Tuesday, May 21, 2013

52 Weeks 52 Books / Week Ending May 20, 2013

LOST CAT: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE,
DESPERATION, AND GPS TECHNOLOGY
By Caroline Paul and
Drawings by Wendy MacNaughton

This is a charming story about a cat who goes missing in San Francisco. Anyone who has ever had a cat as a companion will empathize with the authors.  How many of you have immediately started to worry when you cat is not home at his or her normal time? (Of course this does not apply to those of you who have indoor only cats.)  This short book is a must read for any cat lover--filled with humor, love and great illustrations. 
 ~Katherine


"Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed. But they were also...jealous? Betrayed? Where had their sweet anxious cat disappeared to? Had he become a swashbuckling cat adventurer? Did he lovesomeone else more? His owners were determined to find out."

Tibia's day

"Using GPS technology, cat cameras, psychics, the web, and animal communicators, the authors of Lost Cat embarked on a quest to discover what their cat did when they weren't around. Told through writer Caroline Paul's rich and warmly poignant narrative and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton's stunning and hilarious 4-color illustrations, Lost Cat is a book for animal lovers, pet owners, and anyone who has ever done anything desperate for love."

Offical website for Lost Cat: http://www.lostcatbook.com




SIX YEARS by Harlan Coben

As usual, Harlan Coben delivers a good mystery, some romance, with plenty of twists....it's always good news when there's a new Coben book out!  ~ Katherine

"Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd.

But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for…but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she’s been married to Todd for almost two decades, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life—a time he has never gotten over—is turned completely inside out.

As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can’t be found, or don’t remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart, who lied to him, soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on a carefully constructed fiction."  From the publisher

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