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The Wonder Engine

T. Kingfisher · 370 pages

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Free-Wrench

Joseph R. Lallo · 152 pages

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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 Fall of Babel

Josiah Bancroft · 636 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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Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders

Richard Ellis Preston Jr. · 446 pages

In a post-apocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their kidnapped leader, Balthazar Crankshaft, from the impenetrable City of the Founders. Steaming over a territory once known as Southern California--before it was devastated in the alien war--Buckle navigates his massive airship through s

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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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Shorefall

Robert Jackson Bennett · 493 pages

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A Conjuring of Light

V.E. Schwab · 640 pages

***Witness the fate of beloved heroes--and enemies.*** **THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS FINALLY TIPPED....** The precarious equilibrium among the four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise. **WHO WILL CRUMBLE?** Kell--once assumed to be the last surviving *An

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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him

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A Tempest of Tea

Hafsah Faizal · 338 pages

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Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti

Genevieve Valentine · 284 pages

"Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless Elena and her aerialists who perform on living trapezes. War is everywhere, but while the Circus is performing, the world is magic. That magic is no accident: Bo

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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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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

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Those Left Behind

Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews · 104 pages

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The Air War

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 672 pages

All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, spies eye one another and ready their knives while the people of Myna watch troops gather at its borders. Emotions run high as old fears reawaken. And in Collegium students argue politics, too late to turn the tide. At the heart of the Empire, new pilots complete their secretive training, generals are recalled to service and armies are

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Streams of Silver

R.A. Salvatore · 342 pages

The epic tale of everyone's favorite dark elf, Drizzt Do'Urden, reaches new heights!Drizzt Do'Urden struggles with his own inner voices, voices that call him back to the pitiless depths of the Underdark. But louder still are the voices of his newfound friends, and the dream that drives Bruenor Battlehammer on to reclaim Mithral Hall. Time and again they're told to turn back, that some dreams can n

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Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo · 493 pages

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone... A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privil

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Chasing the Star Garden

Melanie Karsak · 314 pages

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The Clockwork Dagger

Beth Cato

Octavia Leander, who has preternatural healing skills, takes a ramshackle airship to her new post as a medician. An attack on her delightfully starchy roommate, Mrs. Stout, is followed in short order by an attempt on her own life. Aided by Mrs. Stout and Alonzo Garrett, a gallant steward who is much more than he appears, Octavia soon realizes that she is a pawn in the conflict between Caskentia an

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Riveted

Meljean Brook

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Skies of Fire

Zoe Archer · 224 pages

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The Court of the Air

Stephen Hunt · 582 pages

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Clementine

Cherie Priest · 208 pages

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