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61 The Rulers of the Lakes by Joseph A. Altsheler

A Story Of George And Champlain
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Historical
Tags: Novel-Classic, Young Adult
Votes: 14 | Score: 8.48
Size: 475KB / 90,242 words | Downloads: 642
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62 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

This early science fiction story centers around an unnamed narrator living through various engagements between the British military and superior alien attackers. it describes an invasion of the British Islands by an advanced civilization from Mars.  While the human defenders were hopelessly outmatched,they were still able to destroy several of the invading Machines. Will humans be able to survive this unusual invasion?
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: War, Science Fiction, Aliens, Novel-Classic
Votes: 12 | Score: 8.47
Size: 327KB / 59,762 words | Downloads: 1306
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63 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.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Votes: 9 | Score: 8.46
Size: 584KB / 112,592 words | Downloads: 687
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64 Swamp Cat by Jim Kjelgaard

The story follows Mike, a boy living near the Louisiana swamps, who discovers and befriends a young wildcat he names Tom.
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Children
Tags: Novel-Classic
Votes: 8 | Score: 8.44
Size: 245KB / 45,937 words | Downloads: 171
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65 Rupert of Hentzau: From the Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim by Anthony Hope

Sequel to "The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope: "A man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itself perhaps light and insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far and wide, and flow for years or centuries, could scarcely feel secure in reckoning that with the death of the Duke of Strelsau and the restoration of King Rudolf to liberty and his throne, there would end, for good and all, the troubles born of Black Michael's daring conspiracy.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Votes: 6 | Score: 8.35
Size: 439KB / 84,319 words | Downloads: 402
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66 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
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Votes: 9 | Score: 8.33
Size: 470KB / 84,644 words | Downloads: 1217
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67 The Lost World by A. Conan Doyle

Professor Challenger leads an expedition to an isolated plateau in the Amazon jungles where dinosaurs still reign. Virtually all the "lost world" adventures in book and film take their inspiration from this novel. In the public domain.
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Science Fiction, Dinosaurs, Novel-Classic
Votes: 43 | Score: 8.29
Size: 408KB / 75,659 words | Downloads: 2092
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68 The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Billy Byrne is a thug with almost no morals. He escapes to San-Fransisco where he becomes a pirate of sorts. How will he be affected after he helps kidnap Barbara?
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Violence, Addiction, Bounty Hunters, Pirates, Novel-Classic
Votes: 44 | Score: 8.24
Size: 660KB / 122,396 words | Downloads: 2699
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69 Skylark Three by E. E. Smith (Edward Elmer)

is the second book in the Skylark series and is set a year or so after the events in The Skylark of Space. During that time Marc "Blackie" DuQuesne (pronounced "Du Kane") has used the wealth he was given by the Kondalians of the planet Osnome to buy a controlling interest in World Steel, a large company known for its ruthless attitude, aiming to get what it wants by fair means or foul.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
Votes: 127 | Score: 8.18
Size: 474KB / 84,095 words | Downloads: 4152
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70 Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. Smith (Edward Elmer)

When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner, "IPV Arcturus", took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of an unexpected and long voyage.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Futuristic, Novel-Classic
Votes: 138 | Score: 8.09
Size: 489KB / 85,777 words | Downloads: 6490
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