Join Sue in "Amuck: Tales from a Hobby Farm" where the days are never dull as she manages a farm full of quirky animals and fends off wildlife threats. A mischievous llama, three alpacas, two spirited miniature horses, and a gaggle of chickens keep Sue on her toes.Wildlife, including raccoons, wild turkeys, coyotes, and a bobcat frequently visit, adding to the chaos. And don’t even mention the bear...Through it all, Sue's determination to protect her animals and her sanity ...

In "Beyond Amuck" the daily antics of the many animals on the author’s hobby farm never cease. Get ready to laugh out loud at her futile attempts to deal with the nonstop mayhem caused by two rambunctious mini horses, a goat named Donald, too many chickens to count, several dogs and cats, along with a number of wily coyotes intent on raiding the livestock.With characteristic humor and honesty, Sue recounts the joys and challenges of farm life, inviting readers to see if they have w...

Featuring acclaimed humorist David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this illustrated collection of animal-themed tales is an utter delight.Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. In "The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck," three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line. In "Hello Kitty," a cynical feline struggles to sit th...

Owly, the little owl with a heart of gold, returns for another forest adventure in this Eisner-winning series about friendship!Owly always reaches out to a friend in need.Owly is a wonderful friend! He's honest, trustworthy, and kind. And whenever any of his pals are in trouble, he always finds a way to help. In this collection of nine stand-alone stories, Owly demonstrates the power of friendship by cheering up his friends when they're down, rescuing his f...

He was just an aged Belgian draft horse, left alone in a pasture to live out the remaining days of his twilight years. He spent his time drooling and swishing flies. But one day the old horse stepped out of a wobbly wire fence, and into a new life. He became useful again, as a horse, when he teamed up with the author, who had always wanted a Belgian draft horse.He immediately began to subtly influence her and other people who crossed his path. The horse weighed one ton and was phys...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog.Speck is not a good boy. He is a terrible boy, a defiant, self-destructive, often malodorous boy, a grave robber and screen door moocher who spends his days playing chicken with the Fed Ex man, picking fights with th...

“Tales of The Friendly Forest” is a colorfully illustrated collection of fairy tales for children. The book contains ten instructive fairy stories about the adventures of kind and funny inhabitants of the forest: the traveling Hedgehog, the hare Turbo, the wolf Straight Tail and other great beasts. These tales teach the children friendship, humanity and respect to each other, the ability to perceive everything in positive manner and create good mood.

From the Printz-Honor-winning author of Airborn comes an absorbing YA novel about a teen boy whose scientist parents take in a chimpanzee to be part of the family.For thirteen years, Ben Tomlin was an only child. But all that changes when his mother brings home Zan -- an eight-day-old chimpanzee. Ben's father, a renowned behavioral scientist, has uprooted the family to pursue his latest research project: a high-profile experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced langua...

This is book 2.Casey, Jack, and Mike struggle to get back home after being shipwrecked on what they presume to be a mysterious, tropical island.

It is December 23rd, and for Tinky and Gracie, life is good. Tinky, a scruffy ball of optimism and wire-hair, and Gracie, a sleek thinker who prefers staying under a fleece blanket, have everything a dog could want: a warm fire, humans who adore them, and the scent of holiday ham wafting from the kitchen.But when a distracted delivery driver leaves the backyard gate unlatched, and their bushy-tailed Arch-Nemesis mocks them from the porch railing, instinct takes over. In a flash, th...

So you want to be the special guy that almost every girl will find irresistible. You're fed up with the fact that you're having such a hard time trying to impress a girl only for you to end up rejected at the end of the day.Your main questions usually circles around what you have against what other guys have. Why is it so easy for other males to attract the opposite sex, but almost impossible when you do it? Even when you're trying your best, you realize that you're getting nowhere...

"I came into the world like everything else that is born, willy-nilly."So the wise old housecat Foudini begins the delightful story of his life. It is the tale of his orphaned kittenhood; of how he was rescued, cowering and spitting and hissing, from a damp city basement and lured into the lives of the couple he came to call Warm and Pest ("All cats like to make up strange names for things" ). It is the story of how Warm and Pest became "his people" ("Human beings must be excellent...