New Releases by Gail Carriger

C''est une chose que d''aprendre à faire une révérence comme il faut. C''en est une autre que d''apprendre à la fire 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.

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.

Condemned by society and her werewolf husband due to a pregnancy she cannot explain, Alexia Maccon - preternatural, tea aficionado - seeks an explanation for this "infant inconvenience" so as to cleanse her sullied reputation and prove her fool of a husband wrong. Preternaturals are a rare breed and the only history of their kind lies in Italy with the Templars, a group that once partnered with preternaturals to hunt down werewolves and vampires. Will Alexia find an explanation for her impossible offspring? Or do the Templars have other plans for the curious "Soulless One"?

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 (and 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 Carriger''s distinctive voice, signature humor, and lush steampunk setting are sure to be the height of fashion this season.

Lady Maccon est en plaine béatitude domestique Une béatitude à peine troublée par la fréquentation de quelques loups-garous de la haute société et celle du second placard préféré d’un vampire, sans oublier un bambin précoce ayant des dispositions incontrôlables au surnaturel... Mais Alexia vient de recevoir un ordre qu’elle ne peut ignorer. Avec mari, enfant et famille Tunstell au complet, elle embarque à bord d’un bateau à vapeur pour traverser la Méditerranée. Direction l’Égypte, une terre qui pourrait bien tenir en échec l’indomptable Alexia. Que lui veut la Reine vampire de la ruche d’Alexandrie ? Pourquoi un ancien fl éau s’abat-il de nouveau sur le pays ? Et comment diable Ivy est-elle devenue du jour au lendemain l’actrice la plus populaire de tout l’Empire britannique ?

This steampunk series debut set in the same world as the New York Times bestselling Parasol Protectorate is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger''s legions of fans have come to adore. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in 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 they 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.

Settling into her new life as the Lady Woolsey, Alexia finds her days quite challenging. Whether it is a regiment of supernatural soldiers camped out on her front lawn or the demands of being the Queen''s "muhjah," there never seems to be a want of new hurdles to overcome. But when stories of supernaturals rendered normal by some unknown force begin cropping up, Alexia has a rather serious mystery on her hands. Can she root out the cause of this phenomenon, which smacks of some larger plot at work?

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? The Parasol Protectorate is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. This boxed set includes the whole series: Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, and Timeless.

Lady Alexia Woolsey est indiscutablement le scandale de la saison londonienne. Après les événements survenus en Écosse, elle est retournée vivre chez ses parents. La reine Victoria l’a exclue du Cabinet fantôme, et la seule personne qui pourrait donner une explication à sa délicate condition actuelle, Lord Akeldama, a inopinément quitté la ville. Pour couronner le tout, Alexia découvre que les vampires de Londres ont juré sa mort. Tandis que Lord Maccon met toute son énergie à boire, et que le Professeur Lyall tente désespérément de maintenir la cohésion au sein de la meute Woolsey, Alexia s’enfuit en Italie à la recherche des mystérieux Templiers. Ils sont les seuls à pouvoir l’aider. Mais ils pourraient aussi s’avérer pires que les vampires. Surtout armés de pesto.

Miss Alexia Tarabotti doit composer avec quelques contraintes sociales. Primo, elle n’a pas d’âme. Deuxio, elle est toujours célibataire. Tertio, elle vient de se faire grossièrement attaquer par un vampire qui ne lui avait même pas été présenté ! Que faire ? Rien de bien, apparemment, car Alexia tue accidentellement le vampire. Lord Maccon – beau et compliqué, écossais et loup-garou – est envoyé par la reine Victoria pour démêler l’affaire. Des vampires indésirables s’en mêlent, d’autres disparaissent, et tout le monde pense qu’Alexia est responsable. Mais que se trame-t-il réellement dans la bonne société londonienne ? Madame Carriger réside dans les Colonies et exige que son thé soit importé directement de Londres. Empruntant aussi bien à Jane Austen qu’à Charlaine Harris, la série du Protectorat de l’ombrelle connaît outre-Atlantique un immense succès. « Tout simplement brillant » Publishers Weekly. « Un ravissement » New York Times.

Abandonar la casa de su marido y volver a vivir con su horrible familia... ¡Lady Maccon es el escándalo de la temporada en Londres! La Reina Victoria la ha echado del Consejo en la Sombra y la única persona que podría ofrecerle algún tipo de explicación, Lord Akeldama, desaparece de la ciudad inesperadamente. Para colmo, Alexia es atacada por una serie de bichos mecánicos homicidas, lo que indica claramente, como solo unos bichos semejantes pueden hacerlo, que los vampiros de Londres están muy interesados en ver a Alexia muerta. Mientras lord Maccon elige permanecer en un estado cada vez más ebrio y el profesor Lyall intenta por todos los medios mantener la manada de Woolsey unida, Alexia huye de Inglaterra para buscar refugio en Italia, en busca de los Templarios. Ellos son los únicos que saben lo suficiente sobre los preternaturales para explicar su cada vez más incómoda condición, pero los Templarios pueden ser todavía peor que los vampiros... ¡y además van armados con salsa pesto!

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. Until, that is, she receives a summons 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? Timeless is the final book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

The life of a spinster in Victorian London isn''t an easy one on the best of days, but such a life becomes infinitely more complicated when said spinster is "soulless" - a preternatural bridging the gap between the natural and supernatural worlds. Miss Alexia Tarabotti has this unique distinction, and when she is assailed at a formal gathering by a rove vampire, an encounter that results in the death of the half-starved creature, her circumstances become exponentially more complicated indeed! Now caught up in an intrigue with life or death stakes, Alexia must rely on all her talents to outmatch the forces conspiring against her, but it may be the man who has caught her eye - Lord Conall Maccon - and their budding flirtation that truly drives her to her wit''s end!

Miss Alexia Tarabotti est devenue Lady Alexia Woolsey. Un jour qu’elle se réveille de sa sieste, s’attendant à trouver son époux gentiment endormi à ses côtés comme tout loup-garou qui se respecte, elle le découvre hurlant à s’en faire exploser les poumons. Puis il disparaît sans explication... laissant Alexia seule, aux prises avec un régiment de soldats non-humains, une pléthore de fantômes exorcisés, et une reine Victoria qui n’est point amusée du tout. Mais Alexia est toujours armée de sa fidèle ombrelle et des dernières tendances de la mode, sans oublier un arsenal de civilités cinglantes. Et même quand ses investigations pour retrouver son incontrôlable mari la conduisent en Écosse, le repère des gilets les plus laids du monde, elle est prête !

Alexia Maccon, recientemente convertida en Lady Woolsey, se despierta a media tarde y descubre que su marido, en lugar de dormir plácidamente como todo hombre-lobo que se precie, está inmerso en una discusión a pleno pulmón de la que, acto seguido, desaparece sin ni siquiera despedirse, dejando a la pobre Alexia sola con el regimiento de soldados sobrenaturales que acaba de acampar frente a su casa, una plétora de fantasmas y una más que airada reina Victoria. Pero Alexia cuenta con un auténtico arsenal con el que defenderse: su fiel sombrilla, la moda más radiante llegada desde el otro lado del Canal de la Mancha y grandes dosis de la cortesía más afilada de todo el Imperio.

Book 1: SOULLESS 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 a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. Book 2: CHANGELESS Alexia Tarabotti, 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. 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. Book 3: BLAMELESS Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto.

Miss Alexia Tarabotti doit composer avec quelques contraintes sociales. Primo, elle n’a pas d’âme. Deuxio, elle est toujours célibataire. Tertio, elle vient de se faire grossièrement attaquer par un vampire qui, ne lui avait pas été présenté ! Que faire ? Rien de bien, apparemment, car Alexia tue accidentellement le vampire. Lord Maccon – beau et compliqué, écossais et loup-garou – est envoyé par la reine Victoria pour enquêter sur l’affaire. Des vampires indésirables s’en mêlent, d’autres disparaissent, et tout le monde pense qu’Alexia est responsable. Mais que se trame -t-il réellement dans la bonne société londonienne ?

Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London''s vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they''re armed with pesto. Blameless is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

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 debe desenvolverse bajo muchas y variadas tribulaciones sociales. En primer lugar, no tiene alma. En segundo, es una soltera cuyo padre es italiano y, además, está muerto. Y en tercer lugar, ha sido groseramente atacada por un vampiro sin ningún respeto por la etiqueta social. ¿Qué puede esperarse de todo eso? Aparentemente, nada bueno, pues Alexia mata accidentalmente al vampiro y el atroz Lord Maccon (ruidoso, indecoroso, atractivo y hombre lobo) es enviado por la Reina para investigar el caso. Con inesperados vampiros apareciendo y esperados vampiros desapareciendo, todo el mundo parece estar convencido de la culpabilidad de Alexia. ¿Será capaz de averiguar lo que está sucediendo realmente en la alta sociedad londinense? ¿Su habilidad para anular los poderes sobrenaturales debido a su carencia de alma demostrará ser útil o simplemente embarazosa? Y, finalmente, ¿quién es el auténtico enemigo, y tendrán tarta de melaza?

Quitting her husband''s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs.

Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a deadly investigation of London''s high society. 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.

From evil overlords to bumbling henchmen, talking cats to lovelorn fishermen, mad queens to wise opossums, the collected fourteen stories subvert popular fantasy tropes in surprising and delightful ways. This book collects some of the best funny fantasy fiction published in the past decade. Included are works by Hugo and Nebula Award winners, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, as well as up-and-coming talented writers. Includes the following stories: “Dave the Mighty Steel-Thewed Avenger” by Laura Resnick “Crumbs” by Esther Friesner “Fellow Traveler” by Donald J. Bingle “A Fish Story” by Sarah Totton “Another End of the Empire” by Tim Pratt “Giantkiller” by G. Scott Huggins “A Mild Case of Death” by David Gerrold “Fairy Debt” by Gail Carriger “A Very Special Girl” by Mike Resnick “The Blue Corpse Corps” by Jim C. Hines “Librarians in the Branch Library of Babel” by Shaenon K. Garrity “The Queens Reason” by Richard Parks “The Best Little Cleaning Robot in All of Faerie” by Susan Jane Bigelow “Suede This Time” by Jean Rabe