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 ex-convict in 19th-century Russia reminisces on his experiences in a Siberian prison.
The novel is about the months the Ingalls spent on the Kansas prairie around the town of Independence. Laura describes how her father built their one-room log house in Indian Territory, having heard that the government planned to open the territory to white settlers soon. The Ingalls face difficulty and danger in this book. They all fall ill from malaria, which was ascribed to breathing the night air or eating watermelon. American Indians are a common sight for them, as their house was built in Osage territory, and Ma's open prejudice about Indians contrasts with Laura's more childlike observations about those who live and ride nearby. They begin to congregate at the nearby river bottoms and their war cries unnerve the settlers, who worry they may be attacked, but an Osage chief who was friendly with Pa is able to avert the hostilities. By the end of the novel, all the Ingalls' work is undone when word comes that U.S. soldiers are being sent to remove white settlers.--Wikipedia.
A strange encounter in a deserted hunting lodge in La Sologne, France begins a desperate errand for Biggles & Co., involving their old arch enemy, Erich Von Stalhein, and ending in a bullet-torn dinghy on a lake in Moldavia.—Dustcover.
A woman struggles to save her friendships and her marriage when her difficult and melodramatic mother comes for an extended visit.
In 14th-century Norway, a nobleman’s daughter grows up and faces passion, sin, and filial piety.
A collection of short fiction by Clifford D. Simak, ordered by date of original publication.
A horrible shock awaits the girls of St Hilda's at the beginning of the autumn term - a fire has completely destroyed their school. Gillie Garston and her friends find themselves enrolled at the neighbouring Chalet School - and they're not at all sure they're going to like it.—Goodreads
Not strictly mystery, but a combination thriller, detection yarn, adventure, in the detailed exposition of a man's downfall. A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sort of tale, of a crook who runs a dope ring, to insure the respectability of his alter ego and the social desirability of his daughter. Good of its kind.—ebay vendor
The story of an indifferent French Algerian man who, after attending his mother's funeral, apathetically kills an Arab man whom he knows. The two-part story is his first-person narrative view before and after the murder. L’histoire d’un homme franco-algérien indifférent qui, après avoir assisté à l’enterrement de sa mère, tue dans un état apathique un Arabe qu’il connaît. Ce roman en deux parties, écrit à la première personne, restitue le paysage mental de l’assassin avant et après le meurtre.
Controversial when first published in 1930, Catherine Carswell documents Robert Burns life and the development of his literary works. She presents a biography of not only his life but also a hint of how the people he mingled and associated with lived and how they impacted his writings and life.
Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work, Patricia as a head copywriter at a major department store. When it comes to sex with other people, both believe in “the honesty policy.” Until they don’t. Or, at least, until Peter doesn’t—and a shell-shocked, lovesick Patricia finds herself starting out all over again, but this time around as a different kind of single woman: the ex-wife.
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