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Name of book with wild, dangerous unicorn
Pretty sure the book you're thinking of is Elidor by Alan Garner (1965). This is the mostly orange and red cover of the hardback edition:
Four children find a portal to another world, on a bombed-...
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SFF Short story anthology: girl named Willow restores planets, and unicorns create balance in the environment
This is "Stranded" (2012) by Anne Bishop.
The Restorers travel the universe fulfilling a purpose handed down
through the generations. They live and die aboard city-ships, never
knowing the ...
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Can you drink unicorn blood from a living unicorn and benefit without being cursed?
Almost certainly not.
It's not exactly clear-cut but I'd suggest that someone who drank unicorn blood without killing the unicorn would get neither the curse nor the benefits which Firenze is ...
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Name of book with wild, dangerous unicorn
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett , which came out in 1992 fits the bill.
Portal to Faerie world? Check. Something coming through portal? Check. Wild unicorn that kills a man? Check. Somewhat ...
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Romance book about a shapeshifting unicorn and a shapeshifting dragon
This sounds very similar to the plotline for a novel called Dragon Bound, which is part of the Elder Races series of books by Thea Harrison.
Many of the plot elements match (dragon protagonist, hoard ...
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Looking for book I read in the '80s about a hart/unicorn
Could this be The Transfigured Hart (1975) by Jane Yolen?
Is what Richard saw in the woods really a unicorn?
Heather and Richard have little in common. A voracious reader growing up in a large house ...
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Movie with a girl and her unipeg (winged unicorn) spirit animal
This is indeed Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders (1995); more precisely, the glittery-to-a-shame pilot episode, which lasted 44 minutes, hence why your wife could've mistaken it for a movie.
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What book has a farm girl harvesting the power of unicorns?
Might this be The Valley of the Wolves (2000) by Laura Gallego García?
It seems the original, Spanish version of the book was published in 2000, and the English version in 2006.
According to this ...
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Name of book with wild, dangerous unicorn
To me, this sounds like "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe", by C. S. Lewis. It's about 4 children in WWII era London, where the youngest girl, Lucy, finds a wardrobe that has no back, but leads ...
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