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Ballantine Books
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While investigating a double homicide in faerie, Meredith must avoid assassination attempts, attend Goblin Court, and work to produce an heir. However, when Meredith embraces a magical deity, she soon discovers that in her feverish, frequent, and erotic attempts to reproduce a powerful magic swells within her.
3) On Target
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"Four years ago, Court Gentry was betrayed by his handlers in the CIA. To survive, he had to eliminate his own brothers in arms. Now, as a master assassin known as the Gray Man, he makes his living killing other people. But when an old comrade he thought dead returns to haunt him, his own life is put in the crosshairs. The man wants Court to complete a mission, with one crucial catch to his orders: Instead of a difficult assassination, the job will...
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After a series of nonstop adventures, Stone Barrington is eager for some peace and quiet in a rustic British settings. But no sooner does he land in England than he's beset by an outrageous demand from a beautiful lady, and an offer he can't refuse. Unfortunately, Stone quickly learned that his new acquisition comes with some undesired strings attached -- namely, a deadly mystery involving the complex relationships of the local gentry, and a relentless...
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Ballantine Books
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English
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Meredith Gentry struggles to fulfill her obligation to the world of Faerie by conceiving an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court in order to restore magic and life to the fey kingdom, but her quest is threatened by the intrigues of her scheming uncle, the King of Light and Illusion, as well as her own wild and unpredictable powers.
6) Back blast
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"Five years ago, Court Gentry was the CIA's best covert asset. Then, without warning, the Agency put him at the top of its kill list. Court fled his country and became the enigmatic Gray Man. Now Court plans to find out what went wrong by getting his hands on the men who sent him on his last mission, Operation BACK BLAST. What he doesn't realize is that questions from his time as an American assassin are still reverberating in the U.S. intelligence...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kins treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heirall for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my back on court and crown,...
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Merry Gentry, ex-private detective, now full-time princess, knew she was descended from fertility goddesses, but when she learned she was about to have triplets, she began to understand what that might mean. Infertility has plagued the high ranks of faerie for centuries. Now nobles of both courts of faerie are coming to court Merry and her men, at their home in exile in the Western Lands of Los Angeles, because they will do anything to have babies...
9) Velvet song
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They were both outcasts by a harsh decree-and on the brink of a shared destiny of passion! With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackelt fled to the woods-and sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the king's edict. There she hid her beauty in the guise of a boy, and her sorrow in her work as Montgomery's squire. But how long could such loveliness as hers be hidden? How long could such a gallant man's desires...
10) The gray man
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"Courtland Gentry is a good man. But he's a great assassin...To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. And in...
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The Framptons built their lives in a grand old house nestled in the sweeping hills they have always known. The house is part of their history, but its walls also hold a secret. When Lord Frampton dies in a skiing accident, a beautiful young woman named Phaedra appears at his funeral claiming to be his illegitimate daughter. In his will, Lord Frampton has left the priceless Frampton suite of sapphires to this interloper, confirming her claim and outraging...
12) The summer house
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Revealing herself as the illegitimate daughter of a recently deceased English lord, young Frenchwoman Phaedra gradually overcomes her outraged relatives' frosty reception, only to have her position threatened by a forbidden passion.
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Meredith Gentry novels volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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"I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child - twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children." "Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my aunt's throne, that much closer to my reign...
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As if Meredith, an elven Princess working as a private investigator in Los Angeles, does not have enough problems staying alive in her deadly competition with her cousin Prince Cel for the Faerie throne (first one to reproduce wins), she also finds herself the only one who can stop an ancient evil that is killing both humans and the Fair Folk
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019].
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English
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"Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining scraps of...
16) Emma
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[2020]
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English
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Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
19) Northanger abbey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Jane Austen's first novel--published posthumously in 1818--tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature....