Author: Richard Platt Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763678503 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 129
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"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!
Author: Brigitte Finkiewicz Publisher: ISBN: 9781983142239 Category : Languages : en Pages : 144
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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.
Author: Jane Goldsmith Publisher: ISBN: 9781434364982 Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 96
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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
Author: Chris Hardy Publisher: Jake's World ISBN: 1956211012 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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A little book filled with big gratitude. Jake had a scary time on the streets after getting out of the yard as a puppy. Once he was rescued from the Humane Society he promised to always be grateful for as many things as possible in his life. Let Jake show you the way to being happier and more fulfilled in life by seeing all the many things for which he is grateful...and maybe you can find a few along the way as well!
Author: Stanley Coren Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439189226 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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"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.
Author: Bayla Dornon Publisher: Bayla Dornon ISBN: 1005335451 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 328
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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?
Author: Bayla Dornon Publisher: Bayla Dornon ISBN: 1005060800 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 392
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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…
Author: John Grogan Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061793558 Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 323
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The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Now with photos and new material. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans. John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. Obedience school did no good -- Marley was expelled. But just as Marley joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. Marley remained a model of devotion, even when his family was at its wit's end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms. Marley & Me is John Grogan's funny, unforgettable tribute to this wonderful, wildly neurotic Lab and the meaning he brought to their lives.
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