A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

"A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life-with potentially fatal consequences-in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series The Gardener Estate is one of the most storied and beloved places on the West Coast: a magnificent house in vast formal grounds, home to a family that shaped California-and fought hard to conceal the turmoil and eccentricities...

This is about good and bad times with the Lord. It is honesty about my flaws.

Do you want to grow your own fruit and vegetables all year round? Do you have a greenhouse or are you planning to get one? Is this type of gardening new to you and you need help to get started? There is nothing better or more satisfying than growing your own food. Any gardener will tell you that your own fruit and veg always tastes better than mass produced food. And when you learn how to grow throughout all the seasons, it means that there will always...

You can stockpile all the rice you like... but do you know how you're going to cook it if you're without power for months on end? If the power grid fails, it's not just your lights that go out. It's your water supply. It's your heating and cooling system. It's all your usual ways of cooking food or doing the laundry. Without the grid, life as we know it changes in an instant. Are you prepared for that? In this audiobook, you'll discover: The...

Disturbed by her family's comfortableness with American excess, Hatmaker writes with humor and depth about their unique social and spiritual decision to live by a rule of seven, reducing material possessions/distractions in order to connect with a greatly increased God.

Jamie longs to have at least one tooth missing in his first grade class picture, just like his friends, and when picture day arrives an unexpected event gives Jamie his wish.

Lots of exciting things are happening to Grace and her friends. Mimi's older cousin is coming to stay iwth Mimi and it will be her birthday while she is here. Also, Miss Lois' class is going green. Other exciting events involve flaming onion rings, talking carpets, water bottle animals and a squirrel named Willoughby.

Getting started with classical music. Prying open the classical music oyster ; The entire history of music in 80 pages ; Knowing how to spot a sonata -- Listen up! Dave 'n' Scott's E-Z concert survival guide ; For your listening pleasure ; Intermission : taking a backstage tour -- A field guide to the orchestra. Keyboards & Co. ; Strings attached ; Gone with the woodwinds ; The top (and bottom) brass ; Percussion's greatest hits -- Peeking into the...

Author Mark Kurlansky pleasantly surprised the world with this engaging best-seller that garnered rave reviews from critics and casual readers alike. His subject for this whimsical biography is the codfish, a species remarkable for its influence on humanity. Cod, Kurlansky argues, has driven economic, political, cultural and military thinking for centuries in the lands surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. Nations like England and Germany have waged wars...