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Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
It's 1914 and Europe is on the precipice of war--the German Clankers and British Darwinists are armed with futuristic weaponry and biotechnology; in the midst of the chaos, Alek, a Royal and potential threat to the throne, and Deryn, a common Darwinist, meet on the run and forge an uneasy alliance that will dramatically change the course of the Great War and their lives.
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Steampunk! : an anthology of fantastically rich and strange stories
by Kelly Link
In the first major YA steampunk anthology, 14 top storytellers push the genre's mix of sci-fi, fantasy, history and adventure in fascinating new directions. Authors include M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Garth Nix and many others.
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Airborn
by Kenneth Oppel
Set in the early twentieth century in a world where the airplane hasn't been invented, a young boy takes to the skies aboard an airship where he plays an important role in fierce battles that are fought high in the sky.
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Clockwork angel
by Cassandra Clare
Tessa Gray's search for her missing brother leads her into Victorian London's supernatural underworld, where she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
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The unnaturalists
by Tiffany Trent
Cataloging the Unnatural creatures in her father's museum, Vespa Nix, a girl from an alternate-universe London, is pressured to become a lady and marry before finding her fate tied to that of Syrus Reed, whose family has been forced into slavery.
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Etiquette & espionage
by Gail Carriger
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited 14-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit and espionage.
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Mortal engines
by Philip Reeve
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
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The haunting of Alaizabel Cray
by Chris Wooding
Having been possessed by some bad entity that seems to work as a magnet for all things evil, seventeen-year-old Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and his friend, Cathaline, must work to figure out what has taken hold of Alaizabel and set her free from its dark grasp.
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Of metal and wishes
by Sarah Fine
In this loose retelling of The Phantom of the Opera, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, a ghost becomes obsessed with sixteen-year-old Wen, the daughter of a staff doctor in a slaughterhouse, who falls in love with one of the Noor, a despised group of men, racially different, hired as cheap factory labor.
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Airman
by Eoin Colfer
In the 1890s, Conor Broekhart finds his life forever changed when he is falsely accused of organizing a military coup to overthrow the king and, thrown into jail, builds a glider and makes a daring escape--along with a cache of diamonds--to save his family.
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