Gabrielle Williams, a mildly disfigured eighteen-year-old, has never had sex, has never even been kissed, and okay, let's be honest here...She's never even been noticed by the opposite sex. All that changes towards the end of her senior year. Gabrielle goes on her first date. Everything is fine until she blurts out that she suffers from a disease called Neurofibromatosis. The guy never calls again and Gabrielle assumes that a girl like her will never succeed in the game of love. To avoid all future pain, Gabrielle vows to never fall in love. She begins college knowing that the only way to prevent love from entering her life is to avoid all forms of romance and socialization. For Gabrielle, even reading a book with a romantic subplot can be dangerous. Who knows what kind of notions could creep into her head? Despite her best efforts, Gabrielle's plan fails. She finds herself madly in love and facing some very difficult decisions about honesty and acceptance.

Sarah befriends Miss Tabitha Hinshaw, who occupies an enchanting old house, along with 30 cats. But, the happiness is threatened when a neighbor complains about the cats.

Sarah's friend has a lot of cats--30 of them to be exact! When an angry neighbor complains, Sarah starts to match each cat's personality to people in the town to find them all new homes.

From the tiniest of kittens to the lordliest of lions, the most memorable feline stories ever written.

From "Dear Abby" to "People" magazine, Leigh Rutledge has been acclaimed as the writer who best understands the feline perspective on life. Now, in his most irresistible book yet, Rutledge shows readers what the world would be like if cats were in charge. Line illustrations throughout.

A literary master’s story about the aggravations and great joys of cats, from “a most sophisticated novelist, with a gusting humor and a hushed tenderness of detail” (Julian Barnes) In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and his country retreat, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer. All My Cats, written in 1983 after a serious car accident, is a confessional memoir, the chronicle of an author who becomes overwhelmed. As he is driven to the brink of madness by the dilemmas created by his indulgent love for the animals, there are episodes of intense brutality as he controls the feline population. Yet in the end, All My Cats is a book about Hrabal’s relationship to nature, about the unlikely sources of redemption that come to him unbidden, like a gift from the cosmos—and about love.