Maureen Covillion and Josie Miller may not be their realy names, but their story is as tough梐nd real梐s show business. The savage underground story of a eadly determined young hopeful and the famous star she trampled on her way to becoming the queen of the Broadway musical stage.

This fun book shows readers how to make standalone fantasy character figures with polymer clay. Readers will learn about materials, special precautions and quick, simple techniques; then they will get 3 step-by-step demonstrations including an Elf, Ogre and Goblin. Each demonstration shows how to make accurate figures, from beginning supports to sculpting the head (including eyes, chins, noses, brows, lips, cheeks, mouths, ears, makeup and hair) bodies, baking and costuming.

Graceful tales of place, identity, and young lives in flux in the city of angels are offered by a distinctive new literary voice. All are shaped by the pop dreams and cultural divide that is Los Angeles.

Ten-year-old Emma doesn’t believe in faerie tales or monsters that secret children away in the night—until she meets one. She lives in a quiet village at the edge of Widowswood with her parents, her Nan, and her little brother, Tam. Ready to abandon the whimsy of childhood, she finds the boredom of chores comforting and Nan’s fanciful bedtime stories silly. One morning, a wan and weary older girl staggers out of the woods and sets the entire town aflutter with whispers of a child-stealing monster lurking in the forest. Nan tells her of the Banderwigh: a dark soul who feeds on sorrow and drains the life from children’s tears. Darkness comes calling on Emma’s happy home, threatening the reality to which she desperately clings. The impossible becomes more and more real, forcing Emma to reach inside herself for the ability to believe. Her family depends on it.

"The diary of a young man's journey through the grotesque underbelly of daily life. Or maybe it's the exposure of daily life itself as a grotesque underbelly, blistered and searing and glaringly obvious, like a passed-out sunbather. Fleeing a talking mold stain in the ceiling of his bedroom in Chicago, he moves to Los Angeles, where he rents an apartment with his sister, Kim. Despite the new city, new friends, and new love interests, something haunts him. Perhaps Kim can help him out of his funk. Or maybe she'll just lead him to hell"--Publisher's website.

Teenager Rod Rodoggio is the sexiest man on earth. Being accosted by beautiful women and having clothes ripped from his body in pure sexual frenzy is a tribulation beyond belief. Arousing every woman who sets eyes on him may seem like heaven, but in reality, Rod is buckling under the responsibility. Above all, he yearns to consummate his lust for buxom beauty, Betty Bunz, but his carefully plotted seductions seem more unobtainable with each date. Rod's mundane life in the small town of Gulpo Plains ends when a vampire attacks him. And now he's blundering through the afterlife, trying to follow the laws of the Kingdom of the Undead. The Kingdom leaders want him to make luscious female vampires for their order, werewolves want him to procreate with mortal women, and just about everyone else wants him dead and gone. It isn't long before Rodney breaks a major cosmic law, which forces the leaders of the Kingdom into a drastic decision about his future. Hilarious and fast-paced, Rodney will have you weeping for the diminishing werewolf population, shouting hosannas over the triumphs of mortals against the undead, and laughing out loud at the loopy population of Gulpo Plains

A fearful and fantastic realm located among the stars, the Ever After is a land populated by ghosts and poltergeists, ghouls and goblins. And May Bird is trapped there. If she is ever to find her way out again, she must reach the mysterious lady of North Farm. With her courageous kitty and a ragtag group of spectral friends, May determines to get home. But with danger around every corner, there's no guarantee they'll all make it…