Category: Dog Books
Unleashed: Poems by Writers’ Dogs
Now in paperback, an irresistible gift for dog lovers: poems from the dogs’ point of view, written by the well known writers and poets who love them. List of contributors: Edward Albee, Jennifer Allen, Danny Anderson, Lynda Barry, Rick Bass, Charles Baxter, Robert Benson, Roy Blount, Jr., Ron Carlson, Jill Ciment, Bernard Cooper, Stephen Dobyns, [...]
Photobooth Dogs
This one-of-a-kind collection celebrates the age-old bond between dogs and their people. Featuring happy and clearly beloved pets in more than 100 portraits taken in photobooths over the last 80 years, these images are a testament to the devotion people have felt and will always feel for their dogs. Photobooth Dogs
The Well-Connected Dog: A Guide to Canine Acupressure
“The Well-Connected Dog: A Guide to Canine Acupressrue” is an easy to follow manual with lots of illustrations, photographs and charts. Acupressure connects you with 1000′s of years of natural healing and has proven to enhance performance, health and overall well-being. This book gives you the tools to participate in your dog’s optimal health. The [...]
My Dog Tulip
My Dog Tulip is the ultimate bitch session–in the canine sense of the phrase, of course. In 1947, J.R. Ackerley rescued an 18-month-old German shepherd, and from the start her every look and move were to undo him. “Tulip never let me down. She is nothing if not consistent. She knows where to draw the [...]
In Dog We Trust
After a bad divorce and a brief prison term for computer hacking, 42-year-old Steve Levitan has returned to his home town of Stewart’s Crossing and taken a part-time job as an adjunct professor of English at his alma mater, Eastern College. While walking around his gated community, he becomes friendly with his next-door neighbor, Caroline [...]
A Big Little Life CD: Memoir of a Joyful Dog
In each little life we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe.” DEAN KOONTZ thought he had everything he needed. A successful novelist with more than twenty #1 New York Times bestsellers to his credit, Dean had forged a career out [...]
Training People: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Human
For centuries, dogs have known that they, not humans, run the show. But not all dogs know how to get the best from their people. Finally, from the leading expert in the field comes a straightforward, easy-to-use manual that’s written for dogs by a dog. This indispensable reference provides foolproof advice on obtaining everything a [...]
Australian Shepherds
This book is one of more than 175 titles in Barrona’s extensive line of Complete Pet Owner’s Manuals. All titles in this series present pet care information for non-specialist animal owners and pet buyers. These heavily illustrated manuals are filled with facts about the title animals origins and traits, as well as advice on purchasing, [...]
365 Dogs Page-A-Day Calendar 2011
So many dogs, each one cuter than the last! Packed with hundreds of adorable winners of the 2010 Dog Calendar Contest, 365 Dogs is daily eye candy for the dog lover. Charmingly fluffy Chows. Plaintive Pugs. Goofy Golden Retrievers. Well-coiffed Lhasa Apsos, bouncing-off-the-wall Jack Russells, droopy Bloodhounds, presidential Portuguese Water Dogs, and ridiculously cute mutts—big, [...]
James Herriot’s Dog Stories: Warm And Wonderful Stories About The Animals Herriot Loves Best
James Herriot is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. The warm and joyful memoirs of his life as a country vet in Yorkshire have endeared him to countless readers around the world, and many of his most memorable tales featured man’s best friend. Here are the complete dog stories from his much-beloved memoirs: a [...]
A Dog’s Life
Martin Clunes is happy to admit that with Mary, it was love at first sight; her soft, brown eyes, her perfect figure and that unstoppable wagging tail. As cocker spaniels go, she was perfect. Mary was soon joined in the Clunes’ household by Tina, another cocker, and Arthur, a black Labrador. Reminiscent of Marley & Me, the dynamics [...]
No Dogs in Heaven? Scenes from the Life of a Country Veterinarian
For the millions of animal enthusiasts in America, here’s a heartwarming collection of tales by veterinarian Robert Sharp that relate the joys and misadventures of being an animal doctor in small-town U.S.A. With humor and compassion, No Dogs in Heaven? portrays the great and not-so-great characteristics of human and animal nature, all infused by a [...]
Last Dog on the Hill: The Extraordinary Life of Lou
The moving story of the author’s adopted Rottweiler mix, Lou, a free-thinking heroic dog who changed his life forever Born of guard dogs on a secret marijuana farm in Mendicino County, Lou truly was one dog in a million. On the winter day that the ailing, tick-infested feral pup was rescued by Steve Duno, neither [...]
Rottweiler Rescue: a mystery for dog lovers
No one promised Dianne Brennan that her volunteer work as a foster home for Rottweiler Rescue would be easy. And no one warned her that the job would be murderously hard! Yet murder is what Dianne faces when she takes a dog to his new home, finds the adopter dead, and sees the killer leaving [...]
Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
After Gary Kowalski, author and the minister of Burlington Vermont’s Unitarian Universalist church, completed his new book, Goodbye, Friend, on dealing with losing your pet, his own elderly dog, Chinook, died. In his first book, The Souls of Animals, Kowalski wrote: “My own wise friend is my dog. He has deep knowledge to impart.” Apparently, [...]
