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One and only Ivan stories volume 1
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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2016]
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309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"The Vegan Way is a book filled with everything Jackie Day has learned as a happy vegan, a health educator, and author of the popular vegan blog, My Vegan Journal. A lifestyle guide that?s a real game-changer, The Vegan Way is for those who are intimidated by going vegan overnight, but don?t want the transition to stretch out for months or even years. In a 21 day plan that emphasizes three core reasons for going vegan?being as healthy as you can be,...
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Criterion collection volume 297
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Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Robert Bresson's masterpiece follows a much-abused donkey, Balthazar, whose life strangely parallels that of his owner, Marie. A beast of burden suffering the sins of man, Balthazar nevertheless nobly accepts his fate.
4) The ravaged
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"Three different personal quests with eerily parallel outcomes. Jack spent his life amassing wealth, but after losing his family, he has no one to share it with. Alone with his demons and a backpack, he heads to South America. After thrashing his dog-abusing boss, Hunter learns of his father's death in a mysterious fire. Biker buddies Nugget and Itch ride with him from North Carolina to California. Seventeen-year-old Anne flees Tennessee after her...
5) Animal farm
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Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A group of farm animals successfully revolt against their cruel human owner, only to be enslaved anew by the unscrupulous pig Napolean, whose slogan is "all animals are equal but some animals more equal than others."
6) Black Beauty
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When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky-his first home is a good one where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse.
7) Fox's garden
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Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 x 27 cm.
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"One snowy night, a fox loses its way, entering a village. Chased away by the grown ups, Fox takes shelter in a greenhouse. A little boy sees this from his window. Without hesitating, he brings a basket of food to the greenhouse, where he leaves it for the fox. His gift is noticed and the night becomes a garden of new life, nourished by compassion and kindness. Princesse Camcam's cut-paper illustrations, along with the beautiful lighting of the sets...
8) Mist
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London, 1880, 13-year-old Clay is a mud lark, scavenging on the banks of the Thames for anything he might sell for money to buy food. One day Clay goes to the camp of the circus that has newly arrived in town and meets Ollie, a girl about his age, who lives with the circus. Ollie brings him to the cage of "the last wolf in England". Mist, as he calls it, is fierce, angry, and indomitable, perhaps due to the cruel treatment of its tamers, which Clay...
10) Little lost bat
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"Chronicles the early life of an orphaned Mexican free-tailed bat, from its birth to its adoption by a new mother. Includes back matter about bats"--Provided by publisher.
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"The author, Sue Carstairs, is a veterinarian at a turtle rescue and rehabilitation center. She reveals how she repairs shattered shells, broken jaws, and injured skulls, and nurses severely injured turtles back to health for release into the wild. Carstairs also explains how turtle eggs are harvested from injured mothers, incubated, raised in tanks and released into the wild. Organizations around the world performing similar work with land and sea...
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First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. After thirty years of struggling with ineffective animal welfare laws, Steve and his legal team, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform an animal from a thing with no rights to a person with legal protections. Supported by affidavits...
13) Shiloh
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Shiloh quartet volume 1
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Marty will do anything to save his new friend Shiloh in this Newbery Medal–winning novel from Phillis Reynolds Naylor. When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight—and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun—and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and...
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
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When she confronts a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost, animal control officer Francine Poulet questions her abilities.
17) Kittens can kill
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Pru Marlowe pet noir volume 5
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When lawyer David Canaday is found dead and a battle over his estate ensues, Pru Marlowe is drawn into a murder investigation involving the dead man's three adult daughters and a kitten who is being blamed for Canaday's demise.
18) Shiloh
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the novel by Newbery Award-winning author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor about a boy who rescues a mistreated dog from its owner. When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
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In 2002, Larry Levin and his twin sons took their beloved terminally ill cat to the Ardmore Animal Hospital outside Philadelphia to be put to sleep. What began as a terrible day got brighter as the ugliest dog they had ever seen--missing an ear, and with half his face in scar tissue--captured their hearts. Used as bait for fighting dogs at four months old, Oogy had been left to die. Unable to resist his charms, the Levins--whose sons were adopted--took...
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