Tim Champlin - Free Library Land Online - War

Flying for France

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:20:46 +0200

By using an elixir purchased from a New Orleans voodoo queen, young teen Zane Rasmussen has recently returned to the twenty-first century after an accidental time-travel to 1849 Missouri where he shared three perilous adventures with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Zane's friend, Conn Milgrew, wants to experiment with this potent tonic which transports him back to 1917 and the village of Lagnicourt, France where he arrives in time to rescue a pretty American visitor, Erin Waters, from four street bullies.

Thirty-year old Alan Lowe, an American volunteer in the French Lafayette Flying Corps, engages in aerial combat against the Germans, while an American civilian, Bill Heyward, tells of his recovery of a priceless Chaucer manuscript stolen from an English monastery.

Will teen Conn Milgrew make it home to the twenty-first century? Will he die in the Great War? Or will he live and be marooned in the past with the beautiful Erin Waters?

Treasure of the Templars

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:20:45 +0200

In the ruins of a Scottish dungeon, an archeology professor finds the journal of a long-dead knight revealing the location of a vanished treasure. An 1898 shadow organization is also after the treasure and Professor McGinnis' life. Marcus Flood, former monk, becomes the professor's bodyguard. With the professor's niece, they go after the treasure deep in the American southwest.

The Blaze of Noon

Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:11:18 +0200

A prospector gets more trouble than he bargains for when the mine he finds contains two dead bodies.

Dakota Gold

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:11:17 +0200

Deadwood was aptly named. If you stuck with it and broke your back piling up that gold dust, the hold-up gangs would rob you blind. It was the toughest way to make a living — but Army deserters had no choice. That's why ex-Captain Curtis Wilder was in Deadwood. Cathy Jenkins was there because she loved him. So naturally brother Wiley Jenkins had to stick around. And Matt Tierney just there.

Tom Sawyer and the Ghosts of Summer

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:32:43 +0200

12-year-old Matt Lively is obsessed with trying to somehow stretch time to make summer last indefinitely. Convinced he is living the ideal time of life—in Missouri, 1950, between the 7th and 8th grades—he longs to experience extraordinary adventures before he is forced to confront high school, and eventually, boring adulthood. Along with his best friends, Rob Linehart and Wally Carter, Matt begins the summer with pranks, problems and fun. A mysterious and ominous tramp, Thatcher, accosts Matt and Rob and tells them things he should have no way of knowing. As thatcher captures the boys' attention, he invites them back in time to save a life or two and recover a treasure, but mostly to change history in a way that will preserve The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for posterity. Join Matt, Rob and Wally on their time-traveling adventure of self-discovery.

Annie and the Ripper

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:11:18 +0200

1888, Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper terrorizes prostitutes and baffles Scotland Yard; 1888, London. Annie Oakley thrills audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her expert marksmanship. The Ripper may have picked the wrong target in this fascinating retelling of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror...with a western twist. A mentally unbalanced killer who slashes throats and eviscerates his victims is stalking the Whitechapel district of London's East End. Whitechapel, with its odors of unlimed outhouses, cabbage, cigars, coalsmoke and fish; Whitechapel, with its boarding houses and casual wards, its impoverished working people, its prostitutes. Full moon, dense fog, shrill whistles from Bobbies on the beat; Hansom cabs, horses' hooves clopping along wet cobblestones. The chills run up your back as you look over your shoulder into the dark for the crazy Ripper with the long, sharp knife. This blend of fact and fiction will keep you turning the pages long after bedtime as the...

The Secret of Lodestar

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:11:17 +0200

Three bandits made off with $30,000 in gold and buried it in secret. When the gang leader is released from prison, ex-railroad detective Marc Charvein follows his prey to the hidden treasure—in a ghost town called Lodestar.

West of Washoe

Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:32:43 +0200

Lincoln's Ransom

Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:11:16 +0200

A gang of counterfeiters plans to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln from its Springfield tomb on election night, 1876, then demand ransom from the Illinois governor. Sterling Packard, undercover Secret Service agent, infiltrates the gang and tries to thwart the plot. When the train bearing Lincoln’s hidden body is robbed by Jesse James’ gang, and Packard is caught in a perilous situation.

Flying Eagle

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:11:16 +0200

Former policeman Jay McGraw's job as a messenger for Wells Fargo takes him east on the San Francisco to Chicago run of the Central Pacific. While often routine and boring, guarding the famous Wells Fargo treasure box is a steady job. Rarely does he envy his close friends who still walk a beat in Chinatown.

But trouble soon comes his way. Not long into the run, a gang of masked bandits blow up a key bridge on the trail. Jay knows they are after his cargo, even though the train carries other valuable freight. If Wells Fargo loses their heavily insured shipment, Jay will lose his job. However, escaping from the heavily armed, very persistent riders seems impossible.

A last-ditch escape effort sees Jay fleeing the bandits by hot-air balloon, only to land in the midst of a deadly range war between cattlemen and Basque sheepherders deep in the Wyoming territory. Despite Jay's remote location, the bandits continue their dogged pursuit of him, and seem willing to...

Tom and Huck's Howling Adventure

Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:52:30 +0200

A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jackson's Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim. It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that these are living characters from Twain's novels, while they finally conclude he's a traveler from a future time. He agrees to accompany them as they prepare "for howling adventures" into Indian Territory. Their plans are halted when Becky Thatcher is kidnapped and criminals demand a $12,000 gold ransom. During their fast-paced adventure, Zane realizes this is a totally different and, in many ways, better world than the one he left behind. He survives, but then has no idea how to return home.

Cold Cache

Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:11:16 +0200

Summer of the Sioux

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:11:15 +0200

Matt Tierney was a rather ordinary young man. His first big assignment for the Chicago Times Herald was the Big Horn and Yellowstone expeditions of General Daniel Buck. He stepped right into one of the most crucial and bitter confrontations between Whites and Indians in the the history of the Territory, and Matt Tierney learned that even an ordinary young man can be a hell of a fighter.