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Superhero Powers and Super Kids Power Heroes Dream Team! The Adventures of Teacup Trudy has a wonderful book series for kids of all ages. This particular book is geared to introduce Trudy and her forest friends as well as connecting young children with their early learning of the alphabet. Trudy and her best friend Alex "the family dog" have a robust imagination and her special purple crayon is as magical as she is. The story of Teacup Trudy is the first edition of many books to follow. The Adventures of Teacup Trudy story book series is now at 9 and counting. Google play as well as Amazon children's books sell Teacup Trudy and we are joining together with large box retail and wholesale stores as well as the local small businesses. The creative team with Teacup Trudy is looking to bring creative learning to all children, one book at a time. Ages 2 to 7 and beyond!

Gather 'round children because this is known to very few. It's the story of the Tooth Fairy and the teeth they collect from you. She gathers the tooth from the glass meant for her. What color is your Tooth Fairy? In the morning you'll know for sure!

Fiction Fantastic lets young writers tell the stories they keep inside. The selected entries in each year's anthology open a window into their inner worlds, translating their lived experiences into story. Fiction Fantastic--a project of Wordcrafter's Writers in the Schools youth programming--is one of the few opportunities for students in Lane County, Oregon, to showcase their writing, learn their craft, and engage with other writers. In addition to the Fiction Fantastic short story contest, Writers in the Schools provides creative writing opportunities and instruction through school residencies, national author visits, youth workshops, and creative writing camps. All of this is made possible through the support of grants and the generosity of donors like you. Please consider making a donation at wordcrafters.org/donate.A heart-felt thank you to the generous supporters of Fiction Fantastic: Elizabeth George FoundationEugene Public LibraryLane Arts CouncilCity of EugeneLuminare PressJames F. & Marion L. MillerOregon Arts CommissionTeach Write Now 2023 Fiction Fantastic Winners K-2 Spotlight"The Adventures of Pets" by Hazel Rallen, Eugene Waldorf School "Silver" by Nova Johnardt, Ridgeline Montessori Public Charter School "The Story of Running Deer and Her Tribe" by Liora Tabak, Ridgeline Montessori Public Charter School Elementary School"Project Infinite" by Adrienne White, Gilham Elementary School"The Elevator" by Leo Kuhl, Charlemagne at Fox Hollow Elementary School"Finding Family" by Sofia Ameen, Pleasant Hill Elementary School"Goblins Around the World" by Saharsh Chireddy & Owen Rudzek, Gilham Elementary School"The Magic Redwood" by Greta Rice & Xixin Pan, Ridgeline Montessori Public Charter School Middle School"Once There Was a Boy" by Ivy Marsden, Monroe Middle School"The Battle For Duruntar" by Kai Suzumura, Ridgeline Montessori Public Charter School"The Criminal Poet" by Grace Phillips, Roosevelt Middle School"Lylan's Secret" by Jude McElfresh' Ridgeline Montessori Public Charter School"The Wellerman's Gift" by Keiko Weible, Spencer Butte Middle School High School"Why We Stay" by Stella Hergenreter, Sheldon High School"Test Day" by Emily Krauss, Pleasant Hill High School"June 2020: Deep Waters" by Brianna Bird, Marist High School"The Bad Luck Cat" by Elizabeth Johnston, South Eugene High School

This touching memoir chronicles the life of a young women coming of age in the 1960s. After a colorful but conventional upbringing, the author sets off to explore life's larger adventure, both geographically and spiritually. From a rural cabin in Virginia to single parenting in Oregon to travels abroad, the stories in this book explore personal growth, early childhood education, travel, the arts and love - for family, for place and for life.

The Co-Creation Handbook will lead you through a life changing process. This journey will teach you to set your own path with clear intention, make your own choices, enlist the assistance of the Spirit World, collaborate with the Universal powers and turn your visions and goals into your reality. The Co-Creation methods taught in this book are life-altering, giving you the manifestation skills to move forward in every area of your life, to enhance your creativity, and create a more joyful life and a better world. The first book of its kind, The Co-Creation Handbook utilizes shamanic methods to walk you through the creative process step-by-step with a clear manual and an 8-week downloadable Audio Program.

You Belong is the story of an elephant named Hope. She is given a mysterious gift that teaches her about belonging. This is a great story for introducing the concept of adoption to young children, as well as a beautiful and heartwarming tale.

The poems in A Hole in the Sun, Steve Tyler's first collection, are gathered across a lifetime of writing. They capture crucial moments of boy, youth and man, and what was lost along the way in language as sure as it is spare. Readers of poetry weary of cleverness and ironic detachment will find none of that here. Abstractions are few and concrete specifics are many. The poems undertake emotions elemental and raw, with grief and beauty the poles around which the words turn. They have the feel of Lorca's duende, something to do with soul and the chills a song can send down a spine. The central question the book raises goes to the sufficiency of emotion in the face of suffering. The poems themselves, in their creation and quality, answer yes. Line by line, image after powerful image, these lyric poems present a heartbreaking defense of the felt life.

Ninety percent of Americans would prefer government that serves them not as members of competing special interest groups, but as members of the community overall. The liberal and conservative worldviews differentiate humans around the world on dozens of psychological traits, such as attitudes about war and peace, fundamentalist and kindly religious beliefs, public health care and preferred types of government leadership. However, paradoxically, on these same dimensions of political discourse, strong liberals and strong conservatives as groups are actually very close together. If humans don't destroy their environment but live for millennia to come, their governments will eventually evolve into a new form of democracy that serves not special interest groups primarily but rather the common good. The book summarizes research that leads to this prediction and details how local citizens can immediately create a new kind of political party that unites the majority of liberals and conservatives to this end.

The human brain is the first computer to which all others are compared. Yet we know painfully little about how a brain accomplishes its peculiar computations. In particular, consciousness is at once familiar and mysterious, and needs to be understood both for science and for medicine. Boldly, but gently this book introduces a reader to the neural circuitry that achieves consciousness. This amazing interconnection enables consciousness to flow like a stream, intimately relevant to the outside world; and for this to happen, fundamental cues emerge from mental images to bring forth associated recalls. Alas cues can be inconsistent, causing memory failure; fortunately a subliminal cue editor encourages remembering forgotten items. Furthermore, cues generally address several memories, forcing the brain to make a selection. This necessitates another special circuit whose purpose is subliminal editing. The simplified explanations provided in this book make it clear that neurons do far more than ordinary devices, since a single neuron is capable of remarkably dense combinational and sequential logic. Beginning with their interesting and unexpected logical behavior, the reader will genuinely enjoy Dr. Burger's synthesis of a system for biological consciousness, a system that may someday result in credible artificial consciousness.

PolitiCool Right explains the concept behind the conservative ideology while dispelling modern myths propagated by people who just don't like conservatives. In a down home and comforting narrative, the author respectfully calls out the b.s. of conservative naysayers. By guiding the reader through the truest definition of conservatism and then applying that reason to hot political issues of the day, the author allows the reader to form a solid image of the conservative ideology and why it's so much cooler than liberalism. This is a political book that anyone could enjoy; even people that don't like political books.

On January 9, 2002, twelve-year-old Ashley Pond left her family's apartment in Oregon City, Oregon, to catch her bus to school. She vanished. Ashley loved her single-parent mother, but she hated her drinking, and the father figures in her life had come and gone. So she had learned to rely on her friends.Recently, however, things had become complicated: when she disappeared, many people believed she'd simply run away.But Janine O'Neill had prosecuted crimes against children in Oregon City for seven years. She knew, with absolute certainty, that a twelve-year-old in that community would never vanish unless something had gone terribly wrong.Then, another girl vanished, and the son of a self-proclaimed serial killer identified himself as the prime suspect in both disappearances. O'Neill became obsessed with the story-so obsessed she eventually quit her fulltime job and set off on a multistate search into the past with one overriding question: Could anything be scarier than what the public believed had happened to these girls?The answer, she learned, was yes.

The only thing hotter than the coffee spilled down her jeans is the man responsible for it.When aspiring writer Hillary James escapes to New York City, she's ready to find herself and inspiration for her first novel. Instead, inspiration collides with her and her latte, and she finds herself becoming fast friends with the charming and talented actor Dalton Tremaine.Hillary can tell Dalton her secrets-all the messy reasons she left her small town in the first place. He's been searching for a meaningful connection, and Hillary grounds him in a way that no one else in New York has been able to. He loves her easy-going nature, and she loves that he accepts her exactly as she is.Hillary begins to feel like she can finally let go of her past and write a new chapter with Dalton as her leading man. That's why she can't tell him the one secret she's been holding on to since they first bumped into each other. Will their story end in heartache, or will she get her happy ending?

This is the story of one woman's journey through grief after the tragic and sudden death of her son that led to a profound spiritual awakening. In the aftermath of his death, Rebecca J. Brock had a complete paradigm shift in her understanding of how the Universe functions shifted. She was determined to heal and overcome her grief, and discovered she could communicate with not only her son, but with other spirit guides as well. Through this experience, she transformed from a broken, persecuted, and grief stricken mother to a healed, glorious, and triumphant love-filled Goddess. With her new found knowledge of how we are all connected by the Divine Matrix, she set off on a new journey to manifest the life she always desired.In Transcendence, Rebecca declares no topic to be off limits and courageously shares her story of finding the path that brought her back to God-and to anything that embodies Love, Unity, Compassion, Peace, and Truth. Along the way, she discovered how to heal herself and overcome any obstacle and challenge that life could throw her way.Once you read her brazen story, you may never see the world in the same way again.

"For the last three and a half years, every American has been staggered by the economic record of the Carter administration. Food prices up over 35%. Auto prices up over 31%. Oil prices up over 46%. Clothing up over 20%. Transportation up over 50%. The new Carter economics will give us more of the same. That adds up to less for everyone else. The Carter record speaks for itself. The time is now for Reagan."

During the politically turbulent years of the early twentieth century in central Europe, a child grows up in poverty, serves as a young soldier in WWI, participates in the labor movement, and joins the resistance against fascism and anti-Semitism. As a result, he suffers persecution and is forced into exile. Despite sacrificing his personal freedom, he succeeds in being a loving husband and caring father, and often makes time to share meals with friends and family. Social gatherings allow him to engage in passionate discussions about justice for all, always persevering in his hope and belief in a more equitable and conflict-free society.Anton Alfons's life, his spirit and actions resonate as much today as they did yesterday.

When thirty-year-old teacher Meg Blackwell embarks on a renovation project at the old family farmhouse, she discovers letters and photographs that begin to unravel the fabric of her identity.As she investigates a tragedy that originated in one man's twisted desire for recognition, Meg realizes that she isn't who she thought she was - and that she's inextricably linked to three generations of women whose creative gifts carry them through the darkest moments of their livesThe Shelter Of Each Other is the story of how these three women come to revise and reshape themselves, and of the creative spirit itself, which contains the power to nourish and sustain, and sometimes, to break us.The story unfolds in Ontario, Canada, Scotland and in France, from 1902 until 1950.

Embark on a journey to find your authentic voice and the paths to your uniquely passionate, powerful, and purposeful life. Do you worry about the meaning of life, the future of the planet, the nature of reality, and how to contribute to creating a peaceful world? Do people tell you to lower your standards when you wish they would raise theirs? Is your big, soft, lonely heart breaking on a regular basis?In Saving Your Rainforest Mind: A Guided Journal for the Curious, Creative, Smart, & Sensitive, psychotherapist and author Paula Prober will be your guide to recovering your strength, authenticity, and radiance-the radiance that may have been crushed under the pressures to be smartest, under the bully's taunts, schooling frustrations, expectations of exemplary achievement and traditional success, devastating loneliness, overwhelm, underwhelm, and the rubble of your ancestral baggage.As you dive into this journal, you will be shown how to increase your understanding, acceptance, and celebration of your multiple complexities.

Columbus Avenue, late 1980s: A middle-class utopia of carefully manicured lawns, freshly painted homes, two-car garages, shrubbery trimmed to perfection, and pristine paved streets.It happened during the dinner hour. The shot heard 'round the world was from his black walnut Marlin .35 rifle with the pistol grip.He always bragged that it was the best rifle around with its pinpoint accuracy. It was that accuracy that allowed him to shoot a man in the ass in the middle of the night during the 1979 gas strike. The perpetrator was attempting to siphon gas from mommy's two-door, burnt orange Monte Carlo.Often, he beat his wife or stomped her, but this time he took it to another level. On this night, he depended once again on the Marlin's accuracy to hit another moving target.

Who knew commercial roof estimating could be so hazardous?Are you spending more of your time putting out fires than winning bids? Are your projects bleeding money in ways you never expected? Do you sometimes feel that you are at the mercy of forces beyond your control?Within the pages of The Commercial Roofing Estimator's Survival Guide, you will discover a powerful, methodical, and proven system to prevent problems from flourishing and multiplying.In this unique guide you learn how to:Create and nurture a nearly indestructible chain of accountability that will shield and protect your projects.Recognize destructive information voids when they occur, eliminate them, and increase profits.Stay on the winning side of any zero sum transaction.Leave the chaos behind and make a fresh start with The Commercial Roofing Estimator's Survival Guide.

In Fins: A Novel of Relentless Satire, pirates catch sharks in a marine reserve, lop off their fins, and discard the sharks for dead. A series of puzzling, apparently related shark attacks follows, suggesting that sentient sharks are cooperating to exact more than revenge. The carnage escalates until a brilliant, beautiful, beleaguered forensic technician-risking probable death and certain dismemberment-discovers the secret behind the attacks, revealing much more than was bargained for.

Jane's 22-year-old daughter, Ashley, died in a flash flood while trekking in the Indian Himalayan mountains. Unexpected events before, during, and after the search for her unraveled some answers to Jane's lifelong search for what is real. Surprising gifts along the way helped bring peace in trying to resolve a death where Jane could not see, be with, or say goodbye to one she loves.

Bestselling author Mary Hogan calls What We Remember a "beautifully rendered novel."As young wives and mothers, four women find comfort in friendship, and then life begins to unravel. In the aftermath of unbearable tragedy, Alice embarks on a spiritual journey that takes her to California, while Nina starts painting to work through her grief. Theresa is left to deal with the repercussions of a bitter divorce that has far-reaching consequences for both of her children. And Charlotte? She's harboring a secret that could jeopardize the perfect life she has worked so hard to create. Twenty years later, when Charlotte is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she asks her daughter to find her old friends and arrange a reunion in Cape May before her memories are erased. Before the worst happened, they had spent two weeks there with their children, a watershed moment for all of them. Time and distance have kept them apart, but as they rekindle their friendship, remembering that they were their best selves when they were together, they find the peace that has eluded them for so long.

Matthew Byrnes will go to any lengths to defend a client. His new partner, Isabella Charlotte Ewing, called "Ice," is cold, calculating, and ruthless. They are the criminal defense power firm in Winston.When the business partner of auto dealer Henry "Big Hank" Williams is found dead in Pioneer Park, Williams is charged with murder. Byrnes and Ewing, now estranged, fight for control of the defense in the high-profile case. There can only be one winner. But at what expense to the client, and who goes under the bus?