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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"No one expected Barley to have an encounter with the Messiah. He was homeless, hungry, and struggling to survive in first century Jerusalem. Most surprisingly, he was a dog. But through Barley's eyes, the story of a teacher from Galilee comes alive in a way we've never experienced before. Barley's story begins in the home of a compassionate woodcarver and his wife who find Barley as an abandoned, nearly-drowned pup. Tales of a special teacher from...
82) The darling
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to...
Author
Series
Those darn squirrels volume 3
Description
As Old Man Fookwire's birds prepare to migrate south for the winter, those darn squirrels decide to follow.
84) Stella
Author
Series
Puppy place. Main series volume 36
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Stella is a sweet Maltipoo puppy that Charles meets while on a camping trip with his father. Even though she is well-behaved, Stella's owners just can't get her to listen. Can Charles help them figure out what is going on with their dog?"--Back cover.
85) The fledgling
Author
Series
Hall family chronicles volume 4
Description
Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose.
Author
Series
Dog's purpose (Juvenile) volume 5
Description
"From rescue dog to movie star! Shelby doesn't remember much of her early life-- only that she was always hungry and cold. Then one day, Shelby is rescued by a kind woman, and things change forever. She soon finds herself on a movie set, and her new life is filled with challenges and rewards. She learns things like to Go Mark, Cut, and Dig. Her rewards include squeaky toys, yummy chicken-- and best of all, love and affection from castmates and crew....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others,...
88) Cooper
Author
Series
Puppy place. Main series volume 35
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"While rehearsing for a play, Charles meets Cooper, a corgi with a whole lot of personality. Charles only feels comfortable onstage with Cooper there with him. Can Charles find this star of a pup a home?"--Back cover.
90) Naughty neighbor
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Description
Louisa Brannigan is a a Washington D.C. press secretary whose annoying neighbor gets her involved in the case of a missing pig. Little does she know that the quest for this MIA swine might just lead to unexpected romance.
91) The Mare
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Description
Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul, who wonder what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. Gaitskill illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as Velvet's encounter with the horses at the stable down the road...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Description
"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...
93) Word of mouse
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The illuminating journey of a very special mouse, and the unexpected friendships he makes along the way"--
94) Through the fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Kit Jernigan despairs of ever fitting in with her new tight-knit K9 unit they've been through too much to welcome a stranger. So when a killer strikes, it's a fight to convince her fellow officers to trust her long enough to catch the woman she knows is responsible. She can't do it on her own. What she needs most is a partner: local fire spotter Wesley March. Wes knows in his heart that Kit is right, and he''s willing to leave his lonely tower to...
95) Blue
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text celebrate the many shades of blue seen during the relationship of a boy and his dog as the boy grows from a baby to an adult.
96) Leave no trace
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Series
Description
"One arrow through the heart could be a tragic hunting accident. A second one, within days, looks more like a crime. That's when Meg Jennings and Brian Foster of the FBI's Forensic Canine Unit head to Georgia to investigate. With their dogs Hawk and Lacey, Meg and Brian are enlisted to follow the scent of a killer. At first, nothing seems to connect the two victims - a county commissioner and State Patrol officer. But the blood sport around the southern...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"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...
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Series
Appears on list
Description
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...
99) The Kill Switch
Author
Series
Tucker Wayne novels volume 1
Description
Recruited by Sigma Force to extract a Russian pharmaceutical magnate, who holds the biological key to a new weapons system, from Siberia, former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his military working dog Kane must solve an ancient mystery before the modern world suffers a fate worse than death.
Author
Publisher
Harper Element
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Lara doesn’t realise how good she has it in her home in Edinburgh with her owners, Dion and Lucja, and of course her sister, Gobi. If she’s being honest, she’s jealous of Gobi’s fame and the international attention she has received ever since Dion found her. Okay, Gobi may have survived an ultra-marathon across the Gobi Desert, but it’s not as if Lara doesn’t earn her fresh prawns! She dreams about the day when she can go outdoors and...
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