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Fiction for Dog Lovers
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All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SS=short story collection, LGE-TYPE=large print collection.
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(2007)The loyalty, affection and exploits of dogs have inspired a rich body of short stories about canine companions.
- Barkdull, Larry
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(2004)In 1936, a sheepherder in Montana died and the family sent his body east for burial. As the casket was loaded into a baggage car at the train depot, the sheepherder's dog appeared out of nowhere and began to whine. Shep, as the dog came to be known, faithfully met every incoming train for the next six years in search of his master who would never return. Shep's true story of unwavering devotion became legendary and serves as the basis for this fictional tale of a young boy's struggle with feelings of loss and betrayal.
- Barrowcliffe, Mark
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(2006)Dave Barker is having a tough time. Just when he thinks that his situation could not be worse, he acquires an abandoned dog. Dave begins to question his sanity when the dog begins to talk to him and only he can hear the dog. Soon, though, the two become involved in some adventures that enable them to bond.
- Benjamin, Carol Lea
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(2006)MIn the ninth installment of Benjamin's Rachel Alexander series, businessman Gardner Redstone is pushed onto the New York subway tracks and killed. Rachel goes undercover as a homeless woman with the help of her pit bull, Dashiel, after she is hired by the daughter of the victim to find the killer.
- Berenson, Laurien
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(2007)MBerenson's acclaimed canine-themed cozy series continues with a new mystery in which a dog-show judge is sentenced to an untimely death.
- Bond, Michael
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(2006)MAristide Pamplemousse and his dog Pommes Frites are at a funeral for a co-worker when the dog gives a warning that something bad is about to happen. The coffin explodes during Aristide's eulogy for the deceased and the duo begin a search for clues to the puzzling situation.
- Brown, Rita Mae
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(2006)Brown outdoes herself in this fifth thrilling mystery of murder and splendor in Virginia fox hunting country and the first to focus on the beloved hounds.
- Clement, Blaize
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(2007)MClement's latest mystery is the follow-up to Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter. Out on a morning walk with her dog, Dixie Hemingway waves to the driver in a passing car, only to discover that she has waved to a killer. Fearful that Dixie can identify him, the chase is on.
- Conant, Susan
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(2007)MHolly Winter, the malamute trainer, knows she's not the only Holly Winter in her town, but it would be so much nicer if the other woman calling herself Holly Winter didn't turn up dead. Holly number one and her prize-winning pups will have to bring the case to heel on their own before a killer sniffs them out.
- Crusie, Jennifer
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(2005)Nina Askew has recently turned 40 and is newly divorced from her stuffy, career-minded husband who never wanted them to have a dog. Nina thought she wanted a puppy, but she cannot resist Fred, who is well past puppy-hood. It is Fred who helps her connect with the sexy emergency room doctor who lives in her building.
- Durgin, Doranna
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(2005)MDr. Dale Kinsall, DVM, moves from the East Coast to the high desert with his beagle, Sully, to ease his asthma. The community is all stirred up over a recent murder and soon Dr. Kinsall finds yet another victim. Before long it becomes evident that Dale, Sully and the clinic are also at risk.
- Gimenez-Bartlett, Alicia
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(2006)MIn this hardboiled fiction, detective Petra Delicado and her maladroit sidekick, Garzon, investigate the murder of a tramp whose only friend is a mongrel dog named "Fright." One murder leads to another and Petra is soon led into the world of fight dogs.
- Haig, Matt
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(2008)Prince, the Hunter family's black Labrador, believes it is his sacred duty to protect his family and guard its integrity. What is he to do when the family's worst enemies are themselves.
- Hearon, Shelby
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(2007)FWhen her marriage fails, Janey Daniels, a pharmacist in Peachland, South Carolina, moves to Vermont for a year to escape the gossip in her home town. While in Vermont, she acquires Beulah, a puppy in training for the Companion Dog for the Blind program. Aided by Beulah, Janey acquires a new love and reaches out to her mysterious Aunt May.
- Herman, Michelle
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(2005)Dog is about how a person constructs a life for herself, about the bits and pieces that make up a life as one goes along, and about the possibility of goodness among those pieces.
- Houston, Pam
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(2005)From the bestselling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness comes a very special love story between a woman and her dog, a wolfhound who teaches his human that love is stronger than fear.
- Jacobs, Holly
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(2006)Cassie Grant works nights at the local radio station as a DJ and has just cancelled her wedding. She seeks solace and companionship from a puppy — a very large puppy — who makes friends with Cassie's handsome neighbor.
- Lanier, Virginia
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(2003)MJo Beth is very busy in the sixth installment of this series. For starters, she's on the trail of a wily prison escapee. Meanwhile, she's tracking an elderly woman who has wandered off in the Okefenokee Swamp and is searching for the source of a rumor that resulted in three deaths.
- Markoe, Merrill
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(2006)Filled with sharp wit, biting humor and canine conversation that would make Doctor Dolittle's jaw drop, Markoe's engaging, cleverly-written novel is about the confusing search for love and the divine acts of dogs.
- Nganang, Alain Patrice
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(2006)Taking place in urban Cameroon in the early 1990s, this story of the country and its troubles with poverty and military dictatorship is told through the eyes of a dog named Mboudjak. His experiences as a pampered pet and as a stray allow him to speak with a unique perspective.
- Parkhurst, Carolyn
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(2003)MThis debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of only one witness, their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei.
- Schine, Cathleen
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(2007)Schine's brilliantly funny new novel revolves around one city block in Manhattan. In her book, as in life, canine companions compel their masters to go outside of themselves to take part in the community they live in, to make friends and, sometimes, to fall in love.
- Siddons, Anne Rivers
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(2005)Emily builds a life around her remote father, hunting-obsessed brothers and the spaniels they raise and train. When Lulu arrives to spend the summer, she brings a secret that will blow Emily's world apart.
- Stelljes, Stella
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(2005)Told through the eyes of Bobbie himself, a two-year-old Scotch collie, this novel based on a true story that occurred in 1923, is truly heartwarming. Bobbie's family took him on a trip to Indiana with them and they became separated. Months later, Bobbie showed up at his family's home in Silverton, Oregon, and became instantly famous, earning the nickname "Wonder Dog".
- Viets, Elaine
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(2006)MIn this fifth Dead-End Job mystery, Helen Hawthorne is still working at Pampered Pets when two customers are found dead. She becomes a suspect herself and begins a search for the real killer as a hurricane heads toward her home.
- Wright, Nina
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(2005)MStill reeling from her husband's death, 33-year-old realtor Whiskey Mattimoe is adjusting to her new life, which includes the purse-snatching antics of her Afghan hound. Soon Whiskey tries to solve a mytery involving identity theft and priceless art.
- Wright, Sue Owens
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(2005)MElsie MacBean (Beanie) and her Basset Hound, Cruiser, find themselves dewlap-deep in a murder investigation when supporters of a controversial dog park, proposed for a coveted tract of Tahoe shoreline, are earmarked for death. The fur starts to fly at a Howloween fundraiser for Alpine Paws Park when Abigail Haversham, heiress to the lakeside property, is discovered strangled near the Psychic Paws booth.