The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout
10 best books like The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout (Jill Abramson): 13 Treasures, The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing, First the Dead, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, The Good Luck Cat: How a Cat Saved a Family, and a Family Saved a Cat, Icefire, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Child of the Owl, The Raven, Finding Harmony
| Author | Michelle Harrison |
| ISBN | 0316041483 |
No one else can see the evil fairies that rouse Tanya from her sleep, torturing her at the slightest mention of their existence, but they are as real to the 13-year-old as anything she's ever known. She cannot rid herself of them, nor can she ignore them. But it is her insistence on responding to them that...
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 | Tim Downs |
| ISBN | 1595540245 |
When a national disaster strikes, "first the living" is the rule.
Unless you're the Bug Man.
When Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans, forensic entomologist Nick Polchak signs up to help with the recovery effort. He is known as the Bug Man for his knowledge of insects and what they can reveal...
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything
Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life
Readers of all ages have followed...
| 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 | Judith Reeves-Stevens |
"The most destructive natural disaster in history isn't "natural...."THE PLACE
Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf. A floating slab of solid ice the size of France, more than 3,000 feet thick.
THE EVENT
On Thanksgiving weekend, six precisely placed nuclear warheads buried...
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
| Author | Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice |
| ISBN | 1417920319 |
Mrs. Wiggs' life has been anything but easy. Her husband died of alcohol, her farm burned to the ground and now she struggles in her everyday fight to "pull agin' a debt." Her five children, Jimmy, Billy and the geographically named Asia, Australia and Europena, rely on her for encouragement and love...
Twelve-year-old Casey is waiting for the day that Barney, her father, hits it big -- 'cause when that horse comes in, he tells her, it's the penthouse suite. But then he ends up in the hospital, and Casey is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother, Paw-Paw. Now the waiting seems longer than ever....
| Author | Mike Nappa |
| ISBN | 0800726456 |
As part of his regular street performance, a deception specialist who goes by the name The Raven picks his audience's pockets while they watch. It's harmless fun--until he decides to keep the spare wallet a city councilman doesn't seem to miss, hoping for a few extra bucks. When he finds not money but...
Heartwarming, inspirational and genuinely touching, Finding Harmony is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary dog that rescued a woman from the depths of depression and transformed a family for ever.A keen mountaineer, Sally Hyder was in her prime and loving life. She shared her passion for...
