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Kip's only friends are the members of the Daredevil Club, a club whose mission is to complete seven dangerous dares before their rivals, the Wildmen, complete their list of dares. Before the cliff diving accident in which he lost the use of his leg, Kip had been the leader of the Daredevil club. Now he has difficulty completing the dares and suspects that his membership is threatened. As the daredevils plan their final stunt, a dangerous climb along a narrow steel shelf beneath a bridge, they try to convince Kip that he may not be up to the task.

Greg is an avid sailor. On a solo trip off the rugged coast, he stumbles upon a family of desperate refugees stranded in a lifeboat. The family convinces Greg to help them, and keep their existence secret. When his plan begins to unravel and the family flees into an oncoming storm, Greg goes after them.

Byron is psyched when his older brother Jesse invites him on a weekend caving trip, even if it means spending time with Cole, Jesse's obnoxious college roommate. With Jesse's girlfriend Michelle rounding out the group, Byron is sure the excursion will be a success. Things get tense when they near the cave, only to find that the way in is blocked. Byron stumbles on the entrance to a new cave, but the thrill of his discovery is overshadowed by Cole's increasingly strange behavior.

Seven novels of adventure in one ebook bundle. When David McLean, well-loved grandfather and avid adventurer, dies, he leaves behind an unusual will that outlines sevens tasks he has set for his seven grandsons. Eric Walters, John Wilson, Ted Staunton, Richard Scrimger, Norah McClintock, Sigmund Brouwer and Shane Peacock bring their signature writing styles to a series of adventures that take readers from the top of Kilimanjaro to the bottom of the Mediterranean.

Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school, and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback…with the increasingly paranoid Mel and an unfriendly biology student named Natalie.

Fourteen-year-old Libby didn't want to go on a year long sailing adventure with her mother and her stepfather, Duncan, and she isn't about to let them forget it. Traveling through the Red Sea, Libby causes them to be late and make a dangerous crossing alone. When modern-day pirates attack, Duncan is killed and Libby's mother is left seriously injured and unconscious. Libby is left alone on a crippled boat to find safety and help for her mother. Libby must call on all her strength and face some hard truths about herself if she is to survive and reach land.

When Charlie Sykes wakes up in hospital in St. John's, he learns that he and his father have been in a car accident and that his father is dying. Charlie inherits little more than the brass key that his father pressed into his hand before he passed away. As far as Charlie knows, he has no family in Newfoundland. But then Uncle Nick shows up and is keen to meet his nephew-not because of who Charlie is, but rather because of what Charlie has: the key. That key will unlock a treasure Uncle Nick began searching for more than thirty years earlier.

Une fois leurs études terminées, deux amies, Erika et Olivia, reviennent à Natagamau, une petite ville autochtone du Nord québécois, où elles ont passé leur enfance. Toutes deux, l’une médecin, l’autre vétérinaire, ont décidé de s’y installer et d’y ouvrir leur cabinet. Mais voilà qu’elles se retrouvent, malgré elles, témoins d’activités louches. Aidées de leur copain d’adolescence, Œil d’Aigle, qui n’a jamais quitté la région, elles seront emportées dans une suite de péripéties, où s’entremêlent cambriolages, contrebande et autres crimes.

San Martín (Mexique), décembre 2010. L’explosion gigantesque d’un pipeline secoue toute la ville et une marée de pétrole en feu se déverse dans les rues, emportant tout sur son passage. Les responsables de ce désastre : des narcotrafiquants. Inspiré de ce fait divers, Le cartel des volcans raconte l’histoire tragique de Juan Esteban Duarte, un jeune délinquant qui sombre dans la violence et les activités criminelles, sous la férule de Ramón qui, depuis un soir d’été de son enfance, est devenu l’homme qu’il déteste le plus au monde.

Souffle épique du Grand Nord… L’homme aux yeux de loup raconte une aventure énigmatique, tendre et impitoyable, vécue par des êtres simples, que les circonstances poussent à se dépasser : un Mexicain dont l’avion est abattu au-dessus du magnifique Parc de Nahanni, un Indien qui revient de la guerre d’Iraq, l’esprit saturé du bruit des bombes et des cris de ses compagnons mourant autour de lui, des chasseurs percés de mystérieuses flèches venues de nulle part punir le non-respect de la vie animale et cette jeune Indienne, révoltée par la triste condition de la femme soumise à l’homme.