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41) Dog dish of doom
Author
Series
An agent to the paws mystery volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Kay Powell wants to find that break-out client who will become a star. And she thinks she's found him: His name is Bruno, and he has to be walked three times a day. Bruno's humans, Trent and Louise, butt in a lot, and Les McMaster, the famous director now mounting a revival of Annie, might not hire Bruno just because he can't stand Trent in particular. That becomes less of an issue when Trent is discovered face down in Bruno's water dish. With a kitchen...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246 pages
Description
"A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner. There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional, happily-ever-after endings. When Harry Met Minnie is that...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
296 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Description
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.
Author
Series
Dog lover's mysteries (Susan Conant) volume 9
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 22 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"From bestselling author of She's Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps us understand the people we have been. It's in the love of dogs, and my love for them, that I can best now take the measure of the child I once was, and the...
Author
Series
Melanie Travis mysteries volume 24
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Description
"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...
48) Muzzled
Author
Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xx, 178 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
An unwanted dog. An emotional rescue. Reaching out to save a dog in need, Sacher soon realized that the dog was rescuing her. Despite the blindness of her dog--and her own heart--she uncovers what she really needed most: authentic love, unconditional trust, and true acceptance.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 84 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the tiny pups will stop at nothing to save them, because in good times and hard times, the family always sticks together.
Author
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
x, 271 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
The author describes how George, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, helped her cope with the losses of her husband and her father, and how she quickly discovered that taking care of George was as consuming as a full-time job and as expensive as owning a Ferrari.
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Description
"In 2010, Sergeant Craig Grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine RECON?the most elite fighters in the Corps?in a remote part of Afghanistan. While on patrol, he spotted a young dog "with a big goofy head and little legs" who didn?t seem vicious or run in a pack like most strays they?d encountered. After eating a piece of beef jerky Craig offered?against military regulations?the dog began to follow him. "Looks like you made a friend," another...
Author
Series
Melanie Travis mysteries volume 17
Formats
Description
When her aunt's dog-whispering protégé is found dead, Melanie Travis must help sort through the growing list of suspects to find the killer, all while juggling motherhood, marriage, and her six beloved poodles.
Author
Series
Corduroy mansions volume 2
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Description
Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring.
58) Silent bite
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Formats
Description
Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, wondering if she would ever meet the man she could spend the rest of her life with. And then it happened. She met the irresistible Otto, her first in a long line of Boston terriers, and fell instantly in love.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
vii, 216 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
A radio talk-show host describes his family's relationship with a remarkable rescue dog named Sprite, a beautiful, loving, and gentle animal whose deteriorating health taught the entire family a lesson in friendship, love, joy, and grief.
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