Steampunk Fantasy Young Adult

A girl with a clockwork heart makes every second count. When Penny Farthing nearly died, the brilliant surgeon Calvin Warwick managed to implant a brass “Ticker”, transforming her into “the first of the Augmented”! But soon it was discovered that Warwick kidnapped and killed dozens of people striving to perfect another Ticker for Penny.

Nacht für Nacht sitzt die schüchterne Flinn Nachtigall am stillgelegten Bahnhof von Weidenborstel, dem Ort, wo zwei Jahre zuvor ihr Bruder verschwand. Bis eines Abends ein Zug herbeirollt, mit einer gewaltigen, rauchspuckenden Lokomotive. Und Flinn... stürzt als blinde Passagierin in das Abenteuer ihres Lebens! Denn der Zug ist der Welten-Express, ein fahrendes Internat voller außergewöhnlicher Kinder, angetrieben mit magischer Technologie. Ein Ort, in dem Flinn Freunde findet - und Feinde. Denn der Welten-Express birgt mehr Geheimnisse, als sie sich je hätte träumen lassen... Unverwechselbar gelesen von dem beliebten Fantasy-Sprecher Rainer Strecker.

When Amelia arrives at Nexum House she sparks the fire of revolution. Daughter of a gambler and a scientist, the 16-year-old wants revenge for her parents' murder. But not just against the killers. Amelia wants to start a catalyst that will change the world.

Stein has been with the Hollows for as long as she can remember. Taken as a child, she has no memories of her past - and that's always been fine by her. Until the day she stumbles across a hidden journal containing the devastating truth about her paternity. Now everything she thought she knew - and everyone she thought she could trust - has changed. The truth about who she is and where she came from is a secret so deep, it will rock the Hollows and the Tesla Institute alike.

It's been eight years since Colodian won its independence from Emerlia. Yael, like thousands of children after the war, has bounced from foster home to foster home. She has never found a real family, and now with skirmishes along the northern border, the country feels on the brink of war once more. When she hears rumors of a girl with the same distinct eyes as hers in the capital, she sets out on an adventure with a band of four young boys who, like her, lost everything in the last fight but through the chaos managed to find each other.

Clark used to be a miner, until he drank from a vial he swore was absinthe but was actually an invention to give him the ability to raise the dead. Now Clark seeks to fulfill his father's wishes to keep other inventions away from Senator Horan. His beloved Amethyst is along for the ride. Deceit, drama, romance, the insidious underbellies of gangs... How can she not be involved?

Beneath the Ocean of Sky, heroes will rise. Samra Rose is in trouble. Living in a colony floating high above the clouds, she's been far away from anything resembling an adventure, but when aerial raiders carry off her home - with her inside - she gets more excitement than she ever wished for. Her best friend, Kipling, and a Grounder boy with a skyship will take to the air in pursuit, but all three will face dangers they've never imagined.

What should be a routine mission leaves Ethan with a serious problem. He's fractured - a break between mind and body that leaves him at the mercy of his Rifter abilities, which are quickly tearing him apart. He will have to trust the only person who might know how to fix him, a mysterious Rifter named Stewart Stills, who seems to have a special connection with the time stream.

Penelope's average life changed forever the day she discovered her ability to shapeshift. After finding her true homeland hidden in the clouds above, Penny’s never felt more alive. Unfortunately, in the skies of Azure, magic is punishable by death. With the ruler of Azure, Lord Esmond, in pursuit and the land on the brink of war, Penny and her friends race to find the only hope left. A map to a weapon hidden in the ruins of a sunken city. But first they’ll have to get past their most ominous foe yet...The Guardians of Atlantis.

Tricked by a strange creature, a dying boy is kidnapped. Mistakenly saved by his captors, they are all suddenly hunted by a mad man. Suddenly, Elias and his captors are at odds with everyone in the land, as they try to solve the riddle of the fire berries. Join the crew of the Whisper, a swift airship, as they sail through dangerous skies, dark tunnels, deadly valleys and wonderful cities. Will the Jackboot catch them, or the smoke charmers kill them? Will they find a cure for Elias before time runs out?

Storm clouds gather over Lily and Robert's summer when criminal mastermind the Jack of Diamonds appears. Jack is searching for the mysterious Moonlocket, but that's not the only thing hes after. Suddenly, dark secrets from Robert's past plunge him into danger. Jack is playing a cruel game that Robert is wrapped up in. Lily and Malkin, the mechanical fox, must stay one step ahead before Jack plays his final deadly card.

Second book in the MOONCHILD series.

Constance is a wild, stubborn young girl growing up poor in a small industrial town. But beneath her threadbare exterior beats the heart of a dreamer and a wordsmith. She feeds her hunger for reading by picking the lock on the local bookstore late at night to enjoy her own private reading room. But at age 12, she's orphaned. With no relatives to take her in, the local authorities scheme to take charge of the bewildered girl's life.

Honorine's life as a maid at the Vidalia mansion is rather dull, dusting treasures from faraway places and daydreaming in front of maps of the world. But everything changes when she catches two brutish sailors ransacking Lord Vidalia's study and then follows a mysterious girl with wings out into the night. Suddenly Honorine is whisked into the middle of a battle between the crew of a spectacular steamship and a band of mythical constellations.

It was only a few weeks ago that the Biedermann twins, Tess and Theo, along with their friend Jaime Cruz, followed the secrets of the Morningstarrs’ cipher further than anyone had in its century-and a-half history - and destroyed their beloved home in the process. But the Old York Cipher still isn’t solved. The demolition of 354 W. 73rd Street only revealed the next clue in the greatest mystery of the modern world, and if they want to discover what lies at the end of the puzzle laid into the buildings of New York by its brilliant, enigmatic architects, they will need to press on.

Desperate to escape an arranged marriage and the life her high-ranking government official father planned for her, Cat Hunter does the unthinkable. She runs away from her homeland, Tellus, disguises herself as a boy, and stows away on an air ship. She’s ready for life in a new land where the general population isn’t poverty stricken and at the mercy of the cruel officials. What she isn’t quite ready for is meeting Fox, a crew member aboard the Stormdancer - which turns out to be a smugglers’ ship.

Mara’s magic has stopped working—at the worst possible time! With chasms opening in the streets and chaos in the lower realms, should Mara seek help from the king of the elves?

Lina Winterbock lives in the mountain strongholds of Solace. She's an apprentice to the archivists, the wise men and women whose lives are dedicated to cataloging, studying, and preserving the objects that mysteriously fall from the sky in the scrap towns.

In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world's most important scientists, went about their lives and their work as they always had. But all that changed the day the men in black arrived. They arrived to take twelve-year-old Jasper Modest and his six-year-old sister, Lucy he with his remarkable creations and she with her perfect memory from their London, England home to a place across the ocean they'd never seen before.

Eine neue Schlacht. Ein alter Freund. Ein Krieg, der den Spielverlauf für immer verändern wird. Clay ist auf dem finsteren Kontinent Arethkar angekommen und hat ein klares Ziel vor Augen: Er möchte die brutal versklavten Spieler befreien. Mit der Hilfe eines alten Bekannten schickt sich Clay an, die mächtige Festung der Eisernen Zitadelle zu erobern. Dafür hat er sieben Tage Zeit.