The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Half-sisters Silver and Athalie Greeves have grown up worlds apart. Silver is a humble, faith-filled young lady; Athalie is a flapper who takes after her socialite mother. When a chance visit suddenly reunites Silver and Athalie with each other and a father they’ve never known, will a true family emerge where only a family by name existed before? Terrance Bannard, the local minister, is soon taken by Silver’s beauty and spirit, but will a rising jealousy from younger sister Athalie force Silver to sacrifice love for the sake of her family?—Goodreads
The book comprises 11 short stories.
Whether tidying up a case of cold-blooded murder, stamping out a dope peddling organization, or helping Marcel Brissac to put a stop to trouble in French Guinea, Biggles, backed by the International Police Commission, comes out on top every time.—Dustcover first edition.
“Ellen Adair” is a poignant work of social realism by Frederick Niven that explores the complexities of class, vanity, and moral decline in early 20th-century Edinburgh. The novel centers on the eponymous Ellen Adair, a young woman whose beauty and longing for a more glamorous life lead her away from her modest, lower-middle-class upbringing. Unlike her industrious and grounded sister, Ellen is captivated by the superficial allure of society and the attentions of men, a path that ultimately leads to a tragic loss of reputation and a descent into the city’s underbelly.
Through a meticulous depiction of the Scottish urban landscape and the rigid social structures of the era, Niven crafts a compelling psychological study of a family in crisis. The narrative offers a stark look at the limited options available to women of the period and the devastating consequences of societal judgment.
The Prisoner in the Opal was serialised in The Pall Mall Magazine and published in book form in 1928. It is the third full-length novel in Mason’s Inspector Hanaud series, and the only one to feature the occult as a significant plot point.
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