Stafford: 276 books
The Adam Quest
Eleven Scientists Who Held on to a Strong Faith While Wrestling with the Mystery of Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Science and faith should be allies, not opponents, in the search for truth.
But when it comes to understanding the very beginnings of life, it is no easy task to reconcile the history taught in the Bible with the discoveries of the scientific community.
Author Tim Stafford watched the...
Miracles
A Journalist Looks at Modern Day Experiences of God's Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
You Believe God Can Still Do Miracles, But How Do You Know Which Stories Are True?
A blind man suddenly sees. A lame man gets up and walks. A little boy is raised from the dead. You believe the biblical accounts that these miracles happened, but do you believe eye-witness reports that miracles...
The Muses Among Us
Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The Muses Among Us is an inviting, encouraging book for writers at any stage of their development. In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestos, and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls "what we almost know." On the boundary's far side...
Ask Me
100 Essential Poems of William Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
"In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." —Naomi Shihab Nye
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life.
—from "Ask Me"
In celebration...
We Have Capture
Tom Stafford and the Space Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
What an amazing career. Tom Stafford attained the highest speed ever reached by a test pilot (28,547 mph), carried a cosmonaut’s coffin with Soviet Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, led the team that designed the sequence of missions leading to the original lunar landing, and drafted the original specifications...
Early Morning
Remembering My Father, William Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
A prolific writer, famous pacifist, respected teacher, and literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the 20th century. His first major collection--Traveling through the Dark--won the National Book Award. William Stafford published more than sixty-five volumes of...
Topspin
The Story of Dr. James Bazell Stafford, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
The story Topspin is a biography of the life of Dr. James B. Stafford Jr. as told by his son James B. Stafford III.The story is written not only to cover the influence Dr. Stafford had on the city of Peoria but also on so many boys he came in contact with through the scouting program at Mt. Zion Baptist...
The Seagull
An Unexpected Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
A love story, 'The Seagull' will warm and inspire you. Brave and intimate in its honest, often surprising detail, you'll be hard-pressed to put Stafford's memoir down. When her life changes, abruptly, her desire not to be defined by her past drives her forward. Her courageous journey through love and...
Walking the Amazon
860 Days. One Step at a Time.
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
As seen on Discovery Channel and for readers of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Bill Bryson, Jon Krakauer, and David Grann, a riveting, adventurous account of one man’s history-making journey along the entire length of the Amazon—and through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth. Fans of Turn Right at...
by Jean Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole...
by Nikki Stafford
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"The Finding Lost series is quite simply the best Lost resource for fans. Not only is the information concise and complete, Nikki Stafford's commentary is insightful, relevant, and entertaining. No matter how well you know the show, Stafford's analysis of the themes and symbolism of Lost will...
Bad Characters
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This book displays at their height the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration that distinguish Miss Stafford's work. There are nine stories and a novella. They range in mood from the title story, a comic portrait of a resourceful child-criminal named Lottie Jump, to "The End of a Career,"...
by Max Stafford-Clark, Philip Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Inside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades.
Max Stafford-Clark has been at the cutting edge of theatre in Britain for more than thirty years. Taking Stock draws on diaries, photos and interviews to recreate the evolution of nine...
Endgame, 1945
The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler's final birthday (April 20), Stafford's chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story.
ENDGAME 1945 highlights the gripping...