What does it mean when your cat bites your toes as hard as she can?  When she suffocates you with her body, is she just getting comfortable or is she trying to tell you she needs more space?  In Sorry I Slept on Your Face, cats, in all their superiority, break up with their owners through sorry/not sorry letters illustrated with cute, funny, sweet photographs.  This book will make you laugh and make you ponder your relationship with your own cat....

A landmark new collection of stories from Richard Ford that showcases his brilliance, sensitivity, and trademark wit and candor. In Sorry for Your Trouble, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ford enacts a stunning meditation on memory, love and loss. "Displaced" returns us to a young man's Mississippi adolescence, and to a shocking encounter with a young Irish immigrant who recklessly tries to solace the narrator's...

After Cow's bad mood spreads to the whole farm, Dog starts a new chain reaction by showing kindness.

In these twelve intelligent tales, seasoned poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption. In his world, as easily as one man becomes a hero, another is riddled with failure. Fincke weaves together the large and small tragedies of daily life to create an inescapable, yet at times oddly comforting, reality. His characters inhabit a world of strip malls and fast-food joints, low-down...