Steampunk Fantasy Young Adult

Mentre sta lavorando sotto copertura in una insolita e caotica Londra vittoriana, Irene Winters, spia della società segreta la Biblioteca Invisibile, scopre che il suo assistente Kai è scomparso, rapito dalla fazione dei fae, creature fatte di caos e magia, capaci di mutare forma e provocare disordini nei mondi corrotti. Considerando il legame di Kai con i draghi, acerrimi avversari dei fae, le ripercussioni del suo rapimento potrebbero essere fatali, non solo per il suo amico ma per interi mondi: Irene deve salvarlo e scongiurare l'Armageddon a ogni costo.

Ten years after the great war of 2185 the Queen's reign is threatened by uprisings and fear. In celebration of my sixteenth birthday it is my duty as Princess to sacrifice a slave to be initiated into the ruling council, solidifying my mother's empire. When my own erratic powers surface I'm captured and tried for treason. Slaves hate me, my mother wants me executed, and my only chance of survival rests in the hands of a young man, Ryder Arteres, whose sister I sentenced to death.

Tricked by a strange creature, a dying boy is kidnapped. Mistakenly saved by his captors, they are all suddenly hunted by a mad man. Suddenly, Elias and his captors are at odds with everyone in the land, as they try to solve the riddle of the fire berries. Join the crew of the Whisper, a swift airship, as they sail through dangerous skies, dark tunnels, deadly valleys and wonderful cities. Will the Jackboot catch them, or the smoke charmers kill them? Will they find a cure for Elias before time runs out?

Mission Clockwork, Book 1: He's the greatest spy of the Victorian era, but he's met his match. The Dark Deeps, Book 2: Transforming his appearance and stealing documents from foreign embassies is all in a day’s work for young Modo, an elite British secret agent. Mission Clockwork: Publisher's Pack is a gripping listen filled with treachery, suspense, brilliant heroes, and bloody brilliant villains.

In magical 1899 San Francisco, the new millennium is quickly approaching. Of course, new inventions happen every day, some wondrous, some mundane, while the streets produce a new murder every night. Set against this backdrop, a debutante goes missing, and socialite Helena Brandywine takes it upon herself, along with her trusted manservant, to discover what happened. Did the woman run afoul of the Tongs in Chinatown? What horrors might she have exposed?

After her brush with the Silver Pharaoh, Verity Fitzroy and the children of the Ministry Seven retreat to London to recover, but adventure always seems to have a way of finding them. With her Uncle Octavius still somewhere out there, Verity is sure the terrifying disappearance of children in the fogs of the capital cannot be a coincidence. The ancient mystery of the Emerald Flame is on the verge of being solved, which will mean an end to life and death as the world has known it. The race is on to find it first, and the winner will hold the fate of the future in their hands.

In an Alaska owned by Tsarist Russia, steamtech is melded with spirit magic to create a mighty machine. The elements are plentiful, but the Higher World crumbles and the local Inuit people are consumed. When their father dies, the council denies Fanya her inheritance and sells her sister into slavery at the behest of the mysterious Zachary Finley. Fanya's quest to protect her sister and regain what's rightfully hers leads her from the Underworld of Stalgorod to the untamed wilds of greater Alaska. It isn’t just Zachary Finley who wants Fanya to suffer.

Logicide! Heretic! Everyone knows cats can't talk. Everyone except Niclas, a halfwit slum boy who's just landed a new job as a talking cat's man-servant. But this is Laburnum and the age of Rationalism. Here, the Academy's Inquisition takes illogical happenings very seriously. Locking people up, throwing away keys, that sort of thing. And it's not just the Crimson Men Niclas and his new master have to worry about. A man with no name has come to the capital in search of the Black Science - they call him Witchhunter.

In an alternate 19th-century Italy, Elsa has an incredible gift: She can craft new worlds with precise lines of script written in books. But political extremists have stolen the most dangerous book ever scribed - one that can rewrite the Earth itself. Now Elsa must track down the friend who betrayed her and recover the book before its destructive power is unleashed. Can she handle the secrets she’ll uncover along the way - including the ones hiding in her own heart?

When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn't have an easy time. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-Mechanical - one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school - she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program. Only this Bio-Mechanical isn't like the others. This one seems to have thoughts, feelings...and self-awareness. Soon Elizabeth realizes that it is Victor Frankenstein - a former student who died under mysterious circumstances.

In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have their health (at least when they can find enough food and avoid the Imperial Labor Gatherers) and each other. When a new exile with no memory of his escape or even his own name seeks shelter in their camp he brings new dangers with him and secrets about the terrible future that awaits all those who have struggled has to live free of the bonds of the empire’s Machineworks.

Stein has been with the Hollows for as long as she can remember. Taken as a child, she has no memories of her past - and that's always been fine by her. Until the day she stumbles across a hidden journal containing the devastating truth about her paternity. Now everything she thought she knew - and everyone she thought she could trust - has changed. The truth about who she is and where she came from is a secret so deep, it will rock the Hollows and the Tesla Institute alike.

Shortly after saving the faeries of Skemantis, magician's apprentice Felix Carmer III and his faerie companion, Grit, head out to see the world. They soon come across a mysteriously magical flying circus. As they get to know the outlandish world of Rinka Tinka's Roving Wonder Show, it becomes clear there's something not quite normal about this circus or its inventor - and that recent airship disasters plaguing nearby Driftside City may have a sinister explanation.

Taq, a young fiddler, comes to Prague with dreams of joining the Bohemians - a band of immortal, magic-wielding street performers. With a mission to right past wrongs, things don’t go as planned when he meets the beautiful performer Katia. Now, he must decide if revealing his secret is worth losing her heart. Katia has spent one hundred years chained to the city, broken-hearted and silent, waiting for her chance to be free.

Foundlings are disappearing from the workhouse where Oliver Twist once begged for a second bowl of gruel. He sets out to save them, with help from tinkerer, Nell Trent, and a slew of fantastical contraptions - including a mysterious pocket watch that allows its bearer to bend the rules of time. With Oliver's childhood nemesis, the Artful Dodger and her lethal bag of tricks dogging their steps, he discovers that there is more at stake than his own life and the missing orphans.

Verity Fitzroy and the Ministry Seven have the run of London, and that is the way they like it. While she loses herself in machines and adventures, and the work they get from the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, why her parents were killed remains a mystery she can't leave alone.

When Amelia arrives at Nexum House she sparks the fire of revolution. Daughter of a gambler and a scientist, the 16-year-old wants revenge for her parents' murder. But not just against the killers. Amelia wants to start a catalyst that will change the world.

Branwyn St. Clair is running from her wicked stepfather when she stows aboard the first ship she comes to. Little does she know, it is the infamous elven pirate ship, the Moonbeam. When cabin boy, Johnny Pate finds her in the hold, they form an uneasy alliance. Life aboard the Moonbeam is not what she expects. The ship soars through the clouds in search of plunder. But the biggest theft of all has already occurred....

In Gelia City, magic is music: a constant ever-changing melody known as the strains. Hereditary ability to use the strains divides the city into two classes: the wealthy Highmost, who can access the full potential of the strains, and the common tradesmen, who are limited to mundane spells, known as beggar magic. With the help of the strains, common teen Leilani rescues and befriends a gifted Highmost girl, Zebedy.

Second book in the MOONCHILD series.