On Robinson Crusoe’s first seafaring voyage, his ship sinks in a violent storm. On his second voyage he is enslaved by pirates. When Crusoe braves the ocean after several years in Brazil, Providence leaves him as the sole survivor of a shipwreck on a deserted island. Confronted by hunger and the elements, Crusoe builds a home, grows crops, tames wild animals, and survives cannibals and mutineers by his wits and the qualities of his cultural upbringing. But while Crusoe has conquered his island, he is affected most by his isolation from civilization. Robinson Crusoe is widely regarded as the first English novel. No book in the history of Western literature had spawned more editions, spin-offs, and translations. Adaptations include The Swiss Family Robinson, the Hollywood film Cast Away, and nbc’s tv series Crusoe. The story was likely influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway in 1704 who spent four years and four months on the Pacific island Juan Fernández which was later changed to Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.

Sinbad, the legendary hero of the high seas, has faced many challenges in his lifetime, but none will test him more than the when he is made responsible for a wilful ward, Habib. Together they set off on a voyage, only to find themselves in the middle of a harsh storm on a wild sea. Luck guides them to an island full of riches, but they are still not safe. With the jewels on this island come giant snakes, gigantic eggs, and monstrous birds! And if this were not enough, when they escape to yet another island they find cannibals waiting for them. Fate intervenes yet again, only to lead them to into more danger with hideous rodents and the possibility of being buried alive! While they move from adventure to adventure, Sinbad has to groom his young charge to become a responsible man, someone both his father and guardian can be proud of. But will Sinbad's wit and courage be enough? Will they live long enough to for the boy to grow into a worthy young man?

The 2016 Disney film adaptation of The Jungle Book is the latest artistic effort to capture the drama and excitement of the enduring tales Rudyard Kipling created more than 120 years ago. This Campfire Classics adapatation faithfully renders Kipling's original language and plot details in a stunning graphic novel format. The adventure begins the night a boy, Mowgli, escapes certain doom after being trapped in the perilous clutches of the tiger Shere Khan. To protect Mowgli and to defy the tiger, the Seeonee wolf pack adopts the boy, giving him the nickname "Man-Cub". Other animals--a panther, bear, and python--teach the boy how to survive as Shere Khan continually pursues him through the jungle. Eventually, Mowgli and Shere Khan square off in an epic battle, from which only one will survive.

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Billionnaire Wesley Calder is the world´s wealthiest man, but he is far from being satisfied. As his long-time friend and business partner, this creates not just moral issues, but serious - even deadly problems for Tom McBride. The first is a fact that Tom helped cover up long ago - namely that in spite of his position, Calder remains an unrepentant hacker on a grand scale. Instead of being content that his programs are installed in 80% of the world´s computer systems, his desire to control and dominate them has expanded along with his fortune. Years ago, he used the vast resources of the company they created to place the ultimate Trojan Horse in Computers all over the world. An award-winning series of websites on the Internet called the Millennium Ring solved the computer date problem associated with the turn of the new century and at the same time introduced a control program capable of manipulating or destroying those same systems. When Tom learns of this, he is forced to face up the another problem he fights to ignore - Wesley´s smoldering and perhaps unrealized desire for Tom´s wife Anne. Just when the pressure seems to have destroyed the partnership completely, a Valentine´s Day accident reveals a tiny part of the danger to the global economy and to the business they have worked so hard to build. Against his better instincts, Tom must work even harder to preserve those secrets, his marriage and even the lives of his family. Both Tom and Anne become unwilling entrants in a murderous race between an international businessman, the government and organized crime to see who will control The Millennium Ring.