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No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe fifth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea.Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t call it “time travel”—these historians “investigate major historical events in contemporary time...Categorized as:
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A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsSt Mary’s is back and is facing a battle to survive in this, the fourth instalment of the Chronicles. Max and Leon are re-united and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. But, sadly, they don’t even make it to lunchtime...Categorized as:
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Reticence by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's The Custard Protocol series.Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard their airship, The Spotted Custard... -
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Cosmos' Promise by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCosmos Raines is considered to be one of the most brilliant inventors in the world. A prodigy, he is a self-made billionaire who would rather be in his lab than jet-setting around the world. Things change when his latest experiment literally opens a Gateway into a whole new world... -
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Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA vampire hive descending into madness. A beautiful spy with a sparkly plan. The bodyguard who must keep them from killing each other.New York Times bestselling romantic comedy author Gail Carriger brings you a charming story of love, espionage, and Gothic makeovers set in her popular Parasolverse... -
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To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsConnie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...Categorized as:
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Meat Cute: The Hedgehog Incident by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Parasol Protectorate Prequel ShortFrom the comedic mind of New York Times bestseller Gail Carriger comes the much requested prequel short story to Soulless.Alexia Tarabotti attends what appears to be a very dull London party, until the new werewolf Alpha turns up, is unconscionably rude to her, and sits on a hedgehog... -
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Romancing the Werewolf by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWerewolf in trouble... Biffy, newly minted Alpha of the London Pack, is not having a good Christmas. His Beta abandoned him, his werewolves object to his curtain choices, and someone keeps leaving babies on his doorstep.Professor Randolph Lyall returns home to London after twenty years abroad, afraid of what he might find... -
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Timeless by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsAlexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampire's second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Until, that is, she receives a summons that cannot be ignored... -
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Peacemaker by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHalf-breed tinkerer Kali McAlister doesn’t care that the gold rush has stormed into Dawson and prospectors are flooding the north—all she wants is to finish construction of her airship, so she can escape the Yukon and see the world... -
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Hunted by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSelf-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she’s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates... -
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Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsVampires are keeping an inventor in their potting shed. Imogene wants to seduce her. Imogene Hale is a lowly parlourmaid with a soul-crushing secret. Seeking solace, she takes work at a local vampire hive, only to fall desperately in love with the amazing lady inventor imprisoned there.Genevieve Lefoux is heartsick, lonely, and French...Categorized as:
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Competence by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Imprudence.Accidentally abandoned!All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard, in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish tail.When she uncovers rumors of a new kind of vampire, Prim and the Custard crew embark on a mission to Peru...Categorized as:
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Heartless by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsLady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past...Categorized as:
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Blameless by Gail Carriger
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsQuitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town... -
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Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsA story of history, time travel, love, friendship and tea. Meet the disaster-magnets at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around history, observing, documenting, drinking tea and, if possible, not dying. Follow the catastrophe-curve from eleventh-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria...Categorized as:
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Prudence by Gail Carriger
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a new novel in the world of the Parasol Protectorate starring Prudence, the daughter of Alexia Tarabotti... -
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Steamed by Katie MacAlister
Rated: 2.96 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWhen one of Jack Fletcher's nanoelectromechanical system experiments is jostled in his lab, the resulting explosion sends him into the world of his favorite novel-a seemingly Victorian-era world of steampower, aether guns, corsets, and goggles. A world where the lovely and intrepid Octavia Pye captains her airship straight into his heart.. -
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Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAdventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha Heterodyne is the last heir to the Maddest of Mad Scientist families, and now she's returning home to claim the family castle. Unfortunately, it turns out that she's not the only one with that idea in mind...Categorized as:
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Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsAdventure Romance, Mad Science ! Agatha Hetrodyne is the last heir to the Maddest of Mad Scientist families, and now she's returned home to claim the family castle. Unfortunately, it turns out that she's not the only one with that idea, and the Castle is a hopeless death trap... -
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Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 8 by Kiiro Yumi
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable... -
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Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm by Phil Foglio
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAdventure, Romance, Mad Science! Agatha has finally made it to her ancestral castle, but so has a whole crowd of her friends - and enemies! Worse, the lives of two them are in danger, unless she can get the Castle's power source back up and... -
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Agatha Heterodyne and the Golden Trilobite by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Wulfenbachs discover that Agatha is still alive and come to get her. Things are complicated by the fact that Agatha is currently possessed by the evil mastermind responsible for the Long War... -
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Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 3 by Kiiro Yumi
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces!Iku is witness to a disturbance during a Board of Education speech on protecting children from the danger of books...Categorized as:
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![Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 2 by Gail Carriger, Rem]()
Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 2 by Gail Carriger, Rem
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSettling into her new life as the Lady Woolsey, Alexia finds her days quite challenging. Whether it is a regiment of supernatural soldiers camped out on her front lawn or the demands of being the Queen’s “muhjah,” there never seems to be a want of new hurdles to overcome...Categorized as:
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Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 2 by Kiiro Yumi, Hiro Arikawa
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces!When the director of the Kanto Library Base gets sick, a temporary replacement is assigned, according to regulations...Categorized as:
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Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 3 by Gail Carriger
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCondemned by society and her werewolf husband due to a pregnancy she cannot explain, Alexia Maccon - preternatural, tea aficionado - seeks an explanation for this "infant inconvenience" so as to cleanse her sullied reputation and prove her fool of a husband wrong...Categorized as:
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Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 1 by Gail Carriger, Rem
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe life of a spinster in Victorian London isn't an easy one on the best of days, but such a life becomes infinitely more complicated when said spinster is "soulless" - a preternatural bridging the gap between the natural and supernatural worlds...Categorized as:
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Agatha H. and the Airship City by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. It has been eighteen years since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances...
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