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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Artemesia finally escapes the prim and proper world of finishing schools and sets out to win her mother's title as pirate queen of the seas until she meets her match against Goldie Girl, the treacherous captain of the pirate ship "Enemy."
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Description
Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent.
It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. When Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to captain, he inherits command of HMS Sophie, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune.
...Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Artemesia, having escaped the hangman's noose and married her true love, finds life ashore a bit boring after her adventures as a pirate queen, and does not hesitate when the government of England, at war with France and Spain, offers her a ship in exchange for her service in harassing the enemy.
9) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The story of a romance writer who, through hypnosis, is taken back to Edwardian England, where she meets the man who was her destiny.
11) The forest house
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
On the Isle of Avalon the Druidic priestess Eilan must guard the ancient rites against the approach of the Roman Empire.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Barbara Alderley, a beautiful young noblewoman married to a man nearly thirty years her senior, becomes caught up in the glittering, cynical society of casual adulteries and violent politics in early eighteenth-century France and England.
14) Legacy of love
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Wild and beautiful Charlotte challenges the social mores of Victorian London by marrying a soldier bound for Kabul and losing her heart to another, and sets a pattern for her granddaughter Alexandra and later her great-granddaughter Cara to follow as they struggle to find their own places in the world.
15) Here be dragons
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Maps on lining papers. A thirteenth-century Welsh prince called Llewelyn the Great tries to wrest his country from England. Standing in his way is King John who marries his daughter to Llewelyn in hopes of taming the rebellious prince.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Susan Rose, a Victorian woman with a big heart and equally large bosom, secures a job as a professional wet nurse and makes it her business to learn all the secrets and scandals of the high-class people for whom she works, and when her own child is threatened, she does not hesitate to use what she knows to rescue her baby.
18) Bloodline
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, discovers that his mother is alive and he, himself, is a prince of the northern kingdom, but he has loyalties and loved ones in the south to whom he is compelled to return.
Author
Publisher
Sleuth/Philomel
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London.
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