Browsing Titles 26 to 50 of 95 in Subject Category Adventure

The Three Freds and After! (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Horace Banner
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Missions and Missionaries
Read by: Gordon Knight
Approximate time: 3 hours 47 minutes
Catalog number: 774 (part of the Torch collection)
An investigation into the disappearance of FRED ROBERTS, FRED WRIGHT, and FRED DAWSON - three friends who were martyred as pioneers to Brazil.

Twas the Night Before (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Jerry B. Jenkins
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Living, Christmas
Read by: Norma Lagomarsino
Approximate time: 3 hours 28 minutes
Catalog number: 630
Jenkins's usual use of high adventure and unpredictable love is at play in this story about Tom Douten, a gritty Chicago journalist, who isn't afraid to investigate the truth about life in the inner city, and his new lover, Noella, an optimistic writer who believes in Santa. When Douten, flies to the Black Forest to investigate the "truth" about Santa and dispel Noella's belief, his plane crashes, killing the pilot and his fellow passenger. Jenkins keeps the story fast-moving in his terse, straightforward style. Nonetheless, he manages to plot an intricate enough course, so that the final revelations are surprising, and as satisfying as plum pudding at the end of a Christmas feast.

Twice Freed: the Story of Onesimus (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Patricia St. John
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Bible Characters, Historical
Read by: Joy Williams
Approximate time: 6 hours 27 minutes
Catalog number: 1496 (part of the ABC collection)
The biblical story of Onesimus, a slave of Philemon, and his long painful search for true freedom. His quest is complicated by his love for Eirene, the daughter of a rich merchant.

The Unhurried Chase That Ended at L'abri (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Betty Carlson
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Christian Growth, Humour
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 4 hours 54 minutes
Catalog number: 698
The Unhurried Chase That Ended at L'abri is a lighthearted, light-spirited, often hilariously funny account of an individualistic, fun-loving American woman seeking the real answers to life. Betty Carlson tells her own story with disarming frankness and whimsy.

Voyages of the Dayspring, Sailors for the Gospel (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Ron Russell
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Christian Disciplines, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Missions and Missionaries
Read by: Joyce Mount
Approximate time: 6 hours 14 minutes
Catalog number: 748 (part of the Torch collection)
RON & AGGIE RUSSELL - An adventurous seafaring ministry, visiting remote South Pacific islands with a mobile Bible bookshop.

When Morning Comes Again (Audio DAISY Book)

By: June Masters Bacher
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Suspense, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martina Postma
Approximate time: 6 hours 58 minutes
Catalog number: 1000
Nobody heard the knock. Suddenly she was there, Rose-Wind-the-Snow-Maiden, midnight hair, lank and dripping, opened her mouth to speak-and then collapsed in a little heap at their feet. In the days ahead, Courtney would often wonder how the history of the valley would have been different had Rose Wind not come to them.

Wisdom Hunter (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Randall Arthur
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Growth, Marriage and Family, Suspense
Read by: Richard Barnes
Approximate time: 11 hours 24 minutes
Catalog number: 1248
Pastor Jason Faircloth knows what he believes. His clear faith, in fact, is why he is one of the most prominent pastors in Atlanta. He relies on it to discipline his daughter, his wife, his church. He prays daily that others would come to see God's ways as he does. And it will cost him everything he has. Groping for answers in the face of tragedy, Jason determines to find the one person left who might provide healing, the granddaughter kept hidden from him. His search takes him on an international adventure and deep into his tormented soul. A fast-paced suspense novel rich in spiritual depth, Wisdom Hunter explores what it means to break free of Christian legalism and discover how grace can make the difference between life and death.

Ride the Wild River (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 3 in series Reno Western Saga
By: Gilbert Morris
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 9 hours 45 minutes
Catalog number: 565
Jim Reno is a down-and-out drifter, until he meets a frightened teenager claiming to be his cousin. Fleeing a brutal step-father, the young runaway hires Reno to ride west with a wagon train. The train's motley assortment of settlers includes the surly wagon master and his barbaric sons, a world-weary English dandy and his woman, a penniless preacher, and families searching for a new home in the heartland. The way west is rugged. The settlers must face the scorching plains, constant fights among the men, sickness, a thieving gunfighter and his cronies, and a mysterious vengeful Indian chief named Nightwalker. And Reno must face the question of the real identity of the young runaway.

Boomtown (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 4 in series Reno Western Saga
By: Gilbert Morris
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Suspense, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 8 hours 6 minutes
Catalog number: 567
The minors of Virginia City face a mysterious gang of cut-throats called the Innocents, who are bent on terrorizing the people into giving up their claims. No one is safe. The desperate miners need a man to organize them, and Jim Reno is that man. Only as organized vigilantes can Reno and the prospectors bring peace and order to Boomtown, but Reno hates the prospect of using violence even for a good cause. Reno may face more than he can handle. The Innocents are determined to stop Reno and the vigilantes. So is Saul Logan, a crooked saloon owner. And Logan's cold blooded gunslinger brother, fresh out of prison, is more than willing to put Reno out of commission.

Runaway Heart (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 1 in series Westward Dreams
By: Jane Peart
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Living, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 9 hours 3 minutes
Catalog number: 604
"End of the line!" The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. Was Riverbend Oregon the end of the line for her? She had come west to escape the gossip and humiliation after being jilted. She had come to find a new life, but her cousin's chilly reception tells her she has made a terrible mistake. In a town barely more than a mining camp, 2000 miles from Kentucky, Holly faces the fact that she is unwelcome--and reaches the conclusion that only she can change.

Promise of the Valley (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 2 in series Westward Dreams
By: Jane Peart
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Living, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 9 hours 9 minutes
Catalog number: 605
War, Adelaide Pride's former life of privilege has been swept away. The war has robbed her of family, fortune, and finance, forcing her to find a new way to earn a living. Her aristocratic background has not prepared her for the workaday world. Faced with the position of being a perennial "poor relation," she reluctantly accepts the position of companion to a wealthy Yankee widow spending the winter at a Napa Valley health resort.

Where Tomorrow Waits (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 3 in series Westward Dreams
By: Jane Peart
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Living, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 7 hours 8 minutes
Catalog number: 606
Penny Sayres' red hair, freckle-splashed skin, and fierce independence drew the attention of some of the region's most eligible bachelors. One by one, they've been disappointed--because romance and marriage are the last things on Penny's mind! Since her childhood, she sensed an unknown destiny beckoning from the horizon.

A Distant Dawn (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 4 in series Westward Dreams
By: Jane Peart
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Living, Western and Pioneer
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 7 hours 32 minutes
Catalog number: 607
Following the deaths of their parents, 24-year-old Sunniva Lyndall and her younger brother, Tracy, leave the comfort and safety of their Ohio Valley home to travel to California. With excitement, determination, and the proceeds of the sale of their farm, they head for Missouri and a wagon train westward.

Mandie and the Cherokee Legend (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 2 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery
Read by: Susan Michaelson
Approximate time: 2 hours 50 minutes
Catalog number: 632
Mandie is bewildered by the unhappy reaction of some of her Cherokee friends to her discovery of gold inside a cave and her Christian values are tested by a troublesome Cherokee cousin.

Mandie and the Ghost Bandits (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 3 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Detective and Mystery
Read by: Susan Michaelson
Approximate time: 2 hours 36 minutes
Catalog number: 633
Mandie and her friends attempt to unravel the mystery which includes missing gold, a train wreck, and a gang of robbers disguised as "ghosts."

Mandie and the Charleston Phantom (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 7 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery, Suspense
Read by: Susan Michaelson
Approximate time: 2 hours 44 minutes
Catalog number: 795
Visiting a friend at his parents' beach house in Charleston, Mandie tries to solve the mystery of a ghostly apparition and learns a lesson about jealousy.

Mandie and the Abandoned Mine (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 8 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery, Suspense
Read by: Beatrice Noggin
Approximate time: 4 hours 18 minutes
Catalog number: 794
Uncle John won't sell his old mine at Rose Creek until Mandie and Joe have seen it. On their next visit to the mine, the two friends are faced with intrigue and danger.

Mandie and the Hidden Treasure (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 9 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery, Suspense
Read by: Beatrice Noggin
Approximate time: 4 hours 26 minutes
Catalog number: 796
Mandie and her friend Celia discover a buried treasure and embark on a new adventure.

Mandie and the Mysterious Bells (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 10 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery, Suspense
Read by: Beatrice Noggin
Approximate time: 5 hours 8 minutes
Catalog number: 797
Mandie and her friends have a new mystery to investigate when the bells of the church suddenly begin ringing at midnight.

Mandie and the Holiday Surprise (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 11 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christmas
Read by: Beatrice Noggin
Approximate time: 4 hours 42 minutes
Catalog number: 798
Mandie, the irresistible youngster is on a roll again, and she is terribly excited about going home for the Christmas holidays. But something is wrong. An air of mystery hangs over the house, not allowing her to enjoy her vacation. On top of that, her mother and uncle have left for a few days, and she is itching to find out what the secret is. But when her mother finally tells her, Mandie is stunned. Her mother is going to have a baby! What will Mandie's reaction be? Read this book and find out!

Mandie and the Washington Nightmare (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 12 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Christian Growth, Detective and Mystery
Read by: Beatrice Noggin
Approximate time: 5 hours 17 minutes
Catalog number: 799
When Mandie visits President McKinley at the White House, she becomes convinced that she sees the ghost of George Washington, who died a century before and had never lived in the building, but she relies on her Christian faith to discover the truth.

Mandie and the Midnight Journey (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 13 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Marriage and Family
Read by: Beatrice Noggin and Merlin Arney
Approximate time: 4 hours 23 minutes
Catalog number: 800
"Ever since Mandie's mother told her she was going to have a baby, the thought of having to share her mother with a brother or sister caused problems for her. When she arrives home those troubling thoughts become even stronger."

Mandie and the Shipboard Mystery (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 14 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery
Read by: Beatrice Noggin
Approximate time: 4 hours 40 minutes
Catalog number: 801
Mandie has just celebrated her thirteenth birthday and been surprised to discover that she has permission to go with her grandmother to Europe. It's just too exciting to be true! Grandmother Taft, Celia, and Mandie are given a big send-off as they board the Queen Victoria bound for Europe. Traveling on the ship with them is Senator Morton. His attentions keep Mrs. Taft distracted to the point where she slightly neglects Celia and Mandie a situation guaranteed to mean trouble. The girls meet some unusual people on board, and even find someone in their room when they return to it one night. Candy and fruit disappear from their cabin, and someone's valise turns up under their settee. Then comes the real surprise! Uncle Ned won't be able to rescue them this time!

Mandie and the Foreign Spies (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 15 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery
Read by: Beatrice Noggin
Approximate time: 4 hours 34 minutes
Catalog number: 802
When Mandie and her friends get to Europe, they find that trying to deliver Jonathan, the stowaway, to his aunt in Paris is only the beginning of a new mystery.

Mandie and the Silent Catacombs (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 16 in series Mandie
By: Lois Gladys Leppard
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Detective and Mystery
Read by: Beatrice Noggin
Approximate time: 4 hours 26 minutes
Catalog number: 803
Mandie, Celia, Mrs. Taft, Senator Morton, and Johnnathan leave the problems of Paris behind as they board an express train whose destination is Rome, Italy. Mandie and Celia are excited about seeing the Coliseum, the Sistine Chapel, the Forum, the Parthenon and the hundreds of fountains in Italy. They've nearly forgotten the vanishing woman who has followed them wherever they've gone. Without warning she reappears.

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