Animals

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up....

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history....

On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods....

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind....

The next installment in David Rosenfelt’s bestselling Andy Carpenter series brings a lone pup to his doorstep, but when it comes to dogs, The More the Terrier.

Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died...

The Memory of an Elephant is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago. Interwoven with his narrative are the tumultuous lives of the family who raised and then lost him....

Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands....

From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier....

Navy SEAL Noah Alba is on extended leave after a terrible mistake resulted in the loss of his K-9 partner. He arrives in Asheville, North Carolina, hoping to get his head on straight before he returns overseas....

In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores....

Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend....

Paterson, New Jersey’s favorite reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter returns in Dog Day Afternoon, the next mystery in this fan favorite series from National Bestselling Author David Rosenfelt....

Thirteen-year-old Abby Hubble lives in an unhappy home in the Sierra Nevada foothills where her father makes life miserable for her and her mother, Mary. One day Abby witnesses a man dump a litter of puppies into the nearby river....

After spending years in prison for a crime she didn’t intend to commit, Rose Collins is suddenly free. Someone who knows about the good work she has done - training therapy dogs while serving time - has arranged for her early release....

Nana the cat is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner, Satoru, in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn't know why, and Satoru won't say....

Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner PI Bernie Little are back again, and this time they're entangled in a web of crime unlike anything they've ever seen before....

Death stalks the Blue Ridge Mountains once again and Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen, along with her beloved cats and dogs, is on the case....

Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request....

Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to which to leave her fortune. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the scientists she's coming to visit....

Chet the dog and his human partner Bernie Little find themselves high in the mountains this holiday season to help Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing....

In this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom, the animal kingdom's favorite Cheetos-addicted hero is back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic....

Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world....

The postman’s days are numbered: the doctor’s diagnosis is that he has only months to live. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the Devil appears to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, our narrator will get one extra day of life....

Christmas has come early to the town of Paterson, New Jersey, in the form of a snowstorm that dumps two feet of snow on the ground. Lawyer Andy Carpenter likes snow – white Christmas and all that – but it can cause problems for the walks he takes his dogs on every day....

Buster, a strong and proud boxer, spends his early days with a loving family in a public housing complex in Washington, DC. Abruptly, he is taken away by an abusive, alcoholic man, plunging Buster into a challenging, nightmarish existence. Over the course of his life, he will experience homelessness, tragedy, a harrowing stay in a kill shelter, and acts of kindness, including his adoption by an older gentleman grieving the death of his wife.

In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations.

As timeless as it is timely, "Animal Farm" is a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before.

In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet, life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving father, and cannot find the courage to admit his love to Ravenna, the ungainly schoolteacher.

A tale of a killer whale's past. A memoir of the journey to unravel the urban legend created about her past. An alternate story to her family and real mother.

A Pride of Lions inhabits the fertile African valley known as the Maasai Mara. They live, rule and prosper....until a new, pleasant-sounding philosophy turns age-old ways upside down. An entire way of life hangs in the balance.

When K-9 handler Selena Lopez discovers her half-brother is a fugitive from justice, she must find him—and his dangerous crew. It's a good thing that her partner is infuriatingly efficient and handsome lead agent Axel Morrow. But as smart and cunning as the duo may be, it's a race against time to catch the armed and dangerous criminals before they kill again.

After escaping a train bound for a death camp with a trusty German Shepherd dog, a girl wakes to find that she has no memory of her former life. Lily is fostered by the kind RAF pilot who found her and his wife, Meg. It is not long before their lives are disrupted once again by the war and, with their home in ruins, they are forced to flee to the country. In the Somerset countryside, Lily is reunited with Rudy, the heroic German Shepherd.

Only seconds after widowed mother-to-be Naomi Carr-Cavanaugh is rescued from two masked gunmen, she’s accused of multiple murders. Detective Bennett Ford believes he’s finally apprehended the Rocky Mountain Killer—until Naomi is attacked again. Now she must rely on Bennett and his K-9 partner for protection. But with threats closing in, she’ll have to prove her innocence first in order to stay alive.

Step into the magical world of Moonlight Hollow in this enchanting prequel to the bestselling Witches of Moonlight Hollow series! 'Moonlight Whiskers: The Enchanting Tale of Andy, The Magical Black Cat' invites you on an unforgettable journey that will leave you spellbound. Before he was Eleanor the Witch's psychic confidant and Moonlight Hollow’s most mysterious feline, Andy was just a curious black kitten with unexplained powers. At first it wasn't clear to him how he would fit into the world in which he found himself. So how did he become the cat with mystical abilities we know and ...

“Chilling...satisfying...offers up tasty tidbits of San Francisco lore . . . [Russell] has a gift for dialogue, slyly using it to reveal character.”—New York Times Book ReviewSan Francisco P.I. Stuart Winter looks into the death of a young, deaf heiress who volunteered as a sign language instructor—for a gorilla who may have witnessed her murder. “Polished and provocative...a California mystery of the hard-boiled school...very well written, with a corking good plot and fine characters.”—Booklist “Remarkable...[hops] from avant-garde theater to a deaf school, from winos’ ...

Uncover the secrets of the past before they claim another victim. Juniper, owner of Juniper's Jewels, stumbles upon an antique roll-top desk at an estate sale, but it's what's hidden inside—a cryptic diary—that sets off a chain of events. The diary's mysterious contents, filled with names of the deceased and cryptic symbols, draw Juniper into a perilous puzzle. With someone desperate for its return, Juniper and her newfound partner, Jasper, delve into the secrets hidden within. As they unravel the diary's secrets, Juniper and Jasper find themselves on a treacherous path, with danger ...

From the perspective of a small dog, the world can be a big place. More than anything, Hector just wants to be a good boy.

From despair to freedom, a canine’s journey... hope is unleashed. In the heartwarming tale of Sadie, the one-eared wonder, prepare to take a journey from the appalling living conditions of a heartless backyard breeder to the warmth of a loving forever home. With a missing ear as a testament to her troubling past, Sadie’s spirit remains unbroken, and her goofy, happy-go-lucky personality shines through. Amid hunger and chaos, Sadie emerges as a motivational speaker for her canine crew, spinning tales to make her siblings laugh and injecting a dose of humor into their challenging lives. ...

An abused 19-year-old girl. A harrowing escape. A fresh start with the horses she loves. Shadow flees her foster father’s abuse, barely escaping. She begins a new life on a thoroughbred race track. For the first time, she sees a glimmer of hope for the future. When a serious injury leaves her hospitalized, she hits rock bottom, physically and emotionally. With the devotion of Peter, a dwarf who befriends her, and the support of her new racetrack friends, she begins to work her way through repressed trauma. Finally, she learns that burying her painful past cannot work. To survive, she must...