After a devastating winter, a spring breeze promises more than new flowers.… It promises a new chance at love. Bess Weaver, twenty and expecting her first child, is in the kitchen making stew for her beloved mann, Caleb, one minute, and the next she’s burying him after a tragic accident. Facing life as a young widow, Bess finds comfort only in tending the garden at an Englisch-owned bed and breakfast—even as she doubts that new growth could ever come after such a long winter. Aidan tries to repress his guilt over his best friend Caleb’s death and his long-standing feelings for Bess by working harder than ever. But as he spends time with the young son his friend left behind, he seems to be growing closer to the boy’s beautiful mother as well. When a close-knit group of widows in her Amish community step in to help Bess find her way back to hope, she begins to wonder if Gott has a future for her after all. Will she ever believe that life can still hold joy and the possibility of love?

From the editors of Zen Poems of China and Japan comes the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind to appear in English. This collaboration between a Japanese scholar and an American poet has rendered translations both precise and sublime, and their selections, which span fifteen hundred years—from the early T’ang dynasty to the present day—include many poems that have never before been translated into English. Stryk and Ikemoto offer us Zen poetry in all its diversity: Chinese poems of enlightenment and death, poems of the Japanese masters, many haiku—the quintessential Zen art—and an impressive selection of poems by Shinkichi Takahashi, Japan’s greatest contemporary Zen poet. With Zen Poetry, Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto have graced us with a compellingly beautiful collection, which in their translations is pure literary pleasure, illuminating the world vision to which these poems give permanent expression.

Spring Time Woods is dedicated to my mother, Chinta Visalakshi. She has been an inspiration and has supported me all the time. She has been a pillar in every moment of my life! Spring Time Woods is a poetry classic and will remain a family portrait, a family memory, a family togetherness, a path togetherness forever! Spring Time Woods is a reminder of spring flowers, roses, daffodils, mums—a fragrance of my daughter! Spring Time Woods will house a spring melody, a walk cherished for life!

In the first novel in the series, a 13-year-old girl, Shadow, a member of the prehistoric Sinagua Indians of Arizona, sets off on a daring quest. Ages 9-12.

The verses in this collection are of my thoughts as I see things in God’s creation. I have been writing these down for maybe five to six years. Something will inspire me and away the pen and keyboard begin to generate the verse, God inspired. These are all random thoughts that come in no particular order. I need to thank all those things and God has who inspired my writings and especially my editor in chief, my wife Ann. Others have assisted me in helping me edit my verses and I thank them greatly. I hope you enjoy these verses and they can stir a deeper appreciation of the world around us. Living here in the foothill of the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the west side, has inspired many of my verses Seasonal events have inspired me as well as items in nature and everyday life.