Relates the author's experiences while staying with his wife's family in South Korea, focusing on the power of this vital social unit

Lost in Seoul and Other Discoveries on the Korean Peninsula

Stephens, Michael

Reference

Random House]

Have you ever wondered if God was real? And if He was real, what might be His thoughts about you specifically? What might he share with you if you had the chance to talk to Him face to face? With these questions in mind and with a unique gift, Michael Stephens seized the opportunity to try and help answer these questions for numerous people while working in the marketplace as a barista for Starbucks. Throughout the course of his time serving coffee and espresso, he routinely prayed for and prophesied over hundreds of customers. Soon, stories of “the Starbucks prophet” circulated around the Kansas City community. As more and more customers were ministered to and touched by the presence of God, the testimonies grew. Consequently, people began to venture over to the specific Starbuck’s location he worked at in hopes of possibly hearing just “what Jesus had to say” about them. With a desire to help people see that God is real both inside and outside of the church, Michael Stephens has taken the gospel into everyday life and seen numerous people encouraged and transformed. In addition to being inspired by the stories in this book you will learn how to encounter God in any arena of life, gain Divine confidence in where He has called you, get a taste of what Jesus actually thinks about you, and be provoked to love in new ways as you rediscover the Jesus who invades everyday life.

Lattes, Mochas, and Jesus

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

michael stephens

One of America’s best young writers presents a critical appreciation of voice in short fiction, using drama and poetry to frame his discussion.
Discussing contemporary voice in American fiction, Stephens says: There is a cadence which the writer steals from the actual, shaping this rhythm into the voice of fiction. When tension enters into the equation of speech and voice, dramaturgical moments occur. Actors transform words into living moments. So do writers.”
Stephens draws on world literature to illustrate his concept of voice. He discusses early influences such as Beckett, Kafka, Borges, and Babel. He focuses on Paul Blackburn, Joel Oppenheimer, Gilbert Sorrentino, Hubert Selby, Jr., Vietnam war fiction writers (Larry Heinemann, Gustav Hasford, Stephen Wright, W. D. Ehrhart, Robert Auletta, among others), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Stephen Dixon, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and a host of others.

The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction (A Chicago Classic)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Southern Illinois University Press

Hyperlinked Librarianship gathers selected, thematically organized Michael Stephens’s Library Journal “Office Hours” columns.Hyperlinked library services start with constant, positive, and purposeful adaptation to change that is based on thoughtful planning and grounded in the mission of libraries. Librarians embracing the hyperlinked model practice careful trend spotting and apply the foundational tenets of librarianship along with an informed understanding of emerging technologies’ and trends’ societal and cultural impact. Thematic sections bring together ideas for practice, supporting evidence from recent research, and insights that will inform and inspire librarians of all types.Stephens teaches a course on the hyperlinked library for San Jose State University, opening the door to an ecourse collaboration.

The Heart of Librarianship: Attentive, Positive, and Purposeful Change

ALA Editions

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Of his earlier book, Against the Grain raved, "Reading this book brings a sense of hope, inspiration, and excitement for what the future holds for the new generation of hyperlinked librarians entering our profession." Now Stephens is back with a newly curated collection of succinct writings that will refresh your view of the profession and invigorate your work. Associate Professor at San Jose State University, Stephens encourages curiosity and creativity in his students and all library workers by connecting trends from outside the profession to its bedrock values. With a humanist lens, he reflects on such topics as
<ul>
<li>how libraries can empower kindness;</li>
<li>developing a coterie of kindred spirits at conferences outside libraryland;</li>
<li>inspiring creativity in library patrons;</li>
<li>the most effective professional development experiences;</li>
<li>comfort, joy, and hygge in the library;</li>
<li>the characteristics of compassionate leadership;</li>
<li>how to contend with a devil's advocate; and</li>
<li>mentoring new librarians.</li>
</ul>
Whether you’ve just landed your first job or a longtime professional, Stephens’ perspective will reenergize your commitment to librarianship and the important work that libraries are doing every day.

Wholehearted Librarianship: Finding Hope, Inspiration, and Balance

Jigs and Reels: Short Prose

Unsettling prose poems from an adventurous writer.

United States

Hanging Loose Press

Season at Coole

Coole"" is a country, a madhouse, cloud-cuckooland. . . a family. An incredible, disgusting, glorious family of Long Island Irish psychotic drunken dreamers, natural communists and slobs. And this book, a love-hate song to them, becomes an upside-down accordion riff on the whole idea of family or tribe, ethnic and American. The Cooles have imported the rich Irish madness and the two curses of babies and drink (though the younger half of the nine kids prefer grass and acid). There's father Leland, all tyrannous illogic; mother Rose, who lies drunk in the dirty laundry, confessing to the Virgin; Leland Jr., obscenely fat, murderous, pathetic and paranoiac (but in high school ""he could make a leper ring his bell with laughter""); sickly Emmet, skinny alley-cat of the underworld; Sandra-Sam who looks Italian and runs with tattooed hoodlums; and quite a few more. They have gracious Kennedy-family fantasies, they write on the walls, they wet their beds, they have incestuous and homicidal (especially patricidal) fantasies about each other and about their crazy redheaded aunts (nicknamed Quif and Quire). To a man they dream of escape, yet are fatally bound to the house which Mickey Mack, the writer son and eye of the storm, calls ""a museum, literally, of natural history"" -- a kind of inverse, perverse health in the midst of suburban cancer. A bravura novel, funny and wild (or distasteful?) and language is its pole star, language that careens with a mad sweet Irish lilt. ―Kirkus Reviews

Dalkey Archive Press

Heather Douglas was ecstatic when her ringing phone brought her out of a horrific daydream from her childhood. But, the phone call from her long-time friend turned billionaire matriarch was not about the two of them catching up on old times. Hired by Angelica Stewart, Heather and her sister, Alex, owners of a small but successful private investigative firm, find themselves on the redeye to New Orleans to investigate Angelica's daughter, Katie, who went missing from her bachelorette.Concerned with how Alex's vivacious and carefree behavior will mix with New Orleans, Heather learns that Angelica's husband, Terry, has hired his own private investigator for the same job. The sisters and their mysterious private investigator, Nathan Steele, must join forces, locate Katie, discretely during Mardi Gras. Heather's unnerved by the newly formed collaboration forced on her agency as she's both attracted and repelled by her new partner-and Alex's unexplainable infatuation with him. Together, they embark on a journey as they piece together lies, alibis, evidence, and betrayal in hopes to locate Katie... alive.

Douglas & Steele

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Independently published

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Lost in Seoul and Other Discoveries on the Korean Peninsula

Lattes, Mochas, and Jesus

The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction (A Chicago Classic)

The Heart of Librarianship: Attentive, Positive, and Purposeful Change

Wholehearted Librarianship: Finding Hope, Inspiration, and Balance

Jigs and Reels: Short Prose

Jigs and Reels: Short Prose

Season at Coole

Season at Coole

Douglas & Steele