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Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance

10 best books like Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance (Janice Gary): The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa, Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales of Police Dog JJ and His Two-Legged Partner, Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family, Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories, The Preaching Life, The Dogs of Avalon: The Race to Save Animals in Peril, Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park, Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present, Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love, Between Panic and Desire

The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
AuthorJosh Swiller
ISBN0805082107
A young man's quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence

These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world and amplify them." Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the...
Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales of Police Dog JJ and His Two-Legged Partner
AuthorAdam David Russ
ISBN0762785381
He was born in rural Missouri, and it was immediately clear that he was different from the rest. He caught his first criminal when he was just two years old. By his sixth birthday, he had located burglars, rapists, drug dealers, missing children, and murderers—including Utah’s most wanted criminal....
Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family
AuthorVeronica Chater
ISBN0393066037
It is 1972, and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church, inviting the Holy Chastisement—an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima, Portugal. To spare his family this horror, Veronica's father quits the highway patrol,...
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories
AuthorKatha Pollitt
ISBN1400063329
Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of stories drawn from the author's own life.
With deep feeling and sharp insight, Pollitt...
The Preaching Life
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
In her bestselling preaching autobiography Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church. In this warm and poignant collection, Barbara Brown Taylor’s humor and wisdom delve into the meaning of Christian symbols and history—both...
The Dogs of Avalon: The Race to Save Animals in Peril
AuthorLaura Schenone
ISBN0393073580
Greyhounds, bred to be the fastest racing dogs on earth, are streaks of lightning. Beautiful, astonishing creatures, tens of thousands of them have been abandoned and destroyed every year once they can no longer compete and win.

The Dogs of Avalon introduces us to the strong-willed Marion...
Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park
AuthorMatthew Gilbert
ISBN1250014220
“Dog enthusiasts will flock to this entertaining account of an unlikely canine lover’s ascent into full-fledged member of the neighborhood dog park…"–Publishers Weekly

Off the Leash is a group portrait of dog people, specifically the strange, wonderful, neurotic, and eccentric...
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
AuthorLex Williford
ISBN1416531742
From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism - this unique, indispensable anthology brings together fifty unforgettable works from all genres of creative nonfiction. Selected by five hundred writers, English professors, and creative writing teachers from across the country,...
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
AuthorDebra Gwartney
ISBN0547054475
An intensely emotional and redemptive memoir about a mother's mission to rescue her runaway daughters

 

After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family....
Between Panic and Desire
AuthorDinty W. Moore
“Insouciant” and “irreverent” are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore’s books—and, invariably, “hilarious.” Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds Moore at the top of his astutely funny form. A book that could be named after...
Wild Among Us: True Adventures of a Female Wildlife Photographer Who Stalks Bears, Wolves, Mountain Lions, Wild Horses and Other Elusive Wildlife
AuthorPat Toth-Smith
ISBN0989251330
2014 USA Best Book Award for narrative non-fiction and bronze medal winner eLit Awards, 2013 gold medal winner Living Now Awards, March 2014 #1 book of the month Stevo's internet reviews, June 2013 book of the month Pacific book review. "My book helps people to face their fears and do things they never...
Little Boy Blue: A Puppy's Rescue from Death Row and His Owner's Journey for Truth
AuthorKim Kavin
ISBN0764165267
When journalist Kim Kavin decided that she wanted a puppy, she did what millions of people do every year: clicked on an online photo and submitted an application. She had no idea that the adorable brindle puppy—advertised as healthy and near her home in New Jersey—was actually a last-minute rescue...
Weekends with Daisy
AuthorSharron Kahn Luttrell
ISBN1451686234
“A heartwarming and utterly charming story about empathy, hope, and letting go. Weekends with Daisy shows us how loving a dog can make us all a little more human.” —Lisa Genova, NYT bestselling author of Still Alice and Love, Anthony

“Moving… with candor that will win over readers.”...
I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home
AuthorShoshana Johnson
ISBN1416570284
Specialist Shoshana Johnson, a member of the 507th Maintenance Company, was captured during an ambush in the early days of the Iraq war and held prisoner until she and her fellow Soldiers were rescued by the Marines. Johnson's story, which was largely ignored at the time because Jessica Lynch became...
Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life
AuthorPhilip Gerard
Gerard covers everything from getting the assignment to conducting a stirring interview to working with an editor - including how to go "where the story lives" to experience the first-hand emotional facts - sights, smells, sounds - that will give your story immediacy; find the right form for the story...
Chasing Misery: an anthology of essays by women in humanitarian responses
AuthorKelsey Hoppe
“What motivates any of us to do the work we do? And more importantly does that work make a difference?” This is the question film producer and founder of filmaid.org, Caroline Baron, reflects on when she calls Chasing Misery an “unblinking” account of what it’s like to be a woman on the front...
The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
AuthorLee Gutkind
ISBN0471113565
A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction—from one of its pioneer practitioners

The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction. In this one-of-a-kind...
Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story
AuthorLibby Riddles
ISBN0811722538
Libby Riddles wanted an adventure. At the age of 16 she left home for the snowy frontiers of Alaska, the Last Frontier. There her love of animals drew her to the sport of sled dog racing. When she entered the Iditarod, the famous marathon from Anchorage to Nome, she was just another Iditarod Nobody. Twelve...
Bespotted: My Family's Love Affair with Thirty-Eight Dalmatians
AuthorLinda Gray Sexton
ISBN1619023458
The Sexton family's long love affair with the Dalmatian began in Linda's childhood. There, on a snowy morning in the family home just outside Boston, LInda heard a whimpering coming from the basement. She discovered their first family dog giving birth to a litter. Witnessing the intimate act of birth...
The Ghost Horse: A True Story of Love, Death, and Redemption
AuthorJoe Layden
ISBN0312643322
In The Ghost Horse, Joe Layden tells the inspiring true tale of a one-eyed, club-footed thoroughbred racehorse and a journeyman trainer, Tim Snyder, who scraped together every penny he had to purchase the broken and unwanted filly. Snyder helped the horse overcome its deficiencies, eventually naming...
Secret Language of Dogs: Stories From a Dog Psychic
AuthorJocelyn Kessler
ISBN1571746838
Have you ever wondered what your dog is thinking? Dog trainer, healer, and counselor, Jocelyn Kessler, asserts that while your dog does not speak English, he or she is communicating with you all of the time.

In The Secret Language of Dogs, Kesler explains the importance of learning how to listen...
What Lies Across the Water
AuthorStephen Kimber
ISBN1552665429
Is the man who blows up an airplane and kills dozens of civilians a murderous terrorist... or a valiant freedom fighter? Is the man who tries to stop the bomber a threat to national security... or a hero of the people?
It depends.
What Lies Across the Water is a narrative nonfiction thriller. About...
Let the Tornado Come: A Memoir
AuthorRita Zoey Chin
ISBN1476734860
From an award-winning poet comes this riveting, gorgeous memoir about a young runaway, the trauma that haunted her as an adult, and the friendship with a horse that finally set her free.

When she was eleven years old, Rita began to run away. Her father’s violence and her mother’s hostility...
Rescue Me: Tales of Rescuing the Dogs Who Became Our Teachers, Healers, and Always Faithful Friends
AuthorVal Silver
ISBN1493791451
What happens when thrown away dogs in need of loving homes and humans yearning for unconditional love and canine companionship come together?

Rescue Me shares twelve original inspirational accounts, complete with photos, of ten dog lovers who rescued the dogs who ultimately rescued them....
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