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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
Legendary outlaw Robin Hood fights injustice and defends the oppressed with his band of merry men.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the ... (Goodreads)
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A thrilling adventure of a young boy and a crew of rogues in search of buried treasure.
An old sailor named Billy Bones comes to lodge in the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on the Bristol Channel , in England. He tells the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins , to keep a lookout for "a one-legged ... (Wikipedia)
Captain Blood
by Rafael Sabatini
An adventurous tale of a surgeon wrongfully convicted of treason, and his daring escape to the Caribbean.
Short Description: Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to indentured slavery in the Caribbean. He escapes and becomes ... (Goodreads)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
A thrilling adventure beneath the depths of the sea, discovering a strange and wondrous world.
During the year 1866, ships of various nationalities sight a mysterious sea monster , which, it is later suggested, might be a gigantic narwhal . The U.S. government assembles an expedition in New ... (Wikipedia)
Half a King
by Joe Abercrombie
A young prince's struggle to reclaim his rightful throne and avenge his father's death.
The story follows the exploits of Yarvi, a young prince of Gettland with a disabled hand. When his father dies Yarvi is elevated to the throne but faces a struggle to keep it as others conspire to ... (Wikipedia)
A Princess of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
An Earthman is transported to Mars, where he must fight to survive in an alien world.
John Carter , a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War , goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war's end. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches . While ... (Wikipedia)
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
An orphan's journey of survival and resilience in the face of poverty and injustice.
Oliver Twist is born into a life of poverty and misfortune, raised in a workhouse in the fictional town of Mudfog , located 70 miles (110 km) north of London . , , , He is orphaned by his father's ... (Wikipedia)
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A young wizard embarks on a quest to master his own magical powers and battle a mysterious force of evil.
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon ... (Goodreads)
Pawn of Prophecy
by David Eddings
A young man must accept his destiny and fulfill an ancient prophecy to save the world.
A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled! THE ... (Goodreads)
Out of the Silent Planet
by C.S. Lewis
A man is kidnapped and taken to another planet, where he must fight for his freedom.
While on a walking tour, the philologist Elwin Ransom is drugged and taken on board a spacecraft bound for a planet called Malacandra. His abductors are Devine, a former college acquaintance, and the ... (Wikipedia)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
Explorers embark on an incredible subterranean adventure, uncovering the secrets of a lost world.
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
A thrilling mystery of secrets and hidden identities, with a hero on a quest for the truth.
Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, encounters and gives directions to a mysterious and distressed woman dressed entirely in white, lost in London; he is later informed by policemen that she has ... (Wikipedia)
Perelandra
by C.S. Lewis
Epic sci-fi fantasy about a man's mission to a new planet to protect it from evil.
The story starts with the philologist Elwin Ransom , some years after his return from Mars at the end of, Out of the Silent Planet, , receiving a new mission from the Oyarsa (the angelic ruler) of ... (Wikipedia)
The Yale Shakespeare Complete Works
by William Shakespeare
A comprehensive collection of all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, showcasing his mastery of language and storytelling.
Here is every word ever written by the immortal Bard–the histories, tragedies, comedies, and sonnets--in a facsimile of the definitive Shakespeare Head edition published originally in Oxford, ... (Goodreads)
Before They Are Hanged
by Joe Abercrombie
Epic fantasy adventure of a group of unlikely heroes in a fight for survival.
Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? ... (Goodreads)
Deadline
by Sandra Brown
A journalist races against time to uncover the truth behind a murder case, but the closer he gets, the more dangerous it becomes.
An ambitious reporter haunted by memories of the war in Afghanistan follows an FBI tip to investigate the mysterious disappearance — and likely murder — of a former Marine. Dawson Scott is a haunted ... (Barnes & Noble)
Broken for You
by Stephanie Kallos
A wealthy woman opens her home to a young artist, and together they confront their pasts and find healing.
National best seller and Today show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect. Stephanie Kallos's ... (Goodreads)
Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn
by Piers Anthony
A young woman with the power to manipulate reality must navigate a dangerous world of political intrigue and betrayal.
Princess Ivy, who is now a 5-year-old in this book, asks one of Castle Roogna's ghosts to tell her how he became a ghost. Ivy uses her talent of enhancement - and some caustic Crewel Lye to strip off ... (Wikipedia)
The Number of the Beast
by Robert A. Heinlein
Four adventurers travel through parallel universes, encountering different versions of themselves and fighting to save the multiverse.
The book is a series of diary entries primarily by each of the four main characters: Zebadiah "Zeb" John Carter, programmer Dejah Thoris "Deety" Burroughs Carter, her mathematics professor father ... (Wikipedia)
Winds of Fate
by Mercedes Lackey
A young woman discovers her magical powers and must navigate a dangerous world of politics and war.
Lackey, who has enchanted readers since the publication of her first novel, Arrows of the Queen in 1987, scores another hit with the paperback release of the first book in an exciting new series. ... (Goodreads)
A Knight of the Word
by Terry Brooks
A knight must choose between his duty to protect humanity and his desire for a normal life.
John Ross, having failed on a mission from the Word in which fourteen school children were killed in San Sobel, California , tries to leave his life as a Knight of the Word behind him. He returns to ... (Wikipedia)
Chess Story
by Stefan Zweig
A chess master's attempt to regain his lost skill, and the psychological battle he faces.
The narrator opens the story on a passenger liner traveling from New York to Buenos Aires. Driven to mental anguish as the result of total isolation by the Nazis , Dr B, a securities expert hiding ... (Wikipedia)
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
An epic journey of adventure and exploration, pushing the boundaries of the known world.
The story starts in London on Wednesday, 2 October 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich British gentleman living a solitary life. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with ... (Wikipedia)
The Foundation Trilogy
by Isaac Asimov
Intergalactic future-history saga of a Galactic Empire on the brink of collapse.
A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism ... (Goodreads)
Blue Adept
by Piers Anthony
A man from Earth travels to a parallel world where magic is real and must master his abilities to save both worlds from destruction.
In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he's a serf trying to prove his right to exist by ... (Goodreads)
Job: A Comedy of Justice
by Robert A. Heinlein
An entertaining and thought-provoking exploration of faith and morality.
The story examines religion through the eyes of Alex, a Christian political activist who is corrupted by Margrethe, a Danish Norse cruise ship hostess—and who loves every minute of it. Enduring a ... (Wikipedia)
Arrow's Fall
by Mercedes Lackey
The final book in the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy. Talia must use her powers to save the kingdom from a dangerous enemy.
Having completed her year and a half interning in the field, Talia returns to Haven as Queen's Own Herald in right. In her absence, the Council of Valdemar has been considering an offer of an ... (Wikipedia)
The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
Two teenagers bond with an elderly man and learn valuable lessons about life and friendship.
The novel begins with an "oath" signed by John Conlan and Lorraine Jensen, two high school sophomores, who pledge that they will report only the facts about their experiences with Mr. Pignati. When ... (Wikipedia)
Cyclops
by Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt searches for a lost WWII submarine carrying a deadly cargo that could change the course of history.
A wealthy American financier disappears on atreasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cubanwaters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with acrew of dead men – Soviet cosmonauts.DIRK PITT discovers a ... (Goodreads)
Glory Road
by Robert A. Heinlein
A Vietnam veteran is recruited to travel to a parallel universe to rescue a princess. Along the way, he learns about honor, love, and sacrifice.
Evelyn Cyril "E.C." Gordon (also known as "Easy" and "Flash" , ) has been recently discharged from an unnamed war in Southeast Asia . He is pondering what to do with his future and considers spending ... (Wikipedia)
