A Matter of Breeding: A Biting History of Pedigree Dogs and How the Quest for Status Has Harmed Man's Best Friend
10 best books like A Matter of Breeding: A Biting History of Pedigree Dogs and How the Quest for Status Has Harmed Man's Best Friend (Michael Brandow): Julie of the Wolves, The Lost World, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Owls in the Family, Meaty, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Mrs. Pollifax on Safari, The Tale of Mr. Tod, The Orange Fairy Book, Mystery of the Green Cat
Julie of the Wolves
| Author | Jean Craighead George |
| ISBN | 0064400581 |
Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by...
The Lost World
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0812967259 |
Everyone...the intrepid, the indefatigable, the insufferable Professor G.E. Challenger…
If, like me, you enjoy characters that are gruff, prideful curmudgeonly...
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247714 |
Beatrix Potter's famous tale of a naughty squirrel who loses his tail is as popular today as it was when it was first published over 100 years ago. Join Nutkin, his brother Twinkleberry and all his cousins as they make their...
Owls in the Family
| Author | Farley Mowat |
| ISBN | 0440413613 |
Meaty
| Author | Samantha Irby |
| ISBN | 0988480425 |
Mrs. McGinty's Dead
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 1572707313 |
Alas, Mrs. McGinty; we hardly knew you.
Really. I mean that. She was a widow, a woman who cleaned houses and took in lodgers to make ends meet; had a niece whom she saw at holidays, and was perhaps a bit of a nosy parker; nothing extraordinary to fill the obituary. When Inspector Spence visits...
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
| Author | Dorothy Gilman |
| ISBN | 0449215245 |
“Just take a lot of pictures of everyone on that safari,” the CIA man told her. “One of them has to be our man.”
It sounded simple enough....
The Tale of Mr. Tod
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0723247838 |
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486219097 |
Look! The black characters get illustrated heroically and everything:
Hooray!
On the other hand, there are quite a few of those stories that...
Mystery of the Green Cat
| Author | Phyllis A. Whitney |
| ISBN | 0664321607 |
What is the secret of the green cat? Why does it mean so much to the strange people who live next door?
Why is the old baroness kept a prisoner there in the gloomy old mansion?
Andy...
The Tightrope Walker
| Author | Dorothy Gilman |
When the quiet and shy Amelia Jones reads these words, her life changes irrevocably. She’s just become the new owner of the Ebbtide Shop, a musty antique store filled with merry-go-round horses and hurdy-gurdies, and it is while fixing one of these...
You Don't Look Your Age...and Other Fairy Tales
| Author | Sheila Nevins |
| ISBN | 1250111323 |
“Thank you to Sheila Nevins for putting all this down for posterity. Women need this kind of honest excavation of the process of living.” —Meryl Streep
An astonishingly frank, funny, poignant book for any woman who wishes they had someone...