Adventure Books

 Author:Paula Hawkins Category:Crime Published: 13/01/2015  Language: English  File Size: 2.2 MB  Tags:Crime | Fiction | Mystery | Psychological | Suspense | Thriller |  Description: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, is a novel about how society’s expectations of women often push them to the breaking point, leading them to seek out (or fall victim to) dangerous situations. It details the struggles of Rachel Watson, the protagonist, as she navigates divorce, alcohol use disorder, and …

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 Author:Agatha Christie Category:Crime Published: 01/01/1934  Language: English  File Size: 1.1 MB  Tags:Classics | Crime | Detective | Fiction | Murder | Mystery | novel | Thriller | Description: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, explores the main themes of the novel is the morality of murder-is it all right to kill a man, even if law has acquitted him? Is it ever all right to kill a man? The novel suggests, at least by Poirot and the passenger’s …

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 Author:Colin Dexter Category:Crime Published: 01/01/1975  Language: English  File Size: 1  Tags:British Literature | Crime | Detective | Fiction | Murder | Mystery | novel | Thriller |  Description: Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter, tells the story of Two young women are waiting in Oxford for a bus to the nearby town of Woodstock, and they decide to hitch a lift. Later that night, one of them, Sylvia Kaye, is found murdered and apparently raped in the car park …

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 Author:Gillian Flynn Category:Crime Publisher:Broadway Books Published: 22/04/2014  Language: English  File Size: 3.3 MB  Tags:Contemporary | Crime | Fiction | Mystery | Suspense | Thriller |  Description: The story revolves around the disappearance of Amy Dunne on the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary, and her husband Nick’s subsequent search for her. Her husband Nick Dunne becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance.

Author:Dan Brown Category:Crime Published: 01/05/2000  Language: English  File Size: 4.8 MB  Tags:Adventure | conspiracy | Crime | Fiction | Historical | Mystery | novel | Suspense | Thriller | Description: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, explores the theme of centuries old conflict of science versus religion. Brown proves that the two are incompatible through the use of ambigrams and the character’s polarizing views on science and religion

Author:Agatha christie Category:Crime Published: 06/11/1939  Language: English  File Size: 831 KB  Tags:Classics | Crime | Fiction | Mystery | Suspense | Thriller |  Description: Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime

 Author:Conan Doyle Category:Crime Published: 01/01/1887  Language: English  File Size: 3.6 MB  Tags:Classics | Crime | Detective | Fiction | Historical | Mystery | Thriller | Description: A Study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle, explores the theme of Injustice and Hypocrisy. It belongs to the genre of detective fiction, and it is very much concerned with justice, which in its most immediate form entails the pursuit of the murderer. However, as the novel progresses, other forms of justice, or …

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Author:Jack London Category:Adventure Published: 01/05/1906  Language: English  File Size: 978 KB  Tags:Adventure | American | Animals | Childrens | Classics | Fiction | Novels |  Description: White Fang by Jack London is a story about a wolf-dog that is rescued from an abusive and horrible owner, Beauty Smith. With the kindness and love he is shown with his new owner, Weedon Scott, he slowly becomes domesticated, or tame, and defends his new family

 Author:Robert Louis Stevenson Category:Adventure Published: 14/11/1883  Language: English  File Size: 1 MB  Tags:Adventure | Classics | dramatic | Fiction | funny | Humor | novel |  Description: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson tells the story of an impulsive and adventurous young boy named Jim Hawkins who comes across a treasure map. He goes on a journey to try and recover the treasure, which once belonged to the famous Captain Flint. On his journey, he meets …

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Author:Johann David Wyss Category:Adventure Publisher:Grosset & Dunlap Published: 01/01/1963  Language: English  File Size: 1.2 MB  Tags:Adventure | Classics | Fiction | Historical | Literature | Description: The central theme of The Swiss Family Robinson is family. Despite being stranded together on a deserted island for more than ten years, they never doubt their ability to survive as a family.