Böcker av Stephen Harris

The beautiful, sleepy hamlet of Clydesdale, Maryland is a birdwatcher's paradise. Green trees and lush marshes are the perfect home for migratory birds to nest and raise their young. But this particular autumn, all birds are falling from the sky, their bodies mangled and torn, with no obvious explanation. This unprecedented, ominous phenomenon puts the small unremarkable community on the world map.To this town arrives Larry Marble, newly divorced and embarking on his Grand Plan. A storm causes him to take the wrong exit into Clydesdale, but was it an accident or destiny? With powerful forces at play, Larry has to get in touch with his innate power, locked away within himself as a child, to save the birds, town and world from these invisible supernatural forces.

In this Young Adult novel, 16-year-old Skeets Stearns is a farm boy from Vermont's rural Northeast Kingdom who finds refuge in the rugged mountain behind his family farm. Roaming the mountain has made him strong, like the legendary catamount wild cat. But his physical strength has yet to give him the courage to date pretty, popular Becky Winslow, star of the high school girls' track team.Before enlisting as a pilot in the Navy, New York City-raised Bill MacColl had been a contender to make the US Olympic Team as a decathlete. But that dream ended when his plane was shot down in combat in the Vietnam jungle. Trying to put his life back together, MacColl moves in with the Stearns family in Vermont, counting on the fresh air of the farm and the mountains to heal him.An unexpected friendship blooms when MacColl trains Skeets to compete in the Eastern States High School Track and Field Championship. Will Skeets win the championship, and the heart of Becky Winslow? Will Bill learn to accept his disability? No Excuses is the story of transformation, triumph, and resilience as two opposites struggle together to better their lives.

This is an adventuresome, humorous story of a father and son that takes place in yesteryear of Florida. The story entails fishing tales, fish tails, hunting, and wild, unbridled revelry. Of course, there is a spiced or spiked flavor of a wee dram of spirits to accentuate the frolic and comedy of the characters.

In The Price of Brotherhood, Mr. Stephen Moore, a successful lawyer and mystery writer, returned to his alma mater, Ivory College, on homecoming weekend to solve a homicide. Darnell Ellis, a pledge for Lambda Phi Psi Fraternity was killed in a hazing accident. Steve Moore arrives on campus to solve this crime. He realizes that a fatal accident could occur with this fraternity and that Lambda Phi Psi was a fraternity that had a secret to hide.

Humble yet vital, grasses are the ultimate staple crop, influencing our lives throughout humanity's biological, sociological and cultural history. This book explains the profound and oft-neglected importance of the botanical marvel.

What makes English literature English? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities.

Designed for the introductory Biblical studies course, this text surveys both the Old and New Testaments. It takes a presentation of the passages in the Bible from the legacy of Genesis to the book of Revelation.