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By Walter Scott, David Hewitt, G. A. M Wood. 1997
In 1765, Darsie Latimer sets out to discover his parentage in a journey to the wilds of Dumfriesshire. He is…
kidnapped by Edward Hugh Redgauntlet, and involved in a last, fictional attempt to restore the Stuarts to the throne. 1997, c1824.By Alexander Kent. 2006
Off the coast of Africa, 1815. Captain Adam Bolitho still mourns the death of his uncle, Richard, but heeds the…
call to duty. The British admiralty sends him into southern waters to halt slave running. Sequel to "Second to none". 2006. (Adam Bolitho ; 2)By Alwyn Hamilton. 2015
Sixteen-year-old sharpshooter Amani Al'Hiza never doubted she'd escape the miserable one-horse desert town where she was born. But she never…
figured she'd wind up running for her life - with a boy wanted for treason. When Amani enters a shooting contest against Jin, a rakish foreigner, she has no idea of his connection to the ongoing war between the ruthless Sultan of Miraji and his exiled son, the Rebel Prince. But soon the pair are fleeing across a desert crawling with vicious bandits, terrifying ghuls, and powerful djinni, and the Sultan's army is getting closer every day. When Amani and Jin stumble across the ruins of a town destroyed by an unearthly fire, it's clear the war's stakes are higher than either of them realized. The Rebel Prince has a secret weapon, and now he wants Amani to join his revolution. All Amani ever wanted was to escape the desert and find adventure - but will the desert let her go? For junior and senior high readers. 2015.By Nina Bawden. 1978
A brother and sister visiting a country ruled by a dictator become involved in a startling conspiracy and begin to…
suspect that their stepfather is a spy. For junior and senior high readers. 1978.By Robin Cook, Michel Ganstel. 2003
Au large des Açores, un mystérieux signal venu des profondeurs de l'Atlantique amène une équipe de plongeurs et d'océanographes à…
découvrir un phénomène que les scientifiques ne parviennent pas à expliquer. Et qui pourrait bien changer tout ce que nous croyons savoir de la vie sur la Terre. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, quelques descriptions de violence et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2005, c2000. Titre uniforme: Abduction.By Paul Zindel. 1998
Zack and Uta retrieve a large egg from a dig site in Utah that promptly hatches into a baby dinosaur;…
a raptor, at Zack's house. When the mother raptor breaks in searching for her baby, the nightmarish complications begin. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. c1998.By Pamela Johnson, Evelyn Sibley Lampman. 1974
Eleven-year-old Jamie, bookish and overprotected, becomes so engrossed in an old Indian's mystical beliefs that he risks his own safety…
to return an ancient Cheyenne medicine bag to its rightful burial place. Grades 4-7. 1974.By Robert T Bakker. 1995
On a plain in prehistoric Utah, 120 million years ago, the dinosaur named Raptor Red must strike out on her…
own when her mate is killed while stalking prey. It is the start of a year-long odyssey of survival as she searches for a new mate. The author is a leading paleontologist. Descriptions of violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1995.By Dudley Pope. 2010
This volume takes the brave Lord Ramage to the new world where he becomes embroiled in a series of electrifying…
sea battles and hazardous political shenanigans. Sequel to "Ramage"; followed by "Ramage and the Freebooters". 2010.By Enrique Flores-Galbis. 2007
The artistic Ernestina and the analytical Enriquito use their ingenuity to save a herd of wild horses, and stop an…
evil landowner from spoiling their Cuban village. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Grades 4-7. 2007.By Dudley Pope. 1988
1806. Aboard Calypso in the Mediterranean, Captain Ramage receives orders to track down and destroy Barbary Coast pirates, called Saracens,…
who are kidnapping slaves and terrorizing Sicilian fishing villages. Ramage also attempts to rescue hundreds of the Saracens’ Italian prisoners. Sequel to “Ramage at Trafalgar”. Followed by “Ramage & the Dido”. Descriptions of violence. 2002, c1988. (Lord Ramage novels ; 17)By Tom Clancy. 1998
Newly named head of an international task force dedicated to combatting terrorism, John Clark is looking forward to getting his…
teeth into a new mission, and the opportunities start coming in thick and fast. Clark and his associates try to figure out where all this activity is heading, but can't predict the real threat: a group of terrorists so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth. 1998.By Dudley Pope. 1974
Lieutenant Lord Ramage of the Royal Navy, aristocrat, adventurer, and romantic lover, confronts a secret plot that threatens to destroy…
the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars. Sequel to "Governor Ramage, R.N.", followed by "Ramage and the guillotine". 1975, c1974. (Lord Ramage novels ; 5)By Dudley Pope. 1985
The future looks bleak and loveless for Captain Nicholas Ramage R.N., with his new and beautiful wife missing at sea…
and possibly dead. This does not concern the Admiralty, as they give him sealed orders "To be opened off Gibraltar". The war against the French must go on and his assignment is to effect the rescue of a number of British admirals, generals and aristocrats who are being held by Bonaparte as hostages. Sequel to "Ramage's trial", followed by "Ramage at Trafalgar". 1985.By Dudley Pope. 1996
With the Treaty of Amiens signed, and the Calypso about to be paid off, Ramage and his new bride can…
at last honeymoon in France as guests of the Count of Rennes. But Napoleon - his armies restocked - has all foreigners and French royalists arrested and sent to Devil's Island, the French prison colony. Ramage escapes capture, but the danger is enormous as Ramage collects useful information for the Admiralty and plans a daring rescue. Sequel to "Ramage & the renegades", followed by "Ramage's trial". 1996.By Dudley Pope. 1996
Lieutenant Lord Ramage is summoned to the Admiralty, where the First Lord gives him command of the brig Triton and…
three sealed despatches addressed to the admirals off Brest and Cadiz and in the Caribbean. Sequel to "Ramage & the drumbeat", followed by "Governor Ramage R.N.". 1996.By Dudley Pope. 1996
Two days out from Jamaica on a routine patrol against privateers, Captain Ramage and his ship Calypso come upon a…
sight that horrifies even his battle-hardened crew. Sequel to "Ramage's mutiny", followed by "Ramage touch". 1996.By Dudley Pope. 1996
Lord Ramage, the navy's youngest and most junior captain, is ordered to set sail for Diamond Rock, off the West…
Indian island of Martinique. It is a routine mission - to blockade the French in Fort Royal - but the Juno, his new command, is not a routine naval vessel. Sequel to "Ramage & the guillotine", followed by "Ramage's mutiny". 1996.By Emily Diamand. 2010
In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and…
thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom. Grades 5-8. 2010.By Dorothy Perkyns. 1988
Rachel and her guardians, loyal to King George of England, are forced to flee to Halifax during the American War…
of Independence. With her friend, Joshua Wakefield, Rachel tracks the actions of a menacing stranger. For junior and senior high readers. c1988.