Action & Adventure Audiobooks

Trapped in the Tunnel

"A fun-filled place to grow up. When their folks say they may have to move, can a trio of boys step up to save the day? Indiana, 1987. Gary Fitzpatrick refuses to let his wooden leg slow him down. And though his dream of becoming a firefighter has gone up in smoke, the young cancer survivor still loves playing alongside his two supportive brothers. But after their mom’s fear of shady strangers in an abandoned house next door threatens to uproot their world, he vows to prove the neighborhood is perfectly safe. As he starts making plans, the thirteen-year-old is surprised when an eccentric antique dealer asks for help finding the owner of a clock. And when the odd man hands over a map with lines interconnecting the homes in the area, Gary suspects it's showing old underground passageways and sees an opportunity to solve the puzzle. Deciding not to tell their parents of the mysterious plot, will Gary and his siblings’ choices cost them their lives? Trapped in the Tunnel is the charming first book in The Brady Street Boys Adventure Series. If you like Christian themes, strong family values, and triumphing over adversity, then you’ll adore Katrina Hoover Lee’s enthralling tale."

Katrina Hoover Lee (Author), Micah Dehn (Narrator)

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Oh Maya Gods

"A brand new hilarious adventure from the author of the bestselling Who Let the Gods Out series! The world’s worst-behaved immortals are at it again – introducing the brand-new Gods Squad taking them on! Meet Vesper, the bossy, football-mad daughter of Elliot Hooper, the original hero of Who Let the Gods Out?, and Aster, the super-bright son of Constellation, Virgo. Together, they must recapture some villainous wrong’uns before the world ends next Wednesday. Off they head to the Maya underworld, where Kizin and his Lords and Ladies of Death are messing with astronomy, chocolate and human sacrifice ..."

Maz Evans (Author), Maz Evans (Narrator)

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Doctor Who: Ten Days of Christmas: Festive tales with the Tenth Doctor

"Brought to you by Puffin. Return to the incredible days of Ten this Christmas . . . For the Tenth Doctor, the festive season always brought adventure. In fact, he's saved Christmas across space and time more times than we ever knew . . . Join the Doctor (and Donna and Martha and Rose, and other friends old and new) for incredible tales of daring and danger. From Daleks plotting to save humanity to Sycorax working to exploit it . . . from star-narwhals massing on the Moon to a toy factory in space. Because even in the jolliest of seasons there's a world or two to save. BBC, DOCTOR WHO and TARDIS (word marks and devices) are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. BBC logo © BBC 1996. DOCTOR WHO logo © BBC 1973. Licensed by BBC Studios. (P)2023 Penguin Audio"

Doctor Who, Steve Cole (Author), Ayesha Antoine, Barnaby Edwards, Jacob Dudman, Jacqueline King, Jane Slavin, Michael Bertenshaw (Narrator)

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The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage

"'Move over Wilbur and Babe, there's a new pig in town.' —School Library Journal (starred review) Flora's a die-hard dreamer. She's never left the farm, but she knows she was born for adventure. She's determined to become a sled pig! A harrowing voyage to Antarctica, a bacon-loving cook, and a shipwreck in deadly conditions stand between Flora and her dream. What will happen to Flora, whose companions see her as more of a meal than an adventurer? As the ship's captain says, you never know where brains and talent will come from. They just may come from this brave pig."

Chris Kurtz (Author), Ellie Gossage (Narrator)

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Before Eden

"Before Eden by Arthur C. Clarke - Venus wasn't the virgin planet Mankind had always assumed. It was simply that we got there too soon. 'I guess,' said Jerry Garfield, cutting the engines, 'that this is the end of the line.' With a gentle sigh, the underjets faded out; deprived of its air-cushion, the scout-car Rambling Wreck settled down upon the twisted rocks of the Hesperian Plateau. There was no way forward; neither on its jets nor its tractors could S.5—to give the Wreck its official name—scale the escarpment that lay ahead. The South Pole of Venus was only thirty miles away, but it might have , been on another planet. They would have to turn back, and retrace their four-hundred-mile journey through this nightmare landscape. The weather was fantastically clear, with visibility of almost a thousand yards. There was no need of radar to show the cliffs ahead; for once, the naked eye was good enough. The green auroral light, filtering down through clouds that had rolled unbroken for a million years, gave the scene an underwater appearance, and the way in which all distant objects blurred into the haze added to the impression. Sometimes it was easy to believe that they were driving across a shallow sea-bed, and more than once Jerry had imagined that he had seen fish floating overhead. 'Shall I call the ship, and say we’re turning back?' he asked. 'Not yet,' said Dr. Hutchins. 'I want to think.' Jerry shot an appealing glance at the third member of the crew, but found no moral support there. Coleman was just as bad; although the two men argued furiously half the time, they were both scientists and therefore, in the opinion of a hard-headed engineer-navigator, not wholly responsible citizens. If Cole and Hutch had bright ideas about going forward, there was nothing he could do except register a protest."

Arthur C. Clarke (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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The Call From Beyond

"The Call From Beyond by Clifford D. Simak - Alone, accursed, he set out on the long, dark voyage to the forbidden gateway to worlds beyond life itself—restless forever with an ultimate knowledge, possessing which no man could die! The pyramid was built of bottles, hundreds of bottles that flashed and glinted as if with living fire, picking up and breaking up the misty light that filtered from the distant sun and still more distant stars. Frederick West took a slow step forward, away from the open port of his tiny ship. He shook his head and shut his eyes and opened them again and the pyramid was still there. So it was no figment, as he had feared, of his imagination, born in the darkness and the loneliness of his flight from Earth. It was there and it was a crazy thing. Crazy because it should not be there, at all. There should be nothing here on this almost unknown slab of tumbling stone and metal. For no one lived on Pluto's moon. No one ever visited Pluto's moon. Even he, himself, hadn't intended to until, circling it to have a look before going on to Pluto, he had seen that brief flash of light, as if someone might be signaling. It had been the pyramid, of course. He knew that now. The stacked-up bottles catching and reflecting light. Behind the pyramid stood a space hut, squatted down among the jagged boulders. But there was no movement, no sign of life. No one was tumbling out of the entrance lock to welcome him. And that was strange, he thought. For visitors must be rare, if, indeed, they came at all. Perhaps the pyramid really was a signaling device, although it would be a clumsy way of signaling. More likely a madman's caprice. Come to think of it, anyone who was sufficiently deranged to live on Pluto's moon would be a fitting architect for a pyramid of bottles."

Clifford D. Simak (Author), Scott Miller (Narrator)

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The Foxholes of Mars: The wars of the far future will be fought with giant spaceships, but it will s

"War never changes. Men fight men with rocks and spears then with arrows and cannon. Future men will fight with advanced weapons like space ships, vibration rays, cobalt bombs and robots but they will still fight. In the end, after the space battles have ended, it will still require the grunts, whether in the shape of men or Martians or bugs or jellyfish, to hold the planets. Beings in the mud of a thousand worlds, beings used like fodder to actually hold what is being contested. The beings in foxholes. And these beings will become just as bitter and angry and hateful in the future as they have become in all of the past. They will be dangerous."

Fritz Leiber (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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[French] - Mémoires de la forêt: À la recherche de Maude

"Dans la forêt de Bellécorce, au creux du chêne où Archibald Renard tient sa librairie, chaque animal qui le souhaite peut déposer le livre qu'il a écrit et espérer qu'il soit un jour acheté. Depuis que ses souvenirs le fuient, Ferdinand Taupe cherche désespérément à retrouver l'ouvrage qu'il a écrit pour compiler ses mémoires, afin de se rappeler les choses qu'il a faites et les gens qu'il a aimés. Il en existe un seul exemplaire, déposé à la librairie il y a des années. Mais justement, un mystérieux client vient de partir avec… À l'aide de vieilles photographies, Archibald et Ferdinand se lancent sur ses traces en forêt, dans un périple à la frontière du rêve, des souvenirs et de la réalité. Écoutez l'adaptation en série audio du 1er tome de Mémoires de la forêt en 6 épisodes de 15 minutes et 6 chansons originales pour redécouvrir en voix et en musique l'histoire d'Archibald et Ferdinand. Avec le soutien du CNL."

Mickaël Brun-Arnaud (Author), Audrey Souffle-Des-Mots, Danielle Avoiof, François Pérache, Guimause Terrier, Jean-Baptiste Navarette, Julie Vautier, Loïc Théret, Mickaël Brun-Arnaud, Mélissa Barbaud, Samuel Glaumé, Stéphane Duré, Victor Billebault (Narrator)

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The Time Travels of Arabella and Tom Twigg: Meeting Captain Cook

"Arabella Twigg is an ordinary girl. Her father invents things that don’t work. Her mother cooks food no one can eat and her horrid brother, Tom, likes to get her into trouble. Her Gran is crazy but loves Arabella very much. Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is caravaning with her family in Whitby, England and visits the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, when suddenly she and her brother find themselves actually on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook and his eighty seafaring crew, on the open seas sailing to Tahiti. Will they every make it back from this perilous journey, especially when the ship hits a reef and takes on water?"

Sue Huband (Author), John Delino Ziegler Jr. (Narrator)

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The Spaceship With a Human Brain: The humans were desperate enough to try anything! Even to puttin

"It was all very confusing, the reasons for the war, the nature of the enemy. The Yucconae had been contacted on one of the outlying planets of Proxima Centauri. At the approach of the Terran ship, a host of dark slim pencils had lifted abruptly and shot off into the distance. The first real encounter came between three of the yuk pencils and a single exploration ship from Terra. No Terrans survived. After that it was all out war, with no holds barred. Now though, the Yucks had made their mine fields sentient, they could seek out and destroy Terran ships. The only response was to put a human brain into a ship. The results were, to say the least, surprising to everyone. No one expected what would happen. Least of all the generals who thought up the idea. The human brain in the spaceship had ideas of his own and they did not include listening to the generals."

Philp K. Dick (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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With No Strings Attached: Sometimes an invention is so good, it's impossible to sell it.

"Sometimes an invention is so good that no one will believe you. There you are, with a fabulous new piece of technology that is worth millions and you are still starving to death because you are a 'crackpot'. Well, if you are smart, like the inventor in this story, you learn your lesson and start telling people your invention is just something they know and use every day, just a bit better. Sure it's a lie but people have to believe before they will part with the big bucks. If it works, it ain't stupid. And this inventor is definitely not stupid. Randall Garrett gives us a wonderfully wry story about human nature in his unique and very entertaining way. Listen and enjoy."

Randall Garrett (Author), Philip Chenevert (Narrator)

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Eagle Drums

"A magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Native Alaskan tradition. As his family prepares for winter, a young, skilled hunter must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping―the same mountain where his two older brothers died. When he reaches the mountaintop, he is immediately confronted by a terrifying eagle god named Savik. Savik gives the boy a choice: follow me or die like your brothers. What comes next is a harrowing journey to the home of the eagle gods and unexpected lessons on the natural world, the past that shapes us, and the community that binds us. Eagle Drums by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson is part cultural folklore, part origin myth about the Messenger's Feast - which is still celebrated in times of bounty among the Iñupiaq. It's the story of how Iñupiaq people were given the gift of music, song, dance, community, and everlasting tradition."

Nasugraq Rainey Hopson (Author), Irene Bedard (Narrator)

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