Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893. ...
THE INTIMATE SECRETS AND FABULOUS LIFE OF THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN OF ALL TIME!<P> What was Cleopatra really like? How did she gain the power to make men and break nations – to make herself the most beguiling symbol of sex the world has ever known? Here is a sweeping exploration of the secret life and many loves of Egypt's fabled queen—her affairs with the great Julius Caesar and the lusty Mark Antony… the slave boys and gladiators who ...
The year is 1978. Rudyard «Rudd» Kipling Six is a pilot and Vietnam war hero. Aloha Blaze is what her friends call «Your basic karate expert, sky-diving entrepreneur pilot, drop-dead gorgeous, four-point-zero student.» Together, they begin a stormy, steamy love affair that flares red-hot and grows even hotter. But time and circumstance intervene. Aloha flirts with a star quarterback and a mysterious Marine named Buddy, while Rudd encounters the ...
Harry Perrivale's expedition into the African jungle is destined to be singularly ill-fated. Accompanied by native bearers, his wife Rita, and trader Caleb Moon, he hopes to find the legendary lost city of Akada. Moon has a treasure map that had once belonged to an earlier explorer who'd met his death twenty years before. But Moon has plans to kill Perrivale, abduct Rita, and keep the gold and ivory of Akada for himself. Then the party ...
Anjani returns! in this direct sequel to The Gold of Akada, Rita Perrivale, widow of an English explorer, goes back to the coast of West Africa. Having inherited her husband’s fortune, she spares no expense on this new venture to loot the legendary lost city of Akada of its treasures. But Rita had only survived the disastrous first expedition because of the help of Anjani, a white man of immense strength and stature who had been brought up in th ...
Light-skinned newcomers are changing the Land of the Three Tribes. Dark-skinned Satha and her husband Loic are torn asunder. With the Creator's aid there is hope they will be reunited and find their mutual destiny, even if it means losing the love and respect of their families, clans, and tribes. ...
The fifth issue of Adventure Tales salutes pulp legend Achmed Abdullah, popular writer in the pulp magazines in the early 20th century, with two long stories – «Their Own Dear Land» and «The Remittance Woman.» Many of his stories deal with exotic locales, usually Oriental. But even his Occidental tales are of interest, well written and fast paced, often with an unexpected twist or two. Also included are «The Mid-Watch Tragedy,» a Jimmy Lavender ...
they steal an ancient book about a secret race of people who live in caverns under the north pole, it has a twist of time travel, lost love, and death, some parts will put a smile on your face and then a tear in your eyes ...
