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Tarzan of the Apes: A Tarzan NovelThe first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur...
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AntarcticaThe award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel. "Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around."--Locus It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the...
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El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet PimpernelThe elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. The still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and the shadow of the guillotine draws ever nearer to the young Dauphin, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. No one dares to attempt...
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Tarzan of the ApesHaving failed in a number of occupations as a young man, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) found his niche as a writer with Tarzan of the Apes, first published in 1914. Highly imaginative, exotic and suspenseful, the story tells of an infant -- the son...
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Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure [Title Page Only]#1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE"A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure."--The Washington Post Book World They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty...
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Dark Deeds: Volume 3In the third book of the "entertaining" (Kirkus Reveiws) Keiko series, Captain Ichabod Drift and his crew find themselves in another mess as a ship-wide vacation leads to their second-in-command taken hostage by the planet's criminal mastermind. After the riotous civil war in Dark...
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Quillifer"Walter Jon Williams is always fun, but this may be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written." --George R. R. Martin From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes...
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The JungleJuan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are hired to save a wealthy Indonesian businessman's son from the influence of the Taliban in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series. Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands....
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The Three Musketeers: An Abridgement by Lord SudleyThe famous swashbuckling adventure When hot-blooded young d'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he finds himself challenged to a duel with not one, but three of the King's Musketeers. But Athos, Porthos and Aramis are to become his greatest friends, and companions...
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The Five Greatest Warriors, 3IT BEGAN WITH SIX STONES . . . From the deserts of Israel to the tsunami-lashed coasts of Japan, from the steppes of Mongolia to the most mysterious island on Earth--this is what we have come to expect from Matthew Reilly: stupendous action, white-knuckle...
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The Midas LegacyAmerican archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, search for King Midas's legacy in the latest thrilling adventure in Andy McDermott's globe-spanning series. For Nina Wilde and her ex-SAS husband Eddie Chase, locating the legendary lost city of Atlantis was just...
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Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume OneMaster of driving pace, exotic setting, and complex plotting, Harold Lamb was one of Robert E. Howard's favorite writers. Here at last is every pulse-pounding, action-packed story of Lamb's greatest hero, the wolf of the steppes, Khlit the Cossack. Journey now with the unsung...
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PellucidarIn this sequel to At the Earth's Core, return to the world of Pellucidar-an exotic, savage land at the center of the Earth, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. When American explorer David Innes first discovered Pellucidar, he fell under the spell...
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The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie NewtonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley recaptures an almost forgotten part of the American story and once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance in The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Set in the 1850s, The All-True Travels...
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Odin's Wolves: A Novel (Raven: Book 3)They came from the North and fought their way through France and Spain. Now this fearless band of brothers sets sail for the greatest city in the world.Plunging through the living hell of Pope Leo's shattered, perverted Rome, the dragon-faced ships of Sigurd the...
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Deep Fathom" Rollins] will make your toes curl and your free hand clutch the armchair as you speed through the pages."--Tampa Tribune"James Rollins knows adventure."--Chicago Sun TimesA sensational early work from "one of the most inventive storytellers writing today" (Lincoln Child)--the third pulse-pounding adventure novel...
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Emily Windsnap and the Tides of Time: #9Emily must travel through time and into the future to save both of her hometowns to make a future that's bright for everyone. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Chapter Books is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.Author:...
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The BlueThey found paradise....What would they do to keep it? "Lagoon swims and boozy nights turn sinister in [this] atmospheric thriller" (People) about a group of friends whose dream journey around the world on a yacht turns into a chilling nightmare when one of them...
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OutlawNew York Timesbestselling author Ted Dekker brings an exotic tale of adventure and creates his most memorable character ever. The story of how I, Julian Carter, and my precious two-year old son, Stephen, left Atlanta Georgia and found ourselves on a white sailboat, tossed...
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The Black CorsairThe Caribbean, 17th century. A powerful man killed his family. The Black Corsair vows vengeance.... and he won't stop until he gets it. One of the world's first pirate classics. An Italian nobleman turns pirate to avenge the murder of his brothers. His foe:...
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