Russell's ebook Library
The Vanishing Point
Val McDermid
One of the finest crime writers we have, Val McDermid’s heart-stopping thrillers have won her international renown and a devoted following of readers worldwide. In The Vanishing Point, she kicks off a terrifying thriller with a nightmare scenario: a ...
Variable Star
Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson
A never-before-published masterpiece from science fiction's greatest writer, rediscovered after more than half a century.When Joel Johnston first met Jinny Hamilton, it seemed like a dream come true. And when she finally agreed to marry him, he felt ...
Venetia
Georgette Heyer
Venetia features a remarkably independent heroine who falls deeply in love with the wrong man. Venetia Lanyon lives a quiet life until she meets her notorious neighbor Jasper, Lord Damerel, who would marry her in a heartbeat if he didn't think it wou...
Vengeance of Orion
Ben Bova
Orion [2]: Orion finds himself thrust back to the ancient world of Greece and must prevent the Greek army from destroying the citadel of Troy. If he fails, he will lose the only woman he has ever loved. But if he succeeds, the history of the world wi...
Venomous Lumpsucker
Ned Beauman
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalismThe near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perha...
Venus
Ben Bova
Grand Tour [17]: The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered...
Venus Plus X
Theodore Sturgeon
Nothing about Charlie Johns's life is particularly unusual until the day he wakes up in the future. Suddenly surrounded by impossible architecture and technology, Charlie finds himself warmly welcomed by the citizens of Ledom, a fantastic, futuristic...
Venus in Copper
Lindsey Davis
Falco [3]: Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is deperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity...Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to ou...
Vergil in Averno
Avram Davidson
Vergil Magus [2]: He was a Master in Arts Magical, but not yet Incantor et MagusNow Vergil Magus, the powerful sorcerer-poet, returns in the long-awaited prequel to Avram Davidson’s bestselling novel of fable and magic, The Phoenix and the Mirror. He...
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
Ursula K Le Guin
Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meets Natalie and he realizes he doesn't know anything much at all.A slender, realistic story of a young man's coming of age, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else is one...
A Very Good Hater
Reginald Hill
Years after WWII, a pair of veterans believe they've spotted a Nazi in disguiseIn postwar England, Goldsmith and Templewood see each other once a year at reunions of their regiment. Goldsmith is a local politician now, while Templewood is a gregariou...
Victory of Eagles
Naomi Novik
Temeraire [5]: It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service – and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for tre...
Views
Roger Dean
Views showcases the first seven years of Roger Dean's work after his graduation from the Royal College of Art in 1968. It includes paintings and graphics; branding such as the Yes typography and the first Virgin Records logo; groundbreaking stage set...
Villainy Victorious
L. Ron Hubbard
Mission Earth [9]: Earth is rising in the House of Voltar...And there'll be hell to pay!That's right. The invasion is on... and it's coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn't be hotter, and the plot couldn't be more diabolical. Earth is c...
Villette
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë’s last and most autobiographical novel, Villette, explores the inner life of a lonely young Englishwoman, Lucy Snowe, who leaves an unhappy existence in England to become a teacher in the capital of a fictional European country.Drawn...
Vince and Joy
Lisa Jewell
'You know that was the best thing that ever happened to me, don't you?'She smiled. 'Me, too.'July, 1986. Vince and Joy have their whole lives ahead of them on the day they meet. Two weeks later they must part, each having lost a piece of their heart ...
Vintage Stuff
Tom Sharpe
Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command li...
The Virgin in the Ice
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [6]: Winter, 1139, and Brother Cadfael's tranquil life at Shrewsbury monastery is once again interrupted by violent, mysterious happenings. As civil war rages close by, two orphans of a great family and their companion, a nun, disappear in th...
Virtual Light
William Gibson
Bridge [1]: San Francisco, the nearish future; ex-cop Berry Rydell's lost one job he didn't much like and landed another he likes even less. Some sunglasses - actually high-end kit involving VR and super-sensitive data - got stolen from a courier and...
The Virtue of Selfishness
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand here sets for the the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life - the life proper to a rational being - as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as imcompatible with man's nature, with the creative req...
The Visitors
Clifford D. Simak
What looked like a big black box - perhaps fifty feet high, two hundred long - had settled squarely on Jerry Conklin's car. The townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota, were the first to see it - and one of them was the first and only human to shoot at i...
The Vital Abyss
James S. A. Corey
Expanse [5.50]: A novella set in the world of The Expanse.Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity.The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know ar...
The Voice of Reason
Ayn Rand
Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Maryli...
Voice of the Whirlwind
Walter Jon Williams
Hardwired [2]: Steward is a Beta — a clone. In his memories, he’s an elite commando for an orbital policorp — but because his Alpha never did a brain-scan update, Steward’s memories are fifteen years out of date... and in those fifteen years, every...
Voices
Ursula K Le Guin
Chronicles of the Western Shore [2]: Memer is a child of rape; when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they descecrated or destroyed everything of beauty. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return ...
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