Russell's ebook Library
Penhallow
Georgette Heyer
A family tyrant whose murder has shocking and far-reaching consequences...Hated for his cruel and vicious nature, yet ruling his family with an iron hand from his sickbed, tyrannical patriarch Adam Penhallow is found murdered the day before his birth...
Penric and the Shaman
Lois McMaster Bujold
Five Gods [2]: In this NOVELLA set in The World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in “Penric’s Demon”, Penric is a divine of the Bastard’s Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine hold...
Penric's Demon
Lois McMaster Bujold
Five Gods [1]: On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant ...
Penric's Fox
Lois McMaster Bujold
Five Gods [3]: Some eight months after the events of “Penric and the Shaman”, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the capital of the Weald. There he again meets his friends Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl. When the body of a ...
Penric's Mission
Lois McMaster Bujold
Five Gods [4]: In his thirtieth year, Penric fell in love with light... Learned Penric, a sorcerer and divine of the Bastard’s Order, travels across the sea to sunlit Cedonia on his first covert diplomatic mission, to attempt to secure the services ...
The Penultimate Truth
Philip K. Dick
THE LONGEST LIEWorld War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe.For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in ...
The People of the Wind
Poul Anderson
Like two giants the old enemies faced each other across the reaches of the galaxy - the Terran Empire and the Ythrian Domain. Terra was a Leviathan, encroaching ever further among the stars, promising peace and prosperity - but at the price of freedo...
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
New Crobuzon [1]: Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia.The air and rivers are thick with fac...
Perelandra
C. S. Lewis
Cosmic Trilogy [2]: The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom.Pitted against the most destruct...
Perfect Circle
Sean Stewart
William “Dead” Kennedy is in trouble. He’s thirty-two, in love with his ex-wife, has lost his job, and he’s been dreaming about ghost roads again. Sometimes a guy is haunted for a really good reason.Sean Stewart's much-anticipated eighth novel is a d...
Peril at End House
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [38]: Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inc...
The Peripheral
William Gibson
Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural near-future America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she's keen to avoid. Her brother Burton lives, or tries to, on money from the Veterans Association, in com...
Permafrost
Alastair Reynolds
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers an...
Persepolis Rising
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [7]: In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way.Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the ageing gunship Rocinante have their hands mor...
The Persistence of Vision
John Varley
Eight Worlds [2]: Nine stories, six of them belonging to the Eight Worlds universe.Introduction by Algis Budrys.The Phantom of KansasNominated, 1979 Hugo Award; 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 4)Air RaidBasis of film and novel, Millenni...
Personal
Lee Child
Jack Reacher [19]: Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man coul...
Persuader
Lee Child
Jack Reacher [7]: Jack Reacher.The ultimate loner.An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place… without family… without possessions… without commitments.And without fear. Which is good, because trouble — big...
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anne’s friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was "unworthy."Now, eight years later, Frederick returns, a wealthy captain...
The Petrovitch Trilogy
Simon Morden
Welcome to the Metrozone - post-apocalyptic London of the future. While the rest of Britain has devolved to anarchy, the M25 cordon protects a decaying city filled with homeless refugees, street gangs, exiled yakuza, crooked cops and mad cults. And ...
Phantom Instinct
Meg Gardiner
When shots ring out in a crowded L.A. club, bartender Harper Flynn watches helplessly as her boyfriend, Drew, is gunned down in the cross fire. Then somebody throws a Molotov cocktail, and the club is quickly engulfed in flames. L.A. Sheriff Deputy A...
Phantom Pains
Mishell Baker
The Arcadia Project [2]: Four months ago, Millie left the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of an Unseelie fey countess. Now, in a final visit to the scene of the crime, Millie and her former boss Caryl encounter Teo’s ...
Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas
Michael Bishop
In this heartfelt science-fiction homage, Philip K. Dick dies in 1982 in Santa Ana, California, during the fourth term of the repressive imperial presidency of Richard Milrose Nixon.Soon thereafter, stripped of his memory, Dick turns up in the office...
Philosophy: Who Needs It
Ayn Rand
This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philo...
Phoenix Café
Gwyneth Jones
Aleutian [3]: Phoenix Café concludes the Aleutian trilogy.Now, another hundred years on from North Wind, the Aleutians prepare to leave both Earth and humanity transformed in strange and sometimes unpleasant ways by two hundred years of alien exploit...
The Phoenix and the Mirror
Avram Davidson
Vergil Magus [1]: A Landmark Fantasy AdventureInspired by the legends of the Dark Ages, The Phoenix and the Mirror is the story of the mighty Vergil — not quit the Vergil of our history books (the poet who penned The Aeneid), but the Vergil conjured ...
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