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 Restoration-era courtier sacrifices his fortune, reputation, and chance at personal happiness to serve his king as a secret spy.
An unexplained cosmic "blink" splits humanity along gender lines into two divergent timelines: from the men's perspective, all the women disappear and from the women's, all men vanish. The novel explores issues of gender role and sexual identity. It depicts an empowered condition for liberated women and a dystopia of an all-male world. Wylie's setting allows him to investigate the role of homosexuality in situations where no gender alternative exists.
A story of Lance Dunbar, a wounded WWI soldier whose cousin and namesake, who had been killed in France during the same war, leaves him an inheritance. He had been the poor Lance Dunbar but now he was the rich one and his cousin was now, in his words, “nothing”. His cousin had been a writer and a traveller. Rereading his book inspires Lance to make his cousin’s pilgrimage and “stand where he had stood, and discover for myself whether any far-off vibrations as from the dead booming of a bronze bell would catch my inner ear”. His journey begins in Japan where he meets Miyuki.—From the 1922 hardback edition.
A lovely June wedding—but the bride is lying dead, struck down by an unknown assassin. Death comes to the town of Bascombe Fells and threatens to tear it apart as the townspeople wonder who the murderer could be. Was it the groom who needed to marry to collect his inheritance, one of the bride’s numerous former suitors, a jealous woman in love with the groom? Or was it someone from outside, jewel thieves or someone seeking vengeance for some past slight? These are the suspects that detective Alan Ford is faced with as he tries to discover the murderer of... The Bride of a Moment—Goodreads
Beverly Gray goes on vacation.
When junior copywriter Victor Dean dies from a fall down the iron staircase at Pym's Publicity, a posh London ad agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to investigate. Before his tragic demise, the victim had tried to warn Mr. Pym, the firm's owner, about some scandalous behavior involving his employees.
Posing as a novice copywriter, Wimsey discovers that Dean was in with an unsavory crowd of Bright Young People whose recreational habits link them to the criminal underworld. The garish daylit world of Adman Archetypes contrasts weirdly with the nightmare world of gaslit flares, drugs and passion. A slugged reporter – a mysterious powder – too many ‘accidental’ deaths all twine into the mystery as Winsey follows the faint and tangled trail of clues to solve the cryptic puzzle that baffles even Scotland Yard. Death stalks the halls at Pym’s – and someone knows that Wimsey is just not playing cricket.
Wheat growers in nineteenth-century California resist when a railroad company attempts to take possession of their farms.
The story of a logging camp in the backwoods of Canada.
Serving for the Royalist cause affects the domestic life of a young Yorkshire farmer during the English Civil War.
An essay on how archaeology and communication are interlinked.
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