Steam power has brought many benefits to the citizens of Her Majesty's Britannic Empire, but also enemies jealous of her supremacy. Several times her military might has been tested, and each time she has prevailed.But now with the warships and armed war-blimps of her old enemy massing in the North Sea, Britain is facing its greatest time of peril – warfare of an unprecedented scale is poised to be unleashed.The mysterious and black-hearted Olivia is behind the smuggling of gu...

A mentor, advisor, or even a friend? Making connections in college makes all the difference.What single factor makes for an excellent college education? As it turns out, it's pretty simple: human relationships. Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite ...

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The year is 1812. Europe is being torn up by the wars against Napoleon, the navies of independent America and britain are harassing each other in the North Atlantic, and construction of the Breakwater - the Nation's Great Endeavour - has begun in Plymouth Sound.But the Grey, the secret group that protects Plymouth against Paranormal threats, have more important issues to deal with. One of which concerns a blue door, and the other has lots of tentacles and a bad attitude.Ala...

Olivia’s life is hanging by a thread. Hunted as a spy by the British Empire, and now by her own countrymen, she needs to do the impossible to survive – bring the Empire to its knees.The company forging a golden age of steam for the Empire is the Fanshaw & Fotherington Electro-Mechanical works. Destroy it and the British Empire will follow.But before Olivia can put her deadly plan into motion she must first locate the almost mythical creative heart of the Double-F company – th...

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Life is tough when you're a Leprechaun: you're small enough to be considered part of the food chain and you even have to show cheese who's the Boss.Meet Gascard and the Last People. They've been hiding under a hill longer than you've been alive and they may be the last Leprechauns in the world.The ancient evil that has been hunting Leprechauns down has now found them and life will never be the same again, especially so because there's a contract on their heads.Join Gas...

Sometimes the monsters aren't paranormal.Sir Malcolm Bradbury, Knight of the Realm and a man whose ambitious greed and avarice lets him destroy lives, is slowly taking control of the City of Plymouth leaving the dead bodies of his victims in his wake.The Plymouth Grey, the secret group protecting Plymouth against paranormal threats, know that they are the only people able to put a stop to his reign of terror. But how can they do so without calling unwanted attention upon th...

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Beneath the Surface of Victorian Life Lies a Very Different World...Hated and feared by the upper classes, the Illuminists guard their secrets with their lives. Janette Aston's insatiable quest for answers brings her to their locked golden doors, where she encounters the most formidable man she's ever met.Darius Lawley's job is to eliminate would–be infiltrators, but even he may be no match for Janette's cunning and charm...Praise for Hi...

THE WINNER OF THE 2013 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST NOVEL CATEGORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST COVER DESIGN (SI SCOTT)SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BSFA AWARDSYou live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of Angela and Tommy. You shelter beneath the Forest's lantern tre...

“Maria Dahvana Headley is a firecracker: she’s whip smart with a heart, and she writes like a dream.” —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of The Graveyard Book and CoralineAza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live.So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't thi...