Search Results for Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.

Traveller : a novel

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Adams, Richard,
1988.
1st ed.
Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.
Book

Any small thing can save you : a bestiary

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Adam, Christina.
c2001.
Book

Max: best friend, hero, Marine [DVD].

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

2015.
When Justin's family adopts the military canine that was handled by Justin's departed brother, Kyle, Justin helps the troubled dog recover from the trauma it suffered in Afghanistan when Kyle was killed as the two investigate how Kyle died.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD].

The elephant keeper

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Nicholson, Christopher,
2010.
Book

Chinese whiskers

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Pallavi Aiyar.
2012.
1st U.S. ed.
"Middle-class Soyabean is tended by a traditional grandma, while Tofu was born in a trash can. But these two pussies are adopted by foreigners and live together in a courtyard house in one of Beijing's traditional "hutong" neighborhoods. Then a serious illness sweeps the country--and cats are blamed."--Library Journal.
Book

Wild dogs : a novel

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Humphreys, Helen,
c2004.
Book

Great apes

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Self, Will.
c1997.
1st American ed.
Painter Simon Dykes awakens after a night of drinking to find the world is populated by monkeys. He is taken to a psychiatric hospital where monkey doctors try to cure him of his delusion that he is human. A spoof on the human condition.
Book

Animal crackers

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Tinti, Hannah.
©2004.
In an anthology of eleven offbeat stories, different animals become the test of the deepest human fears, in such works as "Miss Waldron's Red Colobus, " "Slim's Last Ride, " and the title story, in which an elephant keeper courts danger from his charge.
Book

Old yeller [sound recording]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Gipson, Fred,
p1991.
The story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country of the 1860s.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

The crossing

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McCarthy, Cormac,
1994.
1st large print ed.
Book

Wolfer

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McKee, Mac.
©1995.
1st ed.
Book

Jennie

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Preston, Douglas J.
1994.
1st ed.
An African baby chimpanzee is brought to America by an anthropologist and raised as a member of the family, communicating by sign language. The problems begin when the chimp realizes she is not human. By the author of the non-fiction Cities of Gold.
Book

Mabel and me : best of friends

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Sperring, Mark.
2015.
A laugh-out-loud exploration of what puts the "best" in best friends!.
Other

Darkest desire : the wolf's own tale

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Schmitz, Anthony.
1998.
1st ed.
Book

The dog who saved me [large print]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wilson, Susan,
2015.
Large print edition.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Flight of the king

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Grey, C. R.
2015.
First edition.
Anxious to strengthen the bond that connects him to his Animas, the whtie tiger Taleth, Bailey must first join his friends in their fight against Viviana Melore and her Dominae movement.
Book

Together : a story of shared vision

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Sullivan, Tom,
2008.
Book

The friend [large print]

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Nunez, Sigrid,
2018.
Large print edition.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

The strange one.

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Bodsworth, Fred,
[1960, c1959]
Book

The wolf and the man : a western story

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Brand, Max,
2014.
First Edition.
Book

Garfield. A tail of two kitties [DVD]

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c2006.
Jon Arbuckle travels to the London and decides to bring his cat, Garfield, along for the trip. A case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle after swapping places with an aristocratic kitty who has inherited a fabulous castle. Garfield's reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD]

The diamond cat

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Babson, Marian.
1995.
1st U.S. ed.
As she is bringing in cats from a storm, Bettina Bilby, who cat sits for neighbors, finds a carrier pigeon killed by the storm. Lo and behold, its carrier tube is filled with diamonds. The next day strange people turn up claiming to be market researchers. What is Bettina to do, report the find to the police or keep it?
Book

Legacy of the claw

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Grey, C. R.
[2014]
First edition.
In a world where every person forms a bond with an animal species upon coming of age, one boy has not found his Animas, but learns of a heroic destiny.
Book

Rats, bats & vats

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Freer, Dave,
2000.
"Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt ... stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats, " in a ruined wine-farm with plenty of brandy but not much food.--Jacket.
Book

My friend Flicka

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

O'Hara, Mary.
[1973, ©1941]
An irresponsible boy grows toward maturity and finally wins his father's acceptance as he faces the difficulties and challenges of raising a filly.
Book

The woman and the ape

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Høeg, Peter,
1996.
1st ed.
Book

Dog : a short novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Herman, Michelle.
©2005.
When single, childless, and cynical J.T. Rosen, a college professor and poet, adopts a puppy, she forges a connection with the dog that takes even her by surprise. By the author of Missing.
Book

Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings [kit]

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Moore, Christopher,
[2019]
Book
JLC Title 245h [kit]

Those darn squirrels!

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Rubin, Adam,
[2011], c2008.
When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.
Book

Linger

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stiefvater, Maggie,
2011.
1st ed.
As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.
Book

Old Yeller [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Gipson, Fred,
p2002.
Library ed.
With the help of a yellow stray dog named Old Yeller, fourteen-year-old Travis tries to meet his responsibilities on the family's Texas hill country farm in the 1860s.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Niki : the story of a dog

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Déry, Tibor,
c2009.
Book

Ape house : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Gruen, Sara.
2010.
1st ed.
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
Book

The friend

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Nunez, Sigrid,
2018.
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
Book

The rats, the bats & the ugly

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Flint, Eric.
©2004.
In the sequel to Rats, Bats & Vats, the team of metally gifted bats and rats, accompanied by their human leader, sets out to persuade an incompetent military bureaucracy that they are about to be invaded by a powerful alien conspiracy, joining forces with Fluff, the pet of one of the colony's ruling class, to save the world.
Book

Women & other animals : stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Campbell, Bonnie Jo,
1999.
An anthology of stories on human relationships. The story, Eating Aunt Victoria, traces the relationship of teenagers and their mother's lesbian lover, while in Bringing Home the Bones an accident in which a woman loses a leg improves her relations with her children.
Book

Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Moore, Christopher,
c2003.
1st ed.
Book

Heroic measures : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Ciment, Jill,
©2009.
1st ed.
From the author of "The Tattoo Artist" comes a taut, moving, accomplished work, set in a fraught, post-9/11 New York City on panic-alert.
Book

Cormac [sound recording] : the tale of a dog gone missing

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Brewer, Sonny.
p2007.
Southern voices audio
While Brewer is on a book tour in San Francisco, his golden retriever Cormac vanishes from their Alabama home. What follows is an extraordinary adventure, as Brewer travels door-to-door searching for information, only to discover the trail leads far beyond Alabama.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

Ferals

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Grey, Jacob.
c2015.
1st ed.
In a city ravaged by crime and corruption, 13-year-old orphan Caw's only friends are the murder of crows he has lived with since his parents flung him from their house aged only five. Caw lives in a treehouse in an abandoned city park, surviving on scraps of food and only communicating with his three crows. But a jailbreak at the prison forces him into contact with other humans -- particularly a girl called Lydia, who is attacked by the escaped prisoners and is saved by Caw. Caw realises that these escaped prisoners have more in common with him than he'd like -- they too are Ferals, humans able to communicate with and control an animal species. And they want to bring their evil Feral master, The Spinning Man, back from the Land of the Dead. Only by joining forces with other good Ferals hiding throughout the city can Caw stand a chance of defeating them.
Book

A circle of elephants

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Dinerstein, Eric,
2019.
First edition.
Thirteen-year-old Nanda Singh, the youngest elephant driver in Nepal, enjoys a very special relationship with his tusker, Hira Prashad, through which he grows in understanding and compassion with all animals, including humans.
Book

Spill simmer falter wither [large print]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Baume, Sara,
2016.
Large print edition.
This captivating debut novel is a moving depiction of how a relationship between fellow damaged creatures can bring them both comfort. One of those rare stories that utterly, completely imagines its way into a life most of us would never see, it transforms us not only in our understanding of the world, but also of ourselves.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Ape house [spoken word] : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Gruen, Sara.
[2010], p2010.
Unabridged.
When a family of bonobo apes disappears from a laboratory, everybody is perplexed until they make a sudden appearance on a popular TV show.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [spoken word] :

Flush : a biography

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Woolf, Virginia,
1976, ©1933.
The story of Elizabeth Barret Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush.
Book

I thought you were dead [sound recording] : a love story

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Nelson, Peter,
p2010.
Unabridged.
For Paul Gustavson, life is a succession of obstacles. Still, he has friends at Bay State bar, and a steady line of cocktails. And then there's Stella, the one constant in his life, who gives him sage advice, doesn't judge him, and gives him unconditional love. However, Stella won't accompany Paul into his favorite dive bar. She is Paul's aging Lab-shepherd mix, and knows Paul better than he knows himself.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

Blood red : the elemental masters, book nine

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Lackey, Mercedes,
[2014]
Gretchen Schwarzwald, or Little Red Riding Hood, is rescued by the Woodsman's Lodge Fire Master after her parents are killed by werewolves. Little Red Riding Hood's real name is Gretchen Schwarzwald, and she is from the Schwarzwald (the Black Forest) in Germany. Ten years ago, she was orphaned by an evil Earth Master who wanted her parents' land and killed them all with the werewolves he created. She was rescued by a Fire Master, a member of the Woodsman's Lodge, and taught how to use her own Fire Powers. Now another werewolf pack is ravaging Exmoor, and she has come to help London's White Lodge eradicate it and find and destroy the Elemental Master behind it.
Book

The crossing [sound recording]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McCarthy, Cormac,
p2002.
In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

A dog's life

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Mayle, Peter
[1995]
First edition.
All about a dog named Boy. He recounts his days as a bachelor, his contempt for hunters, his love--after a fashion--for chickens, his amorous interludes and his run-ins with plumbers and other human annoyances. By the author of Toujours Provence, with drawings by Edward Koren.
Book

The council of animals

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McDonell, Nick,
2021.
First edition.
"First came the pandemic, then came The Calamity. The few remaining humans are huddled in impoverished villages. The animals, meanwhile, have convened a gathering, each group sending a representative to debate and vote on whether to help the last human stragglers... or to kill and eat them. As each animal makes its case, the fate of humanity depends on whether each species will act in its own self-interest, or if they will follow the lead of the kindly bear who believes that humans can be rehabilitated. The impending decision forces each animal to confront their past traumas at the hands of the humans while also putting them in the position to reign over the other sub-species -- rodents and insects -- if they so choose. The desire for power, deeply ingrained prejudices, and glimmers of righteousness guide the members of the council as they work to establish a new world order." --
Book

Sammy in the sky

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Walsh, Barbara
2011.
1st ed.
A little girl tells about her special pet, Sammy, "the best hound dog in the whole world, " and how, after he becomes sick and dies, she comes to know the truth of her mother's words, that Sammy's spirit is everywhere.
Book

Old Yeller

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Gipson, Fred,
2001.
1st Perennial Classics ed.
When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old Yeller" is a timeless coming-of-age tale. Travis is left to care for the farm when his father leaves on a cattle drive. He copes with many hardships with the help of his big, yellow dog, Old Yeller.
Book

Emory's gift

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce.
2011.
1st ed.
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
Book

The rats, the bats & the ugly

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Flint, Eric.
2006.
In the sequel to Rats, Bats & Vats, the team of metally gifted bats and rats, accompanied by their human leader, sets out to persuade an incompetent military bureaucracy that they are about to be invaded by a powerful alien conspiracy, joining forces with Fluff, the pet of one of the colony's ruling class, to save the world.
Book

Last days of the dog-men : stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Watson, Brad.
c1996.
Eight stories on dogs. In Seeing Eye, a dog reflects on his carefree days before he became responsible for a blind man, Kindred Spirits is on a dog made to hunt wild boar, while Bill is on a woman who has to put a dog to sleep.
Book

Life of Pi [spoken word] : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Martel, Yann.
?2002.
"After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy names Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listeners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God"--Container.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word] : a novel

My friend Flicka

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

O'Hara, Mary.
2006.
1st Harper pbk. ed.
Through his intense devotion to the colt Flicka, a young boy living on a Wyoming ranch begins to learn about responsibility and gain a better understanding of his brusque father.
Book

House of rough diamonds

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Lindskold, Jane M.,
[2023]
"No one is at all sure what a book wraith might be, but whatever it is definitely has the battered tomes in the Library of the Sapphire Wind very worried indeed. Figuring out what a book wraith could be is hardly the least of the challenges that the newly formed House of Rough Diamonds will face as the motley assortment of members-including three women who are literally "out of this world"-attempt to secure ownership of the Library. Enemies old and new, both within and without the contested property, will strain the Rough Diamonds ingenuity and resources, forcing the small group to recruit new and possibly dangerous allies."--
Book

Spill simmer falter wither

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Baume, Sara,
2016.
First U.S. edition.
"This captivating story follows -- over the course of four seasons -- a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It is springtime, and two outcasts -- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life -- find each other, by accident or fate, and forge an unlikely connection. As their friendship grows, their small, seaside town suddenly takes note of them, falsely perceiving menace where there is only mishap; the unlikely duo must take to the road. Gorgeously written in poetic and mesmerizing prose, Spill Simmer Falter Wither has already garnered wild support in its native Ireland, where the Irish Times pointed to Baume's "astonishing power with language" and praised it as "a novel bursting with brio, braggadocio and bite." It is also a moving depiction of how -- over the four seasons echoed in the title -- a relationship between fellow damaged creatures can bring them both comfort. One of those rare stories that utterly, completely imagines its way into a life most of us would never see, it transforms us not only in our understanding of the world, but also of ourselves."--
Book

The friend [kit] : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Nunez, Sigrid,
[2019]
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
Book
JLC Title 245h [kit] :

I'm my own dog [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stein, David Ezra.
[2014]
Unabridged.
A dog without a human companion fetches his own slippers and curls up at his own feet but cannot reach a certain itchy spot in the middle of his back, compelling him to leash a poor lonely human who will loyally offer a helpful scratch.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

The crossing [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McCarthy, Cormac,
p2016.
Unabridged.
Billy and Boyd Parham are two boys living in New Mexico on the cusp of unimaginable events in the years before the Second World War. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild among cattle. Billy traps a she-wolf, intending to restore it to the mountains of New Mexico. But when he returns, he finds everything he left behind utterly transformed.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Mort(e) : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Repino, Robert,
[2015]
"The 'war with no name' has begun, with human extinction as its goal. The instigator of this war is the Colony, a race of intelligent ants who, for thousands of years, [has] been silently building an army that would forever eradicate the destructive, oppressive humans. Under the Colony's watchful eye, this utopia will be free of the humans' penchant for violence, exploitation, and religious superstition. The final step in the Colony's war effort is transforming the surface animals into high-functioning two-legged beings who rise up to kill their masters"--Amazon.com.
Book

A stranger at Green Knowe

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Boston, L. M.
2002.
A strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo.
Book

Unrestricted access : new and classic short fiction

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Rollins, James,
[2020]
Large print edition.
In this collection of short fiction, his first ever anthology, James Rollins brings together twelve thrilling stories that dig a little deeper into his creative stomping grounds and open vistas into new landscapes and characters. At the centre of Unrestricted access is the never-before-published novella Sun dogs. While trekking through the Sonora desert, a gunshot thrusts Tucker and Kane into an adventure that challenges their considerable skills. The discovery of secrets known only to the native tribes of Arizona threatens to unleash an ancient force that could irreparably alter the future. It also forces Tucker to make a terrible choice that will shatter his relationship with his soul-bonded companion Kane. As these partners learn, nothing remains buried forever and old debts must be paid, no matter the cost. Other stories -- each with an introduction by James Rollins -- are just as compelling, offering broader insight into this acclaimed master's fictional universes.
Book

My friend Flicka

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

O'Hara, Mary.
[1944]
Book

Broken ground

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Schwab, Victoria,
[2016]
Unabridged.
When the world of Erdas faces a new threat, four young heroes and their spirit animals are determined to stop it as they embark on a journey that takes them deep underground and to the far corners of the world.
CD

The good pilot Peter Woodhouse

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McCall Smith, Alexander,
2017.
First United States edition.
"From the...author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and La's Orchestra Saves the World, a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set during World War II, in which a British farm girl, an American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together by an unlikely hero: a (very cute) border collie."--
Book

The good pilot Peter Woodhouse

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McCall Smith, Alexander,
2018.
First large print edition.
"From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and La's Orchestra Saves the World, a heartwarming tale of hope and friendship set during World War II, in which a British farm girl, an American pilot, and a German soldier are brought together by an unlikely hero: a (very cute) border collie. Val Eliot, a land girl working on an English farm during the war, finds herself in charge of protecting a rescued border collie named Peter Woodhouse from the owner who mistreated him. When Val meets Mike, an American Air Force pilot stationed nearby, she realizes that the safest place for the little dog is alongside Mike at the base. With the love and attention of the pilots, Peter Woodhouse becomes Dog First Class, the mascot of the U.S. Air Force, boldly accompanying the officers on their missions--until a disaster jeopardizes the future of them all. It is then that Peter Woodhouse brings Ubi, a German corporal, into their orbit, sparking a friendship that comes at great risk, but carries the richest of rewards"--
Book

Earnest

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Von Kreisler, Kristin,
[2016]
"Earnest. Its the perfect name for a sweet, eager-to-please yellow Labrador retriever. Anna and her boyfriend Jeff fall for him the minute they see those guileless eyes gazing up from behind his gate at Seattle's Second Chance Shelter ... During the day, Earnest keeps Anna company in her flower shop, located in a historic gingerbread Victorian on the island's main street. Anna hopes to buy and restore the house, once owned by her beloved grandmother. But when that dream is threatened by Jeffs actions, Anna's trust is shattered. For so long, the house has encompassed all her ideals of security, home, and family. Yet Earnests devotion to his two people, and theirs to him, make it impossible for them to walk away from each other. And when a crisis hits, its Earnest, honest, stubborn, and uncannily wise, who will help Anna reconcile her past and embrace what the future can bring."--Amazon.com.
Book

The dog who saved me

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wilson, Susan,
2015.
First edition.
"In Susan Wilson's The Dog Who Saved Me, a former Boston K-9 unit policeman turned animal control officer in bucolic Harmony Farms is up against rescuing a gun shy and wounded dog gone feral, and proving that his low-life older brother is back in the drug business. Fighting his shattering grief at the death of his K-9 partner killed in the line of duty, and a staggering loss of confidence from physical and psychic wounds of his own, Cooper Harrison is back where he started, where his father Bull was once known as the town drunk. Where his brother was a delinquent and bully. Where he's one of 'those' Harrisons. Where Cooper must learn to forgive and, only then, heal."--
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Ellie's story : a dog's purpose novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce,
2015.
Trained as a search-and-rescue dog since puppyhood, Ellie can track and find people who are physically lost, but it is her owners, widower Jakob and lonely Maya, who challenge her to find a way to save people who are lost in other ways.
Book

Immortal guardians

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Schrefer, Eliot,
2015.
First edition.
When an ancient dark force emerges from a centuries-long slumber, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan must stop it from sweeping through Erdas and destroying their spirit animals--and the world.
Book

La perra

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Quintana, Pilar,
2017.
Primera edición.
"Damaris, una mujer del Pacífico entrada en la madurez y con muchas decepciones a cuestas, adopta a una perra y la llama Chirli, como hubiera querido llamar a la hija que nunca tuvo. Nace, así, una relación intensa y entrañable, en la que Damaris pone todo de sí para enderezar un destino que ya creía del todo torcido."--
Book

Spirit animals : Against the tide

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Sutherland, Tui,
2014.
First edition.
Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts - a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children - and the world - have been changed for ever. Enter the world of Erdas, where every child who comes of age must discover if they have a spirit animal, a rare bond between human and beast that bestows great powers to both. A dark force has risen from distant and long-forgotten lands, and has begun an onslaught that will ravage the world.
Book

The rapture index : a suburban bestiary

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Reid, Molly
2019.
First edition.
"Loosely based on the medieval bestiary, The Rapture Index examines the relationship between animals, humans, and storytelling. Harnessing the bestiary's combination of religious parable, encyclopedia, and art, Molly Reid journeys deep into suburbia to reveal characters struggling to navigate desire and responsibility: the desire to indulge their baser instincts while still fulfilling the expectations of society and family. Filled with moments of curiosity, misunderstanding, fervor, and heart, these stories offer a new twist on familiar landscapes as they explore what happens in the places where the wilderness has been tamed when we try to deny our own animal nature"--
Book

Fox tracks [sound recording] : [a novel]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Brown, Rita Mae.
pc2012.
Unabridged.
While outside on Manhattan's Midtown streets a fierce snowstorm rages ferociously, nothing can dampen the excitement inside the elegant ballroom of Manhattan's Pierre Hotel. Hunt clubs from all over North America have gathered for their annual gala, and nobody is in higher spirits than Sister Jane, Master of the Jefferson Hunt in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Braving the foul weather, Sister and her boyfriend, Gray Lorillard, pop out to purchase cigars for the celebration at a nearby tobacco shop, finding themselves regaled by the colorful stories of its eccentric proprietor, Achilles Alonzo. Yet the trip's festive mood goes to ground the next morning with the grisly discovery of Alonzo's corpse. The tobacconist was shot in the head but found, oddly enough, with a cigarette pack of Smoky Mountain Smokes laid carefully over his heart. When a similar murder occurs in Washington, D.C., Sister's horse sense tells her there's a nefarious plot afoot, one that's winding its way from the South's aromatic tobacco farms to the wood-paneled boardrooms of power brokers hellbent on profit. When Sister voices her suspicions, she too becomes a target. Fortunately for her, the Master of the Jefferson Hunt may rely upon the wits and wiles of her four-legged friend--including horses Keepsake and Lafayette, and even the crabby fox Aunt Netty!
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

Sight hound : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Houston, Pam.
c2005.
1st ed.
From the best-selling author of Cowboys are my Weakness comes a story of a woman, Rea, and her dog, Dante, who teaches her that love is stronger than fear. A catalyst for change in other characters as well, Dante effects the lives of Rae's house-tender, her therapist, two veterinarians, and an anxiety-ridden actor. In addition to Dante, there is also Rose, another dog, and Stanley the Cat, all of whom have something to add. With her characteristic wit and candor, Pam shows us how dogs and humans are both creatures in search of connection.
Book

Feed them silence

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Mandelo, Lee,
2023.
First edition.
"Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future. What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject's perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy and freedom of wolfishness. To see the world through animal eyes; smell the forest, thick with olfactory messages; even taste the blood and viscera of a fresh kill. And, above all, to feel the belonging of the pack. Sean's tireless research gives her a chance to fulfill that dream, but pursuing it has a terrible cost. Her obsession with work endangers her fraying relationship with her wife. Her research methods threaten her mind and body. And the attention of her VC funders could destroy her subject, the beautiful wild wolf whose mental world she's invading"--
Book

The dog who spoke with gods

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Jessup, Diane.
2002, c2001.
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Book

The story of Edgar Sawtelle : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wroblewski, David.
©2008.
[Oprah's book Club ed.].
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Book

Spirit animals : Fire and ice

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Hale, Shannon,
2014.
First edition.
Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan, supported by their spirit animals, follow a lead in the cold North only to arrive in a deceptively beautiful village where everything is not as it seems.
Book

Wish

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

O'Connor, Barbara,
2016.
First edition.
"A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related--they are simply people who love you for who you are"--
Book

The adventures of Bob White

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Burgess, Thornton W.
2011.
Dover ed.
Bob White is a busy bird with many friends, including Farmer Brown's boy, who tries to protect Bob and his wife when a hunter arrives.
Book

Fox 8 : A Story

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Saunders, George,
[2018]
First hardcover edition.
Idealistic Fox 8's ability to communicate in "Yuman" cannot save his pack when their den and food supply are destroyed to build a mall, so he writes a letter asking for an explanation of human's cruelty.
Book

The story of Edgar Sawtelle : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wroblewski, David.
©2008.
1st ed.
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Regular print

West with giraffes : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Rutledge, Lynda,
[2021]
First edition.
"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California's first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world's first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it's too late"--Publisher.
Book

West with giraffes [kit] : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Rutledge, Lynda.,,
[2021]
"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California's first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world's first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it's too late"--Publisher.
Book

The story of Edgar Sawtelle [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wroblewski, David,
?2008.
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm -- and into Edgar's mother's affections. Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father's death, but his plan backfires -- spectacularly. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm, Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his father's murderer and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs turn Edgar ever homeward.--
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Moore, Christopher,
p2006.
Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing, not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (ne Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot, and his research facility is trashed, Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on. By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

The good pilot Peter Woodhouse [spoken word] : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McCall Smith, Alexander,
[2018]
Unabridged.
Val Eliot, a young woman working on an English farm during the war, meets Mike, a U.S. Air Force pilot stationed nearby. When Val rescues a Border Collie named Peter Woodhouse, who is being mistreated by his owner, she realizes the dog would actually be safer with Mike. And so Peter Woodhouse finds a new home on the air force base, and Val finds herself falling in love. Peter Woodhouse becomes Dog First Class, a canine mascot on the base who boldly accompanies the officers on their missions, and Val becomes Mike's fiancee. But then a disaster jeopardizes the future of them all, and Peter Woodhouse brings Ubi, a German corporal, into their orbit, sparking a friendship that comes with great risk but carries with it the richest of rewards.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word] :

The crossing

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McCarthy, Cormac,
1994.
1st ed.
In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of All the pretty horses.
Book

The border trilogy

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McCarthy, Cormac,
1999.
Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on southwestern ranches in the 1930s, while across the border Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where a dreams are paid for in blood In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family's Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, finding a job breaking horses and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, 16-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch and instead of killing it decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico. These drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. McCarthy's haunting evocation of two young men poised on the edge of a world about to change forever serves as a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.
Book

Women & other animals : stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Animal heart : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Peterson, Brenda,
©2004.
1st ed.
"When an eerie mass stranding of whales and dolphins takes place along the mist-shrouded Oregon Coast, forensic wildlife pathologist Isabel Spinner and her friend and co-worker Marian Windhorse Gray covertly investigate this disaster as a crime against wildlife. For years, Isabel has kept some emotional distance between herself and other humans, while devoting herself to easing the suffering of animals. But when Isabel finally connects with Marshall McGreggor, an undersea photographer whose recent transplant has him delving into the mystery surrounding his new heart, the two find themselves making surprising decisions that will forever change their lives." "Based on cutting-edge science, this book tackles such timely and troubling issues as low-frequency active sonar and animal experimentation and forewarns of a future of Dead Zone oceans, disappearing species, and a world with creatures whose DNA boundaries have been genetically blurred."--Jacket.
Book

Linger

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stiefvater, Maggie,
2010
1st ed.
As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.
Book

White Fang [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

London, Jack,
2017, 2009.
"His world was the cruel, savage world of the wild. His introduction to the 'man-gods' was brutal and bloody. White Fang was forced to accept a way of life innate to his kind--kill or be killed, destroy or be destroyed--and in him developed a hatred so strong that no man or beast could tame him. No man until Weedon Scott, that is."--Container.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Animal crackers [sound recording] : stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Tinti, Hannah.
[2009], p2009.
Unabridged.
With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the title story, an elephant keeper courts danger from his gentle charge; in "Miss Waldron's Red Colobus, " a headstrong young woman in Africa is lured by the freedom of the monkeys in the trees; in "Talk Turkey, " a boy has secret conversations with the turkeys on his friend's family's farm; in "Slim's Last Ride, " a child plays chilling games with his pet rabbit; in "Gallus Gallus, " a pompous husband projects his anger at his wife onto her prized rooster.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

Clifford's best friend

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Bridwell, Norman.
c2011.
Book

Oh, Jet!

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Powell, Jillian.
2011.
A family is disappointed that every time they throw a toy for their dog to fetch, he brings back something else.
Book

Planet of the apes

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Boulle, Pierre,
2001, c1991.
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Three astronauts land on an planet very much like Earth, except that here apes rule over humans.
Book

My lazy cat

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Roussey, Christine,
2017.
When her plans for the day are interrupted by her cat, a young girl learns the value of slowing down and enjoying a relaxing day.
Book

The baseball player and the walrus

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Loory, Ben,
[2015]
"A successful but unhappy baseball player finds companionship in the pet walrus he adopts but is soon faced with the great challenge of balancing his responsibilities and maintaining the costly upkeep of his new friend"--
Book

The finest creation

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Rabe, Jean.
2004.
1st ed.
Aimed at a YA audience, Rabe's fun, galloping romp of a story launches a new fantasy series. In the magical land of Paard-Peran, the horse-like members of the Finest Court, the favorites of the gods of creation, look after the "Fallen Favorites, " those few humans deemed worthy of their attention. Kalantha and her brother, Meven, are wards of Bishop DeNogaret, a high-ranking priest who's been caring for them since their parents' death. The teenage pair are of royal blood, though they've been brought up as commoners who have no contact with their uncle the king. Now that their cousin, the heir, is marrying, they are invited to the wedding. Traveling with them on their first-ever long journey is a Finest Court shepherd, who helps the two very green youths through some harrowing trials and teaches them to follow their instincts to survive.
Book

A dog's purpose

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce.
2011
Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over.
Book

Ivy + Bean bound to be bad

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Barrows, Annie.
2009.
1st pbk. ed. [with supplemental material].
Best friends Ivy and Bean learn that being very good can be a real challenge when they set out to become like a man Ivy heard about who was so pure of heart that birds and animals followed him.
Book

The Mountaintop School for Dogs and other second chances

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cooney, Ellen.
[2014]
"Evie is making her way to the Sanctuary, [a dog rescue program high atop a mountain]. She has lied to gain entry. She has pretended to know more than she does about dogs, but she is learning fast. Once the indomitable Mrs. Auberchon lets her pass, she will find her way. Like the racing greyhound who refuses to move, the golden retriever who returns to his job as the Sanctuary's butler every time he's adopted, and the Rottweiler who's a hopeless candidate for search-and-rescue, Evie comes from a troubled past. But as they all learn, no one should stay prisoner to a life she didn't choose"--Dust jacket flap.
Book

The Company of animals : 20 stories of alliance and encounter

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

c1993.
1st ed.
Book

Molly and the Cat Café

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Daley, Melissa,
2017.
Center Point Large Print edition.
"A heart-warming and uplifting story of one small cat's big adventure to find a place to call home"--
Book

Brookie and her lamb

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Goffstein, M. B.,
[2021]
Tells of Brookie's love for her lamb that could only read and sing the words, "Baa."
Book

Alice in wonderland [DVD]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

[2006]
One of the most beloved stories comes to life for the small screen. Follow Alice as she meets a white rabbit, a smiling, mischievous cat, a smoking caterpillar, and more.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD]

Fenway and Hattie

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Coe, Victoria J,
[2016]
When Fenway and his family move from the city to the suburbs, he has a very difficult time adjusting to the new dog park, an influx of evil squirrels, and, most of all, his best friend Hattie finding other interests.
Book

A dog's journey [sound recording]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce.
p2012.
Unabridged.
Believing that he has achieved his purpose throughout several eventful lives, Buddy the dog is drawn to a vibrant but troubled teen who he struggles to help until they are separated.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

What we fed to the manticore

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi,,
[2022]
Unabridged.
This collection of nine stories, all from animal perspectives, explores themes of environmentalism, conservation, identity, belonging, loss, and family with heart and tenderness.
CD

Dog days

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Waller, Ericka,
2021.
First U.S. edition.
"Ericka Waller's Dog Days is a debut novel about the way dogs can bring out the best in us in the face of life's challenges. George is a grumpy, belligerent old man who has just lost his wife. She has left him notes around the home and a miniature dachshund puppy called Poppy. But George doesn't want a dog, he wants to fight everyone who is trying to help him. Dan has OCD but has channeled his energy into his career as a therapist. Afraid to acknowledge his true feelings, his most meaningful relationship so far is with his dog Fitz. That is, until Atticus walks into his life. Lizzie is living in a women's refuge with her son Lenny. Her body is covered in scars and she has shut herself off from the world. She distrusts dogs, but when she starts having to walk the refuge's dog, Maud, things begin to change. As three strangers' lives unravel and intersect, they ultimately must accept what fate has in store for them with their dogs by their sides. Set against the backdrop of Brighton, Dog Days is an inspiring, unflinching, and deeply moving novel about life, and the way dogs can help us understand it, and each other, a little better"--
Book

White Fang

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

London, Jack,
[200-?]
In the northern wilderness of the Yukon, a dog who is part wolf comes to make his peace with man.
Book

She and her cat

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Shinkai, Makoto,
2022.
A collection of four interrelated, stream-of-consciousness short stories follows women and their cat companions as they explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication.
Book

The cat who came in from the cold : a fable

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Masson, J. Moussaieff
2004.
1st ed.
In ancient India, a cat named Billie makes his way through the countryside, enjoying his freedom, but when the holiday season approaches, Billie finds himself alone until he is drawn into the lives of a happy and contented family.
Book

The snow falcon

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Harrison, Stuart,
1999.
1st ed.
Book

Pravdivye skazki pro sobak : rasskazy

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Dont?sova, Dar?i?a,
2016.
Book
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Alice's farm : a rabbit's tale

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wood, Maryrose,
2021.
First Square Fish edition.
A brave young rabbit teams up with her fellow cottontails, natural predators, and a human boy to save her farmland home while secretly helping the farm's earnest but incompetent new owners.
Book

Dog gone, back soon : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Trout, Nick,
2014.
First Edition.
When Dr. Cyrus Mills returned home after inheriting his estranged father's veterinary practice, The Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, the last thing he wanted was to stay in Eden Falls, Vermont, a moment longer than absolutely necessary. However, the previously reclusive veterinarian pathologist quickly found that he actually enjoyed treating animals and getting to know the eccentric residents of the tiny provincial town-especially an alluring waitress named Amy.
Book

Zoo

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Patterson, James,
?2012.
Unabridged.
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.
Electronic resource

My very own special particular private and personal cat

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stoddard, Sandol
2023.
Reprint edition.
A lively, cat-loving child is taught a thing or two about boundaries by his own special, particular, and very independent cat.
Book

An unexpected grace

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Von Kreisler, Kristin,
[2014]
Book

Enzo races in the rain!

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stein, Garth,
[2014]
First edition.
Enzo's only excitement consists of chasing the cars that pass the farm where he lives, until he meets Zoë and her father.
Book

Something worth saving

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Ward, Sandi,
[2019].
A boy and his cat. It's an unconventional friendship, perhaps, but for Charlie and Lily, it works beautifully. It was Charlie who chose Lily from among all the cats in the shelter. He didn't frown, the way other humans did, when he saw her injured back leg, the legacy of a cruel previous owner. Instead, Charlie insisted on rescuing her. Now Lily wants to do the same for Charlie. She's the only one who's seen the bruises on Charlie's body. If she knew who was hurting him, she'd scratch their eyes out. But she can't fix this by herself. Lily needs to get the rest of the family to focus on Charlie--not easy when they're wrapped up in their own problems. Charlie's mother kicked his father out weeks ago and has a new boyfriend who seems charming, but is still a stranger. Oldest son Kevin misses his father desperately. Victoria, Charlie's sister, also has someone new in her life, and Lily is decidedly suspicious. Even Charlie's father, who Lily loves dearly, is behaving strangely. Lily knows what it's like to feel helpless. But she also knows that you don't always have to be the biggest or the strongest to fight fiercely for the ones you love.
Book

Cold the night, fast the wolves : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Long, Meg,
2022.
First edition.
"Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths. On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide?"--
Book

The Literary dog : great contemporary dog stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

c1990.
1st ed.
Book

What we fed to the manticore

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi,
[2022]
"In stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world. Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri's debut collection explores themes of environmentalism, conservation, identity, belonging, loss, and family with resounding heart and deep tenderness. In Kolluri's pages, a faithful hound mourns the loss of the endangered rhino he swore to protect. Vultures seek meaning as they attend to the antelope that perished in Central Asia. A beloved donkey's loyalty to a zookeeper in Gaza is put to the ultimate test. And a wounded pigeon in Delhi finds an unlikely friend. In striking, immersive detail against the backdrop of an ever-changing international landscape, What We Fed to the Manticore speaks to the fears and joys of the creatures we share our world with, and ultimately places the reader under the rich canopy of the tree of life"--
Book

Christmas at the Cat Café

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Daley, Melissa,
2018.
Center Point Large Print edition.
"With Christmas approaching, the café's resident cat Molly is devastated when Debbie's heartbroken sister moves in, bringing her dog, Beau. Molly's home is further threatened when a rival cat moves in on her turf. Only a Christmas miracle could bring everyone together"--
Book

The year of the hare : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Paasilinna, Arto,
2010.
After his car hits a bunny, which ultimately survives, a man decides to quit his job, leave his wife, sell his possessions, and spend a year wandering around the countryside of Finland--with the rabbit as his only companion.
Book

Secrets according to Humphrey

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Birney, Betty G,
[2014]
Humphrey, the pet hamster of Longfelow School's Room 26, learns that his classroom is full of secrets, the most important of which is that a student will be leaving soon.
Book

Hamilton [text (large print)]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cookson, Catherine.
2007.
Book
JLC Title 245h [text (large print)]

Black wolf of the glacier : Alaska's Romeo

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Vanasse, Deb.
[2013]
When a lonely wolf makes friends with her dog, Shawna's fear turns to love. Based on the true story of Romeo, a wolf who lived near Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier and lost his wolfpack as a young male.
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Pet friendly

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Pethick, Sue,
[2016]
"Todd Dwyer, a successful app designer, wasn't planning to adopt a dog, but when his Uncle Bertie dies and leaves his little mutt Archie homeless, Todd can't help welcoming the pooch home ... When things go awry the first night, [Todd's girlfriend] insists that Todd give Archie to his sister Claire, whose rural home is a days drive away. Todd and Archie hit the road, but circumstances compel them to make a detour to a quaint hotel run by Todd's childhood friend, Emma Carlisle. As it happens, the hotel is hosting a colorful group of ghost hunters in town for a paranormal conference, and when Archie starts howling into the air vent, it isn't long before their road trip turns bumpier than an unpaved country lane"--Page 4 of cover.
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Little owl rescue

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Delahaye, Rachel,
2022.
"In this latest installment of the new chapter book series Little Animal Rescue, what starts out as a day at a carnival and a ride on the flying swings for Callie and her friend Gabriel ends up becoming an adventure for Callie when she is magically whisked away to Texas, where she finds an abandoned barn owlet"--
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Zoo II

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Patterson, James,
2016.
First edition.
With the planet still under attack by vicious animals, humans begin evolving into a barbaric species that has the power to save civilization--or destroy it.
Book

The mountaintop school for dogs and other second chances [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cooney, Ellen,
[2014]
Unabridged.
Evie is stuck at the Inn, managed by the stern and mysterious Mrs. Auberchon, although she's supposed to join a training program at the Sanctuary. That's what she signed up for; never mind that she lied and doesn't know the first thing about animals. Once up on the mountain with staffers, volunteers, and her dog students, Evie takes notes on the new things she's learning. Alpha. Forgiveness. Play. Rehabilitation.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Dog boy

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Hornung, Eva.
2010.
1st American ed.
A four-year-old boy named Romochka is abandoned by his mother and uncle and left to fend for himself on the streets of Moscow, with uncounted millions of homeless children and adults. He follows a stray dog to its home in a deserted church celler. There he joins Mamochka, the mother of the pack, and six other dogs and slowly he forgets his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters. Romochka attracts the attention of local police, street urchins, and finally, scientists.
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You?

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Radunsky, Vladimir.
c2009.
1st ed.
A lonely girl and a stray dog find one another in a park.
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Bear daughter

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Berman, Judith,
2005.
1st ed.
A twelve year old awakens one morning to discover that she has been transformed into a human girl, instead of a bear, and embarks on a dangerous journey through both mortal and immortal worlds to restore her past, confront her fears, and preserve the lands in which she walks, in a mythological fantasy.
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The patron saint of lost dogs [large print]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Trout, Nick.
2013.
Center Point Large Print edition.
Cyrus Mills isn't a warm, fuzzy kind of person, and choosing a career as a veterinary pathologist seems a logical choice: He's following in his late mother's footsteps, and he gets to work in solitude, which he prefers. When Robert Cobb, Cyrus' father, dies and bequeaths Bedside Manor for Sick Animals to him, he returns to his former home in a small town in Vermont. Cyrus is eager to sell his inheritance and leave Eden Falls behind. He has few fond memories of his life there, except for the time he spent with his mother, and he needs the money from the sale to fund a legal battle to reinstate his license, which has been temporarily suspended following charges of wrongdoing filed by his former employer. But Cyrus quickly discovers that in addition to being a workaholic and an absentee dad, Dr. Cobb was mired in debt. Unless Cyrus can prove that his father's heavily mortgaged veterinary clinic is worth a potential buyer's investment, within the week, he'll lose the sale, and it appears that a sinister banker and an anonymous blackmailer might be rooting against him.--From back cover.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Love and ordinary creatures : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Rubio, Gwyn Hyman,
2014.
Book

The finest choice

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Rabe, Jean.
2005.
1st ed.
Book

Dancing dogs [sound recording] : stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Katz, Jon.
p2012.
Unabridged.
In his first collection of short stories, Katz shares 16 tales of heartwarming relationships between humans and their four-legged friends. The title story features a housekeeper who loses her job, then discovers that her dogs have a special talent--one that could help her family get back on its feet.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording] :

The animal wife

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall,
1990.
"A Peter Davison book." Kori, a prehistoric hunter, aspires to be as great as his father and desires a woman of his own.
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A dog's purpose [spoken word] : a novel for humans

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce.
p2010.
Unabridged.
This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose? Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh out loud funny, this book is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word] :

Darkest evening of the year [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Koontz, Dean R.
p2007.
A woman dedicated to the cause of dog rescue risks her own well-being to come to the aid of a very special golden retriever, unaware that she has drawn the attentions of an unknown and ruthless enemy whose attacks escalate with stunning ferocity.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

In our nature : stories of wildness

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

2000.
1st ed.
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Slippers at school

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Clements, Andrew,
©2005.
1st ed.
Slippers is sad that Laura and Edward have no time for him on the first day of school, but he finds a comfortable backpack in which to fall asleep before they leave.
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Hannah's dream : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Hammond, Diane Coplin.
©2008.
1st ed.
Having devotedly cared for a lone elephant at a dilapidated zoo for more than forty years, Samson hopes to be able to retire when he hires promising assistant Neva, who forces Samson to acknowledge that the elephant also needs the company of her own kind.
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Spirit animals : Tales of the great beasts

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

2014.
Special edition, first edition.
Follows the adventures of four noble animals who sacrifice everything to protect their homes from a mad king in the world of Erdas.
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Molly and the cat café : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Daley, Melissa,
2017.
First U.S. edition.
"When two-year-old tabby, Molly, loses her beloved owner, her world falls apart. Re-homed with three cat-hating dogs, she decides to take matters into her own paws and embarks on a grueling journey to the nearest town. As Molly walks the cobbled streets of Stourton, she begins to lose all hope of finding a home ... Until one day she is welcomed into the warmth by caring café owner, Debbie. Like Molly, Debbie is also an outsider and, with a daughter to care for, she is desperate to turn around the struggling café. But a local battle axe is on the warpath and she is determined to keep out newcomers, especially four-legged ones. It looks as if Debbie will have to choose between the café and Molly. Yet the solution to their problems may not be as far away as they think. Will Debbie and Molly be able to turn their fortunes around to launch the Cotswolds' first Cat Café Melissa Daley's novel Molly and the Cat Cafe is a heartwarming story of determination and friendship"--
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Good dogs don't make it to the South Pole : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Thyvold, Hans Olav,
[2020]
First edition.
"Told through the eyes of a very grumpy yet lovable mutt, a funny and touching tale of aging, death, friendship, and life that proves sometimes a dog's story is the most human of all. Tassen has always been a one-man dog. When his human companion, Major Thorkildsen, dies, Tassen and Mrs. Thorkildsen are left alone. Tassen mourns Major by eating too many treats, and Mrs. T by drinking too much. But the two unexpectedly find common ground in researching Roald Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole led by a pack of intrepid dogs. But the quiet days Tassen and Mrs. T spend together at the library researching the explorer's arctic adventure are disrupted by the arrival of her son and daughter in-law. Eager to move in to the Major's spacious house, they plan to send Mrs. T to a nursing home. As he contemplates his own fate, Tassen shudders to think what might happen to him! Yet Tassen and Mrs. T aren't about to give up. Inspired by Roald Amundsen and his dogs, this unlikely pair are ready to take on anything life throws at them. Good Dogs Don't Make It to the South Pole is a darkly comedic and whimsical portrayal of aging and death told through a dog's friendship with an elderly woman"--
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Suzanne and Gertrude : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Nichols, Jeb Loy,
[2019]
First edition.
"Suzanne has arranged her life to suit her solitariness, living quietly on her untended hill farm. Her days are a word-shy negotiation, caught between indifference and uncertainty. Into this world comes Gertrude, a wandering donkey. Together they form an unlikely alliance; each protecting the solitude of the other. "--Back cover.
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The love story of Missy Carmichael

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Morrey, Beth,
[2020]
The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a shattering argument, and her son has moved to his wife's native Australia, taking Missy's beloved only grandchild half-a-world away. She spends her days sipping sherry, avoiding people, and rattling around in her oversized, under-decorated house waiting for...what exactly? The last thing Missy expects is for two perfect strangers and one spirited dog named Bob to break through her prickly exterior and show her just how much love she still has to give. In short order, Missy finds herself in the jarring embrace of an eclectic community that simply won't take no for an answer--including a rambunctious mutt-on-loan whose unconditional love gives Missy a reason to re-enter the world one muddy paw print at a time.
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Christmas at the Cat Cafe : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Daley, Melissa,
2018.
First U.S. edition.
"The wonderfully festive sequel to Melissa Daley's uplifting tale, Molly and the Cat Cafe. "An engaging, pleasant read full of colorful characters with enough mentions of the cat cafe's cat's whiskers cookies and feline fancies to satisfy any appetite for a gentle, heartwarming story." -- BiblioManiac on Molly and the Cat Cafe "Hopeful and joyous." --Screen Wipe on Molly and the Cat Cafe The town of Stourton-on-the-Hill has its very own cat café. Resident cat Molly, and her kittens, live here in feline paradise, while owner Debbie serves the locals home-made goodies. But even in the most idyllic surroundings, things don't always go according to plan . . . When Debbie's heartbroken sister Linda arrives at the café, Debbie insists she move in. But Linda is not alone, and the cats are devastated with the arrival of Linda's dog, Beau. Sadly, Beau's arrival is not the only bombshell - now Molly's home is also under threat when a rival cat moves in on her turf. With Christmas approaching, Molly is unsettled, barely roused by the promise of tinsel to play with. Fearing for her feline family she hopelessly stares out of the café window searching for an answer. Only a Christmas miracle could bring everyone together . . ."--
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A dog's promise

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce,
2019.
First edition.
The dog who thinks of himself as 'Bailey' knows one thing for sure: all dogs go to heaven after they have fulfilled their purpose on earth. But Bailey's work on earth is far from finished, there are still so many more humans that need a dog's talent for unconditional love. There is one family in particular that needs Bailey's help, a family that is on the verge of breaking apart. But if Bailey helps this family he won't remember his previous lives, the connections he's made, and the humans he's met and loved. Bailey must decide whether to sacrifice everything to heal this one, desperate family.
Book

A tortoise for the Queen of Tonga

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Whitty, Julia.
2002.
Book

Roger Caras' treasury of great dog stories.

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

c1987.
1st ed.
Book

Under the blanket sky

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Fischer, Tim,
[2023]
First edition.
"A young boy is visited by a mysterious owl, who spends a long summer as his cherished companion before having to leave when the seasons change"--
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The elephant's journey

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Saramago, José.
2011.
1st Mariner books ed.
The enchanting tale of an elephant, his keeper, and their journey through sixteenth-century Europe, based on a true story.
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Règne animal

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste.
[2018]
Book

Buster's diaries : a true story of a dog and his man

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Hattersley, Roy.
[2000]
The diaries of a dog named Buster reveal such indignities as being leashed like a bondage freak and being forced to pretend to dance with a human, and such adventures as dealing with the Queen's geese in St. James's Park.
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Shiver [sound recording]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stiefvater, Maggie,
p2009.
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Then came you

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Shalvis, Jill.
2014.
Berkley mass-market edition.
Accepting a position in the small town of Sunshine, Idaho, Emily, a veterinary intern, is shocked to discover that her new boss is her gorgeous one-night stand from a Reno vet conference, which changes everything.
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Dolphin key

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Land, Jon.
1999.
1st ed.
A health center which uses dolphins to treat handicapped children comes into conflict with animal rights' activists who want them returned to the wild. Set in Florida, the novel looks at experiments into curing humans with dolphin vibrations.
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A dog's purpose

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce,
[2017]
Unabridged.
After a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey is surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy. Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of eight-year-old Ethan. During their countless adventures, Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose?
CD

Zeus : water rescue

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce,
2023.
First edition.
"Some dogs were born to lend a helping hand (or paw!). Zeus, a chocolate lab puppy, is one of them. With his courage, smarts, and strength his purpose seems clear: he'll become a water rescue dog! When a young boy named Kimo is tasked with training Zeus,they quickly become best friends. But Zeus's excitement makes training hard, and worse yet, becoming a working dog means being separated from Kimo. Can Zeus and his boy figure out how to stay together forever?"--
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Learning to stay

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Celello, Erin.
c2013.
"Elise Sabato is proud of her husband, Brad, for serving his country...and grateful when he returns home to her. But the traumatic brain injury he suffered in Iraq has turned him from a thoughtful, brilliant, and patient man into someone quite different....someone who requires more care and attention than Elise can give while working in a demanding law firm. And when Brad ends up on his family's farm, hundreds of miles away, she wonders where their marriage is headed."--Provided by publisher.
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Magnolia Bay memories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

De Jongh, Babette,
2021.
"Heather Gabriel already had the love of lifetime. Now a widowed mother struggling with grief, the stay-at-home mom's biggest priority is keeping her children's lives as stable as possible. So when her new job at the Magnolia Bay Animal Shelter brings Heather and business consultant Adrian Crawford together to work on a special project, Heather doesn't know how to feel about the attraction building between them. Adrian feels the attraction too, but ever since he lost everything to Hurricane Katrina, Adrian learned not to form too many attachments. Even so, seeing the love Heather has for her kids and the animals makes Adrian wonder if the bachelor lifestyle is really what he wants. With the animals on the farm to guide them, Heather and Adrian soon realize they can only have a future together if they are willing to heal from the past. " -- Back cover.
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Spirit animals. Hunted

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stiefvater, Maggie,
©2014.
In the world of Erdas, only a rare few are able to summon a spirit animal in the way that Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have. The bond they share with their animals is a partnership that allows them to access more-than-human abilities. The four young heroes have barely had time to come together as a team, and their own spirit animal bonds are still greatly untested. But now they face a brutal confrontation against an enemy who will break any rule to defeat them.
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The final fight

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Chick, Bryan,
2023.
First hardcover and paperback edition.
"Hidden beneath the regular Clarksville City Zoo, the Secret Zoo is an incredible world where animals and humans peacefully coexist as equals. But even in the Secret Zoo, there are dangers and forbidden places. When Noah and his friends discover tarantulas roaming around, they're sure the bad omen can only mean one thing: the Shadowist is nearby. Closing the portals is the only option to save all the animals at Clarksville City Zoo...But when Mr. Darby and the Descenders are unsuccessful in destroying the portals, Noah realizes that the Secret Zoo is going to war"--
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Unsaid : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Abramson, Neil,
2011.
1st ed.
After veterinarian Helena Colden dies of breast cancer, she is unable to move on and narrates the emotional deterioration and struggle of her attorney husband David as he becomes involved in a court case to save the life of a chimpanzee.
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Lost dogs and lonely hearts

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Dillon, Lucy,
2011.
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Thirty-nine-year-old Rachel is having a really bad year. After losing her job and breaking up with her boyfriend, Rachel has inherited her late aunt's house, her beloved Border collie and a crowded rescue kennel, despite the fact that she knows almost nothing about dogs. Still, considering her limited options, she gamely takes up the challenge of running the kennel. And as Rachel starts finding new homes for the abandoned strays, it turns out that it might not be just the dogs that need rescuing.--From back cover.
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Marvin & James Save the Day and Elaine Helps!

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Broach, Elise,
2019.
First edition.
Marvin the beetle tries to reassure his human boy, James, who is worried about his father's upcoming wedding and the changes it will bring.
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Christmas with Tucker

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kincaid, Gregory D.,
c2010.
1st ed.
Kincaid's prequel to the sleeper hit "A dog named Christmas" tells the story of George, a young boy dealing with the loss of his father, and the dog that comes into his life to offer him a ray of hope and courage.
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James to the rescue

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Broach, Elise,
2017.
First Square Fish edition.
Joining his family to collect discarded things that they can put to use, little Marvin the beetle enlists James' help to save an injured Uncle Albert.
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A dog's chance

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wilson, Casey,
2021.
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
"In the farming town of Riverside in Washington, Toby Fuller is feeling more alone than ever. Nothing Toby did was ever good enough for his father, but he never expected his father to leave, to abandon him and his mother forever. He loses hope, until a scruffy golden retriever called Buddy follows him home from school. Though he's struggling to walk, Buddy matches Toby step for step, never taking his eyes off him, as if Toby is all he needs in the world. And from that day on Buddy never leaves Toby's side. Buddy shows Toby a loyalty that he has never known. But then disaster strikes and Toby's life is changed forever. Will Buddy be able to give Toby the strength he needs to carry on? A tale of how unconditional love can bound into your life when you least expect it, giving you hope in the darkest of times"--
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Return of Zombert

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

LaReau, Kara,
2021.
First edition.
"Officially adopted by 9-year-old Mellie Gore after escaping from YummCo Laboratories, ZomBert must play along with Mellie's plan to enter him into the Best Pet contest while plotting his revenge"--
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Saving Winslow [audio-enabled book]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Creech, Sharon,
[2021]
When his father brings home an ailing, newborn donkey, Louie names the animal Winslow and takes care of him, but everyone, including Louie's quirky friend Nora, thinks Winslow is not going to survive.
Other

Cat on the bus

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kim, Aram,
[2016]
First edition.
"Using onomatopoeia, this almost wordless story tells of a homeless cat who finds shelter on a bus where she meets a cat-loving Asian grandfather"--
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Best dog stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

1991.
Outstanding authors Virginia Woolf, P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, Jack London, James Herriot, O. Henry and many others have contributed to this touching collection of stories that pay tribute to man's and woman's best friend. Black-and-white line art.
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The second life of Abigail Walker [electronic resource]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Dowell, Frances O'Roark.
2013, p2013.
Unabridged.
Bullied by two mean girls in her sixth-grade class, a lonely, plump girl gains self-confidence and makes new friends after a mysterious fox gently bites her.
Sound recording
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource]

Blue Dog, Green River : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Brower, Brock,
2005.
1st ed.
Book

Florian : the emperor's stallion

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Salten, Felix,
[2015]
Aladdin hardcover edition.
Florian spends his days playing in the meadow with his best friend Bosco the fox terrier. A pure white Lipizzan horse with perfect instincts, Florian is accepted into the prestigious Spanish Riding School, where he captivates audiences in the arena. Even the emperor notices him, and Florian is soon made lead horse in the royal carriage. He and Bosco travel the countryside and parade through the streets for adoring crowds. But Florian's life is changed forever when a new emperor takes the throne. The old traditions are left behind and the royal carriage is put away, replaced by the automobile. No longer the Emperor's Stallion, can Florian find a place in the modern world?
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Lily and the octopus

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Rowley, Steven,
2016.
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Teddy is unhappily single in L.A. In between sessions with his therapist and dates with men he meets online, Teddy has debates with his dachshund, Lily, who occupies his heart. Unfortunately, he is also able to communicate with the "octupus" attached to Lily's head, which is soon revealed to be a metaphor for Lily's lethal cranial tumor. As Lily's condition worsens, Teddy faces off with the "octopus", engaging it in a battle of wills that takes on epic proportions. An exceedingly authentic, keenly insightful, funny and ardent tribute to the purity of love between a pet and its human. --
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Max's story : a dog's purpose puppy tale

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce,
2018.
First edition.
"I knew the girl was mine. The one I had been waiting for. But this girl, the right girl, somehow didn't hear me. My barks were not loud enough to reach her. I was not big enough to jump the fence and race to her. She walked steadily on with the three dogs on the leashes, and Gail reached down into the pen. "My goodness, Max, what is all the racket about?" she asked, lifting me up. "Careful, now! You'll make me drop you!" I wiggled and whined in her hands, frustrated and unhappy. She needed to let me down! I had to chase after that girl!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Wolf captured

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Lindskold, Jane M.
2004.
1st ed.
From the Publisher: Jane Lindskold's Through Wolf's Eyes; Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart; and The Dragon of Despair told the story of Firekeeper, the young girl raised by sentient, language-using wolves who is then plunged back into human society, where her training as a pack animal stands her in good stead amidst political and dynastic intrigues. Now, in Wolf Captured, the focus returns to Firekeeper and her wolf companion Blind Seer, as they find themselves kidnapped and dragged overseas, and forced to maneuver for their lives in an unfamiliar and dangerous new society. The Liglimoshti worship animals and portents, which rule their lives. And the Liglimoshti are aware, as the other countries are not, that Royal animals like Truth and Blind Seer exist, are intelligent, and can speak to each other. They've kidnapped Firekeeper and Blind Seer because they've never before heard of a human who could talk to animals. They want to see what Firekeeper can do. They want her to teach them how to do it. Firekeeper's more than willing to talk to the animals there. But she fears that Liglim's Royal animals are being held in polite and unobtrusive bondage. She wants to find out the truth -and, if necessary, free them.
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Captivity

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wesselmann, Debbie Lee,
c2008.
Dana Armstrong, a primatologist, acquired her understanding of chimpanzees at great personal cost, having been raised along with her younger brother, Zack, with a female chimp as a sibling (they communicated using sign language) until a tragic event ended the experiment. Now she must deal with an even more traumatic event. One day Dana arrives at the sanctuary, where she's the director, to discover that someone has damaged buildings and released chimpanzees unadapted to the wild. As Dana battles to save the sanctuary, personal and professional jealousies, campus politics, the fate of the chimpanzees and the stirring stories of Dana and her family play out in unforgettable fashion.
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Devoted

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Koontz, Dean R.
[2020]
"Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening. A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, Kipp is devoted beyond reason to people. When he hears the boy who communicates like he does, without speaking, Kipp knows he needs to find him before it's too late. Woody's fearful suspicions are taking shape. A man driven by a malicious evil has set a depraved plan into motion. And he's coming after Woody and his mother. The reasons are primal. His powers are growing. And he's not alone. Only a force greater than evil can stop what's coming next." --
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Ask Bob : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Gethers, Peter.
[2013]
First edition.
Doling out advice in his Ask Dr. Bob column, Dr. Robert Heller, one of New York City's leading veterinarians who understands animals a lot better than people, believes that he has finally figured out what it takes to thrive in the human world until tragedy strikes.
Book

A beautiful truth [sound recording]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McAdam, Colin.
p2013.
Unabridged.
Told from the perspectives of both humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth is about Looee, a chimp raised by a compassionate human couple in Vermont who cannot conceive a baby of their own.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Pax

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Pennypacker, Sara,
[2016]
Unabridged.
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. One day, the unimaginable happens, Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be, with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own.
CD

People are wild

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Meganck, Margaux,
[2022]
First edition.
"Baby animals observe the strange habits of children"--
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I hate my cats : (a love story)

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Calì, Davide,
[2018]
Ginger and Fred, a pair of cats, can be picky, messy, and troublesome, and although they frustrate the author, in the end their presence is comforting--and essential.
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Trail of the warrior : a fable of hope

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Pfeiffer, R. H.,
2018.
"A novel inspired by the true life stories of four people recovering from addiction, intermingled with their search for a higher power, helped along the way by a lovable dog named Rosie."--Back cover.
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Polar bear puzzle

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Lumry, Amanda.
2007.
1st ed.
Riley, Uncle Max, Aunt Martha, and Cousin Alice meet in northern Canada, where they study and help polar bears that are wandering through towns while waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze over again so that they can hunt for seals.
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Dancing dogs : stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Katz, Jon.
c2011.
1st ed.
A collection of sixteen short stories about the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs by bestselling New York Times author Jon Katz.
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Through wolf's eyes

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Lindskold, Jane M.
2001.
1st ed.
Book

Dolphin tale : the junior novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Reyes, Gabrielle.
c2011.
Sawyer, having found an injured dolphin on the beach, forms a unique bond with the creature while trying to help it heal and return to the ocean.
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Meet Marley

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Engel, Natalie.
c2008.
1st ed.
Jenny and John love their dog Marley, but they get frustrated when he keeps getting into trouble.
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Snake

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stone, Jeff.
c2006.
1st ed.
With the temple and Grandmaster now gone, twelve-year-old Seh, a snake-style master, joins a bandit gang and meets a mysterious woman whose name means Cobra, while trying to stay ahead of the vengeful Ying.
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The perfect present

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Roberton, Fiona.
2012.
1st American ed.
Excited about his new dog, Henry does not even open the gift from his pet duck, Spot, who, feeling left out, packs a bag and goes away, only to be caught in a storm.
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Lady of horses

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Tarr, Judith.
2000.
1st ed.
In this prequel to White mare's daughter, "the Horse Goddess has come among the herds of the tribe in the form of a proud mare, and she has chosen Sparrow to be her servant--to become a Shaman and ride the White Mare."--Jacket.
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Walking back to happiness

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Dillon, Lucy,
2011.
Berkley trade paperback ed.
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Biloxi : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Miller, Mary,
[2019]
First edition.
"Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take. Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last Days of California, and her biting collection, Always Happy Hour, Miller slyly transports readers to her unapologetic corner of the South--this time, Biloxi, Mississippi, home to sixty-three-year-old Louis McDonald Jr. His wife of thirty-seven years left him, his father has passed--and he has impulsively retired from his job in anticipation of an inheritance check that may not come. In the meantime, he watches reality television, sips beer, and avoids his ex-wife and daughter. One day, he stops at a house advertising free dogs and meets overweight mixed-breed Layla. Unexpectedly, Louis takes her, and, newly invigorated, begins investigating local dog parks and buying extra bologna. Mining the absurdities of life with her signature "droll minimalist's-eye view of America" (Joyce Carol Oates), Mary Miller's Biloxi affirms her place in contemporary literature"--
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The lion is in

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Ephron, Delia
c2012.
Escaping from their personal lives and taking refuge in a nightclub, a runaway bride, a recovering alcoholic, and a downtrodden minister's wife adopt a retired circus lion and spend their days waitressing until the past catches up with them.
Regular print

My baby crocodile

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Dorémus, Gaëtan,
2016.
Told from two different perspectives, My Little Crocodile is about a chance meeting between a crocodile and what he believes to be a "baby crocodile." This meeting profoundly changes their lives, which then continue along their own individual paths, though the bonds of love and intimacy remain. The story plays with ideas about the relationship between parent and child as well as with those about how how deeply chance and the choices we make affect us throughout our lives.
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The patron saint of lost dogs : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Trout, Nick.
c2013.
1st ed.
After fifteen years, Dr. Cyrus Mills returns to rural Vermont to inherit the Bedside Manor for Sick Animals, the failing veterinary practice of his recently deceased and long-estranged father. Cyrus, a veterinary pathologist far more comfortable with cold clinical facts than living, breathing animals (not to mention their quirky, demanding owners), intends to sell the practice and get out of town as fast as he can. Then his first patient - a down-on-her-luck golden retriever named Frieda Fuzzypaws - wags her way through the door, and suddenly life gets complicated. With the help of a black Labrador gifted in the art of swallowing underwear, a Persian cat determined to expose her owner's lover as a gold digger, and the allure of a feisty, pretty waitress from the local diner, Cyrus gets caught up in a new community and its endearing residents, both human and animal. Sensing he may have misjudged the past, he begins to realize it's not just his patients that need healing.
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A dog's purpose : [a novel for humans]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce.
2010.
Large print ed.
This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose? Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh out loud funny, this book is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.
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Other people's pets

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Maizes, R. L.,
2020.
First edition.
"La La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people. Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest of the world conspires against her. La La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating trip, and again when the accusations of "unfit mother" feel too close to true. Left alone with her father--a locksmith by trade, and a thief in reality--La La is denied a regular life. She becomes her father's accomplice, calming the watchdog while he strips families of their most precious belongings. When her father's luck runs out and he is arrested for burglary, everything La La has painstakingly built unravels. In her fourth year of veterinary school, she is forced to drop out, leaving school to pay for her father's legal fees the only way she knows how--robbing homes once again. As an animal empath, she rationalizes her theft by focusing on houses with pets whose maladies only she can sense and caring for them before leaving with the family's valuables. The news reports a puzzled police force--searching for a thief who left behind medicine for the dog, water for the parrot, or food for the hamster. Desperate to compensate for new and old losses, La La continues to rob homes, but it's a strategy that ultimately will fail her. Other People's Pets examines the gap between the families we're born into and those we create, and the danger that holding on to a troubled past may rob us of the future"--
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Raymond

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Le Bec, Yann,
2017.
Raymond the dog is just your regular family pet until, one day, he has a thought: couldnt he just . . . sit at the table? Isnt that what families do together? Soon Raymond begins to leave all his canine ways behind, and so do all the other dogs in town. Dogs go to the movies; dogs go out for coffee; and Raymond lands a high-powered journalism job at DOGUE magazine. But is Raymonds new gig all work and no play? He doesnt even have time for family dinner! Maybe, just maybe, Raymond misses the dogs life. . . . At once comedic and genuine, this tale about appreciating the simpler things in life reminds us all that work can wait after all, there are more important things (like getting your ears scratched in just the right place)--Amazon.
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The dogs of Christmas

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce.
2013.
First Edition.
"While nursing a broken heart, Josh Michaels is outraged when a neighbor abandons his very pregnant dog, Lucy, at Josh's Colorado home. But Josh can't resist Lucy's soulful brown eyes, and though he's never had a dog before, he's determined to do the best he can for Lucy--and her soon-to-arrive, bound-to-be-adorable puppies. Soon in over his head, Josh calls the local animal shelter for help, and meets Kerri, a beautiful woman with a quick wit and a fierce love for animals. As Kerri teaches Josh how to care for Lucy's tiny puppies and gets them ready to be adopted through the shelter's "Dogs of Christmas" program, Josh surprises himself by falling for her. But he's fallen even harder for his new furry family, which has brought incredible joy into Josh's life. He barely has time to sit down, between chasing after adventurous Sophie and brave Oliver, but when he does, his lap is quickly filled by the affectionate Lola. And Rufus and Cody's strong bond makes Josh wonder about his own relationships with his family. With Christmas and the adoption date looming, Josh finds himself wondering if he can separate himself from his beloved puppies. At odds with Kerri, Josh isn't willing to lose her, but doesn't know how to set things right. Can a surprise litter of Christmas puppies really change one man's life? The Dogs of Christmas is a charming and heartwarming holiday tale that explores the power of love, trust, and a basket full of puppies"--
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Rose in a storm : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Katz, Jon.
c2010.
1st ed.
"Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those she's looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully. Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Sam's wife disappeared one day. She senses something else in the air as well: a storm is coming... This storm feels different, bigger, more foreboding. When an epic blizzard hits the region, it will take all of Rose's resolve, resourcefulness, and courage to help Sam save the farm and the creatures who live there."--p. [2] of jacket.
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Pax [sound recording]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Pennypacker, Sara,
[2016]
Unabridged.
Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be; with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

Perestroika in Paris

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Smiley, Jane,
2020.
First edition.
"Paras (short for Perestroika) is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall - she's a curious filly - and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. She's dazzled, and often mystified, by the sights, sounds and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthair pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city's lush green spaces, nourished by Frida's strategic trips to the bakery and the butchershop. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks, and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the secluded, ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great grandmother live, quietly and unto themselves. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom among humans and animals alike. But how long can a runaway horse live undiscovered in Paris? And how long can a boy keep her hidden, and all his own? Jane Smiley's beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity and ingenuity, and expresses the desire of all creatures for true friendship, love, and freedom."--Provided by publisher.
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The elephant keeper

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Nicholson, Christopher,
c2009.
1st U.S. ed.
In 1766, a ship docks at Bristol, England, disgorging a crate with two young elephants in poor health, but alive. A wealthy sugar merchant purchases them for his country estate and turns their care over to a young stable boy, Tom Page. It takes time for Tom and the two elephants to understand each other, but to the surprise of everyone on the estate, a remarkable bond is formed, and changes the lives of all who meet them.
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The elephant of Belfast : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Walsh, S. Kirk,
2021.
First hardcover edition.
"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted--and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving at the Belfast docks from Ceylon. Soon, she becomes Violet's dedicated zookeeper at the Bellevue Zoo. At the same time, Hettie continues to experience the grief related to the recent loss of her beloved older sister, Anna, and the abandonment of her father, Thomas, who left her mother, Rose. On April 15th , 1941, Belfast is attacked for five hours, with 674 bombs falling, and almost a thousand civilians being killed. During the bombings and its aftermath, Hettie does all that she can to save her elephant, and survive the destruction and escalating sectarian unrest of the city. Even though Hettie is still only twenty years old by the novel's end, she's aged at least a decade, her life and perspective transforming in tragic and unexpected ways. Taken altogether, The Elephant of Belfast reflects a complicated portrait of loss, grief, love, and resilience, and how the zoo and the city of Belfast suffered during these catastrophic attacks. At the narrative's heart is a changing relationship between a young woman and an elephant: At first, it seems that Hettie saves Violet, but in the end, Violet saves her"--
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The dog who danced [text (large print)]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wilson, Susan,
2012.
Large print edition.
Leaning on her beloved Sheltie after a lifetime of painful losses, Justine Meade struggles with a difficult separation when she returns to her childhood home after a twenty-year absence and encounters an estranged couple torn by the loss of their daughter.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [text (large print)]

Zoo [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Patterson, James,
p2012.
Unabrigded.
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Stay

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Larkin, Allie.
c2010.
Impulsively buying a puppy on the Internet after the heartbreak of watching the love of her life marry another, Van is dismayed when her purchase produces a one-hundred-pound German shepherd whose unlikely friendship introduces her to a ruggedly handsome veterinarian.
Book

Rose in a storm : [a novel]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Katz, Jon.
2011.
Center Point large print ed.
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Dog friendly

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Schade, Victoria,
2022.
First Edition.
"A burned-out veterinarian takes a much-needed beach vacation, where a charming surfer makes waves in her love life and a unique foster pup renews her passion for her work. Exhausted veterinarian Morgan Pearce is feeling overworked and under-thanked, so when two of her favorite clients ask her to watch their special needs senior dog in their Nantucket home, she jumps at the chance for a summer break. She hopes her time on the island will be a reset from the stress of her everyday life, but her chill vacation vibe takes a hit when she gets roped into fostering a challenging, anxious dog and helping plan the local rescue group's glittery annual fundraiser. Her trip starts to feel more like a vacation when Morgan begins falling for Nathan Keating, an irresistible entrepreneur who thinks every problem can be solved on a surfboard. And just as the summer is shaping up to be the magical refresh she needs-thanks to a fling that feels like the beginning of something real and Hudson, the foster dog who reminds her how much she loves her job-a visit from her estranged brother and the discovery of who Nathan really is changes everything. Morgan finds herself at a crossroads, trying to determine if mistakes from the past must define the future, or if she should forgive, forget, and grab hold of a chance to finally rescue herself"--
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Love saves the day [large print]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cooper, Gwen,
2013.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Birds of a lesser paradise : stories

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Bergman, Megan Mayhew.
2012.
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world, Megan Mayhew Bergman's powerful and heartwarming collection captures the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love or fear collide with good sense, or when our attachment to an animal or wild place can't be denied.
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The lucky dog matchmaking service

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kendrick, Beth.
[2012]
"Lara Madigan has a gift: She can help you find your soul mate--your canine soul mate, that is. As a dog trainer with a soft spot for strays, she's found the perfect home for sulky Shih Tzus, broken-down Border collies, and diabolical Dalmatians. But while she'll always make room for one more rescue mutt, she's not sure she's ready to commit to another human being--especially after her long-term boyfriend drops the bomb: He's not a dog person. Horrified and temporarily homeless, Lara and her furry pack move in with her mother, a wealthy fashionista who forbids even a single drop of drool. As word gets around the exclusive gated community, Lara is overwhelmed with demands for her services. A model wants personal training for her overweight "flabrador"; an aging socialite preps her pedigreed puppy for dog show domination ... If Lara can survive the breakup, the outrageous requests of her high-maintenance clientele, and her dogs' systematic destruction of her mother's McMansion, she might finally find the rescue dog who rescues her in return--by leading her straight to the guy who could be her perfect match"--
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Zoo [sound recording]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Patterson, James,
p2012.
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.
CD
JLC Title 245h [sound recording]

No Fuzzball!

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kung, Isabella,
2020.
First edition.
Fuzzball is queen of her home, where her "subjects" do her bidding and make sure she is groomed, fed, and entertained, calling her name "nooo Fuzzball" all day long--but one day they leave the house, and when they do not return promptly Fuzzball starts to worry, and finally, in a panic, she resolves to be a more benevolent queen, and maybe redecorate the house to show her feline approval of her staff.
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Malefactor : a novel from the war with no name

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Repino, Robert,
[2021]
"Over a decade has passed since the ant queen began her apocalyptic war with the humans. In the aftermath, she leaves behind a strange legacy: a race of uplifted animals, the queen's conscripts in the war effort, now trying to make their way in the world they destroyed. While the conflict has left deep scars, it has also allowed both sides to demonstrate feats of courage and compassion that were never possible before. And now, after years of bloodshed, the survivors have a fleeting chance to build a lasting peace. But peace always comes with a price. The holy city of Hosanna-where animals and humans form a joint government-finds itself surrounded by wolves who are determined to retake the land. A powerful matriarch has united the rival wolf packs, using a terrible power harnessed from the Queen herself. Soon, the looming violence pulls in those who sought to escape. The war hero Mort(e) suspects a plot to destroy Hosanna from within, and recruits a team of unlikely allies to investigate. Falkirk, captain of the airship Vesuvius, must choose between treason and loyalty to save the city. And D'Arc, sailing aboard the al-Rihla, learns that the wolves may have triggered a new cycle of life for the Colony, bringing a final reckoning to animal and human alike. Once reunited, the three outcasts begin a journey into wolf territory to face the last remnant of the queen's empire. But while destiny has drawn them together, it may destroy them as well, for even love, courage, and honor may not be enough to stop the forces of destruction set to be unleashed on the world"--
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Millie

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Hoyle, McCall,
[2024].
A street dog named Millie and a young girl, who are both dealing with abandonment issues, give trust and belonging a second chance.
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Homer

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cooper, Elisha.
2012.
1st ed.
Homer the dog is content to watch from the porch as his family goes out to enjoy the day.
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Bramble and Maggie : give and take

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Haas, Jessie.
2013.
1st ed.
"Bramble the horse is starting life with her new person, Maggie. When Maggie wants to go for a ride, Bramble is hesitant because she feels that neither she nor Maggie should be boss all the time. There should be some give-and-take. Maggie agrees, and a carrot seals the deal."--Dust jacket.
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Flora and the chicks : a counting book

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Idle, Molly Schaar,
[2017]
In this counting board book, Flora, a young dancer, attempts to keep up as more and more friendly chicks emerge from the nest.
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Goose and Duck

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

George, Jean Craighead,
c2008.
1st ed.
A young boy becomes the "mother" to a goose, who becomes "mother" to a duck, as they learn about the rhythms of nature together.
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The dog I loved : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wilson, Susan,
[2019]
Unabridged.
After spending years in prison for a crime she didn't intend to commit, Rose Collins is suddenly free. Someone who knows about the good work she has done--training therapy dogs while serving time--has arranged for her early release. This mysterious benefactor has even set her up with a job in the coastal Massachusetts community of Gloucester, on the edge of Dogtown, a place of legend and, for the first time since Rosie's whole world came crashing down, hope. There she works to rebuild her life with the help of Shadow, a stray dog who appears one rainy night and refuses to leave Rose's side.
CD

The darling

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Banks, Russell,
2004.
1st Ecco ed. 1st ed.
Book

Saving Winslow

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Creech, Sharon,
[2018]
First Edition.
When his father brings home an ailing, newborn donkey, Louie names the animal Winslow and takes care of him, but everyone, including Louie's quirky friend Nora, thinks Winslow is not going to survive.
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The last dog on Earth

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Ehrenhaft, Daniel.
c2003.
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Hunted [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Stiefvater, Maggie,
[2013]
Unabridged.
In the world of Erdas, only a rare few are able to summon a spirit animal in the way that Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have. The bond they share with their animals is a partnership that allows them to access more-than-human abilities. The four young heroes have barely had time to come together as a team, and their own spirit animal bonds are still greatly untested. But now they face a brutal confrontation against an enemy who will break any rule to defeat them.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Dolphin tale 2 : the junior novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Reyes, Gabrielle.
[2014]
A baby dolphin found off the coast of Florida is brought to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium for help. There Sawyer and Hazel name her Hope and work to help her. Will Winter accept her as a friend, and will Hope's health improve?
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Nose down, eyes up : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Markoe, Merrill.
2008.
1st ed.
Gil is a bit of a schlub. Nearing 50, he lives rent-free as a handyman in an elderly couple's Los Angeles vacation home. His girlfriend, Sara, works as an animal communicator. Consequently, he can now understand all four of his dogs and is surprised to discover that the alpha dog, Jimmy, has been giving informative lectures to the neighborhood dogs about such topics as begging faces, edible shoes, and peeing inside versus outside. A chance meeting with Gil's ex leads to his accepting a job remodeling her guesthouse, and Jimmy begs to be brought along. Soon Gil finds himself moving uncomfortably closer to his ex and further away from Jimmy, and it's only when things get rough that Gil and Jimmy begin to reconsider the meaning of family.
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The last dog on Earth

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Walker, Adrian J. (Suspense fiction writer),
[2019]
Every dog has his day, and for Lineker, a happy go lucky mongrel from London, the day his city falls is finally a chance for adventure. Too bad his master Reg plans to hide himself away from the riots outside. But when an abandoned child shows up looking for help, Reg and his trusty hound must brave the chaos in a journey that will prove not just the importance of bravery, but of loyalty, trust, and finding family in the unlikeliest of places. When the world has gone to the dogs, who will you choose to stand with?
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The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Pratchett, Terry.
2001, 2002.
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
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Lost dogs and lonely hearts

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Dillon, Lucy,
©2009.
Thirty-nine-year-old Rachel is having a really bad year. After losing her job and breaking up with her boyfriend, Rachel has inherited her late aunt's house, her beloved Border collie and a crowded rescue kennel, despite the fact that she knows almost nothing about dogs. Still, considering her limited options, she gamely takes up the challenge of running the kennel. And as Rachel starts finding new homes for the abandoned strays, it turns out that it might not be just the dogs that need rescuing.
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Mary and the mouse, the mouse and Mary

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Donofrio, Beverly.
c2007.
1st ed.
While Mary, a girl whose family lives in a big house, is learning things at school, a young mouse whose family lives in a small house within the big one is learning the same things at her school, and when the two eventually meet they become friends.
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The book of Shane

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Eliopulos, Nick.
?2015.
Unabridged.
A collection of stories that sheds light on the past, present, and future of Shane, a would-be conqueror who has resolved to do whatever it takes to free his people.
CD

Captain Cat

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Moore, Inga,
2013.
First U.S. edition.
Loving cats so much that he has more feline than human companions on his ship, Captain Cat arrives on an island overrun by rats that his feline charges rapidly trounce, a triumph that results in an offer that requires a difficult decision.
Book

Princess Pistachio and Maurice the magnificent

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Gay, Marie-Louise,
2017.
First edition.
Princess Pistachio is worried about Dog. He has such a boring life. She thinks he needs more adventure and excitement. Pistachio brings him to school with disastrous results. Then she takes Dog to a theater audition and transforms him into Maurice the Magnificant, star of the stage. Maurice is an overnight success. That's when things start to go really wrong.
Book

Familiaris

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wroblewski, David,
2024.
First edition.
It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble, again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin's Northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start, and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and it will take all their ingenuity, along with a few new friends, to realize their dreams.
Book

City beasts : fourteen stories of uninvited wildlife

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kurlansky, Mark,
2015.
First edition.
In these stories, Mark Kurlansky journeys to his familiar haunts like New York's Central Park or Miami's Little Havana but with an original, earthy, and adventurous perspective. From baseball players in the Dominican Republic to Basque separatists in Spain to a restaurant owner in Cuba, from urban coyotes to a murder of crows, Kurlansky travels the worlds of animals and their human counterparts, revealing moving and hilarious truths about our connected existence. In the end, he illuminates how closely our worlds are aligned, how humans really are beasts, susceptible to their basest instincts, their wildest dreams, and their artful survival.
Book

Animalia

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste,
2019.
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
"The small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France, 1898. Éléonore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal illness leaves him unable to work, and her God-fearing mother, who runs both farm and family with an iron hand. Éléonore passes her childhood with little heat and no running water, sharing a small room with her cousin Marcel, who does most of the physical labor on the farm. When World War I breaks out and the village empties, Éléonore gets a taste of the changes that will transform her world as the twentieth century rolls on. As the reader moves into the second part of the novel, which takes place in the 1980s, the untamed world of Puy-Larroque seems gone forever. Now, Éléonore has herself aged into the role of matriarch, and the family is running a large industrial pig farm, where thousands of pigs churn daily through cycles of birth, growth, and death. Moments of sublime beauty and powerful emotion mix with the thoughtless brutality waged against animals, making the old horrors of death and disease seem like simpler times. Recalling the naturalism of classic French writers like Émile Zola, brilliantly translated by Frank Wynne, Animalia traverses the twentieth century as it examines man's quest to conquer nature, critiques the legacy of modernity and the transmission of violence from one generation to the next, and questions whether we can hold out hope for redemption in this brutal world"--
Book

This old dog

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Brockenbrough, Martha,
2020.
A baby comes into the house and leaves the old dog feeling kind of lonely and left out, but when the girl starts learning to walk, he has a companion who likes to explore the world at his pace.
Book

Manatee's best friend

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Liu, Sylvia,
[2021]
"Becca Wong Walker may be so shy that most people at school think she doesn't speak at all, but why should she care? She has more important things to worry about. Missy, the manatee who visits the dock in Becca's backyard, and Becca's only friend, hasn't been seen for a long time. When Missy finally does return, she has a new baby with her! Becca wants to be excited, but more than ever inconsiderate boaters are speeding through the river, putting the lives of Missy and her baby in terrible danger. One day, Becca spots a dolphin in the river too! By bonding over the dolphin and manatees, Becca finally starts to make friends at school. But when Becca takes a video that goes viral, it seems like it will be harder than ever to save the manatees ... and trying might just tear Becca's new friendships apart"--
Book

Love, Clancy : diary of a good dog

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce,
2023.
First edition.
"From the internationally bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Way Home comes Love, Clancy: Diary of a Good Dog, a deeply moving story with a brand-new cast of characters, including one very good dog. You've probably never met someone like Clancy. He's keeping a diary, he's falling in love, there are rivals for his affections, he lives with his best friend and his worst enemy - even taken together, these factors are maybe not that unusual, except that Clancy is a dog. His point of view is therefore perhaps...different. Told in Cameron's signature style, a tremendous cast of wonderful characters find themselves jointly and separately navigating the challenges of life, of love, and...other pets, including Clancy's "worst enemy" - one very disdainful cat. It's a lot to keep track of, especially when things start to spin hilariously out of control, but fortunately, we've got the observations of Clancy, a very good dog, who shares a valuable perspective on what is really important"--
Book

Just after midnight

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Hyde, Catherine Ryan,
2019.
Large Print edition.
"In this uplifting, poignant novel about friendship, trust, and facing your fears, Faith, a woman escaping her husband's abuse, befriends Sarah, a fourteen-year-old on the run from her father and reeling from her mother's sudden and suspicious death, as they follow after Midnight, the prized black mare that Sarah's father sold out from under her"--
Large print

One good mama bone : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McClain, Bren,
[2017]
"Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone" after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls "Sister." When her husband drinks himself to death, Sarah, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive. But the more daunting obstacle is Sarah's fear that her mother's words, seared in her memory since she first heard them at the age of six, were a prophesy: "You ain't got you one good mama bone in you, girl."
Book

Horse

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

English, Talley,
2018.
First edition.
A novel about a girl on the cusp of her teenage years, who is growing up faster than she ever hoped she would. When Teagan's father abruptly abandons his family and his farm, Teagan finds herself wading through the wreckage of what was once an idyllic life, searching for something--or someone--to hold on to. What she finds is Ian, short for Obsidian: the magnificent but dangerously headstrong horse her father left behind. But even as she grows close to Ian, patiently training him, trying to overcome her fear of him, Teagan is learning that life and love are fragile.
Book

Oliver the cat who saved Christmas

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Norton, Sheila,
2016.
First U.S. edition.
"A friend who brings light at the darkest of times ... Oliver the cat is a timid little thing, who rarely ventures from his home in the Foresters' Arms. Then his life changes dramatically when a fire breaks out in the pub kitchen and he is left homeless and afraid. But, with the kindness of the humans around him, he soon learns to trust again. And, in his own special way, he helps to heal those around him. However, it isn't until he meets a little girl in desperate need of a friend that he realizes this village needs a Christmas miracle ... A warm and uplifting novel, this is the tale of a little cat with a big heart. Perfect for fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Alfie the Doorstep Cat"--
Book

Tales of the fallen beasts [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Mull, Brandon,
[2016]
Unabridged
All across the world, legends are appearing. Great Beasts, once the most powerful beings in Erdas, are being summoned as spirit animals. Bonded to special kids, they unite the human and animal worlds. A mysterious stranger is hunting these legends, just as they are reborn, and he's crushing anyone who stands in his way. These are the stories of those stolen legends, and of the young heroes who will stop at nothing to get them back.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Cat's first baby

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Nelson, Natalie,
[2022]
Cat is curious about a new addition to the family.
Book

Perestroika in Paris

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Smiley, Jane,
2021.
Large Print edition.
"Paras, short for "Perestroika," is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon at dusk, she finds the door of her stall open and--she's a curious filly--wanders all the way to the City of Light. She's dazzled and often mystified by the sights, sounds, and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she meets an elegant dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, who knows how to get by without attracting the attention of suspicious Parisians. Paras and Frida coexist for a time in the city's lush green spaces, nourished by Frida's strategic trips to the vegetable market. They keep company with two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated raven. But then Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly-one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother live in seclusion. As the cold weather and Christmas near, the unlikeliest of friendships bloom. But how long can a runaway horse stay undiscovered in Paris? How long can a boy keep her hidden and all to himself? Jane Smiley's beguiling new novel is itself an adventure that celebrates curiosity, ingenuity, and the desire of all creatures for true love and freedom"--
Large print

My snake Blake

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Siegel, Randy.
2012.
1st ed.
The extremely long, bright green snake a boy receives from his father as an early birthday present proves to be incredibly smart and talented.
Book

My dog thinks I'm a genius

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Ziefert, Harriet.
2011.
1st ed.
A budding artist goes to school after painting a picture with input from his dog Louie, and returns home to find that the dog has some talent, as well.
Book

Ivy + Bean bound to be bad

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Barrows, Annie.
2009, c2008.
1st pbk. ed.
Best friends Ivy and Bean learn that being very good, or very bad, can be a real challenge when they set out to become like a man Ivy heard about who was so pure of heart that birds and animals followed him.
Book

Dolphins on the sand

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Arnosky, Jim.
c2008.
A dozen dolphins, led by the eldest member and her youngster, become stranded on a sandbar and must be helped to safety by humans.
Book

A dog named Christmas

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kincaid, Gregory D.,
2008.
Book

If cats disappeared from the world

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kawamura, Genki,
2019.
First U.S. edition.
Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week ... Because how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself - and his beloved cat - to the brink --
Book

Dragon kiss [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Baker, E. D.
?2009.
Audun, a dragon from the Icy North, encounters obstacles as he pursues the love of his life--a human girl who can transform into a dragon using magic.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Blood and Chocolate

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Klause, Annette Curtis.
©2007.
1st trade pbk. ed.
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
Book

The evolution of Bruno Littlemore

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Hale, Benjamin.
2011.
1st ed.
Bruno Littlemore, the world's first chimpanzee with the ability to speak, tells the story of primatologist Lydia Littlemore's efforts to educate him; his untimely outbursts, which ultimately cost Lydia her job; and the unforgettable road trip that follows.
Book

Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Moore, Christopher,
2004, c2003.
1st Perennial ed.
Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one else on his team saw a thing, not his longtime partner, Clay Demodocus; not their saucy young research assistant; not even the spliff-puffing white-boy Rastaman Kona (ne Preston Applebaum). But later, when a roll of film returns from the lab missing the crucial tail shot, and his research facility is trashed, Nate realizes something very fishy indeed is going on. By turns witty, irreverent, fascinating, puzzling, and surprising, Fluke is Christopher Moore at his outrageous best.
Book

Word of mouse [Playaway]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Patterson, James,
[2017]
Unabridged.
What makes Isaiah so unique? First, his fur is as blue as the sky, and he can read and write. He can also talk to humans. After a dramatic escape from a mysterious laboratory, Isaiah is separated from his mouse family, and has to use his special skills to survive in the dangerous outdoors, and hopefully find his missing family. But in a world of cruel cats, hungry owls, and terrified people, it's hard for a young, lone mouse to make it alone. When he meets an equally unusual and lonely human girl named Hailey, the two soon learn that true friendship can transcend all barriers.
Sound recording
JLC Title 245h [Playaway]

Dogs and their people

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Lambelet, Anne,
[2019]
As a girl walks home from school, she enjoys watching people with their dogs, knowing that while some seem mismatched, all are best friends.
Book

Zoo [large print]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Patterson, James,
2012.
Large print ed.
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it is too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide.
Large print
JLC Title 245h [large print]

Sunny and Oswaldo

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Melleby, Nicole,
2023.
First edition.
When mean and cranky family cat Oswaldo does not come home one day, Sunny is happy her life is peaceful again, but when she sees how sad her dad is without him, she soon realizes she needs to help find Oswaldo and bring him back home.
Book

Finding Jack

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Crocker, Gareth.
2011.
1st ed.
Joining the flagging war effort in Vietnam after losing his young family in a tragic accident, Fletcher Carson rescues a wounded yellow Labrador during a mission and faces a difficult choice when the government refuses to transport military dogs back home.
Book

Orville : a dog story

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kimmel, Haven,
c2003.
Chained alone in a barn by the couple he thought might give him a good home, a very ugly stray dog is miserable until a new neighbor moves in and he falls in love.
Book

Once there were wolves

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McConaghy, Charlotte,
[2021]
Unabridged.
Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska. Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she's witnessed, inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is mauled to death, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn't make the kill, then is something more sinister at play?
CD

Cooper's story

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce,
2021.
First edition.
Cooper, a malamute-Great Dane puppy, finds purpose as service dog and emotional support animal to fifth-grader Burke, a boy in a wheelchair.
Book

Old Yeller

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

One good dog [spoken word] : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wilson, Susan.
c2010.
Unabridged.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word] :

Snakes don't miss their mothers : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Kerr, M. E.
©2003.
1st ed.
The animals at Critters animal shelter look forward to Christmas as well as the ever-present possiblility of adoption.
Book

The testament of Harold's wife

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Hugo, Lynne,
[2018]
First Kensington trade paperback edition.
"After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices. She can fade away on her Indiana family farm, where her companionship comes courtesy of her aging chickens and an argumentative cat. Or, she can concoct A Plan. Louisa, a retired schoolteacher who's as smart, sassy, and irreverent as ever, isn't the fading away type. The drunk driver who killed Cody got off scot-free by lying about a deer on the road. Harold had tried to take matters into his own hands, but was thwarted by Gus, the local sheriff. Now Louisa decides to take up Harold's cause, though it will mean outsmarting Gus, who's developed an unwelcome crush on her, and staying ahead of her adult son who's found solace in a money-draining cult and terrible art. Louisa's love of life is rekindled as the spring sun warms her cornfields and she goes into action. But even the most Perfect Plans can go awry. A wounded buck, and a teenage boy on the land she treasures help Louisa see that the enduring beauty of the natural world and the mystery of human connection are larger than revenge . . . and so is justice"--
Book

My best friend is extinct

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wood Barrett, Rebecca,
2021.
"This is the story of 10-year-old Henry, who has moved with his mother--his father died when he was small--to a snowy mountain town where it has been hard to make friends. Making matters worse is a concussion he sustained when bullies collapsed a snow tunnel onto him. When Henry finds an injured prehistoric short-faced bear, he names him Yarp and, in secret, nurses him back to health. But what creature injured Yarp in the first place? Henry is determined to keep his new friend safe, but this proves to be a difficult challenge with no assistance from adults"--Kirkus Reviews.
Book

The dog master

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Cameron, W. Bruce.
2015.
First edition.
"Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever..."--
Book

Zoo

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Patterson, James,
2012.
First edition.
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Oz watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place for humans to hide.
Book

The yearling

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan,
1939.
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
Book

Blood ties

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Nix, Garth,
2014.
Library edition.
As the Conquerors try to destroy Erdas, Meilin -- fed up with waiting and ready to fight -- sets off into enemy territory with her spirit animal, a panda named Jhi. Her friends Conor and Abeke aren't far behind ... but they're not the only ones.
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Catwings : a catwings tale

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Le Guin, Ursula K.,
2006.
Orchard pbk. ed.
Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.
Book

Please don't feed the mayor

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Pethick, Sue,
[2019]
When the lumber mill closes, laying off most everyone in Fossett, Oregon, Melanie MacDonald plans to revitalize her beloved but beleaguered homestead by running her border collie Shep in Fossett's mayoral race . . . Shep wins by a landslide. A lover of democracy and dog treats, Shep is rapidly earning the goodwill of Fossett's citizens. Tourists are streaming in and everyone wants to glad-paw the new mayor. Suddenly Melanie and Shep are media darlings, with requests for interviews, game shows, and personal appearances through the roof. But there's trouble in paradise. Determined to win back his former wife, Bryce MacDonald discovers a rival in tabloid reporter Chad Cameron, who's in Fossett to dig up dirt on Melanie and Shep. He finds a willing co-conspirator in the malcontent who lost the election. Hounded by the press and desperate to head off a potential dog-napping, Melanie unwittingly puts herself in danger. Shep comes to the rescue, proving his mettle to save his faithful human at the risk of his own life . . . and new political career.
Book

One good dog

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Wilson, Susan,
2010.
1st ed.
The very definition of a hard-nosed businessman, Adam March has no room in his life for anything but the cold drive to succeed. Not for his social-climbing wife or for his rebellious teenage daughter. then, in an instant, he loses everything, and Adam finds himself alone, unemployed, and reduced to bussing tables in a homeless shelter. Then he meets a dog.
Book

Archie and the bear

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Louise, Zanni,
2018.
First U.S. edition.
"Archie is a bear, not a boy in a bear suit. He meets a bear, who claims to be a boy, not a bear in a boy suit. The two spend the day together, teaching each other about being bears and being boys--pretend or otherwise"--
Book

Free Willy [DVD]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

[2009]
Widescreen version, 10th anniversary special edition.
A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
DVD
JLC Title 245h [DVD]

One good mama bone : a novel

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

McClain, Bren,
2017.
"Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her "mama bone" after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls "Sister." When her husband drinks himself to death, Sarah, a dirt-poor homemaker with no family to rely on and the note on the farm long past due, must find a way for her and young Emerson Bridge to survive. But the more daunting obstacle is Sarah's fear that her mother's words, seared in her memory since she first heard them at the age of six, were a prophesy: "You ain't got you one good mama bone in you, girl."
Electronic resource

A boy and his dog at the end of the world

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Fletcher, Charlie,
2020.
First paperback edition.
The world used to be crowded before all the people went away, but Griz and his parents were never lonely on their remote island. They had each other and their dogs. Then the thief came. There may be no laws left, but if someone steals your dog, you can expect someone to come after you, because what's the point of love if you're not loyal.
Book

The book of Shane [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Eliopulos, Nick.
2015.
Special ed., unabridged.
Shane is just a boy, but in order to free his people, he's resolved to do whatever, to become whomever, his mission requires. Throughout their journey to save the world, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have faced this dangerous foe again and again. But none have learned truth of the boy who nearly changed the course of history forever. Now that truth is revealed. Introduction by bestselling author, Tui T. Sutherland.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Wild born [spoken word]

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Mull, Brandon,
[2013]
Unabridged.
As a dark force engulfs the land, the fate of Erdas has fallen on the shoulders of four young strangers who each have forged a rare bond with their spirit beasts -- a bond that gives great powers to all of them.
CD
JLC Title 245h [spoken word]

Over the moon

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Proimos, James,
[2020]
Two wolves find a baby girl floating down the river and take her home to raise her and teach her about good and evil, light and dark, right and wrong (although wolf two thinks of dinner); but when she grows up she is drawn to the human world--although the wolves are waiting to take her home each night.
Book

Dog diaries : Buddy

2024-06-03T05:25:35Z

Klimo, Kate.
c2013.
1st ed.
A German shepherd describes her life as the first guide dog trained to serve the blind.
Book