Action & Adventure

The Ebb-Tide

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.3
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires …

Voodoo Planet

by Andre Norton Read by Mark Nelson 4.4
The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an inters…

Shadows in Zamboula

by Robert E. Howard Read by Mark Nelson 4.6
Despite a warning received in the Suq by an elderly desert nomad, Conan stays the night in a cheap tavern in Zamboula, run by Aram Baksh. As…

The City at World's End

by Edmond Hamilton Read by Mark Nelson 4.5
The City at World's End by Edmond Hamilton presents a unique vision of a post-apocalyptic world, where the aftermath of a nuclear war unfold…

The Arwen

by Timothy P. Callahan Read by Timothy P. Callahan 4.5
Dyson Sphere is part two of a four part adventure that will stretch across the vastness of space and time. An exciting follow up to The Wat…

Rebel Spurs

by Andre Norton Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans dr…

The Valley of the Moon

by Jack London Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.7
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-th…

The House of a Thousand Candles

by Meredith Nicholson Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.6
A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a r…

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must tou…

The Clue of the Silken Ladder

by Mildred A. Wirt Benson Read by Cheryl Adam 4.6
In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secre…

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by Susan Umpleby 4.8
In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel…

Scarhaven Keep

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Set against the rugged beauty of the northern English sea coast, Scarhaven Keep weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue. When a sudden disappe…

Running Water

by A. E. W. Mason Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times),…

The Swiss Family Robinson

by Johann David Wyss Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.7
First published in 1812, The Swiss Family Robinson may sometimes seem old-fashioned to modern readers, especially the family’s attitude towa…

The Escaping Club

by A. J. Evans Read by Tom Weiss 4.6
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly &…

Beneath

by Jeremy Robinson Read by Jeremy Robinson 4.5
Three thousand years after a chunk of iron the size of Khufu’s pyramid collides with Europa, Jupiter’s sixth moon, an asteroid borne of the …

Greylorn

by Keith Laumer Read by Mark F. Smith 4.4
Commander Greylorn has a problem. No, actually he has two of them. It's not enough that the remaining residents of Earth have pinned their l…

Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini Read by Gord Mackenzie 4.8
Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

The Arwen

by Timothy P. Callahan Read by Timothy P. Callahan 4.6
Part three of a four part adventure that will stretch across the vastness of space and time. An exciting follow-up to The Water Planet, and …

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