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The bottoms of her eyes drifted to the left, as did her hair. This effect made her look sly. Because she looked sly, people thought Capri knew things, even when she did not. Most people thought she was called Capri as short for Capricious. Actually, it was because her mother was color-blind and thought her red hair was capri, or deep sky blue. Actually, her hair was scarlet with touches of vermilion.

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?

Below the lichen, down under the moss, there is the magical land of Trusvariankoponomy. Here in Trusvariankoponomy, where anything is possible, lives Prince Pugawulamukapee, who can have anything he wants. But there’s just one wee problem.... This is a tongue-twister children's story. All the names are very long. Children will be amused as they or adults try to listen and mimic the names without getting their tongues tied.

What would happen if all the Citizens in the US escaped to a better life, one where they were not under constant surveillance, one where their lives became more meaningful? What if a non-citizen were to become a US President? Those are some of the events which happened in the 21st century. This is as much of the story as I could piece together, Senior Presidente.

Where do we find security? What happens when, even though we’re surrounded by that security, our worst nightmare comes to life? What if we were raised differently from everybody else? What if we lived our lives like everybody else, but when we went home it was too different? Would we stray from the confines of what we know, just to be normal? Just so we could be like everybody else? Or would we stay within what we knew, no matter how strange it was? From one weirdo to another, stay weird and enjoy the ride!

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.

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.

Of Orchid and Dandelion tells the story of four young girls in the beginning of time who play outside the field and can't get back in. Orchid, of course, is one of these young girls. And Dandelion is another. But Orchid can't immediately recall the names of the other two girls. The tale continues with Orchid returning to her dynasty (she is the queen) and searching for the other three girls.

Vanessa is lying in a hospital room in a coma. She is surrounded by her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren. Days pass. Nothing changes. Eventually, her grandchildren stop coming and stop bringing her great-grandchildren. Only Vanessa's children remain in vigil at her bedside. Vanessa dreams about her life as two-year old Cream Puff. As she dreams, her body conveys her dreams to her children. We join Cream Puff as she begins this dream. Then we get to witness a great transformation.

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.

This book details the design for a smaller living space. You can adjust the plans to meet your desires and needs.

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.

Meet the children of Generation Q. At first they had to be hidden because others were hunting for them, trying to eliminate them, before their specialness infected the world. For then it would be too late to mold the world according to the ideals of those who hunted these infants. What will it take for the world to accept these children who have now become adults? They look a little different from you and me. They act somewhat differently from you and me. And they definitely think very differently from any one of us. Should we fear them?

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.

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.

Lily is reading a bedtime story to her younger brother and sister. The story tells about how they all became a family and about their life on an alpaca farm in Hawaii. Lily discovers a secret gate which she goes through to help Uncle Santee and the Menehune prepare for Christmas.

What horror could be worse than going insane? Ryan Davis, if that's even his real name, becomes engulfed by a time rift and ends up in the future. However, in this future, Specters from a parallel planet are entering people's minds and driving them crazy. They enter Ryan Davis' mind, but he's able to overpower them. And so, he becomes the superhero Spectral, and we start winning this war. But soon, he starts to suspect that there's something even scarier than the Specters.

The bear charged the door and bounced right off. On the other side of the door, the maid was leaning against the door, exuding love to it with all her might. The force of her love sealed the door securely. Nothing could get through. Not even a ramming bear. But the bear was persistent, and bounced off the door several more times. Then, almost by accident, the bear found the edge of the spell and crashed through the wall next to the door. "Bear! Bear", screamed the maid as she went running away through the Mansion. The bear rampaged through the Mansion, sending the Jim O'Leary's scurrying in every direction. This was the Jim O'Leary Mansion and always had been for many generations of Jim O'Leary's. The current Jim O'Leary had been preparing for this moment all his life, and even before.

It was not surprising that Brunettes said something together. They said and did everything in unison. It was this request for a name that was so surprising. They had a name!

In their second year of wizard school, Epsilon Sigma Omicron keeps a log of the adventures of the Tensome. He calls it the Epsilogue. In this book, the Tensome spend more time trying to uncover what the people who were posing as Shmedley parents are up to. Are they up to no good as the principal and the head professor claim? Or could they just be hiding? What would they be hiding from? Gloria Songmeister Gloria discovers new modes of travel via her braids. Gregarious Billy James Gregshaw William Yllib the Vth is spookily silent for once.