The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars

7 best books like The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Nadezhda Durova): The Crucible, Master and Commander, The Wild Swans, Eyes of the Emperor, Fallen Angels, The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird, Leaving Protection

The Crucible

Author	Arthur Miller
ISBN	0142437336

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events,...

Master and Commander

Author	Patrick O'Brian
ISBN	0393307050

As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency...

The Wild Swans

Author	Hans Christian Andersen
ISBN	1841481181

In this beautifully illustrated edition of the classic Hans Andersen fairy tale, The Wild Swans, translator Naomi Lewis tells the beautiful and soulful story of a young girl and her journey to find her lost brothers. Upon discovering that they have been transformed into swans, she sets off on a difficult...

Eyes of the Emperor

Author	Graham Salisbury
ISBN	0440229561

Eddy Okana lies about his age and joins the Army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers.

Then the Army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American...

Fallen Angels

Author	Walter Dean Myers
ISBN	0590409433

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.

A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, this is the story of Perry,...

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

Author	Bruce Barcott
ISBN	1400062934

First read in June 2008. Reread in December 2016. I liked the book just as well the second time, I'm happy to say. Below is my original review written in 2008. Since that time I have, in fact, visited Belize, though we stayed on a caye and never visited the zoo or saw most of the places mentioned in the book.

I'm...

Leaving Protection

Author	Will Hobbs
ISBN	0380733129

Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie is living his dream -- until he discovers his mysterious captain's...