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 review of the early years of the undergraduate programme in Commerce at the University of Toronto.
The story of young Jane, raised in the countryside of Jamaica and who leaves home for the city of Kingston.
This book was the author’s first novel and is significant in history as being the first West Indian novel to have a black protagonist. In later printings, the title changed to Jane’s Career: A Story of Jamaica.
The story follows the twins as they help run a bustling holiday toy shop, uncovering small mysteries and cheerful adventures among the toys and townspeople.
There is a bit of romance, but this Grace Livingston Hill book is not as heavy on the love story and focuses more on the redemption of the worldly sister as she leaves her old life behind. A little unusual for Hill’s style as much of it is written from the unsaved person’s point of view.
The setting: a small resort hotel in rural England. The cast: a group of dedicated fly fishermen. The crime: murder.
Inspector Mallett’s shrewd resolution of the case involves the clever use of fishing lore and practice. Vintage detection from a master.—Back Cover.
This is not a war book, but it is impossible that stories written in the past decade or so should fail to reflect something of those urgent years, almost six of which were occupied by a struggle so vast that the mind is staggered by much more than its statistics ... Back of its beginnings were the apathies and follies at which none of us can afford to throw stones; beyond its ending lies either spiritual greatness—or destruction. This book is concerned more with men than machines, with individuals rather than events. It is stating the obvious to point out that the atomic age will be no wiser nor greater than the individuals who by thought, word or deed—or the absence of them—help to shape and direct it.—Foreword
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