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2023.
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275 pages ; 22 cm
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"When Zhong Ning'er takes the job, she expects a smash-and-grab burglary she's doing to make rent and help out a friend. What she doesn't expect: a sad-eyed army boy who dreams of insurrection, a former rebel leader trapped inside a secret lab, a group of aspiring revolutionaries who are first collaborators, then compatriots, and then, perhaps, friends. But this is Beijing, nearly a hundred and fifty years after General Yuan Shikai successfully declared...
82) The Hunter
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Legend chronicles volume 1
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They're the Chosen—Winchester, Remington and Colt—brothers trained to hunt down supernatural beings using the latest steam-powered gadgetry. It's a hard legacy to shoulder, and it's about to get a lot more dangerous. . .
A Devil Of A Job
Colt Jackson has gotten his name on many a wanted poster with success in the family business: hunting supernaturals across the frontier. Lately, though, there's a sulfur stink in the wind...
A Devil Of A Job
Colt Jackson has gotten his name on many a wanted poster with success in the family business: hunting supernaturals across the frontier. Lately, though, there's a sulfur stink in the wind...
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Master Diplexito and Mr. Scant volume 2
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The pursuit of an international crime syndicate sends British vigilante butler Mr. Scant and his protégé Oliver Diplexito on a globe-hopping trip. After defeating a sinister secret society in Oliver's home country of England, the unlikely pair has arrived in Paris, searching for Mr. Scant's missing niece. What they discover are hints of a conspiracy that leads them all the way to Shanghai, China. Each clue they find only leads to more questions....
84) The Silk Empress
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The boy called "Pig", grew up reading stories of airships and boy adventurers in penny dreadfuls. At twelve he finds himself orphaned and apprenticed to Feng Po McLaren, semi reformed air-pirate, first mate of the airship Wu Zetian along the High Silk Road between China and Europe. Now he is facing air pirates, rebels, five unusual women of dangerous abilities, and a clockwork dragon.This seemed all so much easier in the books.
86) A Thorne in Time
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Before Eva Thorne can accept her destiny, she must learn to accept herself. Eva leaves her family behind for boarding school (that's a good thing when your family includes necromancers and crime lords), but the foreign city of Gernwold has its own dangers. An intruder, a teacher injured, a stolen necklace left in her room... Either someone is trying to frame her, or they know what Eva really is. In this prequel novella to the Eva Thorne series, enjoy...
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They're from different planets, with opposite lives. Will their unlikely pact take down tyranny... or lead to destruction?
Elektra is desperate to save her ravaged planet. So strapping on leather and metal wings, she sets out to join the rebellion against the callous dictator. But she's just begun her journey when she spots a young woman under assault from violent thugs and swoops in to her defense.
Joining forces in the hope that together they...
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Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets - secrets that can completely alter the balance of power in the city of Ayona. This doesn't sit well with Loharri, the Mechanic who created Mattie and still has the key to her heart - literally....
89) Clockwork Mafia
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Inventor Henrietta Mason is retiring from airships and adventuring to return home to Philadelphia. Determined to erase all trails leading to her late father's duplicity, she dismantles his lab and removes all records of the Badlands gold. While in the city, she can't resist the lure of a charity gala but winds up regretting the whole experience. Well, everything except a heart-racing dance with a certain U. S. Marshal. His career and vengeance on...
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Treason is a serious crime, and Ruth has an inkling that execution will not agree with her.
After refusing to build an army of robotic men for Queen Victoria, Lady Ruth had hidden away the schematics. She should have burned them. When reports of robotic men in Paris make their way to England, Lady Ruth is accused of treason. Given a single chance to find the schematics and return them to England, Ruth is racing against the clock if she wants to...
91) Merciless Reason
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There's no such thing as escaping the Wildensterns . . . It's been three years since Nathaniel Wildenstern left Ireland and his ruthless family behind. But no one turns his back on the Wildensterns, the powerful family controlling what was once the British Empire. While Nate's been gone, one of his maniacal cousins has been hard at work researching engimals-the bizarre living machines with the brains of animals-with the intent of creating the ultimate...
92) Myself
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Myself es una red social mundial, donde todo aquel humano que vive está ligado a ella, mediante chips. El cuerpo se mantiene automatizado bajo drones esféricos que alimentan y asean al usuario. Katarina se negó en su momento aquel implante en su cerebro, pero nunca tuvo en cuenta que al momento del nacimiento de su hija, la línea automatizada que la trajo al mundo también la llevaría directamente a Myself. Los años transcurren en una realidad...
93) Rostiges Herz
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"Sie war das eine Mädchen, das ich nicht haben konnte, und das seit vielen Jahren schon."
Berlin, die rastlose Stadt am Meer. Hier ragen die Türme der Zauberer bis in den Himmel. Im Schein der Glühlichter werden rauschende Partys gefeiert. Zucker wird in Gold aufgewogen und die Geheimpolizei wacht über den zerbrechlichen Frieden zwischen Zauberern und Erfindern.
Die Erfinderin Mathilda liebt ausgerechnet Rosa, die Tochter des magischen Großmeisters...
94) Paper & Feathers
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The country of Alcabast is not ravaged by war, all of its neighbors get along rather well. Magic is neither deep nor mysterious, in fact it's quite useful for daily life. Fierce creatures do roam the forests, but a sharp blade and a well-aimed musket will keep them at bay. Steam-powered conveyances transport people and goods, as long as they've been maintained properly. People live in harmony with the Seasons and with each other. Well, mostly... Ahlden...
95) Courting Trouble
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Swan River Colony, Australia, 1895.
All suffragette Esme Smith wants is respect. Her beau, American inventor Jed Reeve, may be more enlightened than most men, but lately his need to protect her is at odds with her need for independence. Esme begins to wonder if a modern woman can share her life with a man without losing some of herself.
With his courtship of Esme stalled, the last thing Jed needs is the pressure of saving the Prince of Wales. But...
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Three sensual steampunk romances from award-winning author Cindy Spencer Pape in one fantastic bundle. Steam & Sorcery: As a Knight of the Order of the Round Table, Sir Merrick Hadrian uses magic and steam power to hunt monsters both human and supernatural. But his skills are useless in the face of his greatest challenge, the guardianship of five children. When Merrick hires governess Miss Caroline Bristol it never occurs to him that she might be...
97) In The Beginning
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These are the first books in three of my series: The Space Colony Journals, St. Antoni The Forbidden Colony and the Magi of Rulari Book 1 – Space Colony Journals -- The Will To Survive Is Mankind's Greatest Weapon. They lived through an interplanetary war; now they must survive the aftermath. Welcome to the far future. The Space Colony Journals are an epic tale of a family's struggle to survive on a colony in space. These are the courageous women...
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Santa Fe, The Republic of New Texacali, 1870
Eight years ago, Ophelia Leonides's husband cast her off when he discovered she was not the woman he thought she was. Now destitute after the death of her father, Ophelia is forced to turn to Dario for help raising the child she never told him about.
Dario is furious that Ophelia has returned, and refuses to believe Arthur is his son-after all, he thought his wife was barren. But to avoid gossip, he agrees...
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Lady Ruth Constance Chapelstone never cared much for boys. She was too fixated on corsets or engines to give them much notice. An "inventor's disposition" is how her uncle referred to it when she would forget basic necessities, like food or sleep. But proper ladies don't spend their days reinventing the steam engine, so Lady Ruth's uncle helped her to create a new persona - The Owl: Britain's Greatest Inventor! The Owl is sought after but so is...
100) Cards & Caravans
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Belinda Danvers isn't a witch. But that won't stop them burning her at the stake...Connor McKay can tell at a glance that Belinda's magickal powers are minimal at best. She can't be guilty of murdering village children. There's something suspicious about her arrest and lightning-quick sentence. Unfortunately, telling anyone how he knows would mean revealing his own powers. He's been sent by the Order of the Round Table to help and he can't just let...
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