Russell's ebook Library
CE Conformity Marking and New Approach Directives
Ray Tricker
CE Marking can be regarded as a product's trade passport for Europe. It is a mandatory European marking for certain product groups to indicate conformity with the essential health and safety requirements set out in the European Directive.The prime ai...
Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author.The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar , last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 hum...
Caine's Mutiny
Charles E. Gannon
Tales of the Terran Republic [4]: Caine Riordan, fresh from serving as envoy to the aliens known as the Slaasriithi, has been given yet another daunting task: apprehend raiders that are terrorizing a distant planet.As difficulties mount, Caine become...
Calculating God
Robert J. Sawyer
An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges and says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." In the distant past, Earth, the alien's home planet, and the home planet of a...
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [1]: A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts...
The Calcutta Chromosome
Amitav Ghosh
From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life.When Antar discov...
Calde of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the Long Sun [3]: When young augur Patera Silk emerges from his exploration of the underground passages of the Whorl, it is to find Viron engulfed in revolutionary violence - and himself hailed as leader of the uprising.As war threatens...
Caliban's War
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [2]: We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting...
The California Voodoo Game
Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
Dream Park [4]: The ultimate in amusement parks was about to embark on the greatest Game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers would be made - or destro...
The Call of Earth
Orson Scott Card
Homecoming [2]: The Call of Earth continues the story of Nafai, his family, and the few other people selected by the Oversoul to leave the city of Basilica, and their former lives.When the human refugees from a ruined Earth founded a colony on the pl...
The Caltraps of Time
David I. Masson
David I. Masson began publishing sf with "Traveller's Rest" for NEW WORLDS in 1965; his fiction, including this extraordinarily intense study in the distortion of PERCEPTION, was assembled in The Caltraps of Time (1968), which single volume establish...
The Camelot Caper
Elizabeth Peters
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise — an opportunity to open doors to a family past that has always been closed to her.But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to ste...
Camouflage
Joe Haldeman
An unidentified artifact, found seven miles below the surface of the sea, stumps the scientists examining it. But it calls out to the two immortal creatures who have wandered the Earth for centuries. Two creatures who have never crossed paths - until...
Candle
John Barnes
Century Next Door [3]: Currie Culver is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in a comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almo...
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The atomic Flame Deluge was over. The earth was dead.All knowledge was gone.In a hellish, barren desert, a humble monk unearth a fragile link to a twentieth century civilization. A hand-written document from the Blessed Saint Leibowitz reads: Pound p...
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
This collection of 26 essays constitutes a challenging look at modern society. The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radical...
A Capitol Death
Lindsey Davis
Flavia Albia [7]: A tragic accident... or was it?Emperor Domitian has been awarded (or rather, has demanded) yet another Triumph to celebrate two so-called victories. Preparations are going smoothly until one of the men overseeing arrangements for th...
Captain Fantom
Reginald Hill
A historical novel inspired by the life of a Croatian mercenary in seventeenth-century EnglandIn the chaotic days of the early 1600s, Carlo Fantom, a Central European who spoke thirteen languages, would gladly accept payment to fight, no matter the c...
Captain Hornblower R. N.
C. S. Forester
Hornblower [1]: Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)Skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral on the Thames is not Hornblower's idea of thrilling action.But soon his orders come, and he sets sail for the Mediterranean in the Atropos.'Battle, storm, s...
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Lois McMaster Bujold
GOOD INTENTIONS, BAD INTELCaptain Ivan Vorpatril sometimes thinks that if not for his family, he might have no troubles at all. But he has the dubious fortune of the hyperactive Miles Vorkosigan as a cousin, which has too-often led to his getting dra...
Captive Universe
Harry Harrison
In a valley lost somewhere in the Central American jungles lies an ancient Aztec civilization sealed off from the outside world. 21 years old, rebellious, Chimal wants desperately to escape. The cruel gods and priests who rule this inbred community w...
Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [50]: Mr. Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host, but he was a man of whome everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Hercule Poirot that he considered murder and art form, the detective had some reservations about...
Career Search Boost
Ruth Harding and John Spencer
Written by Professionals for Professionals, Career Search Boost is the ultimate good guide to successful job hunting. Both authors, John Spencer and Ruth Harding, have spent many years in the fields of high level recruitment and training. John’s expe...
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