Action & Adventure

The Monastery

Read by Bill Boerst


Sir Walter Scott


Dame Elspeth is kept in a tower after the death of her husband. The widow of the Baron of Avenel and her daughter seek safety with Elspeth i…

The Highwayman

Read by James E. Carson


H. C. Bailey


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 sto…

Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Robert Sidney Bowen


One of a series of youth-oriented adventure books set in contemporary WWII era, featuring fictional American flying ace, Dave Dawson. (Summa…

Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

Read by Tony Posante


Percy James Brebner


Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Pol…

The Hound From the North

Read by Lisa Reichert


Ridgwell Cullum


Gold! Opium! Love! Murder! Revenge! Prairie intrigue at its best:Prudence helps her mother run a ranch in southern Manitoba. Her brother has…

The Night Operator

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Frank L. Packard


A collection of ten railroad short stories: "And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the …

Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

Read by Tori Faulder


Horatio Alger, Jr.


In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets y…

The Queen's Necklace

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Alexandre Dumas


The Queen's Necklace is historical fiction based on an actual scandal in the court of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI during 1784-85, "T…

The World's Desire

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Andrew Lang and H. Rider Haggard


H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the r…

Ben Pepper

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Margaret Sidney


This book is about Ben Pepper on some adventures! From The Five Little Peppers to Joel Pepper to now Ben Pepper, you'll know everything abou…

Wylder's Hand

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people invo…

The Last Entry

Read by Lee Smalley


William Clark Russell


This is a sea-faring novel set in 1837. A wealthy former seaman from London and his daughter, who is engaged to be married, set sail on his …

Flash Evans, Camera News Hawk

Read by VfkaBT


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Jimmy 'Flash' Evans, 17, ace photographer for The Brandale Ledger, tries his hand at the newsreel game in this upbeat, pre-war adventure. Th…

Abandoned

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Jules Verne


Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a …

The Rover Boys on the Ocean

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Arthur M. Winfield


The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress

Read by David Wales


Gaylord Dubois


Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying cor…

Eleven Possible Cases

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Various


This book brings together eleven stories, each a case of intrigue where more is going on than seems at first. - Summary by A. Gramour

The Trawler

Read by Roger Melin


James Brendan Connolly


The Trawler is a short story revolving around the trying life of a group of bank fishermen based in Gloucester. Skipper Hugh Glynn worked hi…

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