The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
A story of life during the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada.
A collection of short stories set in the inter-war years in Britain.
On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about the stones that walk and the singing sand, which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse's meaning and the identity of the deceased. Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves, despite his doctor's orders. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder.
Part of a 23-volume series.
Volume 16 completes Section VIII: The Province of Quebec.
It discusses the education of the citizens of Quebec and describes the development of the region's agriculture and natural resource industries.
The chapters include: EDUCATION IN CANADA UNDER THE FRENCH RÉGIME FRENCH EDUCATION, 1763-1913 ENGLISH EDUCATION THREE CENTURIES OF AGRICULTURE FOREST RESOURCES THE FISHERIES HISTORY OF MINING IN THE PROVINCE
On a pleasant summer afternoon, a sudden plane crash followed by a would-be assassin interrupt a family’s conversations about marriage.
A tale of adventure.
A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel essays.
Mysterious midnight visitors to a New York mansion are observed by a spinster living next door.
The burning was slower now, for each pound of nitrogen had carried down with it three pounds of oxygen, and the atmosphere was almost nothing but nitrogen and carbon dioxide. There was no water in the air, for the nitric oxide absorbed it, drank it greedily. The carbon dioxide was formed from every scrap of organic matter that had been on the planet. There were no fish in the sea, no plant nor any animal on the land, and no bird in the air. The humus in the soil was burned; the very rocks were being eaten by the corrosive, oily stuff. The nights were cold now...
A new hero from Earth reaches Mars and battles a merchant of purloined youth.
A story of one Sir Geoffrey de Bruyere, ‘the best knight in all Romanie’. His story takes place in 12th century Greece, through hunts and brightly coloured jousting tournaments to gallant battles, fighting for God and for justice against the Infidel Turk.
The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars. It’s told in the first person, and takes the protagonist from a childhood of poverty to the distinction of the Royal Academy.
If you’re new to Howard Spring, here is an excellent starting point.—Paul Magnussen @ Goodreads.
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