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English
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"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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
An artist's solitude needs to be guarded from the chaos of the world, but within its quiet also lies loneliness and self-doubt. Humphreys provides a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life. She discusses the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk at an insurance company, Julie Klam had resorted to consulting tarot cards about when she would meet that special someone. When he finally showed up, he wasn't exactly as she had pictured. Flat-faced, eyes askew, neutered, and irresistibly sweet, he was a Boston terrier named Otto. And he was only the beginning. This is the humorous, tender story of how Julie learned life's most important lessons from...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Cara felt her teenaged children slipping away, she decided the best way to fill that void was with dogs--lots of them--and so her foster journey began. In 2015, her Pennsylvania farm became a haven for Operation Paws for Homes. There were the nine puppies at once, which arrived with less than a day's notice; a heart-worm positive dog; a deeply traumatized stray from Iraq; and countless others who just needed a gentle touch and a warm place to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Connecticut veterinarian Melissa Shapiro gets a call about a tiny deaf, blind puppy rescued from a hoarding situation in need of fostering, she doesn't hesitate to say "yes." Little does she know how that decision will transform her, her family, and legions of admirers destined to embrace the saga of the indomitable pink pup. One of the most anxious dogs Melissa had ever encountered, the traumatized Piglet weighed under two pounds upon his welcome...
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