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1) Dog Days
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Brady is a dreadful card player and he doesn't like dogs. His mother has moved him across the country to be near to his grandfather who insists on playing (and winning) endless games of Crazy Eights and whose ornery, ancient dog makes Brady's life miserable. Abra, next door, is nice to him, but she dresses like a witch and she's a girl. The only way that Brady can see to make real friends in his new home is to enter the upcoming dog show, but how...
2) Dog Days
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Never in a million dog days of summer would I have guessed my breaking Mudville's pooper scooper law would lead me to the town's bad boy. But that's exactly what happened.
He was the guy who went directly from graduation to gunfire and didn't look back…until now. Twenty years later, he's home. A little bit broken, but back for good. And with the help of man's-or rather woman's-best friend, I intend to make him mine.
Can a former geek win the star...
3) Dog Days
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After the death of her father, Jo is determined to keep her family ranch. With a devious lawyer keeping her rightful inheritance from her while trying to foreclose on the ranch so he can build a luxury resort and most townsfold not believing a girl should run a ranch without a man around, Jo has to find a way to pay her bills and keep whats hers. Help comes in the form of a small terrier left to die one stormy night in her cow fields. Little does...
4) Dog Days
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When Natalie, a small-town cop, finds a senile old man living in filth with his puppy Bailey, she has to step in to get both the man and the dog the care that they need. But she gets a little more than she bargained for when she seeks out Christine, the old man's young daughter.
Christine is a young author who has been out of touch with her father for many years. But when she hears about the conditions he's living in, she steps up to help. That includes...
5) Dog Days
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Peculiar, unique, unusual, elements of Cummings, Stevie Smith and Larkin cohere then fall away, in a collection of darkly clear, or clearly dark poems.
6) Dog Days
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An inspiring story about a young girl, Zahara, overcoming her fear of dogs.
Zahara loves to visit her family on a beautiful island in the Pacific Northwest. But this year, she is met with a big surprise. Aunt JoJo got a new dog, Rugby! Zahara used to like dogs, until one chased her home from school.
Over the summer, Aunt JoJo slowly introduces Zahara to Rugby, and a trusting relationship develops.
Children and adults will love to join Zahara as...
7) Dog Days
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Kate Hastings is back in Episode 3 of the Dead Woman Driving serial novel. Kate, with the help of her mentor Sue Wright, tackles her first job for her new employers. The job seems easy enough - the simple retrieval of a stolen dog. But as Kate already knows, nothing is ever as easy as it seems, and the job quickly turns into an emotional roller coaster.
8) Dog Days
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Aiden is sent to Hawaii to stay with his father, whom he has never met. But when he arrives there he discovers there is no one to meet him. He has no money, and his mother and stepfather do not want him back. Devastated at their betrayal, hungry and heartsore, he walks away from the airport in a random direction, only to be beaten up and have his belongings stolen by vagrants. But Aiden is a fighter. The next morning he determines to find help, and...
9) Dog Days
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Are you sitting nicely? Good. Let's discover exactly what happened after two superstar Labradors chewed up the lockdown internet and found it really quite tasty.
He's not kept a diary for decades but here, in DOG DAYS, Andrew Cotter draws inspiration from the great Samuel Pepys; like him, he bears witness to the extraordinary everyday as the world tilts on its axis in our own unsettling era.
And so, with Olive and Mabel at his side - actually,...
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Anytime Josie Shilling's large family gets too chaotic, volunteering at the local animal clinic is the one place she can escape-and she loves working with the animals. But when a box mysteriously appears on the clinic's front steps, Josie suddenly becomes responsible for seven adorable puppies!
Taking care of her pig, Hamlet, last fall was a bit harder than she thought. So how is she ever going to handle a whole litter of mischievous pups and find...
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‘Dog Days of Summer: Fun with Clichés!’ is a laugh-out-loud children's book by journalist Jayne A. Pearl, based on common clichés about animals. It is beautifully and hilariously, illustrated by artist Mat Bevilacqua, who makes the animals and phrases come to life by imagining a literal interpretation.
This kids' book will amuse and inform both adult and child. The back pages, "Prompts and Circumstances, provide questions adults can ask children...
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Join two of the internet's favorite dogs and their owner, sports broadcaster Andrew Cotter, as he shares journal entries from life during the pandemic lockdown.
Are you sitting nicely? Good. Let's discover exactly what happened after two superstar Labradors chewed up the lockdown internet and found it really quite tasty.
He's not kept a journal for decades but here, in Dog Days, Andrew Cotter draws inspiration from the great Samuel Pepys, like him,...
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Ben Snakepit has drawn a three-panel comic strip about his day, every single day, since 2001.
This new book compiles the three years of comics from 2016-2018, seeing Ben through the loss of his beloved Peeber and getting to know Frankie, in the low-fi style that he's known for.
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In Dog Days, Jon Katz, the squire of Bedlam Farm, allows us to live our dreams of leaving the city for the country, and shares the unpredictable adventure of farm life. The border collies, the sheep, the chickens, the cat, the ram, and one surprisingly sociable steer named Elvis all contribute to the hum and occasional roar of Bedlam. On timeless summer days and in punishing winter storms, Katz continues his meditation on what animals can selflessly...
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It is the mid-1960s and Randy Harrison is a gangly fifteen-year-old who seeks thrills amid the pages of a steamy novel and while hanging out with his friends. Unfortunately, his thrill-seeking behavior comes with consequences. After he is sent to his Aunt Carries farm for two weeks as part of his punishment for a recent indiscretion, Randy prepares to embrace the seemingly idyllic country life. But as he stands at a crossroads between boyhood and...
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A dinner party gone awry. Two butchered victims. Four suspects. Art dealer Benedict Belford and artist Simonne Turner are found in a pool of blood at his country house, their throats slashed and their bodies mutilated. The investigation plunges Chief Inspector George Alcott into Benedict's extravagant life. A hidden world of stylish women and lewd get-togethers soon comes to light, yet no one seems to have a motive for the vicious murders-not the...
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Heart of Photography by John McQuade and Miriam Hall, continues the practice of Nalanda Miksang Contemplative Photography from the first volume, Looking and Seeing. In this volume, we enter together into the deep heart teachings of the fields of perception, with topics like Ordinary/Personal World and People and Other Sentient Beings, and more. In the fields of perception, it is natural to connect deeply with our ordinary lives, only to find therein...
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Alone in a new town, psychology professor Shawn Daly has resigned himself to a quiet, solitary Christmas. Then he nearly runs over a stray dog. She's not seriously injured-but it turns out she has other plans for Shawn's winter break. And that cute guy down the block with the friendly Newfoundland dog? Turns out he's a big part of those plans.Dogs may bring shedding fur and a heap of responsibilities. But they may also be just the right thing to give...
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