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When a distraught Scottish veteran from Afghanistan is knocked unconscious, waking up to find his beloved ex-service dog missing, Corinna and her lover, Daniel, find themselves inextricably drawn into the machinations of a notorious underworld gang of drug runners. Corinna and Daniel need to pull together all the strings to find the connections between their wandering Scottish veteran, his kidnapped dog, a student dramatic society that's moved into Corinna's building, burglaries and the threatening notes that begin to mysteriously appear in Corinna's apartment.

When Katie Underwood discovers a litter of abandoned mountain-lion cubs, the last person she expects the zoo to send over is Bowie Wilson, her former crush and high-school bully. And the worst part? He doesn't even remember her. So as soon as they rescue the cougars, Katie plans to permanently part ways with the infuriatingly attractive zookeeper. But a lovelorn camel, a matchmaking honey badger, and a nursemaid capybara have completely different plans.

Une nuit d'été, sur le plateau de Malefougasse, parmi "deux cents hommes et cent mille bêtes", Giono, l'imagination exaltée par des contes flottant au vent des collines, assiste stupéfait à un singulier spectacle, une véritable cérémonie secrète. À la lueur des feux, au son des harpes éoliennes et des flûtes à eau, une dizaine de bergers jouent un drame épique dans une langue tissée de visions, mêlant le provençal, le génois, le corse, le piémontais.

"Il m'est venu l'envie d'écrire un livre doux. Pas vraiment sur les bêtes mais plutôt autour, à propos des rapports que nous avons avec certaines d'entre elles." Anny Duperey.

Pru Marlowe isn't your ordinary animal psychic. A tough girl on the run from her own gift, Pru left the big city to return to her picturesque Berkshires hometown looking for a little peace. Too bad that her training as an animal behaviorist got her mixed up with Lily, a rescue dog, and Charles, the dog’s guardian. Now Charles is dead, and Lily appears to be headed for the same end, for after all, Lily is a pit bull, a fighting-ring dropout.

Pepe may have soft white fur, big brown eyes, and mucho attitude - but he's no furry fashion fad. Pepe can talk - even if his new owner, Geri Sullivan, seems to be the only person who can understand him. When Geri takes on her first assignment for a quirky investigator named Jimmy G and stumbles over a Seattle millionaire's corpse, Pepe proves to be worth his weight in liver treats.

LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd K-9 partner, Sirius, walked through fire to catch an infamous serial killer, and Gideon is still paying the price with his PTSD fire dreams. To assist the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, Gideon has agreed to monthly prison visits with Ellis Haines, a.k.a. the Weatherman. This time, a homicide case the FBI wants Haines to analyze sparks a chilling discovery: A new serial killer has struck, and he's lacing his crime scenes with hidden messages intended for Haines.

Que se passe-t-il quand une championne d'équitation voit son rêve détruit suite à un accident ? La vie de Lucie bascule le jour où elle se fait renverser par une voiture dont le chauffeur prend la fuite. Tourmenté par le remords, ce dernier tentera de se racheter. Handicap, rééducation, culpabilité, espoir et résilience habitent les héros du nouveau et très attendu roman de Laëtitia Milot.

In this 12th entry in the award-winning series, Carolyn Haines' intrepid PI Sarah Booth comes up against porn-star-turned-psychic Sherry Cameron, who runs a medium business from a haunted estate on the edge of town. After growing suspicious that Sherry might be exploiting her emotionally vulnerable - and extremely wealthy - clients, Sarah disguises herself as a maid and sneaks onto Sherry's estate. But what she discovers there is deadlier than she could have imagined.

In The Lightkeepers, we follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one-year residency capturing the landscape. Her only companions are the scientists studying there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions; they document the fish populations around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sisters that hunt the surrounding waters, and the overwhelming bird population....

I tre racconti appartengono al periodo più felice della produzione di Grazia Deledda (Nobel Prize 1926), dal primo al secondo decennio del '900. La Martora: un ragazzino libero e ribelle incontra una donna che vive reclusa in casa, ed entrambi sono conquistati dalla bellezza e dalla dolcezza del piccolo animale, metafora dell'amore perduto.

La gatta di Vania e Nina, due fratellini, ha avuto i micini. L'evento felice offusca tutto il resto.

Ambientato nella regione canadese dello Yukon sul finire dell Ottocento, il romanzo racconta la storia di un lupo nelle cui vene scorre anche sangue di cane...

Tra la famiglia che l'ha trovato, debole e macilento, l'ha rifocillato e guarito, e l'antico padrone che ricompare improvvisamente alla porta, Brown Wolf chi deciderà di seguire?Un racconto tra i più celebri di Jack London.Questo racconto fa parte della raccolta "C'erano una volta un cane e un gatto".

Un incontro tra il fedelissimo cagnolino Liri, la sua padrona, l'infedele Donna Livia e i suoi due amanti.

Nel bel mezzo di un'accesa discussione sull'esistenza del soprannaturale, Porfirji Kapotonic racconta del fantasma canino che tutte le notti, accucciato sotto il suo letto, con i suoi ululati gli impediva di dormire. Ma quel fantasma canino recava un messaggio che gli avrebbe cambiato la vita.

Vor laufender Fernsehkamera bricht die Weinkönigin Monika I. bei einem Weinfest im badischen Irthingen tot zusammen. Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Tod aufgrund eines angeborenen Herzfehlers hin. Aber Monikas Freundin Stephanie kommt daran einiges merkwürdig vor. Sie bittet die Reisejournalistin Alexandra Berger um Hilfe, die bereits gemeinsam mit Kater Brown die Klostermorde in der Eifel aufklären konnte. Kater Brown, Alexandra und ihr Kollege Tobias, der wieder mit von der Partie ist, stoßen bei ihren Nachforschungen auf eine jahrzehntelange Fehde zwischen zwei benachbarten Weindörfern, jede Menge Lügen, Intrigen und Vorurteile. Und wer ist der geheimnisvolle Freund, dessen Namen Monika nicht verraten wollte?

Il nome di Kafka evoca all’istante atmosfere cupe e claustrofobiche, ma nel caso della “Relazione all’Accademia” siamo in un clima del tutto diverso. In questo straordinario “monologo” a parlare a un parterre di scienziati, è un anziano scimmione. Chi sa quante volte Franz, durante la sua adolescenza, è andato a vedere uno spettacolo circense con i suoi animali “sapienti”. Ma mentre i suoi coetanei ridevano e si divertivano, quanto diverso doveva essere il suo sguardo quando incrociava quello di qualche scimmia addomesticata.

The most grueling challenge of Raine Smith's equestrian career looms before her - the Olympic Games. Little does she realize that she's about to face greater perils in the arms of a stranger than she's ever found on the back of her horse.

Tre amici ed un cane percorrono in barca il Tamigi. Sia durante i preparativi del viaggio che in navigazione, si verificano situazioni assurde e divertenti, descritte con il tipico umorismo inglese.