fb2Зеленоглазая пушистая Пруденс — все, что осталось у Лауры от матери… Семейная жизнь не ладится, и мамина питомица становится для девушки воплощением любви и надежды. А когда с ней случается беда, Лаура и ее муж бросают все, чтобы спасти кошку… и спасают свою любовь. Так маленький пушистый клубочек помогает людям растопить лед в своих сердцах.
Когда Гвен впервые прижала к себе пушистый черный комочек, которому никогда не суждено открыть глазки, она поняла: это не жалость, а настоящая любовь! И ради нее многим предстоит пожертвовать: очень скоро из-за выходок Гомера девушке и всем ее кошкам придется искать крышу над головой… Удастся ли слепому Гомеру выжить, когда 11 сентября в двух шагах от их нового дома рухнут башни-близнецы?
Меньше всего Гвен Купер хотела кота. С ее заурядной работой и недавно разбитым сердцем. Но встреча с брошенным трехнедельным слепым котенком, которого Гвен назвала Гомером, переросла в любовь с первого взгляда. Гомер преподал ей самый ценный урок: любовь — это не то, что вы видите своими глазами. Благодаря слепому котенку Гвен изменила свою жизнь и обрела счастье.
Fifteen years earlier, doctors
had warned that Homer—a
tiny, sightless kitten—was
unlikely to survive and probably
wouldn’t have much of a life
even if he did. Miraculously and against all the odds, however,
Homer grew into a feline
dynamo who scaled seven-foot
bookcases with ease, saved his
human mom’s life when he
chased a late-night burglar from their apartment, and rose to
global fame—paving the way
for other special-needs animals
once considered “unadoptable.” Now, only two weeks before
Christmas, with doctors once
again decreeing that Homer
didn’t have much time—that he
wouldn’t even make it to
Christmas Eve—Homer showed everyone that he still had one
more miracle left in him. The
heroic blind cat proved again,
once and for all, that hope and
love aren’t things you see with
your eyes. You see them with your heart. Humorous and heartwarming,
Homer and the Holiday Miracle
will leave you filled with the
true spirit of the season. It’s the
ideal stocking-stuffer for the cat
lover on your list—and the perfect holiday treat for
yourself. Read and rejoice!
The odds had always been
stacked against Homer, the
blind kitten nobody wanted. But
destiny took a hand the day he
met Gwen Cooper, and with the
publication twelve years later of the international bestseller
"Homer’s Odyssey," Homer went
from beloved house cat to
world-wide star. He became the
scourge and darling of the
reporters, photographers, videographers, bloggers, and
radio hosts who clamored to
meet him—dragging his hapless
human behind him as he
greeted fame with his usual joie
de vivre and occasional “catitude.” He became a spokes-
cat for the cause of special-
needs animals everywhere, and
eventually the wise older
mentor to the new special-
needs kitten who would enter his and Gwen’s lives. Most
importantly, Homer taught
those who loved him best how
to live and die with courage and
joy—and left behind a rescue
community of “Homer’s Heroes” that continues to save countless
lives in his name.
By turns humorous and tender,
this beautifully written, 115-
page sequel concludes the
adventures of Homer the Blind Wonder Cat—the fearless feline
who proved that love isn’t
something you see with your
eyes, that even the smallest of
creatures can make a big
difference, and that true love lives forever.
Once in nine lives, something
extraordinary happens...
The last thing Gwen Cooper
wanted was another cat. She
already had two, not to
mention a phenomenally underpaying job and a recently
broken heart. Then Gwen’s
veterinarian called with a story
about a three-week-old eyeless
kitten who’d been abandoned.
It was love at first sight. Everyone warned that Homer
would always be an
"underachiever," never as
playful or independent as other
cats. But the kitten nobody
believed in quickly grew into a three-pound dynamo, a tiny
daredevil with a giant heart
who eagerly made friends with
every human who crossed his
path. Homer scaled seven-foot
bookcases with ease and leapt five feet into the air to catch
flies in mid-buzz. He survived
being trapped alone for days
after 9/11 in an apartment near
the World Trade Center, and
even saved Gwen’s life when he chased off an intruder who
broke into their home in the
middle of the night.
But it was Homer’s unswerving
loyalty, his infinite capacity for
love, and his joy in the face of all obstacles that inspired Gwen
daily and transformed her life.
And by the time she met the
man she would marry, she
realized Homer had taught her
the most important lesson of all: Love isn’t something you see
with your eyes.
Homer’s Odyssey is the once-in-
a-lifetime story of an
extraordinary cat and his
human companion. It celebrates the refusal to accept limits—on
love, ability, or hope against
overwhelming odds. By turns
jubilant and moving, it’s a
memoir for anybody who’s ever
fallen completely and helplessly in love with a pet.
Before there was Homer the Blind Wonder Cat, there was Scarlett—the adorable, maddeningly aloof, gray rescue tabby...
Every cat lover remembers the very first feline they fell in love with. For celebrated cat writer Gwen Cooper, that first love is Scarlett—a pint-sized rescue kitten with a king-sized personality. A natural-born troublemaker and wary at first after life on the streets, Scarlett is quick to win hearts with her kittenish mischief, but slow to open her own heart to the woman who saved her. Yet as the months go by, and bonds of trust are painstakingly forged link by link, Gwen begins to realize that the love you have to earn just may be the love that means the most.
Poignant, tender, and laugh-out-loud funny, “I Choo-Choo-Choose You!” is the first in the Curl Up with a Cat Tale series of true short stories from Gwen Cooper—bestselling author of the smash hit Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale—and sure to warm the heart of any cat enthusiast. Read and fall in love for the first time all over again!
From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Homer’s Odyssey comes a tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, primarily told through the eyes of the most observant member of any human family: the cat.
Humans best understand the truth of things if they come at it indirectly. Like how sometimes the best way to catch a mouse that’s right in front of you is to back up before you pounce.
So notes Prudence, the irresistible brown tabby at the center of Gwen Cooper’s tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, which is mostly told through the eyes of this curious (and occasionally cranky) feline.
When five-week-old Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, she knows she’s found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn’t come home. From Prudence’s perch on the windowsill she sees Laura, the daughter who hardly ever comes to visit Sarah, arrive with her new husband. They’re carrying boxes. Before they even get to the front door, Prudence realizes that her life has changed forever.
Suddenly Prudence finds herself living in a strange apartment with humans she barely knows. It could take years to train them in the feline courtesies and customs (for example, a cat should always be fed before the humans, and at the same exact time every day) that Sarah understood so well. Prudence clings to the hope that Sarah will come back for her while Laura, a rising young corporate attorney, tries to push away memories of her mother and the tumultuous childhood spent in her mother’s dusty downtown record store. But the secret joys, past hurts, and life-changing moments that make every mother-daughter relationship special will come to the surface. With Prudence’s help Laura will learn that the past, like a mother’s love, never dies.
Poignant, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny, Love Saves the Day is a story of hope, healing, and how the love of an animal can make all of us better humans. It’s the story of a mother and daughter divided by the turmoil of bohemian New York, and the opinionated, irrepressible feline who will become the bridge between them. It’s a novel for anyone who’s ever lost a loved one, wondered what their cat was really thinking, or fallen asleep with a purring feline nestled in their arms. Prudence, a cat like no other, is sure to steal your heart.
From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Homer’s Odyssey comes a tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, primarily told through the eyes of the most observant member of any human family: the cat.
Humans best understand the truth of things if they come at it indirectly. Like how sometimes the best way to catch a mouse that’s right in front of you is to back up before you pounce.
So notes Prudence, the irresistible brown tabby at the center of Gwen Cooper’s tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, which is mostly told through the eyes of this curious (and occasionally cranky) feline.
When five-week-old Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, she knows she’s found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn’t come home. From Prudence’s perch on the windowsill she sees Laura, the daughter who hardly ever comes to visit Sarah, arrive with her new husband. They’re carrying boxes. Before they even get to the front door, Prudence realizes that her life has changed forever.
Suddenly Prudence finds herself living in a strange apartment with humans she barely knows. It could take years to train them in the feline courtesies and customs (for example, a cat should always be fed before the humans, and at the same exact time every day) that Sarah understood so well. Prudence clings to the hope that Sarah will come back for her while Laura, a rising young corporate attorney, tries to push away memories of her mother and the tumultuous childhood spent in her mother’s dusty downtown record store. But the secret joys, past hurts, and life-changing moments that make every mother-daughter relationship special will come to the surface. With Prudence’s help Laura will learn that the past, like a mother’s love, never dies.
Poignant, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny, Love Saves the Day is a story of hope, healing, and how the love of an animal can make all of us better humans. It’s the story of a mother and daughter divided by the turmoil of bohemian New York, and the opinionated, irrepressible feline who will become the bridge between them. It’s a novel for anyone who’s ever lost a loved one, wondered what their cat was really thinking, or fallen asleep with a purring feline nestled in their arms. Prudence, a cat like no other, is sure to steal your heart.
Can work, family life, and sanity itself survive a three-legged cat’s one-track obsession?
Clayton “the Tripod” is a special-needs rescue who quickly established himself as king of the house—a “loveable doofus” and natural clown with a heart big enough for ten cats. The day he teaches himself to play fetch, however, Clayton transforms from loving lap cat to ruthless slave driver, demanding round-the-clock games of toss/retrieve/repeat from his hapless human mom. He interrupts her work, her sleep, even her alone time with her husband. But how can any loving (if exhausted!) cat parent look into an adorable feline’s big hopeful eyes and say no?
From the Curl Up with a Cat Tale series of true-life short stories from Gwen Cooper—bestselling author of the smash hit Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale—“Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen” is full of Gwen’s trademark humor and heart. It’s a tale sure to resonate with animal lovers everywhere.
When an invading swarm of six-legged intruders takes over a peaceful Jersey City brownstone, there’s no one to turn to except two scrappy feline warriors in the battle against . . . THEM!
Gwen Cooper and her husband, Laurence, had no idea how bad an onslaught of clothes moths could get until they had to start throwing away cherished sweaters by the sackful. Their secret weapon against the stubborn six-legged pests are Clayton “the tripod” and his litter-mate Fanny—two strictly indoor black cats eager, at long last, to test their predatory prowess. But as casualties mount, and the moths meet the cats’ superior size and skill with their own overwhelming numbers, the question remains: Can two never-say-die furry soldiers ever win the war against THEM?
The latest entry in the continuing Curl Up with a Cat Tale series—true-life cat stories by Gwen Cooper, New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale—“THEM!” is a hilarious, high-octane adventure tale you won’t want to miss!