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141) Skyblade's Gambit
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Captain Annabel Skyblade commands the Peregrine, the most feared pirate airship to sail the skies of Aldarre, plundering the rich and powerful. The rulers of the great sky realms have had enough of her, and Victorie Brassfeld, Cerindel's top Navy intelligence agent, has a plan to capture the pirate, using a lure too strong to resist-a valuable, beautiful sapphire amulet.
But the amulet hides a great secret, and when it is stolen by sinister forces,...
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Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin . . .
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...
143) Kingdom of Men
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The dragons are extinct, but their war continues. Can the land's sole female fighter find her place in a realm ruled by men?
KaLeah wanted more from her father than warrior training. But after she tells him of a mysterious object she encountered in the woods, he inexplicably storms off into the night. And when he doesn't return, the teen's frantic search for him ends in an ambush by bandits.
Slaying the fiends and freeing a kidnapped princess, KaLeah...
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Everybody's looking for something.
Captain Rose Madigan of the airship The Merry Widow is looking for a paying job for her all-female crew. Gabriella Upstairs, her newest recruit, is looking for a reason to be glad she's on board. And Madam Ruby of the Red House Bordello is looking for the secret laboratory of a missing mad scientist--and is willing to hire the airship. When they find the lab and its single occupant, Atom Loquacious, danger and...
145) Boxcar Baby
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Born in a boxcar on a train bound for Georgia. At least that is what Papa Steel always told AB'Gale. But now, fifteen years later, the man who adopted and raised her as his own is missing and it's up to AB'Gale to find him. Aided only by a motley gang of friends, AB'Gale train hops her way across the United States in a desperate attempt to find her papa and put her life and family back the way it was. Her only guide is a map given to her by a mysterious...
146) Blood and Thorne
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Eva Thorne thought facing a werewolf, betrayal, and the army of Death was bad. She learns there are all new kinds of evil-and more enemies, as well as allies, than she ever imagined. All of them have an agenda, and all of them want the one thing she needs to defeat the Dead God and save her world from annihilation. Can she claim the First Soul before they do? The bad guys all want her dead. Fortunately, some want the First Soul more, and they need...
147) Kingdom of Monsters
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She rules by title only. Can she become the champion her planet demands?
Queen Amirra worries her people will never accept a young woman as their leader. And her world's male traditions mean the inexperienced royal must show she has the grit to fend off violent invaders. So, when her treacherous brother unexpectedly returns to steal the throne, she finds herself clinging to power in a kingdom plagued by chaos.
Forced to act after her sibling...
148) Strands
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Gareth Silverman has been locked up, away from his magic - and is slowly dying. Silus is desperate to get him free. With the help of friends from Skeffield Manor, he might just manage it...but at what cost? Join friends old and new - magicians, mechanicalized men, and others, including one sparkly designer - at the revolving doors of Skeffield Manor, as it once again becomes a stage for magic, mystery...and love. Takes place after "Mystery at Skeffield...
149) Ashes & Alchemy
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A Gaslight Chronicles novellaLondon, 1860Police inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his wifeless, childless life feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a price to pay in the name of duty. Minerva Shaw is desperately seeking a doctor when she mistakenly lands on Sebastian's doorstep. Her daughter Ivy has fallen...
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In this novella prequel to the YA fantasy novel Curio by Evangeline Denmark, after losing his family to a devastating plague, Olan is saved by a group of "magickers" who are searching for the cure. But as he accompanies his rescuers to their alpine clinic, mysteries arise surrounding their potions and powers of alchemy. Especially after Olan notices a deep division forming between those who seek to defend the purity of the healing alchemical, work...
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Three steampunk romance favorites from award-winning author Cindy Spencer Pape in one convenient box set… Cards & Caravans - Belinda Danvers isn't a witch. But that won't stop them from burning her at the stake. Connor McKay knows there's no way she can be guilty of murdering village children. But telling anyone what he thinks would mean revealing his own powers-something he can't risk without revealing a plot that's bigger than the two of them....
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Soldier. Spymaster. Husband.
Colonel Jasper Carlisle was defined by his work until he met his wife. When the prima ballerina swept into his life with her affection, bright laughter and graceful movements, he knew that she was the reason for his existence, and that their love would be forever.
But their world is shattered when Callie is kidnapped and brutally tortured by the foes Jasper has been hunting. Mechanical parts have replaced her legs, her...
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Can three women stop the destruction of the Tower Bridge?
Eliza, Miriam, and Jillian are friends by fate, employment, and society. In the London of 1894, they receive a directive from their mysterious boss to investigate, and stop, the Countess Wilmont's plot to destroy the newly erected Tower Bridge.
Delving into a secret world of masterful training in martial arts, curious new technologies and weaponry, the women are armed and very dangerous....
154) Kill the Night
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Kill the Night is an adventure that stretches from Paris to New York, through the 1893 Chicago World's Fair to the Old West.
Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are in a race to see who will lead the 20th century into the Electric Age. But the night holds tightly to its dark corners. A mysterious and dangerous Gunslinger is watching, following and waiting for an opportunity to turn back history.
He will chase Tesla, Edison and journalist Ida Tarbell...
155) The Tyrant's Heir
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Should a king inspire love or fear? Lionel receives neither… and it could cost him everything.
Lionel Monashe isn't ready to be king. After ordering his father's execution and taking the throne, he struggles to reconcile his royal duties with his compassionate nature. His insecurity and inconsistent ruling lead prominent subjects to challenge his authority.
His main adversary is a self-proclaimed prophet, whose religious zealotry launches the...
156) Magische Knoche
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"Ich weiß nicht, ob es je wieder gut wird. Wie könnte es das?"
Die Herbststürme kommen nach Berlin und in den Kaffeeschenken herrscht Aufruhr. Auf den Straßen werden Bücher verbrannt. Die magische Geheimpolizei wittert überall Verrat. Die Stadt steht vor einer schicksalhaften Entscheidung und der Mann, der sie treffen soll, treibt sich im Vergnügungsviertel herum.
Ein Zauberer, der vor seiner Verantwortung flieht, und eine Erfinderin, die bereits...
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Twelve new stories from six different types of -punk science fiction and fantasy, and Punk Poetry from Cockney Rejects.Cyberpunk from C. M. Fields, Dj Tyrer, Ray Daley, and Jennifer Jeanne McArdleClockpunk from Meg MurrayRaypunk from Briar Ripley Page and A'liya SpinnerDinopunk from Rick HollonSolarpunk from Gustovo Bondoni, O. E. Tearmann, and Jess LewisNowpunk from Tim Hildebrandt
158) Infernal Machine
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Student-Artificer Elijah Saloman discovers what he thinks could be a lost masterwork of the greatest Artificer ever born. He is determined to make it work, even though he has no idea what it is or what it is supposed to do. But when everything that can go wrong does, Elijah finds himself caught in an interesting predicament-trapped within the machine, and at the mercy of the whimsical plaything of a long-dead Artificer with a taste for the exotic....
159) Kilts & Kraken
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Magnus, Baron Findlay, longs to bring the wonders of the steam age to his remote island home, but his hands are full fighting the vicious kraken ravaging the coast. When he's swept to sea during battle and washes up on the shore of an isle in the Hebrides, he is near death. Struggling to establish herself as one of the first female physicians in Edinburgh, Dr. Geneva MacKay is annoyed when The Order of the Round Table sends her north to care for an...
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What do the disembodied head of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Frankenstein, the Tin Man, Captain Nemo, the Flying Dutchman, and the inestimable Ned the Seal have in common? Find out as they embark upon a spectacular set of nonstop steampunk adventures. For the first time, two epic chronicles, Zeppelins West and Flaming London, inscribed by a courageous young seal on his trusty notepad, are collected together in one volume.
Leap from a flaming...
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