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Grandmother took off her amulet of power and placed it over Carena's neck. The council looked askance. Carena's sisters and mother looked jealous. Grandmother looked smug. Then she turned into a pile of dust. Carena picked up the pile of dust, then blew each bit of dust out into the air. She let the fire ripple down her arms. And one by one, she ignited each speck of dust, so that it shone like a star just for an instant. Somehow she knew, this was what Grandmother would have wanted.

Ever dream of becoming a superhero or a superheroine? Perhaps you just want to hang around with superheroes and be their best, coolest friend. Perhaps you want to marry a superhero when you grow up. Well, maybe you're already a superhero, and nobody knows it, not even your mom and dad. And did you ever think everybody might just be a superhero in disguise? In this story, a dad tells his son a bedtime story about a superhero named Zuper Zero!

Emal and Joti had always been good friends. They grew up in the same neighborhood. They enjoyed the same things in life. They often went to the same events. What Emal and Joti enjoyed most of all was adventure. Growing up, adventure was what they experienced the least of all. Emal and Joti's best and perhaps only chance at adventure was space travel. But there was little chance of that. There was little chance at all until they were teenagers and a new company started to mass produce star-jumpers.

Yes, there's all different kinds of magique. Perhaps you were fortunate enough to have come in contact with the Just-Like-Us. The Just-Like-Us appear to be human. But they're not. Did you ever meet one of the Tailless Merfolk, or a Tall Hobbit, or a Round Eared Elf? Perhaps you did and didn't know it. You wouldn't know by looking at them that they aren't one of us. Their magique is very powerful. But still you may have been lucky enough to have experienced it.

William couldn't believe that it was finally over with Diana. Sure, she had told him it was over several times during the last two weeks. But he couldn't believe this was actually it. Nor could he bring himself to believe that he would never see her again. But here she was packing up her few belongings and getting ready to move.

Ina Hurry sometimes felt like she had the rottenest luck. She knew she was going to have a very short childhood. That was what all the other kids on the playground said. And then, after her very short childhood was over, Ina Hurry would become an adult. Well, it was what the kids who mattered said - the ones she wanted to be her friends. They were not her friends yet. But she was still working on that. Ina Hurry knew that she just needed to change more. She just needed to be more likeable, to do things more their way. Then she would fit in with them. Then she could be their friend.

Facilitator LadeBack of the All Cosmos Vehicle Extra-Prize encounters a Solar Magnetic Storm which sends his ship crashing into what appears to be his home planet Terry. There he meets a jolly old elf who claims to be Santa. Santa tries to give everybody something better than he gave them last year. And this year he plans to give everybody gold. But somebody is bollixing up his plan.

In this story, Joel September's life is not going that great. He's stuck in a job he really hates, but it pays the bills. But then a crisis happens, one which starts his life flowing in a much better direction. And Joel starts to be aware that very soon his life is going to be just like down home! Tonight Joel had no worries. Things were about to change for the better, he could feel it in his bones. Pretty soon, Joel felt like he was walking on air. It was a wonderful feeling, to feel like you were floating.

Ever dreamed of owning a restaurant? I know I have. I think owning a restaurant would be fun. But it would require a lot of hours and a lot of work. So I settle for dreaming about restaurants I'd like to eat at.

Everybody has a different notion of what heaven is like. In the heaven where Jane lives, everybody is expected to use The Will to do things. Using The Will, people in Jane’s heaven merely have to think to accomplish anything. They never have to get their hands dirty touching anything. Jane, though, wants to touch things. She wants to feel them in her hands. And because she refuses to use her Will, she falls from societal acceptance, and then she falls from heaven. But falling from heaven may be her saving grace.

We each have seven brains: the four lobes of the brain, the cerebellum, the heart, and the gut. Each has a separate function. Each correlates to a chakra, Kwanzaa principle, blessing mode, and Cherokee spiritual direction. Each brain also uses a particular method of coherence. I explore each method of coherence and how you can use it to heal all your brains.

Perhaps the first word we think of when we hear the word Rose is the word Love. Roses are considered to be an intimate gift by some. Most of us are familiar with Roses. Most have seen a Rose, held it, and deeply inhaled its fragrance- though the fragrance causes headaches for some. But just how familiar are we with the Rose? How intimate are we with it? In this book, I'll explore the various parts of the Rose in more detail without getting technical. Many things in this book you'll already be familiar with. I hope you enjoy the memories. If you're looking to give an intimate gift like a Rose, perhaps it will make it a more special gift if you're more intimate with it. Every species has their own language. This is the Word of the Rose. I hope you read it with a Rosy disposition.

In this first title of the series, we meet this wizard without a wand - Shmedley Thrumbledack - and his closest friends in their first year at Wizard School. This Wizard School is so expensive that Shmedley's parents run out of money buying his supplies and don't have enough left over to buy him a wand.

Hi. My name is Frank. This is my story. Most of the world didn't live all the way through the cataclysmic events. Most of us who did are content to just write our stories down, place them in bottles, and toss those bottles into the stream. Like most, I'm hoping that somebody downstream will find my story. Then perhaps, all the stories will merge. All the pieces will be put together. And at last we'll finally know what really happened. This is my story of what happened the night the stars went away.

Morley was definitely the most famous monkey. What other monkey had so many scientific papers written about him or her? What other monkey has appeared on so many TV shows? What other monkey has received so many awards? What other monkey has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award? Indeed, Morley was so famous that many human children said they wanted to be like him when they grew up. But how did Morley become so famous?

I've been following advances in electric cars for nearly 50 years and advances in hybrids for 15. I started following electric cars while writing a paper in history class in seventh grade on current events. I started following hybrids when the Honda Insight was released in 1999. I also started following fuel-cell cars about that same time. The Xybrid expands on hybrid technologies, discussing new, potential, and conceptual technologies. If you're interested in cars, and especially if you're interested in hybrids and electric cars, then this book is for you, whether you understand how cars work or not.

A blogger blogs about his thoughts. His thoughts usually include her. Then one day, a professor comments on his blog, saying something about irregular verbs. The blogger becomes obsessed, thinking the professor is calling him an irregular verb and telling him that as such, he only has half a life. At first, the blogger thinks he's alone in the world, but slowly he realizes he, she, and their friends may be the majority, and that they may actually be the regular ones.

Techniques for getting better gas mileage are called hypermiling. In this book, I discuss 13 hypermiling techniques. I also discuss how to calculate gas mileage so you can tell how your mileage is improving as you apply some or all of these techniques.

Sing Ho was innocently walking down the street minding his own business. Then he noticed a FedEx truck driving down the street. There was nothing unusual about today. There was nothing unusual about the Fedex truck. The normal amount of people were milling about. The normal number of cars and trucks were on the road. There was the normal number of buildings. But for a second, Sing Ho and that FedEx truck were the only two objects in the world. Then there was only one, and Sing Ho's world went completely dark.

In Search of a Right-Brained Computer is the story of my search to find a computer for my right-brained wife. Since I'm left-brained, this was perhaps a futile attempt. Yet I pursued it. What I found was what makes right- and left-brained people ask the same questions while asking different questions. I explore each of the main questions one might ask when purchasing a computer. I then go through a computer system I designed in an attempt to design a right-brained computer. Then I analyze where it came close to meeting its mark and where it fell short.