Action & Adventure
Tom Slade On The River
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Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Published with the permission of the Boy Scouts of America, this is one of a series of adventure books for boys telling of the adventures an…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 3: The Queen's Necklace (Version 2)
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
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 sca…
The Railway Train
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Railway Train by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 28, 2011.Alt…
Almayer's Folly
Read by Kristel Tretter
Joseph Conrad
A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love…
Khaled, A Tale of Arabia
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Francis Marion Crawford
Khaled is a powerful jinn, or genius, but he has a good heart. When he sees that Zehowah, the beautiful, virtuous daughter of the king is ab…
The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's Camp
Read by Keith Salis
Thornton W. Burgess
We are brought on a couple of adventures with Walter Upton and his Boy Scout friends, this time in Winter. In The Boy Scouts in a Trappers' …
The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane
Read by Jim Locke
Alain René Lesage
Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at t…
The Shore Road Mystery
Read by James R. Hedrick
Franklin W. Dixon
Frank and Joe Hardy, sons of a famous detective, get on the track of a dangerous gang of car thieves when their school friend and his father…
Woodstock, or, The Cavalier
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Sir Walter Scott
This novel is set during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. It is comprised of real events, along with fictional ones. If you are l…
Plain Living
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Rolf Boldrewood
Seemingly down-on-his-luck Australian sheep rancher and orchard grower kindly teaches his loving family the value of money through 'plain li…
The Mystery of the Fires (version 2)
Read by Mary Escano
Edith Lavell
Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family's cottage at Shady Nook. But an unknown arsonist has been setting the cot…
Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pa…
Read by David Wales
John Habberton
These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and dr…
Little Tales of the Desert
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Ethel Twycross Foster
A six year-old girl named Mary spends Christmas vacation with her parents in the Arizona desert of 1901 or thereabouts. ( Summary by Bellona…
The Tale of Old Dog Spot
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Arthur Scott Bailey
Another book in the Sleepy Time series of Tuck Me In tales, this time we meet Old Dog Spot, who lives with Johnnie Green on his parents farm…
Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders
Read by Tom Penn
Henry Wallace Phillips
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. B…
The Blue Ghost Mystery
Read by John Walker
Harold L. Goodwin
When the ghost of a Civil War soldier, killed visiting his sweetheart across enemy lines, comes back to haunt the Virginian locals at an old…
The Shaving of Shagpat
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George Meredith
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of st…
The Magnificent Adventure (Version 2)
Read by Claude Stewart
Emerson Hough
In The Magnificent Adventure-Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman, by Emerson Hou…
My Strange Rescue
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James Macdonald Oxley
An anthology of short stories, anecdotes and observations of sport and adventure in Canada. Tobogganing, snowshoeing , ice skating and hocke…
The Golden Canyon
Read by Laurie Banza
G. A. Henty
In August, 1856, times were hard in San Diego. Dick, who worked on the ship, "Northampton", was attacked by a ruthless gang - the …