The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Fictionalized stories of ships on the Great Lakes that participated in the War of 1812.
Eleven short stories about boxing, boxers and the boxing business. Dialogue and stories reflect the time in which it was written.
The usual picture of Drake in men’s minds is a brave, bluff man of infinite audacity, a great patriot, a great sailor, a man to whom success came of its own accord. But this is only half the truth.
He was always studying and learning. He reached success by the painful ways of failure. Few men have stood up to so many rebuffs in early manhood and snatched victory out of them. In many respects he was in advance of his time—in none perhaps more than the kindness and humanity he showed to native peoples. He confronted a vast world power determined to enslave England and destroy its claim to think as it thought and live in independence. He shattered that power by changing the naval strategy of England from defence to attack. And his theory of sea-warfare, developed by Nelson two centuries later, remains the principle of the Royal Navy today. It is this man of whose life A. E. W. Mason has written.
Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden southern Alberta to a new life in the Peace River region. Here her daughter Poppy grows up in a community characterized by harmonious interactions between the local Métis and newly arrived European settlers.
In the early 1920s Jarvis Elliott is trying to build a railroad through Gateway Pass in the Rockies while his daughter Joyce pursues a romance with Ordway, her father’s enemy. After Jarvis is injured, Bob Hallock, a clean cut young engineer working, shoulders the responsibilities for completing the project and Joyce joins the struggle against Ordway’s underhanded methods.
After a day at the beach this man returns home a hero, wondering how it all happened.
A Prohibition era moral novel. Romayne Ransom’s world collapses when a hidden bootlegging operation in her home is exposed, forcing her to confront the truth about her family. Through the crisis she finds strength and integrity, supported by Evan, the steady young officer whose quiet loyalty helps guide her toward a new life.
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