Set in a universe where music possesses the power to heal and transform, the story follows a protagonist dedicated to rescuing those who resist change. Traveling from planet to planet, they use the art of song to connect with individuals, unlocking their potential and inspiring hope. The narrative explores themes of perseverance, the impact of creativity, and the struggle against apathy, highlighting the profound effects of music on the human spirit.
Gail Carriger Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Gail Carriger mêle habilement la comédie de mœurs à la romance paranormale, insufflant dans ses récits un esprit sophistiqué et des éléments surnaturels. Ses histoires se déroulent souvent dans des histoires alternatives richement imaginées, où les sensibilités victoriennes se heurtent à des créatures fantastiques et à des technologies arcaniques. Carriger explore des thèmes d'identité, d'attentes sociales et la recherche de l'amour dans des circonstances extraordinaires. Les lecteurs peuvent s'attendre à des intrigues rythmées, des dialogues pétillants et des personnages qui sortent de la page.







Ambush or Adore
- 210pages
- 8 heures de lecture
In a thrilling tale of espionage, a top spy in London finds herself on the run from a man who has long harbored feelings for her. As she navigates the dangerous world of secrets and deception, the tension between her professional duties and personal relationships escalates. The story explores themes of love, loyalty, and the complexities of trust in a high-stakes environment where danger lurks at every corner.
Crudrat
- 274pages
- 10 heures de lecture
Set in a desolate space station, the story follows Maura, who faces a grim fate as she is deemed unnecessary and left to starve. The narrative explores themes of isolation and survival in an unforgiving environment, delving into Maura's struggle against despair and her fight for existence in the vastness of space. As she confronts her dire circumstances, the story raises questions about purpose and the human spirit's resilience.
Exploring the concept of the heroine's journey, this book delves into its distinctions from the traditional hero's journey. It analyzes various narratives, contrasting stories like Harry Potter with Star Wars and Twilight with Wonder Woman. By examining these differences, the book highlights the unique challenges and growth experienced by female protagonists, shedding light on the evolving landscape of storytelling and the representation of women in literature and film.
This large print edition offers enhanced readability, making it ideal for those who prefer or require larger text. The format ensures that readers can enjoy the story without straining their eyes, providing a more accessible experience. The book retains all the original content while catering to a wider audience, particularly seniors or individuals with visual impairments.
Competence
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Imprudence. Accidentally abandoned! All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard, in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish tail. When she uncovers rumors of a new kind of vampire, Prim and the Custard crew embark on a mission to Peru. There, they encounter airship pirates and strange atmospheric phenomena, and are mistaken for representatives of the Spanish Inquisition. Forced into extreme subterfuge (and some rather ridiculous outfits) Prim must also answer three of life's most challenging questions: Can the perfect book club give a man back his soul?Will her brother ever stop wearing his idiotic velvet fez?And can the amount of lard in Christmas pudding save an entire species? Custard ProtocolPrudenceImprudenceCompetence For more from Gail Carriger, check out: Parasol ProtectorateSoullessChangelessBlamelessHeartlessTimeless
Reticence
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
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. Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard their airship, the Spotted Custard. Of course, he'd never admit that he belongs among them. He's always been on the outside - dispassionate, aloof, and hatless. But accidental spies, a trip to Japan, and one smart and beautiful doctor may have him renegotiating his whole philosophy on life. Except hats. He's done with hats. Thank you very much. Custard ProtocolPrudenceImprudenceCompetenceReticence For more from Gail Carriger, check out: Parasol ProtectorateSoullessChangelessBlamelessHeartlessTimeless
Set in a steampunk world, the story revolves around a determined maid who aims to win the heart of a brilliant scientist. Despite the scientist's heartache and distraction, the maid's charm and persistence spark a connection that challenges the boundaries of love and healing. This unique romance blends elements of adventure and emotional depth, exploring themes of desire, resilience, and the transformative power of love in a richly imagined setting.
Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, a gentle Highland soldier embarks on a daring quest to win the heart of a notorious lady assassin. Their contrasting worlds collide as they navigate danger and desire, challenging societal norms and risking everything for love. The story explores themes of redemption and the transformative power of connection amidst perilous circumstances. Will their passionate pursuit bring them together or lead to their downfall?
Imprudence
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a new novel in the world of the Parasol Protectorate starring Prudence, the daughter of Alexia Tarabotti!
Prudence
- 343pages
- 13 heures de lecture
From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a new novel in the world of the Parasol Protectorate starring Prudence, the daughter of Alexia Tarabotti
The fourth and final book in a steampunk YA adventure series, from Orbit's New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate series. When a dastardly Pickleman plot comes to fruition, only Sophronia can save her friends, her school, and all of London...but at what cost? Our proper young heroine puts her training and skills to the test in this highly anticipated conclusion of the rousing, intriguing, and always polished New York Times bestselling Finishing School series!
Waistcoats and Weaponry
- 298pages
- 11 heures de lecture
In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
Etiketa a špionáž. Akadémia pre mladé dámy. Kniha 1.
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Štrnásťročnú Sophroniu zapíše jej mama do akadémie pre mladé dámy, aby sa naučila náležite sa správať v spoločnosti. Sophronia však čoskoro príde na to, že Prípravná akadémia mademoiselle Geraldine pre mladé dámy uhladených mravov je výnimočná: dievčatá sa učia tancovať, správne sa obliekať, dokonale ovládať etiketu a popritom si osvojujú aj základy špionáže! Sophroniu a jej kamarátov čaká strhujúci prvý rok na novej škole.
Does one need four fully grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully grown guests? Sophronia's first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality has certainly been rousing! For one thing, finishing school is training her to be a spy (won't Mumsy be surprised?). Furthermore, Sophronia got mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and had a cheese pie thrown at her in a most horrid display of poor manners. Now, as she sneaks around the dirigible school, eavesdropping on the teachers' quarters and making clandestine climbs to the ship's boiler room, she learns that there may be more to a field trip to London than is apparent at first. A conspiracy is afoot--one with dire implications for both supernaturals and humans. Sophronia must rely on her training to discover who is behind the dangerous plot-and survive the London Season with a full dance card. In this bestselling sequel to New York Times bestselling Etiquette & Espionage, class is back in session with more petticoats and poison, tea trays and treason. Gail's distinctive voice, signature humor, and lush steampunk setting are sure to be the height of fashion this season.
Etiquette & espionnage (Le Pensionnat de Mlle Géraldine*)
- 353pages
- 13 heures de lecture
C'est une chose que d’apprendre à faire une révérence comme il faut. C'en est une autre que d'apprendre à la faire en lançant un couteau Angleterre, début du XIXe siècle. Sophronia, 14 ans, est un défi permanent pour sa pauvre mère : elle préfère démonter les horloges et grimper aux arbres qu’apprendre les bonnes manières ! Mme Temminnick désespère que sa fille devienne jamais une parfaite lady, aussi inscrit-elle Sophronia au Pensionnat de Mlle Géraldine pour le perfectionnement des jeunes dames de qualité. Mais Sophronia comprend très vite que cette école n’est peut-être pas exactement ce que sa mère avait en tête. Certes, les jeunes filles y apprennent l’art de la danse, celui de se vêtir et l’étiquette ; mais elles apprennent aussi à donner la mort, l’art de la diversion, et l’espionnage – le tout de la manière la plus civilisée possible, bien sûr. Cette première année au pensionnat s’annonce tout simplement passionnante.
Lady Alexia Maccon hat alle Hände voll zu tun. Irgendjemand plant einen Anschlag auf Königin Victoria. Diesmal scheinen nicht die Vampire dahinterzustecken, sondern ein Werwolf. Möglicherweise sogar einer aus dem Rudel ihres Mannes! Lady Alexia weiss sehr wohl, dass sie sich eigentlich schonen sollte. Immerhin ist sie im achten Monat schwanger. Doch während ihrer Nachforschungen stösst sie auf ein düsteres Geheimnis aus der Vergangenheit ihres geliebten Werwolfs. Ein Geheimnis, das ihr Mann um jeden Preis vor ihr verbergen wollte ... Die New York Times Bestsellerautorin Gail Carriger wurde nach eigener Aussage von einer Exil-Britin und einem unheilbaren Griesgram aufgezogen. Um dieser Situation zu entfliehen, begann sie bereits in jungen Jahren mit dem Schreiben. Doch schliesslich entkam sie dem Kleinstadtleben. Beinahe aus Versehen erlangte sie mehrere Hochschulabschlüsse. Anschliessend bereiste sie Europa, wobei sie sich ausschliesslich von Keksen ernährte. Heute lebt sie in den USA, umgeben von unzähligen grossartigen Schuhen, und lässt sich ihren Tee direkt aus London schicken. Ausserdem ist sie versessen auf winzigkleine Hüte und exotische Früchte
Soulless 1
- 228pages
- 8 heures de lecture
Alexia Tarabotti, a soulless spinster who accidentally killed a vampire after he attacked her, is held responsible for the disappearances of other vampires and must figure out what is really happening to London's high society before it is too late
Timeless
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampire's second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Even Ivy Tunstell's acting troupe's latest play, disastrous to say the least, cannot put a dampener on Alexia's enjoyment of her new London lifestyle. Until, that is, she receives a summons from Alexandria that cannot be ignored. With husband, child and Tunstells in tow, Alexia boards a steamer to cross the Mediterranean. But Egypt may hold more mysteries than even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. What does the vampire Queen of the Alexandria Hive really want from her? Why is the God-Breaker Plague suddenly expanding? And how has Ivy Tunstell suddenly become the most popular actress in all the British Empire? ***Also available as a manga adaptation***
Heartless
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault in the fourth book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines, Alexia barely has time to remember she happens to be eight months pregnant. Will Alexia manage to determine who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it is too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? And what, exactly, has taken up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best closet? HEARTLESS is the fourth book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. The Parasol Protectorate Soulless Changeless Blameless Heartless Timeless For more from Gail Carriger, check out: The Custard Protocol Prudence ImprudenceCompetenceReticence Finishing School (YA) Etiquette & Espionage Curtsies & Conspiracies Waistcoats & Weaponry Manners & Mutiny
The Parasol Protectorate - 3: Blameless
An Alexia Tarabotti Novel: A Novel of Vampires, Werewolves and Afternoon Tea
- 294pages
- 11 heures de lecture
From the delightful, tea-sodden, steampunk-fueled imagination of Gail Carriger comes the further adventures of Alexia Tarabotti and her parasol.
After she leaves her husband, the pregnant Lady Maccon is dismissed from the Shadow Council, attacked by mechanical ladybugs, and becomes the target of vampires, forcing her to escape to Italy in search of the mysterious Templars.
Changeless
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears; leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. So even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.CHANGELESS is the second book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? SOULLESS is the first book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.











