Happy and humorous musical verses of childhood tales, from the ordinary to the mysterious; fanciful vignettes of seagulls and sandcastles, cell phones and traffic lights and, of course, the missing cat. This beautifully illustrated and lighthearted book will entertain both the young and the young at heart. An added bonus: count how many times you can find Fluffy the cat?
Many people are finding that the gender in which they were raised is not the one that they are comfortable with. Whether they are changing from male to female or female to male, these changes affect everybody in the person's life. The changes are required in order for the person to live fully and completely as their true selves. How does one explain to a young child why their loved one is changing their gender? “Muffy was Fluffy” was written to show young children how a beloved pet, Fluffy, is not comfortable with the way she was born and in order to be truly happy, she must change into Muffy, the type of pet she was meant to be.
Fluffy had the purrfect life at the cozy Small Town Animal Shelter - sunning himself in the big front window, getting head scratches from all the visitors, and knowing he would be cared for until his forever home came along. But one morning, Fluffy is nowhere to be found! Shelter volunteer Bethany is distraught over Fluffy's disappearance. As she searches for clues amongst Fluffy's favorite napping spots, she discovers something that has her fur standing on end - evidence that Fluffy may have been taken against his will. With the help of her sleuthing shelter cat companions - Mark, a tortoiseshell with intelligence beyond his size, and Alex, a chatty tuxedo always eager to help - Bethany begins unraveling mysteries hidden amongst the townsfolk. Could grumpy Mr. Jenkins from down the street, who was always complaining about the shelter cats getting into his garden, have finally snapped? Or was it Gloria from the diner, who seemed to take Fluffy's constant shelter visits a bit too personally? As Bethany's search grows more frantic, Mark and Alex work tirelessly to scent out clues. They soon discover that Fluffy's disappearance is tangled in a web of small-town drama, secrets, and perhaps even murder. With Fluffy's life in the balance, can they solve the case in time to save their beloved feline friend? ‘The Paw-fect Suspect’ is the delightful first book in ‘The Tail End Mysteries’ series. If you like clever sleuths, light banter, and precious animals, then you’ll love Lucius Silverfox’s intriguing mystery. Grab 'The Paw-fect Suspect' for a purr-fect mystery solved by sleuthing hands today!
Babies will love to meet Fluffy Chick and his farmyard friends in this cuddly touch-and-feel cloth book from Roger Priddy. There's a new farm animal to say ‘hello' to on the turn of every soft, cloth page, as well as a different, stimulating touch-and-feel texture for little hands to explore. Bright, vivid colors will make this farm animal book an instant classic with your little one, to be read again and again! Packaged in a gift box.
In this needed practice and training guide for all mental health professionals, Froma Walsh presents a research-informed, resilience-oriented approach to help individuals, couples, and families who experience profound loss. Walsh guides therapists to understand and address the impact of complicated and traumatic deaths in relational systems and social contexts. She provides core principles and illustrative examples to foster healing and adaptation; help clients mobilize vital social, cultural, and spiritual resources; and find pathways forward to live and love beyond loss. Essential topics include death of a spouse, parent, child, or sibling; ambiguous and disenfranchised losses; death by violence, suicide, or overdose; collective trauma; and reverberations of past loss in life pursuits, other relationships, and across generations.
Tales of Young America takes a glimpse of history through the eyes of this amazing storyteller. Read stories of George Washington and his friendship with Benjamin Franklin, tales of Abraham Lincoln like never before, riveting stories of Andrew Jackson that will make you shiver, passionate stories of love between the presidents and their first ladies. This is a great way for young and old to enjoy one of our greatest gifts—our history.
Asthi Valley becomes a haunted town after sunset. Everyone who lives here follows one strict rule: Be home before dark. At Night, vicious creatures roam around, attacking anyone they see. The people call these creatures the Spirits. It is believed the Spirits are souls of abused dogs seeking revenge against humans. One tragic afternoon, Sonia ends up comatose and her soul wanders through the forest. Her lost soul comes face - to - face with the Spirits. They chase her, and when she has nowhere else to hide, an unexpected Spirit saves her. That Spirit tells her she has to go back into her body as soon as she can or her body will keep deteriorating and eventually die. If this happens, she will be a lost soul forever. Without any clear direction out of the forest, Sonia must escape the Spirits and find her way back home before time runs out. This book has content similar to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.
Artificial Intelligence to Solve Pervasive Internet of Things Issues discusses standards and technologies and wide-ranging technology areas and their applications and challenges, including discussions on architectures, frameworks, applications, best practices, methods and techniques required for integrating AI to resolve IoT issues. Chapters also provide step-by-step measures, practices and solutions to tackle vital decision-making and practical issues affecting IoT technology, including autonomous devices and computerized systems. Such issues range from adopting, mitigating, maintaining, modernizing and protecting AI and IoT infrastructure components such as scalability, sustainability, latency, system decentralization and maintainability. The book enables readers to explore, discover and implement new solutions for integrating AI to solve IoT issues. Resolving these issues will help readers address many real-world applications in areas such as scientific research, healthcare, defense, aeronautics, engineering, social media, and many others. - Discusses intelligent techniques for the implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Internet of Things - Prepared for researchers and specialists who are interested in the use and integration of IoT and Artificial Intelligence technologies
A planet with more cats than people... Grimalkin needs brides. Kittens as wedding gifts? Check. An arranged marriage with an alien who hates you? Check. Spicy adventures on another planet? Check. Experience the complete collection in this Grimalkin Needs Brides book bundle. Book 1: Ekpen Earth is a dystopian nightmare that's going to be destroyed very, very soon. Nobody knows exactly when or how, but the threat of destruction looms in the background of everyone's mind. Holly is ready to escape from her planet, but there's a problem: only rich people actually get to leave Earth, and she's barely got five bucks to her name. Enter the Grimalkin Bridal Exchange. The deal is simple: she goes to an alien planet, marries some random dude, and gets to live out her days in luxury and happiness. Only, the guy she's paired up with doesn't want to get married. And he doesn't want to get married to her. In fact, he actually kind of...hates her. Book 2: Torao Three months ago, Amena spent one wild night with a man from Grimalkin. He was everything she’d ever wanted or hoped for, but she knows that she’ll never see him again. She can’t. When Amena signs up for the Grimalkin Bridal Exchange at the Intergalactic Dating Agency, she expects to be taken to a planet with more cats than people, but she doesn’t expect to see him. It’s Torao. It’s the man she slept with in a field of wildflowers. But how can this be? Torao isn't ready to get married, but he doesn't have a choice. Short. Curvy. Soft. The woman from Earth who practically runs into his arms is everything he never knew he wanted. But she shouldn’t be here on his planet. She definitely shouldn’t be in his bed keeping him warm. This human has a secret, and he plans to find out what it is. Book 3: Leo Leo has been dreaming of getting married his entire life and having someone he can love in spite of everything that's gone wrong. He was never supposed to be a doctor.His plan had been to become a warrior or a fighter, but when he lost his tail in a freak accident, he knew he needed to choose a career path where he could hide. Being a doctor means he gets to focus on everyone else - no one looks twice at him. Tamara has been worried about her friends ever since they left Earth. Holly and Amena were both supposed to contact her, but they didn't. Now it's up to Tamara to make her way to Grimalkin and find out what's happened to her best friends. She lost her leg years ago, so she knows she's not going to be eligible for the bridal exchange, but there are other ways of getting to Grimalkin. When Tamara is caught stowing away on a bridal transport to Grimalkin, she's given an impossible choice. Then she sees Leo, and she realizes that all bets are off. She wants him. Like, really wants him. But is Leo ready to love a human like Tamara? And is she willing to open her heart to the one person who could crush it?
A positive-training guide to puppy training written by much-loved author and puppy -class instructor Charlotte Schwartz is a "week by week training guide" for all new puppy owners. The late Charlotte Schwartz had trained dogs for over forty years and was a popular, award-winning author, whose no-nonsense style of writing and training comes forth on every page of this best-selling introductory guide. Focusing on the first eight weeks that a puppy spends in the new owner's home, Puppy Training walks the owner through the lessons to teach one week at a time, offering commonsense solutions to obedience and housetraining problems along the way. Sidebars throughout the text offer useful tips and alternative methods to teach lessons, all of which were originated by Schwartz in her puppy classes over the decades and are illustrated here with color photographs. From the first week, during which the puppy is taught to sit and stand, to the eighth week, devoted to teach the puppy to retrieve and a trick or two, this puppy primer is the best canine educational tool available for under ten dollars!
