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The strange affair of Adelaide Harris

2001
An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.

The visitor

2003
Alexander Tate, temporarily blinded in a riding accident, retires to Collingbourne to rest and finds himself falling in love with Cassandra Steele, the unseen young woman who has volunteered to read to him during his convalescence, but their budding relationship is threatened when Cassandra, fearing Tate will find her looks lacking, begins to pull away.

Prince Albert

a biography
1984
Examines the life of the husband of Queen Victoria, his influence in British imperial and foreign policy and his accomplishments and activities.

Coram boy

2005
In the mid-eighteenth century, an unsavory character and his simpleton son become involved in the lives of a wealthy English family when that family's eldest son is disinherited because of his love of music.

Sharpe's tiger

1999
When he goes undercover in India to overthrow the Tippoo of Mysore, Richard Sharpe is forced to take up arms against his true comrades to protect his false identity.

King George III

England's struggle to keep America
Examines the reign of King George III of Britain and the actions he took as king between 1760 and 1820 in fighting both the American colonies and the French in their own revolution--followed by the Napoleonic Wars.
Cover image of King George III

A history of Britain

2001
Chronicles Britain's war history from 1603 to 1776, describing the political turmoil and carnage, as well as the intellectual genius, that shaped the British Empire during these centuries.

The Time Quake

2009
While sinister Lord Luxon makes himself at home in twenty-first century Manhattan, Peter and Kate, aided by Gideon, pursue The Tar Man through the streets of eighteenth-century London, when history is at its tipping point.

Renegade magic

book 2 of the Kat Incorrigible series
2011
Twelve-year-old Kat tries to use her untrained magical powers to prevent use of the wild magic of Sulis Minerva found in Bath, England, where Stepmama has brought the family in hopes of finding Kat's sister a proper match.

Thunder from the sea

adventure on board the HMS Defender
2010
In 1805, twelve-year-old Jack Hoyton joins the Royal Navy and is posted aboard the HMS Defender, which is on blockade duty keeping Napoleon Bonaparte's ships from invading Great Britain. When the ship's crew is betrayed by a spy, it is up to Jack to rescue some of his crewmates and warn the Defender before it sails into a deadly trap.

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