By Dan Dye
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk
“The co-founders of Three Dog Bakery describe how the rescue of Gracie, a deaf, partially blind, albino Great Dane pup, and her relationship with her owner, Dan Dye, led to the founding of their successful enterprise (From the Publisher).”
By Tim Flannery
Twenty-five years ago, young Australian museum curator Tim Flannery set out to research the fauna of the Pacific Islands. He shares his accounts of discovering, naming, and sometimes eating new mammal species, being thwarted or aided by local customs, and undertaking historic scientific expeditions.
By Laurel Braitman
Examines parallels between the ways humans and animals express feelings and experience mental decline, tracing studies of emotionally disturbed animals and their caregivers to consider how their recoveries can inform the human medical community.
By Temple Grandin
Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and explains how to fulfill them.
By Garth Stein
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian
With Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
“He Said, She Said” Book Discussion
Join us for a special evening to celebrate a year of great books and discussions.
Monday, December 19, 2011. 7:30 PM.
Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher’s soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe’s maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
By Betty White
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
“The popular actress and animal welfare advocate offers personal stories of the zoo animals she has known and loved through the years... (From the Publisher).”
By Carl Safina
Explores the lives and minds of animals, drawing on observations of elephants in Kenya, wolves in Yellowstone National Park, and whales in the Pacific Northwest to describe their profound capacity for perception, thought, and emotion.
“...The extraordinary feline with the great Scottish Fold ears, is hightailing it to the south of France - and making pit stops all over the globe (with his favorite human, of course) ... (From the Publisher).”
By Jackson Galaxy
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
The star of Animal Planet's My Cat From Hell traces the story of his 13-year relationship with gray-and-white feline companion Benny, related their shared healing experiences while offering advice on how to promote optimal human-cat bonds.
By Jeffrey Brown
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
A collection of comics based on the author’s cat, depicting its antics as it eats, plays, purrs and engages in other distinctively feline behaviors.
“At one time, publisher and author Peter Gethers was a confirmed cat hater … THE CAT WHO WENT TO PARIS proves that sometimes all it takes is paws and personality to change a life (From the Publisher).”
“A good balance of laugh-out-loud and tear-jerking recollections: Gethers makes Norton immortal, delivering an affecting narrative that belongs on the bookshelf of all cat-fanciers (Kirkus Reviews).”
By Jeffrey Brown
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
Cartoonist Jeffrey Brown’s drawings perfectly capture the humor and quirkiness of cats in all their strange and charming glory.
By Vicki Myron
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
“This charming and heartwarming story of an extraordinary feline will be welcomed by cat lovers and all librarians who wish they had a library cat (Library Journal).”
Genre Pets & Animals
By Mary Oliver
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
A selection of new and favorite poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Primitive celebrates the canine companions who have enriched her world, exploring how they have accompanied her walks, inspired her work and served as life guides.
By Tom Ryan
Relates how the author and his dog named Atticus M. Finch attempted to climb all forty–eight of New Hampshire's four–thousand–foot peaks twice to pay tribute to a friend who died of cancer and raise money for charity
Genre Pets & Animals
By Dave Nasser
The funny and heartwarming story of one couple's unexpected life with the 'runt of the litter' puppy who grew to be the largest dog in the world...in fact ever.
By Jon Katz
Presents a meditation on coping with the loss of an animal who has enriched one's life, sharing observations on the ways in which people grieve for their pets, related philosophical quesions, and the process of letting go.
By Gwen Cooper
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services
A pet rescue volunteer and literacy outreach coordinator describes her relationship with a three-pound blind cat whose daredevil character and affectionate personality saw the author through six moves, a burglary, and the healing of her broken heart.
By Jon Katz
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
The author describes how Izzy, a dog with an uncanny sensitivity toward ill and troubled humans, led him to take on the difficult but rewarding job of hospice volunteer, while his acquisition of Lenore, a Labrador puppy, helped him overcome depression.
By Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence
An award-winning conservationist traces his efforts to save the endangered White Rhino, describing the brutal region where the last 15 were struggling to survive, the bureaucratic forces the author navigated to establish protections and his work as chief negotiator between the violent Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan government.
By Dave Barry
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
A Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and best–selling author of Dave Barry Turns 40 now shows how to age gracefully, taking cues from his beloved and highly intelligent dog, Lucy.
By Steven Rowley
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
A man is reminded of how it feels to love fiercely, to fight for a loved one and to work through the pain of letting go as he becomes gradually aware of his devoted bond with his aging canine companion.
By Daphne Sheldrick
A conservationist who has dedicated her life to saving orphan elephants in Africa describes her relationships with her late husband, Tsavo Park warden David Sheldrick, and a host of animals, including the majestic elephant, Eleanor.
By David Dosa
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director
“Making Rounds with Oscar is the story of an unusual cat, the patients he serves, their caregivers, and of one doctor who learned how to listen. Heartfelt, inspiring, and full of humor and pathos, this book allows readers to take a walk into a world rarely seen from the outside, a world we often misunderstand (From the Publisher).”
By John Grogan
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
Follows the life story of an exuberant Labrador retriever who gets into perpetual trouble and experiences a range of inspiring adventures, from shutting down an entire beach to guarding a seventeen–year–old neighbor after a stabbing attack.
By Ellie Laks
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
“Traces the uplifting story of a Los Angeles-based nonprofit animal rescue that has saved hundreds of creatures from unsafe conditions, describing how the author and shelter volunteers rehabilitate their charges, many of whom become companions for at-risk inner-city and special-needs children (From the Publisher).”
By Larry Levin
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
“…Heartwarming and redemptive, OOGY is the story of the people who were determined to rescue this dog against all odds, and of the family who took him home, named him "Oogy" (an affectionate derivative of ugly), and made him one of their own (From the Publisher).”
By Stephen King
When a little boy's pet dies, and he persuades his parents to bury it in an old Indian cemetary, reputed by legend to house restless spirits, a nightmare of death and destruction begins.
By Susannah Charleson
A tour of the psychiatric service dog industry traces the author's work with unwanted shelter dogs before matching them with people in need, documenting her own partnership with a search canine while sharing uplifting success stories.
By Laura Hillenbrand
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk
"Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938… Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race (From the Publisher)."
By Eileen Riley
At aged twenty–eight, Eileen Riley had an enviably glamorous life; her globe– trotting career as a diplomat took her from the corridors of power at the White House to postings in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea, and finally, London–where she decided to give it all up to become a professional dog-sitter. But her diplomatic skills were to prove invaluable in her new career.
By James Bowen
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk
“A U.S. release of a best-selling account from England traces the story of an impoverished London street musician who after saving an injured and highly intelligent cat found his life profoundly changed in unexpected ways (From the Publisher).”
By Spencer Quinn
Series Chet and Bernie Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference
“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 (From the Publisher).”
By Jennifer S. Holland
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager
“A senior writer for National Geographic magazine presents a collection of heart-warming tales about animals who have forged unlikely, abiding bonds with other animals not of their own species, from Koko the gorilla's famous adoption of All Ball the kitten to the friendship between Owen the hippo and the tortoise Mzee (From the Publisher).”
By Neil Abramson
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk
“After veterinarian Helena Colden dies of breast cancer, she is unable to move on and narrates the emotional deterioration and struggle of her attorney husband David as he becomes involved in a court case to save the life of a chimpanzee (From the Publisher).”
By Martha Teichner
Recommended By Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian
The Emmy Award–winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent describes how she adopted a dying friend’s Bull Terrier as a companion to her own, forging unexpected heartwarming and heartbreaking bonds along the way.
By Tom Ryan
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk
Traces the author's adoption of a traumatized, hearing-impaired elderly dog who throughout his remaining years transformed from a hostile and violent canine to a happy, puppy-like companion.
By Jim and Jamie Dutcher
Two filmmakers offer a look at wolf behavior as they describe their six years living among and filming an Idaho wolfpack and reveal new facts about one of the world's most complex, intelligent, and misunderstood animals.
By James Bowen
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk
Describes the author’s transition from a street musician to an international celebrity and the moments of friendship, bravery, and humor he has shared with his feline companion (From the Publisher).
Zarafa was a gentle 19th-century giraffe, a simple animal whose life was dictated by the tumultuous times around her. From the African savanna where she was caught and tamed as an infant, to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and then on to France, this odd animal captivated the French people for almost two decades, as she lived out her life as a part of the royal menagerie.