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H. Rider Haggard She and Allen

Adventure
English
118600 Words
Ages 6 and up
157
3

She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines. Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased loved ones, adventurer and trader Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali. He tells Allan he must seek out a great white sorceress who rules a hidden kingdom far to the north, and he charges Allan to take a message to her. He also gives Allan a necklace with a strange amulet, carved in Zikali's own likeness. Zikali claims it has great magical powers that will protect Allan on his journey, but he must on no account take it off. Allan is initially scornful of Zikali's claims, and sets off for the coast, but a series of odd events force him to go north in spite of his own wishes. On the journey he encounters Umslopogaas, a fearsome Zulu warrior chieftain. Umslopogaas tells Allan that he has discovered that he is about to be deposed and murdered, so he decides to leave his village and accompany Allan on his quest. Allan is again skeptical, but a few days later Umslopogaas and his band of warriors meet up with Allan's party, and Umslopogaas cements their friendship when he saves Allan from being killed by a lion. Allan, Robertson and Umsoplogaas set off in pursuit. At one point they catch up to the cannibals, and Allan and Hans almost succeed in freeing Inez, but her servant panics and alerts their captors, who escape. They track the cannibals through the treacherous swampland that surrounds the lost kingdom of Kôr, and as they approach the great mountain the cannibals turn and attack Allan's group, but they are driven off by the arrival of Bilali, the servant of Ayesha, who tells that that She has been expecting them, and that he is to bring them into her presence. Allan is summoned to meet Ayesha, who is camped among the ruins of the ancient city of Kôr. Ayesha remains veiled, although she briefly reveals herself to him, but in spite of her allure, he manages to resist her power, and throughout the story he remains skeptical of her claims that she is immortal and has supernatural powers. [more]

Keywords: she and allen, h rider haggard, action and adventure, historic romance, thriller and suspense, alternative history

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Andrew Scorah The Omega Sanction

Thriller
English
63443 Words
Ages 12 and up
3803
38

AN OLD ENEMY Thuringia, Germany, 1945 In the dyeing days of World War II, the allied forces overrun a subterranean factory in the Jonas Valley. A team from 30 Advanced Unit is sent into the tunnels, what they discover is beyond all logic, and known technology of the time. A TIME FOR REVENGE London today, MI5’s Adam Bane is working on taking down a uranium smuggling ring. A raid on a warehouse goes horribly wrong when all the players commit suicide. And the consignment turns out to be something completely different, Red Mercury, code name Xerum 25. On the back of this, Bane is seconded to a multi-national team, code name Omega. Before he can leave, he finds he has been marked for death by a Far Right group, Geheime Staat. Running for his life with assassins jumping out of the shadows, he runs to the only safe place, Omega Base. RISE OF THE NEW REICH An armed and highly skilled force has overrun Area 51, the US’s top secret testing site in the Nevada dessert. Using the bases defences, they have thwarted all attempts to retake the base. Led by the self-styled Fuhrer, Oskar Koenig, they are after a device known as Die Glocke. With this device they hope to return to the final days of World War II. A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF FEAR What if Hitler had developed a devastating new form of super-weapon? A doomsday weapon. What if Hitler knew he was going to lose the war? What if this weapon was hidden away somewhere, waiting for the time to be activated. Now imagine an old enemy who has been hiding in the shadows and is still fighting a war most thought had ended with the fall of Hitler. Oskar Koenig knows of this weapon, knows Hitler killed everyone who worked on the device. It was to be used as his final solution; he was going to burn the planet. Thankfully, he never got to use it. Now this old enemy with a new face is going to carry out Hitler’s last wish. The world will bow down to the might of the Fourth Reich or burn. Bane and Omega Group are plunged into a fight for survival. Taking them from the death lands of Nevada to the hellish last days of the Third Reich. [more]

Keywords: Thriller, Time travel, World War 2, Action and Adventure, Military

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Lee Broad The Masada Protocol

Fiction
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
362
2

After a series of risky black ops missions, Steve is looking forward to a straightforward intelligence assignment in beautiful Israel. What he finds is a conspiracy that will rock the Middle East and the world. He also finds Neena Shahud, an attractive Mossad agent waging a personal vendetta against Hezbollah. First Steve must save Neena's life, then he must figure out why the Middle East is about to explode and stop it. But, by the time Steve and Neena put the pieces in place, it may be too late. If Masada, an historic fortress, the object of an oath taken by the Israel's elite soldiers, and a symbol of Jewish freedom is not to fall to enemies a second time, what will be the price? Who will pay it? [more]

Keywords: Political thriller, Spy thriller, Action and Adventure, Military and Espionage, Thriller and Suspense

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Morris Kenyon Krillaz

Science Fiction
English
27930 Words
Ages 14 and up
245
0

You'd need a good reason to visit Hancox 1 – a tide-locked world infested by biological terror weapons – Krillaz – a nightmare genetically modified cross between rats and hi-mans. Even hunters avoid the place. However, interplanetary recovery agent Vic Vargo has one million reasons to go. In line to collect a million Hydrans if he rescues a playboy from the talons of the Krillaz, he teams up with a group of executives on a management bonding exercise and heads out to an abandoned city. There, Vargo realises they have all bitten off far more than they can chew. Unlike the Krillaz... Also, includes the bonus short story: 'Sideways Through Time'. [more]

Keywords: science-fiction, horror, sci-fi, action, adventure action and adventure, sci-fi horror, guns, rats

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Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island

Adventure
English
67801 Words
Ages 6 and up
373
2

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. Bones becomes a long-term lodger at the inn, only paying for about the first week of his stay. Jim quickly realizes that Bones is in hiding, and that he particularly dreads meeting an unidentified seafaring man with one leg. Some months later, Bones is visited by a mysterious sailor named Black Dog. Their meeting turns violent, Black Dog flees and Bones suffers a stroke. While Jim cares for him, Bones confesses that he was once the mate of a notorious late pirate, Captain Flint, and that his old crewmates want Bones' sea chest. Some time later, another of Bones' crew mates, a blind man named Pew, appears at the inn and forces Jim to lead him to Bones. Pew gives Bones a paper. After Pew leaves, Bones opens the paper to discover it is marked with the Black Spot, a pirate summons, with the warning that he has until ten o'clock to meet their demands. Bones drops dead of apoplexy (in this context, a stroke) on the spot. Jim and his mother open Bones' sea chest to collect the amount due to them for Bones' room and board, but before they can count out the money that they are owed, they hear pirates approaching the inn and are forced to flee and hide, Jim taking with him a mysterious oilskin packet from the chest. The pirates, led by Pew, find the sea chest and the money, but are frustrated that there is no sign of "Flint's fist". [more]

Keywords: treasure island, robert louis stevenson, action and adventure, pirate story, pirates

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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

Adventure
English
120751 Words
Ages 6 and up
386
3

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a sea voyage against the wishes of his parents who want him to pursue a career, possibly in law. After a tumultuous journey where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey, too, ends in disaster as the ship is taken over by Salé pirates and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor. Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a boy named Xury; a Captain of a Portuguese ship off the west coast of Africa rescues him. The ship is en route to Brazil. With the captain's help, Crusoe procures a plantation. Years later, Crusoe joins an expedition to bring slaves from Africa but he is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island (which he calls the Island of Despair) near the mouth of the Orinoco river. [more]

Keywords: robinson crusoe, daniel defoe, sea story, action and adventure, classic literature

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Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Fiction
English
110021 Words
Ages 10 and up
713
2

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. [more]

Keywords: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Action and Adventure, Classic Literature

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Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Juvenile Fiction
English
66234 Words
Ages 6 and up
506
4

A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. A Little Princess opens with seven-year-old Sara Crewe and her father, Captain Crewe, arriving at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London. Captain Crewe is very wealthy and states that Sara is destined for a lavish, comfortable future. Despite being pampered all her life in India, Sara herself is very intelligent, polite, and creative. Headmistress Miss Minchin is secretly jealous and dislikes Sara for her cleverness, but openly praises and flatters her because of her father's wealth. Before departing for India, Captain Crewe purchases Sara an elegant wardrobe and a doll whom Sara adores and names "Emily." Sara's friendliness and love for pretending and storytelling makes her popular with most of the school's students. [more]

Keywords: a little princess, frances hodgson burnett, childrens novel, cllasssic literature, fantasy, action and adventure

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Sir Walter Scott The Monastery

Fiction
English
154959 Words
No Age Recommendation
135
2

The Monastery is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with The Abbot, it is one of Scott's Tales from Benedictine Sources and is set in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Elizabethan period. The action is centred around the Monastery of Kennaquhair, probably based on Melrose Abbey in south east Scotland, on the River Tweed. At this time, circa 1550, the Scottish Reformation is just beginning, and the monastery is in peril. A love story is interwoven as the Glendinning boys fall in love with Mary Avenel. Edward ends up becoming a monk, and Halbert finally marries Mary, after service with the Earl of Murray. [more]

Keywords: the monastery, walter scott, historical romance, history, historical mystery, action and adventure, english literature

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H. Rider Haggard Montezuma's Daughter

Adventure
English
150127 Words
Ages 8 and up
344
2

Montezuma's Daughter is a novel written by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery. Eventually, Thomas unwillingly joins a Spanish expedition to New Spain, and the novel tells the fictionalized story of the first interactions between the natives and European explorers. This includes misunderstandings, prejudice on the part of the Spaniards, and ultimately open war. During the course of the story, Thomas meets and marries the daughter of the native king (from whom the novel takes its title) and settles into life in Mexico. The war destroys his native family, and eventually Thomas gets revenge on the antagonist and returns to England. [more]

Keywords: montezumas daughter, h rider haggard, montezuma, history, action and adventure, war novel, aztec culture

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