Résultats pour "man" dans Animaux

Steve Cline thought surviving his first investigation was the hardest thing he’d ever face. He was wrong. Still reeling from the physical and psychological fallout of At Risk, Steve is thrown into turmoil when his estranged father dies suddenly—and he learns a devastating truth: the man being laid to rest was never his biological father. His real father is Christopher J. Kessler, a respected Thoroughbred trainer on the Maryland circuit.

Rick Stanton was a promising professional baseball player with dreams of playing in the major leagues and starting a family with his young wife, Francesca, when World War II changed everything. Rick returns from the war with his body broken and his dreams shattered. But it was not just body and spirit he sacrificed for the war. He and Francesca volunteered their beloved dog, Pax, for the Army's K-9 Corp, not knowing if they'd ever see him again.

These three short stories give listeners a dog’s-eye view of the action and adventure associated with the American West. From an award-winning poet, these stories provide a window into the sometimes fickle relationship between man and dog. Barbara Nelson Blinn used writing as a way to escape her abusive marriage, and these stories are indeed an escape, as listeners will have the opportunity to befriend three different canines, each with their own story filled with mystery, adventure, and the underlying message that controlling the pet population is of utmost importance.

Jonathan and Lily McCoy are an elderly couple surviving off the land of Northeastern Tennessee. When a stray coonhound steals Jonathan’s hunting spoils, he sets out to tame the dog he names Rawhide. Rawhide is friendly and loyal, but his battered body suggests mistreatment and pain. And when troublemaker Ed Carter comes to claim Rawhide as his property, the McCoys are willing to fight him in court to protect their canine companion against renewed threats of violence, in this riveting mystery novel filled with American history.

To Stephanie O'Hanlon, 40-something workaholic, a blank to-do list is crazy-making. When she gets laid off and rescues a huge, smiling dog from a shelter - a dog her friend insists is inhabited by Steph's lover from a former life - she discovers the true meaning of crazy.

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?

“Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.”—New York Times Now in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which the peaceful life of an aging, book-loving widower in the Ecuadorean jungle is upended when...