My Friend the Dog


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Eleven stories of collies, as children's pets, farmers' steady helpers, trackers or slayers of vicious beasts, and companions of very different men and one story of a wolf as tame and devoted as a dog.




Lad: A Dog


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"Lad: A Dog" by Albert Payson Terhune. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.




Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Little Dog


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One rainy day, Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka find a crying dog on their doorstep. They bring him inside and take care of him. But the next morning, the girls find an ad in the paper for a lost dog. Their new friend belongs to someone else. Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka return the dog to his rightful owner, but he doesn't want to go home!




Morris and Buddy


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2008 Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College Morris Frank lost his sight in 1924, when he was only sixteen. One day, Morris's dad read him an article about an American dog trainer living in Switzerland. This is the story of his relationship with Buddy, his own seeing eye dog.




Lad, a Dog


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Whisked away from his country estate to compete in a dog show in New York City, Lad is confused and unhappy and wishes only to go home.







Everybody's


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The Lost Girl


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In The Lost Girl, James Morrison finds a compelling lens through the eyes of a young person trying to understand the world and her place in it. In stylized prose both elegant and spare, saturated with irony but fraught with tenderness, Morrison raises questions about modern life that become more pressing by the day.




Mnemosyne's Altar


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Born in Chicago, Illinois, during the Great Depression, the fictionalized author narrates for his children the story of his life in the Twentieth Century. His account begins with the loss of innocence during childhood and concludes with realization of his pending last moments. It is an account which moves him from a life among a little known religious sect, The Brethren of Northern Illinois and Wisconsin, through some of the defining moments of the Twentieth Century as experienced by one who both reflects about, and acts upon that which is happening.