The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Two brothers pass their lives in rural Russia.
A Chinese-American graduate of Yale recounts his experiences as a student and civil servant.
A collection of poetry by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
A description of the rugged, barren mountain landscapes (the fells) of the Lake District, and the people who live there, giving some hint of the effect of the shadowy fells on their destinies, the animals and the flowers that an understanding sympathy sees in the valleys of Westmorland.—adapted from the Preface.
Normandy, France, 1707. Newly released from prison, Roger Domont wants simply to return home from France to Boston, when he and his companion, St. Martin, chance upon a roadside skirmish—four cavaliers taunting and torturing a single defender. After dispatching the attackers and finding the man they rescued in no position to continue his errand, they promise to deliver a letter to the man’s master, a prisoner at Mont St. Michel, an ancient abbey built on a pinnacle of rock in the ocean. The task proves to be far greater than the friends anticipate, plunging them into international intrigue, duels, mistaken identity, and imprisonment.
The madcap Mehitable and her sister Charity meet up with spies and romance during the American Revolution.
A maid is murdered, and there are numerous other shootings and deaths, as well as a couple of car crashes, on the way to the solution.
They said he was an insane killer. But young Edie Thompson did not believe them. She was certain he was innocent, that his strangeness was only a mask for his terror. Was she right to hide him from the police? Was she saving a harmless youth . . . or setting the stage for another murder—her own?—Goodreads.
A rover retires to the French coast after a life of piracy, but soon finds himself caught up in historical events.
A collection of Catherine Louisa Pirkis’s short fiction.
The author strives at innovation by placing a woman in the role of huntress of a band of desperate criminals known as “The Diamond Thieves”.
Adventure is where you find it—and young Til Carter found it in a hurry when he headed north into the toughest country in Alaska with Gordon Bettles, the hardiest old sourdough this side of hell. He also found a beautiful redhead named Julie Condon, who wanted him to settle down and buy into a safe claim, but Til had faith in Bettles’s “Somewheres, on some river, the big strike’s comin’. An’ when she comes, an’ the news of it hits the outside, there’s goin’ to be the damnedest gold rush the world has ever seen.”—book cover
The Maple Leaf was a Canadian juvenile monthly magazine published from July 1852 to December 1854. It was the second juvenile magazine published in Canada and was written for both boys and girls and their families. In all, a total of 30 issues were published.
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