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1 .The Iron Duke [paperback]
Brook, Meljean
London, UK Penguin 2012.
Summary: After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power - and fear - of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his world, he intends to make her his next possession.
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2 .Steampunk: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [hardback]
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Basic, Zdenko, Illustrator
Philadelphia, USA Running Press 2012.
Summary: Everyone is familiar with Mary Shelley?s classic novel, but no one has read it like this! Frankenstein is the long celebrated gothic tale of a science experiment gone awry. But in this brand-new edition, Shelley's haunting horror story is transformed with the addition of steampunk-inspired art.
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3 .Steampunk Poe [hardback]
Poe, Edgar Allan
Basic, Zdenko, Illustrator
Philadelphia, USA Running Press 2011.
Summary: If you combined clockwork gears, parasols, and air balloons with Edgar Allan Poe, what would you get? Steampunk: Poe ! This is the first collection ever of Poe stories illustrated with the influence of steampunk.
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4 .Heart of Steel [paperback]
Brook, Meljean
London, UK Penguin 2012.
Summary: 'The only weapon I bring to a conversation is a knife. A gun means the talking is over.' As the mercenary captain of the Lady Corsair , Yasmeen has learned to keep her heart as cold as steel, her only loyalty bound to her ship and her crew.
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5 .Blood Kin: A Novel of the Half-Light City (Half-Light City, 2) [paperback]
Scott, M. J.
New York, USA ROC 2012.
Summary: The half-breed daughter of a Fae lord, Holly Evendale, paid to uncover secrets others wish to hide, stumbles upon a Templar knight in her part of the city and is forced to place her trust in this holy warrior when the peace treaty that set the laws for all four races is broken. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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6 .Iron Kin (Half-Light City, 3) [paperback]
Scott, M J.
New York, US Penguin Books Australia 2013.
Summary: Imagine a city divided. Fae and human mages on one side, vampire Blood Lords and shape-shifting Beast Kind on the other. Between these supernatural forces stands a peace treaty that threatens to shatter at the slightest provocation . . I was raised to do the right thing.
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7 .Shadow Kin: A Novel of the City (Novel of the City) [paperback]
Scott, M. J.
New York, USA ROC 2011.
Summary: On one side, the Night World, rules by the Blood Lords and the Beast Kind. On the other, the elusive Fae and the humans, protected by their steadfast mages... Born a wraith, Lily is a shadow who slips between worlds. Brought up by a Blood Lord and raised to be his assassin, she is little more than a slave.
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8 .Riveted [paperback]
Brook, Meljean
London, UK Penguin 2012.
Summary: A century after a devastating volcanic eruption forced Iceland's inhabitants to abandon its shores, the island is enshrouded in legend. Fishermen tell tales of giant trolls guarding the land, and of seductive witches who steal men's hearts.
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9 .Work Done for Hire / Haldeman, Joe.
Haldeman, Joe
New York, US : Baker & Taylor, 2014.
Summary: Joe Haldeman?s ?adept plotting, strong pacing, and sense of grim stoicism have won him wide acclaim? (The Washington Post) and numerous honors for such works as The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine, and the Marsbound trilogy.
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10 .Whisper at Dawn / Coates, Frank. [TP]
Coates, Frank
Pymble, A : Harpercollins Publishing Aust, 2014.
Summary: At the dawn of the 20th century, sixteen-year-old Dan Sullivan signs on to fight the Boers, but discovers war has horrors beyond the battle fields.In East Africa, a railway runs through an unimaginable wilderness of wild game.
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11 .Coming clean / Sue Margolis.
Margolis, Sue
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12 .Marina / by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ; translated by Lucia Graves.
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos, 1964-, author
Graves, Lucia, translator
Summary: A gothic tale for readers of all ages from the author of the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind. Barcelona, 1980. Oscar Drai finds himself drawn to an old dilapidated mansion where he meets the captivating and elusive Marina. She leads him to the cemetery to witness a mysterious ritual: on the fourth Sunday of every month, a veiled woman alights from a carriage and lays a single rose on an unmarked grave. Oscar and Marina are swept on a journey into the city's dark underground of labyrinthine sewers, corrupt policemen, ageing aristocrats, forgotten societies and criminal depravity...to a sinister tale of love, ambition and jealousy that will hold Oscar's heart forever.
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13 .The Mayan secrets / Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry.
Cussler, Clive
Perry, Thomas, 1947-
Summary: Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--the Fargos are about to find out.
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14 .Monsters of the Earth / David Drake.
Drake, David, 1945-, author
First edition.
Summary: "Governor Saxa, of the great city of Carce, a fantasy analog of ancient Rome, is rusticating at his villa. When Saxa's son Varus accompanies Corylus on a visit to the household of his father, Crispus, a retired military commander, Saxa graciously joins the party with his young wife Hedia, daughter Alphena, and a large entourage of his servants, making it a major social triumph for Crispus. But on the way to the event, something goes amiss. Varus, who has been the conduit for supernatural visions before, experiences another: giant crystalline worms devouring the entire world. Soon the major characters are each involved in supernatural events caused by a struggle between two powerful magicians, both mentored by the deceased poet and mage Vergil, one of whom wants to destroy the world and the other who wishes to stop him. But which is which? There is a complex web of human and supernatural deceit to be unraveled. This new novel in David Drake's ongoing chronicles of Carce, The Books of the Elements, is a gripping and intricate work of fantasy"--
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15 .Blackstone and the endgame / Sally Spencer.
Spencer, Sally, author
Summary: December 1916. Inspector Sam Blackstone is suspicious when he is called to the office of Superintendent Brigham, the new head of special branch, and confused that Brigham seems to want to see him. An already stranger situation grows more strange when Sam discovers what he's there for: a German traitor wants 25000 in exchange for secret intelligence on U-boat locations, and Max has specifically asked for Blackstone to be the one to deliver the money alone. Blackstone and his sergeant Archie Patterson are certain there's more to it than that, but Blackstone can't turn down the job. If he doesn't do it, some other poor fool will have to. But that is little comfort when, as suspected, it all goes wrong and Blackstone finds himself on the run from his own colleagues, with Patterson languishing in a cell looking at a twenty-year stretch if he's lucky.
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16 .The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star / Susan Wittig Albert.
Albert, Susan Wittig, author
First edition.
New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2013.
Summary: National bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to the small town of Darling, Alabama, in the 1930s--where the Darling Dahlias, the colorful ladies of a garden club, are anything but shrinking violets when it comes to rooting out criminals... The Texas Star herself--Miss Lily Dare, the "fastest woman in the world"--is bringing her Dare Devils Flying Circus to Darling.
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17 .The memory of trees / F.G. Cottam.
Cottam, Francis, 1957-, author
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18 .William Shakespeare's Star Wars : verily, a new hope / by Ian Doescher ; inspired by the work of George Lucas and William Shakespeare.
Doescher, Ian, author
Philadelphia : Quirk Books, c2013.
Summary: Retells the first Star Wars film, reimagining the saga of a wise knight, an evil lord, and a captive princess in iambic pentameter while conveying the valor and villainy of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
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19 .Lucia in love / Heather Graham.
Graham, Heather, author
New edition.
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20 .Antiagon fire : the seventh book of the imager portfolio / L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Modesitt, L. E. Jr., 1943-
Modesitt, L. E., Jr., 1943-
First edition.
New York : Tor, 2013.
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21 .Hearts of sand / Jane Haddam.
Haddam, Jane, 1951-
1st ed.
New York, N.Y. : Minotaur Books, 2013.
Summary: Alwych, Connecticut, is the stereotypical old money Connecticut beach town the best families live in mini mansions on Beach Drive, their children go to Alwych Country Day School, and the parents have memberships to the Atlantic Club. And Chapin Waring is the worst thing that ever happened to this town. She was a well turned out debutante from one of the richest families in Alwych until thirty years ago when the young debutante, destined to attend the right school, marry the right man, and have the right life, was revealed to a bank robber and a murderer. She disappeared, never to be heard from again. But Alwych has never forgotten her, or let her friends and family forget. So when after a day of being spotted around town, Chapin turns up dead tabbed to death in her familys old home, its baffling. To learn why she died and to end the rampant speculation and media coverage Gregor Demarkian, retired profiler for the FBI, is brought in to finally solve the mysteries surrounding Chapin Waring. Not just how and why she died where she did, but where she had been and what happened that night thirty years ago that set everything in motion.
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22 .Lady of passion : the story of Mary Robinson / Freda Lightfoot.
Lightfoot, Freda, 1942-
Sutton : Severn House, 2013.
Summary: Beautiful and talented actress, poet and fashion icon, Mary Robinson was one of the most famous women of her time - yet she died virtually penniless, her reputation in ruins. Mary was destined always to be betrayed by the men she loved - her father, her husband and, most seriously, by the Prince of Wales, later George IV, for whom Mary gave up her career, her husband and her independence, only to be cruelly abandoned. This is her enthralling story: a tale of ambition, passion, scandal and heartbreak.
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