John Aubrey: 15 books

Aubrey tells us that from an early age he liked to talk to old people, ‘as living histories’. Since the biographer was born in 1626, many of the human chronicles he consulted would have had fresh memories of the Elizabethan age. This selection, the second from the Langley Press, covers...

'When he was at Florence he contracted a friendship with the famous Galileo Galileo, whom he extremely venerated and magnified; and not only as he was a prodigious wit, but for his sweetness of nature and manners.They pretty well resembled one another as to their countenances, as by their pictures...

'I here lay down to you the truth, and nothing but the truth: the naked and plain truth, which is here exposed so bare that the very pudenda are not covered, and affords many passages that would raise a blush in a young virgin's cheek.' The Langley Press edition includes the lives of Aubrey's...

Abiding Darkness is Christian fiction… part suspense, part thriller, part romance. Set in Mississippi cotton country, the story anchors itself in the relationship between two children. It’s 1945… and the war in Europe has just ended. Missy Parker is the crown princess of the...

On the night he became someone else… WEDGEWOOD GREY, Book Two of The Black or White Chronicles: Wedgewood Grey is Christian fiction… best classified in the suspense/thriller/romance genre. It began in the spring of 1960… in Mississippi cotton country… on a muddy little back...

THE COOL WOMAN The pilot who becomes his own North Star… is forever lost. Williams Air Force Base… summertime… 1970. Lieutenant Bill Mann is staid, single, and focused when he reports for USAF Pilot Training; he’s there to begin living his lifelong dream. According...

AND IF I DIE, Book Three of The Black or White Chronicles Clear Creek County… northwest of Pilot Hill, Texas… 1968. He stood in a thick stand of blackjack oaks, motionless and unnoticed, peering through the trees, camouflaged by their shade… waiting. He’d watched the...

Mama tries to save her daughter from a marriage that has killed her two sons. An angel black with the names of his petitioners hears her pleas and offers her salvation at a price, since no prayer is answered without a cost….

Gods and monsters live in and around us, they are passed from generation to generation through stories of romance and adventure and warnings against the night. Sometimes cruel, often loving, these stories are windows into worlds at once strange and personal.

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John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process...

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom. In that book, the authors used the themes of persistence and...