In part one a cat-loving married couple are asked for advice on how to rid a feral colony of cats from under a storage trailer at a resort hotel. They decide to take on the task themselves. They spend the next three months on a quest which results in them capturing 23 cats and finding homes for 20 of them. To help understand their desire to undertake the quest, part two retraces the experiences they had with their own “fur persons” during a 40-year marriage. Stories range from the tale of ...

In the early days of video games, spatial awareness was limited to exactly what was on the screen. If an enemy was off-screen, it didn't exist until it killed you. Then, arcade classics like 'Defender' introduced a revolutionary concept: a crude, glowing radar at the top of the screen. This tiny UI element, which evolved into the modern mini-map, fundamentally changed how human beings process virtual space and navigate digital worlds. This deep dive into game design architecture explores t...

These linked essays of personal and cultural critique include meditations on home and childhood, love and sex, art and literature, parenting and self-destruction, on the city and on death. Walton constantly slips through and between memory's tenuous folds: "that never happened, exactly, but it's certainly not a lie." Witty, candid, defying category, dogma, and expectation, Unsavory Thoughts is a bold self-portrait in an inscrutable landscape: lyric, profound, tragic, hilarious, ab...

Kevin Mallory is a Customer Assistance Representative for a cable company. He keeps his customers on hold, his supervisor on the run and his female nemesis on ice, but a new friend just might change his perspective.Lilly has supported herself since high school with just a little help from her only living relative, her alcoholic older brother. She runs a small non-profit housing agency while McFadden, her supervisor and director of the agency, travels around the cou...

Still mourning the baby she gave away a year before – and feeling rejected by the same church people who had so cheerfully arranged that adoption – sixteen-year-old Diane seems to find a supportive friend in her gynecologist, Dr. Zeus. Diane is intelligent and bold but often leaps before she looks, and now she questions why he has to examine her so often, and why he prescribes her so many drugs.The state medical board also has suspicions about Dr. Zeus, but the official inquiry inc...

Stacey Davenport fights back against a regime that is quickly reducing women to concubinage in dystopian Kansas. Even as a motorcycle gang, deputized as religious police, rounds up the designated women, Stacey starts a political campaign to overthrow the regime. But Stacey's initial victory does not really change the status quo on the ground in certain parts of Kansas. Now, while Stacey fights in the legislature for the legal right to keep her unborn baby girl, her sister must risk her lif...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

Katzen haben sieben Leben – und die brauchen sie auch, wenn Rotraut Schöberl sie in die spannendsten Kriminalfälle verwickelt. Katzenliebhaber*innen wissen nur zu gut, welche finsteren Pläne sich hinter dem harmlosen Schnurren ihres Kuschelkätzchens verbergen können – und dass sich vor den schlauen Fellnasen nichts verbergen lässt. Ob als clevere Schnüffler oder als rabenschwarze Übeltäter, als samtpfötige Jägerinnen oder als schlaue Detektivinnen – wo gemordet wird, sind Katzen nicht weit...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

This collection of audiobooks offers timeless jewels from some of the greatest names in personal development. Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich will guide you in unleashing your full potential and achieving guaranteed success in life and work. As a Man Thinketh explains and promotes the direct connection between your thoughts and your happiness.Once you master the output of your brain and discover the connection between what you think and the direction your life...

A tender, heartfelt story to help children navigate grief - and remember that love never leaves.When a young child loses their father, the world suddenly feels quieter, smaller, and harder to understand. But in the soft whisper of the wind, in the sway of the trees, and in the warmth of a sunny day... love still finds its way through.In A Hug from the Wind, author Thomas Walton Jr. gently guides children through th...

His mother instilled in him the value of hard work and being the best at everything that he could be. As a child, he sold milk from the cow that his family owned. By age 7, he was selling newspapers. Naturally gregarious, he had an enthusiastic demeanor. After graduating from college, he worked at a JCPenney store where he had first-hand exposure to customer service. Shortly thereafter, he purchased a Ben Franklin retail store and that led him to create Walmart. This is the story o...