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Imprudence (Paperback)
Gail Carriger
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It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to
learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to
Finishing School.
Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother.
Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing
trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that
company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is
desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls
Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young
Ladies of Quality.
But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother
might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn
to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of
dance, dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death,
diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course.
Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's
education.
Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series
debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail's
legions of fans have come to adore.
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Changeless (Paperback)
Gail Carriger
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R510
R433
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Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the
mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep
like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he
disappears; leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural
soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts,
and an angry Queen Victoria.
But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions,
and an arsenal of biting civility. So even when her investigations
take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is
prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can.
She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she
feels like it.
CHANGLESS is the second book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a
comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves,
vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.
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Blameless (Paperback)
Gail Carriger
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R464
R394
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Quitting 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. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical
ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of
London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia
quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get
progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries
to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England
for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know
enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly
inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires --
and they're armed with pesto. Blameless is the third book of the
Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian
London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to
learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to
finishing school. Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother.
Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing
trees than proper manners-and the family can only hope that company
never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for
her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in
Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of
Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what
her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's young
ladies learn to finish . . . everything. Certainly, they learn the
fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to
deal out death, diversion, and espionage - in the politest possible
ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing
first year's education.
"Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner
table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully
grown guests?"
Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing
Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing For
one thing, finishing school is training her to be a spy (won't
Mumsy be surprised?). Furthermore, Sophronia got mixed up in an
intrigue over a stolen device and had a cheese pie thrown at her in
a most horrid display of poor manners.
Now, as she sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on
the teachers' quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship's
boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a field trip to
London than is apparent at first. A conspiracy is afoot--one with
dire implications for both supernaturals and humans. Sophronia must
rely on her training to discover who is behind the dangerous
plot--and survive the London Season with a full dance card.
In this bestselling sequel to "New York Times" bestselling
"Etiquette & Espionage," class is back in session with more
petticoats and poison, tea trays and treason. Gail's distinctive
voice, signature humor, and lush steampunk setting are sure to be
the height of fashion this season.
If one must flirt...flirt with danger. Lessons in the art of
espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have
become tedious without Sophronia's sweet sootie Soap nearby. She
would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly
Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are
ignored, and now she's not sure whom to trust. What does the
brusque werewolf dewan know? On whose side is the ever-stylish
vampire Lord Akeldama? Only one thing is certain: a large-scale
plot is under way, and when it comes to fruition, Sophronia must be
ready to save her friends, her school, and all of London from
disaster--in decidedly dramatic fashion, of course. What will
become of our proper young heroine when she puts her years of
training to the test? Find out in this highly anticipated and
thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Finishing
School series!
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Prudence (Paperback)
Gail Carriger
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R417
R355
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It's one thing to waltz properly. It's quite another to waltz
properly with a bladed fan stitched into one's corset. Sophronia
continues finishing school in style - with a range of deadly
defences secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Her
fashionable choice of weapons comes in handy when Sophronia, her
best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap and the charming Lord Felix
Mersey hijack a suspiciously empty train to return their chum
Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. But when Sophronia
discovers they are being trailed by a dirigible of Picklemen and
flywaymen, she unearths a plot that threatens to throw all of
London into chaos. With her friends in mortal danger, Sophronia
must sacrifice what she holds most dear - her freedom. Gather your
poison, your steel-tipped quill, and the rest of your school
supplies and join Mademoiselle Geraldine's proper young killing
machines in the third rousing instalment of the New York Times
bestselling Finishing School series.
Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the
trouble in the air 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. Top that off with a sister who has joined
the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest
mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines - and
Alexia barely has time to remember she just happens to be eight
months pregnant. Will Alexia be able to figure out who is trying to
kill Queen Victoria before it's too late? Is it the vampires again
or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? And do they
really have to take up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best
closet? ***Also available as a manga adaptation***
Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible
family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen
Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council and the only person
who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town.
To top it all, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs,
indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all the London
vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite
thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more
inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the
Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in
search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the
preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition,
but they may be worse than the vampires - and they're armed with
pesto. ***Also available as a manga adaptation***
World Fantasy Award-Winner Newly available in print and e-book
editions "Rich and regal." -The New York Times Young Sybel, the
heiress of powerful wizards, needs the company of no-one outside
her gates. In her exquisite stone mansion, she is attended by
exotic, magical beasts: Riddle-master Cyrin the boar; the
treasure-starved dragon Gyld; Gules the Lyon, tawny master of the
Southern Deserts; Ter, the fiercely vengeful falcon; Moriah, feline
Lady of the Night. Sybel only lacks the exquisite and mysterious
Liralen, which continues to elude her most powerful enchantments.
But when a soldier bearing an infant arrives, Sybel discovers that
the world of man and magic is full of both love and deceit, and the
possibility of more power than she can possibly imagine.
Alexia Tarabotti is labouring under a great many social
tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster
whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely
attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.
Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia
accidentally kills the vampire - and then the appalling Lord Maccon
(loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to
investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected
vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia
responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to
London's high society? Or will her soulless ability to negate
supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing?
Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?
SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of
werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. ***Also
available as a manga adaptation***
Does one need four fully-grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner
table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four
fully-grown guests? Sophronia's first year at school has certainly
been rousing. First, her finishing school is training her to be a
spy (Won't Mumsy be surprised!). Secondly, she gets mixed up in an
intrigue over a stolen device and has a cheese pie thrown at her.
Now, as Sophronia sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping
on the teachers' quarters and making clandestine climbs to the
ship's boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a school
trip to London than at first appears ...Vampires, werewolves and
humans are all after the prototype Sophronia recovered in Etiquette
& Espionage, which has the potential to alter human and
supernatural travel. Sophronia must try to uncover who is behind a
dangerous plot to control the prototype ...as well as survive the
London season with a full dance card.
The fourth and final book in a steampunk YA adventure series, from
Orbit's New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol
Protectorate series. When a dastardly Pickleman plot comes to
fruition, only Sophronia can save her friends, her school, and all
of London...but at what cost? Our proper young heroine puts her
training and skills to the test in this highly anticipated
conclusion of the rousing, intriguing, and always polished New York
Times bestselling Finishing School series!
Alexia 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. Even Ivy Tunstell's acting troupe's
latest play, disastrous to say the least, cannot put a dampener on
Alexia's enjoyment of her new London lifestyle. Until, that is, she
receives a summons from Alexandria that cannot be ignored. With
husband, child and Tunstells in tow, Alexia boards a steamer to
cross the Mediterranean. But Egypt may hold more mysteries than
even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. What does the vampire
Queen of the Alexandria Hive really want from her? Why is the
God-Breaker Plague suddenly expanding? And how has Ivy Tunstell
suddenly become the most popular actress in all the British Empire?
***Also available as a manga adaptation***
ON BEHALF OF QUEEN, COUNTRY ...AND THE PERFECT POT OF TEA When
Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) is given
an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would
under similar circumstances - names it the Spotted Crumpet and
floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea. But India has
more than just tea on offer. Rue stumbles upon a plot involving
local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife and some awfully
familiar Scottish werewolves. Faced with a dire crisis and an
embarrassing lack of bloomers, what else is a young lady of good
breeding to do but turn metanatural and find out everyone's
secrets, even thousand-year-old fuzzy ones?
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