Animals
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TITLE: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
AUTHOR: Mary Roach WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 591.5 Roa SUMMARY: A best-selling author offers an investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. |
TITLE: Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: George Orwell; adapted and illustrated by Odyr CALL NUMBER: FIC Orw - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm," a political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship. |
TITLE: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
AUTHOR: Frans de Waal CALL NUMBER: 591.5 Waa SUMMARY: Explores the depth of animal intelligence. |
TITLE: Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives—and Save Theirs
AUTHOR: Richard Louv CALL NUMBER: 615.8 Lou SUMMARY: The author shows how cultivating the powerful, mysterious, and fragile bond between humans and other animals can improve our mental, physical, and spiritual health, protect our planet, and serve as an antidote to the loneliness of our species. |
TITLE: Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
AUTHOR: Frans de Waal CALL NUMBER: 599.8 Waa SUMMARY: The influential primatologist draws on renowned primate studies in an exploration of animal emotions that touches on such subjects as expressions, animal sentience, and free will. |
TITLE: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
AUTHOR: Stephen Brusatte WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 567.9 Bru SUMMARY: A narrative scientific history that tells the epic story of the dinosaurs, examining their origins, habitats, extinction, and living legacy. |
TITLE: Into the Wild
AUTHOR: Erin Hunter WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hun - FANTASY SUMMARY: Rusty, a bored house kitten, is apprenticed by the ThunderClan and must struggle to fit in when the group of feral cats is threatened by ShadowClan, the enemy. |
TITLE: Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
AUTHOR: Susan Orlean WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 636.7 Orl SUMMARY: An examination of the life and legacy of Rin Tin Tin, an orphaned German shepherd that was found on a World War I battlefield in France, taken home to California by a soldier, and made into a movie star. |
TITLE: Where the Red Fern Grows
AUTHOR: William Rawls WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Raw - CLASSICS SUMMARY: The adventures of a ten-year-old boy and the two dogs he bought with money he had earned. |
TITLE: Life of Pi
AUTHOR: Yann Martel WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mar - ADVENTURE SUMMARY: Following a shipwreck, a sixteen-year-old Indian boy and a Bengal tiger drift for several months in a lifeboat. |
TITLE: Tiger's Curse
AUTHOR: Colleen Houck WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hou - FANTASY SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all. |
TITLE: Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
AUTHOR: Alexandra Horowitz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 636.7 Hor SUMMARY: The author, a cognitive scientist, introduces the reader to a dog's perceptual and cognitive abilities in order to determine how they think about their daily worlds. |
TITLE: Stay with Me
AUTHOR: Paul Griffin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gri - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Céce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison, he pushes Céce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together. |
TITLE: The Complete Book of Animals
AUTHOR: Tom Jackson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 590.3 Jac SUMMARY: An encyclopedia of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. |
TITLE: Charlotte's Web
AUTHOR: E. B. White WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Whi - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Wilbur the pig is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. |
TITLE: Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia
AUTHOR: DK Publishing WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 590.3 Ani SUMMARY: A guide to the animal kingdom, featuring entries that describe animals from A to Z, and including photographs of each species in its natural habitat. |
TITLE: Eating Animals
AUTHOR: Jonathan Safran Foer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.3 Foe SUMMARY: The award-winning author of Everything Is Illuminated exposes common misconceptions about how animals are slaughtered and processed for food, drawing on sources from popular culture to national tradition to reveal how the meat industry misrepresents its practices. |
TITLE: A Dog's Purpose
AUTHOR: W. Bruce Cameron WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cam - NOVELS SUMMARY: Bailey, the canine narrator, offers an inside look at how a dog thinks, feels, and behaves, exploring the unique bond she has with her humans and the many benefits of owning a dog. |
TITLE: Stargazing Dog
AUTHOR: Takashi Murakami WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mur - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: After he loses his job and his family, "Daddy" sets out in his car to get away from it all, with no destination in mind. Told from the viewpoint of his dog, who follows him and stays with him faithfully until the end. |
TITLE: Frozen Planet: A World Beyond Imagination
AUTHOR: Alastair Fothergill and Vanessa Berlowitz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 577.0911 Fot SUMMARY: A companion book to the BBC program documents a year of seasonal changes in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, following polar animals in their native habitats and bringing to light the climatic problems facing these regions. |
TITLE: Dog Songs
AUTHOR: Mary Oliver WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Oli SUMMARY: A collection of poems about dogs and their relationships with humans. |
TITLE: The Art of Racing in the Rain
AUTHOR: Garth Stein WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ste - NOVELS SUMMARY: Enzo, the dog of professional race car driver Denny Swift, recalls the memories of his life and shares his insight into the human condition that he learned from observing his owner. |
TITLE: Old Yeller
AUTHOR: Fred Gipson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gip - CLASSICS SUMMARY: In the late 1860's in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen year-old boy form a close, loving relationship. |
TITLE: Awkward Family Pet Photos
AUTHOR: Mike Bender and Doug Chernack WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 818.602 Ben SUMMARY: We adore our pets, but let's face it-- sometimes love makes us go a little overboard. Here is a pictorial tribute to the unbreakable bond between people and their pets! |
TITLE: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
AUTHOR: David Wroblewski WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Wro - NOVELS SUMMARY: Edgar Sawtelle, born mute, lives contentedly on his parents' Wisconsin farm helping raise a unique breed of dogs developed by his grandfather to embody the qualities of companionship and wisdom, but the death of his father and his belief that his uncle had something to do with it, force him to flee to the forest with only three yearlings for companionship, where he struggles to survive until the need to confront his uncle leads him home again. |
TITLE: Watership Down
AUTHOR: Richard Adams WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ada - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society. |