Appleton: 234 books

The age of steam meets the time of the dinosaurs in this rip-roaring short story set in the aftermath of events depicted in the award-nominated Prehistoric Clock. With everything she owns packed onto her steam-powered penny farthing, nineteen-year-old Beth Rawtenstall is determined to leave...

A celebrated gigolo of the future has an unusual problem--he's in love with a screen icon of the past. What he needs is a way back to Hollywood's Golden Age, and not just on his Virtual Reality headset. But there's no such thing as time travel...is there?

An old man purchases an elixir to save his dying dog. But their next walk together takes them a little farther than usual ... into the time of the dinosaurs!

In the tenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom goes hunting for ivory in Africa, and encounters an adventurer who is trying to rescue a captured missionary team.

Special needs children get a voice through this children's book. It reaches into the hearts and minds of children both with and without Cerebral Palsy, bringing them together in a way that neither expects. Mrs. McAuley's purpose in writing this book is to help educate all children, with or without special needs, by encouraging their acceptance of each other.

No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop. It will find you. Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow’s timeless antiques and sundries store, for the bargain price of...well, that would be telling....

What if the last thing you imagined before you fell asleep sleep was waiting for you when you woke up? Just one condition: it has to be small enough to fit inside a glass fruit bowl. For down-on-his-luck salesman Nick Bergman, a heartfelt gift bought with his final ten pounds opens an astonishing...

What if you fell from a great height...toward a ground you couldn't see...and hours later you were still falling?For survival. For love...on a distant alien planet. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, terrain scout Kate Borrowdale must escape the treacherous peaks of Kratos...

In the eleventh of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom once goes hunting for Mexican treasure, supposedly protected by a tribe of head hunters.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Stratemeyer syndicate used the pseudonym Victor Appleton when writing several series for boys including Tom Swift. Edward Stratemeyer did the original outlines for the series, which was published...

Five murders on an untamed world. Two fugitives on the run. The hunt is on. When celebrated Omicron detective Ferrix Vaughn is called in to investigate a deadly breach on Hesperidia, a protected planet full of indigenous wildlife, he doesn’t know what to expect. The place used to be a tourist...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Tom tries, with mixed success, to get someone to go along with him and try out an airplane that he had recently been working on. After getting off to a good start and proving that his concept worked,...

You'll never see him coming; you won't want him to leave. For disillusioned young waitress Rebecca Green, the solution is Hold on tight when a mysterious time-traveller arrives to literally turn her world upside down. Sam Morrow is on the run. He's being pursued across time by four dangerous...

A murder investigation at an interstellar beauty pageant draws two detectives into a deadly mystery. Detectives Rappeneau and Thorpe-Campbell are from different worlds. One’s a debonair number-cruncher with a posh accent, the other’s a hard-edged burn-out a hair’s breadth away from suspension....