Here's another light-hearted adventure in this popular series of entertaining stories about Tom Swift and his latest inventions. This time it's an electric car. Tom is intent on building an electric car capable of beating all other electrics currently in production. But primarily, he has a personal goal and challenge. He wants to race his chief rival, Andy Foger, and beat him badly. Herein lies an exciting account of how automobile races were conducted in the early 1900s...

Tom Swift is hired by a film company to invent a new kind of moving picture camera: "small and light with electric power, a regular wizard camera." Follow Tom as he takes it to Africa and India to film action pictures of wild animals, herds of elephants, scenes of native wars, earthquakes, and eruptions of volcanoes. The excitement begins on the sea voyage and continues on to Africa where Tom does his filming from a balloon...

Mysterious entities take possession of a long deserted castle creating fear among the residents of the adjacent village of Werst, in Transylvania. The village sends two men to the castle to investigate, but they are repulsed by what the men feel are “supernatural” means. The heroes of the story, Count Franz de Telek and his man Rotzko learn of the mystery while passing through the village and become determined to solve it.

Grievously injured in the high-stakes game of counterterrorism, ex-Army Ranger Phil Pfeiffer now limits his practice to bail skips and cheating spouses. That was the plan, anyway. When a lovely widow turns his head, he agrees to find her missing husband, dead or alive. A Mexican death certificate proves unconvincing after she sees a familiar profile in a national magazine. Was this an inconvenient doppelganger or simply a blunder in the chaotic world of the free, fake, and phony?

Considered the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution. Los De Abajo means "those from under". More specifically it means , the peasantry, or the under-dogs. It's the story of Demetrio Macias, a simple, peace-loving Mexican Indian forced by tyranny to join Villa's army. His unceasing courage in battle after battle earns him promotions to the status of General. But, as the war wears on, he becomes disillusioned as his rebels’ "cause" suffers demoralizing defeats. In addition, he finds evid...

High-spirited young Tom Swift is off on another of his many exciting adventures. This time he's in search of gold in an underground lost city. Tom finds the lost city in a remote area of Mexico, and he finds the gold. Getting into the city was difficult for the adventurers, but when they try to get out, then their real adventure begins. Tom and his companions find themselves trapped in an underground city which contains as many traps and mazes as an Egyptian pyramid.

This time Tom Swift is off to Alaska to hunt for the valley of gold. His friend Abe Abercrombie, an old miner, claims to know approximately where it lies: "up where the icebergs and caves of ice are." But he needs Tom and his airplane to help him locate the exact spot. Unknown to Tom, his chief rival, Andy Foger, gets wind of the project and vows to beat Tom to the prize. Unknown to both are the Alaskan natives who will kill to protect their gold...

At the precipice of an extraordinary medical advancement, a university campus is shaken by the tragic leap of a young researcher. The coroner decrees death by suicide. The parents claim it's murder at the hands of the Department Head. Despite the efforts of countless private and cold case police experts, the evidence remains elusive. Justice lingers unfulfilled until a grainy pirated video emerges threatening to spin the inquiry, the university, and the medical establishment into chaos. Ph...

When PI Phil Pfeiffer opened his door, the haunting dream borne of a Bahamian prison walked back into his mundane existence. Years before, she stole his breath at poolside and in some way, his life as well. Now, Lisa Calendar needed protection from a mobster ex-boyfriend. Her distress overcame his better judgment as he agreed to help one last time. After a wild west shootout that left him more confused than hurt, he found himself standing alone at the junction of yet another crossroad. Pfe...

Most of us remember The Wizard of Oz as the film starring Judy Garland and Bert Lahr. But the film was based on L. Frank Baum's immensely popular Oz series, which was published in the early twentieth century. In these novels, Oz is the utopian land beyond the rainbow where threats are turned back with valor and ingenuity. The books' success lies in the way they induce children to look for the element of wonder in the world around them.Considered the first truly American fa...

They killed Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.John Smith is not your average teenager.He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He does not put down roots. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him.But you can't run forever.So when he stops in Paradise, Ohio, John decides to ...

Dwarves, elves, goblins, trolls, dragons and wizards - these are the ingredients of J.R.R. Tolkien's wonderful fantasy, the prelude to The Lord of The Rings, now the subject of a major feature film series. The hero of the tale is Bilbo Baggins, a home-loving unambitious hobbit who is suddenly thrust into what turns out to be the biggest adventure of his life. Guided by Gandalf the wizard, Bilbo and a company of dwarves set out to destroy Smaug the Magnificent, a ferocious dragon w...