Steampunk Fantasy Young Adult

Constance is a wild, stubborn young girl growing up poor in a small industrial town. But beneath her threadbare exterior beats the heart of a dreamer and a wordsmith. She feeds her hunger for reading by picking the lock on the local bookstore late at night to enjoy her own private reading room. But at age 12, she's orphaned. With no relatives to take her in, the local authorities scheme to take charge of the bewildered girl's life.

Honorine's life as a maid at the Vidalia mansion is rather dull, dusting treasures from faraway places and daydreaming in front of maps of the world. But everything changes when she catches two brutish sailors ransacking Lord Vidalia's study and then follows a mysterious girl with wings out into the night. Suddenly Honorine is whisked into the middle of a battle between the crew of a spectacular steamship and a band of mythical constellations.

In the humdrum town of Moormouth, Walter Mortinson's unusual inventions cause nothing but trouble. After one of his contraptions throws the town into chaos, Walter's mother demands he cut the nonsense and join the family mortuary business. Far off on Flaster Isle, famed inventor Horace Flasterborn plans to take Walter under his wing. When a letter arrives by unusual means offering Walter an apprenticeship, he and the moody one-eyed girl next door run away and journey through a strange landscape of fish-people, giantess miners, and hypnotized honeybees.

It's been eight years since Colodian won its independence from Emerlia. Yael, like thousands of children after the war, has bounced from foster home to foster home. She has never found a real family, and now with skirmishes along the northern border, the country feels on the brink of war once more. When she hears rumors of a girl with the same distinct eyes as hers in the capital, she sets out on an adventure with a band of four young boys who, like her, lost everything in the last fight but through the chaos managed to find each other.

Nacht für Nacht sitzt die schüchterne Flinn Nachtigall am stillgelegten Bahnhof von Weidenborstel, dem Ort, wo zwei Jahre zuvor ihr Bruder verschwand. Bis eines Abends ein Zug herbeirollt, mit einer gewaltigen, rauchspuckenden Lokomotive. Und Flinn... stürzt als blinde Passagierin in das Abenteuer ihres Lebens! Denn der Zug ist der Welten-Express, ein fahrendes Internat voller außergewöhnlicher Kinder, angetrieben mit magischer Technologie. Ein Ort, in dem Flinn Freunde findet - und Feinde. Denn der Welten-Express birgt mehr Geheimnisse, als sie sich je hätte träumen lassen... Unverwechselbar gelesen von dem beliebten Fantasy-Sprecher Rainer Strecker.

A dagger that burns instead of drawing blood. A family secret too dangerous to repeat. A promise to save someone she loves. Nova is flung into a world of magic, secrets, and sky pirates. Now, she must depend on two men to help her find the way out. One wants her dead, the other would follow her anywhere. But there's legendary magic in the mix, and it's dangerous. They must work together in order to survive, but which one is planning to betray them all?

We all know the story of Lazarus. Died and four days later resurrected by Jesus. The story you don't know is what happened during those four days in the grave. What happened to Lazarus after he rejoined the living? I'll tell you. When a person dies they become the prize of Azrael, the angel of death. Now, if that prize is taken from him he doesn't take that too kindly. The people that witnessed the miracle of resurrection in that small town of Bethany started to believe in Jesus, and the Pharisee priests could not allow that to happen.

What should be a routine mission leaves Ethan with a serious problem. He's fractured - a break between mind and body that leaves him at the mercy of his Rifter abilities, which are quickly tearing him apart. He will have to trust the only person who might know how to fix him, a mysterious Rifter named Stewart Stills, who seems to have a special connection with the time stream.

Mad science, friendship and betrayal, Black Sand, politics: the Artifice Academy is a hard place: every moment a lesson, every lesson a trap. Inga dares to hope, walking a tightrope of isolation between failure and madness.

When a brutal attack leaves Agatha DeLacey blind, she and the Artful Dodger find themselves at the mercy of an experimental biomech surgery. Though the procedure restores Aggie’s sight, her new eyes come at an unnerving cost, and the changes in Dodger are even more alarming - instead of seeing Aggie as the girl he fancies, he now views her as a potential threat.

Die ehemalige Diebin Lydia Frost eröffnet eine Agentur für Verlorenes und Vermisstes. Ihr neuster Auftrag führt sie ausgerechnet zurück zur berüchtigten Madame Yueh und den "Dragons", der Organisation, von der sie sich gerade erst hart ihre Freiheit erkämpft hat. Als gäbe das nicht schon genug Probleme, muss sie auch noch den Pinkerton Jackson Payne ausfindig machen. Doch der Amerikaner hat seine eigenen Aufträge.

Eine neue Schlacht. Ein alter Freund. Ein Krieg, der den Spielverlauf für immer verändern wird. Clay ist auf dem finsteren Kontinent Arethkar angekommen und hat ein klares Ziel vor Augen: Er möchte die brutal versklavten Spieler befreien. Mit der Hilfe eines alten Bekannten schickt sich Clay an, die mächtige Festung der Eisernen Zitadelle zu erobern. Dafür hat er sieben Tage Zeit.

In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, went about their lives and their work as they always had. But all that changed the day the men in black arrived. They arrived to take twelve-year-old Jasper Modest and his six-year-old sister, Lucy he with his remarkable creations and she with her perfect memory from their London, England home to a place across the ocean they'd never seen before.

The noble Belasona family has ruled the county of Belstone without incident for over a quarter of a century. Things, however, are changing as new family members, new servants and a new love has put a strain on the normally quiet life of the great manse and its inhabitants.

Snow and Cinder, operatives of an organization called The Kingdom, have been tasked with one of their most dangerous missions: find former teammate Alison Wonderland and bring her back alive.

The Artifice Academy is a crucible of difficulty and isolation, where children are forged into greatness or shattered into madness and failure and are cast aside. Inga and her friends return in this tale of struggle and cunning. The masters move them about like playthings, but Ebberis has other plans....

On the outskirts of the capital, 16-year-old Krea is fighting to survive. She’s bullied, attacked, and some say she’s cursed. She doesn’t believe them. This girl is a fighter. In a meadow, surrounded by blue flowers, a dragon fights for her life and a chance at immortality. There’s just one problem: She needs a new twin soul. When Krea finds Wymarc, the dragon makes an offer. Is the dragon’s gift going to change her life for the better or send her to her doom?

Fresh out of the Academy, Cal must learn to fit in on an antiquated, intergalactic space freighter with a much older, multiracial crew. With the rocket's destination and mission kept secret, Cal works closely with his crewmates to keep operations safe and running smoothly. When sabotage is discovered that could end in a catastrophic explosion, the chief engineer risks his life to save the spaceship, and Cal jumps in to help. Can they stop a core meltdown to save the ship and crew? How will Cal perform under pressure, being the "new kid" on this "old bucket of andirons"?

Nyssa Glass is a reformed cat burglar turned electrician's apprentice, settled into a life repairing videophones and radio-sets. However, when her past comes calling, she finds herself forced into one last job. No one has entered Professor Dalhart's secluded mansion in almost a decade, at least not and returned to tell the tale. If Nyssa wants to ensure her freedom, she'll brave the booby trapped halls and mechanized maids.

Penelope's average life changed forever the day she discovered her ability to shapeshift. After finding her true homeland hidden in the clouds above, Penny’s never felt more alive. Unfortunately, in the skies of Azure, magic is punishable by death. With the ruler of Azure, Lord Esmond, in pursuit and the land on the brink of war, Penny and her friends race to find the only hope left. A map to a weapon hidden in the ruins of a sunken city. But first they’ll have to get past their most ominous foe yet...The Guardians of Atlantis.