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A decomposing body ... a severed head in a closet ... a macabre meeting with "Mother"-mystery writer Lorinda Lucas tosses yet another paperback in the trash, appalled at the gruesome direction of today's crime fiction. She's even more disturbed at the half-starved state of Roscoe, the cat next door. Before Lorinda left for her latest book tour, Roscoe was as plump and pampered as her own two felines, Had-I and But-Known.
It only takes a modicum of...
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Returning home to England from New York, Margot finds her family in chaos. Her cousin Chloe is in prison awaiting trial for murdering her twin sister Claudia, their mother has withdrawn into the imaginary world of her romance novels, Claudia's fourteen-year-old daughter has regressed to early childhood and refuses to leave her bed, and to top it all off, the family cat has decided to live with the neighbors.
As Chloe's trial approaches, the atmosphere...
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Based on a true story with an imaginative retelling for young readers;
P22 mountain lion is born in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains outside Los Angeles, California.
He spends his childhood learning to hunt with his Mom and brother.
But, he is forced out of the mountains by Prime, a fierce older male lion who wants him dead.
He heads east to stake out a new territory of his own in the bright lights of the big city.
Along the way, he makes friends...
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The prolific and delightful Marian Babson has penned another stupendous cozy for cat lovers.
Vanessa has been rushed to hospital, having been found unconscious at the foot of the stairs. Was it an accident or something else?
Now, smiling weakly, suffering from a head injury that has left her with complete amnesia about the fall, the events leading up to it, and even the people closest to her, here she is, back in their midst. Or is she?
In fact,...
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"B'DG's relaxing day in the sun is anything but fun when the villain Dex-Starr shows up. But soon, these foes discover a common enemy -- the Sinestro Dog Corps! If the Lantern rivals can't unite, their favorite water park might become a mutt puddle"--P. [4] of cover.
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What happens when nothing happens? Maryanne wonders in A Year of Cats and Dogs, a darkly funny yet hopeful novel about a woman in midlife who feels surrounded by death. She answers her own question by deciding to find out. "I wanted to embrace entropy, to stop working so hard at keeping things up, to go AWOL from the productive world I'd so long been a part of," she tells us at the beginning of the novel. "The clearer it became that Phillip wasn't...
12) Bad kitty
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When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad. From the creator of the New York Times bestseller Boing! comes the riotous story of a cat gone berserk; four times over and in alphabetical order each time. Kitty is not happy when she's told that her favorite foods are all gone and all that's left are asparagus, beets, cauliflower, dill, and 22 other equally unappealing vegetables. So she ate my homework,...
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Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex-lover, rogue L.A. cop Rafi Nadir, to pursue Temple's boyfriend, sexy magician Max Kinsella, and nobody Temple knows has been murdered...at least, not in the past few weeks.
Temple takes this downtime as a signal she should buy a new pair of Jimmy Choo...
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Midnight Louie, that loveable and feisty feline sleuth returns once again to delight his legions of fans in Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in a Leopard Spot.
This time, not only does Louie have to bail out his favorite investigative partner, public relations woman Temple Barr, but he has to save a fellow feline from a charge of Murder One. All of Louie's and Temple's allies and enemies converge on the case when a big-game hunter is found dead with only...
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In Cat in a Midnight Choir, the fourteenth Midnight Louie Mystery, both feline and human evil-doers and crime-solvers work overtime to make Las Vegas the Capital of Noir Suspense. This time our feisty black cat detective is hunting a mysterious and possibly murderous organization of renegade magicians called the Synth, which has been making Las Vegas too hot to hold for some of Louie's human friends, particularly ex-magician Max Kinsella. Louie's...
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Anyone who has incurred the displeasure of a cat is well familiar with the differences between the intuitive feline and the average lumpish canine. In her latest animal expose Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has concentrated her studied eye on the varied family of cats. With respect for individuality and an anthropologist's eye for cultural patterns, she brings listeners an understanding of the feline personality to its basic element-the pursuit of prey....
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Ace freelance PR woman and amateur detective Temple Barr is 30-going-on-19 when she agrees to do homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina a big favor and go undercover as a contestant at Teen Idol, a TV reality show. The lieutenant is worried because someone is threatening the contestants- including her own 13-year-old daughter, by leaving mutilated Barbie dolls all over Las Vegas.
Reliving the years of melodrama and teen angst while acting as a nanny-cum-diversion...
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After a holiday trip to the Big Apple, Midnight Louie, a hard-boiled, hairy-chested, 19-pound black tomcat detective, returns home to death on the Nile. Two battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel cause a dead body to rise to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Temple Barr- Louie's redheaded, high-heeled human companion- and her two best beaux both have reasons to want him dead. Maybe by finding out which...
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Cat in a Neon Nightmare is the fifteenth Midnight Louie mystery, and this tough-talking tomcat is as feisty as ever, raising hell (sometimes literally) in Las Vegas, America's Sin Capital.
The lavish hotels and the sham of wholesome fun may soothe the tourists, but sex and greed still fuel this town, and bad guys still abound. And Midnight Louie, the feline Sam Spade has his paws full keeping those he loves safe.
This time Midnight Louie treads...
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