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1. Voyage of the Basset
by: Alan Dean Foster, Renwick St. James Release date: Jan 10, 1996 Number of Pages: 168 Find in Library Read Review |
In the tradition of such favorite classics as Gulliver’s Travels and Journey to the Center of the Earth, Voyage of the Basset takes the reader on a fantastical journey of discovery. Through richly detailed full-color paintings and line drawings, magical kingdoms emerge from a sea of dreams.
Cassandra Aisling, who is nine years and eleven months old, doesn’t care “a jot” about what sensible people think. She likes strange, mysterious, and magical things. So when her world gets tumbled upside down, she boards the H.M.S. Basset, ready to explore the landscape of her imagination. Pledging allegiance to the Basset’s motto, “Credendo do Vides…Believing is Seeing,” Cassandra, her skeptical older sister Miranda, and their father, Professor Algernon Aisling, set out in search of the ancient legends. From the flickering flight of fairies and the mermaids’ siren songs to a labyrinth-bound Minotaur and a fire-breathing dragon, the Aisling family witnesses firsthand the wonder of mythological worlds.
In this lavishly illustrated edition, Cassandra’s adventures intertwine with her father’s scientific scribblings to present both new tales and the essence of classical myths. From the two voices, readers learn the power of imagination, the importance of believing in oneself, the value of family, and the need for creative, cooperative problem-solving. The story of a magical journey and the exquisite fantasy artwork will appeal to young and old alike.
2. The Dreamer, The Schemer & The Robe (The Amazing Tales of Max & Liz, Book Two)
by: Jenny L. Cote Release date: Jul 14, 2009 Number of Pages: 400 Find in Library Read Review |
After saving Noah and family from the evil stowaway Charlatan aboard the ark in The Ark, the Reed, & the Fire Cloud, heroes Max and Liz, along with faithful mates Kate and Al, earn immortality and a directive from God to serve as His envoys for pivotal points in human history. They have waited for centuries for a word from the Maker; now they learn they are to work behind the scenes in the life of Joseph. In The Dreamer, The Schemer, & The Robe the fate of an entire nation rests in their paws.
All looks hopeless for the young teenager as Joseph s brothers sell him into slavery in Egypt. Has Charlatan returned to Egypt to once again stop Max and Liz from accomplishing their mission? With the help of two new characters, a British archeologist mouse and a forlorn camel, they must combat the forces of evil that are out to thwart their plans, leading them into mysterious adventures with pyramids and mummies. If Max and Liz fail in this mission, all of Egypt will suffer from famine, and the Hebrew nation will never be born.
Abounding in life lessons on struggle, enduring trials, forgiveness, and redemption, The Dreamer, The Schemer, & The Robe is a nonstop thriller filled with twists and turns, side-splitting humor, treachery and heartache, hope and redemption.
3. Old Dog Haven: Every Old Dog has a Story to Tell
by: Ardeth De Vries Release date: Apr 06, 2015 Number of Pages: 174 Find in Library Read Review |
4. Hearten (Bayou Bear Chronicles Book 2)
by: Lila Felix Release date: Jul 18, 2014 Number of Pages: 174 Find in Library Read Review |
All that changes when the Alpha and the Coeur conspire to make sure that Martha and Rev both face what they’ve known to be true for so long.
One look is all it takes, but there is so much more to being a mated couple than facing the claim.
Martha is not ready to give up anything in her life, not even to make room for him.
Rev is ready, but only as long as his female bends her life to fit into his.
Pushing and pulling, each one will have to decide which is more important—the life they’ve built, or the one they could have together.
This young adult shifter story is a continuation of Burden (Bayou Bear Chronicles). Each book in the series has it’s own HEA.
5. When Eagles Roar: The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer
by: James Alexander Currie, Bonnie J. Fladung, Margo Gabrielle Damian Release date: Nov 13, 2014 Number of Pages: 315 Find in Library Read Review |
6. Fantastic Felines
by: Laurel Burch Release date: Apr 01, 1997 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
7. Finny and the Boy from Horse Mountain
by: Andrea Young Release date: Feb 23, 2016 Number of Pages: 320 Find in Library Read Review |
But the path is fraught with danger. Sky is not like other horses and is so destructive and difficult he gets them kicked out of the barn where Finny has been working and training. Helped by a kind woman who owns a horse rescue, Joe is able to prove both his and Sky’s incredible talents. When Joe is kidnapped by his violent uncle, Finny and Sky are the only ones who can save him. In a breathtaking finale, Sky and Finny must enter the underworld of the rodeo circuit, an after-hours, illegal race, where they will risk their lives to save the boy they love. Young demonstrates a masterful ability to set a breakneck pace and keep it up until the end of the novel. Finny and Joe are enduring characters who are sure to appear in upcoming sequels.
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8. Walpajirri: The Legend of an Easter Bilby: The Adventures of a Rabbit-Eared Bandicoot in the Australian Desert
by: M.E. Skeel, Jennie Donald Release date: Mar 20, 2016 Number of Pages: 53 Find in Library Read Review |
Learn about life in the Australian desert.
Learn about unique and mysterious Australian animals with strange names like ningauis, bilbies and mulgaras.
Enjoy the exciting adventures of an animal perfectly adapted to life in one of the most difficult environments in the world.
This is a story about an Australian animal called a Bilby or a Rabbit-Eared Bandicoot. In Australia many of us celebrate Easter with an Easter Bilby instead of an Easter Bunny in order to raise awareness of our unique wildlife. Rabbits in Australia are an introduced pest species that do enormous harm to the environment. We want to promote our unique wildlife instead.
The author is a biologist who has studied, rescued and rehabilitated numerous species of Australian wildlife. She has written a book that educates people about wildlife in the context of a believable and exciting adventure. She can take you and your children into a whole new world beyond your normal animal fairy tale.
There is more to Australia than just kangaroos and koalas. Read this book and learn about many wonderful and unique animals while enjoying the adventures of a little rabbit-eared bandicoot who became an Easter Bilby.
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9. How to be a Hero
by: Nick Sharma Release date: Apr 13, 2016 Number of Pages: 268 Find in Library Read Review |
10. Big-Stamp Two-Toes the Barefoot Giant: Spring Tales of Tiptoes Lightly
by: Reg Down Release date: Jun 30, 2006 Number of Pages: 100 Find in Library Read Review |
Big-Stamp Two-Toes the Barefoot Giant is lavishly illustrated by the artist-author. These stories are reverent, humorous, sanguine and even, at times, spiritual. They are innocent and magical tales, suitable for reading to young children or for young children to read.
11. Serpentauria: Ark of Extinction
by: Erik Shein, Dennis Lowery Release date: Dec 08, 2011 Number of Pages: 234 Find in Library Read Review |
12. Star of Shadowbrook Farm (Thoroughbred)
by: Joanna Campbell Release date: May 06, 1998 Number of Pages: 192 Find in Library Read Review |
Susan has fallen off her horses before. After all, she’s been riding since she was young. But this last spill was different. Susan only broke her wrist, but she knows it could have been a lot worse for her or the horse. And it was her own fault. Now, just thinking about riding terrifies her.
Then Evening Star comes to the horse farm where Susan lives. Star’s elegant gait and graceful stride show he could become a champion jumper. But he was mistreated by his former owner, and as a result he trust no one in the stableexcept Susan. Susan knows that only she can make Star a winner, but she also knows that she isn’t ready to ride again…
13. Fragile Creatures
by: Kristina Circelli Release date: Feb 23, 2014 Number of Pages: 274 Find in Library Read Review |
Left with no other options, Evangeline is enrolled in a program for troubled teens at Kindred Hides Wildlife Preserve. There she meets Caster, a keeper as annoying as he is caring; Jett and Lettie, who treat her more like a daughter than troubled teen; and Ruke, a prized giraffe in mourning for his lost mate.
Immersed in the preserve with her new friends, Evangeline finally begins to heal. But the haunting memories of the accident and her mother’s unforgiving words threaten to destroy her progress. Only her new friends and their unconditional support, along with her own special connection with Ruke, can save her.
Evangeline must learn that there is redemption for her father’s death, and that the bonds between human, animal, and life are not as fragile as she once thought.
14. Beatrix Potter 1866 – 1943: The Artist and Her World
by: Judy Taylor, Joyce Irene Whalley, Anne Stevenson Hobbs, Elizabeth M. Battrick Release date: May 01, 1988 Number of Pages: 224 Find in Library Read Review |
15. The Feast of the Moon: a novel of exceptional fierceness
by: Brian Wapole Release date: Jan 25, 2012 Number of Pages: 294 Find in Library Read Review |
16. Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps
by: Cynthia Rylant, Sucie Stevenson Release date: Apr 01, 1996 Number of Pages: 40 Find in Library Read Review |
17. The Joy of Horton
by: Andrea Comer Release date: Feb 20, 2016 Number of Pages: 217 Find in Library Read Review |
18. Never Invite an Alligator to Lunch!
by: Sherry Westergard Release date: May 31, 2015 Number of Pages: 36 Find in Library Read Review |
19. Putting Your Pet First: A Veterinarian’s Perspective
by: John S. Sleasman Release date: May 05, 2016 Number of Pages: 87 Find in Library Read Review |
Today, this difficult situation is faced by 60% of all pet owners.
How and why did this plight come to be?
Are there options available for pet owners facing this money-emotion dilemma?
After addressing this dilemma daily, as a practicing veterinarian for forty years, Dr. John Sleasman felt a compelling, heartfelt need to share his stories and perspective in this book.
John S. Sleasman, DVM is an experienced practitioner on the unique subject of veterinary medicine. His forty years of practice provides a revealing, humorous, and educational viewpoint of the universal love of the family pet. His experiences highlight the remarkable bond between humans and pets.
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A Must Read for All Pet Lovers
I read this book in one sitting. I laughed, I cried, but mostly I marveled at how many lives (pets and people) John’s work touched and enhanced. In full disclosure, I attended high school with John and found out about his book from one of our classmates.
John’s book went beyond what I’d expected, as it was not just another wonderful collection of James Herriot tales of a vet’s life. It was this, therefore the laughing and the crying, but it also made me aware as to the effects that big business can have upon the quality of life for those of us who love our pets almost as much as we love our kids. It also impressed upon me how important it is to stay informed about our pet’s health and to do the research necessary regarding the options that may be available.
Valuable information interspersed with heartwarming stories of living a meaningful life.
Author: John S. Sleasman, DVM
Print Length: 87 pages
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kitsap Publishing
Release Date: March 2016
Sold by: Kitsap Publishing
Language: English
20. The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey
by: John Blaustein, Edward Abbey, Martin Litton Release date: Apr 01, 1999 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
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21. The Day the Goose Got Loose
by: Reeve Lindbergh, Steven Kellogg Release date: Sep 04, 1990 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
22. The Red Claw (The Sea Purrtector Files Book 1)
by: Jeanne Foguth, Kiara Graham Release date: Oct 26, 2014 Number of Pages: 176 Find in Library Read Review |
Could this be a trap?
23. Risky Business: Kovak & Quaid Horse Mystery Series (Kovak & Quaid Horse Mysteries Book 4)
by: Toni Leland Release date: Apr 20, 2015 Number of Pages: 348 Find in Library Read Review |
Ex-cop Kim Kovak is stunned. Peter is back, the former fiancé who abandoned her years ago during her painful recovery from a career-ending injury. Why is he here? What is he after?
Garrett Quaid, Kim’s part-time investigative partner and now close friend, is wondering the same thing.
And then the cases start cropping up.
On a photo shoot at a horse show featuring the Black Horsemen of Ohio, Kim observes what might be a racially motivated attack against a young protégé of the group’s sponsor, legendary African American horse trainer Bill Scott. When odd things begin to happen at Scott’s own stables, Kim is asked to investigate, but immediately finds herself surrounded by stonewalls. Mouths are closed, everyone is hiding things, and nothing is what it seems.
Meanwhile, Quaid is being wooed by a new insurance company, and agrees to take on an assignment to test the waters. His mission is to look into a suspiciously high number of claims generated by a series of very sudden horse deaths at an Indiana racetrack. As he begins seining for information, clues are scarce and suspects ellusive. Could this number of deaths be accidental? Coincidental? Or are they deliberate?
Weave in a tangle of deceptions, obsessions and schemes, and the mystery business gets extra risky, especially when Kovak and Quaid start pulling the threads in Toni Leland’s fourth book in the series.
24. Surrender at Sunrise: Book 3 of the Sunset Trilogy
by: Tonya Royston Release date: Jul 21, 2016 Number of Pages: 314 Find in Library Read Review |
When Caleb reveals the secrets he and Xander have been protecting, Laken realizes she must stop at nothing to help them defeat the stranger. But Xander eludes him, and Laken is captured instead. Facing an unknown fate at the hands of a mad man driven by greed and jealousy, she resolves to fight to the bitter end for her life and her love.
The stakes are high, and no one, including Dakota, is safe. Will Laken survive, or will the curse she tossed aside as a fairy tale prove to be true?
(Twenty-five cents for every print and ebook copy sold will be donated to the Ian Somerhalder Foundation.)
25. Trouble on the St. Johns River (Mom’s Choice Awards Winner 2009)
by: Jane R. Wood, Elizabeth A. Blacker Release date: Apr 15, 2008 Number of Pages: 156 Find in Library Read Review |
26. The Woods of Wicomico
by: Nuala C. Galbari, Buttons Boggs Release date: Jul 15, 2010 Number of Pages: 152 Find in Library Read Review |
27. Dingoes of the Outback
by: Josie Cluney Release date: Mar 10, 2016 Number of Pages: 52 Find in Library Read Review |
Along the way they will encounter strays, other dingoes, and have run-ins with mankind.
But can the two girls find the place they seek? Or will they be forever roaming the outback?
28. Honor Bound (Tides of War #2)
by: C. Alexander London Release date: Dec 30, 2014 Number of Pages: 229 Find in Library Read Review |
An action-packed, maritime military adventure from the author of Dog Tags.
A notorious Somalian pirate sails the Arabian Sea, leading a band of deadly thieves and mercenaries on an international crime spree. When they take American hostages aboard a cargo ship, they’ve finally gone too far — and a special task force of Navy SEALs and Marines is called in to help. SEALs, Marines . . . and a talented sea lion named Sly.
As Sly’s handler, young sailor Felix has two important jobs. Job one is to get Sly to plant a beacon so that the U.S. strike force can follow the pirates back to their haven. Job two is to keep the sea lion safe and out of combat. But when the mission goes wrong and the pirates get the upper hand, Felix and Sly end up right in the middle of the action . . . with dozens of innocent lives at stake.
29. Alistair the Alligator
by: Harry Porter, Amanda Sorensen, Brian L. Porter Release date: Jan 18, 2010 Number of Pages: 28 Find in Library Read Review |
30. Flame – The Horse that Refused to Die
by: Bill Reilly Release date: May 02, 2014 Number of Pages: 160 Find in Library Read Review |
The drama and suspense will leave you wondering how people can abuse these wonderful creatures but feel satisfied that there are many people who really care and will go to all ends to prevent it.
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