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The Mummy Case

Elizabeth Peters · 336 pages

Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an an

MuseumsEgyptian MythologyVictorian EraCurses
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Reawakened

Colleen Houck · 393 pages

Confronted by a reawakened Egyptian prince during a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17-year-old Lilliana is chosen to help him raise his brothers and stop Seth, the shape-shifting god, from conquering the world.

Egyptian MythologyMuseumsFantasySeries Starter
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A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray · 416 pages

Secret SocietyVictorian EraLondonFantasy
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Threadneedle

Cari Thomas · 576 pages

Secret SocietyLondonCursesFantasy
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And Only to Deceive

Tasha Alexander · 339 pages

Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother. Philip's death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger. But her discovery of his journals nearly two years later reveals a far different man than she imagined—a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who apparently loved his ne

MuseumsVictorian EraLondonFemale Lead
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The Death Collector

Justin Richards · 336 pages

Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

MuseumsVictorian EraLondonMiddle Grade
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Capture the Flag

Kate Messner

MuseumsSecret SocietyMiddle GradeMystery
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The List of Seven

Mark Frost · 377 pages

Secret SocietyVictorian EraLondonMystery
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The Oversight

Charlie Fletcher · 451 pages

"Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruits, or she could be the instrument of their downfall."--Publisher's description.

Secret SocietyVictorian EraLondonFantasy
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The Clockwork Scarab

Colleen Gleason

Secret SocietyVictorian EraLondonMystery
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The Last Necromancer

C.J. Archer · 268 pages

Victorian EraSecret SocietyLondonFantasy
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The Osiris Ritual

George Mann · 416 pages

Egyptian MythologyVictorian EraLondonFantasy
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Soulless

Gail Carriger · 300 pages

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeo

Victorian EraLondonSecret SocietyFantasy
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The Serpent's Shadow

Rick Riordan · 406 pages

He's b-a-a-ack! Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all. Unfortunately, the magicians of the House of Life are on the brink of civil war, the gods are divided, and the young init

Egyptian MythologySecret SocietyMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Vanishing Thief

Kate Parker · 296 pages

"Georgia Fenchurch appears to be an unassuming antiquarian bookseller in Victorian London, but the life she leads is as exciting as any adventure novel. For Georgia is a member of the Archivist Society, a secret association of private investigators led by the mysterious Sir Broderick. When a frantic woman comes to Georgia claiming that her neighbor, Nicholas Drake, has been abducted by the notorio

Secret SocietyVictorian EraLondonSeries Starter
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The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy

Robert Arthur · 160 pages

The Three Investigators undertake a case involving an Egyptian mummy which whispers, but only to one man.

MuseumsEgyptian MythologyMiddle GradeMystery
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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

Secret SocietyVictorian EraLondonFantasy
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Splendors and Glooms

Laura Amy Schlitz · 400 pages

When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.

CursesVictorian EraLondonMiddle Grade
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Firelight

Kristen Callihan · 320 pages

Once the flames are ignited . . . Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family's fortune decimated and forced her to wed London's most nefarious nobleman. They will burn for eternity . . . Lord Benjamin Arch

CursesVictorian EraLondonSeries Starter
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Museum of Thieves

Lian Tanner

Goldie, an impulsive and bold twelve-year-old, escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains for their protection, and finds refuge in the extraordinary Museum of Dunt, an ever-shifting world where she discovers a useful talent for thievery and mysterious secrets that threaten her city and everyone she loves.

MuseumsMiddle GradeFantasyFemale Lead
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Fablehaven

Brandon Mull · 351 pages

For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Enchanting? Absolutely! Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite . . . Kendra and her brother Seth have no idea that their grandfather is the current c

Secret SocietyMiddle GradeCursesFantasy
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Phoenix Rising

Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine · 409 pages

"These are dark days indeed in Victoria's England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences--the Crown's clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling--will not allow its agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with

Secret SocietyVictorian EraLondonSeries Starter
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The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud · 562 pages

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

Egyptian MythologySecret SocietyLondonMiddle Grade
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LondonVictorian EraSecret SocietyFantasy

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