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Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood, growing up on a West Country farm—three families, a couple of lodgers, goats, dogs and an orphaned calf called Gabriella Christmas. The parents are best friends, too. The adults are far too busy to keep an eye on Amy and Lan, and Amy and Lan would never tell them about climbing on the high barn roof, or what happened with the axe that time, any more than their parents would tell them the things they get up to—adult things, like betrayal—that threaten to bring the whole fragile idyll tumbling down.

Monitor lizard, Horace Avraham, has always steered his best friend and boss in the right direction. Only this time, the pit bull is ignoring his advice. Victor Lenox is a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspires to something better: the daughter of Senator Jared Wilson Vale, the heiress to a dynasty of political purebred Dalmatians. Does he want her badly enough to commit murder? And if Lenox is innocent, which of his dozens of enemies is doing an awfully good job of framing him? Can Avraham solve the puzzle in time, or will the next stop be the gas chamber?

Rufus und Ray sehen den Wald vor lauter Bären nicht. Dass die neuen Chefs im Wald plötzlich die Erdmännchen sind, ist zwar für Rufus und Ray famos, passt aber nicht allen. Unter dem Laubdach brodelt es gehörig. "Dann macht doch Demokratie", schlägt Rufus vor und stößt bei den Waldbewohnern auf sehr viel offenere Ohren als erwartet. Tatsächlich sieht es mit Feldhäsin Grete als erster Präsidentin für eine Weile so aus, als könnte sich alles zum Guten und Schönen und Friedlichen fügen. Doch dann taucht eine Haussau samt Ferkelchen auf und fragt nach Keiler Herrmann.

Jesse Bauer has dreamed of being a horse trainer since she was a little girl. As soon as she graduated from high school, she took her first horse-training job. But the Arabian horse industry is a cutthroat business, and Jesse is tired of disappointments and broken promises. She moves to Arizona to take a job at Twelve Palms Ranch. Then she meets Midnight Renegade, a troubled horse with a tough past. She feels a kinship with the horse and decides she is going to help him become the amazing show horse she knows he can be. Can Jesse save Midnight Renegade and find herself in the process?

Join Chatool, Pip, and their new friend Mary, as they follow the disciples and witness the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the stoning of Stephen, and the miraculous transformation of Saul on the Road to Damascus as they learn about the power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers. Gather 'round and listen to A Cat’s Tale of the Holy Spirit.

"Set de llops" és una nena a qui li regalen un cadell, un noi pastor que fa un amic molt especial, un gos que és abandonat a prop d’un bosc, un nen que el dia del seu aniversari reviu un conte de l’àvia, una lloba blanca que es transforma amb la lluna plena, tres llobatons que han de marxar del bosc on viuen i un conte que amaga endevinalles sobre els habitants d’un racó del bosc.

The lizard, known only as the Mainland Detective, investigates a theft of diamonds only to uncover a tangled web of lies and murder seemingly connected to a family curse. The lizard can’t get away from Odette Wembley because every time he solves one issue, another arises.

You’ve probably never met someone like Clancy. He’s keeping a diary, he’s falling in love, there are rivals for his affections, he lives with his best friend and his worst enemy—even taken together, these factors are maybe not that unusual, except that Clancy is a dog. His point of view is therefore perhaps…different. Told in Cameron’s signature style, a tremendous cast of wonderful characters find themselves jointly and separately navigating the challenges of life, of love, and…other pets, including Clancy's “worst enemy”—one very disdainful cat.

Filled with gangsters, cops on the take, and a peregrine desperate to reclaim his territory, Ashton teeters on the brink of an all-out gang war. A Mainland Investigations detective is called into town by Paul Mason, who is murdered before briefing the lizard on the case. Pitting faction against faction, and with a target on his own back, the detective must save Ashton before his number is up.

Während Señor Comandante und Frau Sturm alle Pfoten voll zu tun haben, um ein abscheuliches Verbrechen aufzuklären, wundert sich Hund Ben in "Herrchen am Herd" über dubiose Geräusche und Vierbeiner Lino versucht in "Analog oder digital?" seinen Kumpel Bronco für das Thema Social Media zu erwärmen. Was wir mit unseren Hunden erleben und wie sie uns manchmal sagen, wo es langgeht, wird in zehn herrlichen Kurzgeschichten im zweiten Bellotristik-Sammelband "All unDOG control" treffend beschrieben. Geschichten, wie sie nur mit Hund(en) passieren.

Every time I visit Meg’s Meadows, I don’t want to leave, and it’s not just the horses and the people, though I do love them with all my heart. It’s their simple way of living, their down-homeness, the way they revere the elderly and delight in the children. They embrace their differences. If just one of them is in peril or need, it affects everyone. That includes the animals. And isn’t that the way the good Lord intended?

Mit Vollgas ins Glück. Rüde Duke versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Sein Herrchen hat ihn einfach nicht wieder abgeholt aus der Hundepension. Jetzt soll er mit zwei fremden Menschen spazieren gehen, zwischen denen eine komische Spannung herrscht. Das macht ihm Angst – wie so vieles andere auch. Doch je besser Duke Henning und Caroline kennenlernt, desto spannender findet er, was da zwischen ihnen brodelt, und er wünscht sich mit jedem Spaziergang mehr, dass sie drei ein unzertrennliches Team werden.

With a baby still missing after months of searching, Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit handler Lucas Hudson and his furry partner must protect the only witness as she recovers from amnesia. But the kidnapper wants Kate Montgomery silenced—permanently. Now hiding in the icy Montana mountains might be the key to their survival and to triggering Kate’s memories of the night baby Chloe Baker disappeared…

Una ballena queda atrapada entre las redes de pesca en el mar de Baja California. Para salvarla, cinco personas deciden unir fuerzas: Ámbar, una periodista solitaria, en duelo por el asesinato de su única hermana; el capitán, un hombre de un solo amor; Daniel, amigo de Ámbar; Arión, el viajero intrépido comprometido con el medioambiente; y Mora, la mujer guerrera indígena.

When Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, are approached by a down-and-out older man with a cardboard sign at an exit ramp, Bernie is shocked to discover the man is a former teammate from his high school baseball team. Chet and Bernie take Rocket out for a good meal, during the course of which Rocket refers to their class's prom queen, who supposedly vanished in a mysterious way.

Dr. Jason Davies, a young associate veterinarian, continues his work in small-town Birdie, Oklahoma, under the watchful eye of Dr. John Keating. Each day brings new adventures to Dr. Davies and his entertaining, and sometimes mischievous, clientele.

Det är nyårsafton och några tappra ekorrar som är medlemmar i A.D.R.T.E.V.B.L, Alla Djurs Rätt Till Ett Väldigt Bra Liv, försöker hjälpa en katt och hennes nyfödda kattungar från en krissituation. Problemet är bara att ekorrarna behöver hjälp av en människa för att avstyra nyårskrisen. Som tur är lyckas de övertala Alvar att hjälpa dem.

Una novel·la curta poètica i intimista que ens mostra un any de la vida de la Raquel. El pitjor any, però també el millor. La Raquel acaba de viure un incident traumàtic que l'ha deixat trasbalsada. Ha heretat, a més, dos pisos simètrics en un edifici senyorial. En un d'ells, el que dóna al pati interior, s'escolta el miol d'un gat taronja. Al principi, la buidor del pis reflexa a la perfecció la buidor que sent a dins.

Sergeant Tyson Wilkes is determined to protect his Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit—especially against an unknown assailant with a taste for explosives. Fortunately, Denver detective Skylar Morgan has the toughness and smarts to help Tyson and K-9 Echo find answers…even if she’s stepping into the crosshairs with them. But can they disarm this volatile killer before the next bomb goes off? Includes Explosive Revenge and Rescue Mission.

E se una banda di gatti (con l'aiuto di un cane) unisse le proprie forze per salvare delle persone? Due ragazze per la precisione. I felini Ovidio, Roxi, Nero e Pigro sfideranno infatti gli umani e la loro ferocia in questo romanzo avvincente, una vera e propria indagine con i baffi. Graziella Ardizzone (1934) è una scrittrice italiana. Laureata in lettere e medicina, ha lavorato a lungo come chirurgo in un ospedale torinese. Da scrittrice, ha esplorato il mondo di quella che è sicuramente una delle sue più grandi passioni: i gatti.