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Last Enemy - H. Beam Piper
Last Enemy - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and itβs up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassination is an honorable profession, and...
The Purple Cloud - Matthew Phipps SHIEL
The Purple Cloud - Matthew Phipps SHIEL
- Author: Matthew Phipps SHIEL
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator's (Adam Jeffson's) expedition to the North Pole during the 20th century on board the Boreal. Jeffson's fiancΓ©e, the Countess Clodagh, poisons...
Robbery Under Arms - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
Robbery Under Arms - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Author: Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight.To quote the author "though presented in the guise of fiction, this chronicle of the Marston family must not be set down by the reader as...
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney's exploits in...
The Dude Wrangler - Caroline LOCKHART
The Dude Wrangler - Caroline LOCKHART
- Author: Caroline LOCKHART
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and impress her in this genial romantic comedy. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him "Scaramouche" (also called...
I Will Repay - Baroness Orczy
I Will Repay - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
This is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel.(Summary by Wikipedia)...
The Scouts of Stonewall - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Scouts of Stonewall - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
In this third book of Joseph Altsheler's Civil War series, Harry Kenton, a lieutenant in the Southern Army, is on scout patrol in the Shenandoah Valley. He has attracted the notice of the great General Stonewall Jackson after his regiment, the...
Caleb Williams or Things As They Are - William GODWIN
Caleb Williams or Things As They Are - William GODWIN
- Author: William GODWIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary. Caleb accidentally discovers a...
The Gadfly - Ethel Lilian VOYNICH
The Gadfly - Ethel Lilian VOYNICH
- Author: Ethel Lilian VOYNICH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
An adventure thriller set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of revolt and uprisings. The story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism centres on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, member of the Youth...
Rangy Pete - Guy MORTON
Rangy Pete - Guy MORTON
- Author: Guy MORTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of the Azure Hills). In this one, the Gary Cooper-esque title character, Rangy Pete, goes up against the...
Ayesha, the Return of She - H. Rider Haggard
Ayesha, the Return of She - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Ayesha, the return of She, is set 16 years after the previous novel She. Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have spent the years travelling the world looking for Ayesha, along the way they experience many adventures, including avalanches, glaciers and even...
Mr. Standfast - John Buchan
Mr. Standfast - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
This is the third of Buchan's Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle. Set, like Greenmantle, durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall from the Western Front, to engage in espionage, and forced...
Robin Hood - Paul CRESWICK
Robin Hood - Paul CRESWICK
- Author: Paul CRESWICK
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
"Well, Robin, on what folly do you employ yourself? Do you cut sticks for our fire o' mornings?" Thus spoke Master Hugh Fitzooth, King's Ranger of the Forest at Locksley, as he entered his house. Robin flushed a little. "These are arrows, sir," he...
A Princess of Mars (Version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (Version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Romance
John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a prisoner of four-armed green men, his Civil War experience and Earth-trained musculature give him superior...
Dog-Watches At Sea - Stanton Henry KING
Dog-Watches At Sea - Stanton Henry KING
- Author: Stanton Henry KING
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors' Haven, Boston, Massachusetts and...
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Tom Swift & friends decide to trial an experimental airship near the New Jersey coast, and are unexpectedly swept out to sea by hurricane winds. Unable to steer or navigate without tearing the airship apart, the hapless crew must simply let the...
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2) - Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2) - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republic when the guillotine begins to be repeatedly cheated of aristocratic victims due to a series of daring...
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic. Faced with a huge search task to find the probe on the...
The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
"Everything in life has a price. May be, telling a Secret has the highest. However, not telling may be worse. What will Sarah choose? will she tell the Secret which destroyed her life?" (Summary by Stav Nisser)...
Fern's Hollow - Hesba Stretton
Fern's Hollow - Hesba Stretton
- Author: Hesba Stretton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Family Life / Action & Adventure
Ferns Hollow is the sad, but sweet story of a young boy who tragically loses his parents and has to care for his two sisters and crazed grandfather. He finds himself in many difficult situations which test his faith and courage. This book is about...
Allan's Wife - H. Rider Haggard
Allan's Wife - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The story of Allan Quatermain's wife and further adventures of Allan Quatermain. (Summary by Elaine Tweddle)...
Around The Campfire - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Around The Campfire - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Short Stories
Action and adventure short stories of men and animals in the wild. - Summary by David Wales...
The Star of Gettysburg - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Star of Gettysburg - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and a young Harry Kenton, is an eyewitness to the Confederate invasion of the north,...
Weapons of Mystery - Joseph HOCKING
Weapons of Mystery - Joseph HOCKING
- Author: Joseph HOCKING
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire. Having no other plans, he decides to go. Though he is normally much the opposite of what would be called a...
The Grey Man - S. R. CROCKETT
The Grey Man - S. R. CROCKETT
- Author: S. R. CROCKETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This novel is set in Scotland in turbulent times, and we are immediately introduced to intrigue and family strife. At Launcelot Kennedy's aunt's husband's funeral, he and his father are first hidden, then hustled away secretly for fear of being...
The Last Three Soldiers - William Henry SHELTON
The Last Three Soldiers - William Henry SHELTON
- Author: William Henry SHELTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? Itβs July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in Tennessee to be a link in a chain of flag signalers across a ridge of mountains. They encounter a dizzying...
The Three Musketeers, Version 2 - Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers, Version 2 - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
DβArtagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enable him to obtain a position in a Guard regiment. His provincial ingenuousness and his hot-headed sense of honor earn him three duels in as...
My Strange Rescue - James Macdonald OXLEY
My Strange Rescue - James Macdonald OXLEY
- Author: James Macdonald OXLEY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
An anthology of short stories, anecdotes and observations of sport and adventure in Canada. Tobogganing, snowshoeing , ice skating and hockey all feature, along with other cold-weather pursuits....
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) - Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) - Alessandro Manzoni
- Author: Alessandro Manzoni
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo, two young persons of humble origin that are deeply in love with one another. However, despite their great...
An Outcast Of The Islands - Joseph Conrad
An Outcast Of The Islands - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vigar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a...
The Oakdale Affair - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Oakdale Affair - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Edgar Rice Burroughsβ Jack London / H.H. Knibbs-inspired, selfless, poetry-spouting, hobo character, Bridge, makes another appearance in the novellete, The Oakdale Affair (original title, Bridge and the Oskalooska Kid). Joining the poetic hobo in...
Tom Swift and His War Tank - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His War Tank - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Tom Swift, that prolific youthful inventor, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British tanks, Tom takes a sheet of paper and sets out to design a better one from scratch. And fortunately, he can...
Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales - Charles B. CORY
Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales - Charles B. CORY
- Author: Charles B. CORY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Science Fiction
This is a collection of weird tales inspired from the natural history expeditions of the author, an independently wealthy bird collector, Olympic golfer, writer of many books on birds of the world, and, as evidenced in these pages, a fine...
Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. βIt was a bad winter off the Cape that year.β From Wikepedia: βThe novel is seen as an allegory about isolation and solidarity, the...
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
In this novel (often mistakenly classified a childrenβs book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a trainer of sled dogs in Alaska. He adapts to the brutal conditions and is finally acquired by a loving man....
The Vanished Messenger - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Vanished Messenger - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. Mr. John P. Dunster, an American, is traveling to the Hague with an important document that may prevent the...
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall - Herbert George Jenkins
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional methods bewilder and embarrass the officials at Whitehall, where, according to him, most of the jobs are held by...
The Lost World (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not seen elsewhere on Earth, except in the fossil record, inhabit the place. The lakes heave with the shapes of...
Short Science Fiction Collection 055 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 055 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the authorβs creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
