"Happy Cat Happy You" by Arden Moore (Storey Publishing, $10.95) aims to help cat owners get inside of the feline mind - no simple task - and bridge the owner-pet gap. For instance:
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The financial panic that is gripping the nation reminds me of my mother's stories about growing up during the Depression.
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"Finding Beauty in a Broken World" by Terry Tempest Williams, Random House, $26 - Seventeen years have passed since Williams gave us "Refuge," an indelible meditation on her mother's battle with cancer and the devastation wrought on a bird sanctuary by rising waters in the Great Salt Lake.
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The financial panic that is gripping the nation reminds me of my mother's stories about growing up during the Depression.
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LOS ANGELES - Judy Blume has written "a book for every conversation you do not want to have with your child," quipped one of the emcees at Blumesday, a sold-out event celebrating the 70th birthday of the best-selling author at Hollywood's M Bar.
When I was a little girl, one of my favorite books was "A Tree Is Nice" by Janice May Udry. I didn't care that it had won the Caldecott Medal, although the charming illustrations by Marc Simont still stand the test of time.
Just how weird are our state's characters, mysteries, places, phenomena, beasts, haunts and roadside oddities?
Just how weird are our state's characters, mysteries, places, phenomena, beasts, haunts and roadside oddities?
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When I was a little girl, one of my favorite books was "A Tree Is Nice" by Janice May Udry. I didn't care that it had won the Caldecott Medal, although the charming illustrations by Marc Simont still stand the test of time.