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The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo
Charles Gilson
Three explorers venture into the heart of the Congo to confront the mysterious "Fire-gods," only to discover that the greatest threats in the jungle are not spirits, but the greed of man.
The Haunted Ship
Kate Marion Tucker
HOOK A group of children vacationing on the Maine coast stumbles upon a mysterious, grounded schooner, only to discover that the "ghost ship" is hiding very real, very dangerous secrets.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 03: Military Career
Giacomo Casanova
A young man casts off his clerical robes to reinvent himself as a dashing officer, trading the constraints of the church for the unpredictable, often perilous, and relentlessly romantic landscapes of eighteenth-century Europe.
The Return of Tharn
Howard Browne
A prehistoric warrior traverses a perilous landscape of jungles and cities to rescue his captured beloved. He finds himself caught in a complex web of political betrayal involving a powerful king and a scheming nobleman.
The Son of Columbus
Molly Elliot Seawell
A portrait of filial devotion and historical ambition, this narrative follows the son of a legendary explorer as he navigates the dangers of the Spanish court and the anxieties of a world on the brink of discovery.
The strange people
Murray Leinster
An elusive magazine photograph leads an adventurous young man into the New Hampshire hills, where he stumbles into a isolated community's deadly clash with a tyrannical master.
The West Point Rivals
Upton Sinclair
HOOK In the high-pressure world of the West Point summer encampment, seven inseparable underclassmen find themselves caught in a series of escalating pranks, perilous midnight encounters, and a desperate struggle against both their rivals and a mysterious, wild-eyed cave-dweller.
Travel Stories Retold from St. Nicholas
Various
The world is a vast, interconnected tapestry of wonders, waiting to be traversed by those with the curiosity to seek them out. This collection of accounts transforms distant landscapes into intimate, shared experiences.
Andrée and His Balloon
Henri Lachambre
Three men step into a wicker car beneath a mountain of varnished silk, drift northward past the crags of Spitzbergen, and melt into the Arctic mist.
Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer
Herrick Johnstone
A spirited young sailor boards an American privateer in 1813 to chase British shipping across two oceans, encountering sharks, bullfights, and mirages.
Chunky, the Happy Hippo: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
A young hippopotamus explores his native African river, encounters jungle animals, gets captured by hunters, and travels across the ocean to find his place in a city circus and park menagerie.
Exit Betty
Grace Livingston Hill
A young bride flees her own altar, swapping her white satin for a borrowed coat, to escape a coerced marriage and discover true faith and love in a quiet village home.
Frank Nelson in the Forecastle
Harry Castlemon
Abducted on the San Francisco docks, a young sportsman must navigate a brutal whaling captain, a mutinous crew, and a deadly hunt on the open ocean to earn his way home.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the High Sierras
Josephine Chase
A quiet mountain excursion erupts into a high-altitude game of cat and mouse when a group of seasoned young travelers stumbles across train robbers in the California wilderness.
Laperouse
Scott, Ernest, Sir
A legendary French navigator vanishes into the Pacific, leaving behind a mystery that haunts maritime history for generations. This account reconstructs the life and final, ill-fated expedition of an Enlightenment-era explorer.
Motor Matt on the Wing
Stanley R. Matthews
When a ruthless loan shark tries to rob a dead inventor’s widow of her late husband's experimental biplane, a brilliant teenage mechanic steps into the breach to pilot the untried machine in a high-stakes military trial.
The Adventures of M. D'Haricot
J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
A young French Royalist flees to England, where his conspiratorial ambitions crumble into an affectionate, comedy-filled immersion in British society.
The Harlequin Opal: A Romance. Vol. 2 (of 3)
Fergus Hume
Under a blazing tropic sun, a fractured republic reels as an ambitious usurper, a sacred Aztec gem, and a trapped lover collide in a sweep of jungle, sea, and war.
The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine
Katherine Stokes
A seasonal getaway to Florida brings unexpected adventure when four young women encounter hidden identities, family disputes, and coastal mysteries along the sunlit shores.
The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith by Land and Sea
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young Englishman set on seeing the world leaves home for America, only to be swept through shipwrecks, river pirate ambushes, and buffalo drives across the continent.
The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain
Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
A wilderness of woods and water becomes a chessboard for survival, where every rustling leaf promises an ambush and every quiet bay hides a fleet of war canoes.
Wings Over the Rockies
Ambrose Newcomb
High-flying aerial acrobatics collide with a wilderness rescue mission when two government aviators plunge into the Rocky Mountains to solve a disappearance that has baffled the nation.
A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 1 of 3)
Meadows Taylor
A young woman and an old blind physician tend a wounded nobleman by a roar of white water while intrigue gathers in the high courts of sixteenth-century India.
Around the Camp-fire
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
Six city-weary friends flee the July heat of Fredericton, escaping into the Canadian wilderness for a weeks-long canoe trip across New Brunswick’s rivers, lakes, and portages.
Decatur and Somers
Molly Elliot Seawell
Two young American naval officers form an unbreakable bond while steering through the perils, rivalries, and explosive combats of the Barbary War.
Elsie and Her Loved Ones
Martha Finley
Multi-generational family gatherings, quiet coastal retreats, and historical storytelling define a gentle, faith-filled domestic world.
Foes in Ambush
Charles King
In a sun-scorched Arizona desert where ambush waits behind every jagged crag, a heavy military payroll attracts outlaws, renegades, and Apaches, forcing a handful of weary soldiers and vulnerable travelers into a desperate fight for survival.
Harper's Young People, May 17, 1881: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
Four young boys set sail in a modified boat, discovering that clear rules and mutual respect are essential to navigating both open waters and life ashore.
Jungle and Stream
George Manville Fenn
A young English boy and a Siamese prince stand shoulder to shoulder against tiger strikes, crocodile jaws, and a violent palace coup in nineteenth-century Siam.
Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike: Tales of the Gold Fields
Thad. W. H. (Thaddeus William Henry) Leavitt
A woman in disguise leads her partner through Australian sand, a gold-seeker stumbles upon a phantom mine in his sleep, and a disgraced nobleman harvests pearls in New Guinea to reclaim his ancestral home.
Motor Matt's Queer Find
Stanley R. Matthews
A flying machine and a disputed iron chest draw teenage mechanic Motor Matt and his chums into a labyrinth of swamp voodoo, stolen treasure, and double-crosses across Louisiana.
Rimrock Jones
Dane Coolidge
A rough-hewn Arizona prospector strikes it rich, loses his copper mine to financial sharks, and fights his way through stock raids and courtroom battles to reclaim his fortune and the woman he loves.
The Boy Trapper
Harry Castlemon
High in the timber of the Mississippi Valley, a farm boy fights to pull his family out of poverty while two cruel rivals and his own father try to tear his earnings from his hand.
The Country of the Dwarfs
Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
Deep in the Equatorial African jungle, an intrepid explorer journeys beyond mapped territories to encounter the secretive, yellow-complexioned Obongo dwarfs.
The Eight-Oared Victors: A Story of College Water Sports
Lester Chadwick
A swollen river brings the chance to row, but stolen trophies and a missing pin threaten to ruin the season before it starts.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 21: South of France
Giacomo Casanova
A gentleman adventurer crisscrosses the eighteenth-century Mediterranean, navigating high-stakes card games, extravagant occult frauds, and intricate romantic affairs with equal parts audacity and charm.
The Moon Destroyers
Monroe K. Ruch
A catastrophic earthquake lays waste to New York City, leading scientists to discover that lunar gravitational tides threaten to shatter the Earth's fractured crust. Humanity's only salvation is a high-stakes expedition to literally vaporize the moon.
The pirate's gold
Gordon Stables
An old piratical log leads three Highland companions across the Atlantic, where hidden Spanish doubloons and a tense high-seas chase await.
The Spoilers
Rex Beach
A lawless Alaskan gold rush, a stolen mine, and a man torn between revenge and a young woman’s idea of honor.
A Taxicab Tangle
Unknown
A fast-paced turn-of-the-century dime novel about two resourceful youths outsmarting a syndicate of New York swindlers.
Adventures in Africa: By an African Trader
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young English schoolboy joins his uncle's trading trek across the Kalahari, where tsetse flies, charging lions, and desert thirst turn an ordinary commercial venture into a fight for survival.
Fombombo
T. S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling
A brash American salesman walks straight into a Venezuelan revolution with an ironclad faith in commerce and leaves with his certainties completely undone.
In Secret
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
A secret route through the Swiss Alps, a code hidden in a yellow envelope, and two agents racing to dismantle a hidden German stronghold before their own past catches up with them.
On the Firing Line
Anna Chapin Ray
A young American seeking purpose in the Boer War finds himself tested by raw violence, sudden grief, and a proud South African woman whose reserve hides a profound, unspoken devotion.
On the Yukon Trail: Radio-Phone Boys Series, #2
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
A radio-trained Secret Service youth tracks an elusive broadcasting outlaw across the icy Alaskan wilderness, battling blizzards, starving wolf packs, and hungry bears to protect a stranded Arctic expedition.
On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics
Ralph Henry Barbour
An energetic, straightforward tale of early twentieth-century American campus life, capturing the spirited camaraderie and athletic rivalries of college freshmen.
The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair
James Otis
An ambitious farm boy sets out to clear his widowed mother's mortgage by operating a fairground game, only to wind up framed for burglary and pursued by local lawmen.
The Boy Aviators with the Air Raiders: A Story of the Great World War
John Henry Goldfrap
A high-flying juvenile adventure captures the early, chaotic months of the First World War through the eyes of daring young American inventors.