 | Moby Dick Herman Melville A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture. October 18th, 2001, marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the greatest novel in American literature. Our Catalog |
 | Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Our Catalog |
 | The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver. Our Catalog |
 | The Guardian Nicholas Sparks Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died - a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Our Catalog |
 | Water for Elephants Sara Gruen Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. Our Catalog |
 | We Bought a Zoo Benjamin Mee The amazing true story of a young family, a broken down zoo, and the 200 wild animals that changed their lives forever. Our Catalog |
 | Call of the Wild Jack London The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in California as the story opens. Stolen from his home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog, he reverts to atavistic traits. Our Catalog |
 | Jaws Peter Benchley Benchley's novel, while better known as the source material for Steven Spielberg's classic movie, has earned its own stripes as a small gem of suspense fiction. Our Catalog |
 | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death. Our Catalog |
 | Black Beauty Anna Sewell A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Our Catalog |
 | Charlotte's Web E.B. White Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. Our Catalog |
 | Black Maestro Joe Drape New York Times writer Drape illuminates a little-known figure in the history of American sports: Jimmy Winkfield, the last black jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. Our Catalog |
 | Cujo Stephen King The story of the middle-class Trenton family and rural Camber clan in Castle Rock, Maine. Their domestic problems are dwarfed by mortal danger when Donna and her four-year-old son Tad are terrorized by a rabid St. Bernard named Cujo. Our Catalog |
 | Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog Joe Grogan Labrador retrievers are generally considered even-tempered, calm and reliable-and then there's Marley, the subject of this delightful tribute to one Lab who doesn't fit the mold. Our Catalog |
 | A Dog’s Life: the Autobiography of a Stray Ann M. Martin Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal. Our Catalog |
 | Animals Make us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals. Our Catalog |
 | Babe: The Gallant Pig Written by Dick King-Smith Iillustrated by Mary Rayner The fast-paced story of an extraordinary pig that wants to be a sheepherder. Our Catalog |
 | Devoted Dean R. Koontz Koontz taps into one of literature's oldest themes, the monster versus the innocents. Here the monster is a very sick man, and the innocents are an autistic boy, his mother, and a gifted dog. Our Catalog |
 | H is for Hawk 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. Our Catalog |
 | Who Rescued Who Victoria Schade A delightful romp through the English countryside, Schade's second novel is resplendent with sheep, dogs, cats, and lovely people. Our Catalog |
 | The Bear Andrew Krivak With artistry and grace, National Book Award--finalist Krivak offers a story of endurance and a return to life with nature in a postapocalyptic world, where an unnamed father and daughter are the only remaining humans on earth. Our Catalog |
 | An Incantation of Cats Clea Simon With the help of her three cats, known as familiars in the Wiccan world, Becca sets out to discover who's trying to kill her client Gaia Linquist, a clerk at the Wiccan boutique in Cambridge, Mass. Our Catalog |
 | The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Honey-sweet but never cloying, this debut by nonfiction author Kidd features a hive's worth of appealing female characters, an offbeat plot and a lovely style. Our Catalog |
 | Rescued David Rosenfelt Defense lawyer and dog rescuer, Andy Carpenter gets a call about 61 dogs found in a tractor trailer parked at a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway. Our Catalog |
 | Pet Sematary Stephen King Dr. Louis Creed, who, after relocating with his wife Rachel and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. Our Catalog |
 | The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams In this intensely autobiographical play, Williams dramatizes the story of Amanda, who dreams of restoring her lost past by finding a gentleman caller for her crippled daughter, and of Amanda's son Tom, who longs to escape from the responsibility of supporting his mother and sister. Our Catalog |
 | Animal Farm George Orwell All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. Our Catalog |
 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll When the young Alice follows a waistcoat-wearing rabbit holding a pocket watch, she finds herself in a fantastical world of talking mice, disappearing cats, hookah-smoking caterpillars, fish-headed footmen, and babies who turn into pigs. Our Catalog |
 | The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka A man wakes up to find he has turned into an insect. But the claustrophobic, dirty room and the increasingly distressed narrator soon turn this into a tale of slow horror. Our Catalog |
 | All Creatures Great and Small James Heriot The stories of a young veterinarian making his way in the rugged English countryside?and of the people and animals he met along the way. Our Catalog |
 | A Dog's Promise W. Bruce Cameron The dog who thinks of himself as 'Bailey' knows one thing for sure: all dogs go to heaven after they have fulfilled their purpose on earth. Our Catalog |
 | River Love Tricia Frey (local Traverse City author) A compelling memoir about a dog named Sheldon and his remarkable journey to his true home. Our Catalog |
 | Sounder William H. Armstrong Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder. Our Catalog |
 | Life of Pi Yann Martel The peripatetic Pi (n the much-taunted Piscine) Patel spends a beguiling boyhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper. Our Catalog |
 | Tarzen of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs John Clayton is born in the coastal jungles of equatorial Africa to a marooned couple from England, John and Alice Clayton, the Lord and Lady of Greystoke. But after his parents die, the infant Clayton is adopted by she-ape Kala. Our Catalog |
 | Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley Paras, as the horse is known, wanders out of her stable and finds herself in Paris's Place du Trocadéro, where she meets Frida, a shorthaired German pointer who understands money and uses it to buy food for Paras and herself. Our Catalog |
 | Maus: A Survivor's Tale Art Spiegelman The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel. Our Catalog |
 | The Ten Trusts: What we Must do to Care for the Animals we Love Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff Goodall and Bekoff, a biology professor at the Univ. of Colorado, offer a prescriptive conservation plan designed to protect animals as well as help educate people about the importance of saving both animals and the environment. Our Catalog |
 | Midwestern Birds: Backyard Guide Bill Thompson III A guide to watching, feeding, landscaping, and nurturing birds in the midwest. Our Catalog |
 | The Big Year: a Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession Mark Obmascik Hoping to be the one to spot the most species during the course of the year, each birder spends 365 days racing around the continental U.S. and Canada compiling lists of birds, all for the glory of being recognized by the American Birding Association as the Big Year birding champion of North America. Our Catalog |
 | The Whale: A Love Story Mark Beauregard In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne at a Massachusetts picnic, and the lives of both men were changed forever. Our Catalog |
 | Ahab's wife, or, The Star-Gazer Sena Jeter Naslund "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last" reads the first line of this fascinating sage. Follow Una's rich life inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Our Catalog |
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