Spencer: 1574 books

This book is the sequel to The Land Behind the World. In the first book, a girl called Bara develops her awareness to the point where she discovers the Land Behind the World. Entering it, she is greeted as a “Missing Person”, and joins Susie, Zaddik and the rest of those who are fighting the Flugs...

After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history. The book tells of confused negotiations between the British...

In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill’s words, been a "crime without a name", and to punish the perpetrators. Since then, however, genocide has recurred repeatedly....

These poems were composed in a desultory manner over the past fifteen years, many since the author's retirement from his law practice in 2007, without giving any thought at the time to collecting them into a book for publication. Some were e-mailed to friends, some languished on scraps of paper in...

“The mere gathering of individuals into a group does not constitute them a society. A society, in the sociological sense, is formed only when, besides juxtaposition, there is cooperation. So long as members of the group do not combine their energies to achieve some common end or ends, there is little...

Un lugar sagrado, a sacred place where two or more are gathered in the name of community, can be found almost anywhere and yet it is elusive: a charro arena behind a rock quarry, on the pilgrimage trail to Chimayó, a curandero’s shrine in South Texas, or at a binational Mass along the border. Sagrado...

Once they were high school sweethearts. Now twenty-four years later Tommy Lee can still excite Rachel like no other man.

On the eve of World War II two people are brought together by fate and discover an unexpected passion Tall dark and handsome Will Parker has served time for the killing of a Texas prostitute but keeps losing jobs as his reputation becomes known. In the small town of Whitney Ga. at the beginning of WW...

Linnea Bradenborg expects to find culture and excitement in Alamo North Dakota where she's recently been hired as the new schoolteacher. Instead she finds a sparse little town in the middle of nowhere. Better yet her train is met by a cantankerous wheat farmer named Theodore Westgaard who doesn't...

Tough and tender sweet and sassy here is a story of honesty and humor for anyone who has ever lived and loved. Scott Gandy has always been a gambling man relying on his lazy Southern charm to smooth a way out of difficult situations. Hoping to make his fortune he opens a saloon in Proffitt Kansas. But...

A bride-to-be falls in love-with another man-in this heartfelt novel that perfectly captures the tender beginnings of love in bloom. Winnifred Gardner engaged to be married in only three short months is provided a dress rehearsal of sorts when she is asked to be the maid of honor at her best friend's...

When Sarah Merritt arrives in Dakota Territory in 1876 she steps off the dusty Cheyenne stagecoach determined to start this ramshackle goldrush town's first newspaper. In Deadwood her runaway younger sister Addie is living and working as domestic help at Mr. Hossiter's boarding house according to her letters.....

In this beautiful and moving story two willful lovers discover the importance of taking vows with someone you really truly love.

Set at the turn of the century November of the Heart tells of Lorna Barnett from a wealthy St. Paul family and Jens Harken the ambitious dreamer who works in the kitchen of her family's summer estate. Trapped in a rigid social caste system yet drawn irresistibly together Lorna and Jens begin a clandestine...