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In this installment of the popular Boy Aviators action-adventure series for younger readers, brothers Frank and Harry Chester are conducting field research on a remote island along with their best friend Billy and a new acquaintance, Pudge Perkins. Soon enough, the boys find themselves caught up in a mystery and a search for long-lost treasure.

The second installment in John Henry Goldfrap's beloved Boy Aviators series has brothers Frank and Harry and their best friend Billy signing up to help the government with a top-secret task. After building a new plane to replace the one lost in a previous mission, the friends head to the Everglades to thwart enemies foreign and domestic.

They may be young, but the heroes of John Henry Goldfrap's popular Boy Aviators series for younger readers make up for what they lack in experience with plenty of grit, gusto and gumption. In this, the fourth installment of the series, the boys find themselves on quest to find a massive store of treasure in the Sargasso Sea.

Take a trip to the treacherously beautiful Andes along the coast of South America. These craggy, snow-topped peaks hold allure for explorers -- and hide more than their fair share of deadly secrets. This thrill-a-minute page-turner opens with a cliffhanger and ratchets up the suspense from there. Though...

Penned by an officer who had a bird's-eye view of the action, this detailed narrative of Canada's role in World War I is a must-read for history buffs who are looking for a unique view of the conflict -- one that is all too often glossed over in traditional, European-centric accounts.

No matter what your personal beliefs are, it's indisputable that Christianity has played a major role in influencing human culture over the last two thousand years. In this thought-provoking volume, author William Turton examines the evidence for and against the truth of Christianity. His fair-minded assessment of the controversy will appeal to believers and skeptics alike.

The unprecedented global conflicts of the early twentieth century posed a profound ethical dilemma for the theologians of the era. In this collection, drawn from a series of talks delivered in 1914 and 1915, Church of England Bishop William Temple lays out his beliefs about the relationship between Christian...

Ian Hay first hit the literary big time with his 1915 memoir of serving as a soldier in World War I, The First Hundred Thousand. This volume is a follow-up, in which Hay describes his experiences from the aftermath of the Battle of Loos through the Battle of the Somme.

Conservationist George Bird Grinnell helped tame the western U.S., establishing a number of national parks as tourism hubs. He brings this knowledge to bear in the "Jack" series of outdoor adventure stories for younger readers. In Jack the Young Trapper, Jack Danvers is recruited for a fur-trapping expedition in the treacherous territory of the Rockies.

Conspiracy theorists and open-minded history buffs will enjoy the explosive argument at the center of Benjamin Franklin Bowen's treatise America Discovered by the Welsh in 1170 A.D. Bowen marshals a surprisingly compelling account of what he claims was the first European contingent of explorers to reach...

Sixteen-year-old Running Fox, a member of the Delaware tribe and the son of a famed warrior renowned for his bravery, must prove his manhood by undertaking a treacherous quest to find a cache of powerful medicine that will help the Delaware prevail over their mortal enemies, the Mohawks.

Diplomat and author George Payne Rainsford James was well versed in historical research methods, even serving for a time as Britain's Historiographer Royal. In the sweeping epic The King's Highway, James unfurls a classic tale of two friends and the young boy who brings them together amidst tragic circumstances.

Renowned historical novelist G. P. R. James usually set his stories in distant lands and times far past. He deviates from this formula somewhat in the action-adventure tale The Smuggler, which centers around a nefarious criminal plot in eighteenth-century Kent in southeast England.

Twenty Years After is the second of the d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers. It is set during the early reign of King Louis XIV in France and the English Civil War in England, leading to Cromwell's victory over King Charles I. The musketeers fight valiantly to protect their monarch, and many previous characters or their children are reprieved from the first novel.