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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Yorick Bede has always considered his younger brother, Charles, a first-rate pain in the pants, and Charles thinks the same of Yorick. One day Yorick plays with his alchemist father's potions, and he accidentally shrinks himself to the size of a cockroach. Now suddenly Charles is the big brother. Though it's tempting to leave Yorick as a shrunken version of himself to teach him a lesson, Charles and the rest of the Bede family protect Yorick...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
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Description
"In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family."--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A tale set two years after the events of The Apothecary finds Benjamin and his father treating the sick and wounded in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam until a magical communication formula reveals that Janie is in trouble, prompting a desperate chase around the world.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"In an era called The Chemystral Age, magically augmented alchemy and chemistry have thrust an alternate version of eighteenth-century colonial America forward into industrialization. Thirteen-year-old Ruby is a smuggler's daughter and picklock prodigy, and she and her mostly faithful servant, Cram, navigate a world filled with cobalt gearbeasts, alchemical automatons, and devilish secret societies"--
Author
Series
Apothecary ; 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Teenagers Janie and Benjamin continue to explore the secrets of the Pharmacopoeia while Benjamin risks everything to find a way to connect with his father." --
10) Ashlords
Author
Series
Ashlords ; 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every year since the Ashlords were gifted phoenix horses by their gods, they've raced them. First into battle, then on great hunts, and finally for the pure sport of seeing who rode the fastest. Centuries of blood and fire carved their competition into a more modern spectacle: The Races. Over the course of a multi-day event, elite riders from clashing cultures vie to be crowned champion. But the modern version of the sport requires more than good...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sharpshooter Margaret Welty and alchemical apprentice Weston Winters form an unlikely team competing for glory in a magical fox hunt--while she wants to lure her mother home, Wes needs the prize money to support his family and his political aspirations." --
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they're not heroes of the people, as they've always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
Author
Series
Witch's throne ; 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Every ten years, throne seekers compete to become the four heroes destined to slay the Witch threatening their world. Optimistic young alchemist Agni eagerly sets off to fulfill her dream of being one of these sacred heroes. She expects to save the world--and maybe make some friends along the way. But she soon realizes that nothing is as straightforward as it is in her childhood stories, and becoming a hero may come at a terrible cost"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After twelve-year-old Lebanese-American Shad Hadid discovershe is an Alchemist, he receives an invitation to the Alexandria Academy where he discovers not everything is as it seems and shadowy figures are lurking around every corner."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a land torn between magic and alchemy, Sepha is an exceptional alchemist, but when a slip of the tongue lands her in prison with a mountain of straw and the threat of a death sentence, she is forced to make a deal with a conniving magician.
Author
Series
Riddle in Ruby ; 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the final book in the Riddle in Ruby trilogy, young thief Ruby Teach and her friends must save their city from an evil scientist." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Living in the twenty-fifth century, young Dawkins and Hypatia Faraday take time travel and technology like the NeuroNet for granted but in Prague in 1648, they are startled to find a rogue alchemist who is using advanced technology to change mercury into gold.
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