Featured Creatures

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Want a new perspective on things? Try out these books written from different animals’ Points of View!
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    Stolen from his Californian family and sold as a sled dog in Alaska, a domesticated dog called Buck must fight for survival in a frozen, harsh, and wild environment.
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    Channel 5’s ‘Yorkshire Vet’ Julian Norton recounts the highs and lows of daily life as a working vet. From calving cows to calming excitable pet owners, Julian’s warm and evocative memoir show us every side of the veterinary world.
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    Have we become disconnected from the sentient world around us? Through a collection of true stories, this fascinating study explores the spiritual connections between all living things, from gift-giving squirrels to sympathetic lizards.
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    With no family or friends, an elderly patient in a coma makes one intentional final act: Nurse Tracy Coulhoun captures JJ the therapy dog being patted on the head. This is JJ’s journey.
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    Tracy Calhoun
    JJ's Journey
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    As runt of his colony, Shade is a silverwing bat with something to prove. But when he gets separated during a dangerous winter migration, Shade will need all the help he can get to see his family again — but telling friend from foe is not always easy.
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    Kenneth Oppel
    Silverwing
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    Everyone on Centerlight island is a suspect in the murder of a notorious dog. So Barney’s owner ZeeBee enlists one man, Keenan, and his own mild-mannered dog to help solve the mystery, only to discover a shocking conspiracy stretching back to prohibition.
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    Gordon Korman
    Notorious
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    A sleepwalking boy encounters a man/chimp in his hallway with playfully wicked consequences.
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    Robbie Arnott
    The Hall Chimp
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    From passing the ultimate human test (a cocktail party) to acting in a stage play about the history of civilization, this is a story of human frailty...told by a talking gorilla.
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    Peter Verhelst
    The Man I Became
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    This exhilarating collection of poems migrates from Tennessee, up the inside passage of Alaska before turning sharply south through Costa Rica and Brazil’s Ilhabela. Along the way, the feral world beckons and personal ghosts need careful negotiation.
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    Gaylord Brewer
    Worship the Pig
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    Take one classic optical illusion, one large measure of fun and one valuable lesson about right and wrong and you have one highly re-readable read-aloud for kids. Is it a duck or is it a rabbit? You decide!
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    Amy Rosenthal
    Duck! Rabbit
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    Revering and stalking in equal measure, Buddy Levy explores the complex and controversial relationship between himself, the hunter, and the hunted, the “gorgeous, complicated strong-flying” chukar partridge.
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    Buddy Levy
    Echoes on Rimrock
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    Colonial Cairo. A dead dog in a Coptic tomb. A dancing dervish stabbed before an English MP’s niece. Escalating religious and political unrest. The Mamur Zapt investigates.
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    Inhabiting the twin realms of literary theory and scientific exploration, Daisy Hildyard hypothesizes the new duality of humankind: our corporeal self and our imprint in the outer ecosystem.
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    Daisy Hildyard
    The Second Body
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    The children sort the garbage that washes up on the shore and feed it to the pigs. So when a boy in a barrel arrives in a similar fashion they're not quite sure what to do.
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    Johanna Stoberock
    Pigs
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    Booker Prize winner, Lydia Davis, offers an entertaining account of three bovine beasts that live across the road from her. Very a-moo-sing.
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    Lydia Davis
    The Cows
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    The bond between human and hound; celebrated as a fitting tribute to one canine companion.
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    Eileen Myles
    Afterglow (a dog memoir)
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    Wild thing. Tamed. Or is he?
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    Who else other than a couple of cocks could rule the roost?
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    Walter Wangerin
    The Book of the Dun Cow
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    Classic horsey tale. The kind that needs regular brushing.
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    Interesting and unexpected monkey business.
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    Katherine Applegate
    The One and Only Ivan
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