Action & Adventure

Pike Logan uncovers a geopolitical scheme that has spiraled out of control in India in this latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor.

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true....

When CIA operative Jenny Silkwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless operatives....

In The Hidden Power of Everyday Language: How Words Shape Our World, embark on a transformative journey through the unseen forces that language wields in our daily lives.

Laze Williams, the seventh-generation descendant of Albert Williams, born with a lazy nature and an unpredictable imagination, stumbled upon two legendary treasures of his family: a mysterious handbook and a compass with a needle that doesn’t point north.

When Evan suddenly finds himself at odds with his oldest friend, all the rules he lives by shatter—and the consequences are murderous.

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian....

Jason faces danger, enemies, and perilous missions as he pushes cosmic power to its limits at great personal cost.

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist....

In teeming Victorian London, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century....

Ben Hur a tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace.

My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins a tale told from his own point of view - a story unequaled in fantasy literature....

Jaws is the classic blockbuster thriller that inspired the three-time Academy Award-winning Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again—or for the first time!

This audiobook collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Secret Adversary, The Murder on the...

A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter....

The world’s most celebrated thriller writer returns with his most stunning novel yet—a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain audiences as only Dan Brown can do.

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.

1932: Located on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota, Lincoln School is home to hundreds of Native American boys and girls who have been separated from their families....

Chance is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1913, following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication

Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back....

1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines....

Have you ever come across those stories with heroes who knew just how to get things done? The ones who were masters in five different martial arts, and knew ten ways to skin a bear after killing it with their bare hands? Yeah, that wasn’t me. Hell, I had trouble asking a girl out on a date. But someone in clerical must have made an error. Because I got ripped from an airplane on my way home after my last day in the Coast Guard. I mean, come on, I wasn’t even in one of the hardcore branches of the military or anything!

Lucas Mead-Slayer has seen it all. Or at least that's what he thought after over a decade of wandering the wilderness of his homeland and embracing everything it had to throw at him. He's fought terrible monsters, plundered ancient catacombs, and caught the eye of many unique and interesting adventuresses. After arguably the most harrowing situation of his life, Lucas has decided to seek out a friend in her home forest, maybe take a vacation, get away from all the craziness. Only it doesn't work out that way.

Charlie Dawson and his partner Clem don't consider themselves bad guys. But they definitely made a bad error in judgment on a gold mine deal—turns out there was no gold—and ended up in a shootout with some very angry claim jumpers. Now a posse is in hot pursuit of Charlie and Clem. The unlucky pair hightail it to San Francisco, where they try to blend into the red-light district known as Barbary Coast. Another bad decision on their part.

When the body of a local artist is found mutilated inside a five-pointed star, DCI Tanner’s attention turns to the disciples of a Satanic cult. But when the man's body is discovered to be the cult’s leader, Tanner's interest is soon drawn to his will, and the five beneficiaries who’ve been named in it.

The Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, “the coolest, hottest writer in America.” In the same league as the legendary great ones—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain—Leonard demonstrates his remarkable mastery with Get Shorty, one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. The basis of the hit movie starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito, Get Shorty chronicles the over-the-top, sometimes violent Hollywood misadventures of a Florida mob loan shark who chases a deadbeat client all the way to Tinseltown and decides to stick around and make movies.

After having survived a deadly prison break, ex-Detroit cop Kurt Argento is ready for some quiet. Still working through his grief over the passing of his wife, Argento finds himself house-sitting for a friend with his loyal companion, Hudson, a Chow Chow-Shepard mix. It's a simple life, picking up odd jobs here and there, but it's one that Argento is content to live. Then Kristin Reed shows up with her young son, Ethan, and begs Argento to help find her missing husband... and Argento tells her he'd just be in the way.

The town got its unusual name when a pair of brokedown prospectors accidentally dropped a stick of dynamite in the Rockies—and unearthed a massive vein of silver. One of the two men dropped dead from excitement. The other one named the place "Dead Broke" in honor of his dead broke companion and declared himself mayor of a brand-new mining town. Mayor Allane Auchenleck—better known as Nugget—put Dead Broke on the map. But when the silver market takes an unexpected nosedive, the bustling boomtown goes bust. And all hell breaks loose.

Often referred to as the father of science fiction, Victorian author Jules Verne is renowned for his fantastical adventures imagining extraordinary voyages to strange new horizons. Prolific and prophetic, he wrote over 50 novels and numerous short stories, in which he foretold the skyscraper, the submarine, space missions and even the Internet. Featured here are contemporary adaptations of four of his most famous tales, as well as a special episode of The Forum examining the long-lasting appeal of his work.

Discover the untold story of Captain James Hook. A man whose name has been synonymous with villainy and vengeance for generations. The legendary pirate who would become Peter Pan's greatest nemesis. Long before he was the notorious Captain Hook, James was a fearless young man, with nothing to lose. Plagued by an unquenchable thirst for revenge, he becomes entangled with the nefarious Blackbeard and his merciless crew. Together, they embark on a treacherous journey through perilous waters, where loyalty is a fickle currency, and danger lurks behind every wave.

Ever since the tragic death of his parents, Porsche's life has been a balancing act between attending college and bartending to support his younger brother and pay off his deadbeat uncle's gambling debt. When he witnesses a gang of thugs attacking a handsome young man in the alley behind his bar, he's reluctant to intervene--until he's offered fifty thousand baht to help the stranger escape. The stranger is known as Kinn, the second son of a notorious crime family.

It is the beginning of 1918, the last year of the greatest war in human history, to date. All the belligerents stagger on their feet. Starvation is an ever present reality, while disease waits in the wings. In Russia, no longer a belligerent but, instead, rapidly descending into civil war and chaos, a lone family—Father, Mother, four beautiful young girls, and a brave but sickly boy—await their own fate, shivering and hungry in the dark, hoping and praying for salvation. Their relatives in England have turned their backs. The guards set over them do little but torment them.

La CIA quiere enviar un mensaje a Berlín. El agente Tom Finn es el mensajero La unidad de élite de espías alemanes, el Departamento 89, se ha cruzado con la CIA en más de una ocasión. Pero después de su último encuentro, Langley decide que ya es suficiente. Enviando un equipo encubierto de operaciones negras a Berlín, el Director de la CIA ordena la muerte de los agentes del Departamento 89. Pero Finn y su equipo nunca se han encontrado con nadie como el Departamento 89 antes. Para ellos, las reglas no aplican. No hay línea que se nieguen a cruzar. Al final, solo puede haber un ...

After lots of toil, a hefty amount of peril, and a sizable dose of luck, Jason has gotten the Eldritch Ranch up and running—thriving, even. He has turned barren wasteland into lush orchards, and young forests, and expansive waterways and filled them with all manner of legendary beasts. He looks to the Crystal Mountains, where he seeks to seed with legendary beasts and restore magic to the land. But before he can do that, he must contend with sinister monsters and the nefarious villains known only as the Puppeteer’s Guild.

Ningún dictador dura para siempre. Corea del Norte está a punto de descubrirlo por las malas Seis meses después de declarar la guerra a Corea del Norte, el impulso alemán se ha estancado. Los principales aliados están desertando bajo la presión de unos Estados Unidos agresivos. Pyongyang está lanzando devastadores ataques terroristas dentro de Alemania. Un gobierno alemán indignado quiere asestar un golpe definitivo. La tarea se encomienda a la jefa de espionaje, la mayor Sophie Decker, y a su unidad de élite de inteligencia militar, el Departamento 89. Su misión es llevar la ...

They double-crossed him and left him for dead. Now they're going to wish they made sure ... Solomon Church is a ghost. An ex-SAS trooper living in self-imposed exile, his fragile existence relies on one thing: that everyone thinks he's dead. Ten years ago, a mission to take out a tyrannical warlord in the DRC went sideways and his own brothers-in-arms turned on him. Now, the past has come calling, and the events that transpired in the African town of Maroua are echoing all the way to number 10 Downing Street.

Moments after he hatched, he was thrown into a sack. His pride as a dragon raged against the indignity and he fought back. The wounds he gave his captors earned him the name Nemesis, and the kindness offered at the hand of a half-elf slave earned him a partner. With Harper on his side, the pair set out to earn their freedom. They're determined to never be slaves again.

The Hunted Become the Hunters... But What They Find Might Be Worse. Dr. Elise Holloway and the broken remnants of her team survived the horrors of Site Sierra, but escape is only the beginning. Hunted by the ruthless Kestrel organization and stalked by unseen forces within the ancient forests, their only hope lies with Dr. Aris Thorne—a brilliant, perhaps unstable, scientist hiding secrets that could shatter everything. Their desperate journey north leads them through treacherous terrain and impossible choices, pushing them past the limits of endurance. Kestrel, led by Aris's own vengeful...

Ana Mirante saw the brutality of the SNC first hand during the Long Night. Never again. Months later, Mirante and her crew arrive on the planet Mar Nosso, disguised as refugees. Their targets: the Brigadors who wrecked their homeworld and cashed out to live a life of SNC-sponsored luxury… Their callsign: Pilgrim. Meanwhile off-world, Zhe, a pariah commando of spacer Clade Vocc, sits restless between missions while his former blood-ally Aline Vocc entertains corpos on Mar Nosso as a Brigador celebrity.

A woman who can’t remember. A soldier who wishes he could forget. Hunter Everett may have gotten out of the Special Forces, but the demons that haunt him aren’t as easy to escape. His friends keep encouraging him to come stay at the Resting Warrior Ranch. After all, it was created for people like Hunter—soldiers with PTSD struggling to readjust to civilian life—but he isn’t interested. It’s better, safer, for everyone if he just remains alone. Until he discovers Jada Moyer—bruised, terrified, and with no memory of anything about her life. Cops and criminals alike seem to be ...

A new Cody Dakota series from D. M. Haggard. Cody Dakota is now ten years older, a time of progress and innovation. He and his wife Mattie are successful California business people with two adopted children and one biological child. Cody desperately wants to go home to Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico to see and visit those places where he survived and lived the life of a mountain man. Jake, his, adopted son, asks his pa to join him to see Yellowstone, Colorado, and many other places. You, the reader, can envision their thrill and love for the West and the difficulty of this trip, even in ...

Dive into the electrifying conclusion of The Long Night Saga with The Long Dawn, Book 3 by Alex Bueno. Following the harrowing events of The Long Night and The Long Way Home, the fight for survival intensifies as John Winter, his family, their community, and the entire country face unprecedented threats in a world irrevocably changed. John and his son, Jack Winter, are on the verge of reaching home, eager to reunite with John’s wife, Emily, and their daughter, Sarah. Their long journey from Orlando, where they were when the EMP struck, to their home in Tampa has been fraught with peril, ...

Tazãr Bao, an expert Exorcist for the Guild of Magic, is about to have his world turned upside down. Yet again. When Tazãr enters a sanctuărium for the Mages to receive a restorative spiritual energy treatment, he is reunited with the last person he ever expected to encounter—an Alpha Demon, Inuel Morhh, the one who’d left Tazãr with a shattered heart two years prior. Can Tazãr find the strength to trust Inuel again? Can he forgive him? Will being thrown together in a place where they can’t revert to lies help them make sense of their past and build a future?

A Western novel set in Texas during the post-Civil War era. Step into the heart of a turbulent Texas where violence meets legacy in this gripping tale of a young man’s struggle for identity amidst the chaos of gunfighting. Buck Travis, a twenty-three-year-old torn between the shadow of his father's notorious past and his longing for a different life, finds himself thrust into a world of danger and deception after a deadly encounter with a rival gunfighter. As he battles against the ghosts of vengeance and turmoil, he discovers not just the brutal realities of frontier life, but the ...

Six months after surviving the horrors of the Olympic wilderness, Dr. Elise Holloway is pulled back into the heart of a growing conspiracy. Hunted by the shadowy Kestrel Foundation and haunted by what she discovered, Elise must face secrets buried deep beneath the forests, where ancient guardians and human greed collide. From abandoned Cold War labs to lost subterranean ruins, Elise races against time to expose the truth — and to survive forces that will stop at nothing to silence her. Bigfoot: Echoes in Stone is the chilling, action-packed sequel to Shadows in the Timberline, perfect for...

Laze Williams, the seventh-generation descendant of Albert Williams, born with a lazy nature and an unpredictable imagination, stumbled upon two legendary treasures of his family: a mysterious handbook and a compass with a needle that doesn’t point north. Confident that he could uncover every tomb in the world, Laze invited his cousin Big Ben and his childhood friend Jules Smith to embark on mysterious adventures. The first tomb the trio will explore is the tomb of the Master of the Gambling from the ancient land of Garnford.