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Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device

Name: Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device
Rating: 3.63 (146 reviews)
Author: Tee Morris

Tee Morris

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From the imagination behind the award-winning Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series comes a steampunk novella to a legend from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

Aladdin is a street-wise thief that finds himself under the tutelage of a world-renown illusionist. He is escorted deep into the deserts in search of a treasure beyond his wildest dreams, and discovers instead something far more valuable—a destiny.

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