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Tales with Tails: Animal Stories
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A dog's way home
by W. Bruce Cameron
Traces the story of an adorable dog who falls instantly in love with a VA worker only to be separated from him by rules that disallow pitbulls in their Denver community, a situation that compels the puppy to travel 400 miles back to the person she loves.
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Gizelle's bucket list : my life with a very large dog
by Lauren Fern Watt
A lightbeat, epic account of how the 20-something author brought her giant English Mastiff to her first tiny New York apartment after college, while navigating boyfriends, first jobs, her mother's illness and a bucket list that involves her dog's participation.
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Rin Tin Tin : the life and the legend
by Susan Orlean
A New Yorker staff writer and author of The Orchid Thief chronicles the rise of the iconic German shepherd character while sharing the stories of the real WWI dog and the canine performer in the 1950s television show, in an account that also explores Rin Tin Tin's relevance in the military and popular culture.
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Until Tuesday : a wounded warrior and the golden retriever who saved him
by Luis Carlos Montalván
Captain Luis Montalvan returned home from his second tour of duty in Iraq, having survived stab wounds, a traumatic brain injury, and three broken vertebrae. But the pressures of civilian life and his injuries proved too much to bear. Physical disabilities, agoraphobia, and crippling PTSD drove him to the edge of suicide. That's when he met Tuesday - his best friend forever. Tuesday came with his own history of challenges: from the Puppies Behind Bars program, to a home for troubled boys, to the streets of Manhattan, Tuesday blessed many lives on his way to Luis.
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Dewey : the small-town library cat who touched the world
by Vicki Myron
Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships.
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A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
by James Bowen
James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet. Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When a London street musician found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change.
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The genius of birds
by Jennifer Ackerman
An award-winning, science, nature and human biology writer explores recent research indicating that birds are much more intelligent than previously thought and are capable of deceiving and manipulating, eavesdropping, gift-giving, playing, sharing and much more.
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H is for hawk
by Helen Macdonald
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
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Mozart's starling
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
A naturalist describes how Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was enchanted by the intelligence and playful spirit of a starling in a Viennese shop and took it home for a family pet and discusses a natural history of the frequently reviled bird.
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Wesley the owl : the remarkable love story of an owl and his girl
by Stacey O'Brien
Chronicles the author's rescue of an abandoned barn owlet, from her efforts to resuscitate and raise the young owl after an injury that prevented it from returning to the wild through their nineteen years together, during which the author made key discoveries about owl behavior.
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The soul of an octopus : a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness
by Sy Montgomery
Naturalist Montgomery admirably demonstrates the complexity, intellect, and personalities of the octopuses she has come to know at the Boston Aquarium—sweet-natured Athena, steadfast Octavia, mischievous Kali—without ever resorting to easy anthropomorphism. Her science is accessible but not overly simple, and the details she offers about these creatures bring them into sharp focus: they are sophisticated camouflage artists, can solve puzzles, and show distinct preferences for people, places, and tastes.
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What a fish knows : the inner lives of our underwater cousins
by Jonathan P. Balcombe
Challenges popular misconceptions about the planet's diverse fish species, drawing on the latest understandings in animal behavior and biology to reveal their self-awareness, elaborate courtship, and cooperative intelligence.
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The illustrated compendium of amazing animal facts
by Maja Säfström
This collection of fun, fascinating, surprising and amusing animal facts, beautifully illustrated by a Swedish artist, features interesting information such as: ants don't sleep, ostriches can't walk backwards and starfish don't have brains.
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Tell Me Where It Hurts : A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life As an Animal Surgeon
by Nick Trout
A fascinating, heartwarming odyssey inside the world of modern-day veterinary medicine offers an insider's perpective on twenty-four hours in his career as a veterinary surgeon as he offers engaging anecdotes about pets and their owners and the unique blend of cutting-edge technology, old-fashioned instinct, and caring that comprise veterinary medicine today.
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Unlikely friendships : 47 remarkable stories from the animal kingdom
by Jennifer S. Holland
A senior writer for National Geographic magazine presents a collection of heart-warming tales about animals who have forged unlikely, abiding bonds with other animals not of their own species, from Koko the gorilla's famous adoption of All Ball the kitten to the friendship between Owen the hippo and the tortoise Mzee.
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We bought a zoo
by Benjamin Mee
A former British newspaper columnist describes how he uprooted his family to the English countryside and purchased a dilapidated zoo, home to more than two hundred exotic animals, which he planned to refurbish and reopen as a family business, a scheme complicated by a lack of money, skeptical staff, family tension, and his wife's devastating illness.
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What it's like to be a dog : and other adventures in animal neuroscience
by Gregory Berns
A noted neuroscientist relates how he and his team taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner completely awake, an experiment that helped them discover what makes dogs have different capacities for self-control and value systems and a complex understanding of human speech, and which was expanded to other animals.
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Woolly : the true story of the quest to revive one of history's most iconic creatures
by Ben Mezrich
The best-selling author of The Accidental Billionaires traces the pioneering work of a group of young scientists under the guidance of brilliant geneticist George Church, who sequenced the DNA of a frozen woolly mammoth harvested from the Arctic circle to resurrect the extinct species as part of a larger effort to slow the advances of global warming.
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