Duke and Rex and Interspecies Friendship
Duke and Rex, a special needs calf and chicken, become friends at a farm sanctuary. A true story!
Story Time with Irina: A WHALE OF THE WILD, by Rosanne Parry
We just finished this fun, adventurous, and very enlightening kids' book (ages 8-12) called A Whale of the Wild, written by Rosanne Parry and illustrated by Lindsay Moore. It's about two orcas (we've heard some call them "killer whales" but they don't seem that scary to us) - a sister, Vega, and her little brother, Deneb.
THE CAT I NEVER NAMED by Amra Sabic-El-Reyess and Laura L. Sullivan
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…
Our Bookshop Store is Up!
We finally have our Bookshop store up! It's a work in progress, and I'm constantly adding new books I find or remember, but it's finally up and running. If you like print books, please consider buying through our page there. All proceeds go back to the organization since we…
Irina the Belgian Marshmallow
Well, 2019 ended up being crazy busy but hugely productive for me. After Rhea passed away at the end of 2018 I fell into a bad depression. She'd been with me for so much of my adult life, from New York to California to Arizona, and losing her hit…
MY GENTLE BARN: CREATING A SANCTUARY WHERE ANIMALS HEAL AND CHILDREN LEARN TO HOPE By Ellie Laks
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
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June 9, 2020Posted inArachnids, Books, Dogs, Farm Animals, Marine Animals, Memoir, Nonfiction, Wild Animals
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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,…
THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez
I recently listened to the audio book version of this novel, after it won the 2018 National Book Award for fiction. It was billed as a book about a woman mourning the loss of her friend to suicide by caring for his Great Dane, whom she inherits. I often…
Sofia and Rhea
"Mom," Sofia says to me. "I sense Rhea out back. All the times you wouldn't let her out because you were scared she would get hurt by the owls and coyotes and fast cars on the nearby freeway, and she wanted to go out so badly. Well, now she…
Cruel Candy: A Cozy Corgi Mystery, Book 1
We received a recommendation of this book from Amazon, who seemed to know just what we needed right now: a cute cozy mystery featuring an endearing animal co-sleuth :) Cruel Candy is the first of many books in Mildred Abbott's Cozy Corgi series. Main character, 38-year-old Fred (short for…