The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Two princes battle to determine England's destiny: whoever wins will take Britain's most rightful heir as his bride and her kingdom for his own. On one side is her uncle Richard, the last Plantagenet King, whom she fears to be the murderer of her two brothers, the would-be kings. On the other is Henry Tudor, the exiled knight. Can he save her from a horrifying marriage to a cutthroat soldier?
Thrust into the intrigue and drama of the War of the Roses, Elizabeth has a country within her grasp--if she can find the strength to unite a kingdom torn apart by a thirst for power. A richly drawn tale of the woman who launched one of the most dramatic dynasties England has ever seen, The Tudor Rose is a vibrant, imaginative look at the power of a queen.—Goodreads
Ben the tramp’s uncanny knack of running into trouble is unsurpassed in the final crime thriller written for him by J. Jefferson Farjeon. On a grey afternoon he was destined never to forget, Ben sat down on a park seat and proceeded to think, not of cabbages and kings, but of numbers, lucky and unlucky. But it wasn’t Ben’s lucky day, or that of the nondescript-looking stranger sitting at the other end of the bench – murdered before his very eyes! That was the prelude to the most uncomfortable and eventful twenty-four hours Ben had ever spent in an uncomfortable and eventful life.—Goodreads
A wealthy widow is murdered at her villa in Aix-les-Bains, and her companion is missing.
Death Walks in Eastrepps begins quietly—almost too quietly. Robert Eldridge is returning to Eastrepps on the London train for his customary Wednesday night tryst with Margaret Withers. At the same time Miss Mary Hewitt is sitting down to dinner with her brother James. Later that night she will make her usual visit to Mrs. Dampier at Tamarisk House. As she leaves to go home, nothing is out of the ordinary. But Mary Hewitt doesn't reach home that night, and her corpse is found the next dayin a little wood just off the path she would normally take. A brutal murderer—soon called the Eastrepps Evil—is on the loose.—Goodreads.
Nancy and her friend Helen visit their friend Emily Willouby at the Lilac Inn, which Emily now owns, to help her plan her wedding. Emily plans on selling inherited diamonds in order to help fix up the Lilac Inn. However, Nancy soon learns that someone has been impersonating her and making expensive purchases under her name. Soon after, Emily's diamonds are stolen! Can Nancy find the thieves and recover the missing diamonds?—Amazon
A young Russian woman falls in love with a Bulgarian patriot on the eve of the Crimean War.
In the town of Slopperton-on-the-Sloshy, the fate of Richard Marwood and Jabez North intertwine in a story of crime, intrigue, and redemption.
Two families in north Germany deal with love across rigid class boundaries in turbulent times.
A collection of poetry and prose recounting events from the discovery and settlement of the Pacific Northwest region. Included are Cariboo days, the Yukon River and the stampede to Fairbanks, Alaska.
A collection of short fiction by Clark Ashton Smith, ordered by date of publication.
First published in Crack Detective Stories, May 1949.
Semi-picaresque, semi-social novel, based on the wrongs of the class theory and the lack of the underprivileged to better themselves. The period is 18th century England—the central character a "bully boy", whose bastardy denies him his place, and builds in him a dominating passion of hatred. He sets out to carve out a fortune for himself—he flees the cruelty of his uncle—and the love of his cousin; he champions a seaman and they are both marooned in the South Seas. There he builds a new life for himself, but eventually he has his fortune, and returns to England to carry out his promised revenge. Neither a pretty nor a pleasant tale.—Kirkus Reviews
Four men, Hugh Scobie, J. Sheridan Hogan, John Lowe, and Brown Chamberlain who were journalists, editors, and newspaper proprietors in their day who were active influencers of early Canadian history during the period from 1837-1867.
Essay published in the October 1914 issue of The Canadian Magazine.
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