Bøger af Tim Stafford

The setting is 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, the "meanest city in the South." Martin Luther King, Jr., has come to town to confront segregation in the person of Bull Connor, the Commissioner of Public Safety. Chris Wright, young, white, penniless and idealistic, arrives by Greyhound bus, anxious to join King in the fight. He is taken in by a charismatic local civil rights leader and put to work for the protest movement. There he meets Dorcas Jones, young, black, cynical and committed. Their ideals clash, but events bind the two close together as they follow King to the apocalyptic encounter between Birmingham's black children and the dogs and fire hoses of the Birmingham white establishment. "A reporter's eye for detail brings this fictional tale of the civil rights movement to life. The flawed but brave protagonists draw us in, and make us wonder how we would have fared in the struggle against the evils of segregation." --Dean Anderson, author of Bill the Warthog mysteries "A gritty, gripping novel by a master storyteller." --Robert Digitale, author of Horse Stalker "A masterful work of historical fiction that is a ultimately a tribute to the real-life heroes of one of America's most significant social movements. - --Paul Gullixson, editorial director, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Kent Spires lost everything-his family, his job, his sense of self-and now he fears losing them a second time. He heads the drug and alcohol rehab center where he rediscovered his dignity, but he stands to be fired if he can't turn around the finances. He's isolated and lonely. He barely knows his adult children.Then Kent meets Meg. She's a strong woman who picked herself up from a divorce, started a business, and created a happy life. She's not sure she's interested in Kent, but she's willing to give him a try.When Kent's ex, the mother of his children, is brutally assaulted, Kent and Meg and Kent's children grow entangled. They meet at the hospital, where Alice is in a coma and not certain to live. As Kent goes searching for the homeless man he suspects of assault, Meg studies each isolated member of Kent's family, wondering whether she wants anything to do with them.Those Who Dream is a love story set against the disappointments of modern life and the challenges of drug addiction. It's a story of second chances, showing the strange juxtapositions of conservative faith meeting liberal culture in the Sonoma wine country. This is Tim Stafford's seventh novel. It is the second in a series set in and around the Sonoma Gospel Mission.

For fifty years Sonoma Gospel Mission has sheltered the poor of Santa Rosa-meals, beds and showers--while offering a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. Now an ambitious developer, Buddy Grace, has plans to gentrify the run-down neighborhood and move the mission elsewhere. When the mission resists his plans, he cooks up a lawsuit to put on pressure. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of an addled would-be activist, presses claims of sexual assault against Jake Dorner, the mission's program manager. Jake is innocent, but those who read the local newspaper can only believe the worst. The publicity creates financial panic for the mission, and family disaster for Jake. The story of Those Who Hope concerns the severe stress that falls on Jake, a recovering addict. Will his marriage survive? Will the mission founder? Most fundamentally, will Jake stay clean? Those Who Hope follows the strange conflicts inherent when drug addiction meets the traditional religion of a rescue mission amid the liberal culture of California's wine country. This is Tim Stafford's sixth novel. It is the first in a series set in and around the Sonoma Gospel Mission.

Elvis Sebastiano's father was "lost at sea" when Elvis was only ten. Left to himself by a grieving mother, Elvis drifted into drugs and crime. By the time his mother emerged from her fog, he was in prison. Now almost forty, Elvis attends his mother's memorial service. A colorful, funny meth addict, he is two years sober, but feels the shadow of a relapse hanging over him. Elvis got clean after the firestorm that swept into Santa Rosa two years before; that night galvanized his desire to hang on to life. Now he hopes that connecting to his past will enable him to get back on the path. After the service, Elvis is approached by a stranger who claims to be his father. This launches Elvis into an adventure, untangling an eccentric family history. His addiction throws him down time after time; with the help of his partner, Angel, of AA and church, he stands up again while the mystery of his family unwinds with increasing, bewildering complexity.

Tim Stafford’s work lives in the buffer zone between Chicago and the American Dream — far from the suburbs with white picket fences and country clubs but still too far to be of the city proper. Like a carefully curated mixtape, Stafford’s work navigates the side streets and highways in between, linking those worlds in an effort to create his own.

This well-told story is the third book in the River of Freedom series and follows the life of newspaper reporter Marion K. (M.K.) Nichols.

Susan Nichols wants the right to vote...but how hard is she willing to fight for it? Sisters is the powerful chronicle of a second-generation suffragist searching for her identity during the dramatic, turbulent times surrounding the woman suffrage movement in America.

Amid continuing debate over just how 'Christian' are the Christian roots of the United States, The Stamp of Glory is the first book in a multigenerational family saga where the main characters interact with actual historical Christians who helped changed America for the better.

"It is vital for educators to discover new ways to get students wanting to read and write poetry. These exercises are not intimidating, they are the equivalent of having a really rad English teacher who wears tweed suits and sports "read more" knuckle tattoos." -Rachel McKibbens, "Pink Elephants""This collection provides teachers with a scaffolding for their lessons by offering questions, examples, and writing prompts. This will be a valuable asset in the classrooms of new and veteran teachers alike." -Molly Meacham, teacherHello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it's difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we've heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble with rough language and themes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom.

Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it's difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As slam poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact it has on our young people. It is able to engage kids from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we've heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble. A bulk of spoken word poetry does have quite a few curses. After all, those poems were meant to be read to a rowdy crowd of adults at a slam and not a class full of kids. The poems come from the gut and sometimes an "F" bomb finds its way to the page. Unfortunately, this is what holds many teachers back from using spoken word in their classes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom. This means you will not have to sift through this book with a highlighter to try and find the F's and the S's and the B's. We've provided poems from national slam champs, world slam champs, fellow teachers, and poets we feel are the best of what's around. We've also included some lessons. Some of these lessons have been tested out in the classroom, some not. Feel free to use these lessons as you see fit. Every teacher has their own style so please, do not feel like you have to use the lessons verbatim. Simplify, expand, modify, do whatever you need to do. You know your class so teach the poems the way that suits them best. The most important part is the poetry. Learn then Burn,Tim Stafford and Derrick Brown

The book of James calls Christians to demonstrate their faith in practical ways in the world around them. Studying James helps prove the reality of faith through sound actions, attitudes, and words in everyday life. 5 SESSIONS.

In six practical lessons, this study helps readers unlock the power, beauty, and personal significance of Paul's letter to the Philippians. 6 SESSIONS.