books about: clockwork (collection mysteries steampunk)

books about: clockwork

books:

The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
Cassandra Clare

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013

Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones , soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013. Step back in time with the Shadowhunters with this collectible hardcover boxed set of the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. The Shadowhunters of the Victorian Age delve into all of these—in addition to darkness and danger—in the Infernal Devices trilogy, handsomely ...

Clockwork Princess (Infernal Devices, The)
Cassandra Clare

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013

Dont miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013. THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray. Charlotte Branwell, head of the ...

Clockwork Fagin (Free Preview of a story from Steampunk!)

Candlewick DRM-Free, 2012

Imagine an alternate universe where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. In Steampunk!, fourteen masters of ...

Clockwork Angel (Infernal Devices, Book 1)
Cassandra Clare

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011

Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones , soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013. Includes the never-before-seen short story Magnus's Vow ! Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where ...

Clockwork Angels: The Novel
Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart

ECW Press, 2012

A remarkable collaboration that is unprecedented in its scope and realization, this exquisitely wrought novel represents an artistic project between the bestselling science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson and the multiplatinum rock band Rush. The newest album by Rush, Clockwork Angels , sets forth a story in Neil Peart’s lyrics that has been expanded by him and Anderson into this epic novel. In a young man’s quest to follow his dreams, he ...

Clockwork
Philip Pullman

Yearling (imprint of Random House Children's Books), 2004

Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up, nothing will stop them ...A tormented apprentice clock-maker, a deadly mechanical knight in armour - and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil ...Wind up these characters, fit them into a story on a cold winter's evening, with the snow swirling down, and suddenly life and the story begin to merge in a peculiarly macabre - and unstoppable - way. Almost ...

A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
Anthony Burgess

W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange ’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions. A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has since become a classic of modern literature and the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s once-banned film, whose recent reissue has ...

Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, Book 2)
Cassandra Clare

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2013

Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones , soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013. True love is shrouded in secrets and lies in the #1 New York Times bestselling second book of the Infernal Devices trilogy. In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when it becomes clear that the mysterious Magister will stop at nothing to ...

The Clockwork Three
Matthew J. Kirby

Scholastic Paperbacks, 2011

An enchanted green violin, an automaton that comes to life, and a hidden treasure . . . THE CLOCKWORK THREE is a richly woven adventure story that is sure to become a classic! Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom. Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from ...

The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World (P.S.)
Edward Dolnick

Harper Perennial, 2012

New York Times bestselling author Edward Dolnick brings to light the true story of one of the most pivotal moments in modern intellectual history—when a group of strange, tormented geniuses invented science as we know it, and remade our understanding of the world. Dolnick’s earth-changing story of Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of modern science is at once an entertaining romp through the annals of academic history, in the ...

The Clockwork Dragon, ...

AltWit Press, 2012

Three authors. One legend. One dragon. A Legion of demons. Who will survive and who will lose their soul? The darkness consumes. We are Legion. Locked in our golden prison. Waiting. Seeking. Tempting. Are you strong enough to resist? Or will you allow us to escape?

Clockwork Doomsday (Rogue Angel)
Alex Archer

Gold Eagle, 2013

A key. An ancient automaton. A race against the devil to the deep blue sea… It started in 48 B.C. when a centurion on a rescue mission for Caesar went down with the ship in a storm. With his last breath, he saw the object of Caesar's seafaring excursion—an accursed, mechanical minotaur—hit bottom…and start to walk away! While taping an episode of Chasing History's Monsters, TV host and archaeologist Annja Creed learns that her ...

Clockwork

Penelope Publishing, 2013

In 2184 New Chicago, Kally Bright lives in a world where the government controls everything from love to time. She, like those around her, has never known personal freedom. Her one bit of freedom is a secret from most. Obsessed with time and trying to gain some control over her life, Kally spends her days repairing old clocks,. On her sixteenth birthday when Kally quietly repairs a clock and waits for the ruling on who she will marry, she is ...

Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables

Roc Trade, 2013

Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all read as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and the new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes,” New York Times bestselling author K. W. Jeter’s La Valse” forges a fable about love, the decadence of technology, and a gala dance that becomes the ...

City of Bones (Mortal Instruments, The)

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009

Dont miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones , soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013. When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible ...

A Clockwork Orange

Warner Home Video, 2007

From its opening shot of Malcolm McDowell staring with evil intent directly into the camera (which pulls back to reveal him drinking a glass of milk), Stanley Kubrick's brilliant A CLOCKWORK ORANGE announces itself as a completely new kind of viewing experience. The film, set in an unidentified future, overwhelms the senses with its almost comic depictions of rape and violence set to an upbeat classical and pop music score. Kubrick based his ...

The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel
Colleen Gleason

Chronicle Books, 2013

Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes never meant to get into the family business. But when you're the sister of Bram and the niece of Sherlock, vampire hunting and mystery solving are in your blood. And when two society girls go missing, there's no one more qualified to investigate. Now fierce Evaline and logical Mina must resolve their rivalry, navigate the advances of not just one but three mysterious gentlemen, and solve murder with only one ...

A Clockwork Fairytale (Fantasy Romance), 2011

A cross between The Princess Bride and Pygmalion! Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewer's Choice Award Winner! "I would most definitely recommend this to anyone, young or old, who enjoys a good clean love story..." Penelope Adams, The Paranormal Romance Guild Praise for A Clockwork Fairytale "Her lyrical writing and amazing imagination give you characters you'll remember for a long time, along with stories that take you away into a ...

The Clockwork Companion: Your Key to the Mrs. McGillicuddy Universe (Includes an original short story, ...

K. H. Koehler Books, 2011

Before you read A Clockwork Vampire and A Werewolf in Time, learn all you can about Edwin and Eliza's world, including the different castes of Poppets, the different types of "nonhumans" (vampires, shapeshifters, etc.) and the technology that makes Mrs. McGillicuddy's universe a unique steampunk/cyberpunk experience unlike anything in urban fantasy today. The Clockwork Universe is all about the unusual meshing of myth, magic and science fiction. ...