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After bedtime story time, when my grandson was young, he would usually ask me to tell him a story. I would tell him a story, but would make sure that there is a moral message in it for him. Sometimes I would ask him to tell me a story. It was amazing what stories his little imagination would come up with.I am publishing some of these stories in the hopes that they will encourage children to experience the treasures of the written word.As for me, I am enjoying my senior years in the Vancouver area of B.C. with friends and family.

Just as you had suspected, there is a lot more going on at the North Pole besides Christmas! Rosabelle is the only female reindeer on Santa's team. She has excellent qualifications but no one understands how this happened. Popularity and outside interests lead her astray. An unfortunate accident helps her to regain her focus.

This book is intended to serve as an introductory learning tool for the counselor-in-training. Furthermore, the authors believe that the practicing counselor, even an individual with many years of experience can benefit from having the text in his office as a source of reference, a handbook, and as a refresher on points that too often become obscured by time.It should be helpful to list the typical occupational titles of people in public schools, colleges and universities, public agencies, in private practice, and in business and industry who do counseling. These people need to prepare for acquiring competency as counselors and to maintain and sharpen this competency once it is acquired.

Corporal Chauncy T. McClarren is a Vietnam Veteran. His ten years of service as a marine are glibly worn on the sleeve of his dress uniform well into civilian life. He went to Vietnam before the draft began with the hope of being a martyr. He is reluctant to admit this to his friend and even to himself. Elizabeth A Spaarkes randomly selects Chauncy's door. She flees to Florida after two years in the Symbionese Liberation Army.She is the perfect woman. She is a redheaded goddess. "Lizzy" is a nymphomaniac who fills his very desire sexually, and eventually, domestically. Gunnery Sergeant Harrold H. Coffman comes home from the war a paraplegic. He owes his life to his Corporal.One day he learns on the news of Spaarkes's possible involvement with the left-wing group. He believes she is guilty. Chauncy chooses to give her the benefit of the doubt. He refuses to believe a woman that beautiful could be a fugitive. Agents of Orange is the story of a Rheinlandbastard. Chauncy is a pragmatist who shifts the stations in life around so the logistics favor him. It follows his trail of passively sequencing fate from Vietnam to Florida.It leads him to the Bahamas where he takes an orphaned boy back to Florida. Fate leads him on a series of trips to Germany to learn his origin. It is the story of a biracial miscreant who grew up unloved and beaten. It is one man's perception of racism in America and abroad. He is taught some manners and discipline in the marines. He faces a world that begs for his attention as he begs for its salvation. The marines outfit him with the diplomacy necessary to deal with what life has thrown, and continues to throw, at him. Chauncy T. McClarren takes his time in life. He orchestrates things while sauntering through life with a grifting nonchalance. He is methodical and pragmatic enough to see his various operations through to the end.

Have you ever been lost in a dark place? Have you ever found yourself surrounded by turmoil, confusion, or danger? We've certainly all felt this way at some time or another. But have you ever been lost in the middle of the Sudanese desert late at night, wandering around alone in the vast brush of a country in the midst of a devastating war? Bob Nicol has.In My Name Is Deliverer, author Bob Nicol shares his harrowing experiences around the globe, and whether he was fighting for survival in a small canoe during a 260-mile river race, breaking down on a mountainous back road deep in the forests of Kenya, or dealing with the probes of foreign government officials, Bob knows how he was able to get out alive and live to tell the tale. God had something to do with it.Join Bob as he treks through some of the most perplexing predicaments and discovers some of the most astounding supernatural solutions. It is true that God never gives you more than you can handle, but in Bob's case, the Lord may have been testing the limits!

In December 1996, I found that I had Stage 4 colon cancer. It was my Christmas gift. The cancer had spread to both lobes of the liver and I was given only four to six months to live … closer to four. I didn't want to die. I had just turned sixty-eight years old and I was afraid. There was so much that I needed to do and certainly death, right then, was not one of them. It took me a while to develop a plan and I would learn that some of whether we live is up to us. From my point of view, we need to create strategies to augment medical treatment. We must fill our life with verbs rather than adjectives. It all began shortly before Christmas, twenty-one years ago. This is my story, and I am hopeful that some of my strategies will help others.

In A Bride for Hamlet, author Tom Grifa draws characters from eight different Shakespearean plays to engage his audiences in "having fun with Shakespeare."What would Hamlet's life be like if Claudius had not murdered Hamlet's father, yet still seduced and married his mother? This comedic drama parodies Shakespeare's Hamlet by having the Prince forced to choose a bride whose royalty and wealth will merge with Denmark's to make Hamlet's country a power once again. Hamlet's dilemma is two-fold: he does not want to marry so soon after his father's death; nor does he wish to marry someone whom he does not know or love. Polonius sets up interviews with five women, all of whom were in other Shakespearean dramas. The plot thickens as the treachery begins.

Stop Bullying Because It's Wrong is relevant today because each year, bullying is on the rise. Few people want to talk about the subject as if it is taboo. Lydia Greico, the author, was bullied herself in elementary school, as well as in the neighborhood in which she grew up. She feels that bullying is wrong, especially for the victim. Childhood bullies get away with their behavior because parents either don't see it or are in denial. Bullying is on the rise all over the world. It has to stop. How are we able to make America great again with this kind of behavior? Our president can only do so much. It is up to us to do our part too. Parents need to pay more attention to what their children are doing and what is being done to their children. This book had been written as a teaching tool. Lydia Greico has a Masters' degree in occupational studies and is licensed as a psychiatric technician. Psychiatric technicians advocate for people who cannot advocate for themselves. Ms. Greico is now retired from this profession, but she still advocates for those who need it. Lydia Greico has authored two other books and articles on different subjects. She earned her MA degree from California State University at Long Beach in 2006. It is the author's hope that someone will learn from Stop Bullying Because Its Wrong and aid in her campaign against bullying. Without bullying, we can make our children safer and decrease suicides that are the result of this type of treatment. May God bless all the children who were bullied so bad that they saw no other way out but to commit suicide. 

Wounded by the first explosions at Pearl Harbor, Charles McCandless went on to fight in the most important battles against Imperial Japan in World War II.  Shot down over Midway.  Crash-landed at Guadalcanal.  Did reconnaissance off the shores of Iwo Jima to prep the way for invading marines.  His family never knew about any of these experiences until he handed them this private memoir.  Through his vivid storytelling and unique perspective, McCandless' work brings fresh insight and humanity to one of the most consequential military struggles in history.