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The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer · 336 pages

Being the Private Correspondence Between Two Prominent Families Regarding a Scandal Touching the Highest Levels of Government and the Security of the Realm. Ten years have passed since Kate and Cecy married Thomas and James, and England is now being transformed by the first railways. When the Duke of Wellington asks James to look into the sudden disappearance of a German railway engineer, James

TrainsAlternate HistoryWitty BanterEspionage
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Dreadnought

Cherie Priest · 400 pages

Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.

SteampunkAlternate HistoryTrainsFemale Lead
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Dead Iron

Devon Monk

SteampunkTrainsWerewolvesAlternate History
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The Chess Queen Enigma

Colleen Gleason · 357 pages

Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes have reluctantly agreed to act as social chaperones and undercover bodyguards for Princess Lurelia of Betrovia, who has arrived in London to deliver a letter that details the secret location of an ancient chess queen that's been missing for centuries. But when the letter--which will heal a centuries-old rift between England and the Betrovians--is stolen out from unde

SteampunkVictorian EraFemale FriendshipYoung Adult
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The Diamond Conspiracy

Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 368 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraEspionageWitty Banter
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Rebel Mechanics

Shanna Swendson · 320 pages

A sixteen-year-old governess becomes a spy in this alternative U.S. history where the British control with magic and the colonists rebel by inventing.

SteampunkAlternate HistoryEspionageYoung Adult
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The Friday Society

Adrienne Kress

SteampunkVictorian EraFemale FriendshipYoung Adult
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The Lazarus Machine

Paul Crilley

In an alternate 1899 London, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Tweed searches for his kidnapped father, uncovering both a horrific technological secret and a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire.

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraYoung Adult
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Timekeeper

Tara Sim · 414 pages

In an alternate 1875 England, seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny, aided by the boy he loves, must discover who is sabotaging the towers that control the flow of time and stop him or her before it is too late.

Alternate HistorySteampunkVictorian EraYoung Adult
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Heart of Iron

Bec McMaster · 437 pages

"In the mist-shrouded streets of London's dreaded Whitechapel district, werewolves, vampires, and a clockwork army are one step away from battle"--Page 4 of cover.

SteampunkVictorian EraWerewolvesFemale Lead
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Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon

Mark Hodder · 640 pages

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraFunny
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The Doomsday Vault

Steven Harper

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraFemale Lead
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Blaze of Glory

Michael Pryor · 406 pages

Alternate HistorySteampunkVictorian EraEspionage
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Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare · 489 pages

When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother in Victorian England, something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark sisters, who are members of a secret organization called the Pandemonium club, Tessa soon learns that she has the power to transform into another person. The Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the club, will stop at nothing t

SteampunkVictorian EraYoung AdultWitty Banter
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

Sydney Padua · 317 pages

315 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm1130L Lexile

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraFunny
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A Study in Silks

Emma Jane Holloway · 432 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraAlternate HistoryFemale Lead
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Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl

David Barnett · 351 pages

"Nineteenth century London is the center of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known world, including the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of C

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraSeries
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India Black and the Widow of Windsor

Carol K. Carr · 320 pages

Spy for Queen Victoria, India Black, disguises herself as a servant to protect Her Highness from a possible assassination attempt by Scottish nationalists while spending the Christmas holidays in Balmoral.

Victorian EraScotlandWitty BanterEspionage
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The Hunchback Assignments

Arthur Slade

A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania's efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on

SteampunkVictorian EraEspionageYoung Adult
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The Bookman

Lavie Tidhar

SteampunkAlternate HistoryVictorian EraSeries
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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld · 444 pages

**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side

SteampunkAlternate HistoryYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Raising Steam

Terry Pratchett · 408 pages

"Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork--Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job"--

SteampunkTrainsWitty BanterFunny
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The Inventor's Secret

Andrea Cremer · 373 pages

In an alternate nineteenth-century America that is still a colony of Britain's industrial empire, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees' struggle to survive is interrupted by a newcomer with no memory, bearing secrets about a terrible future.

SteampunkAlternate HistoryYoung AdultFemale Lead
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The Affinity Bridge

George Mann · 416 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraEspionageSeries

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