No Buddy Left Behind: Bringing U.S. Troops' Dogs and Cats Safely Home from the Combat Zone
10 best books like No Buddy Left Behind: Bringing U.S. Troops' Dogs and Cats Safely Home from the Combat Zone (Terri Crisp): I'm a Good Dog: Pit Bulls, America's Most Beautiful (and Misunderstood) Pet, The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life, Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself, Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter, Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Determined to Kill Me, Letters From Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Love and Friendship, One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand - An Inspiring True Story, Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles
| Author | Ken Foster |
| ISBN | 0670026204 |
Filled with inspiring stories and photographs, this heartfelt tribute to the pit bull celebrates one of America’s most popular yet misunderstood dogs.
Perhaps more than any other breed, the pit bull has been dogged by negative stereotypes. In truth, pit bulls are innately wonderful family...
An inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued, and can rescue in return.
With her critically acclaimed, bestselling first book, Scent of the Missing, Susannah Charleson was widely praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through her work...
| Author | Steven Kotler |
| ISBN | 1608190021 |
Steven Kotler was forty years old and facing an existential crisis—which made him not too different from just about every other middle-aged guy in Los Angeles. Then he met Joy, a woman devoted to the cause of canine rescue. "Love me, love my dogs," was her rule, and not having any better ideas, Steven...
| Author | Julie Klam |
| ISBN | 1594488282 |
The bestselling memoirist shows how saving a dog can sometimes help you save yourself. Julie Klam writes about dogs with a rollicking wit and a radiating warmth-as no other writer can. In her bestselling memoir You Had Me at Woof, she shared the secrets of happiness she learned as an occasionally frazzled...
Elizabeth Hess, a journalist and former art critic, walked into the Columbia Greene Animal Shelter in upstate New York looking for a new dog. Touched by the animals' plight and the dedication of the workers, she began to volunteer at the shelter on a regular basis. In Lost and Found, Hess brings you behind...
| Author | Jenny Gardiner |
| ISBN | 1439157618 |
A gift from an overseas relative, Graycie, an African Gray parrot, arrives in the Gardiner home not long after the birth of their first child, adding the responsibilities of parrot-hood to their newfound parenthood. Jenny Gardiner and her husband were hoping for a docile, beautifully plumed, Polly-want-a-cracker...
| Author | Kerstin Lieff |
| ISBN | 0762777982 |
A New York Times Bestseller
When Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II, she and her younger brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. Like countless citizens under Hitler’s regime, Margarete struggled to understand what was happening...
In a remote outpost of Now Zad, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, Pen Farthing and his troop of young Royal Marines survive frequent engagements with the Taliban and forge links with the local community. Pen's tour of duty will change his life forever, but for entirely unexpected reasons ...
Appalled...
| Author | Cathy Scott |
| ISBN | 0470228512 |
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many animals had to fend for themselves because their owners lost them or were unable to care for them. In Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, Cathy Scott documents her experience working with the Best Friends Animal Society triage center to...
| Author | Rescue Ink |
| ISBN | 0670021164 |
The true story of ten tough and tattooed bikers who rescue animals in danger
Using their combined 1700 pounds of muscle, Joe, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Eric, Des, Bruce and Robert stop at nothing within the bounds of the law to save animals, be they furred, feathered, or scaled, from...
| Author | Lissa Warren |
| ISBN | 0762791764 |
Lissa Warren’s father needed a retirement companion while his wife and daughter were at work. Enter Ting, a seven-pound Korat who changed his life, and the life of the family. All kittens are mischievous, but Ting “the cat grenade” was real trouble. She was also smart, endearing, and the soul...
| Author | Mike Dowling |
| ISBN | 1451635966 |
“In Iraq we put our lives in each other’s hands (and paws) day after day. We took care of each other no matter what. Rex and I have a bond that will last for the rest of our born days. If ever there was a marine who lived up to Semper Fidelis, the motto of the Marine Corps, it’s Rex.” Deployed to Iraq’s...
| Author | Lisa Rogak |
| ISBN | 1250009464 |
Military working dogs gained widespread attention after Cairo participated in the SEAL Team 6 mission that led to Osama bin Laden's death. Before that, few civilians realized that dogs served in combat, let alone that they could parachute from thirty thousand feet up.
The Dogs of War reveals...
Who's That Dog? 35 Fabulous Rescues That Found Their Forever Homes
Who’s That Dog features portraits of 35 beautiful rescue dogs in a unique way. For each dog in the book there are two photographs. In the first image, we see the mystery dog from behind, and learn their story in their own voice. In the following photograph, we see the front of the dog, where they reveal...
| Author | Jim Gorant |
| ISBN | 1592407315 |
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Lost Dogs shares the heartwarming tale of one plucky, unwanted pit bull who achieved international celebrity.
Today, Wallace is a champion. But in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit bull–breeding...
| Author | Jon Katz |
| ISBN | 0345502698 |
In Soul of a Dog, Izzy & Lenore, A Good Dog, and other acclaimed works, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz has written meaningfully about the cherished bond between humans and animals—especially our intense connection to our pets. Now, in this moving and thoughtful book, Katz addresses...
A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way
She thought she was rescuing an abandoned puppy. Turns out, he was rescuing her.
The last thing Lisa Edwards needed was a new dog. But when she came across an abandoned litter on Halloween, her heart went out to the runt who walked into walls and couldn't steady his feet. Lisa—healing from past...
| Author | Maria Goodavage |
| ISBN | 0525952780 |
A leading dog-blogger offers a tour of military working dogs' extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impacts they have on those who work with them.
People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team...
| Author | Bob Nelson |
| ISBN | 0762792957 |
Bob Nelson was no ordinary T.V. repairman. One day he discovered a book that ultimately changed his entire life trajectory --The Prospect of Immortality by Professor Robert Ettinger. From it, he learned about cryonics: a process in which the body temperature is lowered during the beginning of the...
The Battle of Okinawa: The Blood and the Bomb
| Author | George Feifer |
| ISBN | 1585742155 |
A definitive book on the horrific Battle of Okinawa which was fought from April to June, 1945. My dad fought in this battle and was surprised that he survived. He didn't speak much about it, but I believe it haunted him his whole life.
George Feifer carefully researched the book. this is a nonfiction,...
Angelo's Journey: A Border Collie's Quest for Home
A Border Collie is brutally kidnapped. He escapes his captor and starts the long journey home, meeting a truck driver, a long-abused wife, a Marine, a cowboy and two grandmothers. Their lives will never be the same after meeting Angelo. Sometimes, all it takes to avert a disaster is the light touch of...
| Author | Christine Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0312596286 |
Set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, Saving Cinnamon chronicles the love story of Navy Reservist Mark Feffer and a stray puppy he bonded with while stationed outside of Kandahar. When Mark is about to return stateside, he decides to adopt Cinnamon and sets up her transport back to the...
| Author | Nick Trout |
| ISBN | 0767932005 |
Tender, wry, and ruminative, Ever By My Side is a tribute to the power and beauty of ordinary life and a celebration of how pets make it all the sweeter and richer.
"The lessons that these animals taught me have been subtle, startling, and inspirational, playing a small but vital part in helping...
| Author | Mary D. Midkiff |
| ISBN | 0385335008 |
From a renowned horsewoman and gifted storyteller comes this groundbreaking new book that explores a powerful relationship like no other: the magical kinship between women and horses.
Drawing from myth and literature, the author’s own experiences, and interviews with countless women,...
