Russell's ebook Library
Why Shoot a Butler?
Georgette Heyer
Every family has secrets, but the Fountains' are turning deadly…On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests...
Widdershins
Charles de Lint
Newford [11]: In Widdershins , fantasy author Charles de Lint has delivered one of his most accessible and moving works of his career. Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the first Newford story, "Timeskip," back in 19...
The Wife
Alafair Burke
His ScandalHer SecretWhen Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brillian...
The Wild Girls
Ursula K Le Guin
This Nebula Award-winning story tells of two captive "dirt children" in a society of sword and silk, whose determination to find a glimpse of justice leads to a violent and loving end.Also included is the nonfiction essay Staying Awake While We Read,...
The Wild Shore
Kim Stanley Robinson
Three Californias [1]: 2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a day-to-day struggle to stay alive.But young Hank Fletcher dreams of the world that migh...
The Wild
David Zindell
Neverness Cycle [2]: The awe-inspiring sequel to The Broken God Danlo the Wild has started his quest into the stars, beyond the limits of the known universe to search for three things: his father, half god, half hero, Mallory Ringess; the lost city o...
The Will to Battle
Ada Palmer
Terra Ignota [3]: The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location.The ...
Wilt
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [1]: Henry Wilt has been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, carpenters, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his wife Eva is given ...
The Wilt Alternative
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [2]: A novel which continues the saga of Henry Wilt, an innate coward and hen-pecked husband whose escapades include a drunken (and very painful) battle with a rosebush, an all-consuming infatuation with an overseas student, and becoming an unwi...
The Wilt Inheritance
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [5]: Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe's beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce. Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt...
Wilt in Nowhere
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [4]: One of the most impressive things about Wilt in Nowhere is that Tom Sharpe manages to go on being outrageous and funny after such a long career - after all, what does a satirist do when real world lifestyles and events exceed his wildest ea...
Wilt on High
Tom Sharpe
Wilt [3]: Though The Wilt Alternative made it dismally clear that Sharpe had pretty much exhausted the comic possibilities of the hapless, misanthropic Henry Wilt character, here they both are again - in another strained series of slapsticky, mildly ...
The Wind From Nowhere
J. G. Ballard
The wind came from nowhere... a super hurricane that blasted round the globe at hundreds of miles per hour burying whole communities beneath piles of rubble, destroying all organized life and driving those it did not kill to seek safety in tunnels an...
A Window Into Time: A Novella
Peter F. Hamilton
Teenager Julian has perfect recall, which means he has trouble finding his place in the world. But he really does know his own mind. So when he starts experiencing someone else's memories, which are also tantalizing glimpses of the future, Julian rea...
The Winds of Altair
Ben Bova
Earth is an old planet, and her teeming masses are running out of resources... and time. It is up to men such as Jeff Holman to discover a haven for Earth’s millions. Altair VI is one such planet, and Holman is determined to transform this world into...
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, h...
The Wine-Dark Sea
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [16]: At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea.Stephen’s objective is to set the revolutionary...
Wings
Terry Pratchett
Bromeliad [3]: "It loomed over them, so big that you had to keep on stepping back and back to see how big it was. It wasn't a thing, it was a bit of shaped sky..."Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship iswaiting to take the nomes hom...
The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur
Bernard Cornwell
Warlord Chronicles [1]: Uther, the High King of Britain, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from wit...
Winter Rose
Patricia A. McKillip
Winter Rose [1]: Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours...Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold,...
Winter in Eden
Harry Harrison
Eden [2]: A new ice age threatens Earth. Facing extinction, the dinosaurs must employ their mastery of biology to swiftly reconquer human territory. Desperately, Kerrick launches an arduous quest to rally a final defense for humankind. With his belov...
Winter's Heart
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [9]: Rand, with Min, is on the run, and Cadsuane, in Carhien, is trying to figure out where he is headed.Mazrim Taim, the leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar. Faile, with her companions, is a prisoner of Sevanna's Sept.W...
Winterfair Gifts
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan and his fiancée Ekaterin are enjoying the Winterfair festivities and wedding gifts on their home planet Barrayar, but Miles’ enemies are at work.Sergeant Taura, a genetically engineered young woman Miles befriended, helps uncover the...
Wintersmith
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [32]: At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen...But the Wintersmith is...
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