Cat Joy

When he inherited a ranch, he didn't expect a bride to be part of the deal. When Cade Harris receives word that his older brother has passed away and left him a ranch, he pushes aside his grief and decides to take on the ranch himself. But when he arrives at the plot of land outside Crest Stone, Colorado, he finds a half-built house and cattle that have long since run off. And if that wasn't enough, his brother's bride-to-be arrives. Jolie Taylor always preferred studying the stars in the sky and the plants on earth to making the rounds of society. But when she loses her father and every ...

The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong. Detective Marie Evans meanwhile is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But there’s no time to celebrate. The naked body of a young man is found at the river’s edge. He’s been strangled, his skin massaged in expensive oil. Two days later, another handsome young man is discovered in a shallow lake.

For feline PI Joe Grey and his companion, Dulcie, life is a bittersweet mix of endings and beginnings. While they joyfully await their first litter, they are also sad for their friend, the old yellow cat Misto, whose time on Earth is drawing to an end. But Misto tells them an exciting future awaits: Among the litter will be a little calico from the distant past who will be born with ancient markings and the adventurous spirit of Joe Grey.

While grief is a normal, healthy response to losing a beloved pet, it is important to work through its various stages and eventually find a way to move forward. Understanding the depth of your bond and learning to celebrate rather than mourn your years together helps memorialize your pet. It also equips you with perspective and the capacity to love again. This book is your compassionate and comforting guide throughout the healing process—an understanding companion as you explore the depths of your grief. The journey to peace and recovery starts here.

With a Universe-wide respect for all living things, and all potential living things, the Compact (alien) people are appalled by the terraforming of the Humans' colony planet, Azureign, and what new life it might have destroyed. It was too late to recover what might have been, but the Compact sets out to teach Humanity a lesson. Azureign is put under interdiction: no contact with anyone but the few Compact aliens who enforce the interdiction. What do the colonists now have to do to survive? In this set of five novels, we experience the Helper animals created to assist the colonists. We learn...

Filled with advice and insights from Parisian women, this delightful guide shows listeners how to cultivate charm and mystique in the age of Tinder and OKCupid - to find lasting romance and connection.

Drawing on her most compelling client cases, author Karen Joy shows you the natural arc of a soul's journey over many lifetimes - including violent or negative ones - until we finally come back to the light. This book reveals how souls begin, how they enter lives on earth, and how experiencing a diverse range of lives teaches them to be wiser and happier.

A true romance memoir. "This is like drinking tea and honey on a cold day." When tragedy struck, I thought for sure that my own life was at an end. I was wrong. This is the true story of how two stray rescue cats and a woman named Kitty, whom I finally met after a wild ride of internet dating, brought love, romance, and laughter back into my life. Love was then. Love is now. Love is forever. WINNER of the 2018 Stephen Memorial Award FINALIST for the 2014 RONE AWARD If you love reading feel-good memoirs, then don't miss THE THREE KITTIES THAT SAVED MY LIFE, where "Mike Meyer pens a tender ...

Silhouetted against the faint light from the window is a small, incredibly dirty girl. Her big brown eyes are open wide, filling with tears. She wears a tattered white dress. Her feet are bare and bloody. She holds a squirming baby. One of her small filthy fingers is in the baby’s mouth. “Do you have any milk?” she asks. Her voice is so soft that Marisol has to lean forward to hear. “I have milk at home, nearby,” she says. “Where are your parents?” “The monsters took them.” Monsters? “What did they look like?” “Great big bugs,” she says. Her expression dares ...

Pawsitively Happy: The Tail-Twitching Truth -- Lessons in Living Happy Now What if the secret to happiness wasn’t hiding in a fancy seminar or a stack of self-help books… but in your dog’s goofy grin, your cat’s midnight zoomies, or a squeaky unicorn toy that farts on command? Yep. That’s the truth animals have been trying to tell us all along: stop overthinking, stop postponing, and start living happy now. In Pawsitively Happy, Sabine “Beenie” Mann -- Queen of Shift®, award-winning author, mindset ambassador, and unapologetic Hope Dealer -- shares the tail-twitching, curtain...

An orphaned girl and her big dragon have a big problem: Will he ever fly? On the terraformed earth-colony Azureign, ecologically-friendly dragons were genetically engineered to carry riders. Their job is to help settlers deliver urgent items and send messages quickly across great distances. Shala is chosen to ride. Now her future depends on her dragon, Nizael.But Nizael may be too big to fly. Will she be able to coax him into flight before the dragon queens choose their mates and form their packs? Or will Shala and her dragon be loners forever?

The colony on the beautiful planet Azureign has been cut off from Earth for a millennium. The several alien species of the Compact watch over the planet to ensure the human settlers and their Helper species do not create or use technology that could further damage or pollute the terraformed world. Now the Dolphinfolk, a Helper species engineered to aid the settlers in traveling on Azureign's violent oceans, are refusing to Help. Instead, they urge the few humans they trust to join their revolt and free Azureign from the alien restraints. Princess Tingh Tae Lha, fleeing a bloody coup, ...

Rokumon Tanaka’s new pet isn’t working out. The little guy is cute, he’s inquisitive, and his little paws are really good at lockpicking. But raka are supposed to be HELPER animals…and how is being cute and curious any help to a settler? Ro intends to find out. He is determined to go to the Azureign Oracle to get an answer to that question, as well as a more personal one: How can he save his mother from her Reyes family curse?

On the interdicted colony planet Azureign, the uplifted dolphin species called Dolphinfolk have chosen to revolt, asking for "Dirt People" help to free them from the "Sky People" or alien interdiction and stringent rules, which amount to slavery. The Human nation of Tehassa has agreed to help by providing ships with cannons, air balloons to scout, and first aid pods. Zeden, heir to the throne of Tehassa, would rather see new places and ways of doing things than be stuck in the capitol as the leader of Azureign's smallest nation. Better his sister Zola should inherit the throne, for she ...

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A Clowder of Cats – A Joy Forest Cozy Mystery Dr. Joy Forest's Sri Lanka research is disrupted when a beautiful woman with violet eyes breaches the security of her home by paranormal means and insists Joy look for her missing cat. Although Joy agrees to, she does so for the sake of the cat, more than for the strange woman. As Joy searches for the missing Booji, she finds several other cats, unearthing the mysteries of the people they belong to along the way. It's an intriguing journey of mystical places and unusual creatures, with a dash of romance. A CLOWDER OF CATS takes place in the ...

La dolce vita, a sweeter life of love, awaits Rachel. But can she accept it? Rachel Golding loves her uncomplicated life in Wales. Teaching art, a close-knit group of friends, and a strong and loving bond with her mother. But the trip to Italy to meet her Italian grandmother for the first time stirs unwelcome emotions — reluctance to forgive Nonna for a lifetime of rejection, and longing to know more about the father who died before her birth. Between her cousin’s accusation she sent a series of mysterious unsigned paintings to get revenge on the family, her mother’s wedding, and her ...

Author Janet S. Dumas became drawn to cat advocacy after her visceral reaction to a chilling expose in the newspaper about the thousands of animals being gassed to death each year by the City of San Antonio, Texas. She knew she had to take action, thus beginning her adventures into the world of trap-neuter-return and caring for cats near her, both feral and domestic. Janet shares her experiences as a feral cat colony caretaker, how she came to understand the individual cats, and the relationships they built together.

Dream big, as big as the night sky full of stars. When you discover the things you love, you’ll find true joy. Journey through a magical world, filled with a colorful cast of animals, where listeners have endless opportunities to be themselves and find freedom in expression. They will delight in the silly humor and undeniable spirit of this rhythmic audiobook - and take to heart the message that they are enough exactly as they are!

A GAGGLE OF GEESE – A Joy Forest Cozy Mystery Joy Forest is working to beat the clock on a looming deadline, when she gets a call from her friend, Sophia, traumatized by the disappearance of the Goose Girl Statue, which has the reputation of spontaneously healing any human ailment. Joy has never heard of the Goose Girl Statue. But that doesn’t prevent her from soon becoming involved up to her eyelashes in the mystery. Where has the statue gotten to, and by what means? As the suspects mount, Joy tries to persuade the caretaker of the Goose Girl Statue, Miss Star Moon, owner of a church ...