Animal City

Field reporter Lee Barrett is not happy that her hours are being cut back at WICH-TV, although it is nice to spend more time volunteering with Aunt Ibby, a research librarian. But Lee's least favorite task is going up to the stacks, a spooky, seldom-frequented upper section of the library. On this day she has good reason to be afraid - she finds a dead man, surrounded by hundreds of scattered books and torn-out pages. Her police detective beau, Pete Mondello, is soon on the scene, and the deceased is identified as a former minor league baseball player - and ex-con....

Lee has been promoted from field reporter to program director. Keeping track of all the shows and managing the local TV personalities - including a cowboy, a clown, and a performing dog - has her head spinning. Perhaps that's what makes her take pity on the distraught woman she finds sitting alone on a bench on the Salem common. When she realizes that the poor woman doesn't even know her own name, Lee takes her into the warmth of the home she shares with her Aunt Ibby and their clairvoyant gentleman cat, O'Ryan.

A cold case update in Salem, Massachusetts... Life at the house on Winter Street is abuzz with preparations for Aunt Ibby's 45th high school reunion, and Lee Barrett is happy to pitch in, tracking down addresses, and licking envelopes. But as a field reporter for Salem's WICH-TV, her priority is to be on top of the town's latest news before anyone else.

As a Salem, Massachusetts, native, WICH-TV field reporter, and amateur sleuth Lee Barrett is well versed in the region's lore. So when the murder of revered local professor Samuel Bond resembles a killing from almost two centuries ago, everyone is on edge....

When a pet is sick, people—even the rich and famous—are at their most authentic and vulnerable. They could have a Monet on the wall and an Oscar on the shelf, but if their cat gets a cold, all they want to talk about are snotty noses and sneezing fits. That’s when they call premier in-home veterinarian Dr. Amy Attas. In Pets and the City, Dr. Amy shares all the funny, heartbreaking, and life-affirming experiences she’s faced throughout her thirty-year career treating the cats and dogs of New Yorkers from Park Avenue to the projects.

Fox kit O-370 hungers for a life of adventure, like those lived long ago by Mia and Uly. But on the Farm, foxes know only the safety of their wire dens and the promise of eternal happiness in the White Barn. Or so they’re told. When O-370 gets free of his cage, he witnesses the gruesome reality awaiting all the Farm’s foxes and narrowly escapes with his life. In a nearby suburb, young Cozy and her skulk are facing an unknown danger, one that hunts foxes.

When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, and cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. Gregor wants no part of it, until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance.

After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the family farm. There, Opal bonds with Uncle Roscoe over music and befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats. But just as the farm is starting to feel like home, the bats’ cave is destroyed by a big mining company with its sights set on the farmland next.

Gregor is summoned back to the Underland by the terms of a second prophecy. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. Recognizable by its tremendous size and snow-white coat, the Rat King is destined to bring a World War to the Underland. Gregor eventually comes face to face with the Rat King, and to his surprise, he finds he is unable to kill this creature. His heart tells him he's making the right decision.

A new fire rescue officer needing to prove his place on the team, a model struggling to make a career, and a fire that brings the high school loner back into the life of his secret crush. Clark Voclain is a a skilled fire rescue officer and after finishing training at the Disaster City Search and Rescue Academy, he and his K9 partner are offered a permanent position. When they're assigned to help with a structure fire at the largest mall in all of Texas, he's surprised to find out that his high school crush is reported missing in the fire. Roselyn Lewis just got the biggest modeling gig of ...

The life of a veterinarian is challenging: keeping up with advances in medical care, making difficult decisions about people's beloved companions, and, in Dr. Doug Mader's case, navigating the social unrest in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. The Vet at Noah's Ark follows Dr. Mader and his staff over the course of a year at Noah's Ark Veterinary Hospital, an inner-city LA area veterinary hospital where Dr. Mader treats not only dogs and cats, but also emus, skunks, snakes, foxes, monkeys, and a host of other exotic animals

A swift water rescue officer trying to forget his ex, a literature professor trying to move on from a broken heart, and a flood that shows them they can have a second chance together. K9 Handler Ryan Connolly is an expert at swift water rescue. He's traveled all over the world on assignment, wherever a major flood is happening and help is needed. So when Oklahoma City is hit by a major rain storm and the levees break, Connolly and his team are called in to assist. What he isn’t prepared for is rescuing his sister and her best friend, who also happens to be his ex-girlfriend. Charlotte ...

Some battles are fought with fists. Others are won with the heart. Everyone in New Haven knows Jackson "Jax" Thompson's reputation. As the Charm City Chill's enforcer, he's paid to be the monster under other teams' beds. But after a brutal fight goes viral and puts him in the league's crosshairs, even his knuckles are telling him it's time for a change. Dr. Lauren Mackenzie wants nothing to do with violent men in any form. As the head of New Haven's busiest emergency vet clinic, she's got enough on her plate treating the arena's K-9 unit without worrying about the bruiser who bursts in at 2...

A mysterious map holds the key to the location of an ancient treasure city. When the Wright cousins set out on horseback to find it, they run headlong into desert, flash floods, treacherous passages, and formidable foes. Saddle up for thrilling discoveries and the cousins’ wacky sense of humor in this grand Western adventure, The Secret of the Lost City! Family friendly!

Recently, in an amazing environment becoming more amazing in bad ways a 2-year-old boy was attacked by an alligator from a lagoon near Walt Disney World. The alligator is a wild animal native to the U.S. There are invasive species just as awful… So, in an exploration of these species within a fictional context…Faced with an ecological nightmare from prolific invasive species like the Burmese pythons, an ecological disaster that grows to nearly twenty feet in length and gives birth to over 100 pythons at a time, which having overrun Florida’s everglades has spread to other states, ...

A stubborn young girl named Fiona stumbles upon an abandoned house full of stray cats, just as it is threatened by a demolition team, a leadership crisis, and two potentially malicious parakeets. Can Fiona save the house and all its inhabitants? A new middle-grade novel by critically acclaimed author Tanya Lloyd Kyi.

In the tradition of Call of the Wild, Watership Down and Redwall, Little Wolf is the story of Shadow, a little dog with big dreams. When a mongrel puppy is left alone to die in the forest, a heartbroken mother wolf saves him from certain death―and keeps him as one of her own. Although smaller in size and far weaker, Shadow grows up with his wolf siblings and soon proves that great size is no match for a great heart. That is, until he's captured and taken back to the city... Now haunted by memories of freedom with his wolf family, the young pup endures captivity. And when Shadow ...

All across New Mouse City, rodents kept telling Geronimo he'd done things he couldn't remember! Had the cheese finally slipped off his cracker? It turns out that Geronimo's not going crazy: an impostor's going around town pretending to be him. Will Geronimo be able to stop the look-alike from taking over The Rodent's Gazette?

Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bars; scraping by on coffee, bread and cigarettes, often under sadistic managers, with a wage so low you're fighting your colleagues for tips. Colleagues—including thieves, narcissists, ex-Legionnaires, paperless immigrants, wannabe actors and drug dealers—who are the closest thing to family that you've got.

Wild City is a paean to New York City and its complex, and often surprising, relationship to its non-human residents, large and small. Like the wide range of humans who populate it’s five boroughs, a many animals, including whales, coyotes, deer, bed bugs, geese, mosquitos, and hawks all call the Big Apple’s streets, parks, and shores home as well.