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Bone Quill by John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this thrilling sequel to Hollow Earth, Matt and Emily must stop someone from unleashing an army of mankind’s worst nightmares.In the Middle Ages, an old monk used his powers and a bone quill to ink a magical manuscript, The Book of Beasts. Over the centuries the Book, and the quill, were lost.Twins Matt and Emily Calder are Animare—just like their ancestor, the monk...Categorized as:
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![Attack Of The Lizard King by Rex Stone]()
Attack Of The Lizard King by Rex Stone
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father he's looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he and his friend, Tom, discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints, it takes them to another world . . . a world of dinosaurs...Categorized as:
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Book of Beasts by John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader...Categorized as:
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![The Cloven by Brian Catling]()
The Cloven by Brian Catling
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Cloven is the epic climax to B. Catling's beloved genre-busting Vorrh Trilogy. A Vintage Books Original.In the stunning conclusion to Brian Catling's Vorrh trilogy, the colonial city of Essenwald gives up all its secrets, as the ancient forest seeks to reclaim what has been taken from it...Categorized as:
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![Lost City by Scott Ciencin]()
Lost City by Scott Ciencin
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAndrew, the son of a Dinotopian innkeeper, makes a strange discovery one night when a hooded dinosaur leads him and two friends to a remote, sealed-off city...Categorized as:
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![City of Gold by Rob Kidd]()
City of Gold by Rob Kidd
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsJack and his crew return to New Orleans to find the entire city covered in precious metal--and ruled over by the nefarious Madamme Minuit...Categorized as:
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![The Man of Bronze / The Land of Terror by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
The Man of Bronze / The Land of Terror by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Man of Bronze's origin story is revealed in the classic Lester Dent novels that launched the superhero genre, in an extra-length volume commemorating the 75th anniversary of Doc Savage's pulp debut... -
![Web of Darkness: Web of Darkness Book 1 by Marion Zimmer Bradley]()
Web of Darkness: Web of Darkness Book 1 by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDomaris, disciple of the Temple of Light, was wrenched from her peaceful life by the arrival of Micon, the Atlantean prince, whose powers over wind and sun, earth and fire, are coveted by the sorcerers of the dark who would harness his gifts for their own evil ends . . . Soon, out of a tender, earthly passion, would rise forces that might decide the final victory... -
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Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWhile attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon" -- a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world... -
![Hollow Earth by John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman]()
Hollow Earth by John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsImagination matters most in a world where art can keep monsters trapped—or set them free.Lots of twins have a special connection, but twelve-year-old Matt and Emily Calder can do way more than finish each other’s sentences. Together, they are able to bring art to life and enter paintings at will...Categorized as:
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![Queen Sheba's Ring by H. Rider Haggard]()
Queen Sheba's Ring by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines... -
![Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard]()
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAllan Quartermain is a sequel to the famous novel King Solomon's Mines. Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Having persuaded Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umbopa to accompany him, they set out from the coast of east Africa, this time in search of a white race reputed to live north of Mount Kenya... -
![Sky Dance by Scott Ciencin]()
Sky Dance by Scott Ciencin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a troupe of dinosaur and human entertainers comes to town, Marc and his buddy, Gentle, convince their leader to allow them to travel along...Categorized as:
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![The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne, Gary Hoppenstand]()
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne, Gary Hoppenstand
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe finest tale ever written of fabled Atlantis, The Lost Continent is a sweeping, fiery saga of the last days of the doomed land. Atlantis, at the height of its power and glory, is without equal. It has established far-flung colonies in Egypt and Central America, and its mighty navies patrol the seas...Categorized as:
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![Thunder Falls by Scott Ciencin]()
Thunder Falls by Scott Ciencin
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Joseph and Fleetfeet, a young Stegosaurus, a journey across the dangerous terrain of Dinotopia to retrieve a stolen prize for their guardian is hampered by their constant competitiveness. But the two friends must put aside their differences to shoot the treacherous rapids of Waterfall City's Thunder Falls...Categorized as:
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![Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson: The Complete Stories by George Alec Effinger]()
Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson: The Complete Stories by George Alec Effinger
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson (1982)Maureen Birnbaum at the Earth's Core (1986)Maureen Birnbaum on the Art of War (1987)Maureen Birnbaum after Dark (1989)Maureen Birnbaum Goes Shopynge (1991)Maureen Birnbaum and the Saint Graal (1993)Maureen Birnbaum at the Looming Awfulness (1993)Maureen Birnbaum's Lunar Adventure... -
![Underground Kingdom by Edward Packard]()
Underground Kingdom by Edward Packard
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDanger and adventure await you in the Underground Kingdom!You are exploring the Underground Kingdom, a fantastic and strange world in the center of the earth. As you stand inside the largest cavern you've ever seen, you are amazed at the dazzling sight before your eyes.If you decide to climb the Shining Mountains, turn to page 36. If you explore the Weightless Peaks, turn to page 85... -
![Tarzan at the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sean McMullen]()
Tarzan at the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sean McMullen
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPicking up cries for help from Pellucidar, Jason Gridley of Tarzana enlists Tarzan. Gridley and Lord Greystoke travel to the exotic and strange land within the Earth to save Pellucidar Emperor David Innes, captured by Korsar pirates. The savage realm has eternal noon and bizarre monsters... -
![Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt]()
Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAngry Warrior, Modern Man. . .Leif Langdon was suddenly ripped from the 20th century and plunged into the ancient world of The Mirage. But his entrance into this awesome land awakened the slumbering Dwayanu, who in this strange incarnation was also Leif. Thus, two-men-in-one battle with the beautiful witch-woman Lur and the ethereal beauty Evalie for the glory of The Mirage... -
![Jungle Girl: Special Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Jungle Girl: Special Edition by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn far Cambodia, where the Khmer kings built their mighty temples and vanished from the earth with their millions of subjects hundreds of years ago, leaving no trace upon the written pages of history, are secrets yet undivulged to man, jungles that even natives never enter. Into such went Gordon King. There are drama, mystery, adventure, and love awaiting you between the covers of this book... -
![Die Grösste Show Jenseits Der Welt by Robert Rankin]()
Die Grösste Show Jenseits Der Welt by Robert Rankin
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRaymond's had a rough couple of days. Snatched from his allotment by a flying starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian food market, it seems like his luck has changed when he is rescued by the travelling circus. But then this isn't an ordinary circus... -
![Back to the Stone Age by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Back to the Stone Age by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe fifth installment of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Pellucidar series, Back to the Stone Age recounts the strange adventures of Lieutenant von Horst, a member of the original crew that sailed to Pellucidar with Jason Gridley and Tarzan who is left behind in the inner world... -
![Savage Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Savage Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen David Innes and Abner Perry set out to search for mineral deposits in Perry's newly invented Mechanical Prospectro, they never dreamed of discovering the beautiful, terrifying world of Pellucidar five hundred miles beneath their feet. Cast into a country of fierce fighting men, beautiful women, and vicious beasts, David and Abner take sharply diverging paths... -
![Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth by Max McCoy]()
Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth by Max McCoy
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA violent storm, a dying Arctic explorer, and a curious wooden box make Indy the target of fanatical Nazi agents. Inside the box are a slice of Icelandic stone with mythological powers and a journal hinting at the existence of an underground civilization near the top of the world... -
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![Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBankrupt Tarzan returns to Opar with Waziri guards.Tarzan injures his head in a fight and loses his memory. La, high priestess for the Flaming God, follows guarded by degenerate bestial priests and sacrificial knives. She has wanted the forest god since their first meeting, lust/love conflicts with anger. Meanwhile Arabs attack, massacre Waziri, kidnap Jane...Categorized as:
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![The El Dorado Adventure by Lloyd Alexander]()
The El Dorado Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsVesper Holly is surprised as her guardian, Brinnie, when she receives a mysterious summons to Central America signed by Alain de Rochefort. Vesper sets sail at once to find de Rochefort and explore the land that she has inherited. On her arrival she makes a terrible discovery--de Rochefort represents the evil Dr...Categorized as:
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![The People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard]()
The People of the Mist by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThough best known for creating the series featuring the unforgettable adventurer Allan Quatermain, author Henry Rider Haggard's other action-adventure heroes are just as compelling and believable. The People of the Mist recounts explorer Leonard Outram's exploits in Africa. Haggard loyalists and other fans of the genre are sure to delight in this thrill-a-minute page-turner... -
![The Cave Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
The Cave Girl by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn The Cave Girl, Edgar Rice Burroughs tells, in a thrill-after-thrill novel, the story of Waldo Smith-Jones and how his desperate effort to survive on a lost island of primitive men and primitive beasts. How Waldo was given the name of Thandar, how he had won the hand of the cave princess Nadara, and how he overcame the most desperate of odds make this a real Tarzan-type epic... -
![Land of Terror by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Land of Terror by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIf you have ever wondered what a civilized man of the twentieth century would do if catapulted into an Old Stone Age where huge cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, monstrous carnivorous dinosaurs, mammoths, and mastodons roamed the savage terrain, you need look no further than Land of Terror, the sixth installment of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar series... -
![The Face in the Abyss by A. Merritt]()
The Face in the Abyss by A. Merritt
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Face in the Abyss is a classic from a "golden age" of science fiction. A brilliant tale filled with weird imagination, marvelous writing, horror, beauty, and it may well be called the most "visual" book ever written for the world of fantasy. The Face in the Abyss is a grand book with a grand cast of characters... -
![Hadon of Ancient Opar by Philip José Farmer]()
Hadon of Ancient Opar by Philip José Farmer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOpar...the Atlantean colony in the heart of Tarzan's Africa.Opar...in the words of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a hidden city of "gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks."Opar.. -
![Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood]()
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBaron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey (1892)... -
![Ayesha: The Return of She by H. Rider Haggard]()
Ayesha: The Return of She by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThis book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery... -
![King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard]()
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsH. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa in search of a lost friend-and a lost treasure, the fabled mines of King Solomon... -
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![Tanar of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Tanar of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPellucidar - the hollow center of the Earth, a land of savage men and prehistoric beasts - is the scene of this exciting novel. In Pellucidar dwell the Buried People; here is the Land of Awful Sorrow; here the terrible Korsars terrorise the oceans, while dinosaurs and saber-tooth tigers terrorise the lands... -
![Tarzan and the Castaways by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Tarzan and the Castaways by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStranded on an uncharted Pacific island, Tarzan was forced to take command of an ill-sorted party—English aristocrats, a Dutch officer, a woman of doubtful reputation—to insure their safety from a band of mutineers led by a madman. A lost colony of Mayans, avid for potential victims for their barbarous human sacrifices, only added to the danger. But the Lord of the Jungle had unexpected allies.. -
![She and Allan by H. Rider Haggard]()
She and Allan by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSir Henry Rider Haggard - known as H. Rider Haggard - was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential...Categorized as:
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![The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt]()
The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe Ship of Ishtar, a universally hailed classic of the fantasy novel by A. Merritt. Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884-August 21, 1943) - known by his byline, A. Merritt - was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction. Merritt's writings were heavily influenced by H...Categorized as:
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![The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg]()
The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a penniless Norwegian student after he plunges into a bottomless hole in a cave. Niels Klim discovers worlds within our own—exotic civilizations and fabulous creatures scattered across the underside of the earth's crust and, at the earth's center, a small, inhabited planet orbiting around a miniature sun... -
![Under the Green Star by Lin Carter]()
Under the Green Star by Lin Carter
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn Earth, life held for him only the fate of a recluse--confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them--until he found the formula that let him cross space to the world of the Green Star. There, appearing in the body of a fabled hero, he is to experience all that his heroic fantasies had yearned for. A princess to be saved . . -
![King Kong by Delos W. Lovelace, Edgar Wallace]()
King Kong by Delos W. Lovelace, Edgar Wallace
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIntroduction by Greg BearPreface by Mark Cotta VazThe giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture... -
![Indiana Jones and the Interior World by Rob MacGregor]()
Indiana Jones and the Interior World by Rob MacGregor
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIndy discovers a hidden realm in this exciting new adventure penned by the author of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the last volume in the series, The Unicorn's Legacy, Indy cast the unicorn's horn through a portal he believed led to a hidden world, accidentally causing an imbalance which now places both worlds in danger of complete destruction... -
![The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is an archetypal American story of escape from domesticity tracing a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage... -
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Lost on the Amazon by R.A. Montgomery
Rated: 3.39 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTHE AMAZON RIVER BASIN IS HOME TO THE GREATEST BIODIVERSITY ON PLANET EARTH. WILL IT YIELD UP ITS POTENTIAL CURES? OR SINK YOU IN ITS DEPTHS? Strange tropical diseases can wipe out whole communities in days. And in this age of modern travel, they can morph into worldwide epidemics in mere weeks. You are a young doctor specializing in such threats... -
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![Glass Town by Steven Savile]()
Glass Town by Steven Savile
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA brilliantly rendered story about obsession and one man's attempt to unravel the mystery that destroyed his grandfather's life, set against a magical and intricately woven cityscape.Steven Savile has been an international sensation, selling over half a million copies of his novels worldwide and writing for cult favorite television shows including Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Stargate... -
![She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard]()
She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOn his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father’s quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar... -
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Tunnels by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe international sensation! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation...Categorized as:
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![She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard]()
She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsShe is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a mysterious package left to Leo by his father, to be opened on his 25th birthday; the package contains an ancient shard of pottery and several documents, suggesting an ancient mystery about the Vincey family... -
![The Moon Pool by A. Merritt]()
The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe first scholarly edition of a classic science fiction novel.One of the most gripping fantasies ever written, The Moon Pool embodies all the romanticism and poetic nostalgia characteristic of A. Merritt's writings...Categorized as:
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![The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsPoe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus...
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