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Author
Language
English
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
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 323 pages : map, photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses how Bulu, a Jack Russell terrier born on a crocodile farm in Zambia, became a foster parent for orphaned baby animals after being adopted by Anna and Steve Tolan, former police officers who left England to live in the African bush.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Ed Breslin was a down-on-his-luck alcoholic until he bought a dog, Miss Dutchie. Caring for Miss Dutchie helped Ed overcome his drinking problem and completely reform his life. Here, he tells his heart-moving story.
12) The noisy book
Author
Language
English
Description
Muffin the dog is blindfolded for a day and tries to identify things by the sounds they make.
14) Lassie come-home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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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