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This weeks new releases I am interested in:

My pre-order this week:

Etiquette & Espionage  by Gail Carriger

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320 (Hardcover)
Series: Finishing School
Genre: Steampunk
Release date: February 5, 2013
Summary:
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 the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.

First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe



Releases that I reviewed as ARC's:

Deva Zan by Yoshitaka Amano

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Pantomime by Laura Lam

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She Returns From War by Lee Collins

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The Mad Scientist's Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke

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