The Historical Fiction Collection
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Riveting historical accounts of daredevils, pilots and brutal madmen that inspire many of today's |
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| $75.00 Save 25% | $97.00 Save 25% |
| 10 Books | 10 Audiobooks (20 CDs) |
| 15 Stories | 15 Stories |
| Illustrations | Full color 40-page booklet |
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Under the Black Ensign Tom Bristol barely escapes an unjust death sentence aboard the British HMS Terror when the ship is overtaken by pirates. Soon enough, Bristol is stranded on a desert island for stopping a pirate mutiny. When Lady Jane Campbell joins Tom at sea, things really set sail in this swashbuckling adventure.
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Man-Killers of the Air Smoke Burnham is a colorful daredevil pilot who’s gone broke creating a new fighter plane. With his principal financier hot on his tail to recoup his investment, Smoke enters an international race that will take him into the skies of Central America, over the Andes and across the Brazilian jungle—with only death as his copilot.
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The Sky-Crasher Includes: Boomerang Bomber Caution Jones is a man who, despite his nickname, risks the hazards of a breathtaking around-the-world fl ight while a rival airline desperately tries to sabotage every move.
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Sky Birds Dare! Ace glider pilot Breeze Callahan tries to sell the Navy on using his gliders in the war effort. But Breeze soon has a war on his hands when a ruthless competitor wants the Navy to buy training ships instead, and is willing to use any means of sabotage and betrayal to get the contract.
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Inky Odds Bat Conroy of World Press is the best newspaper correspondent in war-torn China until an ambitious and elusive news reporter keeps scooping him. Now Bat must somehow outwit this enterprising competitor and get his next big story in first before his boss fires him.
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Hurtling Wings Racer and test pilot Cal Bradley flies in the National Air Meet to capture valuable air mail contracts. But Cal faces an unscrupulous competitor and a gorgeous dame who may spell his ruin as the planes take flight.
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Trouble on His Wings Johnny Brice is a hardworking “picture-chaser” and top-dog reporter—until he meets the pretty dame Jinx. And no matter what he does, things just keep going wrong.
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Tomb of the Ten Thousand Dead—Award Winner AudioFile Earphones Award Winner Includes: Price of a Hat & Starch and Stripes When a team of anthropologists on an expedition near the Arabian Sea discovers an ancient map leading to untold treasure, all scientific pretense is dropped and things get bloody.
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All Frontiers Are Jealous Dan Courtney is surveying a railway route through the jungles of Africa when he discovers that a woman has been kidnapped. But when he attempts to rescue her he stumbles headlong into a diamond smuggling operation.
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Yukon Madness Includes: The Cossack & The Small Boss of Nunaloha Canadian Mountie Tommy McKenna sets off on the trail of a brutal madman and his pack of bloodthirsty wolves across the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. But in order to get to his prey, he must first contend with the exotic and deceptive young woman Kaja.
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