Russell's ebook Library
Clans of the Alphane Moon
Philip K. Dick
When CIA agent Chuck Rittersdorf and his psychiatrist wife, Mary, file for divorce, they have no idea that in a few weeks they’ll be shooting it out on Alpha III M2, the distant moon ruled by various psychotics liberated from a mental ward. Nor do th...
Clarissa Oakes
Patrick O'Brian
Aubrey-Maturin [15]: Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his shi...
A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire [2]: Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising.From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through t...
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [2]: Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in my...
Clean Break
Val McDermid
Kate Brannigan [4]: Kate Brannigan goes head to head with organized crime when a routine industrial case starts leaving a trail of bodies across the northwest, forcing Kate to confront hard truths in her own life.
The Clocks
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [80]: At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time. Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases.
The Clockwork Traitor
E. E. Doc Smith and Stephen Goldin
Family d'Alembert [3]: By law, Princess Edna, heir to the interstellar Empire of Earth, must marry a commoner.But as she travels through her domain, word comes of a mysterious threat to her succession.It's up to Jules and Yvette d'Alembert and their ...
The Clone
Theodore L. Thomas and Kate Wilhelm
The clone pulsed up beyond the sink drain, and it was then that Maude Wendall saw it.She frowned with annoyance at the sink stoppage, and prodded at it with her pot scraper. It resisted. She tried to push the mass back down the drain, but it would no...
Close Case
Alafair Burke
Samantha Kincaid [3]: Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid likes to be where the action is: at the scene of a crime, at the arrest of a suspect, with the cops on the Major Crimes Team. But when street smart, plugged-in reporter Percy Crenshaw is...
Close to Critical
Hal Clement
Mesklinite [2]: Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere, Tenebra was a hostile planet a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree temperatures, a constantly shifting crust and giant drifting raindrops.Uncompromising - yet there was life, in...
A Closed and Common Orbit
Becky Chambers
Wayfarers [2]: Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She's never f...
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite...Abr...
Cloudbound
Fran Wilde
Bone Universe [2]: The Towers in disarray, without a governing body or any defense against the dangers lurking in the clouds, and daily life is full of terror and strife.Nat Densira, the wing-brother to Kirit (Skyshouter, Spirebreaker, no-longer-of-D...
A Clubbable Woman
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [1]: Mary Connon was a small-town femme fatale, eager to test her allure on any man between 6 and 60.When she's found dead in her own living room, her husband - the one bloke to whom she never blew a kiss - comes instantly under susp...
The Coaching Bible: The Essential Handbook
Ian McDermott and Wendy Jago
The Coaching Bible is a practical and inspiring new book from the UK's top coaches Ian McDermott and Wendy Jago, authors of The NLP Coach and Your Inner Coach. Coaching has become an integral part of our lives, but people still need to know how to ma...
Coaching in the Project Environment
APM People SIG
A number of the APM People Specific Interest Group (SIG) Committee membersblogged on coaching and mentoring in 2013 and received a significant amount ofinterest and feedback from the wider APM membership.Among this feedback appeared to be a fair degr...
Coalescent
Stephen Baxter
Destiny's Children [1]: George Poole isn't sure whether his life has reached a turning point or a dead end. At forty-five, he is divorced and childless, with a career that is going nowhere fast. Then, when his father dies suddenly, George stumbles on...
The Cobbler's Boy
Katherine Addison and Elizabeth Bear
Brilliant, bookish Christopher Marlowe is fifteen years old and desperate to qualify for a scholarship to the King's School in order to escape his brutal father. But the only man who could have helped him has been murdered... and now the killers are ...
The Cobweb
Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George
From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a ...
Cocaine Nights
J. G. Ballard
In Cocaine Nights , J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old-fashioned mystery.The setting: the swank Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, where young retirees from Europe's chillier climes bask in...
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