fool
The savage rivalry of the daughters of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth, mirrors that of their mothers, Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Each will fight by any available means for the crown and future of the kingdom. Elizabeth's bitter struggle to claim the throne she believes is hers by right, and the man she desires almost more than her crown, is watched by her 'fool': a girl who has been forced to leave her homeland of Spain, as a Jew fleeing the Inquisition. In a court where truth is wittily denied and lies are mere games, it is the fool who can speak plainly: in these dangerous times, a woman must choose between ambition and love. Elizabeth will not make the same mistakes as her mother.

The Virgin's Lover
Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that they know what would be best for the country and certain that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend...Meanwhile, the pressure grows for Elizabeth to marry, for it is unthinkable that a queen should rule on her own. Elizabeth's preference is clear, but he is unavailable. But what if the unthinkable were to happen...

The Constant Princess
Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are both rulers and warriors. Aged four, she is betrothed to Arthur, Prince of Wales, and is raised to be Queen of England. She is never in doubt that it is her destiny to rule that far-off, wet, cold land. Her faith is tested when her prospective father-in-law greets her arrival in her new country with a great insult; Arthur seems little better than a boy; the food is strange and the customs coarse. Slowly she adapts to the first Tudor court, and life as Arthur's wife grows ever more bearable. But when the studious young man dies, she is left to make her own future: how can she now be queen, and found a dynasty? Only by marrying Arthur's young brother, the sunny but spoilt Henry. ..She will do anything to achieve her aim; even if it means telling the greatest lie, and holding to it.

The Boleyn Inheritance
The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the aging sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language and habits are foreign...Catherine is confident that she can follow in the steps of her cousin Anne Boleyn to dazzle her way to the throne but her kinswoman Jane Boleyn, haunted by the past, knows that Anne's path led to Tower Green and to an adulterer's death. The story of these three young women, trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval and political uncertainty is Philippa Gregory's most intense novel yet.

The Other Queen
Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the "guest" of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick...To their horror, they find that the task will bankrupt them, and as their home becomes the epicenter of intrigue and rebellion against Elizabeth, their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign comes into question. If Mary succeeds in seducing the earl into her own web of treachery and treason, or if the great spymaster William Cecil links them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment, they will all face the headsman.

The Immortal Series - Joy Nash, Jennifer Ashley, Robin T. Popp

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:34:50 GMT

Book 1: The Calling: While investigating the murder of her sister, Amber is rescued from a demon attack by Adrian, a leather-coated, sword-toting warrior. He reveals that he is one of the Immortals, created at the dawn of civilization to protect humanity from Death Magic...

Book 2: The Darkening
While Lexi, a powerful witch-werewolf and bounty hunter, tracks criminals through Manhattan, she runs across Darius, an Immortal who has landed in her city after the failure of The Calling spell. Attracted to the sexy warrior, but struggling to deal with the raging needs of the wolf inside her, Lexi battles her own desires as she and Darius race to foil a plot to overrun the city with Death Magic.

Book 3: The Awakening

Kalen, Immortal Warrior, has lain down his weapons. Scornful of what the human race has become, he’s rejected everything modern humans have invented—until a young, badly dressed American witch arrives at his remote Scottish castle bearing tales of demons and Death Magic....Christine was everything Kalen had been desperate to capture in his art—and in his bed. But Kalen has a dark secret of his own to fight before he and Christine can join the others for the last battle.

Book 4: The Gathering

Leda finds Hunter sprawled in an enclosure with her injured lion, and to her amazement, the lion seems to like him...They find the world run amok with Death Magic, and that Tain and his demon are planning a final take-over at the full of the moon...Hunter and Leda race to join the other Immortals, but discover that the four Immortals and their witches have gathered too late . . .

Book 5: The Redeeming
As Samantha Taylor investigates the abduction of young demon women in gritty Los Angeles, she encounters Tain, the Immortal she hasn't seen since his enslavement to a powerful demon the year before. Now Tain needs Samantha's help, and Samantha wonders if she can hide the fact that she's in love with him while they work together. Tain spent years being tortured by a demon--the last thing he'll want is a half-demon woman longing for him . . . or so she thinks...

Friend to view links to ebooks in second post~

Katie MacAlister's Contemporary Novels

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:48:44 GMT

Corset Diaries: No woman in her right mind would consent to wearing a corset for a month. Especially a "skinny-challenged" woman like Tessa. But dreams of being debt-free dance in her head at the offer of appearing in a reality TV show. "A Month in the Life of a Victorian Duke" is about real people pretending to live on an English estate, circa 1879. And Tessa's leading man-a real-life Duke-is so handsome she can barely breathe, with or without the corset...

Men in Kilts: At a mystery conference in Manchester, Katie Williams makes her move on a burly Scotsman...and winds up falling in love before the night is over...

Improper English: Sassy American Alexandra Freemar isn't about to put up with any flak from the uptight - albeit gorgeous-Scotland Yard inspector who accuses her of breaking and entering. She doesn't have time. She has two months in London to write the perfect romance novel - two months to prove that she can succeed as an author...Yet one kiss tells her Alexander Black might not be quite as proper as she thought. Unfortunately, the gentleman isn't interested in a summer fling...

Hard Day's Knight: At a modern-day Renaissance faire, one woman is about to meet her knight in tarnished armor.

Blow Me Down: In the Internet game of "Buckling Swashes," two die-hard enemies find themselves comrades at arms against a merciless rival, and discover that-on the virtual high seas and in real life-love can tame the most fearsome of pirates.

Please friend for ebook links! (In second post)

Lora Leigh - Breeds 16+17

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:31:52 GMT

Mercury's War: Someone has been slipping the Sanctuary’s secure information to a pharmaceutical company. Now it’s up to Ria Rodriguez to pose as a clerk and uncover the leak. Yet she has no idea of the danger
she’s about to encounter—or the passion she’s about to ignite in one of the greatest Breeds ever created.

Christmas Heat: New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh and top-selling authors Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, and Linda Winstead Jones have a special gift for readers this year: never-before published holiday stories featuring passionate romance, paranormal adventure, and a distinctly alluring feline touch. With four new stories—including one featuring Lora Leigh’s genetically altered Feline Breeds—this is a collection packed with more surprises than Christmas morning, and more chills than the snowiest winter night…

Ebook links in author list (second post).

Natalie Angier's The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:51:09 GMT

Some strange book I don't quite get through a skim read, but which some people might nonetheless enjoy.
Pulitzer-winning Science writer Angier (Woman: An Intimate Geography) distills everything you've forgotten from your high school science classes and more into one enjoyable book, a guide for the scientifically perplexed adult who wants to understand what those guys in lab coats on the news are babbling about, in the realms of physics, chemistry, biology, geology or astronomy...

Friend to read...comment to thank! :)