Colette silva (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Five barn cats. One doctrine. Three children who have no idea they're being herded.On a Texas ranch, the five Polkey barn cats have made a discovery: tangle yourself around a child's ankles at precisely the right moment, and the child goes where you want. By mid-morning they have a plan, a chain of command, and a body of sacred law roughly an hour old - which they treat as though it were handed down by ancestors. The mission: move the three Polkey kids across the property to a goat that needs saving. Careful Bethan. Gwen, who narrates everything. And eight-year-old Jacob, who will taste anything once.What follows is a flung brisket, a show-off Labrador, a tube of something Jacob should not have tasted, a goat in a fence, and a longhorn with strong opinions about fences. The cats are certain they are running the entire operation. The cats are certain about a great many things.From the kitchen window, Charlie the indoor cat watches it all and offers the only sensible assessment available: 'Nothing good will come of it.'A short, comic, romp for anyone who likes their cats self-important and their narrators dry.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The universe is an egg. It's starting to crack. Someone had better put the kettle on. Everyone knows the universe is an egg - it's settled science, it's in the schoolbooks, the children paint it on things. Inside is a sun; around the sun, a ring; and on the inside of the ring lives a species that argues about the cost of fish, builds bridges, and forgets to feed the cat. Every so often the egg does a thing called a Quickening. The bread stops rising on Tuesdays. The cats all turn and stare at the same patch of nothing. And the gentleman in row three of the Council chamber goes slightly pale. This one is going to be the big one. It will not be met by heroes. It will be met by a baker who reads the cosmos in her sourdough, a three-person government office whose entire job is to notice things and write them down, an astronomer with a chart, a furious engineer, a priest about to break with his faction, a great many children and cats, and a truly remarkable amount of tea. Not one of them can stop what's coming. Every one of them intends to be there anyway. Because that's the work. And the work is the work.…

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