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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers prehistoric human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. Drawing on philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and coming to know, love, and respect them as individuals, Woolfson...
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Of all the creatures in the ocean, sea horses are Echo Reef's favorite. They're sweet and gentle and they glide through the water so gracefully. When Echo discovers that Rocky Ridge, one of her Trident Academy classmates, has his own pet sea horse, she wants one right away. Not everyone agrees sea horses should be pets, however. Perhaps they are happiest when swimming freely. But Echo thinks that if Rocky can make a sea horse happy, she can too! Can't...
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the senseless slaughter of five moose found on the estate of a wealthy animal rights activist, Game Warden Mike Bowditch finds the controversial case turning more sinister when the activist's daughter is killed in a suspicious accident, a situation that compels Bowditch to risk everything he cares about.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a balmy July night in New Hampshire a shot rings out in a garden, and a man falls to the ground, terribly wounded. The wounded man is Spencer McCullough, the shot that hit him was fired (accidentally?) by his adolescent daughter Charlotte. It's a family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. Laurie had planned to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues-horses...
8) Whiteout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come.
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
For some activists, the animal rights ideology amounts to a quasi religion, one whose central doctrine declares a moral equivalence between the value of animal lives and the value of human lives. Smith believe that granting "rights" to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity.
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Few issues are more laden with emotion and controversy than the question of whether apes -- and chimpanzees in particular -- should continue to be used as subjects in biomedical research. This anthology addresses the many current issues pertinent to this debate.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
14) Dark hunger
Author
Series
Dark manga volume 11.5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"He is Riordan...Carpathian male. Immortal. Seer. Now trapped and caged, his honor is compromised by his captors. They're in his mind. They're in his blood. And not one can withstand his desire for revenge. She is Juliette...A beautiful activist devoted to the liberation of animals from the foul and humid confines of a secret, jungle lab. What she has stumbled upon is unexpected--a prisoner like no other she has ever seen. Or touched. She will release...
Author
Series
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Annotation. Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behaviors. In Just a Dog, Arnold Arluke argues that our current constructs of animal cruelty are decontextualized imposed without regard to the experience of the groups committing the act. Yet those who engage in animal cruelty have their own understandings of their actions and of themselves as actors....
16) Rescue rider
Author
Series
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Between showing the award-winning jumper Mirror Glider, working at South Hill Stables, and washing dishes in her dad's South Asian family restaurant, thirteen-year-old Dev Rani doesn't always have a lot of time left for homework or a social life. But when Mirror Glider has an accident and is forced to retire, Dev is suddenly faced with a new problem: Zim, a promising, but very disturbed, rescue horse. Dev is charged with convincing this troubled Arabian...
17) Judas horse
Author
Series
Ana Grey novels volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Emotionally vulnerable after a shooting incident, Ana Grey has just returned to the job when she learns that a fellow agent has been murdered by a group of hard-core anarchists operating behind the facade of FAN (Free Animals Now). Dispatched to the FBI's infamous undercover school to learn the art of deceit, Ana takes on the identity of a down-on-her-luck animal lover determined to save the wild mustangs of the West. Now she's ready to work her way...
18) The killing bay
Author
Series
Faroes volume 2
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protestors run high. And when a woman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violent confrontation, the circumstances seem purposely designed to increase animosity between the two sides. As English DI Jan Reyna and local detective Hjalti Hentze investigate, it becomes increasingly clear...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amara loves bats, so when she learns there are none near her new home due to habitat loss, she overcomes her feelings of helplessness and inspires her community to take action. Includes facts about bats and bat houses.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It's April, but there's still snow on the Montana mountains the day a member of the Madison River Liar and Fly Tiers club finds a Santa hat in the chimney of his rented cabin. With the flue clogged and desperate to make a fire, he climbs up to the roof, only to find the body of a teenage girl wedged into the chimney. When Sheriff Martha Ettinger and her team arrive to extract the body they identify the victim as Cinderella "Cindy" Huntingdon, a promising...
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