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Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
Alexander Ross
A high-stakes commercial gamble in the Pacific Northwest quickly deteriorates into a grueling battle against treacherous surf, brutal winters, and fatal miscalculations.
Secrets of the Andes
James H. Foster
When a bridge collapse sends two young naturalists careening off course, a series of improvised connections leads them straight into the uncharted ruins and high-altitude perils of the South American mountains.
Tarzan and the city of gold
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A captive white warrior, a deadly arena, and a despotic queen with a terrifying pet lion await in the uncharted valleys of Abyssinia.
The Border Boys Across the Frontier
John Henry Goldfrap
A young American lad and his companions navigate the treacherous borderlands of Northern Chihuahua, unearthing hidden desert tunnels and thwarting a rebel conspiracy against a family mine.
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
Rolf Boldrewood
A modest civil servant on an Australian goldfield risks his last savings on an unproven reef, striking a fortune that catapults his entire family into the upper echelons of British high society.
The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot
Edward Sylvester Ellis
High adventure and broad humor meet along the rocky coast of Maine, where a stolen motorboat and a case of mistaken identity test three loyal friends.
The Lost Trail
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A young minister’s wife is torn from her wilderness home by a vengeful stalker, launching a years-long search through the upper Mississippi Valley.
The Man Without a Memory
Arthur W. Marchmont
An downed Allied airman assumes a dead German’s identity, only to find himself trapped in a deadly web of Berlin espionage, romance, and wartime intrigue.
The Mate of the Good Ship York
William Clark Russell
A steady hand guides a abandoned merchant ship through a haunted ocean, where devotion and quick wits are the only safeguards against madness and the sea.
The Scarlet Car
Richard Harding Davis
A wealthy young bachelor, his beloved, her pompous politician fiancé, and a reliable scarlet motorcar wind through the high-spirited realm of early-twentieth-century romance.
The Trail of the White Mule
B. M. Bower
A high-speed traffic chase in Los Angeles sends a battle-hardened old desert rat fleeing into the California backcountry, where he stumbles directly into an illicit moonshining ring—and into an undercover war he never intended to fight.
Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure
Harry Collingwood
Washed overboard in a furious squall, a disgraced young sailor must navigate treacherous seas, murderous ship captains, and remote coral reefs to protect the woman he loves and clear his wrongfully tarnished name.
Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point
H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
A greenhorn entering West Point finds that the hardest battle is not against upperclassmen or exams, but against his own pride.
Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings
Dorothy Wayne
She steps into the surf to launch her skiff and ends up steering a heavy amphibian plane through a storm.
Fridtjof Nansen: A Book for the Young
Jacob B. (Jacob Breda) Bull
A boy off the Norwegian coast learns to outlast freezing weather, master ski tracks, and trust his own judgment before leading men into uncharted white horizons.
In Caverns Below
Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) Coblentz
A descent into a subterranean world turns into a sharp, satirical tour of human absurdity buried thousands of feet below the earth.
Menhardoc
George Manville Fenn
A high-spirited pair of town-bred twins spend a summer along the rugged Cornish coast, finding their soft manners tested by the sea, the mines, and a local boy who knows the water.
Nearest the Pole: a narrative of the polar expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906
Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary
A relentless push across frozen ocean leads, jagged pressure ridges, and howling Arctic blales leaves a team stranded at the edge of human reach.
Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus
Clive Phillipps-Wolley
A young traveler steps off the boat and marches straight into the muddy, frozen borderlands of the Russian Empire, rifle in hand, seeking real wilderness before the modern world can smooth it away.
The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure
Gustave Aimard
A shadow of violence falls across the vast Mexican wilderness, where wild animals and ruthless men make survival a daily gamble.
The Boy Allies Under the Sea
Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Two young British officers navigate the treacherous, shadowed waters of the Great War, engaging in a high-stakes duel of wits and weaponry against German U-boats.
The conquest of the great Northwest, Volume 1 (of 2)
Agnes C. Laut
A vast, ice-choked bay becomes the arena where brave, desperate men risk everything to claim a frozen continent.
The Crimson Thread: An Adventure Story for Girls
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
A young retail clerk steps into a dark elevator shaft after hours and launches a whirlwind Christmas Eve chase across a frozen metropolis.
The Everlasting Whisper
Jackson Gregory
A woman who has lived for ease and admiration finds herself bound in marriage to a wilderness guide and stranded in the snow-bound Sierra Nevada.
The Men Who Wrought
Ridgwell Cullum
A fragile peace offers no guarantee against future total war, but a revolutionary underwater technology could change the balance of global power forever.
The Ranche on the Oxhide: A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier
Henry Inman
Four young siblings face the perils and unexpected rewards of pioneer life on the 1860s Kansas prairie.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
Lawrence J. Leslie
A daring bet sends five small-town boys into a haunted wilderness, where mysterious midnight attacks, creeping shadow prowlers, and a long-hidden tragic past test their courage to the limit.
The war chief
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Born white but raised Apache, a warrior defends his adopted people while navigating a blood-soaked frontier and a forbidden love.
Wonder Tales from Tibet
Eleanore Myers Jewett
A collection of Tibetan folk tales filled with magic, adventure, and moral lessons.
A White King in East Africa: The Remarkable Adventures of John Boyes, Trader and Soldier of Fortune, Who Became King of the Savage Wa-Kikuyu
John Boyes
A young merchant-adventurer finds himself the accidental ruler of a vast East African tribe, navigating a perilous landscape where he must balance survival against the encroachment of colonial authority.
Eleven Possible Cases
Frank R. Stockton
The shadows of late-nineteenth-century mystery and the uncanny collide in this collection of stories, where every solution is as elusive as the crime itself. These narratives invite readers into a world of open-ended puzzles, where the boundary between the rational and the inexplicable dissolves.
Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp
Lillian Elizabeth Roy
Camping, friendship, and the pioneering spirit of young women define this early twentieth-century tale. It follows a group of scouts who trade the confines of their daily chores for a summer of independence on a remote mountain ridge.
Ranson's Folly
Richard Harding Davis
A bored cavalry lieutenant stages a mock robbery on the Western plains, unaware that a real outlaw and a hidden past are about to turn his prank into a fight for his life.
Sally Scott of the WAVES
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
A young woman joins the WAVES during World War II, using a secret radio invention to hunt enemy submarines across the Atlantic. This wartime adventure explores duty, sacrifice, and the quiet courage of those serving on the front lines.
Silver and Gold: A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp
Dane Coolidge
HOOK A drifter follows a cryptic prophecy to a haunted Arizona mining camp, where he must navigate the thin, treacherous line between the lure of hidden treasure and the risk of losing his heart.
The Adventures of a Woman Hobo
Ethel Lynn
A physician diagnosed with tuberculosis defies the limitations of her health and the expectations of her class by embarking on a cross-country journey as a hobo. This gritty, firsthand account reveals the hidden underbelly of early 20th-century America.
The Continental Dragoon: A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778
Robert Neilson Stephens
A headstrong young woman and a captive rebel dragoon engage in a dangerous, high-stakes battle of wits within the walls of a Loyalist manor during the American Revolution.
The Courtship of Morrice Buckler: A Romance
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
A scholar is drawn from his quiet library into a perilous, continent-spanning duel of honor and secrets, only to find his greatest challenge lies in the complex heart of a mysterious countess.
The Mystery Hunters at the Haunted Lodge
Capwell Wyckoff
HOOK A group of adventurous high-schoolers spends their winter break investigating a local legend, only to find that the most dangerous ghosts are the ones with greedy, human motives.
The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali
Frank Gee Patchin
A group of young adventurers confronts the harsh, unforgiving landscape of the Nevada desert. They face whirling cyclones, wild stallion hunts, and the constant, grueling struggle for water in the alkali wastes.
The White Invaders
Ray Cummings
Strange ghostly figures materialize across Bermuda, passing through solid rock before launching a devastating dimensional assault upon the world of men.
Tom Tufton's Travels
Evelyn Everett-Green
A spoiled heir flees his English country estate for London's glitter, only to find himself entangled with aristocratic highwaymen and treasonous plots.
Adele Doring of the Sunnyside Club
Grace May North
HOOK A group of spirited young friends discovers the profound joy of service as they strive to brighten the lives of those less fortunate in their quiet, turn-of-the-century community.
Arsène Lupin, super-sleuth
Maurice Leblanc
A master thief finds himself embroiled in a deadly conspiracy while attempting to protect a beautiful, enigmatic woman from the machinations of corrupt officials and ruthless criminals.
Flip: A California Romance
Bret Harte
This mountain romance unfolds in the stifling, resinous heat of a remote California summit, where a chance encounter between a drifter and a wild, freckled girl sparks a tragic collision of hidden pasts and desperate yearnings.
Georgina of the Rainbows
Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
A young girl in a coastal town learns the art of turning life’s inevitable storms into rainbows by choosing to remain hopeful and kind.
Tarzan the invincible
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A ruthless band of agitators seeks to destabilize Africa by plundering the fabled gold of ancient Opar, but they underestimate the jungle lord who guards the continent’s deepest secrets.
The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal
John Henry Goldfrap
Young Boy Scouts tackle international intrigue and high-stakes engineering challenges while assisting a prominent American engineer at the building of the Panama Canal.