Author : Chloe Rhodes
Publisher : Michael O'Mara
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1843179164
This book illuminates the customs, beliefs and practices that link us to an ancient, and often darker, human past.
Author : CHLOE. RHODES
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2024
Category :
ISBN : 9781038768735
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 658593413X
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" is a short story that explores themes of guilt and perversity. The narrator, haunted by cruelty to his black cat and acts of domestic violence, is consumed by paranoia and madness. His attempt to conceal a crime leads to his own disgrace.
Author : Harry Oliver
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : 9781322762807
Author : Layla Morgan Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780998059198
Anthology of stories about and photographs of black cats.
Author : Shirley Blumenthal
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1977-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817210366
Highlights the origins and meaning of many superstitions.
Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 160183537X
No one knew where she had come from. A scrap of a girl clinging to a black cat with eerie yellow eyes. A lost child or an orphan, maybe. It was a miracle she had survived on Eden Mountain at all. Suddenly strange things began to happen in placid Ruger County, bizarre killings that the police couldn’t solve. Horrifying accidents that the people couldn’t comprehend. An insatiable beast was stalking their intimate hideaways, their swimming holes—and their children. No one noticed how quickly the little girl’s pale cheeks turned pink with health. How her frail body filled out with sleek, lithe muscles and feline grace. And no one noticed that at night her innocent blue eyes turned an eerie, evil yellow . . .
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307797961
A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman—but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories.
Author : Chloe Rhodes
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 184317779X
This charming book is filled with sayings, legends and proverbs derived from the oral history of the countryside and unveils how they came about, what they mean, and how they came to be such a big part of the language we use today.
Author : Amy Goldwasser
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1452158843
“Filled with true-life tales and stunning hand-drawn portraits . . . a loving tribute to feline eccentricity and charm.” —Real Simple This “brilliant” illustrated book (New York Magazine) dives whiskers first into the unique personality, charisma, and character of fifty real all-black cats. From Alfie, who has no tolerance for wet humans or being ignored, to Sashi, who enjoys freeze-dried chicken by candlelight and full-on body rubs, each cat comes to life through a lovingly hand-drawn portrait and quick-witted profile. Delightfully quirky and utterly charming, this motley crew of black cats will win over anyone with a dry sense of humor. “So fun and sweet.” —Paul Feig, film director and author of Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence “This book . . . is the pick of the litter.” —US Weekly
