Henry Carter Hull

A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

In 1985, the mysterious Martin Keogh participates in the unsuccessful hijacking attempt of millions of pounds of gold bullion by Irish Protestant paramilitaries. Ten years later, Keogh, now known as Sean Dillon, a British intelligence agent, is called upon when a plot to retreive the lost gold threatens the peace process in Ireland.

When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.

While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.

Jazzman Lonnie Blake, still mourning the murder of his wife, offers refuge to Carol Dodson, a prostitute who begs him for help in evading a dangerous stalker, not realizing he has placed himself in the middle of an international effort by a drug firm to find and capture Carol's daughter, a child with amazing healing abilities.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors...

Carter and Sadie must outsmart the House of Life and the gods of chaos in order to complete their worldwide search for an ancient Egyptian book.

Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini. The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgwater in Somerset. The book opens with him attending to his geraniums while the town prepares to fight for the Duke of Monmouth....

The blistering second novel in the Ottoman Cycle by bestseller S.J.A. Turney sees blood and adventure on the Mediterranean battlefield… Crete, 1492: After a sojourn on a Venetian-controlled island, Skiouros has learned everything he needs to know for his true quest: destroying the person responsible for his brother's death. Meanwhile, across the Mediterranean, a small fleet of Turkish galleys is engaged in a desperate last attempt to save Islamic...

Everywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. An alarming rise in the world's sea levels--much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt--sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers....