Real Cat

A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Black single motherhood, unapologetically told through poignant essays and candid interviews by a celebrated cultural critic “Jamilah Lemieux is one of the most important feminist writers of the twenty-first century.”—Brittney Cooper...

December 25 is right around the corner. The last thing Charlie expects is to gain several new additions to his family. Charlie finds a box on his doorstep with five kittens inside and a note begging him to keep them safe. With Diesel's help, Charlie welcomes the tiny felines into the Harris household just as his neighbor Gerry decides it is time to throw a lavish holiday party. Determined to make her mark on Athena, Gerry instead winds up dead at her very own party.

Integrity -- more than simple honesty, it's the key to success. A person with integrity has the ability to pull everything together, to make it all happen no matter how challenging the circumstances. Drawing on experiences from his work, Dr. Henry Cloud, a clinical psychologist and nationally...

They thought they were safe. They were wrong. Lions. Tigers. Cougars. Leopards. When the world’s most powerful predators strike, survival is anything but guaranteed. In Mauled: Big Cat Attacks, true crime meets nature’s fury in 25 bone-chilling stories of real-life big cat encounters. From tourist attacks on African safaris to tiger maulings at roadside zoos, this book plunges you into the heart-pounding moments when humans come face to face with nature’s most lethal hunters. Discover infamous cases like: The Las Vegas performer nearly killed mid-show by his beloved white tiger The ...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER Hilarious best friends Cat and Nat created a massive online community of moms by sharing their ultra-real and just a bit R-rated dispatches from the mom trenches. From what not to eat a few days after giving birth (chicken wings) to the most effective ways to dodge...

Maybe you can't save them all, but each day is a new opportunity to save one... Do you ever wonder what a homeless pet and a war refugee have in common —they both wish to belong somewhere. They try so hard to prove their worth. They want someone to hear their pleas for help. But they are often left to fend for themselves. Sometimes they find each other in an empty street, and together they continue on an abandoned path, trying to make it through another night.

Ready to Make Money with Airbnb and Turn Your Spare Room—or Investment Property—into a Six-Figure Business? What if your home or rental property could pay YOU every month—without sacrificing your time or sanity? In Airbnb Mastery, Michelle Ward—one of Airbnb’s most beloved Superhosts—shares the ultimate guide to earning $100K+ a year from hosting, whether you’re renting out a spare room, your entire home, or building a portfolio of highly profitable investment properties. No matter where you are on your hosting journey, this book is your step-by-step roadmap to success. ...

Something was buried in the ice. Now it’s awake. Cole Maddox knows the mountains. As a wilderness guide, he respects the cold, the terrain, and the storms. But he has never seen anything like the facility hidden in the deep valley of the Timberline. Hired to escort a team of investors and scientists into the frozen wild, Cole thinks it’s just another high-paying babysitting job. He’s wrong. Inside the compound, a disgraced geneticist has achieved the impossible. He hasn’t just cloned a fossil; he has resurrected an apex predator that evolution tried to erase. A hunter designed for ...

If you want to understand avoidants, don’t study their relationships. Study their pets. Avoidants don’t reveal themselves through conversation. They reveal themselves through what they allow close, what they keep at arm’s length, and what they quietly run from. Some choose cats. Some choose dogs. Some choose plants. Some choose nothing at all. It isn’t personality. It isn’t preference. It’s the blueprint of avoidant attachment—dismissive, fearful, and everything in between. In this short, cutting, quietly devastating book, Gergana Lyubenova uses the most unexpected lens—the ...

* BERYL AND FRED IN SPAIN now available, containing this book plus A Cat called Cheryl, with Fred and Beryl at a reduced price.* When Beryl and Fred decide to sell up and take a camper van tour around Spain with their lovable Cocker Spaniel, Ted, little do they realise how eventful their poorly planned trip will turn out to be. Intending to tour the whole country thoroughly in an anti-clockwise direction, one unexpected incident after another throws them off track and sees their faithful VW Camper, Vernon, transporting them to the south coast well ahead of any real or imagined schedule. ...

Supermodel turned super-Swiftie turned self-made superhero? Let's go. Tallulah Belle Atkins is going to get her life together. She’s absolutely sure of it. Former supermodel turned tech-savvy entrepreneur, Tally has three Ivy League degrees, a talent for turning chaos into cash, and a growing suspicion (thanks, TikTok) that her brain might be wired a little differently. In her hometown of Brooks, Oklahoma, she’s determined to channel her genius into real estate, perfect her great-grandmother’s biscuit recipe, and prove she’s more than the girl who left town in expensive boots and a ...

Synopsis for Ad Copy "A Scandal Monger's Dead Cat Problem" is a gripping true crime thriller based on real events that exposes the dark underbelly of political gamesmanship. When political operative Gary Sullivan faces a million-dollar lawsuit for hacking into an opponent's computer, he takes desperate measures to save himself from financial ruin. With the help of his friend Mark, Gary stages a fake hate crime—complete with a dead cat on his porch—to position himself as a victim and raise legal defense funds. As donations pour in and public outrage grows, Gary's mother Eleanor grapples ...

Cat and the members of her writers' retreat have just arrived in Outlaw, Colorado, an "Old West" tourist town complete with inhabitants dressed up as famous figures from history. But this authentic slice of Americana takes a murderous turn when a college student masquerading as a 19th-century saloon girl becomes history herself. Was she the intended target? Or did she take a hit meant for someone else? With a cast of suspects to choose from, Cat must unhorse the real culprit before a real-life ghost story is given a killer twist

The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein. Montillo recounts how - at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution - Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death.

The first two books in THE PEDLEY CHRONICLES series: BERYL, FRED AND A DOG CALLED TED: When Beryl and Fred decide to sell up and take a camper van tour around Spain with their lovable Cocker Spaniel, Ted, little do they realise how eventful their poorly planned trip will turn out to be. Intending to tour the whole country thoroughly in an anti-clockwise direction, one unexpected incident after another throws them off track and sees their faithful VW Camper, Vernon, transporting them to the south coast well ahead of any real or imagined schedule. Parked up and ready to enjoy the delights of ...

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselves Zombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and...

What if the reason you feel disconnected, unfulfilled, or lost… ...is because you've spent your life being who the world told you to be— not who you really are? We live in a world that rewards conformity. From childhood, we’re handed roles, expectations, and silent rules. We learn to shrink, shift, and shape ourselves to fit in. But what if the real problem isn’t you—it’s the life you’ve built trying to be someone else? This book changes everything.

Your Pet, Understood is for people who love their animals deeply,but sometimes realize love alone doesn’t answer the real question: What does life feel like from their side of the leash, the cage, the tank, or the terrarium? Most of us were taught to read pets through a human lens. We call a dog “stubborn,” a cat “aloof,” a bird “happy” because it sings, or a hamster “energetic” because it runs for hours. But behavior isn’t a personality label—it’s communication. When you learn to read real signals instead of guessing, you stop managing symptoms and start meeting ...

(Fourth book in the Lost Cats series) Advertising copywriter Rory Callahan is very picky. She thinks Mister Right should check off some important boxes. But if “love me, love my cat” isn’t one of them, that’s a dealbreaker. Unfortunately, the men she’s been dating lately want nothing to do with her playful six-toed tabby, Hemingway. Or any cat, for that matter. Can this classic girl-next-door find a real man who loves cats? Romance moves to the back burner when a terrific business opportunity that seems perfect for her falls in her lap. The CEO of a national cat food company is ...

From Diana Darke, the acclaimed author of My House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria, comes the extraordinary true story of a heroic ambulance driver who created a cat sanctuary in the midst of war-torn Aleppo. "I'll stay with them no matter what happens. Someone who has mercy in his heart...