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The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Yee-Haww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time the boys are in the desert of Nevada, discovering the beauty and perils in 100 degree heat. It should be another thrilling ride that Professor Zepplin has taken them on! (Summary by Ann...
Snarleyyow - Frederick MARRYAT
Snarleyyow - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a quite amusing nautical tale of the British Navy of the around the year 1700. While, as with much early 'humor', it is somewhat heavy-handed, the sympathies of the author are clear and good, and cruelty is often averted by good fortune or...
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods - Albert Bigelow Paine
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York...
The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery'. It revolves...
Bull Hunter - Max Brand
Bull Hunter - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Bull Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. But Pete Reeve didn't have the reputation of a dead shot because he relied on his common sense. Then Bull and...
Woman on the American Frontier - William Worthington FOWLER
Woman on the American Frontier - William Worthington FOWLER
- Author: William Worthington FOWLER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised children, and much more. This book is full of mini-biographies of women in many places, and many ages- each...
A Christmas Carol (version 05) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 05) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. But that's about to change. A visit from his deceased business partner sets in motion a night in which Scrooge...
The Highwayman - H. C. BAILEY
The Highwayman - H. C. BAILEY
- Author: H. C. BAILEY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been forgotten. It is not even listed by...
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale Of The Spanish Main - G. A. Henty
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale Of The Spanish Main - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
An exciting tale set on the high seas, in a period ruled by exploration, with the ever-present dangers of nature and the weather, together with pirates of the famed Spanish Main. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
The Wreck of the Golden Mary - Charles Dickens
The Wreck of the Golden Mary - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summary by JCarson )...
Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (Version 2) - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (Version 2) - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This book is a fictional autobiography of the title character β a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. You know the story; but do you know the...
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Crime and Punishment, Conrad being reputed to have detested...
Mystery of the Ambush in India - Andy ADAMS
Mystery of the Ambush in India - Andy ADAMS
- Author: Andy ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Another Biff Brewster adventure story set this time in exotic and mystical India with much of the action around and near the Himalayas. This story brings together all of the friends that Biff Brewster has made in his previous adventures plus a...
Find the Woman - Frank Gelett BURGESS
Find the Woman - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, into strange houses and through side streets at midnight, a shuttle in the secret loom of fate, weaving in and...
Robin Hood - J. Walker McSpadden
Robin Hood - J. Walker McSpadden
- Author: J. Walker McSpadden
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally Robin Hood and...
The Convict - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
The Convict - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top, apparently watching for something or...
The Call of the Wild (Version 3) - Jack London
The Call of the Wild (Version 3) - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the first of these is how to deal with...
The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods - Captain Quincy ALLEN
The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods - Captain Quincy ALLEN
- Author: Captain Quincy ALLEN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
βThat looks like a challenge, Frank.β βIt was well fired, at any rate, Bluff!β βI should say yes, because it knocked my hat clear off my head. Do we stand for that sort of thing, or shall we accept the dare?β βThere are half a dozen and more of the...
Poison Island - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
Poison Island - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds βa poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paintβ. Nothing can hold Harry back from...
The Secret Pact - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The Secret Pact - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 1 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The flirtations of a rich young maiden, Miss Betsy Thoughtless with several suitors, as she alienates the right man by refusing to take the issue of marriage seriously. Because of this her guardian commits her to marriage to the wrong man, a...
Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
In this third installment from the βRagged Dickβ series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse guardian. But, with new friends,...
A Yellow Journalist - Miriam Michelson
A Yellow Journalist - Miriam Michelson
- Author: Miriam Michelson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on her first big story, she spends most of her waking hours running down leads and doing (almost) anything it...
Triplanetary - E. E. Smith
Triplanetary - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
βDocβ E.E. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. Physics, time, and politics never stand in the way of a plot that gallops ahead without letup.Having earned a PhD in chemical...
Raiding with Morgan - Byron A. DUNN
Raiding with Morgan - Byron A. DUNN
- Author: Byron A. DUNN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
It is a fictional tale of cavalry actions during the U.S. Civil War, under General John Morgan. (Summary by M. Craun)...
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thingβand it is among the greatest...
The Phantom of the Opera (version 3 dramatic reading) - Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera (version 3 dramatic reading) - Gaston Leroux
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Over the years, strange things have been happening at the Paris OpΓ©ra House. The new owners, M. Moncharmin and M. Richard don't know what to do about the mysterious "Opera Ghost" demanding money, nor the tragic death of the chief scene-shifter. Now...
Free Air - Sinclair Lewis
Free Air - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as they travel by automobile from Minneapolis to Seattle. She is wooed and won by a noble but simple commoner she...
The Pirate Woman - Aylward Edward DINGLE
The Pirate Woman - Aylward Edward DINGLE
- Author: Aylward Edward DINGLE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Within his mysterious stronghold, "The Cave of Terrible Things," on the Maroon coast of Jamaica, washed by the waters of the Caribbean Sea, Red Jabez, Sultan of Pirates, had just died. Dolores, his daughter, "a splendidly lithe, glowing creature of...
The Blue Lagoon - H. De Vere Stacpoole
The Blue Lagoon - H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Author: H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpooleβs most popular work. Parents who may have seen the Hollywood film need not be anxious about the book's suitability for...
With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War - G. A. Henty
With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, maintained by Prussia--then a small and comparatively insignificant...
Little Tales of the Desert - Ethel Twycross FOSTER
Little Tales of the Desert - Ethel Twycross FOSTER
- Author: Ethel Twycross FOSTER
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Animals & Nature
A six year-old girl named Mary spends Christmas vacation with her parents in the Arizona desert of 1901 or thereabouts. ( Summary by BellonaTimes )...
Wulf the Saxon - G. A. Henty
Wulf the Saxon - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wulf, a young, but extremely capable Saxon Thane. Wulf with his friends and servitors devote their lives to the...
A Tramp Abroad - Mark Twain
A Tramp Abroad - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph...
The Golden Dream - R. M. Ballantyne
The Golden Dream - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, complete with everything from mining techniques to societal attitudes. You'll feel like you're in the...
The Island Of Doctor Moreau (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
The Island Of Doctor Moreau (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
In this classsic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel world of Doctor Moreau, who aspires to play God with animals. Summary by Bob Neufeld...
The Valley of Silent Men - James Oliver Curwood
The Valley of Silent Men - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country. James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decides to confess to a murder and thus save an innocent man. Nobody believes his confession, particularly...
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2) - Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever - he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around the world in just 80 days......
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
The first of the Fu-Manchu novels, this story follows the two characters who are set against the machinations of the insidious doctor.(Summary by FNH)...
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughsβ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands of a motherly African ape who raises him as her own. Although he is aware that he is different from the apes...