Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous collection, A Poem for Every Winter Day, you will find verse that will transport you to sparkling winter scenes, taking you from Christmas, to New Years Eve and the joys of Valentines Day. The poems are selected from Allie Esiri’s bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, this book dazzles with an array of familiar favourites and remarkable new discoveries. These seasonal poems – together with introductory paragraphs – have a link to the date on which they appear. Includes poems by Mary Oliver, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, E. E. Cummings and Robert Burns who sit alongside Benjamin Zephaniah, Wendy Cope, Roger McGough and Jackie Kay. This soul-enhancing book will keep you company for every day of winter.

Determined to record every summer day, young history teacher Luke Devlin starts school vacation imagining he’ll describe backcountry adventures in the Rockies and sun-splashed days home in Denver. But all too soon the season veers into crisis, when his older brother faces life-threatening illness and Luke becomes entangled in a love affair that’s as fast-moving and possibly as fatal as his brother’s diagnosis. As Luke manages the household for his absent parents and struggles with the constant pressure of his unfinished master’s deadline, his fling with a Wyoming rancher grows serious just as his brother’s crisis overwhelms him. Luke’s love of his native ground and his search for romance collide with the hard realities of mortality and loss during an unexpected summer.

"The thrill of autobiography is in its "character." We hope to have introduced into our lives a life we've never met, a life of difference-that whatever we may think of this stranger, we emerge the better for hearing his or her story. Robert Klassen is a stranger I urge you to meet. He will not be a total stranger to many, for his books and ideas have introduced us to a new paradigm for the future. But just wait until you meet the author as a person. Survival is his challenge. How he does it is his gift to us." -Joe Taylor Ford, author of Zodiac Manager

Chosen by the esteemed fiction editor of the "Atlantic Monthly," the stories in this volume broaden the conversation begun in "God: Stories." Here are tales rooted in Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Quaker, and Confucian as well as Jewish and Christian beliefs.

If we rise, we rise together as a team, and if we fall, we fall together as a team. Thats exactly the message I try to convey, in this masterpiece of poems , short story ,and letter to the world. Even as I belief in collective responsibility in order to effect positive change, I repeat this theme quite often, in the sense of what I want the world to get out of this work, and many of my work that follow through. Expediently! If anyone is to have unique meaning for this work. Please change every I in it to You that way you will know, it could be about you, and not about me .Even though it is From my soul to life, and the society I love it is a message of peace; love ; struggle; sacrifice; building of character, and harmony for all Gods children, were all Gods children .Thank you, and God bless you.

First in a series of reports by Browne (later continued by Rossiter Raymond). This is followed by a reprint of Edmund Randolph's 'Address on the history of California, from the discovery of the country to the year 1849' (p. 268-504, first published in 1860) and John W. Dwinelle's 'Address on the acquisition of California by the United States' (p. 306-321, first published in 1866. Also reprinted in this volume are James W. Taylor's report upon gold and silver mining East of the Rocky Mountains (p. 323-350) and the Dept. of the Interior's 'Circular in relation to mining claims' (p. 351-357), both of which were omitted in the earlier 320 p. issue.