Books with author Stafford

When the president asks……you say ‘yes’Is the largest project ever conceived going to get him killed?As the corruption and lies grow inside the beltway, an ambitious project is put together to move the U.S. Capital. The public, both sides of the political spectrum, love the idea. There’s just one problem…The murders.Brandon has the credentials. A renowned project manager with an MBA from Harvard, he’s the second-best man for the job. His boss, who was just found dead, was first. He’s unprepared for what comes next.The meeting.When Brandon signs on to manage Project Kéntro, at the President’s behest, self-doubt begins to creep in, and he must battle his own demons if they are going to succeed. What he doesn’t expect is the threat.Someone doesn’t want them to build it.Who is behind the plot?Are Brandon’s family and friends at risk?You’ll love this political thriller, because of the twists, turns, and deep understanding of the frightening underbelly of our nation’s capital.Get it now!

While living in a world built for the skies, tragedy strikes in a young man's life. The story of an unlikely and reluctant hero unfolds as he emerges from virtual obscurity only to be thrust into the center of the most tumultuous time in mankind's history. Setting out on an uncertain journey to protect the remaining members of his family, he struggles to cope with the onset of a strange and very painful physical phenomenon. Follow Chambray Newton and his band of mismatched friends on the adventure of a lifetime as he's forced to become everything he thought he could never be.

"Miss Stafford writes with brilliance. Scene after scene is told with unforgettable care and tenuous entanglements are treated with wise subtlety. She creates a splendid sense of time, of the unending afternoons of youth, and of the actual color of noon and of night. Refinement of evil, denial of drama only make the underlying truth more terrible. " --Saturday Review "Hard to match . . . for subtlety and understanding. . . written wittily, lucidly, and with great respect for the resources of the language. " --New Yorker Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947. Torn between their mother's world of genteel respectability and their grandfather's and uncle's world of cowboy masculinity, neither Molly nor Ralph can find an acceptable adult role to aspire to. As events move to their swift and inevitable conclusion, Stafford uncovers and indicts the social forces that require boys to sacrifice the feminine in order to become men and doom intelligent girls who aren't pretty.

In April 2008, Ed Stafford began his attempt to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the River Amazon. Nearly two and a half years later, he had crossed the whole of South America to reach the mouth of the colossal river. With danger a constant companion - outwitting alligators, jaguars, pit vipers and electric eels, not to mention overcoming the hurdles of injuries and relentless tropical storms - Ed's journey demanded extreme physical and mental strength. Often warned by natives that he would die, Ed even found himself pursued by machete-wielding tribesmen and detained for murder. However, Ed's journey was an adventure with a purpose: to help raise people's awareness of environmental issues. Ed had unprecedented access to indigenous communities and witnessed the devastating effects of the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest first-hand. His story of disappearing tribes and loss of habitats concerns us all. Ultimately though, Walking the Amazon is an account of a world-first expedition that takes readers on the most daring journey along the world's greatest river and through the most bio-diverse habitat on earth.

Melody Montgomery of Tucson, AZ used to dream of going someplace, anyplace other than the desert. Tucson was too bare, too open, to feel safe. It sat beneath the vast sky like it’d been defeated—a dirt-brown landscape that was guarded only by saguaro cactus and trampled on by the husk-like souls of people who lived in a place that was simply too hot. Mel’s dreams took her to places like Seattle and Hawaii, but never did she imagine just how far she would end up. When her best friend Nora disappears into the folds of a cult that believes that humankind must move on into the 4th dimension or perish, Mel races to stop her and finds out along the way that there are things out there far worse than the desert heat and a few cacti. Mel unexpectedly finds herself drifting between the present and the shadows of someone she use to be. The first book from Hollin Stafford who has received rave reviews from critically acclaimed agents and editors. She has a unique voice embodied through rich descriptions of shared human condition. In 2017 she was listed on Glimmer Train's honorable mention list and considered for the Fulton Prize from The Adirondack Review.

Excerpt from When Cattle Kingdom FellStopi Berdan thundered warningly; stop, you fooll And into his whimsical face there leaped a look that enforced his words.At this a young fellow rode from the ranks of the settlers. He was big and of that type seen nowadays in the pictures of delightfully smart gen tlemen who make millions out of the lack in other men's wits. Evidently he had an eye to some thing else than the advantage Of his fellow settlers, for with an insolence that astounded he de manded of Burns, What the devil dye mean tryin' to kick up a row between us and the outside men at the last minute?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Welcome to Misery Bay, a quiet place, if you don’t count the horrific monsters, the strange disappearances, or the odd barbed wire fence surrounding the town’s lighthouse. Seventeen-year-old Austen Gillet can’t wait to graduate and get out of her small town. But when she finds her dad’s car abandoned on the side of the road with a dead woman inside, her world screeches to a halt. When Ezra, an enigmatic newcomer, arrives in town, Austen enlists his help to find her dad. Little does she know that Ezra has secrets of his own, and he’s not about to let anyone get in his way. However, Ezra’s secrets pale in comparison to those hiding deep in Misery Bay’s woods, in a place protected by Ian, the mysterious lighthouse keeper. After stumbling through a portal to another world and barely escaping with her life, Austen has to figure out who she can trust and who she can’t, before she disappears, too. Permanently.