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Núria, a single-by-choice barista with a little resentment for the “crazy cat lady” label, is a member of The Meow-Yorkers, a group in Brooklyn who takes care of the neighborhood’s stray cats. On her volunteering days, she starts finding Post-it notes left by a secret admirer in an area where she feeds her favorite stray—a black cat named Cat. Like most felines, he is both curious and observant, so of course he knows who the notes are from. Núria, however, is clueless.

Victoria Adler's plunge into midlife proves to be quite the rollercoaster. As a successful psychotherapist, she expected stability, but life had other plans. Abandoned by her faithless husband for a fling and overwhelmed by her increasingly neurotic patients, Victoria finds solace in the company of Athos, her late father's intelligent sled dog.

Lauren Vancouver is the head of HotRescues, a no-kill animal shelter north of Los Angeles, but it's often human nature that puts her in the path of danger. Just like when she helps rescue four adorable beagle puppies that were dumped down a drainpipe at a nasty puppy mill. One of the mill's employees has a history of dog abuse—and a bone to pick with Lauren. And when he's found dead at HotRescues after threatening her, Lauren will have to sniff out the real killer to keep herself out of a cage....

Cosa impedisce agli esseri umani di provare più empatia per gli animali? Ekaterina Sedia prova a rispondere con una storia di amicizia tra un ragazzo e il suo maialino.

Written by Ralph M. Flores, illustrated by family and friends, and published posthumously, these 13 fables, adapted for audio, are fractured in that some are spin-offs on Aesop's Fables and Navajo coyote tales, but all show topical twists unique to Ralph's wry, indulgent humor. The moral at the end of each fable, if we didn't realize sooner, alerts us to the animal characters that are stand-ins for human fools.

Each and every year, the Sprin’ Bor came. It was the wave of water that flooded downriver, marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring. But this year, it was late! The panic among the creatures of White Waters Chase was just simmering away quietly, until one day, it reaches boiling point when an immigrant ferret, known by the name of Percy Polecat (though he prefers the name Black Paw), opens his big mouth. Within a matter of hours, Percy’s been arrested and tried on trumped-up charges

Tarzan is taken captive by the warriors of a village of cannibals which has established a village near the territory of the ape tribe. He is saved from them by Tantor, the elephant.

Teeka and Taug have a baby (balu, in the ape language), which Teeka names Gazan and will not allow Tarzan near. She changes her mind after Tarzan saves the baby from a leopard.

I don’t ask for much, and I know for sure I didn’t ask to communicate with cats. But when I agree to cat-sit my best friend’s cats, that’s exactly what I get for my trouble—well, that and a baffling murder mystery to solve. Now my next-door neighbor is dead under mysterious circumstances, the talking cat is giving me orders, and my cat is missing, and somehow both are connected. It’s up to me to figure out how and why and solve the murder in a town full of potential suspects.

Aux temps de Louis XV, la bête du Gévaudan fit des ravages. Mais ne s'agit-il pas là d'une légende ? Cet animal monstrueux, dépeint comme assoiffé de sang, a-t-il véritablement existé ? Les atrocités commises par la bête furent pourtant largement commentées à l'époque. Dans ce texte magnifiquement écrit, G. Lenotre (pseudonyme utilisé par Théodore Gosselin, membre de l'Académie Française) nous raconte cette histoire incroyable.

Our woodland had become a utopia; an wonderous place of ideal perfection. To us, at least, it felt this way. We had no concern what others thought of our world. They were considered nothing more than interlopers, threats, and were not welcome there. All was calm and peaceful. That is, until I'd found a trail of fresh blood, and determined beyond a shadow of a doubt it was not human blood, but animal blood, with spent rifle shells littering the ground nearby. It at that moment I knew that once again, our peaceful solitude was about to be interrupted by mankind's lust for blood.

Cuando Bailey conoce a Ethan, un niño de ocho años, enseguida descubre cuál es la razón de su vida: jugar con ese niño, explorar la granja durante los veranos y dejar los platos de comida de Ethan completamente limpios (pero solo cuando su madre no lo está vigilando). Pero Bailey pronto aprenderá que la vida no siempre es tan sencilla, y que algunas veces suceden cosas malas; es cuando se dará cuenta de que lo más importante en proteger al chico que adora.

Reconfortante, profunda y repleta de momentos de felicidad y risas, La razón de estar contigo no es tan solo la historia emotiva de las múltiples vidas de un perro, es también la narración de las relaciones de los humanos vistas desde los ojos de un perro y de los inquebrantables lazos que existen entre el hombre y su mejor amigo. Esta conmovedora historia nos enseñará que el amor nunca muere, que nuestros verdaderos amigos estarán siempre a nuestro lado y que cada criatura en la Tierra ha nacido con algún propósito.

Los seres humanos —piensa el gato— tienen una irremediable tendencia a entender las cosas al revés. Por ejemplo, si ven un libro que se titula "Lo que aprendemos de los gatos", probablemente creerán que trata de lo que los humanos pueden aprender acerca de los gatos, para conocerlos mejor (cosa que, dicho sea de paso, tampoco estaría de más); sin embargo, para cualquiera que sea capaz de pensar con claridad, resulta evidente que "Lo que aprendemos de los gatos" significa otra cosa.

Guinness may be the runt of the litter, but she scoffs at being a pet. So when her siblings join their forever homes, she can't wait to enlist and risk her tail for her country. Butter loves treats, cherishes her trainer, and is proud of her job. But an errant bullet ends her career and changes her life. Viper lives to serve. The army is his life and his home. But war is tough on soldiers, K-9s and humans, and old dogs don't last long in the desert. Can these loyal dogs dodge a sea of mines and outwit the brutal desert to protect their humans, or will their mission cost their lives?

Novela de ficción acerca de las peripecias y aventuras de un hombre en busca de los lobos y su amistad con ellos. Esta es una apasionante historia, donde podrás encontrar situaciones y personajes que te harán reflexionar sobre muchos aspectos de la vida, como son el amor y la amistad.

Rachel the Most Radiant Rabbit and Bella the Most Beautiful Bee have the adventure of a lifetime as they strive to bring home a jar of honey for Clementine's supper. Will Rachel and Bella manage to outwit Queen Beatrice and navigate the honeycomb-colored ladder and fill their baskets with the World's Most Delicious Honey? Or will Queen Beatrice scream the hive down?

Un home de mitjana edat viu amb la seva gossa, anomenada Taylor, a la zona de xalets adossats del nucli turístic de Bellavista, en una illa mediterrània sense nom. Un dia la Taylor mor enverinada, sense que el seu amo sàpiga qui pot haver-ho fet, ni per què. Tampoc comprendrà una altra mort absurda, la d'una persona amb qui coincidien sovint quan passejava la gossa, víctima d'un incident de carrer vora un bar de tatuatges regentat per una parella de serbis.

Bella fue una vez una perrita perdida, pero ahora vive feliz con su gente, Lucas y Olivia, y solo ocasionalmente recuerda las dificultades de su pasado. Un viaje de campamento de fin de semana se convierte en una lucha desgarradora por la supervivencia cuando las Montañas Rocosas se ven envueltas por el mayor incendio forestal en la historia de Estados Unudos. El furioso infierno separa a Bella de su gente y se pierde una vez más.

Leo Tolstoi, Russlands großer Schriftsteller, schrieb nicht nur über "Krieg und Frieden" oder "Anna Karenina". Er schrieb auch über etwas so scheinbar Banales wie ein altes, krankes Pferd namens "Leinwandmesser". In fünf Nächten erzählt es den jüngeren Stallgenossen seine Lebensgeschichte von der einstigen Berühmtheit bis zu seinem späteren Verfall. Eindrucksvoll setzt Tolstoi dabei den menschlichen und den tierischen Niedergang in Beziehung zueinander.