Meet Cutes and Murder
Meet Cutes and Murder

Author: Lisa Kinley

Publisher: Bosta Books

Published: 2021-12-27

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Romance author, donut influencer, and cat mom Hazel Hastings loves adding a dash of mystery to her novels, but she never expected her sleuthing skills to leave the page. When Hazel left Chinook Falls in her rearview mirror, she hoped it was for good. Now, years later, returning to her Oregon hometown is slightly better than sharing a zip code with her soon-to-be—but not soon enough!—ex-husband. But trouble finds Hazel on her first day at a new college teaching job and not only in the form of a distractingly hunky archaeology professor. On her way to a book signing at work, a jerk hits her car and refuses to share his insurance information. Once Hazel realizes the fender-crunching jerk is the visiting author, she plots to publicly call him out on his atrocious driving etiquette. Before she can put her plan into action, she discovers his body in the student union. With her proximity to the murder putting her dream job at risk, Hazel must act to uncover the killer. As long as sleuthing doesn’t interfere with meeting the deadline for her next novel, navigating her new job in academia, and keeping her cats flush in premium kibble, she’ll be fine. After all, she’s a millennial with a viral donut Instagram account. Finding a murderer should be a piece of cake… er… donut. Meet Cutes and Murder is the first in the Hazel Hastings Mystery series. Each book can be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed in order. The series is free of graphic violence, sex, and strong language. But it does contain adorable cats, gratuitous donuts, and healthy doses of snark.

Waiting for My Cats to Die
Waiting for My Cats to Die

Author: Stacy Horn

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-01-17

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780312287443

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A humorous glimpse into the joys and terrors of middle age follows the adventures of Stacy Horn, a forty-year-old female television addict who has dedicated herself to caring for her two diabetic cats.

Cats I've Known
Cats I've Known

Author: Katie Haegele

Publisher: Microcosm Publishing

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1621061272

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From deep friendships to brief encounters, this is the story of the cats in Katie Haegele's life, or rather the story of her life in relation to the many cats she meets in Philadelphia's streets, alleys, houses, apartments, and bookstores. Through Haegele's sharp, wise, and at times hilarious gaze, we see cats for what they truly are: minor deities that mostly ignore the human foibles being played out around them. They accept our offerings with equanimity and occasionally bestow some nice thing on us. Haegele, author of White Elephants and Slip of the Tongue, has a unique and compelling sensibility, and it's a treat to see the world through her eyes as she shows us all the meanness, weirdness, and vulnerability of humans, against an ever-shifting backdrop of the cats we often take for granted, and who ignore us all democratically in return.

In the Dream House
In the Dream House

Author: Carmen Maria Machado

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1644451026

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A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

Girls and Their Cats
Girls and Their Cats

Author: BriAnne Wills

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1452181411

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For New York City fashion and beauty photographer BriAnne Wills, the "crazy cat lady" is a myth. Co-written with Elyse Moody, senior editor at Martha Stewart Living, this book redefines the stereotype by showcasing 50 strong, independent, and artistic women who take the world in stride, flanked by their beloved felines. With its vibrant cover and gorgeous faux-suede spine, Girls and Their Cats features striking portraits and engaging profiles of each woman and her cat—or cats—including fun facts unique to each furry friend. Girls include: • Hannah Shaw, humane educator, animal advocate, and founder of the neonatal kitten rescue project Kitten Lady • Christene Barberich, cofounder of Refinery29 • Alyssa Mastromonaco, author, Crooked Media podcast host, and reproductive rights activist • Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of NPR's Latino USA • Nikki Garcia, owner and designer of the clothing line First Rite • Erica Chidi Cohen, doula, author, and cofounder of the reproductive health education company Loom • Anka Lavriv, tattoo artist and co-owner of Black Iris Tattoo Interspersed throughout are amusing lists any cat lady will find relatable, from "How to Catproof Your Home" to "The Chorus of Cat Sounds," as well as an adoption resource guide and a list of rescue organizations in the United States and Canada. This irresistible book celebrates the powerful bond between a girl and her cat, proving that we need them just as much as they need us.

Accomplice
Accomplice

Author: Valerie Sherrard

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2011-02-03

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1554888336

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Lexie Malton is an average Vancouver teen with fairly typical issues. Her stepmother is far from her favourite person, she has a sister with special needs, and life outside the home is the usual mix of school, friends, and social events. But Lexie has a secret. Her ex-boyfriend, Devlin Mather, is now a heroin addict living on the street, and only Lexie knows that she’s the one who put him there. Guilt makes her give in to Devlin’s demands for money time and time again, even though she knows how dangerous his drug use is. Lexie finally gathers the strength to stop enabling Devlin. But when he seeks treatment for his addiction, Lexie finds herself drawn back to him, never guessing what a dark and deadly path she has just chosen. Devlin relapses, and his desperation leads to an act that will change both of their lives forever.

Build Me an Ark
Build Me an Ark

Author: Brenda Peterson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780393050141

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Raised in the High Sierras, Brenda Peterson was influenced daily by wildlife. Here, she explores her deep connection with animals--from watching grizzlies in Montana's Rockies to her work for the restoration of wild wolves in the West--and includes intimate stories of wild dolphins, whales, and orcas she has studied for 20 years. 17 photos.

Author: Danielle Tara Evans

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-06

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1477219781

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After enduring a childhood in poverty with his alcoholic and extremely neglectful father, Jason Schultz is now a grown man suffering from depression. Between his strained relationship with his sister, a job as a cook that he despises, and his overwhelming feelings of hopelessness, he struggles to make it through each day. When he falls in love with a new waitress at his work named Lydia, he imagines a better life with her but believes he can never have her. As his depression escalates, he makes a decision that will dramatically alter the course of his life.

All My Cats
All My Cats

Author: Bohumil Hrabal

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0811228967

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A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from “a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail” (Julian Barnes) In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and his country retreat, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer. All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed. As he is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas created by his indulgent love for the animals, there are episodes of intense brutality as he controls the feline population. Yet in the end, All My Cats is a book about Hrabal’s relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos—and about love.