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The Border Riflemen - Albert W. Aiken
The Border Riflemen - Albert W. Aiken
- Author: Albert W. Aiken
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
In this dime novel set on the American frontier, we meet a beautiful young girl, Sadie, who is fending off advances from the rough woodsman, known as Black Will. Luckily, Cooney Joe comes to her rescue while her father is out hunting. Life is hard...
Kangaroo - D. H. Lawrence
Kangaroo - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
"Kangaroo" is the nickname of a character in this novel, Benjamin Cooley, who was a charismatic leader in the fascist movement of ex-soldiers who fought in the Australian army in WWII. The story's main character is an international journalist,...
Cripps the Carrier - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cripps the Carrier - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Esther Cripps, the younger sister of the Carrier, Zacchary Cripps, witnesses the disposal of what appears to be the body of the only daughter, Grace, of Squire Oglander of Oxford. Grace's suitor, Russell Overshute, is not convinced with the...
Away in the Wilderness - R. M. Ballantyne
Away in the Wilderness - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Jasper Derry was on a mission. He had left the northern wilderness a few years earlier when he had worked for the Hudson's Bay Company, but in doing so he had also left some unfinished business behind. Now he is on his quest to complete those...
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion - Clayton Knight
We Were There at the Normandy Invasion - Clayton Knight
- Author: Clayton Knight
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
D-Day: 6 June 1944. The date of the invasion of the Normandy Coast of France by the Allies. This novel gives a different look at that invasion than most of us have ever seen. It tells of a young French boy, André Gagnon, and his exciting adventures...
Pimpernel and Rosemary - Baroness Orczy
Pimpernel and Rosemary - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to Hungary and much intrigue involving his good friend, Rosemary, Nazis, and spies ensue. - Summary by Holly...
The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
- Author: D. K. Broster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Ewen Cameron, a young and handsome Highland laird devoted to the Jacobite cause, takes the English army captain Keith Windham prisoner on the eve of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and learns that there is a prophecy that will bring them together...
Black'erchief Dick - Margery Allingham
Black'erchief Dick - Margery Allingham
- Author: Margery Allingham
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is noted mystery writer, Margery Allingham's first novel, written when she was just 18. It a swashbuckling novel of romance and adventure on a British island in the 17th Century - Summary by mleigh...
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summarily convicted in a drum-head court martial, and hanged. Billy Budd is the final published work by Herman...
Swamp Cat - Jim Kjelgaard
Swamp Cat - Jim Kjelgaard
- Author: Jim Kjelgaard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Animals & Nature
This adventure in the great outdoors follows the cat Frosty and a young man named Andy as they make a life for themselves in a swamp. They work together to fend off dangers and unwanted poachers in yet another charming story by Jim Kjelgaard. -...
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This 3rd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins a decade after the close of "The Mesmerist’s Victim” and is based on a real scandal in Louis XVI’s court, commonly called “The Diamond Necklace Affair.” In this volume, the plotting of a...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Version 6 dramatic reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Version 6 dramatic reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
A collection of short Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dedicated to Beth Thomas. Summary by kathrinee. Cast List: Cast Sherlock Holmes: Peter Yearsley Dr. John Watson: johnnyenglish, and Tomas Peter Various other roles read by:...
The Airship Boys in the Great War - De Lysle Ferrée Cass
The Airship Boys in the Great War - De Lysle Ferrée Cass
- Author: De Lysle Ferrée Cass
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Little did Alan, Ned and Buck suspect what they were getting themselves in for when they approached the editor of The Herald with their plan to re-employ the Ocean Flyer, flying it back across the Atlantic Ocean to rescue their friend and the...
South Sea Tales - Jack London
South Sea Tales - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Single Author Collections
The eight short stories that comprise South Sea Tales are powerful tales that vividly evoke the early 1900’s colonial South Pacific islands. Tales of hurricanes, missionaries, brotherhood and seafaring are intertwined with enslavement, savagery, and...
Marooned in the Forest: The Story of a Primitive Fight for Life - Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Marooned in the Forest: The Story of a Primitive Fight for Life - Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
- Author: Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Lost in the depths of the forest without food, fire, weapons, or compass, what is a young man to do? This "modern-day" Robinson Crusoe has to dig deep and develop skills he didn't know he had....
Cedric the Forester - Bernard Gay Marshall
Cedric the Forester - Bernard Gay Marshall
- Author: Bernard Gay Marshall
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
A rollicking juvenile adventure tale, this historical fiction book received the Newbery Honor award in 1922. Set in England during the early 1200s, the scion of a Western Marches noble family relates the many encounters and battles that he faces...
Harrigan - Max Brand
Harrigan - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A gripping nautical tale set in Hawaii and upon the open sea. What starts out as a chance meeting between two men turns into a heated race for priceless treasure -- and the love of a remarkable woman. - Summary by Google Books...
The Abysmal Brute - Jack London
The Abysmal Brute - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Sports Fiction
Young Pat Glendon is twenty-two years old, weighs two-hundred and twenty pounds, has never drunk alcohol nor tasted tobacco and knows little of city life. He’s all muscle, moves with cat-like grace and possesses great stamina and strength acquired...
In Search of Treasure - Horatio Alger, Jr.
In Search of Treasure - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Guy Fenwick is a bright boy of 16 who lives with his clergyman father near New Bedford, Massachusetts. Guy receives permission from his father to examine the contents of an old chest in the attic where Guy discovers clues to the location of a pirate...
Revolution - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
Revolution - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Author: Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
The collapse of the U.S.S.R. in the future. What would happen after a collapse? This story is set many years before the actual collapse of the Soviet Union when there was speculation that questioned what the world would look like, and what would...
Gudrun - Ferdinand Schmidt
Gudrun - Ferdinand Schmidt
- Author: Ferdinand Schmidt
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction
The charming story of “Gudrun” is a romance of the old heroic period, written by some unknown poet of Austria or Bavaria in the thirteenth century. Next to the "Nibelungen Lied," it is the most important of the German epic poems...The same elemental...
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five" - Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five" - Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
- Author: Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, the young Andrew Boyd meets a fugitive from the redcoats, a man whom Andrew soon grows to admire. Andrew and his father take the man in, but then the redcoats arrive to search the house... Besides...
Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery - Jules Verne
Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This Verne adventure is indeed a mystery and also a satire on the Crusoe genre. Our characters are larger than life, as well they should be - Verne expects Americans to perform epics. Young Godfrey goes to sea for adventure before settling down with...
The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Westerns
In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to them were derided, and the only people who mattered were the caballeros – who styled themselves as knights of...
The Fortunes of Nigel - Sir Walter Scott
The Fortunes of Nigel - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family home and holdings, but meets with recalcitrance and treachery, which eventually results in his imprisonment....
Bransford Of Rainbow Range - Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Bransford Of Rainbow Range - Eugene Manlove Rhodes
- Author: Eugene Manlove Rhodes
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns / Published 1900 onward
A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In Wonderland. What kind of young man do we have here? And a young woman who matches him without effort? And a...
Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley (Version 2) - Lord Dunsany
Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley (Version 2) - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Dunsany's first novel, begun during WWI. It is set in Spain's Golden Age, and features the adventures of Don Rodrigues as he sets out to seek his fortune after the death of his father. There is no Dulcinea but there is a Serafina, and although no...
''Mr Rowl'' - D. K. Broster
''Mr Rowl'' - D. K. Broster
- Author: D. K. Broster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Raoul des Sablières, a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars, becomes enmeshed in a complicated tangle where his honour conflicts with his parole, and is sent to prison. Juliana Forrest, for whose sake he broke his parole,...
Zarah the Cruel - Joan CONQUEST
Zarah the Cruel - Joan CONQUEST
- Author: Joan CONQUEST
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, and forced to flee and lead a nomadic life until he can prove his innocence. Some listeners may be offended by...
Jess - H. Rider Haggard
Jess - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are complicated love entanglements, evil Machiavellian treachery, political reflection having to do with the ethics...
Murray's Adirondack Tales - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
Murray's Adirondack Tales - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Author: William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction
Two delightful tales surrounding the adventures of John Norton, the Trapper. He gives us a good glimpse into life in the deep woods, and how he deals with those who would disturb him or others with their, "diviltry." John Norton gives us all a great...
Money to Burn, An Adventure Story - Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
Money to Burn, An Adventure Story - Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
- Author: Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
From the dedication: "On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read "Money to Burn" and immediately forget it--which is as it should be, for then you can profitably reread it a year hence--but I'm certain it will entertain you while you are...
The Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
The Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Epistolary Fiction / Gothic Fiction
As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet it is essentially a political novel—a utopian experiment in a fictitious Balkan country, the Land of the Blue Mountains. The story spans the years from 1892 to 1909. It includes...
The Lost Continent - C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
The Lost Continent - C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
- Author: C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
During an expedition in the Canary Islands, an archeologist discovers a cave containing tablets with unknown writing. When translated, they tell the tale of decline and fall of Atlantis, which for centuries had been the center of the world. The...
Tarzan and the Ant Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Ant Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes, is embroiled in thrilling adventures among the tiny, warlike Minunians. (Summary by Matthew Reece)...
Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders - Henry Wallace Phillips
Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders - Henry Wallace Phillips
- Author: Henry Wallace Phillips
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
More than anything, the young Red Saunders wanted to be a good boy. And he was a good boy, except for his quick temper and quicker fists. By the time he was 16 he knew he had to leave home, leave town, leave the life he knew. And that’s when life...
Meadowlark Basin - B. M. Bower
Meadowlark Basin - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
This is an action-packed tale of the old west with richly drawn characters including the notorious Butch Cassidy, most of them upstanding but some decidedly not. A cashier is murdered during a bank robbery. The loot and the thieves are sought with...
The Three Commanders - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
The Three Commanders - William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Author: William Henry Giles KINGSTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Terence, Jack, and Alick met as boys at a boarding school, and later entered the Navy together. While sailing with different ships, their paths have interwoven and they have had many adventures together: first as midshipmen, then as Lieutenants. In...
The Cave Girl - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Cave Girl - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a south seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a...
Daylight Land - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
Daylight Land - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Author: William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Mr. Murray takes us on an adventure that he has recorded as payment to his family in exchange for their permission to embark upon it. In this trip, he travels by train across Canada all the way to Vancouver. He details for us the immense beauty of...
