Aaron J.
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Aaron is a writer and award winning poet who sometimes writes under the pen name Middlepoet. He grew up in Burlington, VT and has spent his adult years living in Los Angeles and New York. Aaron is an avid reader of dog books and a huge sports fan. His favorite authors include, John Steinbeck, Ted Kerasote, Blyden Jackson, Saul Williams and Charles Bukowski.
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
This is the ultimate guide to how a dog experiences the world. Once you read this, you will never view your dog the same way again. The science in the book is easy to follow and there are enough personal anecdotes from the author to keep the book from becoming bogged down in academia. A must read for dog owners and dog lovers everywhere.
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
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With a light touch and the weight of science behind her, psychologist Alexandra Horowitz examines the familiar but mysterious animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least, and explains how dogs perceivetheir daily world, each other, and that other quirky animal - the human. With up-to-the-minute research on dogs' detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, and their skill at reading our attention. Illus., b&w line drawings throughout. 368p.
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Last Time As We Are
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You don't need a classroom to be a teacher, and you don't need to be a teacher to help someone learn a lesson. Taylor Mali's poetry explores this truth in entertaining and plainspoken ways because 'the last thing this world needs is another poem' - so here's another book of 'em! 113p.
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A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life
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A look at the cult and culture of the dog-rescue movement in America based on the personal experience of the owners of Rancho de Chihuahua dog sanctuary in New Mexico.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: 30th Anniversary Special Edition
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Anniversary edition of the Shel Silverstein classic adds 12 new poems.
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The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951- 1993
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A selection of the best poems from Bukowski's long poetic career, including the last (for now) of his never-before-collected poems. Celebrating the range of the poet's extraordinary and surprising sensibility, and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems conjure the field of Bukowsk's emotions & existential angst-grit: the poet as the 'sham of our pretenses' debunker par excellence, who unflinchingly administers the appropriate coup de grace to our 'deer caught in the headlig…
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The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
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First published in 1939, 'The Grapes of Wrath' quickly transmuted into a landmark of American literature, with its portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength. The novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice. In microcosm, it is the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to Ca…
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The Giving Tree
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The classic tale of a selfless tree and the boy she loves.
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Merle's Door : Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
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When award-winning author Ted Kerasote found a ten-month-old pup in the Utah desert, he could not help but notice an animal who thought and survied for itself. Obviously, the pup had been through some hard time, but so had Kerasote, who was open to the idea of gaining a new best-friend. What emerged from this triumphant chance meeting was a companion unlike any other; the blonde and brilliant Merle. Through their many adventures and exploits, Kerasote began to notice that the same instinc…
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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(The 30th Anniversary Edition). Still vividly remembering the stories of his grandmother about his family after he grew up, Alex Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genalogical detective work, Haley discovered not only the name of 'the African' - Kunta Kinte - but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gamb…
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