A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans Ashley Court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the Ashley family, all blessed with 'the gift' of being able to speak to each other without words. When Bryony Ashley's father dies under mysterious circumstances, his final words a cryptic warning to her, Bryony returns from abroad to uncover Ashley Court's secrets. What did her father's message mean? What lies at the centre of the overgrown maze in the gardens? And who is trying to prevent Bryony from discovering the truth? Tell Bryony. The cat, it's in the cat on the pavement. The map. The letter. In the brook. Tell Bryony. My little Bryony to be careful. Danger.
See how Pauline Pig wishes and dreams come true. Abracadam, The Magic Blue Cat meets Pauline Pig who loves dancing. To become a good dancer Abracadam shows her that practice makes perfect.
An architect spots a large kitten in his home's bushes. It is a cross between a cheetah and a puma. The cat understands human speech and adopts the architect. His pet leads him to meet a famous actress. He becomes as famous as she is.
DIVDIVSet against four tumultuous decades of American history, For Richer, for Poorer is a spellbinding saga of betrayal and love . . . and one woman’s quest for revenge/divDIV The day a brutal massacre turns Bartonville into a battlefield, Kitty is living with her father in a shack owned by the town’s most powerful family. When the bloodshed is over, the boy Kitty loves lies fatally wounded. But their child will live on. And Tyrone Duncannon’s death will be avenged./divDIV For Richer, for Poorer is the story of Kitty Kellogg Stokes, born into a hardscrabble life in small-town Pennsylvania, who rose to become the most influential woman in the political circles of New York and Washington, DC. When Kitty marries John Stokes Jr., she bears him two sons. So begins a deception that will continue for decades and test the limits of a woman’s desire for revenge—and a mother’s love./divDIV/div/div
Could it be that our delusions of the perfect life expose disillusion with our perfect God? K.D. Stewart poses that and other thought-provoking questions in Would I Really Marry My Cat?!a fresh and compelling look at trusting God when His sovereignty confronts our self-focused ambition, hopes, and hurts. A raw and sometimes ridiculous exploration of faith, Would I Really Marry My Cat?! probes this simple yet profound truth: Life as a Christ-follower is not always a charmed life. It is a strategically-designed, intentionally-lived testimony of Gods trustworthiness regardless of ones circumstances. K.D. long dreamed of becoming a wife and a mom. One night her prince finally came. He looked at her with kind, devoted eyes and said, Marry me. And she gleefully accepted his proposaleven though she knew he was a cat! It was easy for her to look past the whiskers and the tail. What mattered most was, for the first time in a long time, she experienced satisfaction deep within her heart. Then K.D. woke up and the morning light exposed something dark deep within her souldisappointment in God and discontentment with the life He had given her. Out of this season of struggle, K.D. has drawn a series of stories, reflections, and prayers that will encourage, challenge, and inspire you to find joy-filled confidence in the God who created you and the life He has given you, even when it looks nothing like the life of your dreams.
DIVDIVSet against four tumultuous decades of American history, For Richer, for Poorer is a spellbinding saga of betrayal and love . . . and one woman’s quest for revenge/divDIV The day a brutal massacre turns Bartonville into a battlefield, Kitty is living with her father in a shack owned by the town’s most powerful family. When the bloodshed is over, the boy Kitty loves lies fatally wounded. But their child will live on. And Tyrone Duncannon’s death will be avenged./divDIV For Richer, for Poorer is the story of Kitty Kellogg Stokes, born into a hardscrabble life in small-town Pennsylvania, who rose to become the most influential woman in the political circles of New York and Washington, DC. When Kitty marries John Stokes Jr., she bears him two sons. So begins a deception that will continue for decades and test the limits of a woman’s desire for revenge—and a mother’s love./divDIV/div/div
Why should my cat be an EnviroCat?" Because it will live longer, be healthier and happier and will give you more pleasure. An EnviroCat is a loving and amusing companion; is safe from the number on killer, cars; enjoys the best of health; doesn't kill birds and wild life; doesn't upset your neighbours by scratching up the garden; doesn't come home with war wounds. Once you see the effects of this safe new lifestyle, you will wonder why cats have been left 'on the streets' for so long.
Have you ever wondered about what's going on inside a cat's head? How does he see the world? What does he find exciting? How does he feel? What does he think? ..... and especially, what does he thinks about us, humans? If your answer is yes, then this book is definitely for you. Our hero, Freddy, is a tabby cat living in Southern California. He gets adopted by a young woman, Jen, and founds himself in a crowded apartment building in Santa Monica where he has to share his habitat with many other cats. At first he tries to escape, but he changes his mind when he meets T-bone (a friendly black cat), who talks him out of it. Slowly Freddy gets used to his new environment, and with time he becomes best friend with T-bone, bounds with Jen, survives a vicious cat fight with Dingy Cat (the menace of the neighborhood), gets smitten by Daisy (a young cat living next door), and there are many other exciting events happening (like Halloween, Christmas, Jen's party, a wedding, and a vacation in the wilderness) during the year. As we follow Freddy's path, we find out how he sees the world, how he feels, and what he finds interesting. The story is told from the cat's point of view, and we will see everything through his eyes. This book will change you. After reading it you will find out that cat have feelings too, just like humans do. The book is full of adventures and suitable for kids of all ages, as well as for adults. Once you start reading it, you won't be able to put it down.
Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream representations of animals in children's culture - whether in terms of the selective exposure of children to animals as pets or as food in the home or in school, or the representation of animals in mass media and social media - Our Children and Other Animals reveals the interconnectedness of studies of childhood, culture and human-animal relations. In doing so it establishes the importance of human-animal relations in sociology, by describing the sociological importance of animals in children's lives and children in animals’ lives. Presenting a new typology of the various kinds of human-animal relationship, this conceptually innovative book constitutes a clear demonstration of the relevance of sociology to the interdisciplinary field of human-animal relations and will appeal to readers across the social sciences with interests in sociology, childhood studies, cultural and media studies and human-animal interaction.
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