Fostering a Civil Workplace: Strategies for Personal and Organizational Success provides research-based solutions to promote a positive work environment. Focusing on internal dynamics, it explores aspects of communication, interpersonal interactions, management techniques, and organizational culture and oversight.While some work environments are productive and positive, many are not, with employees experiencing incivility, bullying, intimidation, and harassment. Recent dev...

It is a collection of short stories and poems with a twist. These are the facts about my unique book. It is a puzzle, controversial, confusing, short, helpful, collectible, and I am not famous. Communication, how do I convey popular subjects to you, the reader, in a way that can be interesting and at the same time entertaining? Some stories are serious, and others are not. I talk about me, suicide, mental illness, taking care of the earth, addictions, obsessions, and scamming. Like I said ...

The Mindful Librarian: Connecting the Practice of Mindfulness to Librarianship explores mindfulness, approaching it in such a way as to relate specifically to the many roles or challenges librarians face. Coinciding with the increased need to juggle a variety of tasks, technologies, ebooks, and databases, the new Association of College & Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy, and the challenges faced by solo librarians in school libraries which have suffered cutbacks in hel...

As I stood in the sunroom looking out the window, I thought I caught some movement in our backyard. I walked out onto the slate patio and peered into the dimly lit shrubbery when suddenly a figure dressed in black from head to toe emerged pointing a gunat me!I immediately jerked both hands above my head. Dont shoot! Please dont shoot, I croaked. I could hear my own heart pounding in my ears.Our son, Mike had come through the front door just minutes before. I had a million q...

Like other workplaces, libraries can sometimes be stressful, with library workers bearing the brunt of such problems as uncivil patrons, poor communication, inadequate leadership, and toxic behaviors by fellow employees. But there’s hope. Following up their acclaimed examination of the dysfunctional library ("should be essential reading for library leaders" raves Jo...

Mr. Flanagan moves to Montreal, Canada from Ringsend, Ireland and quickly settles in to his new life. He is well accepted by the locals but they think that he's a bit of a character.

Half a world away the agent of a small manufacturer hinted at the loss of business unless the owner came to visit. Like a bowling ball scattering ten pins the invitation threw the owner's well-ordered life into disarray. Set in a comfortable rut he never traveled unless forced. Leaving his office would be a great sacrifice. Losing the business would be a greater sacrifice.

Albert expected the house at the new property would need some work. He was right. But doing what needs be done to settle into an idyllic country life-style is often lengthy and fraught with frustration and difficulty: The painters won't leave, Albert has to finish their job and the door installer tries to switch doors and charge extra. Albert struggles to keep cool—with mitigated success.

Albert stops what he is intensely concentrated on to fix an electrical problem that can't wait. Simple household maintenance jobs can toy with the hapless handyman when his mind is elsewhere. The day wears on and Albert is increasingly frustrated and error prone. He completes the job by happenstance but fears uncharitable elements in the family might assault his pride and dignity.

Ages 7-10Shipwrecked on earth and desperate to make money, an alien family decides to make a living by opening Aliens, Inc., an intergalactic event-planning business master-minded by 9-year-old alien boy, Kell Smith. Never mind that aliens from Bix don't have birth days but hatching days. Never mind that aliens from Bix won't cook with eggs, so birthday cakes are almost impossible to make.Kell discovers that his neighbor, Bree Hendricks, turns 9-years-old n...

Part 1: Powerless, the debut novel by Irish author Niall McCreanor focuses around Lee Sopota, an average man in a not so average world. Due to a premature birth Lee has not developed powers like everyone else on the planet and must hide it from those he loves. Lee's thirst for knowledge leads him on the trail of a far reaching government conspiracy. While investigating his beloved brother goes missing and Lee must use all the training instilled in him by his father to find out what ha...

Ages 7-10If you're an alien on Earth, you have one giant secret to keep. After a while, even friends want to tell your secret. Kell and Bree plan a birthday party with giants—Big Foot, Cyclops, Goliath and the Jolly Green Giant—while they struggle with keeping their own giant secret. But they have an even bigger problem: Principal Lynx and the Society of Alien Chasers is back with a dog trained to sniff out an alien in a crowd. When Mom is stung by a bee, Kell must...