**Winner of the 2017 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award ** **Winner of the 2015 Gelett Burgess Award for Best Intercultural Book** **Winner of the 2015 Silver Evergreen Medal for World Peace** This true children's story is told by a little bonsai tree, called Miyajima, that lived with the same family in the Japanese city of Hiroshima for more than 300 years before being donated to the National Arboretum in Washington DC in 1976 as a gesture of friendship between America and Japan to celebrate the American Bicentennial. From the Book: "In 1625, when Japan was a land of samurai and castles, I was a tiny pine seedling. A man called Itaro Yamaki picked me from the forest where I grew and took me home with him. For more than three hundred years, generations of the Yamaki family trimmed and pruned me into a beautiful bonsai tree. In 1945, our household survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 1976, I was donated to the National Arboretum in Washington D.C., where I still live today--the oldest and perhaps the wisest tree in the bonsai museum."

Life is a journey filled with lessons, hardships, heartaches, joys, celebrations and special moments that will ultimately lead us to our destination and purpose in life...In this book you will understand that in your pain there is a purpose, and once you begin to fulfill God's purpose for your life, you will begin to see the manifestation of His promises like never before...trust the leading of our God and know that you are on the road to your destiny

This is a handbook written for men and women who are either interested in going into a career or have just begun one in code enforcement. It begins by giving a historical background on code enforcement in cities, how it has changed over the years, and where it seems to be headed in the future. The rest of the book is devoted to giving general information and simple and straightforward advice or suggestions to the aspiring enforcement officer on how to handle difficult people and situations, manage code cases and politics, learn how to listen to their intuition, and realize how each person in this type of organization has special talents that can be used in achieving a successful code enforcement program in their city or county.