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2016.
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Teddy is unhappily single in L.A. In between sessions with his therapist and dates with men he meets online, Teddy has debates with his dachsund, Lily, who occupies his heart. Unfortunately, he is also able to communicate with the "octupus" attached to Lily's head, which is soon revealed to be a metaphor for Lily's lethal cranial tumor. As Lily's condition worsens, Teddy faces off with the "octopus", engaging it in a battle of wills that takes...
2) Dog days
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A group of dog owners are brought together with the help of their respective dogs.
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"Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the FedEx man, picking fights with thousand-pound livestock and rolling in donkey manure and his nights howling at the moon. He has been that way since the moment he appeared on the ridgeline behind Rick Bragg's house. Speck arrived in Rick's life at a moment of looming uncertainty,...
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Virginia finally had the chance to explore a relationship with Aaron when he asked her on a date. She had been waiting, hoping that the widower and his young son, Buddy, would welcome her into their lives. But a terrible tragedy strikes on the night of their first kiss, crushing their hopes for a future together. Nineteen years later, Virginia is engaged, though she has not forgotten Aaron or Buddy. When her dog goes missing and it comes to light...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
342 pages
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"In Susan Wilson's The Dog Who Saved Me, a former Boston K-9 unit policeman turned animal control officer in bucolic Harmony Farms is up against rescuing a gun shy and wounded dog gone feral, and proving that his low-life older brother is back in the drug business. Fighting his shattering grief at the death of his K-9 partner killed in the line of duty, and a staggering loss of confidence from physical and psychic wounds of his own, Cooper Harrison...
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Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 x 28 cm.
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The story of a wild dog who befriended Marine Major Brian Dennis in Iraq, and, when they were separated, trekked seventy miles through the desert winter to rejoin his friend.
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
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xi, 276 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Relates how the author and his dog named Atticus M. Finch attempted to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire's four-thousand-foot peaks twice to pay tribute to a friend who died of cancer and raise money for charity.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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342 pages ; 25 cm.
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Love never dies a natural death.... When Mercy's grandmother Patience marries her longtime beau Claude Renault at the five-star Lady's Slipper Inn, it promises to be the destination wedding of the year. Just as the four-day extravaganza is due to begin, the inn's spa director Bodhi St. George disappears-and Mercy's mother Grace sends Mercy and Elvis to find him. But what they discover instead is a stranger skewered by a pitchfork in the barn on the...
9) My dog Tulip
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J.R. Ackerley offers a retrospective account of his sixteen-year companionship with his German shepherd.
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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296 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
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After the author adopts Edie, a sweet golden retriever puppy, she is faced with an unusually anxious and fearful dog, and embarks on an unforgettable journey to fix Edie, learning lessons about selflessness and unconditional love as she realizes that maybe Edie is secretly the one doing the saving.
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Series
Dog lover's mysteries (Susan Conant) volume 9
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 22 cm.
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Melanie Travis mysteries volume 24
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"Determined to track down Claire, Melanie and her nosy Aunt Peg dash into a dizzying investigation that leads to even more questions. Why was homicide victim Lila Moran, a secretive woman with an untraceable past, permitted to live on a well-known socialite-turned-recluse's private estate, and is Claire keeping her own incriminating secrets under wraps? Now, with a grinchy New Canaan detective on their case and disturbing clues piling up like presents...
13) Muzzled
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2020.
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Andy Carpenter is a lawyer who would rather not practice law. He'd rather spend his time working with the Tara Foundation, his dog rescue organization, and being with his family and his two dogs, Tara and Sebastian. But when a friend asks him for a favor that involves both dogs and his lawyerly expertise, he can't say no. Andy's friend Beth has found a stray that seems to have belonged to a murder victim - in fact, the man and two of his colleagues...
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Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him--only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. On the plus side, his two flatmates are determined to fix his life--or possibly to destroy it altogether. It's difficult to be certain as they only speak dog. Poor Jonathan. He doesn't remember life being this confusing back...
15) Silent bite
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Lawyer Andy Carpenter can finally take a breath; he's back on dry land after a family Caribbean cruise forced on him by his wife, Laurie, to get into the Christmas spirit. Of course the family's first stop is to the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization that has always been Andy's true passion. But when Andy arrives, his partner, Willie Miller, needs his help. Willie's old cellmate, Glenn Anson, has been arrested for murder. Andy doesn't necessarily...
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Miss Ruffles mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Rich and flamboyant Honeybelle Hensley, the most colorful character in Mule Stop, Texas, dies a suspicious death and enrages the whole town by leaving her worldly fortune to the most undeserving recipient-her dog. The incorrigible Miss Ruffles is a TexasCattle Cur, not a cuddly lapdog, and when Honeybelle was alive, Miss Ruffles liked nothing better than digging up Honeybelle's famous rose garden after breakfast, chasing off the UPS man before lunch...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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243 pages
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"Although still not quite a dog lover, Maggie Patterson meets with her new group of dog-loving friends for "Yappy Hour" every Friday night in the idyllic seaside town of Pacific Cove, CA. Both she and her sister Rachel have put last year's murderous summer behind them, with Rachel even securing a headline feature for the WhINE & BARk in the famous Doggie Day magazine. But when her sister comes down with a case of salmonella poisoning, Maggie is left...
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"Melanie Travis is gifted at raising prize-winning Standard Poodles, not standing in as the Easter Bunny. But when March in Connecticut brings daffodils and dead bodies, she'll need to hop into action--and fast . . . Aunt Rose already has a strike against her for not being too fond of dogs--or Aunt Peg. But Melanie Travis still agrees to organize Easter festivities at Gallagher House, the new women's shelter opened by the stern former nun, even if...
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