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And Tango Makes Three

By Justin Richardson

When male penguins Silo and Roy attempt to hatch an egg–shaped rock and find no success in their efforts, the zookeepers decide to place a fertilized penguin egg in their cage and end up with little baby Tango, in an amusing tale based on a true story from the Central Park Zoo.

Art of Racing in the Rain

By Garth Stein
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian
With Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference, Lisa Jones, Readers' Services Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian, Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“He Said, She Said” Book Discussion
Join us for a special evening to celebrate a year of great books and discussions.

Monday, December 19, 2011. 7:30 PM.

Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher’s soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe’s maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.

Biloxi: A Novel

By Mary Miller
Recommended By Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Newly single, retired, and waiting for an inheritance that may never come, sixty-three-year-old Louis McDonald makes the impulsive, life-changing decision to adopt a dog.

Blacksad

By Juan Diaz Canales

Presents three stories in which John Blacksad, private investigator, attempts to find the murderer of an old lover, investigate child abductors, and discover nuclear secrets in the 1950s Red Scare.

Boleto

By Alyson Hagy

Pursuing fame by training a quarter horse filly, Will Testerman spends his savings in an effort that brings horse and man from his Wyoming home to an Absaroka Mountains ranch before their arrival in the polo fields of Southern California.

Call of the Wild

By Jack London
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A classic novel of adventure, drawn from London’s own experiences as a Klondike adventurer, relating the story of a heroic dog caught in the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush.

Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations

By Jeffrey Brown
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

A collection of comics based on the author’s cat, depicting its antics as it eats, plays, purrs and engages in other distinctively feline behaviors.

Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

By Lilian Jackson Braun
Series Cat Who Mysteries

When Iris Cobb, who claimed ghosts were haunting the farmhouse museum, dies under mysterious circumstances, Jim Qwilleran decides to investigate.

Chinese Whiskers

By Pallavi Aiyar

A fable set in contemporary Beijing and told from the perspectives of two cats from disparate backgrounds who are adopted by foreigners traces how their newly pampered lives are threatened when cats are blamed for the spread of a mysterious virus.

Cujo

By Stephen King

A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.

 

Became the movie: Cujo.

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By Mark Haddon
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor’s dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

Dark Horses

By Susan Mihalic
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery struggles to reclaim her life from her abusive father, who demands strict obedience in all aspects of her life inside and outside of the riding arena.

Dog I Loved

By Susan Wilson
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

A wounded war veteran and Rosie, a woman wrongly imprisoned for murdering her husband, bond over training a service dog and vow to get Rosie out of jail.

Dog Master

By W. Bruce Cameron

Years after an ice age tribe leader tames a hungry wolf, a boy shunned from his people for his disability forges an inseparable bond with a wolf cub who helps him to survive in an enemy-controlled, environmentally extreme world.

Dog On It

By Spencer Quinn
Series Chet and Bernie Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“At last, a dog lover's mystery that portrays dogs as they really are… Quinn's characters are endearing, and his narrative is intriguing, fast-moving, and well written (Library Journal Review).”

Dog’s Purpose

By W. Bruce Cameron

Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray.

Dog’s Purpose

By W. Bruce Cameron
Recommended By Meghan F., Children's Services Librarian

Searching for his purpose over the course of multiple canine lives, Bailey is reborn as a golden-haired puppy after a tragic death as a stray and shares a loving bond with young Ethan before he again dies and starts over.

Elephant Keeper

By Christopher Nicholson

Appointed the guardian of a pair of ailing elephants who have been brought to eighteenth-century England from India, sensitive twelve-year-old Tom nurses the duo back to health.

Elephant's Journey

By Jose Saramago

The tale of an elephant named Solomon who travels through sixteenth century Europe, from Lisbon to Vienna.

Family Affair

By Debbie Macomber

Keeping a low profile after a painful divorce, Lacey Lancaster spurns the advances of her handsome neighbor, Jack Walker, in spite of their cats' mutual attraction.

Fish Tales

By Stephen C. Lundin

The book draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market.

Hannah’s Dream

By Diane Hammond
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Having devotedly cared for a lone elephant at a dilapidated zoo for more than forty years, Samson hopes to be able to retire when he hires promising assistant Neva, who forces Samson to acknowledge that the elephant also needs the company of her kind (From the Publisher).”

Hatching

By Ezekiel Boone
Series Hatching

A series of bizarre manifestations around the world, from a human-eating black mass in the Peru jungle and a baffling plane crash in America to unusual seismic patterns in Kanpur and a nuclear accident in China, lead to the discovery of the emergence of an ancient dormant species. Series: The Hatching

Jaws

By Peter Benchley
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When three people are killed by a great white shark in three different incidents, the police chief of a Long Island resort town is forced to take action.

 

Became the movie: Jaws.

Jewish Dog

By Asher Kravitz
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

The Jewish Dog is the story of Caleb, a unique dog born in Germany in 1935. When events separate him from his Jewish owners, he is adopted by a Nazi family, employed by the SS as a military dog, and witnesses first-hand the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. It is a story of heroism, survival, and brave friendship, told from the perspective of an intelligent creature who views the world from only 20 inches above the ground, yet who sees more clearly than many humans. Deeply ironic and even humorous, The Jewish Dog wonders what, if anything, distinguishes man from dog.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

By Richard Bach

More concerned with the dynamics of his flight than with gathering food, Jonathan is scorned by the other seagulls.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

By Richard Bach
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

A redesigned edition of the inspirational classic follows the self-discovery journey of a bird whose love for flight and determination to follow his heart enables him to exceed his potential and become a model for other misfits.

Labrador Pact

By Matt Haig
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Struggling with the typical throes of human life with the help of their loyal black Labrador, Prince, the Hunter family is aided in unusual ways by their canine friend when he perceives that they are becoming their own worst enemies (From the Publisher).”

Lion is In

By Delia Ephron
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Escaping from their personal lives and taking refuge in a nightclub, a runaway bride, a recovering alcoholic, and a downtrodden minister’s wife adopt a retired circus lion and spend their days waitressing until the past catches up with them.

Looking for a Love Story

By Louise Shaffer
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Francesca has lost her way, but just might be able to discover who she is meant to be with the help of a very special dog – and a love story from the past (From the Publisher).”

Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts

By Lucy Dillon
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

After losing both her job and her boyfriend, Rachel takes over the care of her late aunt’s beloved border collie and the daily operations of her crowded rescue kennel, despite knowing nothing about dogs.

Lucky Dog Matchmaking Service

By Beth Kendrick

A dog trainer moves in with her mother after a breakup and is overwhelmed by demands for her services by members of their wealthy, gated community in this new novel from the author of The Bake-Off.

One Good Dog

By Susan Wilson

The very definition of a hard-nosed businessman, Adam March has no room in his life for anything but the cold drive to succeed. Not for his social-climbing wife or for his rebellious teenage daughter. then, in an instant, he loses everything, and Adam finds himself alone, unemployed, and reduced to bussing tables in a homeless shelter. Then he meets a dog.

Our Iceberg Is Melting

By John P. Kotter

Kotter presents his framework for an effective corporate change initiative through the tale of a colony of Antarctic penguins facing danger–inspired, perhaps, by today's real–life global warming crisis.

Patron Saint of Lost Dogs

By Nick Trout
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"Returning home to Eden Falls, Vermont, to revive his late father’s veterinary practice and then quickly sell it, Cyrus Mills finds his plans changing when he beings feeling invested in the community and the relationships he forms (From the Publisher)."

Pet Sematary

By Stephen King

When a little boy's pet dies, and he persuades his parents to bury it in an old Indian cemetary, reputed by legend to house restless spirits, a nightmare of death and destruction begins.

Remarkably Bright Creatures

By Shelby Van Pelt
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Donna Burger, Readers' Services Librarian, Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

After her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18 year–old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.

Seven Perfect Things

By Catherine Ryan Hyde
Recommended By Lisa V., Library Clerk

Rescuing seven puppies from a nearby river, 13-year-old Abby, whose cruel father makes life miserable, hides the puppies in an abandoned cabin where she meets a grieving widower named Elliot who helps her — and her mother — find the courage to be free.

Sneaky Pie for President

By Rita Mae Brown

In a story written from Sneaky Pie's perspective, the intrepid feline sleuth temporarily halts her busy writing career to run for President, a campaign marked by a revolutionary animal-rights agenda and a frisky flock of prospective cabinet members.

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

By David Sedaris

An original collection of humorous fables features animals with unmistakably human failings, including a cynical cat struggling to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings, and a pair of lovers separated by prejudiced family members.

Story of Edgar Sawtelle

By David Wroblewski

A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.

Swarm

By Frank Schatzing

A mysterious and intelligent life force called the Yrr takes control of various forms of marine life to exact revenge on all humankind for its environmental abuses, as whales begin sinking ships, toxic eyeless crabs poison Long Island’s water supply, and a deadly tsunami devastates the coastal regions of the world.

Thereby Hangs a Tail

By Spencer Quinn
Series Chet and Bernie Mysteries
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

“A follow-up to Dog On It finds the human-and-canine investigative team endeavoring to rescue an abducted show dog, a case that is complicated by reporter Susie Sanchez's disappearance and Chet's separation from Bernie (From the Publisher).”

True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

By Jon Scieszka

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

Two Good Dogs

By Susan Wilson
Series One good dog series
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

A worried mother takes her withdrawn teenage daughter, Cody, to a new town to get a fresh start by opening a bed and breakfast, where Cody bonds with a rescued pit bull, but a terrifying secret she is keeping could threaten their lives.

Unsaid

By Neil Abramson
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“After veterinarian Helena Colden dies of breast cancer, she is unable to move on and narrates the emotional deterioration and struggle of her attorney husband David as he becomes involved in a court case to save the life of a chimpanzee (From the Publisher).”

Water for Elephants

By Sara Gruen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell.

West with Giraffes

By Lynda Rutledge

Inspired by true events, this part adventure, part historical saga and part coming–of–age love story follows Woodrow Wilson Nickel as he recalls his journey in 1938 to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo.

What the Cat Saw

By Carolyn Hart
Series Nela Farley Mysteries

A woman able to understand the thoughts of cats becomes an unwitting investigator when her sister's co-worker is murdered and the only witness was her beloved feline.