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Sharpe's Prey : Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807

Bernard Cornwell

Sword of the Rightful King

Jane Yolen

Merlinnus the magician devises a way for King Arthur to prove himself the rightful king of England--pulling a sword from a stone--but trouble arises when someone else removes the sword first.

Vagabond

Bernard Cornwell

Thomas of Hookton, an archer during the Hundred Years' War, searches for the Holy Grail in 1347.

Sharpe's Tiger

Bernard Cornwell

The first of Richard Sharpe's India trilogy, in which young private Sharpe must battle both man and beast behind enemy lines as the British army fights its way through India toward a diabolical trap.

Sharpe's Triumph

Bernard Cornwell

Sharpe barely survives a murderous act of treason by a bitter English officer, who has joined the mercenary forces, determined to drive the British from the continent.

Private Peaceful

Michael Morpurgo

When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his chi

Thursday Next in The Well of Lost Plots

Jasper Fforde

Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles, literally, in literature, escapes to a place far from her job protecting the classics--a never-published pulp fiction novel--to spend the rest of her p

Montmorency

Eleanor Updale

In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit t

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Presents the annotated text of "Alice in Wonderland," the story of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters; and includes background infor

Thursday Next in Lost in a Good Book

Jasper Fforde

Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a m

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