Action & Adventure

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School....

It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition....

The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite....

The riveting conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times best-selling trilogy that’s “sure to become a classic” (School Library Journal)....

UNLIKE MOST VICTORIAN women, Sally is completely independent, with her own successful business and a comfortable home for her young daughter, Harriet. But Sally’s whole world is about to collapse....

The vivacious Jacky Faber return in the 10th tale in L. A. Meyer's Bloody Jack series! Once again under the thumb of British Intelligence, Jacky is sent to Spain....

In this sixth installment of the "Bloody Jack" series, love and war collide as the irrepressible Jacky Faber sets off on a daring adventure she vowed she'd never take....

Jacky Faber is framed as passing confidential U.S. information to the British. Forced to flee Boston, she goes undercover as a governess for a prominent Puritan family....

Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide....

Bloodied and barely conscious, a teenage boy wakes up at the side of a railway track in the middle of nowhere. It’s night and the dead of winter–bone-chillingly cold....

In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre LaPage dreams of becoming a voyageur and paddling a fur trade canoe. But this is something that older, more experienced men do....

AFTER WITNESSING A mysterious explosion, three young Londoners—Becky, Jim, and Adelaide—journey to a tiny country high in the mountains of Central Europe in 1882....

When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place - its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors....

Brought to China by a Syrian monk, the Scrolls contain a timeless wisdom for humanity. For hundreds of years, they have remained in the East. Now, a Chinese master gives Captain Jacob van Horn a sacred mission—find the one in the West destined to receive the Scrolls’ wisdom....

Leira's family flee to the island of Crete just before a huge volcanic eruption destroys their island and sends a tsunami to where they thought they had found safety....

Fesselnd bis zum Ende. Als Lukas’ Mutter als Hexe angeklagt wird und sein Vater beim Versuch, sie zu retten, stirbt, ändert sich alles. Während er selbst...

Lukas und seine drei Freunde wollen nur eins – die zerstörte Burg Lohenstein wiederaufbauen. Doch da taucht der Sterndeuter Senno auf und...

The genuine recollections of a gold rush prospector, barber, dentist, and his frontier philosophy. Set during the mostly forgotten Georgia gold rush of the 1830s this tale focuses on Bob - a lucky, but grumpy gold prospector who doesn’t get along with anybody....

1634 – der Krieg in Europa geht in sein 17. Jahr und der große Feldherr Wallenstein ist tot. Steckt der Inquisitor Waldemar von Schönborn...

Russia, 1940. Fifteen-year-old Misha’s life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin’s inner circle....