Russell's ebook Library
A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [1]: To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden...
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a "study in human weakness and the slow human surrender," may be called Charles Dickens's finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict sp...
The Great Hunt
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [2]: The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere lo...
Great North Road
Peter F. Hamilton
Peter F. Hamilton’s riveting new thriller combines the nail-biting suspense of a serial-killer investigation with clear-eyed scientific and social extrapolation to create a future that seems not merely plausible but inevitable.A century from now, tha...
The Great Pursuit
Tom Sharpe
Frensic and Futtle is a small and successful literary agency. But following a successful court case by a woman who claimed to have been libeled by one of their authors, the agency rapidly loses business.One day, a manuscript for a book called Pause O...
The Great Roxhythe
Georgette Heyer
Lord Roxhythe is a patriot. He loves his king and his county... in that order with an undying passion. When faced with a mission for his king, King Charles, that many would quaver at accepting Roxhythe accepts without hesitation. While those around h...
Great Sky River
Gregory Benford
Galactic Center [3]: The Family had never seen a manhunter like it. And when its machine-mind engulfed Cap'n Fanny, they knew Mantis was no simple killing-mech. A collector of human minds, a plunderer of living personalities, Mantis was a weaver of c...
The Green Brain
Frank Herbert
In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects which made these areas uninhabitable.Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibratio...
Green Eyes
Lucius Shepard
Dr Ezawa had made some remarkable discoveries about the Voodoo beliefs that persisted in the Louisiana bayou country - like how to create zombies by injecting corpses with the dirt from old slave graveyards.The eyes of the awoken dead blazed with a b...
Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars [2]: Mars can be plundered – for the benefit of a ravaged Earth. It can be terraformed to suit Man’s needs – frozen lakes form, lichen grows, the atmosphere slowly becomes breathable. But most importantly, Mars can be owned. On Earth, countries ...
Green Shadows, White Whale
Ray Bradbury
In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable s...
The Green Trap
Ben Bova
Microbiologist Michael Cochrane has been murdered.His brother Paul wants to find out who did it... and why.Accompanied by a beautiful industrial spy, Elena Sandoval, Paul follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along the way, a...
Gremlins Go Home
Ben Bova and Gordon R. Dickson
Elves. Leprechauns. Gremlins. Call them what you like.These little dudes may be the stuff of legend, but they're just as real as you and me. Far from the mythical, magical creatures of rumor, they are actually tiny aliens, marooned for centuries on t...
Grey Lensman
E. E. Doc Smith
Lensman [4]: Duel to the Death in Outer SpaceSomewhere among the galaxies was the stronghold of Boskone - a network of brilliant space criminals whose hunger for conquest threatened the continued existence of all known civilisation.But where was this...
Greybeard
Brian W Aldiss
After the "Accident," all males on earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with ...
Gridlinked
Neal Asher
Agent Cormac [1]: Gridlinked is a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Harry Harrison and Poul Anderson, with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of Ian Fleming added to spice the mix.Cormac is a legendary Ear...
The Gropes
Tom Sharpe
It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hal...
The Grove of the Caesars
Lindsey Davis
Flavia Albia [8]: Don't go to the Grove...Julius Caesar left his gardens to the citizens of Rome, a peaceful sanctuary across the Tiber. Now the gardens and their sacred grove are dangerous haunts, especially for women alone.'Don't go to the Grove,' ...
Growing Up Weightless
John M. Ford
Out of print for more than two decades, John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless is an award-winning classic of a “lost generation” of young people born on the human-colonized Moon. Matthias Ronay has grown up in the low gravity and great glass citadels ...
Gráinne
Keith Roberts
Meet Gráinne: blue-stocking seductress, darling of the media, painfully human yet mysterious as her great namesake, the proud girl-goddess who plunged all Ireland into war and shadow...1987 BSFA Award
Guardian
Joe Haldeman
During the Alaskan gold rush, a woman pursues a destiny that will change the world in this alternate-history novel from a sci-fi legend.World-altering adventures of a remarkable woman during the gold rush in late nineteenth-century Alaska. Sent fro...
Guardian of the Horizon
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [16]: Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret.Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to fl...
Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [8]: "Of all the cities in the world it could have flown into, it flew into mine..."Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city of the fantasy Discworld*, into something resembling small charcoal biscuits....
Guerilla Data Analysis Using Excel
Bill Jelen
This book includes step-by-step examples and case studies that teach users the many power tricks for analyzing data in Excel. These are tips honed by Bill Jelen, “MrExcel,” during his 10-year run as a financial analyst charged with taking mainframe d...
Guernica Night
Barry N. Malzberg
Who can resist the Final Trip?Earth in the twenty-third century is adorned with corpses as suicides ravage a dehumanised population, compelled to live, or merely exist, in segregated complexes. Despite the technical wizardry of the Church of the Epip...
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