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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Prince in the heather The Prince in the heather Eric Linklater Eric Linklater reconstructs Bonnie Prince Charlie’s flight from Culloden Moor very detailed and vividly, mentioning every single step he took away from this bloody battlefield, in his book The Prince… OL1201288W
Bonnie Prince Charlie Bonnie Prince Charlie Carolly Erickson Bonnie Prince Charlie is celebrated in Scotland as the Young Pretender, Charles Stuart, the hero whose claim to the British throne divided the kingdom and shook the opulent monarchies of continental … OL15134627W
Hadder MacColl Hadder MacColl Patricia Calvert Fiercely proud and loyal to her Highland heritage, fifteen-year-old Hadder can't understand why her beloved older brother, after his return from schooling in Edinburgh, no longer seems to share her p… OL152283W
Mine is the Night Mine is the Night Liz Curtis Higgs The emotional and spiritual journey that began with Here Burns My Candle soars to a triumphant finish in Mine Is the Night, a dramatic and decidedly Scottish retelling of the biblical love story of B… OL15688566W
Outlander Outlander Diana Gabaldon 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 … OL16171961W
Over the sea to Skye Over the sea to Skye Hutchinson, Robert Pursued by a thousand baying redcoats, Prince Charley, a dashing Scottish deerhound, accepts the assistance of a Skye terrier named Flora MacDonald in his flight from the Scottish Highlands in 1746. OL1959947W
For the good of the cause For the good of the cause Seán Damer "Young Flora MacDonald is no Jacobite rebel. Nor is she an admirer of the Jacobites' fugitive leader, Bonnie Prince Charlie, despite her father's involvement in the cause. When the dishevelled prince… OL20983004W
A woman nobly planned A woman nobly planned John J. Toffey Flora MacDonald's 10-day adventure with Bonnie Prince Charlie in June 1746 brought her instant fame and a year of captivity. While in London, she became a darling of society, sitting for portraitists… OL2653633W
Mine is the night Mine is the night Liz Curtis Higgs After losing everything for their support of the failed Jacobite Rebellion, Marjory Kerr and her daughter-in-law Elisabeth start a new life with a cousin in Selkirk, only to have their lives turned u… OL28769406W
Prince Charlie's year Prince Charlie's year James D. Forman In 1745 fourteen-year-old Colin joins his father to fight with Bonnie Prince Charlie in his attempt at the throne. OL4274059W
Charlie is my Darling Charlie is my Darling Mollie Hardwick As Englishman battles Englishman in the bloody Jacobite rebellion of 1745, and Bonnie Prince Charlie struggles to regain his throne, a beautiful young woman, wife of one of his loyal supporters, succ… OL4366758W
Guns of the Lion Guns of the Lion Douglas Bond In 1747, while canoeing with his Algonquin friend from Connecticut to attend college in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Ian reads the letters of his Scottish cousin Gavin Crookshank and learns how he, tho… OL5731189W
The flight of the heron The flight of the heron D. K. Broster A young Highlander leaves his home and his bride-to-be to follow the standard of Bonnie Prince Charlie. OL6620330W
Midnight honor Midnight honor Marsha Canham Weeping from the wild splendor of the moors to the battlefields of a land divided, Marsha Canham weaves an unforgettable novel of Jacobite Scotland -- of a man bound by honor -- and of the woman fate… OL999956W