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"Guirec Soudée tells the true story of his 3,400 mile sea voyage with his pet hen, Monique."-- Provided by publisher.

"A luxe, full color picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green's New York Times bestselling How to Be a Good Creature"-- Provided by publisher.

This volume contains inspiring, funny, and heartwarming stories about cats told from the perspective of Dewey's Mom, librarian Myron. Includes never-before-told stories about Dewey, along with other touching cat tales.

The moving story of the author's adopted Rottweiler mix, Lou, a free-thinking heroic dog who changed his life forever.

Shares the story of the author and her dog Boo, the runt of an abandoned litter, who became an unlikely hero when he changed countless lives--including hers--through his work as a therapy dog.

Relates how the author and his dog named Atticus M. Finch attempted to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire's four-thousand-foot peaks twice to pay tribute to a friend who died of cancer and raise money for charity.

"Hope taught me the meaning of life, Tina taught me the meaning of love. It's not everyday you meet a golden retriever in Thailand. When Niall came across a dog shackled to a short chain and in a poor state of health something reminded him of his personal battle with addiction. He knew he had to rescue her immediately--golden retrievers are rare in Thailand--but there was just something about this dog in particular that told him she was destined for...

"Could be the best book ever written about dogs." —New York Times–bestselling author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas While on a camping trip, National Outdoor Book Award-winning author Ted Kerasote met a dog—a Labrador mix—who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle's native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively...

"Because 'grieving for an animal can be a pretty lonely place,' Barbara Abercrombie created this joyful and poignant, funny and smart collection of commiseration. Readers meet the cat who liked to fish tampon tubes out of the trash and then appear 'jauntily holding one in his mouth as if smoking a cigarette,' the dog who demanded down pillows, and even a coyote who became part of the family. The sometimes surprising things animals add to a household--and...