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Penelope loves popcorn. She thinks the popcorn popper is magical. In fact, the very first word she says is "popcorn."

Penelope's wagon is filled with popcorn. Her fluffy mattress, pillow, and quilt are filled with popcorn. She puts popcorn in her swimming pool for splash parties. Her mother and father call her Popcorn Princess. There's popcorn everywhere. Even her dog gets lost in the popcorn.

But one day, something tragic happens. The house pops apart with a popping sound that can be heard throughout the neighborhood. Penelope discovers that too much of a good thing can be a...

If anyone loves cotton candy, it is Casey. In fact, the little cowboy adores it so much that everyone has now started to call him The Cotton Candy Kid because he uses his cotton candy in the most unusual ways.

As Casey twirls, bends, stretches, squeezes, and rolls sweet fluffy clouds to help others get out of sticky situations, something unexpected happens when his old cotton candy machine suddenly goes wild. Will the Cotton Candy Kid survive his adventure?

In this playful children's tale, a heroic cowboy offers a glimpse into his amusing journey as he discovers the magic...

"Sixteen skilled authors. Sixteen vivid stories. Sixteen fascinating first-person characters. Sixteen singular opportunities to lose yourself deep within the life of another.

Praise for the prior volume in this series, First Person Imperfect:

"Endearing, unforgettable, skillful, engaging.... These tales ring true."

Evanston RoundTable

"Makes the ordinary extraordinary. Odd, lively, often funny stories...a delight to read."

- fearlessbooks.com

"This collection is full of humor and vitality."

- f-news, School of the Art Institute of Chicago student newspaper

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Uncanny Encounters - LIVE is a suite of short plays all dealing with human relationships (usually romantic) intersecting with otherworldly forces. Within these page you will find a smorgasboard of strange and supernatural shenanigans ranging from cults to cryogenics, sorcery to science-run-amok, aliens to Armageddon. Uncanny Encounters - LIVE is sure to leave audiences begging for more "McComas puts the pedal to the metal, propelling his audiences through an awesome maze of literary delights. Trust me, you're in for a wild ride that will leave you breathless, for Paul is a one-man...

To read these 19 stories is to become the confidant of 19 very different, very real people. Whether tagging along with one of the nine children who open their lives and hearts to you or accompanying one of the 10 adults struggling to let go or hang on or strike out in a new direction, you will find yourself quickly caught up in these characters' lives. If you crave deep connection with quirky, disarmingly genuine people, then you'll enjoy an in-person look at "First Person Imperfect."

An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting

SECOND PLACE, MIDWEST BOOK AWARDS. Includes TWO sneak previews from Logan's Journey, the first Logan novel in one-third of a century, co-written with Logan's Run author William F. Nolan From aliens to zombies, from prehistoric monsters to monstrously conceived tomorrows, this collection comprises Paul McComas' fifty best speculative-fiction, horror, and dark-comic works -- most of them never before published. You'll encounter "Nessie" and nuclear apocalypse; voodoo and vampires; androids and ax murderers; death curses and dystopias; cognizant, conniving corporations and "Collies in Space" ....

Whistling Bunny Rabbit is a cheerful little creature who lives with his family in a garden village full of flowers, rabbits, and other furry friends.

While his family works at their Carrot Cake Company, the Whistling Bunny Rabbit is busy walking and whistling through the village. His family wonders why he does not work with them so the Whistling Bunny Rabbit tells them their jobs are boring. But just when the Whistling Bunny Rabbit is thinking about giving up whistling, trouble pops up. Can Whistling Bunny Rabbit save the day?

In this captivating children's tale that...

The thousand-year-old Sanskrit classic the Bhagavatapurana, or "Stories of the Lord," is the foundational source of narratives concerning the beloved Hindu deity Krishna. For centuries pious individuals, families, and community groups have engaged specialist scholar-orators to give week-long oral performances based on this text. Seated on a dais in front of the audience, the orator intones selected Sanskrit verses from the text and narrates the story of Krishna in the local language. These sacred performances are thought to bring blessings and good fortune to those who sponsor, perform, or...

Ourpredilection for premature acceptance and assertion, ouraversionto suspendedjudgment, are signs that we tend naturally to cut short the process oftesting. We are satisfied with superficial and immediate sho- visioned applications. . . . Science represents the safeguard ofthe race againstthese natural propensities and theevilswhich flow fromthem. . . . It isartificial (an acquired art), notspontaneous; learned, notnative. To this fact is due the unique, the invaluable place of science in education. (Dewey 1916, p. 189) Some, with a more narrow focus, maintain that if we want students to...

over to nominal operations and began making our groundbreaking science observations. Remarkably, the IBEX project was able to do all this work including developing an entirely new launch capability, building and ying a unique and highly specialized spacecraft and instrument suite, and maintaining full funding for our Education and Public Outreach and Phase E science activities, while still under-running our original cost cap (as modi ed by NASA-directed changes), by roughly three-quarters of a million dollars. This book comprises a set of papers that describe the IBEX science, instruments,...

They steadfastly guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, fire twenty-one gun salutes at funerals in Arlington National Cemetery, and proudly defend our nation's capital. They are young men of stature, strength, endurance, patriotism, courage, and honor. They are men of the Old Guard, chosen for their good character, straight, tall posture, and physical abilities. The Honor Guard of the US Army is made up of young men who serve our nation, as all soldiers serve America. Their duty is to guard with honor.

Dan, a young honor guardsman from Pennsylvania, falls in love at first sight...

over to nominal operations and began making our groundbreaking science observations. Remarkably, the IBEX project was able to do all this work including developing an entirely new launch capability, building and ying a unique and highly specialized spacecraft and instrument suite, and maintaining full funding for our Education and Public Outreach and Phase E science activities, while still under-running our original cost cap (as modi ed by NASA-directed changes), by roughly three-quarters of a million dollars. This book comprises a set of papers that describe the IBEX science, instruments,...