The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
“We’ve taken the wrong fork. There’s a double hairpin bend somewhere.” There was! Immediately in front of them a car was drawn up on the opposite side of the road. As they swung round the wicked curve headlights blazed full at them, blinding them both. A lorry had drawn out to pass the standing car and was coming at them like a battle cruiser. They sensed the rending, tearing scream of metal as the lorry hit them, and darkness came down on them. In that threefold crash it was the occupant of the stationary car who was found dead. Out of the details of a commonplace accident Inspector Macdonald relentlessly builds up the most amazing elucidation of a murder mystery—a case devised with all E. C. R. Lorac’s customary brilliance.
For no apparent reason a big passenger plane flying from Munich to Berlin had crashed shortly after taking off from the aerodrome, and six passengers and the two pilots had been killed outright....
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Napoleonic Wars era Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. The narrative time line ranges from January 1794 to November 1848. The Napoleonic Wars occurred from May 1803 to November 1815.
“We’ve just heard that a very good friend of ours is somewhere in the jungle of Garhwal, sick, and we’d like to have him brought here.” “Presumably by me?” “Of course.” “Where exactly is he?” “I don’t know.” That was the mission that brought Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie in the Air Police ‘Gadfly’ amphibian to the north-east frontier of India—to rescue a wealthy Chinese fugitive from the Communists.—Dustcover.
In his latest sortie into Central Africa Biggles reveals his two pet hates—the crocodile and trouble-making man. The four-footed enemy proved simpler to locate, but he needed all the luck he could get, aided by constant vigilance and iron nerves, before he freed the terrorized Zinns of the second and deadlier peril.—Dustcover.
Beverly and her friends arrive in India. As they travel eastward, to Shanghai, they experience many dangers and adventures.
A valuable horse, Prince Houssain's Star of the East, is stolen from Max Mengle's barn. Coincidentally, Max Mengle is the backer for Shirley's current play and has replaced Shirley with Marcia Morrison in the leading role. Both girls are informed of this decision at the same time, and a short time later, Max is found unconscious from a head wound. Both young women appear to have motive. But who committed the crime and why?
As a middle-age professor moves house, he contemplates the legacy of his most brilliant student.
The book begins with Anne and Gilbert’s wedding, which takes place in the Green Gables orchard. After the wedding, they move to their first home together, which Anne calls their “house of dreams.” Gilbert finds them a small house on the seashore at Four Winds Point, an area near the village of Glen St. Mary, where he is to take over his uncle’s medical practice.
In Four Winds, Anne and Gilbert meet many interesting people, such as Captain Jim, a former sailor who is now the keeper of the lighthouse, and Miss Cornelia Bryant, an unmarried woman in her 40s who lives alone in an emerald-green house and deems the Blythes part of “the race that knows Joseph.” Anne also meets her new neighbor, Leslie Moore, who lost her beloved brother and her father, and then was forced by her mother to marry the mean-spirited and unscrupulous Dick Moore at age 16.
The Tyler family was as a whole “handsome and civilized and worthy of paradise.” “Very Important People.” etc. There is only one “lemon in the basket,” according to his wife, no peach herself, and that’s Rufus, decidedly ordinary. A beer drinker. But the lemon doesn’t really sour until the family is involved in an international emergency. The young prince of Alalaf, a foreign country belligerently hostile to the U.S. is sent to America for emergency treatment by young doctor Tyler. In the meantime, innocent Americans are being held as hostages until his safe return. The visit is supposed to be ultra-secret but Rufus spills the beans. Unable to comprehend the consequences or his family’s disapproval, Rufus is goaded by his wife into the realization of one thing . . . here is his opportunity to make the history books.—Kirkus Reviews
A Romance from the Golden Age of that genre of a family feud that gets in the way of true love.—AbeBooks
Sandford Fleming was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. He is best known for his involvement in the creation of worldwide time zones, the creation of Coordinated Universal Time, and the construction of Canadian railways.
A police detective attempts to live the American dream in the Chicago suburbs.
Uncommon Montreal and French Canada set romance novel. "Here is depicted the pastoral peace of the Acadia of Evangeline and the cosmopolitan life of Montreal of today".
"Breakfast in Bed" takes a comfortable, prosperous London family through the course of one comfortable, well-managed Winter's day. Very little that is unusual occurs to mark the passing of this particular day-only a few small incidents which, trivial in themselves, are the outward signs of emotional crises of slightly greater, though still not earth-shaking, importance.—New York Times
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