Spencer: 1574 books

"Pilgrim Process" is a near future dystopia of some 117,000 words. Is it possible that the entire world could be enslaved and transported into madness, simply because an apparently ordinary man in an unimportant small town in Hertfordshire, starts manipulating a secret society he...

Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached...

The family history of the Russells of Georgia is a saga of the Westward Movement during the middle fifty years of the nineteenth century. The "Russell boys," as prospectors and miners, moved with the frontier as it followed fresh discoveries of gold, from Georgia to California to Colorado. Then, after...

In this scintillating, heart-wrenching and tear-eliciting autobiography, "From New Mills to New Life", Joshua Spencer shares his extraordinary experiences from birth to his fiftieth year. It starts in Albion, Montego Bay where the author was born, but where he spent the least of his life...

This is the third edition of J R Spencer's now well established book which seeks to explain this area of law for the benefit of judges, criminal practitioners and academics teaching the law of evidence. In the past, the rule excluding evidence of the defendant's general bad character and disposition...

Inertia is a force, a powerful force, but it’s not the only one.  Courtney and Martin know all the words to all the songs on the mix tape of their lives.  They have the cynical in-jokes down, the snide asides, the nonchalant pose.  But beneath the practiced façade of self-satisfying...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I. - A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. H. R. Fox Bourne II. - HIS CAREER IN THE INDIA HOUSE. W. T. Thornton III. - HIS MORAL CHARACTER. Herbert Spencer IV. - HIS BOTANICAL STUDIES. Henry Trimen V. - HIS PLACE AS A CRITIC. W. Minto VI. - HIS WORK...

Young widow Meredith Blake was content living with her elderly adopted family in her rented house. Then Tom Whitney, former adolescent town pariah and now absentee landlord and big city lawyer, landed on her doorstep and taught her what she was missing by turning her back on passion. People were appalled...

A Chicago PI faces a deadly world of femme fatales and not-so-saintly nuns in this crime novel from a “wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny” author (The New York Times).   When Sister Rosetta’s niece goes missing, the nun (whose favorite poison is anything bottle-bound and boozy) hires...

Wisecracking Chicago PI Lacey Lockington gets caught in a dangerous game of international espionage in this gritty, “truly hilarious” mystery (Kirkus Reviews).   Former Chicago police detective Lacey Lockington isn’t much for small talk. But when he hears ex-CIA agent Rufe Devereaux is coming...

A longtime military history professor at Virginia Military Institute and prolific author, Spencer Tucker examines the important roles played by the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War. His book makes use of recent scholarship as well as official records and the memoirs of participants to...

While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea. And for good reason. Naval operations decided the outcome of the war as the North exploited its significant naval and maritime advantage to turn the war on land in its favor....

Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur is America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones. His short and dramatic life is a story of triumph and tragedy told by the noted historian and author of some twenty books, Spencer Tucker. Decatur's raid into Tripoli Harbor in 1804 to burn...

As only Spencer W. Kimball could. From the heart, from the scriptures, from history he guides us through the answer to this question: Why do bad things happen to good people?