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by Susan Wilson
Published Jan 2015
Read ReviewsThree broken souls, and one dog: Pax. All three of them need healing. All three of them are lost. And in Susan Wilson's A Man of His Own, Pax, with his unconditional love and unwavering loyalty, may be the only one who can guide them home.
by Dr. Nick Trout
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsTender, wry, and ruminative, Ever By My Side is a tribute to the power and beauty of ordinary life and a celebration of how pets make it all the sweeter and richer.
by Mark Doty
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsWhen Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a golden retriever. A moving and intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss.
by Lynne Cox
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsThe true story of long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox's ocean encounter with an 18-foot baby whale and her efforts to reunite "Grayson" with his mother - part mystery, part magical tale.
by Sy Montgomery
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsWhen Sy Montgomery opened her heart to a sick piglet she had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish. The Good Good Pig celebrates Christopher Hogwood in all his glory, from his inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire, where his boundless zest for life and his large, loving...
by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsTimothy explores the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animals own sensibility and his deeply empathetic relation to the world around him.
by J.R. Moehringer
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsIn the grand tradition of landmark memoirs - a classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.
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