The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
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.
A mystery to men of Earth was the cloud-wrapped neighbor world of Venus—till Robert Grandon found himself transported to the dangerous and astounding adventures of life on that weird planet.
These stories capture the ups and downs of sleepaway summer camps.
Winifred Bambrick was a harpist who performed as a solo artist and with a circus orchestra in Europe in the 1930s. Her experience in Europe, which coincided with the events that would lead to World War II, inspired the novel Continental Revue, which was published in 1946 and won that year's Governor General's Award for English language fiction.
The story of Nelson, the Battle of Trafalgar and of Blackadder as pieced together by Stephen MacFarlane from manuscripts left by two “heroes” of the adventure. Thomas Cathro and Harry de Rohan in their manuscripts tell the story when, as boys, they had come face to face with the arch-villain, Blackadder between the years 1803 and 1805 leading up to and including the Battle of Trafalgar.
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