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1) Lightless
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A female engineer, Althea, fights for her life when her small spacecraft is invaded by two mysterious terrorists on a dark mission, one of whom is a revolutionary harboring deep secrets.
2) The rancher
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Searching for her place in her birth family, engineer Rachel Ford Morgan goes up against her family's rival, Cauy Lymond, when she discovers worrisome fault lines around an abandoned silver mine on his property, which threatens all their futures.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Elinor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Severance: an offbeat, wryly funny debut novel that follows an eccentric product engineer who works for a hip furniture company where sweeping corporate change lands her under the purview of a startlingly charismatic boss who seems determined to get close to her at all costs ..."--
Author
Series
Lumber Baron's Daughters volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After learning their stepfather's plans marry off Laura Stiles and her sisters, they disappear to find matches and claim their father's lumber dynasty. On their expedition they volunteer on a settlement, and Laura sees potential in the local minister. But when secrets buried in his past and the land surface, it will take all they have to keep trouble at bay"--
Laura Stiles and her two sisters discover their stepfather's plans to marry each of them...
Author
Series
Lumber Baron's Daughters volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles sets her focus on fulfilling her dream of building a mountaintop railroad-and remaining independent. But when a cruel and powerful man goes to dangerous lengths to try to make Jilly his own, marrying her friend Nick may be the only way to save herself and her dreams"--
Author
Series
Beautiful series volume 8
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"When Ruby Miller's boss announces he's sending her on an extended business trip to New York City, she's shocked. As one of the best and brightest young engineers in London, she knows she's professionally up to the task. The part that's throwing her is where she'll be spending a month, up close and personal, working alongside and staying in a hotel with Niall Stella, her firm's top urban planning executive and The Hottest Man Alive. Despite her ongoing...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Falling into the past will change their futures forever. Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. Working as an engineer, she genuinely enjoys her job and her colleaguesparticularly a certain adorable and intelligent consultant. But something is missing. When Marys estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer offers her a two-week stay in a gorgeous manor house in England, she reluctantly agrees in hopes that the holiday will shake...
Author
Series
Rebels with a cause (Samara Parish) volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Fiona McTavish is an engineer, a chemist, a rebel--and no one's idea of a proper lady. She prefers breeches to ballrooms, but her new invention--matches--will surely turn as many heads. There's just a little matter of her being arrested for a crime she didn't commit. And the only person she can turn to for help is the man who broke her heart years ago. Edward Stirling, Duke of Wildeforde, will do anything to restore his family's name and put his...
Author
Series
Secret scientists of London volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"You couldn't design a better hero than the very eligible and extremely charming Earl Grantham. Unless, of course, you are Margaret Gault, who wants nothing to do with the man who broke her youthful heart. Widowed and determined, Margaret Gault has returned to Athena's Retreat and the welcoming arms of her fellow secret scientists with an ambitious plan in mind: to establish England's first woman-owned engineering firm. But from the moment she sets...
Author
Series
Kilts and quilts volume 4
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Christmas in the small village of Gandiegow brings holiday cheer -- and a chance for love between two strangers ... When her father is injured in an accident, Edinburgh engineer Pippa McDonnell comes home to Gandiegow to take over the family business, the North Sea Valve Company. Now she{u2019}s working overtime trying to fix NSV{u2019}s finances and find the cash to get her father proper medical care. One possibility is to accept a partnership with...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A delightful new contemporary romance by Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Ayesha at Last. Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. And while Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A new novel about an underground food community by the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"--
A software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions, Lois Clary codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. When the brothers have Visa issues, they have one last delivery...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Under One Roof: An environmental engineer discovers that scientists should never cohabitate when she finds herself stuck with the roommate from hell - a detestable big-oil lawyer who won't leave the thermostat alone. -- Stuck with You: A civil engineer and her nemesis take their rivalry - and love - to the next level when they get stuck in a New York elevator. -- Below Zero: A NASA aerospace engineer's frozen heart melts as she lies injured and stranded...
14) Supernova
Author
Series
(Caitlin A.).Lightless trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"C. A. Higgins's acclaimed novel Lightless fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. Now the dazzling Supernova heightens the thrills and deepens the haunting exploration of technology and humanity--and the consequences that await when the two intersect. Once Ananke was an experimental military spacecraft. But a rogue computer virus transformed it--her--into...
Series
Clock striker volume 1
Publisher
Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quatro Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Clock Striker follows Shonen manga's first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers. Cast dreams of being a SMITH, and though she's rather handy with her tools, no one in her small town ever realizes their dreams. Besides, these legendary warrior engineers haven't been seen in years and were never known for having female members. Fortunately, Cast meets one surviving member named...
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