Russell's ebook Library
Strange Toys
Patricia Geary
At the age of nine, Pet is struggling to protect her family from the horrors predicted in her older sister’s book of secrets – horrors that indeed come true. At sixteen, Pet is hunting down her sister to wreak vengeance. At thirty, Pet attains streng...
The Stranger House
Reginald Hill
Things move slowly in the tiny village of Illthwaite, but that’s about to change with the arrival of two strangers.Sam Flood is a young Australian post-grad en route to Cambridge. Miguel Madero is a Spanish historian in flight from a seminary. They h...
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is...
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars.Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has n...
Strangers
Gardner Dozois
Hundreds of years in the future, Earthmen have moved out into the galaxy of inhabited worlds, only to find that space travelers from Earth are second-class citizens or worse on most of the planets they visit.Joseph Farber, an artist, is part of an Ea...
Stranglers' Moon
E. E. Doc Smith and Stephen Goldin
Family d'Alembert [2]: Gone from the galaxy... A startling discovery has shaken Earth's galactic Empire: more than two hundred and fifty thousand people have vanished from the resort moon, Vesa, without a trace!Called to duty, SOTE's most daring secr...
Strata
Terry Pratchett
A flat earth? Impossible. Kin Arad is the 210-year-old supervisor in charge of resurfacing the newly named planet, Kingdom.When she finds Jago Jalo, a man who has a cloak of invisibility and should have died a thousand years ago, in her office, she d...
Strategic Planning Kit for Dummies
Erica Olsen
Think and act strategically every timeIn today's business environment, strategic planning stresses the importance of making decisions that will ensure an organization's ability to successfully respond to changes in the environment and plan for sustai...
The Straw Men
Michael Marshall
Straw Men [1]: In Palmerston, Pennsylvania, two men in long coats walk calmly into a crowded fast food restaurant-then, slowly and methodically, gun down sixty-eight people. They take time to reload.On the Promenade of Santa Monica, California, a tee...
Streaking
Brian Stableford
For hundreds of years the male members of the Kilcannon family have considered themselves to be the beneficiaries of distortions in the statistical distribution of chance, associating their most fortunate windfalls with visual distortions that they c...
Street of the Five Moons
Elizabeth Peters
Vicky Bliss [2]: Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff - and she's a master at solving mysteries that...
Strength of Stones
Greg Bear
In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer a n...
Subspace Encounter
E. E. Doc Smith
Subspace [2]: The book describes two "spaces" that exist simultaneously in the universe, each of three spatial dimensions, and each occupied by human beings of roughly equal technological standing. The people in the two "spaces" have no awareness of ...
Subspace Explorers
E. E. Doc Smith
Subspace [1]: All the creative energies of the West have been directed into space exploration and development - dozens of new worlds are being opened up.Left behind on Earth are the sluggish remnants of former greatness. But in the East, a mighty dic...
Subterranean Gallery
Richard Paul Russo
Rheinhardt - living in a violent and dangerous San Francisco of the near-future and trying to survive as an artist - is abducted by a mysterious Vietnam vet and led to a futuristic underground world.1989 Philip K. Dick Award
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials [2]: The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero - from our world - who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Par...
Sugar Rain
Paul Park
Starbridge Chronicles [2]: The generations-long winter has drawn to a close, and with it the power of the tyrannical Starbridge theocracy that maintained order during the years of hunger. But a cruelly pragmatic priest has set the stage for a new fai...
A Suitable Vengeance
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [4]: Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fasci...
Summer Knight
Jim Butcher
Dresden Files [4]: Harry Dresden is suckered into the tangled - and dangerous - affairs of Faerie...Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down and out in Chicago. He can't pay his ...
The Summer Queen
Joan D. Vinge
Snow Queen [3]: Moon, reigning as the Snow Queen, tries to keep her people from the tyranny of the Hegemony, while solving the mystery of the otherworldly Mers.
The Summer of the Danes
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [18]: In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen and Empress Maud, the two royal cousins contending for the throne, have temporarily exhausted each other. On the whole, Brother Cadfael considers...
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