Action & Adventure
The Gold Hunters (Borthwick)
Read by Sue Anderson
John David Borthwick
This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist…
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Read by Peter Eastman
J. M. Barrie
When he is seven days old, Peter Pan flies away from his mother (forgetting that he is no longer a bird and therefore cannot fly), comes to …
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
Read by Tom Weiss
Victor Appleton
The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated …
The World Beyond
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Ray Cummings
Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a strange voyage. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
Read by Barry Eads
Alexander Hunter
Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert…
The Tavern Knight
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Rafael Sabatini
Follow the exploits of Sir Crispin Galliard, also known as The Tavern Knight, in his defence of the King of England against Cromwell and his…
The Vanished Messenger
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. M…
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
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Sax Rohmer
Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in the mysterious East. (Introduction by Laineyben)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3)
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Mark Twain
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s.…
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer
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Victor Appleton
A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but hi…
The Four Feathers
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A. E. W. Mason
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells th…
What Katy Did
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Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. It follows the adventures of Katy Carr…
The New Swiss Family Robinson
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summa…
Rupert of Hentzau
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Anthony Hope
This is the sequel to 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Five years have passed. The King has become jealous of Rudolf Rassendyll and suspicious of th…
New Treasure Seekers
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E. Nesbit
Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H.O, and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether tell…
Meg of Mystery Mountain
Read by SamR
Grace May North
Jane Abbott, tall, graceful and languidly beautiful, passed through the bevy of girls on the wharf below Highacres Seminary with scarcely a …
The Covered Wagon
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Emerson Hough
"Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oreg…
The Rock of Chickamauga
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Joseph A. Altsheler
"The Rock of Chickamauga," presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, deali…
Northwest!
Read by Roger Melin
Harold Bindloss
Northwest! takes place in western Canada, primarily western Alberta and British Columbia. The story revolves around Jimmy not being sure whe…