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Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year - but this volume is not just for Christmas! For the religious amongst us, this annual celebration of the Birth of Christ must seem bitter sweet: it's acknowledgment by billions of people countered by the pervasive spread of material possessions translating the event to little more than a sales pitch for material wares.

July - the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and summer is a rich harvest of colours and sights. Poets of the calibre of Shakespeare, Keats, Pope, Whitman, and Tennyson describe and marshall their thoughts for our delight.

For many of us Autumn, or as the Americans would say; Fall is the season of mixed emotions. Summer's long days are replaced by a chill in the air. The colours on the trees and fields ripen to warmer hues and the harvest is brought safely home. Yet with this bounty there is the knowledge that Nature is turning her attention to the harder, colder Winter month's ahead.

June - the sixth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and the official byginning of summer. The days stretch to their longest, and many subjects and thoughts fill the minds of our poets, such as Dryden, Levy, Raleigh, Blunt and Dickenson, as they describy the warming days.

It is hard to top the pleasure of a woodland walk in Spring unless of course you have a lyric poet as your guide. Now that is possible with Poets of Nature. Let Walt Whitman, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Bronte, and Ralph Waldo Emerson take you into that realm of Nature "where we seldom wander".

Ein großer Roman, der tief berührt. Der berühmte Schauspieler Arthur stirbt während einer Theateraufführung von König Lear. Die achtjährige Kirsten wird Zeugin. Noch in derselben Nacht führt der Ausbruch einer Pandemie zum Ende der bisherigen Welt. 15 Jahre später: nur wenige haben die Katastrophe überlebt, unter ­ihnen Kirsten, die sich einer umherziehenden Shakespeare-Gruppe angeschlossen hat. Immer mehr Fäden verbinden die alte mit der neuen Welt, in der nichts mehr ist, wie es war - außer der Hoffnung auf ein Weiter.

Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5- to 10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve; to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda; to the courtship of a maiden who lived long ago, in a kingdom by the sea, there’s a poem to suit any feeling or mood. Seasoned Naxos AudioBooks readers Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza, Benjamin Soames and Roy McMillan work their magic on the works of Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Christina Rossetti, and many more.

Health care is in the midst of a massive disruption. With financial structures in tatters and the future uncertain, this is the moment to begin the revolution. But first, leaders need to learn how to support staff at all levels as they make transformational improvements in care. This book demonstrates that real change is very personal and has to start at the top - whether you're an executive, governing board member, manager, or physician.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, “a gripping story, full of moral ambiguities, where deception and betrayal become the norm, and where the expression ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’ is lifted to new heights” (St. Louis...

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—when Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at...

Laf City Radio is a comedy podcast based out of Lafayette, Louisiana hosted by Drew Gautreaux, John Merrifield, Emily East, and Tyler Arceneaux, a cast of comedians with a combined thirty years of experience in stand up. Laf City features weekly games, trivia, media reviews, and most importantly, plenty of comedy riffs to keep the laughs going. Check out new episodes every Friday.

Werden wir die Erde vermissen? Die Menschheit kommt nicht zur Ruhe. 1912 wird Edwin St. Andrew, Adelsspross aus England mit einer ketzerischen Haltung zum britischen Imperialismus, in die britische Kolonie Kanada exiliert und sucht dort sein Glück. 2203 bricht die berühmte Schriftstellerin Olive Llewellyn eine weltweite Lesereise ab, um zurück zu ihrer Familie auf den nun kolonialisierten Mond zu fliegen, als erste Meldungen über eine Pandemie laut werden.