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A Cat on Stage Left (An Alice Nestleton Mystery #16)
by Lydia AdamsonActress, catsitter and amateur sleuth Alice Nestleton finds her summer doldrums melting away like ice cubes on a sidewalk with a shocking murder that happens right on her doorstep. The victim? Mary Singer, the very woman who hired Alice to catsit. The murderer? The chauffeur of Mary's Rolls Royce, who shoots his employer before Alice's unbelieving eyes. But when Alice opens the cat carrier to check on the now orphaned feline, all she finds is an odd toy cat on wheels. Now why would anyone pay $2,500 for someone to watch a stuffed animal? With Pancho and Bushy, her new friend Sam Tully, and a Bengal cat in tow, Alice has a lot of ground to cover to trap a clever killer. The newest addition to the delightful Alice Nestleton mystery series, A Cat on Stage Left is the ideal combination of superb detective fiction and fabulous feline adventure. Millions of citizens live in New York City. A surprisingly large number of them come unforgettably to life as Alice Nestleton, forty-something-year-old Actress and cat sitter investigates a wide variety of crimes in the Alice Nestleton Mysteries. The complete series is available from Bookshare including #1 A Cat in the Manger, #2 A Cat of a Different Color, #3 A Cat in Wolf's Clothing, #4 A Cat in the Wings, #5 A Cat By Any Other Name, #6A Cat in A Glass House, #7 A Cat With No Regrets, #8 A Cat on the Cutting Edge, #9 A Cat on a Winning Streak, #10 A Cat in Fine Style, #11 A Cat in a Chorus Line, #12 A Cat Under the Mistletoe, #13 A Cat on a Beach Blanket, #14 A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock #15 A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock, #18 A Cat With the Blues, and #21 A Cat on the Bus. The action in these relatively short novels gets underway on page one. The reader isn't given a moment to lose interest. Being an actress, Alice notices details about places and people that bring the reader into the picture. Being a cat lover, Alice misses no opportunity to lavishly describe her own two cats and the cats she meets along her way.
A Cat on a Beach Blanket (An Alice Nestleton Mystery #14)
by Lydia Adamson[from the back cover:] "Alice Nestleton, an off-Broadway actress with a special talent for detection, is adding house-sitting to her résumé as she heads for a seaside mansion in the Hamptons...and her next sleuthing adventure. The fateful events begin at a neighboring beach house, where liquor is flowing, bon mots are bandied, and poetry is being recited. The evening ends with a bang when a car explosion kills an aspiring poet. Suddenly finding herself the prime suspect, Alice is determined to find out who made the sensitive young writer go to pieces. Her only clue is a mysterious beach cat with a bell around its neck. When a second body turns up, Alice decides to trap the culprit by "belling the cat." With its ingeniously puzzling plot, A Cat on a Beach Blanket is sure to please readers with the most finicky taste." Millions of citizens live in New York City. A surprisingly large number of them come unforgettably to life as Alice Nestleton, forty-something-year-old Actress and cat sitter investigates a wide variety of crimes in the complete 21 book Alice Nestleton Mystery series available from Bookshare including: #1 A Cat in the Manger, #2 A Cat of a Different Color, # 3 A Cat in Wolf's Clothing, #4 A Cat by Any Other Name, #5. A Cat in the Wings, #6 A Cat With a Fiddle, # 7 A Cat in a Glass House, #8 A Cat With No Regrets, #9 A Cat on the Cutting Edge, #10, A Cat in Fine Style, #11 A Cat On A Winning Streak, #12 A Cat Under the Mistletoe, #13 A Cat in the Chorus Line, #15 A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock, #16 A Cat On Stage Left, #17 A Cat of One's Own, #18 A Cat With The Blues, #19 A Cat With No Clue, #20 A Cat Named Brat and #21 A Cat on the Bus. Through the eyes of intelligent, cat loving, somewhat nonconformist Alice, aspects of New York city and New England are revealed that tourists never see.
A Cat on a Winning Streak (Alice Nestleton Mystery #11)
by Lydia Adamson[from the back cover] "Out-of-work actress Alice Nestleton is willing to go as far as Atlantic City for a gig. Relaxing in a fabulous suite, she is startled by a slinky cat crawling up to her sixteenth-floor window. Alice's quest for its owner takes her to the nasty scene of Adele Houghton slashed to death and her roommate, Carmella, standing there covered in blood. The police nab Carmella, but her handsome lover insists she is innocent and begs Alice to find the real killer. Alice is ready to bet that the murderer did in poor Ms. Houghton in order to steal her legendary, dice-charming cat. But the odds could be longer than a cat's nine lives against Alice stopping a fast-shuffling pro from stacking the deck." Millions of citizens live in New York City. A surprisingly large number of them come unforgettably to life as Alice Nestleton, forty-something-year-old Actress and cat sitter investigates a wide variety of crimes in the Alice Nestleton Mysteries available from Bookshare including #1 A Cat in the Manger, #2 A Cat of a Different Color, # 3 A Cat in Wolf's Clothing, #4 A Cat by Any Other Name, #5. A Cat in the Wings, #6 A Cat With a Fiddle, # 7 A Cat in a Glass House, #8 A Cat With No Regrets, #9 A Cat on the Cutting Edge, #10, A Cat in Fine Style, #11 A Cat On A Winning Streak, #12 A Cat Under the Mistletoe, #13 A Cat in the Chorus Line, #14 A Cat on a Beach Blanket, #15 A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock, #16 A Cat On Stage Left, #17 A Cat of One's Own, #18 A Cat With The Blues, #19 A Cat With No Clue, #20 A Cat Named Brat and #21 A Cat on the Bus, The action in these relatively short novels gets underway on page one. The reader isn't given a moment to lose interest. Being an actress, Alice notices details about places and people that bring the reader into the picture. Being a cat lover, Alice misses no opportunity to lavishly describe her own two cats and cats she meets along her way, as well as sprinkling in catnips of feline trivia cat-loving and curious readers will enjoy.
A Cat on the Bus (Alice Nestleton Mystery #21)
by Lydia Adamson[From the back cover:] "Alice Nestleton, once mockingly referred to as the Cat Woman by the local law enforcement, is finally getting everything she wants: a juicy role in a slick new TV series, a debonair leading man on camera and off, and enough money to give up cat-sitting for good. But when a simple crosstown bus ride turns Alice into the witness of a senseless multiple homicide--perpetrated by a bizarre killer who leaves her cat behind--the NYPD begs the Cat Woman to return as a consultant in the case, and Alice must make room in her perfect life to play investigator one last time." Millions of citizens live in New York City. A surprisingly large number of them come unforgettably to life as Alice Nestleton, forty-something-year-old Actress and cat sitter investigates a wide variety of crimes in the Alice Nestleton Mysteries available from Bookshare including #1 A Cat in the Manger, #2 A Cat of a Different Color, #3 A Cat in Wolf's Clothing, #4 A Cat in the Wings, #5 A Cat By Any Other Name, #12 A Cat Under the Mistletoe, #15 A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock, and #21 A Cat on the Bus, with the rest of the books in the series coming soon. The action in these relatively short novels gets underway on page one. The reader isn't given a moment to lose interest. Being an actress, Alice notices details about places and people that bring the reader into the picture. Being a cat lover, Alice misses no opportunity to lavishly describe her cats and cats she meets along her way.
A Cat on the Cutting Edge (Alice Nestleton Mystery #9)
by Lydia Adamson[from the back cover:] "Alice Nestleton's acting career has a case of the no-nos--no auditions, no jobs, no money. Even her cat sitting work is dwindling, and to add injury to insult, her harum-scarum kitty, Pancho, turns into a cat from hell rather than enter his carrier for a nail-cutting trip to the vet. The solution is to call in the professionals--the Village Cat People, a service for cat owners with problem pets. Unfortunately, a far bigger problem arrives when Martha, 'the Cat People representative, is murdered at Alice's front door. The police call it a mugging; Martha's coworkers call it an assassination. They want Alice, as a well-known amateur sleuth, to investigate. Alice prefers to put the tragedy behind her and move into a new loft apartment in Greenwich Village. But a second murder involving the Cat People gives her "paws." Now a clue linking the murders to a bohemian poet and the Village's vibrant past has her creating a risky trap to catch a killer. It will be a real work of art...or a colorful way to die." Millions of citizens live in New York City. A surprisingly large number of them come unforgettably to life as Alice Nestleton, forty-something-year-old Actress and cat sitter investigates a wide variety of crimes in the Alice Nestleton Mysteries available from Bookshare including #1 A Cat in the Manger, #2 A Cat of a Different Color, # 3 A Cat in Wolf's Clothing, #4 A Cat in the Wings, #6 A Cat With a Fiddle, #12 A Cat Under the Mistletoe, #15 A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock, and #21 A Cat on the Bus, with the rest of the books in the series coming soon. The action in these relatively short novels gets underway on page one. The reader isn't given a moment to lose interest. Being an actress, Alice notices details about places and people that bring the reader into the picture. Being a cat lover, Alice misses no opportunity to lavishly describe her own two cats and cats she meets along her way, as well as sprinkling in catnips of feline trivia cat-loving and curious readers will enjoy.
A Cat with No Regrets (Alice Nestleton Mystery #8)
by Lydia Adamson[from the back cover] "Everything's coming up roses for Off-Broadway actress Alice Nestleton when she lands a part in a major motion picture. With her two finicky felines and the three Abyssinians owned by producer Dorothy Dodd tagging along, she's ooh-lalaing her ban chance all the way to Provence, France. Her dreams are dazzled by potential stardom...until this tilm-noir goes dark with violent death. It looks like Dorothy Dodd has taken her final curtain call. The local gendarme calls the fatal car crash an accident, but Alice smells a raton when she learns one of the cats is a million-dollar kitty with an ad contract better than Morris's. She must now find the missing cat. But I'amour may be the catalyst for still another crime--as passions and pussycats head for a rendezvous with death."
A Cat with the Blues (An Alice Nestleton Mystery #18)
by Lydia Adamson[from the back cover] "Alice Nestleton is cat-sitting a beautiful Russian Blue--who also happens to be the center of a raging custody battle. Sidney and Beatrice Woburn are fighting over Frenchy, and just about everything else...so Alice, at the request of the lawyers, is keeping the cat company in the couple's luxurious high-rise apartment. But this profitable job is turning perilous. First, Alice narrowly escapes death while buying cat food at a nearby bodega. Then the building's doorman turns up dead, allegedly the victim of a mugging. And finally, Frenchy disappears, sending his erstwhile sitter on a nose-to-the-ground hunt for a catnapper--and, maybe, a killer...." Millions of citizens live in New York City. A surprisingly large number of them come unforgettably to life as Alice Nestleton, forty-something-year-old Actress and cat sitter investigates a wide variety of crimes in the Alice Nestleton Mysteries available from Bookshare including #1 A Cat in the Manger, #2 A Cat of a Different Color, # 3 A Cat in Wolf's Clothing, #4 A Cat by Any Other Name, #5. A Cat in the Wings, #6 A Cat With a Fiddle, # 7 A Cat in a Glass House, #8 A Cat With No Regrets, #9 A Cat on the Cutting Edge, #10, A Cat in Fine Style, #11 A Cat On A Winning Streak, #12 A Cat Under the Mistletoe, #13 A Cat in the Chorus Line, #14 A Cat on a Beach Blanket, #15 A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock, #16 A Cat On Stage Left, #17 A Cat of One's Own, #18 A Cat With The Blues, #19 A Cat With No Clue, #20 A Cat Named Brat and #21 A Cat on the Bus, The action in these relatively short novels gets underway on page one. The reader isn't given a moment to lose interest. Being an actress, Alice notices details about places and people that bring the reader into the picture. Being a cat lover, Alice misses no opportunity to lavishly describe her own two cats and cats she meets along her way, as well as sprinkling in catnips of feline trivia cat-loving and curious readers will enjoy.
A Cat's Christmas
by Stefanie Samek[From the back of the book:] "The Complete Guide to All Things Festive and Feline for the Holidays. A new holiday classic, this delightful book celebrates your favorite yuletide traditions from a distinctly feline perspective. From the historical origins of the holiday to its contemporary festivities, A Cat's Christmas includes such favorites as "A Cat's Christmas Carol," "The Nine Catnaps of Christmas," and "A Cat's Christmas in Wales," as well as ideas for cat- themed ornaments, gift suggestions for the cat who has everything, and recipes for special Yuletide treats. You'll also find advice on party etiquette, proven unwinders for wound-up cats, and what to say when a kitten asks, "Is there really a Santa Paws?" Filled with favorite poems, carols, stories, and delightful illustrations, A Cat's Christmas is the perfect stocking stuffer for every cat lover on your list." Full page illustrations are described.
A Catalog of Benevolent Items: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Classical Chinese Knowledge
by Li ShizhenDistills ten volumes, four dictionaries, and 1,800 years of knowledge into an authoritative introduction to the Ben cao gang mu. The Ben cao gang mu was the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia of natural history and medicine when it was published in China in 1593. In fifty-two chapters, the physician Li Shizhen recorded two millennia of medical observations, interpreting the wide-ranging uses of plants, animals, minerals, and artificial substances and including countless verbatim quotations along with his own evaluations. Edited and translated by Paul U. Unschuld, A Catalog of Benevolent Items provides thoughtfully curated selections from the Ben cao gang mu, organized by theme. This anthology offers little-known details of China’s historical knowledge of nature; traditional Chinese medicine and its theoretical foundations; social and cultural facets of ancient Chinese civilization not documented elsewhere; and the information management of a sixteenth-century Chinese scholar.
A Catalog of Birds
by Laura HarringtonBilly Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It’s 1970 and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down. A wounded Billy returns home to his family in upstate New York, especially to Nell, his adoring younger sister. In his absence, the woman he loves has mysteriously disappeared. His wounds have crippled his ability to even hold a pencil and his hearing loss has cut him off from the natural world. Nell, a brilliant student headed for a career in science, will do all that’s possible to save him. A Catalog of Birds is the story of a family and a community confronted with a loss of innocence and wounds that may never heal. The legacy of war and its destruction of nature is seared onto the memories of a small American town. Laura Harrington has written a tale of forgiveness, of ourselves, and those we love. Illuminated by heartbreak and promise, the novel is alive with spirit and wonder and hope for the future.
A Catalog of Burnt Objects
by Shana YoungdahlThe powerful story of a girl struggling to figure out her estranged brother, a new love, and her own life just as wildfires beset her small California town—perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Kathleen GlasgowSeventeen-year-old Caprice wants to piece her family back together now that her older brother has returned home, even as she resents that he ever broke them apart. Just as she starts to get a new footing—falling in love for the first time, uncertainly mending her traumatized relationship with her brother, completing the app that will win her a college scholarship and a job in tech—wildfires strike Sierra, her small California town, forcing her to reckon with a future that is impossible to predict.A love story of many kinds, and a reflection of the terrifying, heartbreaking Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, California, where the author grew up, this is a tale that looks at what is lost and discovers what remains, and how a family can be nearly destroyed again and again, and still survive.&“Gorgeous worldbuilding [and] depth . . . Swoony [and] unputdownable.&” —BCCB"Smart and moving . . . beautiful." —Kirkus (starred review)"Eloquent . . . well-drawn, realistic . . . Goes straight to the heart.&” —Booklist (starred review)"A thoughtful, hopeful tight-rope walk between first loss and first love." —Daisy Garrison, author of Six More Months of June"Heart-wrenching and lyrical." —Jeff Zentner, author of In The Wild Light&“You can&’t help but fall in love with the world inside this book.&” —Helena Fox, award-winning author of How It Feels to Float
A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by Kai-cheung DungDung Kai-cheung’s A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these stories in miniature begins from a piece of ephemera, usually consumer products or pop culture phenomena, and develops alternately comic and poignant snapshots of urban life.Dung’s sketches center on once-trendy items that evoke the world at the turn of the millennium, such as Hello Kitty, Final Fantasy VIII, a Windows 98 disk, a clamshell mobile phone, Air Jordans, and cargo shorts. The protagonist of each piece, typically a young woman, is struck by an odd, even overriding obsession with an object or fad. Characters embark on brief dalliances or relationships lasting no longer than the fashions that sparked them. Dung blends vivid everyday details—Portuguese egg tarts, Japanese TV shows, the Hong Kong subway—with situations that are often fantastical or preposterous. This catalog of vanished products illuminates how people use objects to define and even invent their own selves. A major work from one of Hong Kong’s most gifted and original writers, Dung’s archaeology of the end of the twentieth century speaks to perennial questions about consumerism, nostalgia, and identity.
A Catalogue of Catastrophe: Chronicles of St Mary's 13 (Chronicles of St. Mary's #13)
by Jodi Taylor'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL BOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.---Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she's always wanted. The one with no heavy lifting and no one tries to kill her. Well, one out of two's not bad...Punching well above their weight, Max and Markham set out to bring down a sinister organisation founded in the future - with a suspicious focus on the past.Max's focus is staying alive long enough to reunite with Leon and Matthew, alternately helped and hindered by St Mary's. Who aren't always the blessing they like to think they are.But non-stop leaping around the timeline - from witnessing Magna Carta to disturbing a certain young man with a penchant for gunpowder - is beginning to take its toll. Is Max going mad? Or are the ghosts of the past finally catching up with her? What people are saying about Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me''This amazing series is anything but formulaic. Just when you think you've got to grips with everything, out comes the rug from under your feet''Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it''St Mary's stories are the much-anticipated highlight of my year''Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked''A tour de force'(P) 2022 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
A Catalogue of Catastrophe: Chronicles of St Mary's 13 (Chronicles of St. Mary's #13)
by Jodi Taylor'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL BOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.---Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she's always wanted. The one with no heavy lifting and no one tries to kill her. Well, one out of two's not bad...Punching well above their weight, Max and Markham set out to bring down a sinister organisation founded in the future - with a suspicious focus on the past.Max's focus is staying alive long enough to reunite with Leon and Matthew, alternately helped and hindered by St Mary's. Who aren't always the blessing they like to think they are.But non-stop leaping around the timeline - from witnessing Magna Carta to disturbing a certain young man with a penchant for gunpowder - is beginning to take its toll. Is Max going mad? Or are the ghosts of the past finally catching up with her? What people are saying about Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me''This amazing series is anything but formulaic. Just when you think you've got to grips with everything, out comes the rug from under your feet''Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it''St Mary's stories are the much-anticipated highlight of my year''Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked''A tour de force'
A Catalogue of Catastrophe: Chronicles of St Mary's 13 (Chronicles of St. Mary's #13)
by Jodi Taylor'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL BOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIESFor fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.---Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she's always wanted. The one with no heavy lifting and no one tries to kill her. Well, one out of two's not bad...Punching well above their weight, Max and Markham set out to bring down a sinister organisation founded in the future - with a suspicious focus on the past.Max's focus is staying alive long enough to reunite with Leon and Matthew, alternately helped and hindered by St Mary's. Who aren't always the blessing they like to think they are.But non-stop leaping around the timeline - from witnessing Magna Carta to disturbing a certain young man with a penchant for gunpowder - is beginning to take its toll. Is Max going mad? Or are the ghosts of the past finally catching up with her? What people are saying about Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me''This amazing series is anything but formulaic. Just when you think you've got to grips with everything, out comes the rug from under your feet''Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it''St Mary's stories are the much-anticipated highlight of my year''Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked''A tour de force'
A Catalogue of Chaucer Manuscripts: Volume Two: The Canterbury Tales
by M.C. SeymourThis second volume, which completes the first comprehensive catalogue of Chaucer's manuscripts, describes the 56 extant copies and the fragments of 8 otherwise lost copies of the Canterbury Tales. These manuscripts, last examined together over 50 years ago, are here described after a fresh appraisal and in the light of modern scholarship, and some revisions of date, decoration, dialect, location, provenance, and script are suggested. The Introduction defines some of the major textual problems posed by the manuscripts and presents some thoughts thereon, while suggesting solutions to some incidental cruces. The Indices and Appendices record the citation of lost and unidentified copies of the Canterbury Tales, the names of former owners and associates, and addenda et corrigenda for Volume I. The Catalogue is designed as a reference work for those teachers and students who wish to know what and where the extant material is without the labour of its collection and for those able in the various specialities of manuscript bibliography to advance present knowledge.
A Catalogue of Everything in the World
by Yelizaveta P. RenfroThese linked short stories, all set in Nebraska, feature a range of characters: a bus driver mourning the death of his infant, an octogenarian preparing for death, a girl trying to cope with her parents' divorce, and a woman whose obsession with a decades-old crime has taken over her life.
A Catch in Time
by Dalia RoddyIn one moment a global blackout occurs, and six billion humans become unconscious. During a brief yet seemingly eternal three-minute sequence, a series of catastrophic events occurs, and minds collide with truths hidden beyond the physical realm. Original.
A Catch of Consequence
by Diana NormanA captivating historical novel from the national bestselling author, as Ariana Franklin, of Mistress of the Art of Death. Makepeace Burke serves Patriots at her late father's tavern on the Boston waterfront in 1765 and hates the redcoats with a vengeance. But even she can't watch an angry mob drown an Englishman. She rescues him and nurses him back to health-and falls in love. In Patriot Boston, hers is an unforgivable sin-made worse by the fact that her Englishman turns out be the aristocratic Sir Philip Dapifer. Philip must smuggle Makepeace aboard a ship bound for London and save her life at the expense of the world she knows. Rich in period detail, bringing the years of colonial rebellion to vivid life, A Catch of Consequence is a stylish novel of Boston and England, and of a woman who defies convention in both worlds.
A Catedral
by Mois Benarroch Isabel RuizLa Catedral (A Catedral) A Catedral se desenvolve em uma metrópole real e futurista, construída ao redor de um centro comercial que inclui tudo, desde lojas até clínicas, restaurantes e livrarias. Os bairros se chamam “Pescoços” (Cuellos) e levam à cidade até o final da civilização, ali onde se acaba a cidade e começa a guerra. Sandoval e Sandra se veem perseguidos por tentar sair da Catedral sem fazer nenhuma compra; pecado penal em um mundo onde comprar é uma religião. “Comprem para seu futuro, o futuro é comprar” reza uma espécie de muezim1 desde os alto-falantes do centro comercial chamado “Catedral” que talvez tenha sido uma sinagoga no passado. Sandoval chega até o limite da cidade e ali vê os que tentam e não podem entrar nela, para que ele não possa mais ser aquele que foi e se refugiou nos escritos de seu pai que falam de outro passado, outro mundo. Entre a ficção científica e a crítica social, uma novela para o novo milênio.
A Catered Affair
by Sue MargolisA novel about a jilted bride who's about to discover that not marrying the wrong man can sometimes lead you to the right one. When Tallulah gets jilted at the altar, she gets very drunk and starts making passes at the male wedding guests. She even propositions the caterer. But in the next few weeks, reality comes crashing down around her. Her difficult mother becomes more impossible than ever. Her lesbian sister starts trying to have a baby. Nana Ida gets busy matchmaking. What Tallulah is about to discover is that happiness doesn't always come in the form of the perfect doctor- and that sometimes real love doesn't require a catered affair. .
A Catered Bake-Off (A Mystery With Recipes)
by Isis CrawfordWhen sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons bring their culinary prowess from A Little Taste of Heaven catering company to a baking competition in Upstate New York, it&’s murder that takes the cake . . .What&’s the worst that could happen on a reality show bake-off filmed at a picturesque estate? As it turns out, a whole lot. Thrown into the fray against four seasoned competitors, the Simmons sisters face more than just cameras broadcasting their frosting mishaps on local TV. Right from the get-go, their small screen debut sours with suspicious ingredients and malfunctioning appliances. Then there&’s the inexplicable invasion of goats that sends the entire production into a tailspin, followed by a flurry of ominous notes delivered anonymously to the cast and crew.Tensions really reach a boiling point when one of the judges meets a grisly end—death by exploding espresso machine! With a dangerous mystery solidifying, Bernie and Libby whisk through the vast property on a mission to uncover who could have taken down the show&’s discerning food critic. But when the bake-off serves another victim, the sleuthing siblings find themselves racing to catch a mixed-up killer before the final timer dings . . .Includes Original Recipes for You to Try!
A Catered Birthday Party (A Mystery With Recipes #6)
by Isis CrawfordA Little Taste of Heaven catering certainly knows how to feed people. Dogs, however..? When sisters Bernie and Libby sign on to cater Trudy the Pug's birthday bash, it isn't just any doggie 'do. Trudy's owner, Annabel Colbert, is one of the richest women in town--and as mascot of the Colbert toy company, Trudy herself is a bona fide celebrity. But when the big day arrives, mere moments after dipping into the wine, Annabel is shrieking she's been poisoned--and falling face first into her soup. After two days in a coma, Annabel is dead. It seems the woman who had everything also had her share of enemies. In fact, Annabel was cheating, blackmailing, or backstabbing most everyone she knew--including Trudy's trainer and kennel owner. With so many suspects, sniffing out the truth is a risky proposition. Bernie and Libby had better close the oven on this case fast--before they get burned... "Fans of Diane Mott Davidson and Joanne Fluke will enjoy the investigative and culinary antics of the nosey sisters." -Library Journal"Enjoyable and entertaining." -Romantic Times"Diverting...gabby..." -Publishers Weekly
A Catered Book Club Murder (A Mystery With Recipes)
by Isis CrawfordSisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are used to catering lip-smacking treats to an artsy group of book lovers—until fiction spills into reality . . . If anything can be said about endearingly predictable Margo Hemsley, it&’s that she always serves elaborate desserts at her mystery book club meetings. That&’s why everyone fears the worst after she doesn&’t pick up her order from Bernie and Libby and skips out on the monthly gathering. The Simmons sisters can&’t imagine their acquaintance vanishing like a character from one of her favorite novels, at least not willingly. When the search ends with the discovery of a dead body, Bernie and Libby agree to help the nine remaining book club members prove their friend was murdered. But a speed read through Margo&’s background reveals there was more to the victim than harmless hobbies and frumpy cardigans would suggest. As the sleuthing sisters unearth scandalous secrets about the book club members, they&’ll have to determine who was connected to Margo&’s shady dealings—and who sent her to an early grave . . .
A Catered Cat Wedding (A Mystery With Recipes #14)
by Isis CrawfordSisters Bernie and Libby Simmons run a catering business in their upstate New York town, and they’re ready and willing to handle any wedding—even one where the bride and groom have tails . . . Susie Katz is known as the crazy cat lady of Longely, New York, and goes out of her way to earn the title, right down to her cat T-shirts and porcelain Hello Kitties. She’s a fanatic for anything feline. Humans, not so much. So when she decides to put up a tent on her property and hold an extravagant wedding ceremony for her two Russian blues, she makes sure to include a few two-legged guests—primarily to raise some hackles. All her favorite enemies will be there: her bird-loving neighbor, a rival cat breeder, a local animal rights activist, and the niece and nephew who stand to inherit her considerable fortune . . . if she doesn’t spend it all on cat tchotchkes first. Susie can’t wait for them all to watch as Boris and Natasha slink up the aisle in their very expensive diamond-studded collars, before everyone starts digging in to the poached salmon and caviar provided for the occasion by Bernie and Libby. But chaos erupts when a wedding gift is unwrapped and a mischief of mice jump out of the box—followed by the disappearance of all the pampered partygoers. Just a few hours later, Susie is stabbed in the back while searching for her missing kitties near the now-empty tent—and it’s up to the Simmons sisters to sniff out the killer . . . Includes Original Recipes for You to Try!