No Dog Should Die Alone was the attention-grabbing - and heart-stirring - headline of journalist Laura T. Coffey's TODAY show website story about photographer Lori Fusaro's work with senior shelter pets. While generally calm, easy, and already house-trained, these animals often represent the highest-risk population at shelters. With gorgeous, joyful photographs and sweet, funny, true tales of old dogs learning new tricks, Coffey and Fusaro show that...

Provides information on adopting a pet, covering the responsibilities of pet ownership, providing tips on making a home safe, and discussing proper nutrition, exercise, grooming, housetraining, and health care.

"Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood-conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson-eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies the outsiderness the speaker, who is almost always addressing...

David Rosenfelt's loyal followers of the Andy Carpenter series are familiar with Tara, the golden retriever sidekick. Many also got to know Tara from Dogtripping, David's tales about becoming a slightly nutty dog rescuer and the dog that started it all. Here, finally, is a book all about the inspirational canine who taught David everything he knows. Well, he did know how to tie his shoes before he met and came to love Tara, but that's about it. Through...

Three Mothers for Margie is a happy-sad-happy story of a little girl trying to navigate through her young life, having moments of great joy only to be followed by ones of profound sadness and loneliness. Losing the one person that gave her so much love, Margie wondered what would happen to her. Above all, would they want and love her? Would they adopt her? For a short while, happiness found this child, by riding on the back of a black stallion named...

The era of the nuclear family, with a working dad and stay-at-home mom is fast disappearing. There is no longer any such thing as a Typical Family, but rather, a whole grab bag of family arrangements. Families are now more ethnically, racially, religiously and stylistically diverse than a decade ago. Postmodernists argue that the increase in diversity of family household structures reflects that we now live in a tolerant society. The family unit is,...

I Am in Foster Care seeks to answer the myriad of questions a child has when entering the foster care system. By plainly and truthfully answering a foster child's questions, we take one step toward decreasing their fear and establishing trust during a scary and uncertain time in their lives. This book is meant to be a conversation starter with your foster child but can also be used with biological children who find themselves in the role of foster-sibling...