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5481) Max the Miracle Dog
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"Are you ready, Max? If anyone's going to help me do this, it's you."
The heart-warming tale of a life saving friendship.
In 2006, Kerry Irving's life changed forever when a traumatic car accident left him with serious neck and back injuries. He went from cycling over 600 miles a month - taking in the beautiful local scenery of the Lake Districts along the way - to being housebound and facing an uncertain future. Kerry's injuries left him needing...
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Framed by the author's personal experience with backyard hens, Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present. En route, Lembke surveys chickens in ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the nineteenth century, and modern times, including the role of chickens in Jewish and Muslim practices. She also investigates the birds' contributions to...
5483) Great Ranches of Today's Wild West: A Horseman's Photographic Journey Across the American West
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In this beautiful collection, veteran travel writer Mark Bedor takes readers on a journey through twenty of the great ranches of today's Wild West. With over 200 stunning full-color photographs, reading Great Ranches of Today's Wild West is almost as good as being there. Take a horseback ride through the snowy woods at Vista Verde Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, or follow in the footsteps of Butch Cassidy on the Outlaw Trail at Utah's Tavaputs...
5484) Rabbit Housing: Planning, Building, and Equipping Facilities for Humanely Raising Healthy Rabbits
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Create a safe, sanitary, and efficient home for your rabbits. In this informative guide, Bob Bennett provides clear step-by-step instructions for building attractive all-wire hutches of all sizes, with additional tips for adding the necessary accessories like feeders, watering systems, nest boxes, and fencing. From the direction a hutch door should swing to proper ventilation and protection from predators, Bennett covers everything you need to know...
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A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the American West, A Buffalo in the House...
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A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way.
When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before.
His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique.
Guirec never intended to sail the world with a chicken, but after reaching the Caribbean, he and Monique made for Greenland, and...
5487) How to Raise Chickens for Meat: The Backyard Guide to Caring, Feeding, and Butchering Your Birds
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If self-sufficiency and raising your own food is important to you, this book will help you pull together a complete farm-to-table experience.
Gone are the days when grandma headed to the chicken coop in search of dinner. In this day and age, when fewer and fewer people know where their food comes from, How to Raise Chickens for Meat helps families take control of their food supply once again.
Divided into four easy-to-navigate sections:
How to...
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Chickens are fun, useful, and easy to keep. If you have ever considered raising your own backyard flock, The Illustrated Guide to Chickens is the book for you! It offers practical advice and contains all the information you need to choose from one of the 100 most familiar breeds of chicken in North America and Europe to raise. Each breed's profile is written in engaging text that covers its history and main characteristics. You'll also find practical...
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Inspirational accounts of veterans who have moved forward from mental and physical injuries toward healthier lives with the help of service dogs.
Hundreds of thousands of military veterans seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) each year. Service dogs have been used for many years in the civilian sector to help their disabled owners perform necessary tasks in daily life, likewise, the organized use of therapy dogs to bring comfort...
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A treasury of Buddhist wisdom from the great teachers . . . plus cute doggie photos.
Join some cuddly dogs for encouragement from Buddhist teachers like Thích Nhất Hanh and the Buddha himself in Zen Dogs. Don't let the adorable canines fool you-they have plenty of mindfulness wisdom to share in the form of quotes and verses.
Meditate along with these verses daily. Learn from the dutiful dog to be true in body and mind. And let your inner...
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When Jacob Biggle first published his book on the management of poultry, there were more than 300 million chickens and 30 million other domesticated fowl in the United States. Today, the trend continues with thousands if not millions of chickens and other fowl being raised in suburban and urban backyards across America. Biggle's aim was to "help farmers and villagers conduct the poultry business with pleasure and profit." To that end, this handy little...
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Lessons, stories, and reflections from the Goat Midwife. There is nothing about goat care that creates more anticipation, excitement, frustration, and fear than birthing goats. What can you expect with a goat pregnancy? What do you do if things go wrong when goats give birth? What happens when you have a challenging newborn kid? Seasoned goat farmer Deborah Niemann, author of Raising Goats Naturally, answers these questions and more by distilling...
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A small flock of poultry can supply all of the eggs your family needs during the year. And, after your hens have completed their egg-laying days, there will be meat for barbecuing or roasting. Luckily, a small flock takes a relatively small amount of space and is easy to manage. If yours is one of the growing number of families interested in raising chickens for eggs or meat, The Backyard Chicken Book contains all the essential information for the...
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Finally backyard farmers who want to keep a few hens for eggs have a bible that's attractive enough to leave out on the coffee table, and inexpensive enough to purchase on a whim. This comprehensive guide, written in charming prose from the perspective of an organic farmer, will appeal to readers who are interested in raising chickens, or simply want the best knowledge about how to cook them. With this in mind, farmer and animal expert Jennifer Megyesi...
5495) Little Louie
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Sky Pony Press
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2014
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Louie is a special dog, clumsy and funny-looking, but he dreams of being a champion like his brothers until the day he slips on his ball into the center ring and discovers that he can be a different kind of star.
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Candlewick Press
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2023.
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Help! This little girl has lost her best friend. He's a dinosaur (not the extinct kind). He's enormous (bigger than a panda!). He was last seen before she gave him a bath and washed off all the mud (maybe that wasn't a good idea?). She's tried to lure him with snacks and put up Lost Dinosaur posters, but nothing has helped. If only it weren't such a clear day--if only it were raining, or snowing, or the leaves were falling, or something. Would it...
5498) I got a new friend
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2017]
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"A little girl and her new puppy get to know one another"--
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For the fans of Eat, Pray, Love and Marley & Me, a heartwarming story of a 2,000-mile road trip taken by a woman and her dog.
Bodie, mystery mix rescue pup, is on death row in a Los Angeles dog shelter, having been abandoned by his owner. Belinda, a heartbroken woman, is in a heap on the floor of her vintage apartment, having been dumped by the man of her dreams. Two lost souls ready to find a new life-together.
Belinda falls in love with Bodie the...
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Well-raised geese are the ultimate homesteading companion, providing weed control, eggs, entertainment, and acting as security" over your other animals. The Modern Homesteader's Guide to Keeping Geese covers everything you need to know from selecting suitable breeds, feeding, housing, and animal health, to how geese can benefit your land as workers and providers of eggs and meat.
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