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Lizard Village, 1903. It's the beginning of a new century, and wireless telegraph companies around the world are scrambling to develop the new communications technology. But Italian prodigy Guglielmo Marconi beats them to the punch by sending the first wireless signal across the Atlantic from his station on the Lizard. Naturally, his feat has bruised some egos, but no one expects sabotage-much less murder. After two apparently accidental deaths at...
42) The Texan duke
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"As the ward to the late Duke of Lothian, Elsbeth Carew resides at the ancestral estate of Bealadair. Fiercely attached to the manor, she loves it more than anyone else. When Connor McCraight--the new Duke of Lothian--arrives, Elsbeth does not quite know what to make of the American who has inherited the title but has never even set foot on Scottish soil. The tall, ruggedly handsome Texan sweeps through Bealadair with an air of authority Elsbeth has...
43) The spirit phone
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It is August 1899, and Thomas Edison proclaims his most amazing invention yet: the Spirit Phone Model SP-1. At nearly the same time, a cocksure young mage named Aleister Crowley inexplicably teleports into the home of Edison's archrival, renowned inventor Nikola Tesla. As insanity and suicide multiply among spirit phone users, Crowley and Tesla combine their respective skills in "magick" and technology to investigate the device's actual origin and...
44) The oyster thief
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"Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on aquest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth--while threatening merpeople...
46) Far-out friends!
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"When a robot crashes to Earth, it's up to Nickelodeon's Rusty Rivets and his trusty Bits to befriend the little lost bot and get him back into outer space!"--Provided by publisher.
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In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
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Frank Einstein volume 3
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"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity), and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival--this time in the quest to unlock the power behind the science of the human body"-- Provided by publisher.
52) Pigs might fly
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Pigs might fly volume 1
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All the sensible hogfolk in Pigdom Plains know that if pigs were meant to fly, they'd have been born with wings--but there's no convincing Lily Leanchops. The daughter of renowned inventor Hercules Fatchops, Lily has watched her father's flying machines fail time and time again. Working in secret, Lily is trying to build what her father couldn't: an aircraft that actually works. Lily's secret project takes on a new sense of urgency when a mysterious...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 32
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Jack and Annie are whisked back in time to Old Philadelphia by the magic tree house to meet the Founding Father, journalist, and famous inventor Benjamin Franklin.
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Self-made man Aidan Iverson has seen more closed doors in his thirty years than he's ever cared to count. As a member of the elite Duke's Den, he has all the money he could possibly need but the one thing he can't purchase is true power. If roguish Aidan can't buy his way into society's hallowed halls, he'll resort to a more extreme measure: marriage. Brought up to be a proper lady, the only thing Diana Ashby desires is to be left alone to the creation...
55) Fiddlehead
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Clockwork century volume 6
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When the forces conspiring to keep the Civil War going come for him and his invention, a calculating engine called Fiddlehead, ex-slave Gideon Bardsley turns to his patron, former president Abraham Lincoln, for protection until he can end his data-processing research.
"Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they're...
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"Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants Ellen to speak up in support of his claim to the patent...
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Blast to the past volume 3
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Abigail, Jacob, Zack, and Bo travel back in time to visit Alexander Graham Bell, and they urge him not to give up on his efforts to invent the telephone.
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Peter Ash novels volume 6
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A man wanted by two governments, Peter Ash has found a low-profile life in Milwaukee, living with his girlfriend June and renovating old buildings with his friend Lewis. Staying out of trouble is key . . . but when Peter spots an armed man walking into a crowded market, he can't stand by. The gunman escapes, and his victim vanishes before police arrive. Soon a powerful associate from Peter's past appears with an interest in the crime, and an irresistible...
59) Hot shot
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She jumped on the back of a bad boy's Harley and followed his renegade dream ... In a single, impulsive act, Susannah Faulconer, the daughter of one of the country's most powerful industrialists, follows her heart and finds herself severed from her family and everything familiar. As a cool San Francisco socialite, she'd known exactly how to behave, but now she's a lone woman in a world of men ... and there's no etiquette book in the world that can...
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"It seems like everything Billy Sure invents becomes an instant hit. There's the All Ball and the Sibling Silencer, and now everyone wants some Disappearing Reappearing Makeup and the Stink Spectacular. Billy's latest invention is the Cat-Dog Translator, a device that will finally let cat and dog owners in on what their pets are trying to say. But, as Billy soon learns, when pets start talking, there's no telling what kinds of embarrassing secrets...
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