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Most people think The Fox is just a folk tale, designed to lure tourists to their quiet little town on the Appalachian Trail. But kindergarten teacher Lillian Smith is hoping the stories of the white-eared, white-pawed vixen-who brings luck and love to those who see her-are all true. After a chance sighting of the fabled fox, Lillian hopes her hiker boyfriend Owen will finally propose. Instead, he publicly dumps her, claiming she's not adventurous enough. Lillian's determined to prove him wrong. But she sure could use some of that foxy magic to win him back.

Tarzan's courtship of the female ape Teeka ends in failure when her preference turns to their mutual friend, the male ape Taug. Tarzan wrestles with his humanness versus his ape-ness. The allusion to Helen of Troy enriches the story, making Tarzan and Taug's fight over Teeka take on symbolic proportions. Stan Galloway writes: "when Burroughs chooses to name Helen as an objective correlative for Teeka, he expects both literal and emotional connections to occur." Tarzan's final claim of the story - "Tarzan is a man. He will go alone." - echoes the plight of Adam in the Garden of Eden.

Living on in his master's castle, an aging Vidor finds it falling down around him, but continues his nightly assignations and experiments. Added to this is an ever-increasing stream of animal refugees. With no idea how to feed them all, he decides to go into business to make ends meet. Helped by his wise-talking raven Alban, Vidor must thwart a greedy development company from destroying the animals' home. But is he already out of time?

Did you know that O. Henry’s real name was William Syndey Porter? He had many pseudonyms but is most known as "O. Henry". He wrote more than 300 stories and is known for playfully writing a twist at their end. Most of them are based in New York, with characters being average Joes. We hope you enjoy Canarit Audiobooks’ production of Memoirs of a Yellow Dog.

It's the middle of the breeding season in Upstate New York, and the top stallions in Kent Stephenson's veterinary practice are being systematically eliminated by sudden death, rare disease, and mysterious disappearance. Kent, his Redbone hound, Lucinda, and his teenage daughter, Emily, put their lives on the line to find out why. Their investigation leads them from horseracing's seedy underbelly of fixes and doping to the staid aristocracy of Kentucky's famed bluegrass horse farms, struggling to keep their legacy of great stallions.

Je globalisierter die Welt, desto verletzlicher die Menschheit. Zwar weiß das der Homo sapiens, und doch macht er weiter wie eh und je. Er isst zu viel Fleisch, verwendet Pestizide, fährt täglich Auto. Doch eines Tages blasen süße Kätzchen, gutmütige Rinder und scheue Eichhörnchen zum Gegenangriff. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich – und am Ende ist einfach Schluss. Schluss mit lustig, Schluss mit dem alltäglichen Wahnsinn, Schluss mit dem Menschen.

Da Turgenev a Pirandello, da Maupassant a Jack London, da Anton Checov a Kipling, molti grandi scrittori hanno celebrato gli animali domestici che da più tempo vivono insieme a noi. Intelligenti, curiosi, coraggiosi, fedeli, romantici, ma anche permalosi e pasticcioni, i cani e i gatti sono protagonisti di pagine memorabili. Questa antologia spazia tra i generi più diversi e provoca in chi legge una gamma di emozioni sorprendentemente vasta perché una cosa è certa: i nostri amici a quattro zampe non ci deludono mai tantomeno in letteratura.

They might be cold-blooded, but they get the job done. Join these four Lizards in finding out who-done-it before they become a pair of boots. This collection includes Scarlet Crop, The Lamarre Curse, The Persian Penguin, The Crystal Screw, and The Lean Male.

Shadow Dancer is a horse, an all-black, all-Arabian thoroughbred. Her owner, Cody Lang, discovers a murder has taken place on his ranch, and the chief suspect is next-door neighbor Donna Louise Stattler, who had the ribbon found next to the body. An FBI agent, Carol Flynn, comes to the small town of Clark, Montana, to investigate the murder and is amazed to hear the name Stattler. The Stattlers are believed to be the main source of methamphetamine in Montana. Agent Flynn goes after the Stattlers, and Shadow Dancer watches it all come to an explosive climax on the Fourth of July.

Eliza Jacobson has always been the black sheep of her mega-successful family. She loves volunteering to work with the dogs at Pretty Paws, especially Athena, a Great Dane whose high-anxiety habits make her nearly unadoptable. She thinks she may have finally found her Prince Charming and the fairytale life she’s always dreamed of. But when he adopts Athena to use as a mascot, Eliza finds herself shielding the dog from Tony’s temper, and the Great Dane’s anxious behavior mirrors Eliza’s own growing unease. Will Athena’s friendship give Eliza the courage to stand up to Tony?

Join Chatool, Pip, and their new friend Mary, as they follow the disciples and witness the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the stoning of Stephen, and the miraculous transformation of Saul on the Road to Damascus as they learn about the power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers. Gather 'round and listen to A Cat’s Tale of the Holy Spirit.

"Set de llops" és una nena a qui li regalen un cadell, un noi pastor que fa un amic molt especial, un gos que és abandonat a prop d’un bosc, un nen que el dia del seu aniversari reviu un conte de l’àvia, una lloba blanca que es transforma amb la lluna plena, tres llobatons que han de marxar del bosc on viuen i un conte que amaga endevinalles sobre els habitants d’un racó del bosc.

The lizard, known only as the Mainland Detective, investigates a theft of diamonds only to uncover a tangled web of lies and murder seemingly connected to a family curse. The lizard can’t get away from Odette Wembley because every time he solves one issue, another arises.

Filled with gangsters, cops on the take, and a peregrine desperate to reclaim his territory, Ashton teeters on the brink of an all-out gang war. A Mainland Investigations detective is called into town by Paul Mason, who is murdered before briefing the lizard on the case. Pitting faction against faction, and with a target on his own back, the detective must save Ashton before his number is up.

Während Señor Comandante und Frau Sturm alle Pfoten voll zu tun haben, um ein abscheuliches Verbrechen aufzuklären, wundert sich Hund Ben in "Herrchen am Herd" über dubiose Geräusche und Vierbeiner Lino versucht in "Analog oder digital?" seinen Kumpel Bronco für das Thema Social Media zu erwärmen. Was wir mit unseren Hunden erleben und wie sie uns manchmal sagen, wo es langgeht, wird in zehn herrlichen Kurzgeschichten im zweiten Bellotristik-Sammelband "All unDOG control" treffend beschrieben. Geschichten, wie sie nur mit Hund(en) passieren.

Every time I visit Meg’s Meadows, I don’t want to leave, and it’s not just the horses and the people, though I do love them with all my heart. It’s their simple way of living, their down-homeness, the way they revere the elderly and delight in the children. They embrace their differences. If just one of them is in peril or need, it affects everyone. That includes the animals. And isn’t that the way the good Lord intended?

Mit Vollgas ins Glück. Rüde Duke versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Sein Herrchen hat ihn einfach nicht wieder abgeholt aus der Hundepension. Jetzt soll er mit zwei fremden Menschen spazieren gehen, zwischen denen eine komische Spannung herrscht. Das macht ihm Angst – wie so vieles andere auch. Doch je besser Duke Henning und Caroline kennenlernt, desto spannender findet er, was da zwischen ihnen brodelt, und er wünscht sich mit jedem Spaziergang mehr, dass sie drei ein unzertrennliches Team werden.

Una ballena queda atrapada entre las redes de pesca en el mar de Baja California. Para salvarla, cinco personas deciden unir fuerzas: Ámbar, una periodista solitaria, en duelo por el asesinato de su única hermana; el capitán, un hombre de un solo amor; Daniel, amigo de Ámbar; Arión, el viajero intrépido comprometido con el medioambiente; y Mora, la mujer guerrera indígena.

E se una banda di gatti (con l'aiuto di un cane) unisse le proprie forze per salvare delle persone? Due ragazze per la precisione. I felini Ovidio, Roxi, Nero e Pigro sfideranno infatti gli umani e la loro ferocia in questo romanzo avvincente, una vera e propria indagine con i baffi. Graziella Ardizzone (1934) è una scrittrice italiana. Laureata in lettere e medicina, ha lavorato a lungo come chirurgo in un ospedale torinese. Da scrittrice, ha esplorato il mondo di quella che è sicuramente una delle sue più grandi passioni: i gatti.

Wer ist die Bestie - der Wolf oder der Mensch? Inti Flynn kommt nach Schottland, um bei der Wiederansiedlung von Wölfen in den Highlands zu helfen. Als Wissenschaftlerin weiß sie, dass die wilden Tiere die einzige Rettung für die zerstörte Landschaft sind. Als Frau hofft sie auf einen Neuanfang. Sie ist nicht mehr die, die sie einst war, hat sich von den Menschen zurückgezogen. Denn die Wolfsbiologin besitzt die seltene Fähigkeit, Gefühle von anderen Lebewesen körperlich nachzuempfinden. Doch die Gewalt, die Inti aus Alaska vertrieb, holt sie ein.