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The Girl with the Windup Heart

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Clockwork Princess

Cassandra Clare Β· 576 pages

If the only way to save the world was to destroy what you loved most, would you do it? The clock is ticking. Everyone must choose.

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonRobots & Androids
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Her Own Devices

Shelley Adina Β· 274 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonFound Family
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The Clockwork Scarab

Colleen Gleason

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonYoung Adult
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The Friday Society

Adrienne Kress

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonYoung Adult
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The Affinity Bridge

George Mann Β· 416 pages

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Everland

Wendy Spinale Β· 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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Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl

David Barnett Β· 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

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Legacy of the Clockwork Key

Kristin Bailey Β· 409 pages

A orphaned sixteen-year-old servant in Victorian England finds love while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious society of inventors and their most dangerous creation.

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonYoung Adult
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The Diamond Thief

Sharon Gosling Β· 305 pages

No one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old RΓ©my Brunel. But RΓ©my also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to steal one of the world's most valuable diamonds, she uncovers a world of treachery and fiendish plots.

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonYoung Adult
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Etiquette & Espionage

Gail Carriger Β· 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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Infernal Devices

K.W. Jeter Β· 283 pages

Steampunk. Fresh and inventive, darkly humorous, and with wild characters who never take a backseat to the mechanical creations.

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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.

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonYoung Adult
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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 EraLondonYoung Adult
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The Janus Affair

Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris, Philippa Ballantine Β· 416 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonFemale Lead
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Ordinary Monsters

J.M. Miro Β· 672 pages

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Forged by Desire

Bec McMaster Β· 436 pages

Ten years ago, Perry fled her thrall contract to find sactuary among the Nighthawks. In that time, she's become a respected woman of the Guard, and she's wanted Garrett Reed for as long as she can remember. But when a new case takes a chillingly familiar turn, Perry finds herself once again in the path of a madman ... only this time, there's nowhere left to run.

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The Falling Machine

Andrew P. Mayer Β· 285 pages

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A Study in Silks

Emma Jane Holloway Β· 432 pages

SteampunkVictorian EraLondonFemale Lead
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Defiant

Brandon Sanderson Β· 433 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about

Robots & AndroidsSuperpowersFound FamilyYoung Adult
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The Doomsday Vault

Steven Harper

SteampunkVictorian EraMultiple POVFemale Lead
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The Golden Spider

Anne Renwick Β· 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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Gilded

Karina Cooper Β· 384 pages

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The Faerie Ring

Kiki Hamilton Β· 348 pages

"The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. They survive by picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring, and sets off a chain of events that could lead to all-out war with the Fey. For the ring belongs to Queen Victoria, and it binds the rulers of England and the realm

Victorian EraLondonFound FamilyYoung Adult
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The Iron Wyrm Affair

Lilith Saintcrow Β· 323 pages

"Emma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. Unfortunately, they can barely tolerate each other..."--P. [4] of cover.

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