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THIRD SON'S A CHARM
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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

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Also by Gail Carriger:

Reticence, August 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Competence, February 2019
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Competence, July 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld, September 2017
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Prudence, March 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Curtsies & Conspiracies, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Etiquette & Espionage, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Blameless, September 2011
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Heartless, August 2011
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Changeless, April 2010
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Soulless, October 2009
Mass Market Paperback

ETIQUETTE & ESPIONAGE
By: Gail Carriger

Finish School #1

February 2013
On Sale: February 5, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 031619008X
EAN: 9780316190084
Kindle: B007ZGKMXM
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult | Fantasy Steampunk

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.

Finishing School

Etiquette & Espionage
ETIQUETTE & ESPIONAGE
#1.0 β€’ February 2013
Curtsies & Conspiracies
CURTSIES & CONSPIRACIES
#2.0 β€’ November 2013