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FICTION; MISCELLANEOUS
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AMAZON.COM HAS GREAT PRICES!
A portion of the purchase
price of any books purchased through linking from this site to
Amazon.com will be donated to small, independent animal
rescue organizations around the country.
(You must click on the
title of the book, not the book icon, for this to happen.) If
there is a rescue group you would like considered for this donation
program, please contact me at
kat@katberard.com.
Please bookmark this page for future book purchases.
Thank you for helping
animals this way! Kat
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When
Your Pet Outlives You: Protecting Animal Companions After You Die
(David Congalton, Charlotte Alexander, 2002) Too many pets are abandoned or
destroyed by the family and friends of their deceased owners. This easy-to-use
resource guide provides the most current information on providing for a pet.
Included are sample legal forms, names of pet law specialists, addresses of
pet retirement homes and sanctuaries throughout the U.S., a report on all
relevant state statutes, important court decisions affecting people and their
pets, and precise details on how to set up a pet trust. |
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The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective
(Kathy Albrecht, 2004) For millions of people, a pet is more than just
an animal that shares a living space. These millions will do anything they can
to recover a four-legged member of the family when it goes missing:
unfortunately, most people just don't know where to look. Kat Albrecht is the
person they call. Disillusioned by a police career where her brilliant search
dogs and own dog-tracking techniques rarely got a chance to shine, Kat started
training her retired weimaraner Rachel to search for lost animals-and found a
whole new arena opening up. To the amusement of her skeptical colleagues, Kat
decided to transform her newfound avocation into a business, becoming the only
law-enforcement-based pet detective in the United States.
Using investigative techniques such as probability theory, behavioral
profiling, and physical searches by trained dogs, Kat Albrecht has helped more
than eighteen hundred pet owners locate their lost dogs, cats, snakes,
turtles, parrots, and horses. Along the way, she has faced one-of-a-kind
challenges in her work: technical issues like teaching her trained search dogs
to pursue missing pets, unexpected roadblocks (how do you convince a forensics
lab to conduct a DNA test on a cat's whisker?), and the surprising
difficulties associated with living in the shadow of Ace Ventura. But these
challenges are balanced by unique joys each time Kat helps reunite a missing
pet with its owners.
The Lost Pet Chronicles tells the fascinating story of Kat's unlikely career
path-and of how, along the way, doing the work she loved transformed her from
a dissatisfied, disaffected cop into a woman who has found her true calling. |
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Whalesong: A Novel About The Greatest and Deepest of Beings
(Robert Siegel, 1991) The classic fable of Hruna the humpback whale and
his journey into love, mystery, and spiritual awakening in the waters of the
world.
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White Whale:
A
Novel About Courage and Friendship in the Deep
(Robert Siegel, 1994) The Second Book In The Award-Winning Whalesong
trilogy: Enter the world of Hralekana, the white humpback whale, in the
deep-sea tale of adventure, love, and nature. Follow Hralekana, son of
Hruna, as he embarks on his first journey into the open sea, a yearling's rite
of passage. Along the way, he finds danger from oil spills and friendship from
a kind-hearted human in this moving ecological parable. Second book in The
Whalesong Trilogy. |
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The Ice At the End of the World (Whalesong Trilogy, Book 3)
(Robert Siegel, 1994) In The Ice at the End of the World, Robert Siegel brings
the Whalesong trilogy to an exciting conclusion as Hralekana, the white
humpback whale, and his human friend, Mark, struggle to prevent a nuclear
catastrophe. Like the two previous books in the trilogy, this captivating tale
evokes for readers of all ages the rich poetry of whales sea, and sky. |
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The Horse Whisperer
(Nicholas Evans, 1996) The Horse Whisperer is a story made in
Hollywood heaven. The novel was written by a first-time author, and the
film option was snapped up by aging heartthrob Robert Redford for 3
million smackers. Why take such risks on a brand-spanking-new author? The
answer becomes clear upon reading the touching tale.
One morning while teenage Grace Maclean is riding Pilgrim, her goofy,
loveable pony, she has a horrendous glass-shattering, bone-splintering,
ligament-lynching meeting with a megaton truck that leaves her and her
four-legged friend damaged in mind, body, and spirit. Meanwhile, back at
the ranch, her jaded, brilliant, bitchy mom, Annie Graves (Kristin Scott
Thomas in the 1998 film) is working out a wrinkle in her self-absorbed
existence when she gets a call at her plush, Manhattan office about
Grace's accident. Racked with guilt, Graves makes it her calling to find
the mythical horse whisperer, an equine Zen master who has the ability to
heal horses (and broken souls) with soothing words and a gentle touch.
Just when it seems he can't be found, what do you know, she finds him. He
arrives in the form of Tom Booker-- a rugged, sensitive, dreamy cowboy who
helps Pilgrim and Grace repair their fractured selves. To add more
mesquite to fire, Booker has a way with not-so-injured, attractive,
married women--like Annie. As the plot thickens, so does the familial
strife, which threatens to undo Booker's healing work.
Like an expert cinematographer, Evans deftly crafts each scene with
precision and clarity, sprinkling in ominous signs and foreboding images.
For example, in the opening paragraphs, as Annie starts out on the tragic
ride, she comes across a bloody bird wing that seems to have fallen out of
nowhere. The weight of impending doom is further strengthened by the truck
driver's bad luck--he has a run-in with the highway patrol just moments
before his meeting with Grace and Pilgrim. These not-so-subtle subliminal
messages are masterfully stitched in throughout the story and may compel
readers to act as if they were watching a B-grade horror movie, shouting
aloud, "Don't go there!" However sentimental, The Horse Whisperer is an
engaging read, sort of like a finely tuned, well-edited film. --Rebekah
Warren --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The Loop
(Nicholas Evans, 1999) A pack of wolves makes a sudden savage return
to the Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana, where a century
earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands. Now shielded by law as an
endangered species, they reawaken an ancient hatred that will tear a
family, and ultimately the town, apart.
At the center of the storm is Helen Ross, a twenty-nine-year-old wolf
biologist sent alone into this remote and hostile place to protect the
wolves from those who seek to destroy them. The Loop charts her struggle,
and her dangerous love affair with the son of her most powerful opponent,
the brutal and charismatic rancher Buck Calder.
A haunting exploration of man's conflict with nature and the wild within
himself, an epic story of deadly passions and redemptive love set against
the grandeur of the American West, The Loop is destined to capture the
hearts and imaginations of readers everywhere. --This text refers to
the Hardcover edition. |
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