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Ripped from her adoptive home and returned to Mack and Wanda, her abusive alcoholic father and controlling mother, Sheila struggles to survive in this chaotic environment.Traumatized by the separation from her only known parents, she is plagued with fears of abandonment. One day, an uncle mysteriously appears who provides an escape from this dysfunctional situation. Noting Sheila's natural skills on ice skates, Uncle Bill arranges for her to receive expert training which leads to her becoming a professional figure skater. Furious about his loss of Sheila, Mack hunts her down, determined to rake in the returns from her accomplishments, regardless of who might get hurt. Once again, Sheila fears for her safety until unexpected circumstances set her free - forever.

For many years, a Christmas tradition in my family was to get comfortable in front of the TV set during the Christmas Season, and watch the various screen adaptations of Charles Dickens' wonderful literary masterpiece, "A Christmas Carol," a timeless story I came to love and cherish.One result of my love for "A Christmas Carol" was that in 1979 I decided I wanted to pay tribute to the story by writing my own version. At that time, I was a big fan of gymnastics, and thought it would be a novel approach to write a gymnastics-themed version. Towards the end of the year, I wrote my story, which was published as "A Gymnastic Christmas Carol" in the November/December 1979 issue of "Gymnastics World" magazine, published by SundbySports Publications.Thirty years later, realizing that my Christmases Yet To Come are far fewer in number than my Christmases Past, I decided that this would be an appropriate time to resurrect my story, revise it a bit, and present it in the more enduring form of a book.It is my sincere hope that you enjoy reading this little story, my tribute to Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece and to Christmas, as much as I did writing it both in 1979 and 2009.

Was outlaw Billy The Kid confused on the night he died? Who wanted to burn Anne Frank's Diary?Why did a zookeeper in Warsaw risk his life to save 300 strangers? During the Flight of the Blue Heron, you will also discover the fuzzy little people who enrich our lives, and meet the man who gave birth to the ASTRO ZOMBIES.Fasten your seatbelts. This is a flight you will long remember!

Easily read in a day, Your Unfinished Business is for those who don't want to settle for just avoiding what's unpleasant or seeking what makes us happy. Too many advise you to resign yourself to your fate. Their message is this: You may not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control how you respond to them. Nothing could be further from the truth. You can control your circumstances. Instead of fatalistically accepting what comes your way and trying to feel good about it, you can turn your circumstances, even the unpleasant ones, into tools that can change reality. You control your circumstances the way you control something entrusted to you. That's because you have unfinished business, having been called to be a steward of your circumstances. Stewardship isn't about what you do with your money, although that's what seems to be told to us regularly. Nor is it about positive thinking. Instead, it's the only way to integrate faith into daily living, turning your circumstances into tools working toward a greater good rather than working you over. And that greater good is turning them into beacons drawing attention to the God who calls everyone to Himself. Your Unfinished Business will help you stop expecting anything from this world and take up the unfinished business of meeting this world's needs for direction, decency, and compassion at the times and places God has placed you. Sowing faith, hope, and love so others can reap truth, goodness, and mercy, you'll discover that who you are, what you know, and what you do are channels through which God touches this broken world.

Dangerous adventures and near disasters came easy for Bette: being dragged by a crazy freighter captain out on deck in the midst of a hurricane, smuggling outlawed cosmetics from Hong Kong into Korea, and traveling from Bangkok to Angkor Wat in Cambodia at the start of the Cambodian War, where she faced border interrogation at gunpoint. Traveling by bus from Tacoma to Panama, Bette learned not to be so outgoing after a deranged bus station manager in San Jose, Costa Rica tried to rape her. The next close call came when the pilot who flew her to the San Blas Islands in Panama returned in an incoming storm and attempted to kidnap her and fly her to Colombia. Heading to the Caribbean, she found safer haven in Trinidad, with the exception of extremely bad timing, arriving when rampaging Rastafarians were killing tourists in Montego Bay. In Tahiti, Bette met John, a Canadian, who invited her to sail the South Pacific as his crew member. She ends up being gone two years; enduring storms, being lost at sea, running out of water and shortages of food. In the Cook Islands she meets Tom Neale, the "hermit of Suwarrow." While working as a Samoa News reporter in Pago Pago, her articles on corruption and nefarious activities resulted in her being attacked by gangs and threats of sinking their yacht. After completing her 2nd voyage to Suwarrow with John to shoot a film on Tom Neal, Bette decided it was time to head home and get her life back together...until the next adventure calls.

SHUFFLEBOARD, WHY NOT? is written for beginning Shuffleboard players who want to improve their game to the best of their individual abilities. Shuffleboard is 85% strategy and 15% physical skill. Exercise counts, and with Shuffleboard you can achieve mental growth, physical activity, experience, social interaction, new friends, and continued life. Play Shuffleboard and have FUN!

Please change the description of this book to read as follows: This is the continued sequence of Pearl¿s true life story as she advances through her life, physically and psychologically, amongst the shared captivity with her human and estranged feathered flock. Within the gradual and steady transformation of her newly reformed and increasingly feathered body, she provides her newly adopted family an education about a promising, peaceful existence with the other parrot and animal species.Her trust and kinship grows exponentially on a daily basis as we allow this treasured and respected exotic animal to expand our simple, human mentality by giving her the much appreciated freedom to be a contributing member of our complex, leadfoot-on-the-ground existence on this Earth that we share in an attempt for a peaceful union.

Beneath the golden desert and azure seas of Morocco lurks a hidden world of greed, deceit and financial terrorism. But the players are not who you might think. Lured away from his seemingly idyllic life as a managing director for a major international bank in Toronto, Eric Martin returns to his ancestral roots in Morocco. Tempted by a mysterious offer from a boutique financial firm, Eric soon discovers he has walked into the middle of a whirlwind where everyone has their own secret agenda, and he unwittingly has become the key to unlocking them all. From the broad avenues of Toronto to the mean streets of Casablanca, Eric rushes to discover the truth before time runs out. But who can he trust? The power and attraction of money is strong. In the midst of a dangerous cast of characters, Jeff Offenbach, bank president, knows more than he lets on. But how much does he know? Is he a key player in a scheme to terrorize the global economy, or is he just trying to save his firm from becoming another victim of the global economic collapse? Valerie is the unknown factor. Is she involved in the partners' machinations, or is she as guileless as Eric? Can he trust her? And more importantly, will he survive long enough to find out?

This book is a narrative that follows a group of veteran soldiers who live in a county, where, under the Rhadamanthine Mountain, they follow carpentry careers, then join the army, and then work in different county agencies. It is a fictional story told in a documentary style¿a story reflecting the reality of the current situation of society. From a special perspective, it observes and analyzes the Hakka people and their lives, customs, religious beliefs, and environmental conditions. At the same time, it chronicles their pursuit of justice and the current situation of their officialdom.