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Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle

Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio · back to the book

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Agatha Heterodyne and the Monster Engine

Phil Foglio, Mark McNabb, Kaja Foglio · 128 pages

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Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank

Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio, Brian Snoddy · 96 pages

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Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City

Kaja Foglio · 160 pages

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Perdido Street Station

China Mieville · 710 pages

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory

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Imprudence

Gail Carriger · 352 pages

Rue and the Spotted Custard shake the foundations of England's scientific community with revelations from their trip to India, a situation that is complicated by supernatural restlessness and her own family's growing fears.

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House of Many Ways

Diana Wynne Jones · 416 pages

The sequel to Howl's Moving CastleWhen Charmain Baker agreed to look after her great-uncle's house, she thought she was getting blissful, parent-free time to read. She didn't realize that the house bent space and time, and she did not expect to become responsible for an extremely magical stray dog and a muddled young apprentice wizard. Now, somehow, she's been targeted by a terrifying creature cal

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Stitch Head

Guy Bass · 190 pages

In the frightening, maze-like dungeon laboratory deep within Castle Grotteskew, mad scientist Professor Erasmus brings his bizarre experiments to life. His first creation, Stitch Head, has long been forgotten.  But when a traveling circus ringmaster promises to make him a star, Stitch Head is torn between his almost-life in the castle and the promise of fame outside its walls. Before he can decide

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The Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer · 304 pages

Auf geheimen Wegen gelangt Meisterverbrecher Artemis Fowl in das eisige Murmansk, wo er seinen Vater vermutet, der sich in der Gewalt einer skrupellosen Erpresserbande befinden soll. Doch Artemis hat ungewöhnliche Verbündete auf seiner Seite und natürlich auch schon einen Plan im Kopf. Einen gefährlichen Plan.

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The Iron Thorn

Caitlin Kittredge

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The Diamond Conspiracy

Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 368 pages

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The Alloy of Law

Brandon Sanderson · 362 pages

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are re

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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

Hiromu Arakawa · 192 pages

**Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime!** In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical “auto-mail” limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother’s bodies...the legendary Philosopher’s Stone. Alchemy: the

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The Black Lung Captain

Chris Wooding

Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircraft in the sky. Even the simplest robberies seem to go wrong. It's getting so a man can't make a dishonest living any more.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus

Alan Moore · 218 pages

"As the twentieth century approaches, there is a need for a new kind of champion - adventurers not bound by the chaste order that characterizes the stagnant Victorian Era. The enigmatic Campion Bond of British Intelligence has begun a recruiting mission, collecting a menagerie of individuals who can be of value to his superiors due to ... activities that have forced them beyond the pale. But as Al

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Sapphique

Catherine Fisher · 470 pages

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Flash Gold

Lindsay Buroker

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All Men of Genius

Lev A.C. Rosen · 462 pages

Violet Adams wants to attend Illyria College, a widely renowned school for the most brilliant up-and-coming scientific minds, founded by the late Duke Illyria, the greatest scientist of the Victorian Age. The school is run by his son, Ernest, who has held to his father’s policy that the small, exclusive college remain male-only. Violet sees her opportunity when her father departs for America. She

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The Chemickal Marriage

Gordon Dahlquist · 522 pages

Miss Temple, young, wealthy, and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fiance is dead - admittedly by her own hand - her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, still at large. It falls upon Miss Temple's tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world.

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Ticker

Lisa Mantchev · 273 pages

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Arm of the Sphinx

Josiah Bancroft · 407 pages

"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

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Free-Wrench

Joseph R. Lallo · 152 pages

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The Custodian of Marvels

Rod Duncan · 368 pages

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Word of Honour

Michael Pryor · 448 pages

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