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The City who Fought - It's about a space station/city which gets invaded by space pirates. The stationers, with the help of a shellperson (brain hooked up to computers) who's personal hobby is wargames, delay the pirates until the space fleet arrives.
Lady Knight - The kingdom of Tortall is at war with the neighbours, which are using decidely dirty (necromancy) tricks to try to win. Keladry of Mindelan is the first female knight (second, but the first one to go through training without disguising herself as a boy) in centuries. She gets put in charge of a refugee camp near the border, the camp gets ransacked, and she ignores orders to go and get her people back and stop the dirty tricks of the neighbours at the same time.
Hornblower - Hornblower joins the Royal Navy around the time of the Battle of Trafalger (some time before, but that gives you an idea of the time period). These books pretty much chronicles his rise up through the ranks from Midshipman to Admiral.
Foundation - The Galatic Empire looks solid, but it isn't. A group of people, led by a deranged (in the public opinion - actually brilliant at probability math) mathematican build two foundations at either end of the galaxy to try and speed up the recovery of the empire when it collapses.
Ramage at Trafalger - like Hornblower, but different style. Personally, I find Ramage easier to read and more amusing (Hornblower doesn't try to use a cutter's mast to knock off a ship of the line's bowsprit!)
The Animals of Farthing Wood - Farthing Wood is being destroyed by developers. The animals who live there band together to journey from their wood to the White Deer Park nature reserve. (one that's always interested me, considering that there's a Farthing Hill and a nature reserve near where I live. The nature reserve is not called White Deer Park, and the hill and reserve don't have a motorway inbetween, but still I did wonder about it (when I was about 6).

There you go. I'm not good at writing descriptions about books, but hopefully you get the idea about each one.