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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
by Ted Kerasote  
Powells.com Staff Pick Because I love dogs, Merle's Door was my favorite book this year. Merle lives with his owner, Ted, in the Grand Tetons. (He "found" Ted on one of Ted's many hunting explorations.) This book is a beautiful record of the relationship of a true wilderness...
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Used: $8.95 Trade Paper List Price $12.95
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Enslaved by Ducks
by Bob Tarte
Publisher Comments The book that Entertainment Weekly called "hilarious," Publishers Weekly declared "a true pleasure," Booklist called "heartwarming," and the Dallas Morning News praised as "rich and funny" is now available in paperback. When Bob Tarte bought a house...
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Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan
Publisher Comments The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little...
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The Dogs of Bedlam Farm: An Adventure with Sixteen Sheep, Three Dogs, Two Donkeys, and Me
by Jon Katz Synopsis Dogs are blameless, devoid of calculation, neither blessed nor cursed with human motives. They can't really be held responsible for what they do. But we can. -from The Dogs of Bedlam Farm When Jon Katz adopted a border collie named Orson, his whole world...
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A Dog Year
by Jon Katz Synopsis A warm, humorous, and moving memoir of the enriching and ennobling experience of living with Labradors and a Border Collie is penned by the author of "Running to the Mountain." With a new Afterword....
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Dogs We Love: With Jane Smiley, Edward Albee, Ann Beattie, Armistead Maupin, and Fourteen Other Dog People
by Michael Rosen Publisher Comments What we love about our dogs. Some of us just andquot;feel incomplete without the company of a dog or two,andquot; as Pulitzer Prizeand#8211;winning playwright Edward Albee puts it in this timeless collection of great writing about dogs. In fact, millions...
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All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot Publisher Comments Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants-- four-legged and otherwise-- with the world's best-loved animal doctor. For over 25 years-- since All Creatures Great and Small was first published...
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The Power of Paws: Reflections on a Life with Dogs
by Gary Shiebler Publisher Comments “Gary’s book brought back memories of my first true love—an all-knowing collie named Bonnie. In a world of sensory overload, that profound nonverbal connection is the greatest gift.” —Wendie Malick, television actress &...
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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
by Ted Kerasote Publisher Comments Now including a wonderful new photo insert chronicling Merle’s life, this national bestseller explores the relationship between humans and dogs. How would dogs live if they were free? Would they stay with their human friends? Merle and Ted found...
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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
by Nick Trout Publisher Comments It's 2: 47 a.m. when Dr. Nick Trout takes the phone call that starts another hectic day at the Angell Animal Medical Center. Sage, a ten-year old German shepherd, will die without emergency surgery for a serious stomach condition. Over the next twenty...
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From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
by Jay Kopelman Publisher Comments When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.–led attack on the “most dangerous city on Earth,&...
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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan Publisher Comments The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new...
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My Dog Skip
by Willie Morris Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man). In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo...
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Fur Person
by May Sarton Publisher Comments A delightful, whimsical tale — one of the most popular books for cat lovers ever written, now newly illustrated. May Sarton's fictionalized account of her cat Tom Jones's life and adventures prior to making the author's acquaintance begins with...
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Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing
by Sonny Brewer Publisher Comments Cormac is a novel based on real events, and tells the tale of a Golden Retriever, who ran away from his Alabama home while the owner was on a book tour in San Francisco. Cormac had always been afraid of storms, they made him cower and tremble. Or, in...
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The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
by Sy Montgomery Publisher Comments “Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am.” –from The Good Good Pig A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in...
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Paws & Effect: The Healing Power of Dogs
by Sharon Sakson Publisher Comments andldquo;I am highly impressed. . . . Paws and Effect is a great book for all dog lovers!andrdquo;andmdash;Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation andldquo;So meaningful and straight to the heart, Paws andamp; Effect sheds a whole new light on...
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Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard
Powells.com Staff Pick In "Dog Kibble," Tasha Baxter's verse exhibits a brutal economy of words: "Life is never meaningless," her villanelle announces, "there is always food." Here and throughout this collection these authors demand your attention, as if to bark, "You...
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Puppy Chow Is Better Than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life
by Bruce Goldstein Publisher Comments To Bruce Goldstein-an edgy, twenty-something New Yorker trying to make his mark in advertising-just waking up in the morning was an ordeal. Underemployed and recently dumped, he was well into the downward spiral of bipolar disorder. Even with therapy...
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That Quail, Robert
by Margaret Stanger Publisher Comments The perennially bestselling and acclaimed classic of the little bird who preferred human companionship to other quail....
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