Animal City

In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who influenced the likes of Aphex Twin and The Chemical Brothers. While researching Derbyshire's life, Tutti became immersed in her story and uncovered fascinating parallels with her own life. At the same time, Tutti began reading about Margery Kempe, the fifteenth-century mystic visionary who wrote the first English-language autobiography. The connections between the three women soon shifted into focus.

Underneath the steps leading down to Eric's basement is a hidden storage place. It's dusty and old, nothing special at all. But when Eric, Julie, and Neal all huddle inside the gray room together, something unbelievable happens. A glittering light and then a rainbow-colored staircase appear. As the kids take their very first step down into the mysterious land of Droon, they know that only magic and adventure await them!

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 ...

The story of two young city squirrels who bravely face the challenges of life and make their dream for a better future into a reality.

How do you get people to appreciate what is right in front of them? In The Tale of the Mandarin Duck, it takes a mysterious, beautiful duck and a clear-eyed kid to point out the obvious! This audiobook will have listeners of all ages coming back to visit the fantastical interpretation of New York City and its odd ducks - both feathered and human.

Before he became an archmage to topple an empire, before he met the legendary Eradicator Xal, Saghir was born a free ratkin, living on the streets of Gateway, a perilous desert city at the edge of the Blasted Lands. Each month, the free laborers must pay their tithe in coin, or blood. Every ratkin in Saghir's tribe searches for something of value, lest their whole people be enslaved. Ruthless Corax, carnivorous scarabs, and worse infest the city. There are countless ways for a rat to die, and all it takes is one mistake. There are no second chances.

Josie Shilling’s family is too big, their cramped city house is too small, and she feels like no one’s ever on her side. Then, on Thanksgiving Day, her older brother, Tom, brings home a pink, squirmy bundle wrapped in an old football jersey - a piglet he rescued from a nearby farm. Her name is Hamlet. The minute Josie holds Hamlet, she feels an instant connection. But there’s no room for Hamlet in the crowded Shilling household. And whoever heard of keeping a pig in the city? So, it’s up to Josie to find her a forever home.

Una novela de humor sobre los derechos de los animales. Para los grandes cazadores es todo un reto conseguir la mejor pieza. Los hermanos Astorga son grandes cazadores y han averiguado algo que puede convertirlos en multimillonarios. ¿Quién dice que los humanos son los únicos animales racionales de la Tierra? ¡Craso error!

A Cupcakes-and-Crime Caper A bachelor party gone wrong – or did it go exactly how it was meant to go? When a groom goes missing after his “bachelor party weekend,” Tiffany and Rosie are called on the case. “Winters will have you giggling into your book!” What should have been an easy missing persons case turns complicated as the duo discover that every person involved is keeping secrets. But are the party-goers lying to protect the groom, or to protect themselves? When a key informant turns up dead, Tiffany and Rosie realize there might be more at stake here than a simple party ...

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.

Missing his city cousin, Country Mouse invites him for a visit. However, from the moment he arrives, the flamboyant and arrogant City Mouse shows contempt for his less-privileged cousin by incessantly bragging about his home and good fortune. In fact, he won't even consider spending the night and convinces Country Mouse to return with him for a visit in the city. His cousin cheerfully accepts, but what follows illustrates the significance of a simpler, safer life.

His sister's disappearance haunts Ex-Navy SEAL Beckett Callahan. For years, all roads have led to nothing but dead ends. To cope, he and his brother Birch—another ex-Navy SEAL—run Terra Search & Recovery to help other families bring closure to their pain. He even hopes to train his golden retriever Brodie to become a search dog with the Coastal Canine Unit. After multiple tours overseas, Beckett has finally managed to rebuild his life. But failing to find out what happened to his sister overshadows everything. That changes when Beckett meets Dr. Kelly Ecklund, a quirky marine biologist,...

In 1997 New York City hipsters Lee and Ed were at a crossroads. Money was tight, their careers were floundering, their apartment was tiny, and their relationship, frankly, was dysfunctional. Then, on a fateful day in August, they decided on impulse to visit a nearby animal shelter, just to look at dogs. In a split-second decision that would change their lives, they brought home Wallace. They quickly realized that this spaniel mix was more than they could handle.

They’re both aiming for Best in Show—but first they’ll have to survive each other. SHELBY: As a Houston pageant princess, I’m used to turning heads—especially when it comes to my perfectly groomed Shih Tzu, Princess. The annual Sweetwater Dog Show is our chance to dazzle the judges and sweep the competition. Then Weston Tate barges onto the scene with his rowdy Blue Heeler, stomping all over my grand entrance. Our dogs can’t stand each other, and apparently neither can we. But when a string of strange mishaps threatens to shut down the show, we’re forced to team up and sniff ...

From snow plows to skyscraper nests and rooftop gardens, life in the city changes from season to season. Discover what animals live in the city. Learn how smog forms in summer.

When a young boy visits his friend, Mary, he finds out it’s honey harvest day! Even though Mary’s family lives in the big city of Chicago, they have honeybees in their backyard. Follow along to learn about beekeeping and lots of cool stuff about the honeybee!

The cats keep the ancient bargain. They are still among us, hidden here and there; the cats who remember the Old Compact: you provide a home for us, feed us, take care of us in our illness, and we will protect you from the dangers of the night. They operate below the sight lines of humanity, dealing with dangers that we would never notice until it was too late. They remember the old magics of Freya, Bast and Hecate. They are the Guardian Cats. There is a place in the heart of the City where the lines of force converge. It is a place of peace that used to be a place of vengeance and horror. ...

August Merriweather has always been good with animals. In fact, she’s known as Manhattan’s Dog Whisperer. Men, on the other hand? Not so much. She’s been falling for the wrong guys ever since her regrettable crush on Keaton Sax, older brother of her best friend, Leah, and the biggest jerkface this side of the Hudson. Now an emotionally closed-off widower, Keaton has become one of the most formidable men on Wall Street, but August knows his secret. He’s not driven by sales targets and bonus checks—Keaton just wants to give his family the security they never had.

“This book had me hooked right from the start. Ended up reading in one sitting (uh oh - no sleep for me). I loved every character, human and animal.” ~ Amazon 5-star review Ex-champion bull rider, TJ, has zero time for romance and even less faith in love. Fish-out-of-water Paige needs time to heal her broken heart and a safe space to start over. Neither anticipates the powerful bond that comes from saving the life of a pregnant and abused little donkey named Miss Valentine. Paige’s fresh start goes from bad to redonkulous— Paige Jackson lost two years of her life to grief. Finally ...

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.