Action & Adventure
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…
Mark the Match Boy
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…
Christopher Quarles
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…
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
Read by Mark Nelson
Jules Verne
A German scientist discovers an ancient runic message, which when translated proves to be a map to the center of a hollow Earth! The profess…
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…
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…
Melmoth The Wanderer
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Charles Robert Maturin
One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, h…
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…
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 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…
Flash Evans, Camera News Hawk
Read by Matt Perard
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…
El mundo perdido
Read by Victor Villarraza
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Un relato fantástico en el que el humor, la aventura y la acción se dan la mano. Esta obra, que su autor sitúa en Sudam…
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 …
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This final volume of detective stories was Doyle’s effort to put his most famous creation behind him at long last. It includes a variety of …
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)Arthur M. Winfield…
The Betrothed
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Alessandro Manzoni
One of the most famous Italian books in history, The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni in 1827. The two main characters, Renzo and…
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
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…