Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
By: Joseph Robertia
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Winner of Dog Writer's Association of America Best Rescue or Adoption and Dogwise Best Book Award …
Want to Read $ 16.99"All puppies have a reputation for kinetics, but huskies are in a league of their own. They’re like cans of energy drink come to life."-Joseph Robertia, Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
"All puppies have a reputation for kinetics, but huskies are in a league of their own. They’re like cans of energy drink come to life."-Joseph Robertia, Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
"Basically, the formula for success requires – demands, really – truly getting to know the dogs on such a personal level that when you look at them, you begin to look past the flaws and see what their strengths are and create success with what you have, not what you wish you had. You don’t see tools that are disposable; you see teammates that are indispensable and irreplaceable."-Joseph Robertia, Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
"Basically, the formula for success requires – demands, really – truly getting to know the dogs on such a personal level that when you look at them, you begin to look past the flaws and see what their strengths are and create success with what you have, not what you wish you had. You don’t see tools that are disposable; you see teammates that are indispensable and irreplaceable."-Joseph Robertia, Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
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1. Carnegie's Maid
By: Marie Benedict
3.98
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
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2. Finding Gobi: The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey
By: Dion Leonard
3.86
Format: 568 pages,
A man, a dog, and the lengths to which love will go to sacrifice for its companion. Finding Gobi is… read more
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3. A Voyage for Madmen
By: Peter Nichols
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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4. The Elephant Whisperer
By: None , Graham Spence , Lawrence Anthony
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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5. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By: Tracy Kidder
4.19
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned… read more
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"Doctors are notorious for taking peculiar views of their own bodies. They tend to develop hypochondria in medical school and, once they get over it, if they do, tend to think they're invulnerable."-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It’s what separate…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"Paul is the model of what should be done. He's not a model for how it has to be done. Let's celebrate him. Let's make sure people are inspired by him. But we can't say anybody should or could be just…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
"The parents of some fellow students in the gifted and talented class owned a bookstore, and when he was about eleven they gave him a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. He read i…"-Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
6. Running With Scissors
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more
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"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
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"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
7. Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm
By: Jon Katz
4.11
Format: 70 pages,
In Dog Days, Jon Katz, the squire of Bedlam Farm, allows us to live our dreams of leaving the city … read more
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8. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
By: None
4.12
Format: 288 pages,
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9. Where the Heart Is
By: Billie Letts
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. A Place to Hang the Moon
By: Kate Albus
4.57
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
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"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
11. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
By: Elizabeth Letts
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more
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"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
12. The Orphan Collector
By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
4.24
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia… read more
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"May God forgive you for what you’ve done."-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector
"Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws."-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector
13. The Fox Wife
By: Yangsze Choo
4.01
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
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14. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
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4.27
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15. Deadly Cross (Alex Cross, #28)
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4.28
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Diary of a Dumpster Pup: How a cat lover saved the life of an abandoned newborn puppy. A true story.
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4.44
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Ten puppies, just hours old, are found abandoned in a Dumpster. How could anyone be so cruel? This … read more
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17. Quietly Hostile: Essays
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3.70
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"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
18. The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir
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4.53
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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19. Blowback
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4.26
Format: 513 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. On the Rooftop
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3.23
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A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides wit… read more
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21. Three Women Disappear: With bonus novel Come and Get Us
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3.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Three women fled the scene -- but did one commit the crime?When mob accountant Anthony Costello, ne… read more
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22. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
By: Rick Bragg
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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23. A Spanish Sunrise
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4.23
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24. Shelterwood
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3.88
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25. Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want Kids (…Until I Did)
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4.52
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26. American Daughter
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4.14
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4.50
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"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran
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29. There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
By: Casey Gerald
3.73
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"And the primary if not only difference between the liberals and the illiberals on this issue is that the American alt-right and France's National Front and Germany's National Democratic Party (I have…"-Casey Gerald, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
30. Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
By: Joseph Robertia
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
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"All puppies have a reputation for kinetics, but huskies are in a league of their own. They’re like cans of energy drink come to life."-Joseph Robertia, Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
"Basically, the formula for success requires – demands, really – truly getting to know the dogs on such a personal level that when you look at them, you begin to look past the flaws and see what their…"-Joseph Robertia, Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
"What I do know for certain is that there are moments in time that resonate, staying with you forever. For me, that infamous training run stands out as one of them. I glimpsed divinity and understood …"-Joseph Robertia, Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
"The wail of the savage winds devoured all sounds, including any commands to the front of the team, and the snow – getting deeper and deeper – felt on the verge of swallowing us. Even the dogs had a c…"-Joseph Robertia, Life with Forty Dogs: Misadventures with Runts, Rejects, Retirees, and Rescues
31. Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska
By: Tom Kizzia
4.04
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
We all have ghost towns. Impermanent places we dream of returning to. Here was Alaska’s. In 1938… read more
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