Item category 1: Adventure

At a remote ice station in Antarctica, a team of US scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something buried deep within a 100-million-year-old layer of ice. Something made of metal. Led by the enigmatic Lieutenant Shane Schofield, a team of crack United States marines is sent t...

"The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts" -Pat Barker The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nominee In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a Briti...

When Kit Livingstone finds out that the ley lines throughout Britain are pathways to other worlds, he sets out on a quest to find the Skin Map--the body of the most storied explorer who tattooed the ley lines' codes on his skin.

Set against the backdrop of World War I, with western civilization on the edge of calamity, the first installment in The Explorers Guild series concerns the Guild's quest to find the golden city of Buddhist myth. The search will take them from the Polar North to the Mongolian deserts, through the...

Geronimo Stiltonord is a mouseking -- the Geronimo Stilton of the ancient far north. He lives with his brawny and brave clan in the village of Mouseborg. From sailing frozen waters to facing fiery dragons, every day is an adventure for the micekings. The micekings are in a panic. The village's be...

Val, aka Astronaut Girl, is just your typical eight-year-old scientist. She has her own laboratory and conducts experiments with her crew -- her cat and baby brother. She loves science and knows everything about outer space. That's why she's surprised to learn that her new neighbor Wallace would ...

Two thousand years ago, it was hidden within the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, in the present day, it must be found again... Captain Jack West Jr - part soldier, part scholar, all hero. The odds are stacked against him and his loyal team: nine brave companions taking on the most powerf...

An ancient relic. A deadly enemy. A secret he'll protect with his life... Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is thrown into the hunt for the Vatican's most treasured possession - a book of secrets, passed down from pope to pope - when it's stolen by an ancient clandestine society. Mason and his rag-tag c...

Counter surveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe, a mission worth dying for. Others, includ...

The great state of Texas is a land of opportunity. For outlaws. And horse thieves. And cattle rustlers. Not to mention bank robbers, train robbers, and anything-that-ain't-nailed-down robbers. The state's governor, Richard B. Hubbard, is at the end of his rope. He wants to clean up Texas once and...

Trail-hardened cattlemen and longtime buddies Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin learn their bosses are getting out of the beef business. The two plan to deliver the last two thousand cows to Abilene, collect their pay, and retire. There's just one problem: the company's lawyer is skipping town with all ...

Jackson Pike is from the North of England, doesn't mince his words, and has seen a thing or two. After the SAS he developed his gifts in computer science, specialising in encryption and codebreaking. Then he went rogue, selling his services to the highest bidder - a mercenary and amoral business,...

One of the UK's deadliest weapons, he is part of the mysterious C6 - an elite and top-secret security service with a remit to neutralise the country's most dangerous enemies. But now Reeve is in the firing line. Framed as a traitor, Reeve is forced to flee as every operative is instructed to kill...

When a plane crashes into the Antarctic ice, exposing a massive cave beneath, a rescue and research team is dispatched. Twenty-four hours later, all contact is lost. Captain Alex Hunter and his highly trained squad of commandos are fast tracked to the hot zone to find out what went wrong - and to...

After defending a family ambushed by murdering marauders, former thief and wanted man Carson Stone discovers a death list full of names and dollar amounts, and when the local sheriff is gunned down, Carson pins on the badge to protect the innocent.

When his brother and his young bride disappear deep into Sioux territory, Monroe Pratt convinces the legendary Indian scout John Hawk, who is known for delivering swift justice to anyone who stands in his way, to come out of retirement and rescue them.

"In ancient times, a Golden Capstone was placed atop the Great Pyramid at Giza during a rare solar event called the Tartarus Rotation. Once every 4,500 years, a superhot sunspot - the Tartarus Sunspot - aligned itself with Earth and caused immense worldwide flooding and sun-scorching. It is said ...

Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent - a professional bodyguard, and he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg. There's not much call for an ...

Holding down the hated Fort Misery deep in Arizona Territory, Captain Peter Joseph Kellerman and the men under his command stand their ground against the most wanted outlaw on both sides of the border who has raised an army to slaughter every man wearing Union Blue.

Johnny Greenway was once a family man. A well-respected marshal who always played fair. Then his wife and son were killed by cutthroats. Johnny killed the killers. Then he hung up his badge and picked up a bottle. Now a shadow of his former self, he has nothing much to live for. But when he singl...

As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the pioneers were viciously murdered. But H...

A murder. A mystery that will change everything. Will Jaeger's family are gone, and they're not coming back. But there's one thing he can fix. His best friend has been found dead, and he's going to catch the monsters that killed him. To do it, Jaeger assembles an expert team of ex-SAS soldiers. T...

Meet John Bannack. Jailed for a crime he didn't commit. Busted out of a Texas State Prison. Running for freedom and gunning for justice. They call him... the man from Waco. As a young man, John Bannack worked hard on his brother's farm -- until times got tough and his brother grew desperate. Desp...

1845, in the untamed Oregon Territory. Tim Colder escapes when his family is ambushed by a gang of cutthroats; his parents butchered, his sisters missing. Luckily he finds a friend in Jed Reno, a one-eyed trapper who's lived in the Rockies since the 20's -- and is looking for the same gang that a...

After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. But her mission is complicated. Not only does she live above the Chinese restaurant owned by her Norwegian father and inspired by the recipes of her Chinese mother, but she has to hid...

Cloaked by the mists of dawn, Task Force 61, carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 Marines, steams toward Syria with deadly intent. Their mission: rescue 100 hostages from a terrorist stronghold, alive. With realism seldom seen in military fiction, The Med is a magnificent and timely epic that ...

As the deputy sheriff in a small Missouri town, 'Slick' Parker Jones doesn't have much to do except get drunk and chase saloon girls. Life is pretty dull in Rory's Junction - until Slick sees the wanted poster for a notorious train robber. Parker's never met an actual outlaw before. He's never fa...

November 1940. Lieutenant Daniel Nichols, a former pacifist turned crusader, is wounded taking part in the Royal Navy's carrier born air raid on the Italian Battle Fleet in Taranto. Six months later Sándor Braun, a British double agent, escorts a Japanese delegation around Taranto and discovers t...

Everyone deserves a second chance. Even someone like John Bannack. He took the fall for his bank-robbing brother. Served time in a Texas State Prison. And saved the life of Judge Wick Justice when their prison wagon was ambushed. The judge was so grateful -- and so impressed by Bannack -- he deci...

Now; As winter descends upon Cutthroat County, rancher Ashton Maddox has to rely on a skeleton crew to keep his cattle from succumbing to the dangers of the cold winter months. County Sheriff John T. Drew has his hands full this time of year heading up search and rescue missions for adventurous s...