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The perfect feel-good rural love story from bestselling author Jill Steeples Pia Temple has always had a soft spot for Jackson Moody following a passionate teenage love affair that burnt out over one long summer, more than ten years ago. First loves can be hard to forget, and the devastatingly...

Drift into sleep with calming short stories celebrating the unconditional love and faithful loyalty of rescue dogs. Designed to help you wind down after a long, stressful day, these soothing audio narratives offer a soft landing place for your heart. Embrace the quiet moments of companionship...

Alex Richmond, US Naval Reserves, faces the heartbreak of leaving his loyal golden retriever, Charlie, behind as he deploys overseas. With no family nearby, Alex entrusts Charlie to a local animal shelter. Maeve Torres, a compassionate volunteer at the shelter, agrees to foster Charlie. Alex and Maeve, initially strangers, start communicating through email and text messages to keep Alex updated on Charlie’s well-being. Through these exchanges, they discover shared interests and experiences, realizing that they have much in common. The connection between them grows stronger with each message.

Brought to you by Penguin. Veronica McCreedy returns in the delightfully feel-good new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Away with the Penguins - sure to become a firm favourite with readers! Meet the heroine everyone's talking about . . . Fiercely resilient and impeccably dressed...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Pet Therapist – Curious Cases brings together five warm, thoughtful, and quietly humorous stories about animals, people, and the complicated bonds between them. Harold and Sophie run a small consulting business where families seek help with...

WINNER OF THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS' ASSOCIATION KATIE FFORDE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023. 'A warm, romantic story about community, friendship and following your heart, Always By Your Side is a feel-good delight, I adored it!' HOLLY MARTIN 'Always By Your Side engages the reader from the very...

Kitabın yazarı Richard Bach, uçmanın sırrını anlamayı her şeyden çok isteyen Jonathan Livingston adlı bir martının hikâyesini anlatıyor. Hikâye boyunca Jonathan’ın payına düşen çok zorluk vardır. İhanetle karşılaşır, en sevdikleri tarafından reddedilir ve kimse onun başarısına inanmaz. Bir noktada umutsuzluğun düşürür ve hayallerinden vazgeçmek üzere, ancak pes etmemek ve hayalleri için çabalamak için güсü bulur. Zorluklar onu yıkmaz–sadece ruhunu güçlendirir.

Love, Loyalty, and Leashes is not a training manual. It’s not a guide to raising the perfect dog. It’s a collection of quiet, deeply human stories about what happens when dogs enter our lives and rearrange them in ways we never planned. Inside, you’ll meet a contractor who inherits a nine-pound Chihuahua he didn’t ask for. A group of early-morning dog walkers who become something more than strangers. A woman who prepares for the perfect puppy and ends up with the wrong dog—the right one. A man who almost doesn’t stop on the side of the highway…

The Call of the Wild and White Fang are two masterpieces of American literature set in the desolate cold North. The Call of the Wild is the story of a gentle domestic dog that rejects civilization and returns to the wilderness due to the cruelty of mankind. White Fang is a companion narrative and a thematic mirror to The Call of the Wild; it tells the tale of a wolf-dog hybrid who struggles to survive and ultimately changes from a fearsome wild beast into a creature of love.

Tarzan's courtship of the female ape Teeka ends in failure when her preference turns to their mutual friend, the male ape Taug. Tarzan wrestles with his humanness versus his ape-ness. The allusion to Helen of Troy enriches the story, making Tarzan and Taug's fight over Teeka take on symbolic proportions. Stan Galloway writes: "when Burroughs chooses to name Helen as an objective correlative for Teeka, he expects both literal and emotional connections to occur." Tarzan's final claim of the story - "Tarzan is a man. He will go alone." - echoes the plight of Adam in the Garden of Eden.

Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic, and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel’s book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala.

Das neue große Hörbuch von Bestsellerautor Tommy Jaud! »Es ist ein Kater. Und er ist nicht süß!« Bubble ist Katzenfutterempfänger in der 34. Generation und hält Menschen für freudlose Versager. Am traurigsten ist dieser Mann von unten. Ausgerechnet der trägt Bubble auf einmal hinaus aus seiner sicheren Warmhöhle – Alarm! Tim hat sich in seiner Wohnung und im Homeoffice eingerichtet. Ungefiltert lässt er nichts und niemanden mehr an sich ran. Bis sein Kölner Viertel evakuiert wird, weil eine Weltkriegsbombe entschärft werden soll.

Chase’s grandfather is missing, and he asks Odelia to help find him. And since Odelia’s editor has told her to find out who the new Hampton Cove Santa is, she gladly agrees. After traipsing all over New York City in search of Grandpa Kingsley, and the new Santa, they have to declare defeat. Lucky for them, there’s still Max and Dooley, Odelia’s feline sleuths. Will they find out what happened to Grandpa Kingsley? And will they figure out who the new Santa is? Get into the holiday spirit with Max and Odelia and find out in Purrfect Santa. This title features three short stories.

From the acclaimed author of Beasts of a Little Land and Reese’s Book Club pick City of Night Birds, an exquisite story collection about humans in precarious balance with the natural world. ‘A rare jewel … essential reading for right now’ COCO MELLORS ‘Kim’s work is ambitious...

Una Lowe lives a perfectly edited life in London. Other than her best friend, she’s careful about who she lets in. Emotional complications are just that – complicated. That is, until she rescues a rare white swallow… who might have just flown in to change her life. Because, when her...

Harley loses everything when his master dies — his home, his best friend, his reason for living. Day after day, he trudges the streets, trembling from the biting cold, whimpering from the gnawing hunger.  

An “astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants), focusing on women navigating relationships with humans, animals, and the natural world. Exploring the way our choices and...

The attacks of the huge wolf Gray Cloud have caused the remarkable price of $2,500 to be put on his head. And it falls to big Dave Reagan, considered little better than a half-wit in that part of the rangeland, to discover the monster held fast in two of his traps. Something in the fearless...

Ubushi's vision had found a place in the heart of his community. Although he had died, his vision had acquired visible hands and legs. His bosom friend had been elected president. The president's sudden disappearance and foray into other lands had elicited a measure of rebellion. As expected...

In this entertaining collection, dogs of all kinds are brought to life. Working dogs, dogs who are mistreated by humans, dogs who save lives and the ones that make us laugh; they all leap and bound in stories by our most accomplished writers, including Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Jack London and Jerome K. Jerome.