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 collection of novellas and short stories, many of a nautical theme.
It was August again, and Gloria was returning to Menlo. Gloria, with her stunning beauty and vast wealth, who hungered for everything that belonged to Lucy—even Lucy's husband. Lucy could only wait in dread of what menace Gloria would unleash in this place of haunting beauty and mounting terror—of what evil she would bring to Lucy's life and to the man Lucy loved and knew she could not hold.... —Goodreads
An evangelical preacher shares his theological framework.
One Wednesday morning William Masen woke up in hospital; it seemed like a Sunday it was so quiet. That was the day the world changed, the day man found himself at the mercy of the triffids, who turned out to be a good deal more intelligent than anyone suspected . . .
John Wyndham’s most famous novel, which has been filmed and serialised for television, is an unforgettable vision of an all-too-possible future, where one small error by man or machine results in a world where almost all the population is blind, and William and his girlfriend Josella must fight to survive the determined advance of the deadly walking plants.
Earth Could Be Fair is, as its author says, “A Chronicle.” In fact, it is the story of Pierre van Paassen’s boyhood and youth in Holland; but, though written in the first person, the narrative is concerned more with the little Dutch town of Gorcum, its picturesque character, and the rich variety of its people, than with the author himself. In a very real sense, also, this volume is a contribution to history—the history of the terrible first four decades of the present century, which began for Pierre and his schoolmates with idyllic days and fantastic adventures, and ended in the terror of the Warsaw Ghetto, in the barbaric isles of the Pacific, in a Europe reduced to shambles.—Excerpt from “The Atlantic”
A grand job of suspense, well handled angles on a series-detective, current war and romance as Albert Campion, suffering from concussion, pieces together bits of his identity and the problem on which he is working for the government. The reader is just as much in the dark as Campion, which is fair sleuthing, but this is really more active adventure-thriller than orthodox detecting, as Campion, and England, come through.—Kirkus Review.
A well-to-do family cannot be civil to each other in front of their weekend guests.
Billy Hawkins, a young air force cadet, stumbles upon thrilling, high-stakes escapades after chartering a flight for a mysterious passenger.
Here is the very breath of those lost-for-ever, faraway 'good old days' of the Thirties: the world of ten Woodbines for fourpence, of new houses for only five pounds down for those lucky enough to be able to buy them, and of three hungry, near-demoralised men competing for every job. It is a real story about real people, rich in humanity, pathos, laughter and tears. It is a love story, too, of the true-to-life kind rare in fiction. One of Frank Tilsley's earliest novels, it is also one of his best.—book's introduction
"The Dean's Elbow" is a compelling drama of ambition, sacrifice, and the enduring weight of past choices. The narrative explores the tension between public reputation and private reality. Thewliss's journey is one of moral complexity, as he grapples with the consequences of his early decisions and the desire to connect with his past without destroying the life he has built.—Google Books
An independent young woman lodging in a London boarding house at the end of the nineteenth century opens herself to the society of her fellow boarders.
A set of priceless pearls, a bit of romance and some tightrope walking result in some intrigue that requires Inspector Hanaud to solve.
Shady millionaires, all named Smith, are being struck down by lightning—out a clear blue sky! Doc and his crew track a conspiracy to gain control of various American industries to a remote laboratory in Maine.
In this novel the Irish author Henry de Vere Stacpoole drew upon his early career as a ship's surgeon to write a vivid and atmospheric tale of maritime adventure and nautical romance involving both Japan and Iceland.
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