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 young Hudson’s Bay Company man, Phil Boynton, is exiled to the dreaded and desolate Fort Dease—“Penitentiary Post”—where isolation, fear, and the legend of the Weeteego close in as he confronts the mystery that drove his predecessor mad.
David Neilson is crossing a bridge. He doesn't know where he is or how he got there, but along the way, he meets a guide who shows David where he needs to go to find out, by reliving portions of his life from childhood through marriage and parenthood.—Goodreads
The Maple Leaf was a Canadian juvenile monthly magazine published from July 1852 to December 1854. It was the second juvenile magazine published in Canada and was written for both boys and girls and their families. In all, a total of 30 issues were published.
When horse thieves began operating in the Twin River country Hopalong Cassidy decided to take cards in the game, especially becasue the chief victim of the outlaws was his old friend H. Whitby Booth. Hopalong’s first move was to send Mesquite Jenkins to the town of Hackamore to do some snooping. Mesquite landed a job in Jankins’ Livery Barn and soon learned that the thieves were using the place as a secret stop-over on their raids. Trouble broke when Mesquite had a ruckus with the leader of the gang and got himself marked for death. Then Hopalong Cassidy came roaring in with Lucky and Skinny of the old Bar 20 bunch for the blazing showdown!
Esteemed poison expert and medical adviser to the Home Office Sir Frank Tarleton finds himself drawn into a baffling mystery when he is visited by Sir Rowland Caythorpe, a man with a dubious past who fears he’s been poisoned. He soon learns that Caythorpe has been living under multiple aliases and is suspected by the police of running an illegal heirloom scheme.
When Caythorpe’s niece calls in distress, claiming her uncle is trapped in a locked strong room, Tarleton rushes to the scene and discovers that he has died, possibly of heart failure but more likely as a result of foul play. The finger of suspicion points at those who stood to gain from his demise, including an American businessman, an English countess, an Indian princess, and a mysterious Mexican with a black beard.
The story of Jack Winchester who volunteers for the army in World War I. Not a pro-war novel, rather praising the men who fought. Part narrative, part epistolary (story told in letters and correspondence), The Man Child was Blackburn's best work.
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