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| Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the Army in 1943. |
| The second of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of Harry Flashman, the bully of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS who went on to become a soldier, an inadvertent hero, and an empire-builder. Here Flashman, as an officer in the Horse Guards,... |
 | Mann has described this novel as "a court story that provides the frame for a psychology of the formal-representative life and for moral questions such as the reconciliation of an aristocratic, melancholic consciousness with the demands of the... |
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| An unlikely friendship springs up between a prune, a muskrat, and a magpie. |
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| Augustus, prince of the embattled European canton of Jura, takes a royal British bride in order to strengthen his relationship with England. Naive but intelligent young Charity makes a good wife, and she and Augustus fight to save Jura from... |
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