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21) 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
Cinder spires volume 1
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An airship's crew become humanity's lone defenders when an ancient enemy reawakens and threatens the world with monstrous creatures and perpetual darkness.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world forty years ago when he opened up...
24) Everfair
Author
Series
Everfair volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Neo-Victorian alternate-history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier.
25) Ghostwalkers
Author
Series
Deadlands (Macmillan) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Grey Torrance, a hired gun literally haunted by his bloody past, comes to the struggling town of Paradise Falls, where he becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict between the besieged community and a diabolically brilliant alchemist who is building terrible new weapons of mass destruction . . . and an army of the living dead!
26) Stormdancer
Author
Series
Lotus War trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this dystopian steampunk fantasy set against a backdrop of feudal Japan, warrior Yukiko captures a supposedly extinct (but crippled) griffin for the Shogun, then learns -- after meeting secretive Kin and the rebel Kage cabal -- of the horrifying extent of the Shogun's crimes, both against her country and her family. Returning to the city, Yukiko is determined to make the Shogun pay -- but what can one girl and a flightless griffin do against the...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Steampunk, the retro-futuristic cultural movement, has become a substantial genre in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. Part of its appeal is that steampunk is about doing it yourself. Desirina Boskovich and Jeff VanderMeer offer practical guidance into this realm, including sections on art, fashion, architecture, crafts, music, performance, and storytelling.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume Prequel
Language
English
Formats
Description
American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armored bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves in the middle of a political powder keg.
30) Burning up
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this collection of paranormal romances, a wounded soldier is rescued by a mysterious young woman, a desperate woman strikes a devil's bargain to gain overseas passage, a woman in danger finds the most unlikely protector and a vampire warrior and his beautiful captor battle against a demonic army.
31) A darkling plain
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's...
Author
Series
Weird West tales volume 2
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Doc Holliday needs to replenish his bankroll quickly and uses his skill as a shootist to turn bounty hunter. The biggest reward is for the death of Billy the Kid. Doc enlists the aid of both magic (Geronimo) and science (Thomas Edison).
Author
Series
Bannon and Clare volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: to find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, is only too happy to help. Unfortunately, their quarry is a fanatic, and his poisonous discovery is just as dangerous to Britannia as to Her enemies.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A steampunk retelling of Cinderella. Emmeline O'shea has been an outspoken advocate for the shapeshifter community, which has come under unjust attack from a political body known as the PSRC (Predatory Shifter Regulations Committee), and her robust efforts have landed her a prestigious position as the spokesperson for the International Shifter Rights Organization. She has been selected to give the final address in Scotland before they vote on legislation...
36) Behemoth
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically engineered warships.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures. Despite this, Domek find solace...
Author
Series
Books of Babel volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew are struggling to survive aboard their stolen airship as the hunt to rescue Senlin's lost wife continues. Hopeless and desolate, they turn to a legend of the Tower, the mysterious Sphinx. But help from the Sphinx never comes cheaply, and as Senlin knows, debts aren't always what they seem in the Tower of...
Author
Series
Adventures of Arabella Ashby volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Hail the conquering heroes! The tyrant Napoleon has been defeated with Arabella and the crew of the Diana leading the final charge. But, victory has come at a tremendous cost. Britain's savior, Lord Nelson, has not survived the final battle and the good people of the Diana must now return to London as both heroes and pallbearers. At last husband and wife, Arabella and Captain Singh seem to have earned the attention of great men, ones who have new...
Author
Series
Adventures of Arabella Ashby volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ever since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, they proved that space travel was both possible and profitable. Now, one century later, a plantation in the flourishing British colony on Mars is home to Arabella Ashby. A tomboy who shares her father{u2019}s deft hand with complex automatons....
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