Sign-In
Cart
Nine Lives Ahead
Paperback
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
Publisher: Rickroadway
Published: Jan 6 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When an unremarkable man's cat begins speaking fluent English, it doesn't deliver prophecy or magic-only dry, surgical advice and an unsettling awareness of what's coming next. The cat, Bandit, claims to be a reincarnated human from the future, returned for a single purpose: to keep his owner from making the same mistakes that once hollowed out a life.
What starts as absurd guidance about timing, money, and viral moments becomes a quiet apprenticeship in restraint. As attention grows and opportunity accelerates, Bandit enforces strict rules: move slowly, say less, never confuse validation with meaning. Each success arrives with a warning. Each invitation-to scale, to optimize, to explain-threatens to turn a human life into a consumable story.
When suspicion mounts and the internet demands answers, Bandit breaks his own rule and speaks in front of a witness, triggering consequences neither of them can undo. As the cat's borrowed life nears its end, the narrator must choose between becoming a public narrative or remaining quietly whole-between being known and staying human.
Wry, intimate, and quietly philosophical, Nine Lives Ahead is a darkly funny novel about fame without spectacle, wisdom without certainty, and how sometimes the future doesn't need to be predicted-only resisted.
Also from
Crawford, Richard
William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth-Century Composer
McKay, David Phares
Crawford, Richard
Paperback
William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth-Century Composer
Crawford, Richard
McKay, David Phares
Hardcover
Also in
Humor
I Can't Believe I Did That: The Game That Gives You Points for Sharing Awkward, Awesome, and Unforgettable Memories: Card Games
Katcher, Neil
Nadelberg, David
Other
The Science Magpie: Fascinating Facts, Stories, Poems, Diagrams and Jokes Plucked from Science
Flynn, Simon
Paperback
Fixing Flamingos: And Other Solutions to the World's Least Pressing Problems
Rea, Brian
Brown, Lucienne
Paperback
How to Be a Cat: (Cat Books for Kids, Cat Gifts for Kids, Cat Picture Book)
Swerling, Lisa
Lazar, Ralph
Hardcover
Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers: A Little Book of Whimsy and Wisdom from the Files of the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
Hardcover
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Hardcover
Bake It Off: An Unofficial Taylor Swift-Inspired Cookbook for Every Era, from Breakfast to Midnights
Smith, Lindsey
Hardcover
Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love
Schur, Michael
Posnanski, Joe
Hardcover
Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to '90s Sitcoms
Bennett, Geoff
Hardcover
We Are the World (Cup): A Personal History of the World's Greatest Sporting Event
Bennett, Roger
Hardcover
How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up: Big Lessons from Little Kids
Shapiro-Barnum, Julian
Hardcover
Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take
Big Cat
Commenter, Pft
Hardcover
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume
Adams, Douglas
Paperback
There Are Moms Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent
Boozan, Glenn
Hardcover
The New Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Expert Advice for Extreme Situations
Borgenicht, David
Piven, Joshua
Hardcover
How to Talk to Your Cat about Gun Safety: And Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism, and Other Dangers That Threaten Their Nine Lives
Auburn, Zachary
Paperback
Nobody Wants Your Sh*t: The Art of Decluttering Before You Die (New York Times Bestseller)
Condo, Messie
Hardcover