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I'm shocked, I think I might have actually found it- even though I've never heard of it. The Amazon description sounds accurate. Triangle by Jon Ripslinger

perhaps one of these covers on Librarything? Or maybe a link to a list of her books- you could see if any of the posted covers match what you're looking for? Looks like she has quite a few short story books. Or maybe you'll recognize one of the covers here on Fantastic Fiction?

Check out the Luna line of books. Strong female characters in a speculative fiction setting. I definitely recommend Mercedes Lackey's Hundred Kingdom's series, C. E. Murphy's series that starts with Urban Shaman, Maria V. Snyder's Study series, Robin Owen's series that starts with Guardian of...

Raymond Feist, Robert Jordan, Robin Hobb, Holly Lisle, Elizabeth Haydon, Anne McCaffery (The Pern books... very much a close call whether they're fantasy or science fiction... so little of the "science" is seen that it's the story that counts), George R. R. Martin, anything on this page - in...

The children's/young adult book mentioned above is most likely The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. It's a Newberry Award winner, and so is pretty well-known and used in schools. Historical fiction, perhaps, for a genre?

You might see if any of the pics on Librarything look familiar...

Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series has intellegent unicorns...

I love The Count of Monte Cristo, and have since I was in middle school. The ONLY book that I've ever read that felt similar in style and power is Susan Kay's Phantom. It's been hard to track down for years (a couple years, used paperbacks were going in the $45 range) but it was republished last...

I always hate to recommend fantasy when someone has said they like a couple authors, but declared others "corny"... I'd rather have an example of what they didn't care for. Chances are, books I've enjoyed end up on both lists... I have a rather extensive list of favorites. :) Which makes it...

Fantasy Life by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. It's set on the Oregon coast, in a mythical county that fits quite nicely into existing reality. Interestingly enough, it's the only book set in Oregon that I have run across that has had an authentic-feeling Oregon voice... though I'm not sure what makes...

Any idea what the book was about? Any chance there were names or words in Spanish in it?

I'll second the Holly Lisle series... it's good. Many, if not all, of her books have strong female leads. One of her newer books, Talyn, just came out in paperback recently, and I loved it, too. Mercedes Lackey writes some fun fantasy with a romance element for the Luna line that are her takes...

For a particular author, check their webpage and see if they recommend anywhere. There are several physical/online bookstores that authors seem to favor. (If I can remember some names, I'll come back and post.)

I'm absolutely certain it didn't use the phrase "tommy" as part of it at all. I read SK's Tommyknockers a few years later and spent quite a while wondering why on earth he'd added the "tommy" to it... didn't realize til some time after that that it's used often here in the U.S., but not where it...

I'll recommend some... The Truth Trap series by Frances A. Miller. Books are: 1. The Truth Trap 2. Aren't You The One Who? 3. Losers and Winners 4. Cutting Loose I haven't managed to get my hands on the fourth one... but the first three are just... incredible. I think perhaps why they don't...

No... not it. This book spanned a fairly short time period... probably weeks or months. There were definitely people employed in the caves, and some sort of cave-in... odd thing is, the descriptions I find online of knockers/knackers make them sound friendly, while in this book, they were at...

I think the main character was a girl, in a mining area. Perhaps lived with a grandmother. At least one cave-in during the time of the story, perhaps one just before the story starts and one during, or one may have been 10 or 20 years or something in the past. I remember the mine spirits... I...

Hmmm. Don't know, but it sounds sort of familiar... maybe I'll have an idea later. Right now, though, you've been very successful at one thing... you made me think of ANOTHER book to ask about!

The first one doesn't sound familiar to me, but if the second one is correctly found as Island of the Blue Dolphins, you might want to rethink the "not children's books" part. Island of the Blue Dolphins was a Newberry award winner... it might be worthwhile to read the list of Newberry...

You aren't talking about the one that mentions ley lines and ends up in Antarctica, are you? (Thinking not, but checking just to make sure...) And it sounds interesting, so I hope someone knows what it is!