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Add to Wishlist. They have "minibooks" and activities (dot to dot, coloring sheets, etc) sprinkled throughout the book. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Illustrated with linocuts, both colored and plain. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. As a veterinarian, I LOVE this book. There Ray meets Dr. Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she’s done to piss her off. If you’re the sort of person who likes off-beat trivia, this book is … Tell us in the comments about which of these you’ve read or other books with animals in the title that you loved. Paws & Claws: A Three Dog Mystery (Paws & Claws, #1), Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, Circling the Waggins; How 5 Misfit Dogs Saved Me from Bewilderness, In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians, No Buddy Left Behind: Bringing U.S. In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn’t just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. With several genres spanning from classics to kids to contemporary fiction and more, there is something here for everyone. With the help of allies found on the fringes of society, Eric embarks on an edge-of-your-seat journey to uncover the truth about himself and to escape the predatory forces that threaten to consume him. This powerful novel reminds us that places, as much as people, have stories to tell.”, The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden: “Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. The creature that results is a hairy, lecherous, vulgar, vodka-swilling comrade who wreaks havoc on the scientist’s apartment, chases cats as head of the ‘sub-department of the Moscow Cleansing Department responsible for eliminating vagrant quadrupeds,’ and threatens to expose his creator as a counterrevolutionary.”, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me by Ana Castillo: “Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me looks at what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Moving with the pace of a superb thriller, The Raw Shark Texts has sparked the imaginations of readers around the world and is one of the most talked-about novels in years.”, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett: “A treasure worth killing for. by Roger Priddy. When Lionel’s disorder spirals out of control, Suzette is forced to confront her past mistakes and find a way to help her brother before he hurts himself—or worse.”, Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle: “Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to explore. Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. The team’s summer training camp is Hermione’s last and marks the beginning of the end of…she’s not sure what. White: “What is it that binds human beings to other animals? Below you’ll discover the complete list of animal names our researchers have written about so far. He’d be there still if he hadn’t followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone’s picnic basket. Fierce and feral, her goshawk Mabel’s temperament mirrors Helen’s own state of grief after her father’s death, and together raptor and human ‘discover the pain and beauty of being alive’ (People). Stephens (Goodreads Author) In this beloved first book in the Books of Bayern, from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale, Princess Ani must become a goose girl before she can become queen. First 100 Animals. Animal Homes. Fun facts and colorful illustrations show why a burrow, nest, or den is perfect for the animal. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.”, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageant: “Deer Hunting with Jesus is Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. Sponsored by Total Cat Mojo by Jackson Galaxy. Read, share, and be merry, that’s my motto. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish—and she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible.”, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore: “Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. 1 - 20 of 9144 results. By phone, we turn to the same pages and play guessing games as he expands his knowledge of animals and I spend time visiting with one of my "sweeties". Iconoclastic in his cartooning and page layouts, subtle in his plotting, and deft in his capturing of the human experience, Evens has crafted a tangled, dark masterwork.”, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores: “Legends don’t come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.”, At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson: “A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they’ve gone. William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. But he can’t pull it off alone…”, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby: “In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. Here’s a great list of animal group names. Each page describes interesting facts and brings the world of animals to the reader. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.”, H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald: “The instant New York Times bestseller and award-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald’s story of adopting and raising one of nature’s most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself.”, The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow: “From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel comes an explosive novel of the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge.”, The Swan Book by Alexis Wright: “In this multilayered novel, winner of the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal, Wright toys with the edges of the world we live in to offer us an intimate portrait of the realities facing Aboriginal people. American Animals is a 2018 independent black comedy crime docudrama film written and directed by Bart Layton.Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, and Ann Dowd, it follows four college friends who plan a heist of their library.It tells the story of an actual heist which took place at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004. Homes of the poor are being burnt down. Troops' Dogs and Cats Safely Home from the Combat Zone, The Life of Tapa: My Journey with a Blue Heeler: a Guide to Healthier, Happier Dogs, Mexican Mutts Tequila Pups & Chili Dogs: True Stories of the Dogs of Mexico, Dogland: A Journey to the Heart of America's Dog Problem. But as she settles into her old life, Suzette finds herself falling for someone new…the same girl her brother is in love with. Poems confront craving, control, the constant battle of alcoholism and sobriety, and the questioning of the self and its instincts within the context of this never-ending fight.”, Fifteen Dogs by by André Alexis: “And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto vet­erinary clinic. You’ll want this book to last donkey hours, and you’ll see why Harri is truly a ‘hero for our times. He didn’t ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live for the summer of 1989 with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.”, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome: “The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?”, They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell: “To eight-year old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is real or alive. It’s not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.”, The Dog of the South by Charles Portis: “Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him.”, The Bird Artist by Howard Norman: “Howard Norman’s The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived…From the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville—here is Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.”, The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare: “Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett’s iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.”, Tigerman by Nick Harkaway: “From the award-winning author of Angelmaker, Tigerman is a novel at once heartfelt and thrilling—about parenthood, friendship and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday kind.”, The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris: “As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknamed ‘Buffalo Bill,’ FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. They have disbanded House Hoegbotton and are controlling the human inhabitants with strange addictive drugs, internment in camps, and random acts of terror. She does know this season could make her a legend. In the summer of 1980, tensions are building. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. And he detests the color yellow. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, ‘as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog.’ The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. (Some are quite strange!) Hodson’s voice is new and truthful and her subject matter is relevant to anyone who’s ever searched the world for a sense of what everything, including her own body and soul, are worth.”, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera: “Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny. And it all goes black.”, Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman: “Advise yourself! Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi, the legendary ‘whale rider.’ In every generation since Kahutia, a male heir has inherited the title of chief. Pictures enhance the text. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old ‘dog’ ways, and those who embrace the change. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. In a work of metafiction, Borges created a bestiary (a book which lists various types of animals and describes them) of totally fake animals. And he could not have found two better guides—and friends—than Tucker and Harry.”, Cat Country by Lao She: “When a traveler from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. That said, LOVE this book - all color pages and about 1" thick hardcover. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. The Hare And The Tortoise. Available Online ... Board Book $11.69 $12.99 Current price is $11.69, Original price is $12.99. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (‘I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare’) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.”, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden: “Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurse’s fairy tales. The Alligators of Abraham is a Civil War epic unlike any other.”, Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kohrner-Stace: “Archivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won’t survive the trip to the underworld, that the brutal life she has escaped might be better than where she is going. I do appreciate how the book is divided up--the animals are split into categories based on the continent where they live. As the battle between magic and science wages in San Francisco against the backdrop of international chaos, Laurence and Patricia are forced to choose sides. Exiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. When Women Were Birds is a carefully crafted kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question: What does it mean to have a voice?”, The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine: “Dressed up in the thrill and sparkle of the Roaring Twenties, the classic fairy tale of ‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses’ has never been more engrossing or delightful. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. QUICK ADD. It was due the next day. See why he is bo-styles. And Yaqui isn’t kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back.”, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell: “Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. The plight of animals, from homeless cats and dogs to wild animals losing their wilderness, inspires profound empathy in people of all ages. As the creator of ‘Trace Italian’—a text-based role-playing game that’s played through the mail—Sean guides subscribers through his intricately imagined terrain, turn by turn, as they search out sanctuary in a ravaged, savage future America.”, The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa: “Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West with the Night. 100 Animals for Toddler Coloring Book: My First Big Book of Easy Educational Coloring Pages of Animal Letters A to Z for Boys & Girls, Little Kids, Preschool and Kindergarten Go Inspire Publishing 4.8 out of 5 … So I'm basically just walking around like a raw nerve and I'm not sure that I... 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When animals get together in a group, we have a specific name for the group. Some fun facts about A name animals are: The African Penguin is the only species of penguin in Africa He didn’t ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. In the same way, he was able eventually to compose this extraordinary book.”, Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman: “A gorgeous and emotionally resonant debut novel about a half-Japanese teen who grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school.”, Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov: “Attempting a medical first, a scientist transplants the glands of a petty criminal into a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Using numbers and graphs, Steve Jenkins presents tons of fascinating data about birds, fish, insects and mammals. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings.”, In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez: “In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters—Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé—speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Word is that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn’t Latin enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. Animals - Kids. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted in all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the narcotic effects of the reverie leaf—their food staple. Animals by the Number: A Book of Animal Infographics is a fun book full of animal facts. It is one of the great epics of our time.”, Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford: “From a compelling new voice in LGBTQ and Southern fiction, a gripping tale of crime and desire amid small-town America’s meth epidemic. Isleworth: Smallberry Green Secondary Modern School, 1958. Johnston: “Hermione Winters is captain of her cheerleading team, and in tiny Palermo Heights, this doesn’t mean what you think it means. Once the dominant land vertebrates on the planet, reptiles still occupy just about every single ecosystem outside of the extreme north and south. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.”, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon: “Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.”, Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese: “With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. The Incredible Journey (1961), by Scottish author Sheila Burnford, is a children's book first published by Hodder & Stoughton, which tells the story of three pets as they travel 300 miles (480 km) through the Canadian wilderness searching for their beloved masters.It depicts the suffering and stress of an arduous journey, together with the unwavering loyalty and courage of the three animals. Through symbolism and a dazzling linguistic dexterity—the blending of words and phrases from high and low culture, from English, Aboriginal languages, French, and Latin—Wright beautifully demonstrates how the power of the human imagination can set us free.”, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta: “Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘Dr. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma. The lines between good and bad, right and wrong, and beautiful and ugly are blurred by shed blood.”, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams: “‘I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.’ This is what Terry Tempest Williams’s mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. Her stories are tough, lean, funny, and metaphysical. Shawano’s mysterious Antelope Woman has stolen his heart—and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come.”, Panther by Brecht Evens: “Brecht Evens, the award-winning author of The Wrong Place and The Making Of, returns with an unsettling graphic novel about a little girl and her imaginary feline companion. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil.”, Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood: “From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin comes a breathtaking novel about a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.

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