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When mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from California to Maine, he thought he had prepared for everything. They had mapped the route, brought three GPSs for backup, refrigerators full of food, and volunteers for help. But traveling in three RVs with twenty-five dogs turned out to be a bigger ordeal than he anticipated. Rosenfelt recounts the adventure with humor and warmth and tells how he and his wife became passionate foster parents...
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Lt. Cornel Jay Kopelman describes his experiences after returning to the United States with his dog Lava--who was rescued from an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq--and details how Lava suffered symptoms comparable to post-traumatic stress disorder, which led Kopelman to recognize his own issues.
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2021.
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"A memoir and elegy to the author's deceased dog, The Speckled Beauty"--
"Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and a screen-door muncher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking up 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....
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Pierce draws on the story of the last year of the life of her dog, Ody, to present an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical, and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals. Combining personal stories, interviews, and scientific research, she considers a wide range of questions about animal aging, end-of-life care, and death. Pierce also tackles such vexing questions as: whether animals...
7) Flush
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The famous literary romance of Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning given a funny and poignant slant - being told from the viewpoint of Elizabeth's adored spaniel, Flush, who bore his mistress's virtual imprisonment as an invalid in her father's house, and shared her dramatic flight abroad and subsequent happy married life.
Flush belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and followed its mistress from her confinement in her father's house in Wimpole...
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IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
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1280L
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The author, an experienced Iditarod racer, describes his joy at the birth of a litter of pups and the bonding experience of watching them grow, learn, and develop into dogs that pull sleds across the snow.
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Today, Wallace is a champion; but in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit-bull breeding operation. Then Andrew "Roo" Yori entered the picture. A scientist and shelter volunteer, Roo could immediately see that Wallace was something special. When Roo learned that Wallace was about to be put down, he and his wife frantically fought to keep Wallace alive until they could adopt him, even though they already had...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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AD 680L
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"Bring home the incredible true story of a friendship so strong that it crosses the globe! You will love the inspiring tale of Gobi, a lost dog who kept pace with an ultramarathon runner, Dion Leonard, across a vast desert. Follow their unlikely friendship through the challenges of an 80-mile race and Dion's struggle to bring Gobi home for good. Finding Gobi : The True Story of One Little Dog's Big Journey is the incredible true story of Dion Leonard,...
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Still mourning the death of her previous dog, Sharron Kahn Luttrell decides to volunteer as a weekend puppy raiser in a program for prison-trained service dogs. Daisy captures Sharron's heart the moment she's handed the leash. Keith, the convict who cares for Daisy during the week, seems intimidating at first, but he is soft-spoken and polite. Each new command Daisy masters suggests a man who is patient, persistent, and committed. Sharron and Keith...
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2020.
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"From bestselling author of She's Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been. It's in the love of dogs, and my love for them, that I can best now take the measure of the child I once was, and the...
14) Big Red
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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910L
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Danny and his Irish setter roam the Wintapi Wilderness and eventually track down a great outlaw bear. From the moment Danny sees the beautiful Irish setter, he knows Red is the dog for him. Fast and smart, strong and noble, Red is the only dog Danny wants by his side. Soon, neither boy nor dog can stand to be apart. Together Danny and Red face many dangers in the harsh Wintapi wilderness that they call home. But the greatest test of their courage...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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1050L
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The story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans.--From publisher description.
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2013.
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These wondrous lost- and- found canine sagas highlight dogs' remarkable abilities to return home despite almost unbelievable odds. Brad and Sherry Steiger have collected dramatic, carefully documented true- life anecdotes that showcase canines' amazing intelligence, courage, and sometimes seemingly supernatural powers to overcome obstacles like natural disasters and fierce wilderness, predators, grievous injuries, and more, to find their human families....
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[2024]
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"On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City. Many people were killed, and several were trapped under the collapsed buildings. When Canadian police officer James Symington heard about the attacks, he knew he and his trained search and rescue dog, Trakr, had to help. Follow Trakr's lead as he and Symington bravely search and dig through the rubble to help rescue survivors of one of the deadliest days in U.S. history"--...
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c2007
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Captures the extraordinary relationships that existed between five noted women writers and their dogs--including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her cocker spaniel Flush, and Pinka, the cocker spaniel who helped Virginia Woolf deal with bouts of mental illness.
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