Russell's ebook Library
Sharpe’s Triumph
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe [2]: Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery and, with Sir Arthur Wellesley, faces the Mahratta Horde.The paths of treachery all lead to the small village of Assaye. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley, with a diminishe...
The Shattered Vine
Laura Anne Gilman
Vineart War [3]: In a world where magic is derived from the art of wine-making… a Vineart comes into the fullness of his power as evil forces threaten to destroy everything he holds dear.Two thousand years ago, a demigod split the world between Vinea...
She Who Became the Sun
Shelley Parker-Chan
Radiant Emperor [1]: To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything“I refuse to be nothing...”In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness...In 1...
The Sheep Look Up
John Brunner
In THE SHEEP LOOK UP, Brunner returns to a style similar to that of the manically inventive STAND ON ZANZIBAR, and delivers another fast-paced, kaleidoscopically comprehensive view of a near future rife with looming ecological dangers and possibly ab...
The Shepherd's Crown
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [38]: A SHIVERING OF WORLDS Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends an...
The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
G. C. Edmondson
Ensign Joe Rate, captain of the experimental Navy yawl Alice, figured that everything that could happen to him in one day had already happened. First, after a freak electrical storm at sea the Alice had somehow been thrown a thousand years back in ti...
Ship of Fools
Richard Paul Russo
Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy for hundreds of years, desperately searching for other signs of life.Now an unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet-and into the dark...
Shipley Capture Guide, 3rd Ed.
Shipley Associates and Larry Newman
The most effective organizations are 10 times more effective in winning competitive new business than industry averages, based on several industry benchmarking studies dating back to the late 1980s. Researchers have concluded that the most effective ...
Shipley Proposal Guide, 4th Ed.
Shipley Associates and Larry Newman
This proposal guide has three aims:1) Help individuals and organizations win competitive business more effectively, efficiently, and consistently;2) Offer clear guidance to business development professionals that is practical and easy to find; and 3)...
The Ships of Earth
Orson Scott Card
Homecoming [3]: The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the grea...
Shipstar
Gregory Benford and Larry Niven
Bowl of Heaven [2]: When a landing party is sent to find out why the Shipstar is on the same trajectory as a human party, half of the group is captured, the other half must go on the run from the bizarre inhabitants.The free group must find a way off...
Shirley
Charlotte Brontë
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good.But not of l...
The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner
In a world drowning in data, a fugitive tries to outrun the forces that want to reprogram him.He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes... but technically he didn't exist. He was a f...
Shriek: An Afterword
Jeff Vandermeer
Ambergris [2]: An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris--previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer's acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen--Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, he...
Side Effects
Woody Allen
Before Woody Allen set his sights on becoming the next Ingmar Bergman, he made a fleeting (but largely successful) attempt at becoming the next S J Perelman. Side Effects, his third and final collection of humor pieces, shows his efforts. These essay...
Sideshow
Sheri S. Tepper
Arbai [3]: Barbaric customs and bizarre human cults are prserved on the planet Elsewhere. The rest of the universe has been taken over by the Hobbs Land Gods, which means that everyone alive, with the exception of the people on Elsewhere, lives in pe...
The Siege of Eternity
Frederik Pohl
Eschaton [2]: The aliens aren't coming. They're here. We've captured several of them. The human race can't decide. Are they our saviors or out to destroy us?The government has had no luck in their interrogation of their prisoners. We've seen no space...
The Silent Speaker
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [9]: When a powerful government official scheduled to speak to a group of millionaires turns up dead, the business world clamors for a solution, and Nero Wolfe takes the case.
The Silent Strength of Stones
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Chapel Hollow [2]: It is a season of many wonders, with many secrets ripe for discovering... and some best left in shadow, unexplored.Summer has come to Sauterelle Lake. And inquisitive young Nick is discovering many things he doesn't want to know:Ab...
The Silent War
Ben Bova
Asteroid Wars [3]: When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over noth...
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