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Author: Cynthia Hart
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781563051180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGenerously quotating from poetry, nursery rhymes, and popular authors, Banks recounts the love affair between the Victorians and their cats--personified as the epitome of domestic virtue. Full-color photographs throughout.
Author: Haru Hisakawa
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2021-12-21
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1685790070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNekoyama, worn out after another long day at the office, stops at a therapeutic massage parlor--only to discover that it's run by a cat! Not only that, but the cat actually does the massaging?! As the professional "meowsseur" digs soft toe beans into Nekoyama's aching muscles, his heart warms and his worries melt away. This is only the beginning, as he and other world-weary workers are about to meet the other feline professionals who have mastered pawfully cute techniques to reduce human stress.
Author: William Kidd
Publisher:
Published: 1853
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lori Haskins Houran
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-01-13
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0375851976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCat after cat makes its way over the fence and into the backyard of a lady who’s looking for a little quiet to enjoy some music. There are slinky cats and stinky cats, gray cats and stray cats, but all the cats have one thing in common—they love to sing. Meow! This companion book to Too Many Dogs brings a fun, rhyming text together with bright, humorous artwork in a book that will be irresistible to animal and cat lovers.
Author: Nancy Willard
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1480481572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis delightful collection brings together five short stories and eight essays on writing by Newbery Medal–winning author Nancy Willard Nancy Willard’s gift for bringing out the whimsical in all of us illuminates this memorable anthology. “ ‘Who Invented Water?’ ” celebrates the craft and magic of creating children’s books. In “Becoming a Writer,” Willard admits she dislikes giving and receiving advice. She prefers telling a story, with real-life characters ranging from members of her own family to Jane Austen, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Charles Dickens on stilts. “The Well-tempered Falsehood” explores the fabulist art of storytelling; “The Rutabaga Lamp” is a dreamy, delightful riff on how to read and write fairy tales. In an autobiographical piece, “Her Father’s House,” Erica, Theo, and their three-year-old son travel home for the funeral of Erica’s father. As the whole family gathers, the heroine is hit with an onslaught of memories, Willard style. “The Tailor Who Told the Truth” is Morgon Axel, who tells nothing but lies . . . until the day a wild boar comes into his shop. This ebook includes an introduction by Robert Pack, former director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Author: Bea Fogelman
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1583481036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you have ever seen a show with celebrity impersonators you will love this book! In CopyCats these talented performers reveal how they came to emulate particular stars, offer a glimpse into their professional and personal lives, as well as disclose enlightening facts about this aspect of show business.
Author: Helen Maria Winslow
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcerning Cats: My Own and Some Others by Helen Maria Winslow, first published in 1900, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author: Ellen Cooney
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1566896037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients—young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally altered lives—their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (A Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances) returns to Coffee House Press with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.
