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Dawn's Early Light

Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 374 pages

Exiled to America, Braun and Brooks follow a series of nautical and aerial disasters to a new threat, known only as the Maestro.

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The Osiris Ritual

George Mann · 416 pages

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Word of Honour

Michael Pryor · 448 pages

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Skybreaker

Kenneth Oppel · 498 pages

Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.

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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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Clementine

Cherie Priest · 208 pages

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Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve · 373 pages

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The Waking Fire

Anthony Ryan

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Calamity Jack

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale · 168 pages

In this graphic novel interpretation of "Jack and the beanstalk," Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.

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Etiquette & Espionage

Gail Carriger · 256 pages

Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in proper manners -- and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what h

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Goliath

Scott Westerfeld · 576 pages

The tension thickens as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board: secrets suddenly unravel, characters reappear, and nothing is as it seems in this thunderous conclusion to Scott Westerfeld's brilliant trilogy.

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The Conjurer's Riddle

Andrea Cremer · 363 pages

Charlotte leads her friends to New Orleans, where the resistance against the Empire is based. There, she must figure out where her true loyalties lie.

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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.

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Clockwork Angels

Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart · 293 pages

A novel, based on the album "Clockwork Angels" by the rock band Rush, follows a young man on a quest through a world of lost cities, pirates, anarchists, and a Watchmaker who imposes precision on all aspects of daily life.

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Emilie and the Hollow World

Martha Wells

While running away from home, for reasons that are eminently defensible, Emilie's plans to stow away on the steamship *Merry Bell* and reach her cousin in the big city go awry. Suddenly she's on the wrong ship and at the beginning of a fantastic adveture. Taken under the protection of Lady Marlende, Emilie learns that the crew hopes to use the aether currents and an experimental engine to journ

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The Wild Adventure of Jasper Renn

Kady Cross · 100 pages

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Everland

Wendy Spinale · 312 pages

London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with P

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Retribution Falls

Chris Wooding · 352 pages

Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay. A womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, running contraband, robbing airships and making a nuisance of themselves. An easy heist and a fast buck sound great until a heist goes wrong and the freighter explodes. Suddenly Frey isn't just a nuisance - he's public enemy number one.--Publisher.

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The Bookman

Lavie Tidhar

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Take Back the Skies

Lucy Saxon · 378 pages

To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenaged Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure. To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenager Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship, where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure. The plot contains violen

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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.

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Arabella of Mars

David D. Levine · 416 pages

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The Golden Spider

Anne Renwick · 484 pages

**On the foggy streets of Victorian London, secrets and spies hide in a world of gaslamp fantasy** ***Lady Amanda blackmailed her way into a prestigious London medical school…*** Not the preferred method of entrance, of course, but necessary, for it’s the only way to force Lord Thornton, a professor at the school, to help her perfect her invention: a clockwork spider capable of spinning arti

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A Lady of Resources

Shelley Adina · 284 pages

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