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1) Prudence
Author
Series
Custard protocol ; 1
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-year-old Prudence 'Rue' Akeldama and her friends journey in a gaudy dirigible to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampire, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics." --
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart-- Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants...
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Language
English
Description
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Deep in the heart of the Kurg rainforest lies a long-forgotten wreck. On board, behind a magically protected door, an elusive treasure awaits. Good thing Darian Frey, captain of the airship Ketty Jay, has the daemonist Crake on board. Crake is their best chance of getting that door open-- if they can sober him up. For a prize this enticing, Frey is willing to brave the legendary monsters of the forbidding island and to ally himself with a partner...
Author
Series
Cinder spires ; 1
Language
English
Description
"Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting...
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English
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Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally make a nuisance of themselves. So a hot tip on a cargo freighter loaded with valuables seems like a great...
7) Airborn
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Series
Language
English
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Author
Series
Cinder spires ; 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure from the author of the Dresden Files, in this New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defense...
9) Reticence
Author
Series
Custard protocol ; 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bookish 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 Custard Protocol series"--
10) Dreadnought
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Mercy Lynch is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Union-operated, Tacoma-bound "Dreadnought" alive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
With its revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, the C-500 had become the freight airframe of choice. Until a routine delivery goes horribly wrong.
Falling like a stone from six miles up, a brand new C-500 crashes in central France, killing the two pilots aboard. When French officials take over this highly public investigation, they call in the best there is: Frank 'Jammer' Davis. A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Davis is part of the NTSB's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A top-secret drone crashes in the Horn of Africa and prized aircraft ends up in the hanger of a company named Fly by Night Aviation. Jammer Davis is called to investigate a plane a plane crash in the Sudan and discovers a conspiracy that will threaten America like nothing before.
13) Jack Cloudie
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After narrowly escaping the gallows for a bank robbery gone wrong, Jack Keats is pressed into service in the Royal Aerostatical Navy aboard a run-down airship, with a seemingly mad captain, on its way to the deserts of Cassarabia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clockpunk Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
""Melanie Karsak's Chasing the star garden, the first novel in a stunning new steampunk series, takes the reader on an exciting adventure from the gritty opium dens of gaslamp London to the gem-colored waters of the ancient world"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the early years of the twentieth-century, the use of airships known as dirigibles-some as large as one thousand feet long-was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel in the pre-apocalyptic Southwest, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty. ELADATL tells...
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Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Captain Oswald Bastabel, ex-53rd Lancers and Special Air Police, finds himself hurled from the North East Frontier of 1902 in to the future world of 1973. He makes his way to London where he takes to the skies in the airship, the Lock Etive. Peace and prosperity reign, but not all of the British Empire's citizens support theis seeming stability. Caught up with an anarchist group led by barbarion warlord, O.T. Shaw, Bastable is forced to question...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clockpunk Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A sabotaged airship. A recovering opium addict. A messenger with life-shattering news. With the 1824 British airship qualifying race only weeks away, Lily Stargazer is at the top of her game. She's racing like a pro, truly in love, and living clean. But on one ill-omened day, everything changes. Pulled head-long into the ancient secrets of the realm, Lily soon finds herself embroiled in Celtic mysteries and fairy lore. And she's not quite sure how...
19) Falling sky
Author
Publisher
Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Ben Gold lives in dangerous times. Two generations ago, a virulent disease turned the population of most of North America into little more than beasts called Ferals. Some of those who survived took to the air, scratching out a living on airships and dirigibles soaring over the dangerous ground. Ben has his own airship, a family heirloom, and has signed up to help a group of scientists looking for a cure. But that's not as easy as it sounds, especially...
20) Red gear 9
Author
Publisher
Dog Star Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A daring prison break at Alcatraz Island sets Reeves, a former Confederate spy, on a path that can either lead him to freedom or back into war men and his fellow escapees struggle to make their way in a frightening new world full of airships, truces, and hordes of living dead, he finds the Office of Military Operations doggedly pursuing them. Reeves manages to stay just ahead of his pursuers thanks to his training, determination, and blind luck....
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