The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
John Steinbeck's impassioned novel of man's struggle against injustice during the years of the great Depression. Written just before THE GRAPES OF WRATH, it tells the story of the violent revolt of the fruit pickers in California. A tale of bitterness and class hatred, it is filled with Steinbeck's deep sympathy for the hopes and dreams of the oppressed and exploited.--back cover.
A young man joins the citizens of the Spanish city of Zaragoza in defending against an attack by the French.
Man-tay-seepee (River of Strangers) is the Cree name for the Churchill River in Manitoba, where Frank Parker Day’s classic novel takes place. In this dramatic story, Day tells the tale of men and women surviving the rough frontier of the early 20th century fur trade: a fanatically reformist clergyman challenges the unlicensed ways of a primitive frontier; a Highland Cape Breton hero tries to find purpose and meaning in self-exile from his old life; women struggle for recognition and dignity in an isolated world dominated by both weak and powerful men; and a secret romance threads its way throughout the story. Day explores the mystery and loneliness of this isolated and powerful landscape.—Penguin Random House Canada
A tough, timely, behind-the-scenes novel of the racketeer-ridden music business.
He was just another week-end crooner in a cheap dive when The Syndicate spotted him. In a matter of months, courtesy of the special build-up and that special innocent sex appeal that sets the teen-age chicks afire, Mickey Denton was the hottest thing in the best rooms in Vegas, Miami and on the juke boxes. He was cut up more ways than a hamburger. He didn't make a move, any move, without asking The Boys. But Mickey was A Star. He kept telling himself nothing's more important that that, not even a soul. Most of the time he even managed to believe it.—book cover
The Seeds of Time is a collection of science fiction stories consisting of five short stories and five novelettes.
This is the story of the famous Norseman, Harald the Stern (Hardrada), between the years 1034 and 1044, which he spent in Constantinople—or Byzantium, or Miklagard—as captain of the Greek Emperor’s guard.
The framework on which this story is built is the Heims Kringla or Sagas of the Norse Kings, written between 1223 and 1235 by an Icelandic chieftain-poet named Snorri Sturluson, himself a descendant of that Wulf who plays such a large part in this book.—from the Introduction.
Unnatural horrors strike a close-knit family after a stranger insinuates himself into their circle.
The novel blends adventure, psychological drama, and northern gothic elements. It’s about fear—how it spreads, how it controls, and how one learns to master it. It’s also about the clash between two powerful wills: the rising courage of a boy and the dark, relentless ambition of a man who refuses to be defeated by nature or fate.
Two brothers pass their lives in rural Russia.
A Chinese-American graduate of Yale recounts his experiences as a student and civil servant.
A collection of poetry by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
A description of the rugged, barren mountain landscapes (the fells) of the Lake District, and the people who live there, giving some hint of the effect of the shadowy fells on their destinies, the animals and the flowers that an understanding sympathy sees in the valleys of Westmorland.—adapted from the Preface.
Normandy, France, 1707. Newly released from prison, Roger Domont wants simply to return home from France to Boston, when he and his companion, St. Martin, chance upon a roadside skirmish—four cavaliers taunting and torturing a single defender. After dispatching the attackers and finding the man they rescued in no position to continue his errand, they promise to deliver a letter to the man’s master, a prisoner at Mont St. Michel, an ancient abbey built on a pinnacle of rock in the ocean. The task proves to be far greater than the friends anticipate, plunging them into international intrigue, duels, mistaken identity, and imprisonment.
The madcap Mehitable and her sister Charity meet up with spies and romance during the American Revolution.
A maid is murdered, and there are numerous other shootings and deaths, as well as a couple of car crashes, on the way to the solution.
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