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Premise labels used: finishing school, spy training, assassin training, deceptive education, secret school, boarding school intrigue, girl spy

Setting labels used: alternate history, Victorian England, 19th century, 1851, steampunk world, floating school, dirigible setting, supernatural world

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Curtsies & Conspiracies

Gail Carriger · 2013 · Finishing School

A spy-in-training at an airborne finishing school uncovers a conspiracy, a kidnapping plot, and complicated new feelings.

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Premise labels: spy school · boarding school · conspiracy · stolen device · kidnapping attempt · girls' academy · evil genius school · travel invention

Setting labels: finishing school · dirigible school · airship · London · Victorian-era setting · alternate reality · paranormal world · boarding school

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Distance: 0.1489

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The Rithmatist

Brandon Sanderson · 2014 · Rithmatist

A chalk-based magic-school mystery follows a boy who can’t do the magic but knows it better than anyone.

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Premise labels: magic school · forbidden knowledge · underdog investigator · missing students · chosen elite · school mystery

Setting labels: alternate history · gearpunk · magical academy · school setting · American Isles · wartime setting

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Distance: 0.2008

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The Iron Wyrm Affair

Lilith Saintcrow · 2012 · Bannon & Clare

A sorceress and a logic-driven outsider team up to stop a murderous conspiracy threatening an alternate Victorian empire.

Why this is here

Premise labels: protective escort · murder investigation · conspiracy · court intrigue · bodyguard mission · uneasy partnership · save the empire · hunt the killer · logic vs magic

Setting labels: alternate London · Victorian England · early Victorian · industrial revolution · British Empire · alternate Britain · magic-infused world · steampunk world · alternate history · urban setting · rural travel

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Distance: 0.2166

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Cogheart

Peter Bunzl · 2016 · The Cogheart Adventures

A girl, a clockmaker's son, and a mechanical fox race through steampunk Victorian London to uncover a dangerous secret.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing parent · secret invention · mechanical companion · quest for answers · child in peril · pursuit by villains · protective friendship

Setting labels: Victorian London · alternate Victorian England · late 19th century · steampunk world · airships · clockwork world · urban adventure · industrial-era fantasy

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Distance: 0.2220

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Stealing Infinity

Alyson Noel · 2022 · Stolen Beauty

A troubled teen is sent to a secret island academy where time travel, stolen artifacts, and hidden agendas collide.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · boarding school · secret academy · artifact theft · mysterious power · elite recruitment · remote island school · hidden agenda

Setting labels: remote island · off-the-grid school · boarding school · secret society · luxury setting · modern setting · historical past · time travel world

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Distance: 0.2230

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Grey Sister

Mark Lawrence · 2018 · Book of the Ancestor

A deadly novice must choose her path while enemies, politics, and buried truths close in on Sweet Mercy.

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Premise labels: training school · assassin order · mystic powers · coming of age · revenge · political intrigue · religious power struggle · ending world

Setting labels: convent setting · school setting · monastery · imperial politics · icy world · dying planet · corridor civilization · fantasy world · religious institution

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Distance: 0.2261

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Mirror Gate

Jeff Wheeler · 2018 · Harbinger

Four years later, two young women face imperial succession, dangerous magic training, and a spreading war across worlds.

Why this is here

Premise labels: royal succession · political intrigue · magic school · coming of age · class divide · war brink · plague threat · intertwined destinies · hidden powers · dual protagonist

Setting labels: magic academy · royal court · kingdom · imperial politics · floating estates · world below · other world · interconnected worlds · steampunk world · Victorian-inspired · Abbey setting · war-torn realm

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Distance: 0.2277

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Ruling Destiny

Alyson Noel · 2023 · Stolen Beauty

At a secretive time-travel academy, Natasha races through history for artifacts while deciding whom to trust—and who may be lying.

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Premise labels: time travel · school mystery · artifact quest · secretive academy · trust nobody · love triangle · time heist · puzzle hunt · history mission · hidden ability · magical school · identity mystery

Setting labels: boarding school · academy setting · secret school · historical eras · Renaissance Italy · Regency England · Regency era · Italian Renaissance · urban fantasy world · time travel world · dark academia · off-grid school

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Tainted

Morgan L. Busse · 2016 · Soul Chronicles

A young woman with a soul-draining power and a wounded bounty hunter race to find a cure in a steampunk world.

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Premise labels: mysterious powers · soul decay · cure quest · fugitive heroine · bounty hunter ally · science versus magic · women in science · forbidden ability · run-and-search quest

Setting labels: alternate world · fictional city · World City · Victorian-style · steampunk world · parallel world · academy setting · science school · airships · mechanical birds · clockwork · factories · dark laboratories

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暗殺教室 15 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 15]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征 · 2015 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

A school assassination mission explodes into major secrets, backstories, and a shocking identity reveal.

Why this is here

Premise labels: assassination classroom · teacher-student conflict · school assassination mission · world-threatening teacher · secret identity reveal · revenge plot · backstory reveal

Setting labels: junior high school · alternative school · classroom setting · school play · extraterrestrial beings · science-fantasy world

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Distance: 0.2332

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Wander Dust

Michelle Warren · 2011 · The Seraphina Parrish Trilogy

A teen discovers she can time travel and is drawn into a secret society, a strange school, and a risky love choice.

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Premise labels: time travel · secret society · boarding school · special abilities · team dynamics · mystery identity · search for mother · forbidden romance · coming of age

Setting labels: modern day world · Chicago · boarding school · secret society · hidden magical world · real world plus fantasy layer · past and future time travel · special school

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Distance: 0.2333

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Cold Magic

Kate Elliott · 2010 · Spiritwalker

In an ice-age alternate Europe, a student is forced into a magical marriage and pulled into secrets that could upend her world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate history · industrial revolution · science vs magic · forced marriage · family secret · coming of age · political intrigue · magical inheritance · escape narrative · fugitive heroine

Setting labels: alternate Europe · early 19th century · Victorian-era feel · ice age world · industrializing society · parallel spirit world · mage houses · college setting · frozen countryside · alternate Earth

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Distance: 0.2370

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