Russell's ebook Library
Getting Even
Woody Allen
After three decades of prodigious film work (and some unfortunate tabloid adventures as well), it's easy to forget that Woody Allen began his career as one heck of a great comedy writer.Getting Even, a collection of his late '60s magazine pieces, off...
Getting Started in Project Data
APM
This collaborative report is part of our research collaborations. Research collaborations seek to bring together like-minded individuals and organisations to develop and generate innovative research that supports the needs of practice whilst helping ...
The Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi
Old Man's War [2]: The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong,...
Ghost Spin
Chris Moriarty
Spin [3]: Sometimes a ghost of a chance is all you get. Award-winning author Chris Moriarty returns to a dazzling cyber-noir far future in this gritty, high-stakes thriller where the only rule is “Evolve . . . or die.”The Age of Man is ending. The U...
Ghost Story
Jim Butcher
Dresden Files [13]: In his life, Harry’s been shot, stabbed, sliced, beaten, burned, crushed, and tortured. And after someone puts a bullet through his chest and leaves him to die in the waters of Lake Michigan, things really start going downhill.Tra...
Ghost Talkers
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 Ghost from the Grand Banks
Arthur C. Clarke
Two years before the centennial anniversary of the Titanic's demise, two powerful corporations are competing to raise the two halves of the famous ship. But what they find deep beneath the ocean's surface is more than they bargained for: six perfectl...
Giant's Bread
Agatha Christie
First published between 1930 and 1956, the six novels written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott, regarded by some as the writer's finest work, show a very different side of her talent. What they share with her other fiction is Christi...
Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Sheri S. Tepper
A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping across the globe as the millennium approaches, and a power-hungrypresidential candidate sees his ticket to success in making an example out of a teenage girl who abandoned her infant in a Dumpster.Taking the girl'...
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Ninth House [1]: The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat...
A Gift From Earth
Larry Niven
A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. The organ banks are the centre of this world. To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs, and from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them aliv...
Gifts
Ursula K Le Guin
Chronicles of the Western Shore [1]: Orrec, the son of the Brantor of Caspromant, and Gry, daughter of the Brantors of Barre and Rodd, have grown up together, running half-wild across the Uplands. The people there are like their land: harsh and fierc...
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson
Millennium [3]: The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogyLisbeth Salander — the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels — lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care un...
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson
Millennium [2]: Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour...
The Girl With All the Gifts
M. R. Carey
Girl With All the Gifts [1]: Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius."Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointed at her while two of his ...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Millennium [1]: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someon...
The Girl in the Glass
Jeffrey Ford
The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair - and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy... and the hucksters who feed upon them.Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master g...
The Girls in the Garden
Lisa Jewell
Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children a...
Glamour in Glass
Mary Robinette Kowal
Glamourist Histories [2]: Jane and David Vincent, both glamourists of some repute, are enjoying a blissful honeymoon on the continent when their romantic getaway goes horribly awry.They are in Belgium when they learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, the depo...
Glasshouse
Charles Stross
In the twenty-seventh century, accelerated technology dictates the memories and personalities of people. With most of his own memories deleted, Robin enters The Glasshouse - an experimental polity where he finds himself at the mercy of his own unbala...
Glide Path
Arthur C. Clarke
A fascinating departure for the renowned science fiction author, Glide Path is an alternative history of the development of Ground Control Approach radar set during World War II.Clarke draws upon his own wartime experience as a radar control operator...
Glimmering
Elizabeth Hand
When the confluence of a solar storm and the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelf ignites the atmosphere like grease, those who are able hide behind their walls and masks, seeking the promise of a seductive — and dangerous — future. As the earth erupt...
Globalhead
Bruce Sterling
Featuring thirteen satirical short stories, a unique collection that includes scientific superstars, a rock singer who is the voice of the people, and two lost souls who drive off the edge of the world and find each other.Our Neural ChernobylStorming...
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