Action & Adventure

Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Winston Tharp 4.7
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

The Adventures of Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a…

Tom Sawyer Abroad

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.6
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque a…

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…

The Arwen

by Timothy P. Callahan Read by Timothy P. Callahan 4.6
During a raid of the Ulliam system the Handler's manage to drop off a message to Captain Cook and the United Corps Planets in the form a 16 …

The Golden Snare

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.6
With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder an…

The Valley of Silent Men

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.5
Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country. James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decid…

The Ethical Engineer

by Harry Harrison Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012) 4.5
“The Ethical Engineer” also known as “Deathworld II” finds our hero Jason dinAlt captured to face justice for his crimes, but the ever-wily …

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain Read by Phil Chenevert 4.9
Follow the young boy Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim on their epic journey down the Mississippi River in the years before the Civil War. …

Queen of the Black Coast

by Robert E. Howard Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
Conan finally meets his match in Belit, the fierce, bloodthirsty and scantily clad pirate Queen. She also is unable to resist the huge, blue…

Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi Read by Phil Chenevert 4.9
This is the wonderful story of Pinocchio, the puppet who must learn many lessons before he can become a real boy. Carved by a woodcarver na…

A Study in Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Laurie Anne Walden 4.6
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

Benito Cereno

by Herman Melville Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvio…

The Brethren

by H. Rider Haggard Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtfu…

Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.6
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderfu…

Storm Over Warlock

by Andre Norton Read by Andre Norton 4.4
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that …

The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton

by Daniel Defoe Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015) 4.5
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of Captain Singleton follows the extraordinary journey of a man who rises from humble beginnings to beco…

The Blue Lagoon

by H. De Vere Stacpoole Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.7
Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most po…

At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in…

Ride Proud, Rebel!

by Andre Norton Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Drew Rennie, served as a cavalry scout in Confederate general John Hunt Morgan's command. He had left home in 1862 after a final break with …

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