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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Carrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, and starts to write about the Jacobite invasion of 1708. When she can no longer tell the difference between today and centuries ago, is she dealing with an ancestral memory-- a memory that might destroy her?
2) Outlander
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon - when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach - an "outlander" - in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues...
Author
Publisher
Hurst & Co
Pub. Date
1871?
Language
English
Description
Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Waverley was first published anonymously in 1814 and was Scott's first novel.
Author
Series
Jacobite chronicles volume 2
Publisher
[Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Ashleigh, much-loved eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Darlington knows exactly what she wants from life. Just one simple thing; the freedom to be herself.But for a young woman living in the seventeenth century, freedom is not such an easy thing to achieve. When her family’s future wealth and happiness are threatened she wrestles with the realisation that duty will have to be put before her precious dreams.She finds herself forced...
Author
Series
Jacobite chronicles volume 1
Publisher
[Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The first book in a gripping new series focusing on the early lives of some of the pivotal characters whose stories are later woven together in the award-winning Jacobite Chronicles. This is a companion series and can be read independently of the Chronicles.
The year is 1731 and in a small village in Cheshire, England, the Reverend Browne has determined the future of his young daughter Sarah. Her life will be dedicated to caring for him and his...
Author
Series
Jacobite chronicles volume 4
Publisher
[Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"1719, the Highlands of Scotland
The Jacobite rising has failed. The Stuart king remains in exile in Italy, leaving Clan Gregor’s dreams of restoring their name and lands unattainable.
In despair Alexander, chieftain of the Loch Lomond MacGregors, hopes that his young but gifted son Alex will one day restore the clan’s fortunes.
Yearning to please the father he loves, Alex embarks on a gruelling education which at times seems senseless to him....
Author
Series
Stuart quartet volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1746, a year after the Scottish clans have rallied to the call of their exiled prince, Charles Stuart, to take up arms against England's tyranny, fourteen-year-old, epileptic Duncan MacDonald and his cousin, Ewan, run away to join the fight at Culloden and discover the harsh reality of war.
Author
Series
Jacobite chronicles volume 3
Publisher
[Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Now in her late forties, Harriet is so staggeringly rich and powerful that she fears no one. Along with her sister, she settles down to enjoy her freedom and to live the eccentric life she has always desired, estranged from her disapproving family. An unexpected visit from a family member brings the neglected, timid Philippa into her life and Harriet makes an impulsive decision which turns both her world and Philippa's upside down. Meanwhile Caroline,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. It continues to be obscured by fiction and myth, as personified by the heroic, gallant but doomed 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' pitted against the heartless victor, 'Butcher' Cumberland. In the years 1745-46 nothing was certain. While utilising past and recent scholarship, this account draws extensively on a wealth of contemporary sources, revealing the thoughts and feelings of the most...
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones; about a love that transcends the boundaries of time; and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century...
Author
Series
Great escapes) volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
London, 1716. Lord William Nithsdale has been found guilty of treason after fighting alongside the other rebels against the British crown. For his crime, he is sent to the infamous Tower of London, where he awaits his punishment: the executioner's blade. Upon learning of the Lord's death sentence, his wife, Lady Winifred Maxwell, sets out to free him from the "Bloody Tower." She plots and plans to pull off a daring and dangerous breakout. If her idea...
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