Action & Adventure
The Boy Travellers in Mexico
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Thomas Wallace Knox
An engaging travelogue published in 1890, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. From the preface: "a bo…
The Black Star: A School Story for Boys
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Andrew H. Walpole
A school adventure set in Australia, with secret societies, bullies, mystery, a new student who calls everyone comrade, and sport, at least …
The Mysterious Aviator (aka So Disdained)
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Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute was the nom-de-plume of the Anglo-Australian aeronautical engineer and writer, best known for works like “On the Beach” and “A T…
Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice
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Victor Appleton
Tom Swift & friends journey to the Arctic in his custom airship to seek for the legendary Valley of Gold. When his map is stolen by his …
Billy Whiskers, The Autobiography of a Goat (Version 2)
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Frances Trego Montgomery
This is the original story in the beloved series of Billy Whisker books by Frances Trego Montgomery. Billy is a loveable goat whose adventur…
The Gleam in the North
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D. K. Broster
Six years have passed since the failed Jacobite rising of 1745. Ewen Cameron's quiet life on his Scottish Highland estate is threatened when…
The Tower Treasure (version 5)
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Franklin W. Dixon
The Hardy boys begin their first case as sons of a famous detectives tracking down a jewel thief. - Summary by ClueChaser
Billie Bradley at Treasure Cove
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Janet D. Wheeler
Billie Bradley, her brother, and their friends find themselves in another adventure! This time they meet an old sailor who has a map of Trea…
The Fire Spirits
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Paul Busson
An adventure with supernatural overtones, set in the region of The Tyrol During the time of Napoleon. - Summary by Andy Sames
White Cockades: An Incident of the "Forty-Five"
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Edward Prime-Stevenson and Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, the young Andrew Boyd meets a fugitive from the redcoats, a man whom Andrew soon grows to ad…
The Quest of the Golden Girl
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Richard Le Gallienne
The main character fears that he will never get married and performs a long pilgrimage whose goal is the perfect companion, the girl God mea…
The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World
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Margaret Vandercook
Betty Ashton's world is not a happy one, at this point. Her mother is sick, the other girls are in New York, her boarders have left, and sh…
Kitty's Enemy: Or, The Boy Next Door
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Eleanora H. Stooke
This is the story of 10-year-old Kitty Glanville and her feud with Tim Shuttleworth, the young boy who lives next door to her family. Throug…
The Robbers Cave: a Tale of Italy
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Sixteen-year-old Horace Cleveland thinks of nobody but himself. While traveling with his mother across the Calabrian countryside on their wa…
The Maracot Deep
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Maracot, accompanied by two American associates, conducts an exploration of the Atlantic Ocean floor, beginning in a diving bell o…
Tom Brown at Oxford
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Thomas Hughes
This sequel to Tom Brown's School Days follows Tom to Oxford, where he studies at St. Ambrose's College. While the college is fictional, th…
The Moral Pirates
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William Livingston Alden
Excerpt: “… you and two or three other fellows might make a splendid cruise in a row-boat. You could have a mast and sail, and you could tak…
The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 5, May 1, 1919
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Greye La Spina
Welcome to Issue #5 of the exciting and influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book, a noted precursor to the mighty Weird Tales! In this issu…
Revolt of the Birds
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Melville Davisson Post
As the butterfly is drawn by instinct over thousands of miles to its mate, so the man Hudson is drawn to a deadly island of terrors to the w…
The Shame of Motley
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Rafael Sabatini
This is a swashbuckler romance set in Italy in 1400s. The hero, Lazzaro Biancamonte is of noble birth but became a court jester under threa…