Rosenfelt, David
Summary: Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter's calling has always been running the Tara Foundation. The dog rescue organization places hundreds of dogs in new homes every year. It's added up to so many dogs and new owners that Andy can't even do the math. But there's one dog, and one owner, Andy will always remember. About a year ago, Rachel Morehouse came to the foundation looking for a companion. In her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RISHarper, Evelyn Allen
Summary: "What is hidden in the collar? A computer chip? A cure for cancer? A cry for help? Whatever it is, one man is willing to kill to find the collar and the message hidden inside. Susan Cook, the realtor who finds a dog locked inside her new listing, thinks that the evicted tenants have abandoned it. Feeling sorry for the little cross-eyed dog, she takes it home, cleans it up, and exchanges the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ink Smith Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARDevine, Alexis
Summary: "Alexis Devine, creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @WhatAboutBunny with over 8.3 million followers, delivers a memoir loaded with wit and passion for animals, as well as the vulnerability and authenticity of a woman who learned to take care of herself by learning to talk to her dog"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEVINE, ALEXIS DEVHorowitz, Alexandra
Summary: The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. We keep dogs and are kept by them. We celebrate their individuality but breed them for sameness. We create emotional relationships with dogs, but legally they are property to be bought, sold, abandoned, or euthanized as we wish. Horowitz explores all aspects of this unique and complex interspecies pairing-- and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 HORGolbeck, Jennifer
Summary: "Dogs have been considered people's best friend for thousands of years, but never has the relationship between humans and their canine companions been as vitally important as it is today. With all of the seismic shifts in today's world, rates of anxiety and depression have been skyrocketing, and people have been turning to their dogs for solace and stability. Amidst these dire realities,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: "Rich and flamboyant Honeybelle Hensley, the most colorful character in Mule Stop, Texas, dies a suspicious death and enrages the whole town by leaving her worldly fortune to the most undeserving recipient-her dog. The incorrigible Miss Ruffles is a Texas Cattle Cur, not a cuddly lapdog, and when Honeybelle was alive, Miss Ruffles liked nothing better than digging up Honeybelle's famous rose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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Contents: Doggie Style -- Dog House -- Dog Food -- Sick Puppy -- Arts and Entertainment -- How Much Is That Doggie? -- Puppy Love -- Dogs Are the New Kids -- Famous Dogs -- Are Dogs God? -- Dead Dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 SATWilson, Susan
Summary: "In Susan Wilson's The Dog Who Saved Me, a former Boston K-9 unit policeman turned animal control officer in bucolic Harmony Farms is up against rescuing a gun shy and wounded dog gone feral, and proving that his low-life older brother is back in the drug business. Fighting his shattering grief at the death of his K-9 partner killed in the line of duty, and a staggering loss of confidence from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WILInkpen, Mick
Summary: Dog is very badly behaved--he destroys everything, chases cars, rolls in poo, and won't stop running away! But when he finds himself lost and alone there is one person he knows he can always count on. -- Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2016
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Summary: Examines the rich and complicated terrain of human-animal relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 KNADennis, Brian
Summary: The story of a wild dog who befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J636.7 DENBragg, Rick
Summary: "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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 BRABerenson, Laurien
Summary: Thanks to Aunt Peg and her enthusiastic pedigree dog show pals, Melanie's aptly named Bite Club reading group has book lovers all over town burying their noses in thrilling murder mysteries. But another pet project surfaces when Melanie reluctantly agrees to train a Bulldog puppy for elusive member Evan Major. Between the unusual bruise on his face and a bizarre run-in with an unknown dog show...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERLanier, Virginia
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANStavrinides, Liz.
Summary: 78 million dogs live as pets in the USA. These are the lucky ones. Five to seven million companion animals enter shelters every year, and more than half are euthanized due to the lack of space. Miracle Dogs celebrates and honors the rescuers and the dogs whose lives they’ve saved. It features wonderful stories and photographs of dog rescuers, dog trainers, and rescue organizations such as The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 STAConant, Susan
Summary: Holly Winter, Malamute trainer, knows she's not the only Holly Winter living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it would be so much nicer if Holly number two weren't a dog-hating academic--and if a third woman calling herself Holly Winter didn't just happen to be dead. Holly number one can attest to this unfortunate fact, having discovered the gunned-down body while searching for a missing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CONConant, Susan
Summary: When Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter rejects applicants who want to adopt homeless dogs, she makes a lot of enemies. In dogs Holly trusts, and the dogs she trusts most are her beloved malamutes, Rowdy, Kimi and Sammy. but right now she could use a human friend. Lately, it seems wherever she turns, things go wrong: an anonymous call turns vicious, her husband is keeping secrets, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828.912 ACKAckerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph)
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKInkpen, Mick
Summary: "Fred! Fred! Fred!" they say. They say it all the time. "Fred! Fred! Fred! all day. (You whisper it sometimes.) If only I could Fred.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE INKKerasote, Ted.
Summary: Describes how the author adopted a dog living on its own in the wild and his decision to install a dog door in his house so that the dog could live both inside and outside, in a study of the human-dog partnership and animal consciousness and behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636.7092 KERQuinn, Spencer.
Summary: A follow-up to Dog On It finds the human-and-canine investigative team endeavoring to rescue an abducted show dog, a case that is complicated by reporter Susie Sanchez's disappearance and Chet's separation from Bernie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS QUIQuinn, Spencer.
Summary: Spencer Quinn presents his second novel featuring private eye Bernie and his K-9 sidekick, Chet. Here, the sleuthing duo must sniff out another mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC QUIQuinn, Spencer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010