Appleton: 234 books

Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship by Victor Appleton libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

In the twenty-fourth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom employs his aerial fire suppression system to rescue his friends.

World ending by natural disaster? Nah. Not unless you consider legends of the past taking a bite out of the world. That is what happened December Twenty-fourth Twenty-Thirteen. Now twenty years later one of the human survivors, Emmery Hale, is a detective for the Paranormal and not exactly human anymore....

Tina Appleton Bishops third novel, like her other stories, is set in Connecticut. Much conflict and angst festers beneath the serene surface of Christmas Cove, a popular tourist mecca operated by Larry and Sophie Bayers. Jennifer, their adopted daughter, had longed to search for her birth parents....

The story follows a gutsy undercover reporter through the wilds of Newfoundland and the wilder environs of New York City as she unwittingly falls for her subject, a sexy musician with a penchant for Guinness and a yen for the ladies. Will he love her after he reads the tell-all article she wrote about him behind his back?

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 between 1910 and 1941. Tom Swift was a genius inventor. He specialized in technology especially related...

In the seventeenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom develops a precursor to twenty-first-century communication methods, and must use his invention to track down a group of unscrupulous financial manipulators.

Sharon's dream trip across the USA in a Winnebago founders at the start of Route 66. After spending a few weeks in the Caribbean at Tom's luxury apartment, where she couldn't stop being sick, she's already stir crazy at being confined to an RV in a trailer park near Chicago. She's...

This collection starts out with poems about what the human experience is often like on a personal level and then moves outward to human life as it relates to the rest of nature, to dreams, and death. A part deals with human life in society and another with more abstract concepts of humanity that are...

In the twelfth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom ventures to Russia in search of platinum.

In the fourteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom is engaged to construct an electric motion-picture camera and gather newsreel footage.

In the fifteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom invents a searchlight for the purpose of tracking down smugglers.

In the sixteenth of Victor Appleton's original Tom Swift novels, Tom and his father go in search of treasure along the Panama canal, and Tom develops a new type of artillary.

The Three Peaks of Yorkshire - Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent and Whernside - hold a unique fascination and focal point for all who head to the Dales. They dominate the landscape, shape those who work with and around them, and together offer one of the toughest challenges in England. Using the famous Three...