Action & Adventure
White Cockades
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Edward Prime-Stevenson and Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
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 ad…
The Moral Pirates
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William Livingston Alden
Excerpt: “… you and two or three other fellows might make a splendid cruise in a row-boat. You could have a mast and sail, and you could tak…
The Pirate City
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R. M. Ballantyne
The Pirate City follows the three members of the Rimini family on their adventure to the African city of Algier, Algeria. The story begins i…
Down the Big River
Read by Warren Bergmann
Stephen W. Meader
In 1805, two boys encounter vicious river pirates on their way to help settle the American Midwest.I am very pleased to offer another of Ste…
Kitty's Enemy
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Eleanora H. Stooke
This is the story of 10-year-old Kitty Glanville and her feud with Tim Shuttleworth, the young boy who lives next door to her family. Throug…
The Robbers Cave
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Sixteen-year-old Horace Cleveland thinks of nobody but himself. While traveling with his mother across the Calabrian countryside on their wa…
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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François Rabelais
This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…
Longshanks
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Stephen W. Meader
In 1828, young Tad Hopkins takes an adventure-filled trip down the Mississippi River to meet his father in New Orleans. Along the way he bef…
Billy Whiskers in France
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Frances Trego Montgomery
Billy Whiskers is in France, but he is homesick. Of course, he makes new friends and entangles himself in many adventures. He has encounte…
Gilead Balm, Knight Errant
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Bernard Capes
Gilead Balm, a young Government clerk of philanthropic predilections, always read the "Daily Post" for the sake of its agony colum…
The Thrill Book
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Greye La Spina
Welcome to Issue #5 of the exciting and influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book, a noted precursor to the mighty Weird Tales! In this issu…
Memoirs of a London Doll
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Richard Henry Horne
This is a fictional work written in the early 20th century. The story is narrated by Maria Poppet, a doll with a unique consciousness, offer…
Fortune's Fool
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Rafael Sabatini
This novel follows the adventures of the handsome but impecunious Colonel Randal Holles, as he seeks to escape the misfortunes of his past. …
Pee-wee Harris
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Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee is back for another scouting adventure, disaster only averted by the judicious application of snacks!
Billy Whiskers Jr.
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Frances Trego Montgomery
This is one of the early Billy Whiskers books where he bears the title, “Junior.” Billy jumps the fence on the farm and heads west for adv…
The Motor Boys in Mexico
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Clarence Young and Clarence Young
Dear Boys:At last I am able to give you the third volume of “The Motor Boys Series,” a line of books relating the doings of several wide-awa…
Rain Magic
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Erle Stanley Gardner
From the deck of a ship the sea snatched him and hurled him into a weird adventure and romance such as few men experience! - Summary by Argo…
X Y Z: A Detective Story
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Anna Katharine Green
"X Y Z: A Detective Story" by Anna Katharine Green is a crime fiction novel written in the late 19th century. This engaging narrat…
Where the Pelican Builds
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Mary Hannay Foott
Mary Hannay Foott was an Australian poet and editor who is best remembered for the poem Where the pelican builds.
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch
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Eleanor H. Porter
The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch, written by Eleanor Stuart, (better known as Eleanor H. Porter, author of Pollyanna), follows six teen…