A Lieutenant at Eighteen

A Lieutenant at Eighteen

Oliver Optic

Adventure / Children's

"Are you an honest man, sir?" asked a very pretty young woman, not more than twenty years old, as she stopped in the open field in front of Sergeant Life Knox of the Riverlawn Cavalry, as it was generally called, though the squadron belonged to a numbered regiment in Kentucky.
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Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants

Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants

Oliver Optic

Adventure / Children's

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Tyger Pants - Cretin the Cruel

Tyger Pants - Cretin the Cruel

Royston Wood

Sports / Cycling / Adventure

Tyger Pants is trapped in a terrifying library dimension, full of werewolves, dragons and spell casting armadillos - can he survive long enough to escape? Written in the first person, present tense it is designed to sit the reader behind the eyes of the narrator, right in the middle of the action. The plot is kept straightforward and linear to encourage reading and engagement.It's Take Your Kids to Work Day and Tyger Pants should be looking forward to a day off school. But his dad’s a librarian - DULL!Dull until his dad leaves his top secret iRate4 phone lying on the desk. Tyger can’t help but fiddle…Before he knows what’s happening he’s plunged into a terrifying world of werewolves, dragons and spell casting armadillos…Written in the first person, present tense it is designed to sit the reader behind the eyes of the narrator, right in the middle of the action. The plot is kept straightforward and linear to encourage reading and engagement.
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Arctic Drift

Arctic Drift

Clive Cussler

Literature & Fiction / Adventure / Nonfiction

A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming... a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia... a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war... NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission, captain and crew perished to a man?and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them.
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Her Highland Defender (Scottish Highlander Romance)

Her Highland Defender (Scottish Highlander Romance)

Barbara Bard

Romance / Historical Romance / Adventure

He is her last chance to escape a life of torment. She is the light amidst his life of darkness...As long as they are together, nothing can stand in their way.Eamon Baird and his men are on a mission. As a valued member of his clan, he sets out to find the cult threatening his family and village and eliminate them before this deadly menace spreads upon his people.Agatha Pickering has gone through too many hardships to believe in love or happiness. Being a maid and a prisoner of her fate for almost all her life has never allowed herself to hope for a different life...until he comes her way.When his search leads Eamon to a long-forgotten castle for clues, Agatha will be there and the desire stirring inside him will be too strong for him to ignore. And Agatha will find herself feeling hope again in the arms of the Highlander who swears to protect her at all costs.But as the flames of their passion meet the destructive flames of their bloodthirsty enemy, Agatha and Eamon will have to take a final stand...or burn forever…
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Les trois mousquetaires. English

Les trois mousquetaires. English

Alexandre Dumas

Adventure / Romance / Fiction

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