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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…

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…

Review of CRAIG AND FRED by Craig Grossi

By TJ June 8, 2020Books, Dogs, Memoir, Nonfiction

I loved this book! I saw it in my local library when I went there to get a novel for a book club. I haven’t read many military books, but how could anyone resist this cover! (BTW: since it’s a dog book, sister Sofia poses with it, and I…

Review of LOVE AT FIRST BARK by Julie Klam

By TJ June 8, 2020Books, Dogs, Memoir, Nonfiction

We loved this short, sweet memoir we happened to find at a special sale at our favorite bookstore, Changing Hands. It’s by the very funny Julie Klam, about what her experiences rescuing dogs has taught her about herself. There are several wonderful stories here about the endearingly-portrayed dogs Klam…