Russell's ebook Library
The Lady of the Lake
Andrzej Sapkowski
Witcher Saga [5]: After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are...
Lake of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the Long Sun [2]: It is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has travelled for forgotten generation towards its destination.Lit inside by the artificial Long Sun, The Whorl is so huge that you can see whole cities in the ...
The Last Battle
C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia [7]: During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge — not an invader from without but an enemy from within. Lies and treachery have taken root, and only the king and a small band of loyal followers can ...
Last Call
Tim Powers
Last Call [1]: Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game... and now must play for the highest stakes e...
The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [22]: The Last Continent, is a lighthearted tour of the fantasy land of Fourecks, a very Australian sort of place, with brief courses in theoretical physics and evolution thrown in for good measure.Pratchett returns to his first Discworld p...
The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [27]: Cohen the Barbarian. He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization.But these days, he can'...
The Last Wish: Introducing The Witcher
Andrzej Sapkowski
Witcher Short Stories [1]: Geralt de Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world.But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everyth...
Lavinia
Ursula K Le Guin
An exceptional combination of history and mythology'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. The man was fa...
Lavondyss
Robert Holdstock
Mythago Wood [2]: At the heart of the wildwood lies a place of mystery and legend, from which few return and none emerged unchanged: Lavondyss... the ultimate realm, the source of all myth.When Harry Keeton disappeared into Ryhope Wood, his sister Ta...
League of Dragons
Naomi Novik
Temeraire [9]: Napoleon’s invasion of Russia has been roundly thwarted. But even as Capt. William Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the retreating enemy through an unforgiving winter, Napoleon is raising a new force, and he’ll soon have enough...
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [4]: Genly Ai is a diplomat of sorts, sent to observe the inhabitants of the snowbound planet of Winter. But the isolated, androgynous people are suspicious of this strange, single-gendered visitor. Tucked away in a remote corner of the univer...
Legacy
Lois McMaster Bujold
Sharing Knife [2]: Ill-chance brought young Fawn Bluefield together with Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, but it was love and loyalty that joined their fates. While their unorthodox marriage has been grudgingly accepted by the clev...
Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
High fantasy, low stakes – with a double-shot of coffee.After decades of adventuring, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. Now she sets her sights on a new dream – for she plans to open the first coffee shop in the city of ...
The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [2]: What shall we do?' said Twoflower.'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.When the very fabric of time and space are about to be put through the wringer - in this instance by the immi...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia [2]: This is the land of Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now. And you – you have come from the wild woods of the west!" "I – I got in through the wardrobe in the spare room," said Lucy. Lucy steps into the Professor's w...
Little, Big
John Crowley
Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes...
Lord Darcy Investigates
Randall Garrett
Lord Darcy [3]: If King Richard the Lionheart hadn't died in 1199 and his descendants ruled the Anglo-French Empire, castles would be illuminated by lantern light and long distance conversation would be held by way of "telesin."In the world of detect...
Lord Kelvin's Machine
James P. Blaylock
Langdon St. Ives [2]: An array of colorful, eccentric villains (including a revived Narbondo) compete to use Lord Kelvin's electromagnetic machine in an elaborate blackmailing plot.
Lord Valentine's Castle
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...
Lord of Chaos
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [6]: On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, and the sky is not the sky of this world;In Salidar the White Tower in exile prepares an embassy to Caemlyn, where Rand Al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, holds the throne - a...
Lords and Ladies
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [14]: It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... Everything ought to be going like a ...
Love & Sleep
John Crowley
Aegypt [2]: In Love & Sleep, the second volume of the series, the professor Pierce Moffett finds himself at a great turning point in the history of the world.As a child, Pierce was no stranger to magic, but those revelations faded with time. Now ...
The Love We Share Without Knowing
Christopher Barzak
Barzak's accomplished novel-in-stories dwells on people dealing with life's sorrows through somewhat tenuous connections.Set in Japan, the narratives focus on protagonists from the country and travelers in search of a new life, as in Realer Than You,...
Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden
Jack Vance
Lyonesse [1]: The Elder Isles, located in what is now the Bay of Biscay off the the coast of Old Gaul, are made up of ten contending kingdoms, all vying with each other for control.At the centre of much of the intrigue is Casmir, the ruthless and amb...
Lyra's Oxford
Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials [4]: An exciting new tale set in the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials saga.This volume includes a short story by Mr. Pullman, plus a fold-out map of Oxford and various "souvenirs" from the past. The book is illustrated ...
