A Wise Dog Named Jake

Author: Brigitte Finkiewicz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781983142239
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
When Jake ran into the darkness, teeth bared, Brigitte's heart started pounding. The stray dog she had rescued the prior year was now ready to fight for her. This is the story of one woman, her dog, the danger and adventures they experienced together and the lessons that will shape her life. It is also an incredible journey inside the pain and hurdles that everyday can bring and the extraordinary dog that helped her through it all."A Wise Dog Named Jake" is a moving and uplifting story that will take you on a learning adventure where emotions run high. This book is not only for a reader who has rescued dogs, but for anyone who wants to be inspired in transforming a difficult experience into a growing phase of their life.

Pirate Diary

Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763678503
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
"Platt weaves vast quantities of nautical information into a text as lively as it is absorbing." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Curious about life on a pirate ship? Check out PIRATE DIARY: THE JOURNAL OF JAKE CARPENTER, an account of adventure on the high seas as told by a feisty nine-year-old carpenter’s apprentice, circa 1716. Historically accurate illustrations of ship and crew, a map of Jake’s travels, and a detailed glossary and index vividly reveal the fascinating - and harsh - life of a pirate in the eighteenth century. Ships ahoy!

Jake Adventures of a Greyhound

Author: Jane Goldsmith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781434364982
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Read about Jake's adventures from his days as a puppy in a racing kennel to his eventual adoption from an animal sanctuary. The trials of adoption and being adopted, finding his home, and his adaptation to sudden blindness Find some tips and useful information about canine blindness and Greyhounds as rescue dogs Donations from the sale of this book will go to: Greyhound Rescue West of England HULA animal sanctuary

Born to Bark

Author: Stanley Coren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439189226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
"For Christmas the woman who would become my wife bought me a dog—a little terrier. The next year her Christmas gift to me was a shotgun. Most of the people in my family believe that those two gifts were not unrelated." So begins Born to Bark, the charming new memoir by psychologist and beloved dog expert Stan Coren of his relationship with an irrepressible gray Cairn terrier named Flint. Stan immediately loved the pup for his friendly nature and indefatigable spirit, though his wife soon found the dog’s unpredictable exuberance difficult to deal with, to say the least. Even though Flint drove Stan’s wife up the wall, he became the joy of Stan’s life. The key to unlocking this psychologist-author’s way of looking at dog behavior, Flint also became the inspiration behind Coren’s classic, The Intelligence of Dogs. Undeterred by Flint’s irrepressible behavior (and by the breeder’s warning that he might be untrainable), Coren set out to prove that his furry companion could pass muster with the best of them. He persevered in training the unruly dog and even ventured into the competitive circles of obedience trials in dog shows, where Flint eventually made canine history as the highest-scoring Cairn terrier in obedience competition up to that time. (Stan chose not to tell his wife that the highest-ranking obedience dog of that year, a border collie, earned a total score that was fifty times higher.) The longest-running popular expert on human-dog bonding, Coren has enlivened his respected books and theories about dogs with accounts of his own experiences in training, living with, loving, and trying to understand them. A consummate storyteller, Coren now tells the wry, poignant, goofy, and good-hearted tale of his life with the dog who (in the words of his own book titles) taught him How to Speak Dog and How Dogs Think and whose antics made him ask Why Does My Dog Act That Way? Illustrated with Coren’s own delightful line drawings and photos, and interwoven with his heartfelt anecdotes of other beloved dogs from his earlier life, Born to Bark is an irresistible good dog/bad dog tale of this extraordinary, willful pooch and his profound impact on his master’s insights into canine behavior as a research psychologist and on his outlook on life as a whole.

The Jake Bennett Adventures Vol. Two

Author: Bayla Dornon
Publisher: Bayla Dornon
ISBN: 1005335451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
L.A.P.D Rookie Jake Bennett is recovering from recent tragedies, and work and his relationship with his girlfriend are going better than ever, but then Jake's career suddenly turns toward disaster, and overnight he finds himself ruined and exiled! Starting over in a new city, Jake soon transforms himself into a private investigator - but the shadows of the past still haunt and hunt him. Blood Will Out: Back in LA after their disaster-vacation in Palm Springs, rookie cop Jake Bennett and his waitress girlfriend Debbie Cantrell try to pick up the pieces of their lives and their relationship. But Jake's job as a cop and his family life soon derail things even further. Now some powerful people have taken an interest in Jake Bennett, with serious consequences. Now suddenly he's swimming with the sharks-- and there's no exit from the tank. Presumed Dead: Exiled, humiliated and almost flat broke, Jake Bennett arrives in the city of San Francisco feeling as low as a man can get. Slowly he claws his way up from the gutter, and fights to build a new life for himself. But his past always returns to haunt him, and sinister figures threaten to derail his new life. Can Jake Bennett battle back from the crushing disaster he experienced in Los Angeles, become a private investigator, and finally find his missing father, too?

The Jake Bennett Adventures Vol. Three

Author: Bayla Dornon
Publisher: Bayla Dornon
ISBN: 1005060800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
The final story in the Jake Bennett series opens with Jake in rehab, one misstep away from prison. Counseling points the PI toward his family past, forcing Jake to meet his long-lost father in his search for answers. The arrival of Henry, a fling Jake had months ago, complicates Bennett’s life even further. Can he put the pieces of his life together, or will it all shatter and fall to the ground? Welcome to the thundering climax of the Jake Bennett Adventures! First, let's begin with what this book is NOT: • It is not one of those wretched romance novels where two "gay" men whine and cry and mope and obsess about their feelings and never have sex. • It is not a Delayed F--k. • It is not a Coming Out story about two teens who've never been touched. • It is not about homophobia. • It is not about gay bashing. • It is not about religion vs. reality. • It is not about the torture of living in the closet. Instead, this novel is the story of two men who have already come out, and who have already had sex, and no one in their world has a problem with that. Unfortunately, one of them, our hero Jake Bennett, has a big problem with alcohol. He's been using it more and more to cope with the unfair treatment he received from powerful people, back when he was a cop in LA. He's been using it to cope with his feelings of terror and despair, brought on by the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend, Debbie Cantrell. And he's been using alcohol to help him forget some of the shady things he and his former associate, Rachel, have been doing since he became a private eye in San Francisco. This ocean of scotch, predictably, lands Jake in big trouble— court ordered rehab, to be exact. One step away from six months in jail, Jake finally wakes up to the fact that he's got a big problem. It is the unexpected reappearance of Debbie that enables Jake to come to grips with this problem, and finally participate in the treatment the judge has ordered for him. As he opens up to his counselor, Dr. Wagner, Jake begins to understand that his repressed childhood memories have driven his actions in ways he doesn't understand. Meanwhile, Henry English, a young man Jake had sex with a few times earlier in the year, has moved to San Francisco. Henry is determined to help Jake overcome his problems, and as they work together, it becomes plain that Henry has another agenda. With Henry's help, Jake sets out to find and talk to his long-lost father. The stories that the private eye uncovers are not at all what he expected: and, upon closer inspection, they don't add up, either. Now Jake has the information he needs to understand his past traumas. As his new family gathers to take a trip together to Mexico, it seems that everything is falling in place for Jake…

The Day Jake Went to College

Author: Anthony Bowden
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781631772610
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Dogtography

Author: Kaylee Greer
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.
ISBN: 1681986493
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 946

Book Description
If you want to learn to create out-of-this-world photos that capture the heart and soul of a dog, you've come to the right place. Whether you're a professional looking to up your dog photography game, or an amateur striving to take better pictures of your four-legged best friend, Dogtography is your guide to crafting jaw-dropping photographs that are exploding with personality. And there is no better teacher than Kaylee Greer, one of the world's most in-demand dog photographers. Kaylee travels the globe photographing dogs for some of the biggest pet brands on Earth, teaches industry-renowned workshops, and stars in Nat Geo Wild's original television mini-series Pupparazzi, chronicling her colorful adventures photographing dogs across America.

Dogtography is jam-packed with tips and tricks and—just like Kaylee and her award-winning photographs—an infectious personality. In this book, you’ll learn Kaylee’s best-kept secrets, including camera settings, lens choices, and post-processing techniques. You’ll explore tried and true methods for working with dogs of all shapes and sizes, unlock the power of positive reinforcement, and discover the gift of giving back to dogs in need through the magic of photography.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Speak Dog
Chapter 2: Camera Settings
Chapter 3: Lenses
Chapter 4: Dirty Little Secrets
Chapter 5: Sunshine Wrangling
Chapter 6: Catchlights
Chapter 7: Location
Chapter 8: Expression
Chapter 9: Shooting Action
Chapter 10: Group Photo Techniques
Chapter 11: The Canine Variety Power Hour
Chapter 12: Illumination Nation
Chapter 13: Post-Processing
Chapter 14: Giving Back

Scent of the Missing

Author: Susannah Charleson
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547488505
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 313

Book Description
A “haunting meditation on trust, hope and love” by a woman who adopts and trains a Golden Retriever puppy to become a search-and-rescue dog (People). In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson’s attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a canine handler, his exhausted face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. Susannah, a dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team, plunging herself into an astonishing new world. While the team worked long hours for nonexistent pay and often heart-wrenching results, Charleson discovered the joy of working in partnership with a canine friend and the satisfaction of using their combined skills to help her fellow human beings. Once she qualified to train a dog of her own, Charleson adopted Puzzle—a smart, spirited Golden Retriever puppy who exhibited unique aptitudes as a working dog, but was a bit less interested in the role of compliant house pet. Scent of the Missing is the story of Charleson’s adventures with Puzzle as they search for a lost teen; an Alzheimer’s patient wandering in the cold; and signs of the crew amid the debris of the space shuttle Columbia disaster—all while unraveling the mystery of the bond between humans and dogs. “A riveting view of both the human animal bond and the training of search and rescue dogs. All dog lovers and people interested in training service dogs should read this book.” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human

Adventure Time

Author: Ryan North
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1608862801
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Finn and Jake try to stop a skeleton named Lich from destroying the Land of Ooo.