Don T Be Scared Barney Bear

It's dark in the toy shop and all the bears are asleep - except Barney Bear. Barney sits on his big empty shelf feeling very new, very lonely and very scared. Will he make any friends? Will the other bears be friendly bears or scary bears?

Grandma Gwen visited our family for three weeks every year. She would tell us fantastic stories and swear they were the truth. She had a logical explanation for everything she did. Grandma continually got us in trouble with our parents and swore that all she did was for our education. A kid at heart, she led us on amazing adventures. Year after year she exhausted our mother and befuddled our poor father. Who's Afraid of Bears is about the extraordinary adventures of a seventy-eight year old woman who put into the innocent hearts of her grandchildren secrets we were afraid to reveal.

This is an adventure of four kids and a dog who, while on a camping trip, find a crazy land with even crazier inhabitants. There has been a curse set upon this land that it, along with all the animals, will soon disappear forever. It is up to these four kids and their new friends to find a way to save the creatures that live here. Join them in an adventure that no one had ever dreamed. Find out if they can save these odd animals in time! There is adventure, friendship, what happens when you need to depend on yourself, and at times, people you didn’t know you could count on.

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Tensions are high and the dangers multiply as New York City bartender and man-about-the-mean-streets Brian McNulty---always a sucker for the plight of the little guy---joins forces with a motley crew of workers from the old Savoy Hotel. McNulty has once more run afoul of the powers that be in the New York City hotel and restaurant industry and finds himself exiled to a down-at-the heels hotel in, for him, the far reaches of civilization---Manhattan, west of Eighth Avenue. Not long into his tenure, a vicious attack on one of his fellow bartenders raises the stakes and puts everyone on edge, and it doesn't take much for the hotel manager to provoke the outraged workers into a strike. Once they hit the bricks, all hell breaks loose, and it isn't long until the bodies start to fall. The cops focus in on two of McNulty's pals, a renegade Irishman and a pretty, young waitress from Brooklyn, both with closets full of secrets and buckets full of problems of their own. McNulty thinks the cops, as usual, are barking up the wrong tree, but that's the least of his problems. The hits in this particular instance have angered the gods of gangsterland, and someone has determined that McNulty is a problem.

Creatures We Dream of Knowing is a compilation of seven heartwarming stories that probe the wonders of creation through the eyes of creatures who ask those they encounter to open their eyes and hearts to their wisdom. When a young boy receives a plea in a dream from a frightened colt with purple diamond eyes, he embarks on an unforgettable adventure that leads him from the warmth of his bed to a dark horse pasture where he must learn to use his hands and his heart to rescue the abandoned foal. As the collection of short stories continues, a band of unique characters will meet a creature from the depths of the ocean previously unknown to humanity; travel into an oriental carpet with the creatures who live in it; discover a butterfly who wants to end a war; share a dragons story; find out what happens when someone rubs a genies bottle with the wrong hand; and perch in the branches of a tree unlike any other. Creatures We Dream of Knowing encourages others to simply imagine what would happen if such beautiful creatures truly existed in our universe.