Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison,...
Action and adventure fiction
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Author:Summary: - Author:Béchard, Deni EllisSummary:
Kabul — 10 years after 9/11: When a car bomb explodes in a crowded part of the city, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers were acquaintances — three fellow ex-pats who had formed an...
- Author:Summers, GillianSummary:
After squelching an evil plot by a rotten fairy, Keelie Heartwood is ready for fun at the upcoming Wildewood Renaissance Faire. Getting to know her elf dad has been great, but camping out in his homemade RV while acting out the 16th...
- Author:Zee, GingerSummary:
When Helicity Dunlap flies to Texas to spend time with her best friend, she hopes to leave her personal tragedies behind for a little while, but her troubles from home follow her south.
- Author:Javins, MarieSummary:
A dangerous terrorist has ingested a new techno-organic virus, transforming him into a superhuman killing machine. Now immensely powerful, but driven mad by the virus' effects, the terrorist is seemingly unstoppable. To halt this madman...
- Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:
14-year-old Shannon and her little brother Cody have the time of their lives when they spend the summer rescuing animals for a little-known wildlife shelter, Jackie's Wild Seattle. Their parents away in Pakistan, Shannon and Cody are...
- Author:Nawaz, ZarqaSummary:
Jameela Green only has one wish: to see her memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. When it doesn't come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque, setting off a series of absurd and unfortunate events.
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
Le petit James mène une existence bien malheureuse auprès de ses deux tantes abominablement méchantes, tante Éponge et tante Piquette, qui le tourmentent sans cesse. Un jour, un vieil homme confie à James un sac rempli de bizarres...
- Author:Radio ArchivesSummary:
Volume 1 of Jerry at Fair Oaks! Very few radio shows that aired during Radio's Golden Age between the early 1930s right on up into the 1950s managed to spin off an equally successful sequel series - yet Jerry Dugan's circus...
- Author:Radio ArchivesSummary:
Volume 2 of Jerry at Fair Oaks! Very few radio shows that aired during Radio's Golden Age between the early 1930s right on up into the 1950s managed to spin off an equally successful sequel series - yet Jerry Dugan's circus adventures...
- Author:Burroughs, Edgar Rice, St. John, J. AllenSummary:
When John Carter goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona dessert, he wakes up on the planet Mars. There he meets the fifteen foot tall, four armed, green men of mars, with horse-like dragons, and watch dogs like oversized...
- Author:Munsch, RobertSummary:
"Last stop! Everybody out!" Jonathan is trying not to make a mess, but someone has put a subway station in his apartment. So Jonathan goes to City Hall to fix the computer.
- Author:Cussler, CliveSummary:
Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew risk everything to stop a cutthroat arms dealer from stealing a priceless ancient treasure in the thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times -bestselling grand master of adventure. In 1074 B.C., vast...
- Author:Messinger, JonathanSummary:
Explorers Troop 301 has checked out a lot of planets hoping to find a place to call home. But their latest mission feels like the biggest snoozefest ever, until they get chased by giant ANTibodies straight into the planet's open...
- Author:Verne, JulesSummary:
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the...
- Author:Verne, Jules, Riou, ÉdouardSummary:
When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
DJ is always thrilled to spend time with his grandfather, a person he idolizes. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take all of his grandsons on individual adventures, it seems only fair that DJ, as the oldest grandchild,...
- Author:Walters, EricSummary:
In this middle-grade novel, DJ travels with his grandfather to Central America and ends up hunted by armed gunmen.
- Author:Burroughs, Edgar RiceSummary:
Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series of twenty-four books about the title character...
- Author:Child, LeeSummary:
A discharged soldier is framed for a murder by the chief of police in a small town in Georgia where he has just arrived. When the soldier learns that the murdered man was his brother he breaks out of jail and carries out his own...
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