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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Inventor's Secret about Original, York, Journal with the genre: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction.
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conversations.value: &#8220;Original and highly entertaining... the author delivers it all: intrigue , romance , dangerous adventures , imaginative machines, and perilous secrets. What more could anyone ask for? This is a delightful read.&#8221;&#8212;  The New York Journal of Books
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conversations.value: Provide the first two paragraphs for this book.. End with the sentence '"'.
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conversations.value: The Inventor's Secret
  After Charlotte was sufficiently dressed and coiffed, she and Meg descended the mansion's grand staircase to meet Ash, Grave, and Jack in the foyer. Jack still wore military dress, but had donned a fresh uniform. Ash and Grave had similarly exchanged their rumpled travel clothes for crisp, starched servants' garb.
  Jack didn't bother with formal greetings, instead saying, "We'll take the trolley to the Market Platform and board the Great Wheel there. It will be a good hour before we reach the Commons."
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conversations.value: Charlotte didn't know what she thought. She had the strangest sensation of having left her body and watching someone else's disastrous life play out before her.
  Jack took a menacing step forward, but Lord Ott placed his massive frame between the brothers. "Now, now. Let's remember where we are and how vital it is that you not cause a scene."
  Tearing his hateful gaze away from Coe, Jack looked at Charlotte. He took a step toward her, hand outstretched. His attention forced Charlotte back into the scene. And it was the last place she wanted to be.
  Lord Ott cleared his throat. "I'm painfully aware that I do not have all the facts of this matter, but Charlotte, my dear, your tears will cause as much of a scene as any brawl that should ensue between these gentlemen."
  Linnet's hair was expertly arranged atop her head, held in place by a fine net of freshwater pearls. Her gown matched the bright blue of her eyes, and a choker of pearls and sapphire embraced her throat.
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conversations.value: Pip was waiting for Charlotte in the corridor that linked the cargo bay and the bridge. Charlotte laughed when Pip handed over the POC.
  Charlotte slipped her hand into her pocket, fingers tracing the outline of Jack's letter. The storm had come, but Charlotte wouldn't cower at its force. She would keep fighting. For Ash and Meg, for Grave, for the Resistance. Charlotte silently swore a pledge to all of them, and most of all to herself—she'd keep fighting.
  IN THE MIDDLE OF AN eye exam, when my optometrist was peering at me from behind a mask of glass, gears, levers, and dials, I realized I wanted to write a steampunk series. While visits to the doctor and dentist seem to reflect advances in medical technology, the tools of an optometrist remain decidedly nineteenth century–esque. The idea of inventing a world filled with fantastic and frightening devices, machines, and weapons proved irresistible.
  The allure of steampunk lay not only in its abundance of mad scientists and quirky gadgets, but also in the opportunity to create an alternate historical narrative. While most steampunk novels are set in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries and, more often than not, in Europe, the history I wanted to reinvent was much earlier, exploring a period of American history very near and dear to my heart. Prior to becoming a full-time novelist, I was a history professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. My research specialization focused on the intersection of religion, gender, and violence in the British colonies, and I've long held an interest in the transition from colonial rule to republic in early America.
  The year is 1816, just after the Napoleonic Wars conclude in Europe, and the British Empire is on the verge of achieving dominance in the Western Hemisphere. As the novel's protagonists uncover nefarious secrets and confront the violent tyranny of the Empire, they come to grips with the very questions that remain at the heart of American identity. What is the value of liberty? At what cost must it be won?