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1) Dog crazy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"As a pet bereavement counselor, Maggie Brennan spends her days helping patients come to terms with losing their four-legged friends, but she's struggling with major problems of her own and can't seem to take her own advice. When she meets a woman who claims her dog is not dead, but missing, Maggie finds herself entangled in a mystery that will force her to face her biggest fear and maybe just find new love along the way. A bighearted story and compelling...
Author
Publisher
Henry Hold and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lily ran and jumped and barked and whimpered and growled and wiggled and wagged and licked and snuggled. But not now. It is hard to lose a pet. There is sadness, but also hope--for a beloved pet lives on in your heart, your memory, and your imagination"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"On the heels of her family's beloved dog's death, one woman returns to the canines of her past in order to imagine the human she hopes to become in the future in her memoir, What Is a Dog? Chloe Shaw is in a dog house of her own choosing. A married mother with kids, the death of Booker, her children's eldest family pet, has left her reeling and reckoning with her lifelong relationship with dogs. Unable to shake the feeling a year later, she asks...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock and rolling in donkey manure and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looing uncertainty,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This collection of quotations--heartfelt thoughts and memories discovered in letters, journals, diaries, memoirs and other original sources--by writers, leaders and legends captures the profound connection we share with our animal companions and also provides comfort for those who have lost a pet.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When an Iraqi family is forced to flee their home, they can't bear to leave their beloved cat, Kunkush, behind. So they carry him with them from Iraq to Greece, keeping their secret passenger hidden away. But during the crowded boat crossing to Greece, his carrier breaks and the frightened cat runs from the chaos. In one moment, he is gone. After an unsuccessful search, his family has to continue their journey, leaving brokenhearted. A few days later,...
10) Pig
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
12) The spotted dog
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire, talented sleuth, stalwart friend and lover, is back! When a distraught Scottish veteran from Afghanistan is knocked unconscious, waking up to find his beloved ex-service dog missing, Corinna and her lover, Daniel, find themselves inextricably drawn into the machinations of a notorious underworld gang of drug runners. Corinna and Daniel need to pull together all the strings to find the connections between their...
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Brina, a city cat, moved to the mountains with the owners for a summer holiday. Here she meets some stray cats who call themselves "The Gang of the Feline Sun". Her new friends convince her to run away with them and become a free cat. But while Brina enjoys her newfound freedom and all the new types of delectable bugs the countryside has to offer, her young owners are distraught over losing her, someone they consider a member of their family. Brina...
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