Russell's ebook Library
The Book of Five Rings [June 14, 2020]
Miyamoto Musashi
When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in 1643 and wrote The Book of Five Rings, a manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most perceptive ...
Valentine Pontifex [June 13, 2020]
Robert Silverberg
Majipoor [3]: Plagued by nightmares of Majipoor besieged by blizzards and earthquakes, Lord Valentine believes these omens signal an encroaching war between his people and the Shapeshifters who once ruled the planet.For centuries they have conspired ...
Majipoor Chronicles [June 13, 2020]
Robert Silverberg
Majipoor [2]: A return to the world of Lord Valentine's Castle.This collection contains ten stories reflecting the endless variety of life on the planet Majipoor.Thesme and the GhayrogThe Time of the BurningIn the Fifth Year of the VoyageCalintane Ex...
Lord Valentine's Castle [June 13, 2020]
Robert Silverberg
Majipoor [1]: Set in an immense world teeming with alien races and fantastic, almost magical, machinery, Valentine, an itinerant juggler, wakes up one morning with only a vague and troubled idea of who he is.He gradually discovers, through dreams and...
Space Opera [June 13, 2020]
Catherynne M. Valente
A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented - something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered wor...
Storm of Locusts [June 13, 2020]
Rebecca Roanhorse
Sixth World [2]: When the Goodacre twins show up at Maggie's door with the news that Kai and the youngest Goodacre, Caleb, have fallen in with a mysterious cult, led by a figure out of Navajo legend called the White Locust, she knows what has to be d...
Trail of Lightning [June 13, 2020]
Rebecca Roanhorse
Sixth World [1]: While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.Maggie Hoskie is...
Spinning Silver [June 13, 2020]
Naomi Novik
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty — until Miryem takes matters into her own hands.Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to clai...
Of Noble Family [June 13, 2020]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Glamourist Histories [5]: Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy when Vincent receives word that his estranged father has passed away on one of his properties in the West Indies. His brother, who ma...
Valour and Vanity [June 13, 2020]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Glamourist Histories [4]: Murano, ItalyWhen a family celebration brings Glamourists Jane and David Vincent to the Continent, they seize the opportunity to voyage for Murano, to study the world-renowned glassblowers at work. But their ship is set upon...
Without a Summer [June 13, 2020]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Glamourist Histories [3]: Summer, 1816. Glamourists Jane and David Vincent return home to an unseasonably cold Long Parkmeade. Cooped up inside with Jane's fretful sister and father, they soon become restless, so when they receive a commission from a...
Ghost Talkers [June 13, 2020]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Harford, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force.Each soldier heading for the front is c...
The Lady Astronaut of Mars [June 13, 2020]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [2.50]: Thirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even t...
The Fated Sky [June 13, 2020]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [2]: One large step for humankind…It’s 1961, and the Earth’s gaze is turning to Mars. The Moon colony is well established, but tensions are rising on Earth — both from those who see themselves being left behind on a disaster-laden plan...
The Calculating Stars [June 13, 2020]
Mary Robinette Kowal
Lady Astronaut [1]: A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts...
The Element of Fire [May 31, 2020]
Martha Wells
Ile-Rien [1]: The kingdom of Ile-Rien is in peril, menaced by magical threats and court intrigue. As the weak King Roland, misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only his ruthless mother, the Dowager Queen Ravenna, truly guards the safe...
Horizon [May 31, 2020]
Fran Wilde
Bone Universe [3]: A City of living bone towers crumbles to the ground and danger abounds. Kirit Densira has lost everything she loved the most — her mother, her home, and the skies above.Nat Brokenwings — once Kirit's brother long before the rebelli...
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