How to Love Animals

How to Love Animals
Author: Henry Mance
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1984879669

A personal journey into our evolving relationships with animals, and a thought-provoking look at how those bonds are being challenged and reformed across disciplines We love animals, but does that make the animals' lives any happier? With factory farms, climate change and deforestation, this might be the worst time in history to be an animal. If we took animals' experiences seriously, how could we eat, think and live differently? How to Love Animals is a lively and important portrait of our evolving relationship with animals, and how we can share our planet fairly. Mance works in a slaughterhouse and on a pig farm to explore the reality of eating meat and dairy. He explores our dilemmas over hunting wild animals, over-fishing the seas, visiting zoos and saving wild spaces. What might happen if we extended the love we show to our pets to other sentient beings? In an age of extinction and pandemics, our relationship with animals has become unsustainable. Mance argues that there has never been a better time to become vegetarian or vegan, and that the conservation movement can flourish, if people in wealthy countries shrink their footprint. Mance seeks answers from chefs, farmers, activists, philosophers, politicians and tech visionaries who are redefining how we think about animals. Inspired by the author's young daughters, his book is a story of discovery and hope that outlines how we can find a balance with animals that fits with our basic love for them.

Flaming Iguanas

Flaming Iguanas
Author: Erika Lopez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 068485368X

In the tradition of such trendsetting wanderers as Jack Kerouac and Thelma and Louise comes the tale of a one-of-a-kind heroine on a sea-to-shining-sea, all-girl adventure. Line drawings.

Long, Tall Texans - Quinn

Long, Tall Texans - Quinn
Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488707804

New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer serves up a tale of love on the range in Long, Tall Texans: Quinn, originally published as Sutton's Way in 1989. Tragedy had sent music superstar Amanda Callaway to the Wyoming mountains to heal. What she found was another battle to fight... Quinn Sutton. Snowbound at his ranch, Amanda was glad Quinn was unaware of her real identity. With a chip on his shoulder the size of the Tetons, the rugged mountain man had no use for the opposite sex – especially city women who ran in the fast lane. But what Quinn didn't realise was how special his world seemed to Amanda. Battling his misconceptions about her, she vowed to prove she shared the same old–fashioned values... and desires. When he learned who she was, though, would she lose him forever?

Augustown

Augustown
Author: Kei Miller
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101871628

11 April 1982: a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, like a spirit but not quite. Ma Taffy is growing worried. She knows that something is going to happen. Something terrible is going to pour out into the world. But if she can hold it off for just a little bit longer, she will. So she asks a question that surprises herself even as she asks it, "Kaia, I ever tell you bout the flying preacherman?" Set in the backlands of Jamaica, Augustown is a magical and haunting novel of one woman’s struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.

I Wanna Iguana

I Wanna Iguana
Author: Karen Kaufman Orloff
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2004-09-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399237178

Hilarious notes between a son and his mom show how kid logic can be very persuasive. Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home. Alex's reassures her: It takes fifteen years for an iguana to get that big. I'll be married by then and probably living in my own house His mom's reply: How are you going to get a girl to marry you when you own a giant reptile? Kis will be in hysterics as the negotiations go back and forth through notes, and the lively, imaginative illustrations showing their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana take the humor to even higher heights.

Beni's War

Beni's War
Author: Tammar Stein
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1728405505

It's Yom Kippur Eve in 1973, and twelve-year-old Beni thinks his biggest problem is settling in at his new school in the Golan, where his family moved at the end of the Six-Day War. But on Yom Kippur, shocking news comes over the radio: a stunning strike on Israel has begun, led by a coalition of Arab states. In the blink of an eye, Beni's older brother Motti is off to war, leaving Beni behind with his mother and father. As bombs drop around Beni and his family, they flee to safety, every day hoping for news of Motti and the developments of the war. Beni must find a way to aid the war effort in his own way, proving that he too can be a hero, even as he learns along the way that there is dignity in every person, including the people he considers the enemy.

Twist My Charm: the Popularity Spell

Twist My Charm: the Popularity Spell
Author: Toni Gallagher
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553511181

Originally published: New York: Random House Children's Books, 2015.

The Six-day Hero

The Six-day Hero
Author: Tammar Stein
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing (R)
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1512428566

Twelve-year-old Motti discovers that there are many types of heroes as his tiny young nation of Israel fights for survival in the Six-Day War of 1967.

Texas Born

Texas Born
Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146034054X

Head back to Jacobsville, Texas with this fan-favorite Long, Tall Texans romance from New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer! Their love was born in Texas… Gabriel Brandon had been her hero ever since he’d rescued her, an orphan, from sure ruin. And Michelle Godrey had loved him forever, the mysterious rancher with the dark eyes, her protector and guardian angel. But something kept his heart closed off, seemingly for good. Could Michelle ever cast aside the shadows that lingered between them? Could she show Gabriel that their Lone Star love was true? From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in Love. Overcome Obstacles. Find Happiness

The Last Mercenary

The Last Mercenary
Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373180888

Micah Steele is forced to pick up his gun once again when Callie Kirby, a woman from his past, is kidnapped by his sworn enemy, and Lily Germaine helps Noah Laramie get his life back on track after he loses an arm in Afghanistan.