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11 A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Barsoom Story (7)
The tale of Tan Hadron of Hastor, a lowly, poor padwar (a low-ranking officer) who is in love with the beautiful, haughty Sanoma Tora, daughter of Tor Hatan, a minor but rich noble. As he is only a padwar, Sanoma spurns him. Then Sanoma Tora is kidnapped...
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Travel, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2352 | Votes: 50 | Score: 9.09
Size: 458KB | 86,807 words | Posted: Concluded:

12 The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Barsoom Story (6)
On Mars, Paxton is taken in by elderly mad scientist Ras Thavas, the "Master Mind" of the title, who educates him in the ways of Barsoom and bestows on him the Martian name Vad Varo. Ras has perfected techniques of transplanting brains, which he uses to provide rich elderly Martians with youthful new bodies for a profit. Distrustful of his fellow Martians, he trains Paxton as his assistant to perform the same operation on him.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 2142 | Votes: 44 | Score: 9.07
Size: 296KB | 55,616 words | Posted: Concluded:

13 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

It's the year 1872. Phileas Fogg makes a bet that he can travel around the world in 80 days
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Historical, Travel, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 964 | Votes: 15 | Score: 9.07
Size: 356KB | 62,652 words | Posted: Concluded:

14 Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Barsoom Story (9)
Synthetic Men introduces a completely new character as its protagonist: Vor Daj, a warrior from Helium and a member of John Carter's personal guard
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Travel, Science Fiction, Aliens, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1776 | Votes: 29 | Score: 9.05
Size: 341KB | 65,129 words | Posted: Concluded:

15 Warlords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Barsoom Story (3)
John Carter discovers that a First Born knows the secret of the Temple of the Sun and he and the Holy Hekkador Matai Shang want to rescue the Holy Thern's daughter, who is imprisoned with Dejah Thoris and another Barsoomian princess, Thuvia of Ptarth. John Carter follows them in the hope of liberating his beloved wife.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Violence, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 3553 | Votes: 168 | Score: 9.03
Size: 303KB | 57,021 words | Posted: Concluded:

16 Bones by Edgar Wallace

It is a time when the major world powers are vying for colonial honors, a time of ju-ju, witch doctors, and an uneasy peace with Bosambo, impressive chief of the Ochori. When Commissioner Sanders goes on leave, the trusty Lieutenant Hamilton takes over administration of the African territories. However, yet again, the trouble-prone Francis Augustus Tibbetts , known as 'Bones', while meaning to assist, only manages to spread his own unique style of innocent and endearing mischief.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 568 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 313KB | 57,588 words | Posted:

17 Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Barsoom Story (4)
Carthoris is madly in love with Thuvia. Unfortunately Thuvia is promised to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol. On Barsoom nothing can break an engagement between a man and woman except death, although the new suitor may not cause that death. Thus it is that Thuvia will have none of him. This situation leaves Carthoris in a predicament.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Travel, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 3116 | Votes: 89 | Score: 8.90
Size: 259KB | 46,945 words | Posted: Concluded:

18 The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc

Lupin, under the name of Serge Rénine, trying to conquer the heart of a young lady, travels with her, solving eight mysteries on the way.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Mystery
Tags: Romance, Crime, Detective, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1169 | Votes: 17 | Score: 8.87
Size: 345KB | 62,855 words | Posted:

19 The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauve
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1069 | Votes: 7 | Score: 8.86
Size: 470KB | 84,644 words | Posted:

20 The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Barsoom Story (2)
At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter is unwillingly transported back to Earth. The Gods of Mars begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Travel, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 4922 | Votes: 190 | Score: 8.85
Size: 438KB | 82,460 words | Posted: Concluded:
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