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Holiday Gift List

By TJ December 5, 2020Books, Dogs, Farm Animals, Fiction, Horses, Marine Animals, Memoir, Middle-Grade, Nonfiction, Picture Books, Teens, Wild Animals

Books that make a perfect present for the animal lover!

THE CAT I NEVER NAMED by Amra Sabic-El-Reyess and Laura L. Sullivan

By TJ August 26, 2020Books, Cats, Memoir, Nonfiction, Teens

Katusha with our copy of the book - a digital advance copy from Bloomsbury Wow. This is a stunning, eye-opening, un-put-downable memoir about a teenage girl and her family struggling to survive the 1990s genocide in Bosnia. Amra is Muslim and when the Serbs invade her country, and her…

MY GENTLE BARN: CREATING A SANCTUARY WHERE ANIMALS HEAL AND CHILDREN LEARN TO HOPE By Ellie Laks

By TJ June 9, 2020Animal Sanctuaries, Books, Farm Animals, Memoir, Nonfiction

This book came out a few years ago but I just listened to the audio version and have to make readers aware of it if you are not already! It's a memoir, by Gentle Barn founder Ellie Laks, detailing her long journey to forming this wonderful sanctuary, which both…

HOW TO BE A GOOD CREATURE by Sy Montgomery

By TJ June 9, 2020Arachnids, Books, Dogs, Farm Animals, Marine Animals, Memoir, Nonfiction, Wild Animals

Love, love, love this book! It's an essential addition to any animal lover's book collection! Naturalist Sy Montgomery is one of my favorite nonfiction writers, and this wonderful memoir is a collection of homages to animals she's loved throughout her life - both those she's lived with as family,…

Review, DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Cats, Memoir, Nonfiction

I can't believe I hadn't read this memoir when it first came out in 2008! I'd somehow missed it, but found an updated edition from 2017 on kindle and just finished reading it as an ebook. This version has some added later content, updating us on the lives of…

Best Friends Animal Society National Conference 2018!

By TJ June 9, 2020Animal Activism, Animal Rescues, Animal Sanctuaries, Books, Cats, Conferences, Dogs, Fiction, Nonfiction

Note: originally posted July 2018 before this site was updated. Just got back from the Best Friends National Conference and I am so invigorated and inspired and amazed at all the good work being done out there on behalf of animals! It was my first time at this convention…

Review of COYOTE AMERICA by Dan Flores

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Nonfiction, Wild Animals

The other evening I was driving through a busy intersection near my house on the outskirts of Phoenix and I saw a coyote crossing the street. Thankfully there wasn't a whole lot of traffic, but funny thing was he crossed with the light, as if he knew how to…

Review of THE ELEPHANT WHISPERER by Lawrence Anthony

By TJ June 9, 2020Africa, Books, Memoir, Nonfiction, Wild Animals

About half way through this book I started crying and couldn't stop until end. And then I cried even more because it was over. Not because it was sad, although there are parts that are bittersweet, but just because it was so beautiful. Honestly, I don't think I've ever…

Review of A WOLF CALLED ROMEO by Nick Jans

By TJ June 9, 2020Books, Memoir, Nonfiction, Wild Animals

Such an endearing book that now ranks up there as one of my all-time favorite wildlife books. If you haven't read this book yet and you like wolves, wildlife, Alaska, or even dogs, it's a must-read! Published in 2014, A Wolf Called Romeo tells the true story of a…

Review of MERCY FOR ANIMALS by Nathan Runkle

By TJ June 9, 2020Animal Activism, Memoir, Nonfiction

Wow. I'll be honest; this book is not easy for animal lovers to read. But it's SO important, you simply must. MERCY FOR ANIMALS is a memoir - partly of Nathan Runkle, the founder, and partly of the organization of the same name and the movement in farm animal…