Russell's ebook Library
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Lydia Millet
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb — Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi — as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945... and places them...
The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens
The archetypal Victorian melodrama, as heartfelt and moving today as when it was first published, Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop is edited with notes and an introduction by Norman Page in Penguin Classics.Little Nell Trent lives in the quie...
The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistak...
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [1]: John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scar...
Old Twentieth
Joe Haldeman
The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity's past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days - when people's bodies were unable to spontaneously heal, and disease and age were actual causes of death. Immer...
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
One of Dickens’s most popular novels, Oliver Twist is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, "Please, sir, I want some more." After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Vict...
Olympos
Dan Simmons
Ilium [2]: Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative.But that was before one observer - Twenty-first Century scholar T...
Omega
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [4]: For a quarter of a century, mankind has known about the existence of the malignant omega clouds. Huge waves of deadly energy, they seem bent on destroying any civilization they come across.Now, Earth itself is in the line of fire ...
The Omicron Invasion
E. E. Doc Smith and Stephen Goldin
Family d'Alembert [9]: The d'Alemberts, a family of spies, thieves, and revolutionaries working for Empress Stanley Nine of the Empire of the Earth, learn that their planet Omicron has been conquered by aliens and they team up with treacherous Lady A...
On Beulah Height
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [17]: Into thin air...Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a young detective in those days, never found their bodies - or the person who snatched them. The...
On Wings of Song
Thomas M. Disch
In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of the Midwest to pursue a career in New York, despite the famine and poverty of the overpopulated East Coast.
On the Steel Breeze
Alastair Reynolds
Poseidon's Children [2]: It is a thousand years in the future. Mankind is making its way out into the universe on massive generation ships.A fleet of holoships is heading towards the nearest habitable planet at 15% the speed of light. In massive aste...
Once Upon a Time in the North
Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials [5]: In this new prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby - Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua - is just 24 years old, and he's recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game....
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
The extraordinary story of a boy called Wart ignored by everyone except his tutor, Merlin who goes on to become King Arthur.T.H. White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic.The Once and Future King, contains all five boo...
One Corpse Too Many
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [2]: In the summer of 1138, fighting engulfs Shrewsbury as King Stephen battles the Empress Maud for the throne of England. When Shrewsbury Castle falls, and its 94 defenders are hanged as traitors, Brother Cadfael is called upon to administe...
One Day All This Will Be Yours
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day.Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that’s sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time.I wa...
One King's Way
Harry Harrison
Hammer and the Cross [2]: A craftsman, visionary, and warrior, Shef has risen from slavery to become king of a mighty Viking nation. But his growing kingdom menaces all of Europe, and he has made many powerful enemies.Chief among his enemies are the ...
One Shot
Lee Child
Jack Reacher [9]: Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case.Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. ...
One Step From Earth
Harry Harrison
After years of research, man's dream of instantaneous transportation through the universe has been realized. Humanity begins to explore, settle and colonize throughout the universe, but in doing so finds itself changing.One Step From EarthPressureNo ...
One Virgin Too Many
Lindsey Davis
Falco [11]: Marcus Didius Falco, the cynical, hard-boiled investigator from the rough end of Rome, is back from a difficult mission in North Africa.As a result of his hard work, Emperor Vespasian awards Falco with the title of Procurator of Poultry f...
One of Us
Michael Marshall Smith
It's 2017, and the first time we meet Hap Thompson he's being hassled in a bar in Ensenada by his alarm clock, which not only talks but walks and has a bad attitude. Hap, a prodigious computer hacker with a pretty bad attitude himself, works for an o...
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [56]: The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder...
One-Hit Wonder
Lisa Jewell
Moving back in with her mother after her geeky boyfriend ends their relationship, thrill-seeking Ana dreams about living the life of her pop singer half-sister, Bee, whose untimely death introduces Ana to the mysterious dangers of Bee's world. 25,000...
The Onion Girl
Charles de Lint
Newford [8]: At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips - Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that d...
Only Begotten Daughter
James Morrow
It could only happen in New Jersey.Call it a miracle. Call it the Second Coming. Call it a mishap at the sperm bank. But somehow, a baby daughter was born to the virgin Murray Katz, and her name is Julie. She can heal the blind, raise the dead, and g...
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