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The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska.This classic book brings out the true spirit of the Gold Rush days...
3) Shiloh
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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.
6) Sun kissed
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When her champion quarter horses are poisoned, Samantha Harrigan, the insurance beneficiary, becomes the prime suspect and, with rumors circulating that she is guilty, finds the one person who believes in her innocence, local veterinarian Tucker Coulter.
8) Picture this
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Rocky Pelligrino continues to grow in her new life as an animal control warden after the tragic death of her husband, until a troubled young woman steps into her life looking for her biological father.
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Investigating the senseless slaughter of five moose found on the estate of a wealthy animal rights activist, Game Warden Mike Bowditch finds the controversial case turning more sinister when the activist's daughter is killed in a suspicious accident, a situation that compels Bowditch to risk everything he cares about.
10) The Royal Show
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On the way to assist their riding teacher at the Royal Show, Bonnie and Sam find a starving pony that they feel they must try to rescue.
11) Hounds abound
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Gutsy Lauren Vancouver easily wins over the hearts of animals in need as well as readers."-Rebecca M. Hale, New York Times bestselling author of How to Wash a Cat Animal lovers will delight in a new series filled with rescued dogs and cats needing loving homes."-Leann Sweeney, author of the Cats in Trouble mysteries Saving animals and solving murders seem to go paw-in-paw for shelter manager and amateur sleuth Lauren Vancouver. But this time, mixed...
12) Lost & found
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Starting her life over after the death of her husband, a psychologist takes a job as an animal control warden and slowly heals from her grief through friendships with a young anorexic, an archery instructor, and an oversized dog.
14) Shiloh
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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.
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The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Here the internationally renowned writer J.M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion...
17) I howl, I growl
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Describes the antics of animals of the Southwest in rhyme. On board pages.
19) Fox 8: a story
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Idealistic Fox 8's ability to communicate in "Yuman" cannot save his pack when their den and food supply are destroyed to build a mall, so he writes a letter asking for an explanation of human's cruelty.
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