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Saving the Earth One Beard at a Time starts with the amusing story of how I learned to shave. It helps you understand the reasons why you shave and helps you figure out how to shave less and still be you. It takes a look at how being mindful in one daily activity can save the earth. Imagine, if we were all mindful in a few of our daily activities, how much more that would save the planet.

Meet Ambrosia, one of Gitchi Manitou's helpers. Ambrosia tells the story of the beginning. In the beginning, Gitchi Manitou created the earth on which we live. First Gitchi Manitou created the creatures of lights, mountains, trees, fish, birds, and mammals. At this time Gitchi Manitou also created the shires of Eden, Agartha, Atlantis, Shambhala, Aztlan, and Camelot. Over time, the creatures start to forget about the shires, so Gitchi Manitou creates the train to take them to the shires so they can better remember them.

In Book 2 of The Wizard Without a Wand, Jenie Maloy tells us her version of what happened during her first year at Wizard School. Jenie Maloy is one of the Tensome - a group of ten kind students who somehow end up together in their dorm - Hotel Westly. Jenie doesn't want her parent to find about her friends, because every time they do, she quickly loses those friends. Jenie thinks she wants to hang the super-rich kids. She also wants to hang out with boys, several boys, enough boys to drive her parents nuts. But she finds that hanging with the Tensome is what she really wants to do.

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.

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 Dancer is a simple story of a young woman in love, a young woman who is trying to find out who she is. While the story is simple, the manner in which it unfolds is anything but. And sometimes, the ride is so wild, it has everyone, including the author, hanging on to their seats.

I am a man of peace. Yet I am well aware that we all get pushed to our limits, and sometimes beyond. Suppose, just for a moment, that there was a nation that had always lived at peace. Peace was all they knew. They were sworn to peace. What happens when the invaders come? What happens when their lives and their way of life are threatened? What happens when peace is no longer an option? This is the story of one such nation.

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.

Shortly after the turn of the century, my wife, Terry, and I moved to the mountains of Colorado. Shortly after that, I wrote this humorous story about our lives and how my hero wife lived in spite of the debilitating illness of MCS - multiple chemical sensitivity. Terry lives with the severe face pain, the mind fog, the lack of energy. And she swears every time she's out for a walk and somebody is doing their laundry with some fragrant detergent - her biggest bane. Sometimes she falters and doesn't bear it well, but to me, she's always a hero. This is her story.

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.

Let's say for a moment that you're the captain of a spaceship. And you're about to land on an uninhabited planet - when your science officer informs you that those 1000 lights you're seeing down there are emitting life signs. What is it about those lights that makes them special? And more importantly, how can you communicate with them to get permission to land?

Many people think that the only way to get to Wizard School is to take the train. But if you can’t afford the train, there is a bus to Wizard School. Yet Buster Tensyllables didn’t take the bus or the train. He did take a bus, but not the one to Wizard School and not the one to the Prep School where his parents thought he was heading. He took a bus for a short distance, then he walked. Along the way, he met Sidney Rather Nottingham who was also walking to Wizard School. Luckily, one of them knew the way. Otherwise they would have been lost.

In this part of the Series, The Wizard Without a Wand, we follow the story of a Wand as it searches for its Wizard. For every Wand has a particular Wizard, just as every Wizard has a particular Wand. Indeed, when a Wizard uses a Wand, they become indistinguishable. Just how did this Wand come to be? How did it end up in the Underground City? How does its story interweave with that of Shmedley Thrumbledack - The Wizard Without a Wand.

The Tensome are back at Wizard school for their fourth and final year. When they graduate they will be Wizards. What obstacles and opportunities lie in their path? Before they return, the Tensome are determined to get Shmedley a Wand. This is his last year of Wizard School. He really needs to have a Wand. Shmedley has made it through three years of Wizard School very successfully without having a Wand.

Welcome to The School of Godology. Whereas theology schools focus on religion, The School of Godology focuses on God. This course - God 101 - is a course on what/who God is. This course discusses different aspects of God to give you a general idea of what/who God is. God 101 is a pass/fail course. In order to pass, you must consider all of the information presented and present a paper discussing what/who God might be, ending with the conclusion that nobody really knows what/who God is. Any person (angels excluded) concluding that they know what/who God is will fail.

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.

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.

Yellow bear was walking in the woods one day. He was deep in the woods where the trees are close to each other, so close there was hardly room to move between them. But Yellow bear managed. Sometimes he would have to climb over branches, and sometimes he crawled under them. Walking in the deep woods was hard, but Yellow bear was really enjoying it.

How did I find myself alone in a ship with the one person who frustrates me the most? Why does Sarah have to be so different? Why do I keep hearing her name in my head? And why did I ever agree to take her to the middle of nowhere and wait to be paid for her trip until I got there? This makes absolutely no sense to me.

The Dancer is a simple story of a young woman in love, a young woman who is trying to find out who she is. While the story is simple, the manner in which it unfolds is anything but.