Stephen Stewart: 14 books

This is a spiritual mystery and safari scorching adventure involving the main character, and anti hero Seeker Barrington who although being battered, traumatized and bruised about in many situations has a source of help beyond the power of any enemy he faces. After becoming a born again Christian...

A fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller,...

The Summer 2017 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited. ...

‘It’s democracy. Everyone is equally unhappy. It’s the defining feature of the system’ September 2003. Rory Stewart, a thirty year old former British diplomat, is posted to serve as governor in a province of the newly liberated Iraq. His job is to help build a society at peace with...

Depuis la mort de sa femme, Dean Evers trompe l’ennui de ses vieux jours devant les matchs de baseball à la télévision. Quand soudain, dans les gradins, il découvre au cœur de la foule un visage surgi du passé. Quelqu’un qui ne devrait pas être là, au stade... ni même parmi les vivants. Soir...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

Military working dogs are silently winning the war against the world’s deadliest insurgents; day after day saving soldiers’ lives in the most dangerous country on the planet. Many have been rescue animals, neglected or mistreated by their owners before being given a new lease of life on the front...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding,...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an eBook original to be published on August 21, 2012. Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing...

Gesichter Nach dem Tod seiner Frau ist Dean Evers nach Florida gezogen. Gut geht es ihm nicht, er nimmt Tabletten und trinkt zu viel. Eines Abends, als er mal wieder einsam Baseball schaut, sieht er im Publikum seinen alten Zahnarzt. Der Mann ist seit Jahren tot. Eine Halluzination? Dean gießt sich...

Un escalofriante relato del maestro de la literatura de terror. Desde la muerte de su mujer, Dean Evers se pasa las tardes apoltronado en el sofá viendo partidos de béisbol. Durante una de estas tardes solitarias, mientras mira un partido de los Devil Rays contra los Mariners, la visión...

Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...

In the past decade various studies have examined how political humor may influence various political attitudes and voting behavior; whether it affects learning, cognition and media literacy, how it might shape political participation; how people process different forms of political humor; and more....