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Out of Practice is based around a large country medical practice, which proves to be a hotbed of rivalry, resentment and romance - and that's just the doctors. Think James Herriot meets House.

Alice Bright has a great life. She has a job she adores, a devoted family and friends she'd lay down her life for. But when tragedy strikes, she finds her whole world turned upside down.

Nothing is going right for Ellena Blackwood. She is failing at life and teetering on an emotional collapse. When she accidentally discovers a secret at work, a secret the Home Office is willing to keep at any price, she has must rely on her wits to save her own life.

When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the 19th century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell.

A beautiful horse grows from a young foal into a working cab-puller, journeying from the fields where he was born to the streets of London. This charming family favourite about kindness and empathy is narrated by journalist and presenter Angela Rippon....

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.

Black Beauty is born with a fine coat, a white foot, and a silver star on his forehead. As a foal he spends the days with his mother in an idyllic paradise until a vicious groom injures him, and his beloved owners have no choice but to sell him. As he passes from owner to owner he faces cruelty and hardship, as well as compassion and kindness. Through it all–all his struggles to survive–Black Beauty refuses to let his spirit be broken. Will he ever find the happiness and peace he craves?

Após uma infância feliz ao lado de sua mãe, um lindo cavalo preto é usado nas carruagens de uma família rica. Mas quando esse animal sofre uma fratura, ele rapidamente é considerado incapaz e passa de mão em mão... Sempre empenhado em fazer seu melhor, ele logo descobre a verdadeira natureza do ser humano.

Opowiadania o zwierzętach - kot, pies, niedźwiadek, lis, ptaki, a wreszcie gady, płazy, owady... Wszystkie odznaczają się sprytem, energią, są wszędobylskie i doskonale wiedzą, jak sobie poradzić. Przygody zawadiackich zwierząt, niejednokrotnie zachowujących się jak ludzie, zaadresowane zostały do dorosłych czytelników. Prezes Wiewiórczej Kasy Oszczędności, urocze zwierzątko, jadające wyłącznie smakołyki; Wobo - kotka, która jest mistrzynią uwodzenia; pochodzący z tajgi niedźwiadek przywodzący na myśl uroczego brzdąca.

Da sempre, il cane richiama a sé l'icona del più fedele amico dell'uomo, il confidente silenzioso che cristallizza l'anima più pura dell'umanità; eppure, quasi mai il cane assume un ruolo davvero autonomo rispetto al suo padrone. Nella novella Pallino e Mimi di Luigi Pirandello, il cane diventa il protagonista e si trasforma in un osservatorio privilegiato per un'analisi spietata del decoro piccolo borghese.