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151 Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard

Adventurer Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko win 100 cattle to buy his true love Mameena ("Child of Storm"). The mysterious Mameena, however, has other ideas-she wants to marry Allan Quatermain.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 626 | Votes: 6 | Score: 7.27
Size: 479KB | 92,595 words | Posted:

152 The Haunted Mountain by Robert E. Howard

A Breckinridge Elkins Story
Breckinridge gets involved in the hunt for a lost gold mine. First appeared in 'Action Stories' February 1935. In the public domain.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Humor, Pulp Classic
Downloads: 1968 | Votes: 134 | Score: 7.26
Size: 28KB | 5,380 words | Posted:

153 The Pit of the Serpent by Robert E. Howard

A Sailor Steve Costigan Story
Steve gets into a fight over a girl. What else? First published in the magazine 'Fight Stories' July 1929. In the public domain.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Humor, Pulp Classic
Downloads: 677 | Votes: 35 | Score: 7.25
Size: 33KB | 6,571 words | Posted:

154 The Ephalon by JOHNNY SACHU

A disabled craft on an uninhabited planatoid leads to an uncertainfuture for one pilot.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 2377 | Votes: 190 | Score: 7.25
Size: 23KB | 4,399 words | Posted:

155 Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

How He Was Kidnapped and Cast Away; His Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; His Acquaintance With Alan Breck Stewart and Other Notorious Highland Jacobites; With All That He Suffered at the Hands of His Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, Falsely So Called.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 858 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 401KB | 80,821 words | Posted:

156 The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard

While Quartermain visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used among the Africans. Harut and Marut, priests and doctors of the White Kendah People and they have come to ask Allan Quartermain for his help. The White Kendah people are at war with the Black Kendah people who have an evil spirit for a god. And that spirit of the god resides in the largest elephant they have ever seen, an elephant that no man can kill -- save Allan Quartermain.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 558 | Votes: 8 | Score: 7.25
Size: 584KB | 112,592 words | Posted:

157 Free Rein by GT Dodge

A knight astride a horse with a grudge. Whatever you do, do not give him his head! What Free Rein really means. See Sister story Free Reign for the alternative.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Coming of Age, Violence, War, Knights
Downloads: 410 | Votes: 24 | Score: 7.22
Size: 4KB | 828 words | Posted:

158 The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life-until he is accosted by a mysterious American, who warns him of an assassination plot that could completely destabalise the fragile political balance of Europe. Initially sceptical, Hannay nonetheless harbours the man-but one dayreturns home to find him murdered...
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1306 | Votes: 22 | Score: 7.22
Size: 208KB | 41,264 words | Posted:

159 Greenmantle by John Buchan

November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top secret mission to investigate a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the Western Front.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 860 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.22
Size: 505KB | 99,525 words | Posted:

160 The Assignment by Lapi

A might convoluted, but is that not so in life.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Slavery, Violence, Religion, Travel
Downloads: 540 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.21
Size: 144KB | 28,581 words | Posted:
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