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Series
Sunrise Cove volume 2
Language
English
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When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we...
2) Ravens roost
Author
Publisher
Steady Horse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A nighttime adventure of a girl and a frog leads to an uncertain journey, and a most wonderful surprise"--Page 4 of cover.
3) Stella
Author
Language
English
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Description
Stella used to be a bomb-sniffing dog, but after a terrible accident, she goes to live on a small family farm to recover from her fear of loud noises.
6) Coo
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Coo, a ten-year-old girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, but quickly learns that our world is more cruel and complicated than she could have guessed"--
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Cary knows what she would do if she were the librarian--she'd invite all the animals into the library and share her favorite books with lions, bears, peacocks, and monkeys. But the trouble is, not all animals get along with each other. That's where Cary's trouble begins in this lively story.
9) Chowder
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Chowder the bulldog has never fit in with the other neighborhood canines, but he sees a chance to make friends with the animals at the local petting zoo.
11) Meet the PALs
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When Lucky moves to Miradero, she meets and becomes friends with Pru and Abigail and learns how to ride a horse called Spirit.
12) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"It's the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris's grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell....
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a shattering argument, and her son has moved to his wife's native...
15) Pawcasso
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes eleven-year-old Jo, peering out the window of her house, bored and lonely. Astonished by the sight of an adorable basket-toting dog on his own, Jo follows Pawcasso, and when she's seen alongside him by a group of kids from her school, they mistake her for Pawcasso's owner. Excited to make new friends, Jo reluctantly...
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English
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Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son.
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began...
17) Devoted
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Jane Hawk volume 6
Language
English
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Description
"Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening. A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his...
19) Secret spell
Author
Series
Star friends volume 3
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Do you believe in magic? Lexi and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventures awaits. Lexi and her star animal, a squirrel named Juniper, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. The Star Friends fear that more dark magic is brewing. And now the friends themselves are arguing! Will their Star Animals be able to convince them to work together again?"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Breaking cat news volume 3
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Once again Lupin, Elvis, and Puck--alongside boisterous field correspondents like Tommy--deliver hard-hitting reportage on all of the most pressing issues, such as Vacuum Awareness Week, the case of the missing breakfast, and the history of fuzzy blankets. The gang also meets new characters like Burt, the free-spirited barn cat who helps solve some AV problems. And these cats will need all of the help they can get to get to the bottom of some mysterious...
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