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Cheeks is a little Chipmunk. He has a problem that only Dr. Norman can help him with. He keeps getting things stuck in the food pouches in his mouth. This time it's candy. Lots of candy! It's making it hard for him to talk, so he can only nod "Yes" or "No" when Dr. Norman asks him questions. They've sent for his mother, but it may take a while for her to get to the office where Dr. Norm and his son, Dr. Dustin, work. Poor little Cheeks. He's sad and just a little scared. But not to worry, he's come to the right place for help. We hope!

Excerpt from Chapter One: "McCain's well-trimmed beard and thick, shoulder-length hair was nearly snow white, but the eyes which stared out from beneath the large Texas hat were granite gray, and still as clear as the day he'd joined the Texas Rangers. The creases in his face and the backs of his hands were burned as dark as the local Mexicans, appearing as hard as saddle leather. To the casual observer's first glance, except for the ramrod straightness that bespoke of some past regimentation, he appeared rather ordinary. But Captain J.D. McCain, as those who'd served with him could tell you, was anything but ordinary. Those whom he'd served with in the Rangers thought him to be one of the finest field commanders the Rangers had ever produced. Both he and Roosevelt Poe had been famous throughout the territory for the past twenty-five years, well-known from Mexico all the way north to the Cripple Creek gold mines. After retirement five years earlier, they'd quietly slipped into oblivion and most people wrongly assumed they'd died or were laid up in some old soldier's home. The mere thought of that might've disgusted McCain. Roosevelt Poe, however, would've found it quite amusing."

In A Door Left Open, a high school drop-out dares all to live his dreams. RICK ANDERSON became a firefighter in 1971, morphed into a highly decorated Maryland State Police trooper, and went on to accept a position as a counter-terrorist operative.Along the way he developed into an accomplished aviator, world-class scuba diver, author and global traveler, who when not living in a Micronesian paradise or a Bosnian war zone, bungee jumped in Bangkok, crawled through caves in Croatia, and glided over Greenland's glaciers.But the pursuit of dreams came with a price tag: it meant dealing with crippling grief and personal setbacks. And yet these challenges were more than matched by the unbridled happiness and contentment that came not only by living those dreams, but from the relationships and friendships he made along the way.A Door Left Open is an adventure, a love affair with life, and a story with a startling emotional reward at the end.

Mary Walker Clark barely knew her father. When he died, he left not only the obvious void every teen would experience, but took with him scores of Indiana Jones-style tales about flying the Hump, a treacherous series of US missions that transported supplies over the Himalayas to China during World War II. It would take a chance interview with a pilot who had flown with her father in the war to launch a series of extraordinary journeys - into a shrouded past and halfway around the globe to India and China - for Clark to finally come to know the father whose absence had haunted her for decades. "Landing in My Present" chronicles the adventures of a daughter who chose to pry open a painful past while enlarging her view of an adventurous father long thought lost.

JIM FARRELL, a lanky young soldier from Virginia, is injured in a practice run just before his division is set to land at Omaha Beach. He's holed up in a hospital with both arms broken while many of his fellow soldiers are decimated in the bloody battle that takes place on D-Day at Omaha Beach.After recuperating, Jim is sent to the 30th Division-called Old Hickory-which has suffered its own losses in a devastating friendly fire incident. The athletic and fast-as-lightning nineteen-year-old tries to prove his worth on the battlefield and become accepted by his new regiment. Because of his skills and youth, the Old Hickory veterans decide he has earned the nickname of "Young Hickory." And in the midst of all the insanity, Jim finds love in the person of Lille-a delicate, beautiful Belgian girl working at a bakery in the town of Liege. But can love survive in the deepening conflict? Or will it be challenged by the harsh realities of war? This is Jim Farrell's story-his accomplishments and his failures. His transgressions and his redemption. It is also the story of Dave, Stak, Al, Z, Wally-and the rest of Jim's Old Hickory brothers-in-arms-as they fight to survive the Battle of the Bulge in the brutal, final days of WWII. .JIM FARRELL, a lanky young soldier from Virginia, is injured in a practice run just before his division is set to land at Omaha Beach. He's holed up in a hospital with both arms broken while many of his fellow soldiers are decimated in the bloody battle that takes place on D-Day at Omaha Beach. After recuperating, Jim is sent to the 30th Division-called Old Hickory-which has suffered its own losses in a devastating friendly fire incident. The athletic and fast-as-lightning nineteen-year-old tries to prove his worth on the battlefield and become accepted by his new regiment. Because of his skills and youth, the Old Hickory veterans decide he has earned the nickname of "Young Hickory." And in the midst of all the insanity, Jim finds love in the person of Lille-a delicate, beautiful Belgian girl working at a bakery in the town of Liege. But can love survive in the deepening conflict? Or will it be challenged by the harsh realities of war? This is Jim Farrell's story-his accomplishments and his failures. His transgressions and his redemption. It is also the story of Dave, Stak, Al, Z, Wally-and the rest of Jim's Old Hickory brothers-in-arms-as they fight to survive the Battle of the Bulge in the brutal, final days of WWII. .

In September 1968, William "Bill" McCormick boarded a Flying Tigers Airlines plane at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, headed for the 174th Ord. Det. in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.But before his twelve-month tour of duty overseas, Bill spent the previous months Stateside, having volunteered for service in the Army in October of 1967.Here then, are Bill's "fondest" memories from basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington, through his time in AIT at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and the 227th Ord. Det. (AR)."I hope in the following pages to show what it was like to be in the service during the late sixties. The absolute despair that seemed to develop when there was only one thing to do, and that was your duty. The almost certainty of duty in Vietnam and the repressive harshness of duty Stateside had a lot to do with it. There was just no way out...If it brings back bad memories for you, I am sorry about that." -Bill McCormick

May 29, 1940. Fourteen-year-old Colin Neville and his parents sail their schooner, Marie Celine, in the first convoy of the "Little Ships of Dunkirk" to rescue the British Expeditionary Forces off the beaches of Dunkirk. During the perilous journey, Colin loses his parents, his boat, and his memory. Years later with his memory now intact, Colin sets out to find and retrieve Marie Celine-The Angel Ship. Determined to sail her in the last commemoration of the Dunkirk rescue, he eventually locates her in France where she is now a shrine to the French Resistance-and the French veterans there vow to fight to keep her. The media gets involved, and soon British veterans of Dunkirk arrive to battle for the Little Ship that is to them a monument to the war's turning point and a symbol of the endurance of the British people. The fight for Marie Celine causes an upwelling of old resentments between the French and the British, which precipitates an international incident. Colin again faces another great loss. Yet, against all odds, he finds redemption and discovers a new found belief in the resilience of the human spirit.