Cat Life

From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At...

I inherited a failing bakery, a mountain of debt, and absolutely no idea how to bake. Then four magical catgirls from another world crashed into my life. The rent still has to be paid. The bakery has to keep up with demand. I have to learn how to bake for real instead of hiding behind the register. And the girls’ connection to this world is growing more demanding every day. They need me as their anchor.

Julia Lives in a Van Cozy Mystery Series: Books 7-9 Get ready for three thrilling adventures with Julia, her loyal dog Toby, and her best friends Dottie and Penelope in this captivating box set of the Julia Lives in a Van Cozy Mystery Series! In The Case of the Dapper Dove (Book 7), Julia and her friends head to historic Savannah, Georgia for a relaxing stay at a friend's bed and breakfast. But when an actress shoots and kills the star of a zombie movie with a faulty prop gun, Julia suspects there's more to this case than meets the eye. As she digs deeper, she uncovers a dark secret that ...

The spring of 2017 should have been the greatest time of Cat Marnell’s life. She was 34 and living the New York glamour life downtown, with a thriving career and a best-selling memoir. Instead, it was one of the worst. She’d gone through a protracted and traumatic breakup, nearly run out of money, and, during a month-long binge, "done something horrible" to herself that she couldn’t undo. Her troubles mounting, Marnell makes a radically simple choice: She decides to leave her problems behind.

When street musician James Bowen found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London, barely making enough money to feed himself - the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet, James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent, but very sick animal, whom he named Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, never imagining that he would see him again. But Bob had other ideas.

Cat Mojo is the confidence that cats exhibit when they are at ease in their environment and in touch with their natural instincts - to hunt, catch, kill, eat, groom, and sleep. Problems such as litter box avoidance and aggression arise when cats lack this confidence. Jackson Galaxy's number one piece of advice to his clients is to help their cats harness their mojo. This book is his most comprehensive guide yet to cat behavior and basic cat care, rooted in understanding cats better.

The cat that Olive rescues from a flood has a secret: He's not really a cat at all, but an alien who crashed to Earth on a beam of light. The cat, whom Olive names Leonard, was prepared to visit the planet as a human - but something went wrong. Now Leonard may never know what it's like to hold an umbrella, go bowling, or host a dinner party. (And his human jokes still need some work: Knock, knock. Who's there? Just Leonard. It is me.)

He’ll kill to keep her. As their dark, twisted bond deepens, Hannah realizes there is no world beyond Dante’s walls. He’s the only man who has ever truly seen her. But the cost of his obsession is far more than she could have ever imagined. She belongs to him now—body and soul. In this unhinged, electrifying romance, love doesn’t come with roses. It comes with chains. And when the lines between love and madness blur, there’s only one truth: Dante will never let her go. Warning: This is a dark romance that explores intense themes of obsession, possessiveness, and control. For ...

In his third life, Kinnosuke belonged to a famous author. Now, in his ninth, he wants nothing more to do with humans, who bring nothing but trouble and suffering. Drawn to the city in search of food, he comes across the Hokuto-do Bookshop, owned by a curious woman who has already given a home to...

I inherited Crust & Crumb from my uncle, along with a failing bakery, a pile of debt, and exactly none of his baking talent. With rent due in two weeks and my last regular customer threatening to haunt me over a tray of rock-hard scones, I’m pretty sure I’m finished. Then four gorgeous cat girls crash through a portal and land in my alley. Saving Crust & Crumb was supposed to be impossible. Now I just have to survive the girls who made it possible.

“What a thrill that Cat Marnell—one of our best living documentarians of addiction and the glamorous frivolities of New York—has at last given her fans a novel. A riveting portrait of the writer as a young woman, a book about the redemptive power of art itself, a hell of a read...

Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind. As it begins, The Inner Life...

Dog owners know that dogs can be trained, but the idea of training rarely crosses cat owners' minds. But as best-selling anthrozoologist John Bradshaw and cat expert Sarah Ellis show, not only can cats be trained, but they absolutely should be to ensure a happy and healthy relationship between pet and owner. Once we comprehend cats' emotions and needs, we can train them to overcome their natural fears and anxieties.

She just wanted a fresh start. Sparrow Creek had other plans. Claire Donovan didn't move to wine country looking for trouble. After walking away from a high-pressure career and a marriage that quietly fell apart, all she wanted was to take over her late aunt's bookshop and figure out who she was without either one. Then her cat found a body. Cab — the opinionated tuxedo cat she inherited along with the shop — leads Claire straight to a corpse in the vineyard's wine cellar on the night of the town's harvest festival. Suddenly Claire is the woman who found the body, the deputy ...

In this book, Galaxy tells the poignant story of his 13-year relationship with a petite gray-and-white short-haired cat named Benny, and gives singular advice for living with, caring for, and loving the feline in your home. When Benny arrived in his life, Galaxy was a down-and-out rock musician with not too much more going on than a part-time job at an animal shelter and a drug problem. Benny's previous owner brought the cat to the shelter in a cardboard box to give him up.

Get Books 1 - 6 of the Julia Lives in a Van Cozy Mystery Series as a Box Set for 60% Off! About the Series A year after her divorce, 48-year-old Julia Ross sells everything and heads out to become a nomad, camping her way across Florida and the Southeastern United States. Julia has no real plan in mind, and her only goal is to focus on herself and have fun hiking, biking, and exploring nature. Unfortunately, every time she moves to a new campground, there's a murder that Julia unwillingly gets dragged into. Early on, Julia rescues an adorable pup named Toby, who becomes her traveling and ...

My life was going just fine by most standards. I ran a successful business in a tight-knit magical community, and lived just blocks from a beautiful lake and series of hiking trails. Then Selene showed up. According to some magical code I inherit my aunt's ancient familiar; a grumpy ten-pound cat with a broken filter. She fancies herself something of a saber-toothed tiger, and claims to have wrestled the thread of her ninth life from the hands of the Fates themselves—although, I'm pretty sure that last part isn't true. Almost positive.

I thought paying rent on time would be enough to keep my bakery alive. I was wrong. Crust & Crumb is finally crawling back from the edge, thanks to four impossible cat girls from another realm who bake better than anyone I’ve ever met. But one paid rent envelope doesn’t fix everything. The sign outside is falling apart, my landlord is looking for any excuse to crush us, and now the scariest old woman in town has handed us a job that could either save our reputation or destroy it completely. The problem is, two of my girls are sick, the deadline is closing in, and I’m about to find out...

Immerse yourself in the extraordinary tale of Kazuki, an otaku with a deep infatuation for cat girls, who suddenly finds himself in the enchanting Silver City. Here, a variety of fantastical races coexist harmoniously, but it's the cat girls who command Kazuki's attention. Kazuki's life takes a thrilling turn when he rescues a beautiful cat girl executive from danger, landing him a role as Security Specialist at 'Whisker Wonders,' a prominent cat girl consulting firm.

"A much-needed dose of comfort and positivity." —Shanna Tan, translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop Tabby cat Fuuta has passed into the afterlife and will do anything to see his human again . . . if only he can not disrupt the balance of the universe. After a long life with a loving...