Lt. Colonel Jon Smith, currently working as a medical researcher, is contacted by a Russian colleague with an urgent request - that they meet in Venice in ten days. When they meet, however, his colleague is killed
Adventure stories
- Auteur:LUDLUM, RobertSommaire:
- Auteur:Cuevas, MichelleSommaire:
A girl's friendship with a lonely black hole leads her to face her own sadness in this original, funny, and touching middle grade novel for fans of Crenshaw and Flora & Ulysses. When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA...
- Auteur:ASHTON, RichardSommaire:
In the attic of 27 Fairview Avenue sits an old captain's sea chest, secured with a large padlock. The chest fascinates young Ben Westerly, and he and his friends determine to open it, sure they will find fabulous treasure within...
- Auteur:Lawrence, IainSommaire:
Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals.
- Auteur:SMITH, WilburSommaire:
An epic of courage and love that moves from war-torn France to the secret heart of the African wilderness. It is the odyssey of a beautiful young woman of aristocratic birth, Centaine de Thiry, in search of love and fortune.
- Auteur:Riordan, RickSommaire:
Book three in the #1 New York Times bestselling Trials of Apollo series. The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. In order to regain his...
- Auteur:Lawrence, IainSommaire:
In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.
- Auteur:Higgins, JaneSommaire:
"The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of Cityside. Nik is still in high school but is destined for a great career with the...
- Auteur:Jung, MikeSommaire:
Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet...
- Auteur:LASENBY, JackSommaire:
When the gang discover that a flood has turned the creek into a lake with an island, they set about building canoes and a fort; but unknown to them, they are being watched. The third book in the Seddon Street Gang series. Suggested...
- Auteur:SMITH, WilburSommaire:
At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms in the land they carved as their own. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are preparing for the bloody rebellion which will scar...
- Auteur:Gray, ClaudiaSommaire:
Ten thousand worlds. Ten thousand enemies. One love. Marguerite Caine has done the impossible, traveling to alternate dimensions with the Firebird--the brilliant invention of her parents, her boyfriend, Paul, and their friend Theo. But...
- Auteur:MORRISSEY, DiSommaire:
It's the wild and passionate heyday of the pearling industry, and when young English bride Olivia Hennessy meets the dashing pearling master, Captain Tyndall, their lives are destined to be linked by the mysterious power of the...
- Auteur:Burroughs, Edgar RiceSommaire:
Here Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost Atlantis. Ages ago Atlantis sunk beneath the waves -- but the denizens of Opar still mine the gold of this lost colony. Tarzan, following greedy pair -- one Belgian, one Arab...
- Auteur:INNES, HammondSommaire:
Daredevil ex-RAF pilot, Edwin Cruse, buys a Hercules aeroplane for a mere ten thousand dollars. It is however, awkwardly placed for collection - on an iceberg in the Antarctic! Cruse, and others of less honest disposition, set out to...
- Auteur:Sutherland, Tui T.Sommaire:
For every villain, there is a hero . . . Turtle isn't one of the heroes he reads about in stories. If he were, he'd use his animus powers to help Pyrrhia — instead of keeping his abilities a secret, even from his own...
- Auteur:HILL, DavidSommaire:
Rob is an experienced tramper. Usually he'd look forward to a week in the bush but three terrible months have left him feeling confused and alone. When things go wrong he can't stop his party of six teenagers from plunging...
- Auteur:Roy, PhilipSommaire:
Submarine Outlaw takes young adult readers on a unique journey when Alfred, a young boy who wants to be an explorer — not a fisherman, as his family demands — teams up with a junkyard genius to build a submarine that he sails around the...
- Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:
They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's car confirm the truth. But nothing can prepare him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy...
- Auteur:Oertel, AndreasSommaire:
In their last adventure, Cody, Eric, and Rachel were clever enough to fool townspeople with a homemade "ancient Egyptian" tablet. Their exploits brought some much-needed tourism to Sultana, Manitoba, but their deception ensured they...