Fiction

When Stan Wilson joined the R.A.F. he wanted action––and certainly he got what he wanted. The dogged, grim fighting men who made up Red Flight sometimes almost forgot what rest and sleep felt like.

The story of a life; the story of an unknown city; the story of men who dreamed dreams; the story of mercy and of death, of darkness and of light, of order and of chaos; the story of myself, Irwin Trevena, who set down these things as I have seen and known them.

Penny is in need of money, as usual, and is highly interested when a man shows her a clipping offering a reward for any information leading to the capture of the Headless Horseman. Penny and Louise travel to Red Valley to search for the horseman and find themselves trapped in a flood after a dam breaks.

G.A. Henty was a 19th century British novelist known for historical action and adventure books, many of which were best sellers in his day. Even today, classics like The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883) and In Freedom's Cause (1885) are still widely read.

During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, an English boy attempts the rescue of his father, a captive for nine years of the "Tiger of Mysore."

Book #3 in the Tom Swift 100th Anniversary Project. With both a motor cycle and a speedy motorboat to his credit, and after rescuing balloonist John Sharp, the two of them, with some help from Tom's best friend, Ned Newton, construct a radically different airship. Part airplane and part dirigible, the Red Cloud is a work of wonder. Tom, John and Mr. Wakefield Damon set out on a flying adventure covering much of the East Coast and the South of the United States as they seek fun and excitement.

Giant rockets that probe the borders of space provide authentic scientific background for this breath-taking Rick Brant adventure.

A thrilling tale of adventure in the Canadian wilderness.

Here are some of the exciting up-to-the-minute true-to-fact adventures of American Dave Dawson and his English friend Freddy Farmer. In various volumes, the boys get into the war at Dunkirk!

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American boys' fiction under pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate who produced Tom Swift series, Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, Dave Fearless and many others.

This all-but-forgotten work by the master of the "lost race" adventure story has just about everything a reader could possibly hope for in a book: a treasure hunt, battles between savage African tribes, a plucky heroine, a shipwreck, an insane Jewish villain, the ghost of a 17th century Portuguese woman, mesmerism and even a nice romantic love story.

Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was an American author. He was the creator of the adventures of Deadwood Dick series. He was born in Avoca, New York. In 1877 his first novelette Hurricane Nell: The Girl Dead-Shot; or, The Queen of the Saddle and Lasso was published as No.

The Arctic explorer sloughs his civilisation with the same ease that he dispenses with the use of soap, and in this reversion to the primitive habits of the aboriginal there is a great and fearful joy.

The greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator

"Mr. Henty has probably not published a more interesting story than The Lion of St. Mark. He has certainly not published one in which he has been at such pains to rise to the dignity of his subject. Mr. Henty's battle-pieces are admirable."--The Academy.

Two charming love affairs, thrilling perils, pervasive humor, most unusual scenes, a vein of piquant sentiment, a style of grace unmatched, unite to make of "Romance Island" a golden land in fiction.

Into the midst of Captain Tom Lingard's lawless affair of honor involving the throne of a Malayan prince blundered the English yacht, fatefully stranded in the midst of the conspiracy.

This house was built to specifications that were strange indeed; and the rats that inhabited it were stranger still!