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<\/a>The Blanket Cats<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kiyoshi Shigematsu<\/p>\nSeven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a \u201cblanket cat\u201d . . . but only for three days, the time it\u2019ll take to change their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n A peculiar pet shop in Tokyo has been known to offer customers the unique opportunity to take home one of seven special cats, whose \u201cmagic\u201d is never promised, but always received. But there are rules: these cats must be returned after three days. They must eat only the food supplied by the owner, and they must travel to their new homes with a distinctive blanket.<\/em><\/p>\n In The Blanket Cats, we meet seven customers, each of whom is hoping a temporary feline companion will help them escape a certain reality, including a couple struggling with infertility, a middle-aged woman on the run from the police, and two families in very different circumstances simply seeking joy.<\/em><\/p>\n But like all their kind, the \u201cblanket cats\u201d are mysterious creatures with unknowable agendas, who delight in confounding expectations. And perhaps what their hosts are looking for isn\u2019t really what they need. Three days may not be enough to change a life. But it might just change how you see it.<\/em> – G.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/p>\n Former zoologist Coralie King now reigns over a different sort of animal kingdom as Queen Bee of Sevenoaks, a wealthy suburb of London. When her husband Adam spots a panther on the hood of his car at one of her exclusive dinner parties, Coralie is quick to reassure her guests that they\u2019re in no real danger. She sees the sighting as the perfect opportunity to revive her career and promote her own ecological endeavors.<\/em><\/p>\n New neighbor Emma Brooks doesn\u2019t believe for a second that there\u2019s a big cat in their midst but is all too willing to use the concern as a distraction from her home remodel application that\u2019s been facing scrutiny. Meanwhile, former punk musician Twig Dorsett doesn\u2019t know what to believe. She never thought she\u2019d return to Sevenoaks and be living in her childhood home, but after her daughter became sick, she and her wife traded their Bohemian life in Bali for the security of London suburbia.<\/em><\/p>\n As the summer heats up, the frenzy around the big cat sighting reaches a fever pitch when gnawed bones, pawprints, and scratches are discovered. But is the real predator a big cat on the prowl or is the true threat more of the domestic variety? Filled with gasp-worthy twists and turns, Cat Fight is a wickedly entertaining novel of suspense that examines the lengths to which some women will go when they feel caged.<\/em> – Atria Books<\/p>\n N\u00faria, a single-by-choice barista with a little resentment for the \u201ccrazy cat lady\u201d label, is a member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who takes care of the neighborhood\u2019s stray cats. On her volunteering days, she starts finding Post-it notes left by a secret admirer in an area where her feeds her favorite stray\u2014a black cat named Cat. Like most felines, he is both curious and observant, so of course he knows who the notes are from. N\u00faria, however, is clueless.<\/em><\/p>\n Are the notes from Collin, a bestselling author and self-professed hermit with a weakness for good coffee? Are they from Lily, a fresh-out-of-high school Georgia native searching for her long-lost half sister? Are they from Omar, the beloved neighborhood mailman going through an early midlife crisis? Or are they from Bong, the grieving widower who owns N\u00faria\u2019s favorite bodega?<\/em><\/p>\n When Cat suddenly falls ill, these five strangers find themselves bonding together in their desire to care for him, and discover that chance encounters can lead to the meaningful connections they\u2019ve all been searching for.<\/em> – Delacorte Press<\/p>\n Finding this killer will be a real stretch . . .<\/em><\/p>\n Ashley Branson has a lot to prove with her new cat yoga studio, A Purrfect Pose. It’s a place for humans to find inner wellness\u2014and adopt adorable cats from the local shelter. It\u2019s also a chance for Ash to run her own life, out from under her overbearing mother and a stifling relationship. So far, so successful. Until she discovers one of her new clients, a much-disliked college professor, dead in her studio, locked in child\u2019s pose . . .<\/em><\/p>\n To make matters worse, Ash\u2019s hapless always-in-trouble brother, Hunter, instantly becomes the cops\u2019 prime suspect. Determined to clear his name and save her business, Ash does a deep lunge into the surprising\u2014and strange\u2014connections the victim had with her other clients. But countless suspects, contradictory leads, not to mention people desperate to see her studio shut down, mean Ash will have to stretch to the max to outthink a clever killer who\u2019s ready to strike her red in tooth and claw . . .<\/em> – Kensington Cozies<\/p>\n Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication. Patients are often puzzled by this unconventional prescription, but when they \u201ctake\u201d their cat for the recommended duration, they witness profound transformations in their lives, guided by the playful, empathetic, occasionally challenging yet endearing cats.<\/em><\/p>\n Throughout the pages, the power of the human-animal bond is revealed as a disheartened businessman finds unexpected joy in physical labor, a young girl navigates the complexities of elementary school cliques, a middle-aged man struggles to stay relevant at work and home, a hardened bag designer seeks emotional balance, and a geisha finds herself unable to move on from the memory of her lost cat. As the clinic\u2019s patients navigate their inner turmoil and seek resolution, their feline companions lead them toward healing, self-discovery, and newfound hope.<\/em> – Berkley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Cat Fight<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kit Conway<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Cat’s People<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Tanya Guerrero<\/p>\n
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<\/a>A Pose Before Dying<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Alex Erickson (book 1 in the Cat Yoga Mystery series)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>We’ll Prescribe You a Cat<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Syou Ishida, translated by E. Madison Shimoda<\/p>\n