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Author
Series
Hathaways volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power, and a dangerous hidden life. When their flirtation compromises her own reputation, Poppy shocks everyone by accepting his proposal--only to find that her new husband offers her his passion, but not his trust..."--p.[4] of cover.
22) Clockwork lives
Author
Series
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people's stories -- and ultimately her own.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Boy genius Frank Einstein finds himself in competition with his classmate and archrival T. Edison and his sign-language-speaking sidekick, Mr. Chimp, over Frank's newest invention: the EvoBlaster Belt.
Author
Series
8th continent volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Hoping to transform a giant floating garbage patch into a habitable eighth continent where people can escape an oppressive bureaucracy, Evie and Rick must race against time when a plastic-obsessed villainess tries to claim the continent to expand her power.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An independent nobleman Lord Randolph Cavanaugh is loyal and devoted--but only to family. To the rest of the world, he's aloof and untouchable, a respected and driven entrepreneur. But Rand yearns for more in life, and when he travels to Buckinghamshire to review a recent investment, he discovers a passionate woman who will challenge his rigid self-control... A determined lady Felicia Throgmorton intends to keep her family afloat. For decades, her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jane Spyrus loves gadgets. She loves inventing and some of her inventions seem innovative. She can't use wacky inventions to fix off of her problems. She will have to team up with another human being and Abel Andretti arrives just in time.
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius scientist and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with intelligent robots Klink and Klank once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of energy"--
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, intends to let the authorities handle the matter. Then the inventor's widow begs for his assistance. It seems her husband's designs for a revolutionary steam-powered engine went missing the night of his death; they could be worth a fortune-- and very dangerous in the wrong hands. Charlotte Sloane, who uses the pseudonym A.J. Quill to publish her political cartoons,...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair's Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Sloane's secret identity as the controversial satirical cartoonist A.J. Quill is safe with the Earl of Wrexford, but sharing the truth about her background has cast shadows on their relationship. When her cousin is murdered and his twin brother is accused of the crime, Charlotte turns to Wrexford for help in proving the young man's innocence. Determined to track down the real killer, their investigation leads them on a dangerous chase through...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jon Burwell, Viscount Kendall, knows what the gossips say about him. They claim he's been a dejected, half-mad recluse ever since he was jilted at the altar. The simple truth is that Jon has thrown all the passion he once had for his fiancée into his latest mechanical invention. But his single-minded existence has lately been shattered by repeated encounters with Miss Emma Ellingham, his neighbor's intriguing sister-in-law . . . Painting and sketching...
34) The Texan duke
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As the ward to the late Duke of Lothian, Elsbeth Carew resides at the ancestral estate of Bealadair. Fiercely attached to the manor, she loves it more than anyone else. When Connor McCraight--the new Duke of Lothian--arrives, Elsbeth does not quite know what to make of the American who has inherited the title but has never even set foot on Scottish soil. The tall, ruggedly handsome Texan sweeps through Bealadair with an air of authority Elsbeth has...
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Anne feels like an outsider compared to her new sixth-grade classmates, not least because she has recently moved in with her grandparents while her father tests a portable homeless shelter in authentic conditions. Anne plays violin with her new friend Otto, with whom she shares a love of the children's show The Blimptons.
Author
Language
English
Description
As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. Ultimately, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay. Yet...
37) The oyster thief
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on aquest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth--while threatening merpeople...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Decades after being imprisoned for threatening his city with an army of giant robots, an elderly scientist reenters society, only to discover he needs help navigating life in the 21st century. Experiencing real kindness and friendship for the first time, his new relationships challenge the inventor's single-minded devotion for vengeance--just as his plans threaten to spiral out of his control. This is a story about ambition, creativity, mortality,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe has all society begging for one of her premier governesses - except the powerful Edward Reeve, who bursts into her office with his arrogant demands. No question that Eugenia enjoys crossing wits with the brilliant inventor, but Ward wants far more than a governess. He wants Eugenia, and he'll stop at nothing to have her - including kidnapping. Will Eugenia lose her heart in the most reckless gamble of her life, or will...
Author
Publisher
Flammarion
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Vincent, more than anyone, knows what it means to keep a secret. With his troupe of talented craftsmen--the only family he has--he designs hidden compartments for priceless treasures and passageways for undetectable escape routes. The rich and powerful who hire him pay handsomely for his work, and for his discretion--they know only his first name, and his business is strictly word-of-mouth. As Paris celebrates the 1889 World's Fair, the city fills...
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