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Horses Nine: Stories of Harness and Saddle
Sewell Ford
Nine working horses navigate the demands, cruelties, and occasional graces of human control, each earning a distinct legacy under harness or saddle.
Jonah and Co
Dornford Yates
Wealthy, witty, and entirely irrepressible, an English family takes to the sunny roads of post-war France, turning broken magnetos, mistaken identities, and rogue antique dealers into a masterclass in high-spirited living.
Lorelei of the Red Mist
Leigh Brackett
An Earthly outlaw dies on the violent, fog-bound seas of Venus, only to wake in the borrowed flesh of a disgraced native warrior.
Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys
Louis Arundel
Six teenage boys pilot a trio of motorboats down the Florida coast, turning their wilderness expedition into a spirited fishing tournament full of unexpected hazards.
On the Plains with Custer: The Western Life and Deeds of the Chief With the Yellow Hair, Under Whom Served Boy Bugler Ned Fletcher, When in the Troublous Years 1866–1876 the Fighting Seventh Cavalry Helped to Win Pioneer Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota for White Civilization and Today's Peace
Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
A orphan boy rides with George Armstrong Custer through decade of brutal Indian campaigning, witnessing the tragic, bloody reshaping of the American West from the saddle of the Seventh Cavalry.
Pat the Lighthouse Boy
Evelyn Everett-Green
A frail city boy finds health and a strange, sea-encircled world when his family moves to a remote ocean lighthouse.
Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley
C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
An impulsive teenager's scheme to buy a dress triggers a chain of events that exposes betrayal, aerial warfare, and high-stakes military secrecy.
Shaun O'Day of Ireland
Madeline Brandeis
Believing in magic is easy when life is hard, but holding on to wonder as you grow up is the real Irish magic.
Skulls in the stars
Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard
Night on the moor brings a screaming death that no weapon can touch, until a wandering Puritan decides to stand his ground against the dark.
The Bobbsey twins at Cloverbank
Laura Lee Hope
A summer vacation brings endless minor wonders to four young siblings, whose days fill up with small mysteries, lost pets, and farm adventures.
The Crimson Azaleas: A Novel
H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
A chance encounter on a mountain path forever entwines a restless traveler's fate with a mysterious child found among blooming flowers.
The Flamingo Feather
Kirk Munroe
A orphaned French teenager in 1564 exchanges the calm of his family estate for the untamed forests of Florida, where an alliance forged in rescue and sealed by a single red plume reshapes his destiny.
The Gun Club boys of Lakeport
Edward Stratemeyer
Cold winds and fresh snow set the scene for a winter expedition where high-spirited boys learn the hard work of camping, face down forest predators, and outwit local scoundrels.
The Prince and the Pauper, Part 3
Mark Twain
A mistaken identity swaps a street pauper and the Prince of Wales, forcing a child of the gutter to govern a kingdom while the rightful monarch wanders his own realm in rags.
The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge, April 1918
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
In the freezing, storm-lashed North Sea during the spring of 1918, British naval officers wage a relentless war against enemy submarine warfare and fortified Belgian strongholds.
The White Chief of the Caffres
Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
A shipwreck off the South African coast leaves a young English boy sole survivor among native tribes, where he must adapt, survive, and earn his place as an honored leader.
Yellowstone Nights
Herbert Quick
A handful of travelers cross Yellowstone's natural wonders, weaving tall tales and personal histories around the campfire each night.
A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before
Daniel Defoe
A thrilling tale of adventure, mutiny, and discovery as a crew navigates uncharted territories and confronts the complexities of human nature.
Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A young boy discovers an old volume in his attic and steps straight into an island adventure made of pure, logical childhood fantasy. A magical wolf, polite pirates, and a helpful monkey prove that an imaginative spirit can conquer any ocean storm.
By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians
Egerton Ryerson Young
To journey across frozen wildernesses by sled and navigate stormy lakes by frail birch-bark craft is to test both physical endurance and faith.
Jack in the Rockies: A Boy's Adventures with a Pack Train
George Bird Grinnell
An old hand leads two boys through a vanishing wilderness, where every mountain pass and campfire story opens another layer of the West.
The Banner Boy Scouts
George A. Warren
An eager small-town teenager rallies his friends into a newly formed Boy Scout patrol, leading them through midnight practical jokes, lost-child hunts, and local rivalries to claim their county’s top banner.
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp
Nell Speed
When their father falls ill and money runs out, four Virginia sisters take their family's survival into their own hands by opening a mountain resort for summer boarders.
The Flaming Forest
James Oliver Curwood
A hunter of men is felled in the wilderness, only to be nursed back to health by the very woman he ought to arrest.
The Last Straw
Harold Titus
When an heir to a struggling cattle outfit arrives in the mountain West to turn the ranch into quick cash, she finds a world that measures a person not by inherited fortune, but by grit.
The Man Who Ended War
Hollis Godfrey
A mysterious, anonymous force threatens to annihilate every warship on Earth unless the nations of the world disarm within a single year.
The Man with the Clubfoot
Valentine Williams
An Allied secret agent risks everything to slip into wartime Germany, pursuing his missing brother and outwitting the Kaiser's most formidable spy master.
The pleasant and surprising adventures of Robert Drury, during his fifteen years' captivity on the island of Madagascar
Robert Drury
A teenage castaway endures fifteen years of captivity in eighteenth-century Madagascar, navigating tribal wars, harsh enslavement, and complex court politics to earn his freedom.
The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country
James Oliver Curwood
A fugitive on the run, a woman with a dark secret, and a wilderness that stretches all the way to the Arctic Ocean.
White Otter
Elmer Russell Gregor
A young Sioux warrior's courage and cunning are tested as he embarks on perilous adventures to protect his tribe and honor his friendships.
With Drake on the Spanish Main
Herbert Strang
Cast ashore on an unknown coast, a solitary English youth must outwit hostile patrols, forge alliances in the jungle, and master the sea to win his freedom.
A Bounty Boy: Being Some Adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an Unpremeditated Trip Round the World
Frank Thomas Bullen
A raised Pitcairn islander navigates the treacherous, worldly waters of nineteenth-century deep-sea whaling, keeping his radiant faith intact.
A Veldt Official: A Novel of Circumstance
Bertram Mitford
A disgraced Englishman tries to rebuild his life in a remote South African magistrate’s court, only to find that personal rivalries, colonial violence, and an unyielding past follow him everywhere he goes.
Boy Scouts in Glacier Park: The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies
Walter Prichard Eaton
Two young Massachusetts friends venture west to Glacier National Park, trading eastern backyard wood-piles for the towering scale, sheer precipices, and bitter winters of the high Rockies.
Daughters of Destiny
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
A secret ruler, a hidden identity, and a struggle for an Eastern throne collide in a tale of high adventure and unexpected love.
Dave Dawson on Convoy Patrol
Robert Sidney Bowen
Tense ocean skies hold the line as two young pilots risk everything to bait a killer sea raider into the open.
Flop Ear, the Funny Rabbit: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
Separated from his forest burrow by a hunter’s gun, a young rabbit with a single drooping ear wanders into a series of domestic and wild encounters as he tries to find his way back home.
Jack the Hunchback: A Story of Adventure on the Coast of Maine
James Otis
A crippled orphan boy and a tiny stray baby wash ashore on the coast of Maine, finding refuge with an aging woman whose quiet faith faces a reckoning.
Jones of the 64th: A Tale of the Battles of Assaye and Laswaree
F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
Driven by sheer grit and unexpected kindness, a parish orphan rises through the ranks of the British army to face the perilous fires of colonial India.
Julius, the Street Boy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Rescued from the harsh streets of New York, an ambitious waif travels to the American Midwest, where honesty, steady labor, and quick thinking pave his way toward middle-class respectability.
Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone
Mayne Reid
A boy leaves Dublin to seek his fortune across three continents, chasing gold and surviving the wild frontiers of the nineteenth century in hopes of returning worthy of his lost childhood love.
Motor Matt's Daring
Stanley R. Matthews
A young mechanic races his custom machine across the Arizona desert to save a gold claim from a schemer who steals by fraud, sabotage, and sheer speed.
My Northern Exposure: The Kawa at the Pole
George S. (George Shepard) Chappell
In a world of serious polar expeditions, one crew tackles the Arctic with mosquito netting, five-and-ten-cent store novelties, and absolute absurdities.
Samuel the Seeker
Upton Sinclair
Seekers read the Word for themselves and follow where it leads, unmindful of the path’s destination.
The Bungalow Boys in the Great Northwest
John Henry Goldfrap
A leap from a slippery river rock into the dark, a trapped party facing a sealed cave with four ounces of explosive, and a ring of sea-going outlaws on the Pacific coast make this a fast-moving adventure of rescue, capture, and survival.
The Net
Rex Beach
A cowardly act in a sunlit Italian garden sets off an international hunt for revenge that ends in the bloody streets of nineteenth-century New Orleans.
The O'Ruddy: A Romance
Stephen Crane
An impoverished Irish gentleman inherits a bundle of mysterious papers, travels to England to claim his fortune, and fights his way through duels, comedy, and high-society intrigue to win the woman he loves.
Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune
Victor Appleton
Young inventor Tom Swift sets out to build a telephone that transmits live images alongside sound, but his work is derailed when an unscrupulous financier targets his wealthy friend, leading to a high-tech pursuit across land and air.