In Robin Carole’s A Christmas Miracle with a Dash of Cumin, Panera is a black-and-white tuxedo cat whose story begins when a family shelters her pregnant stray mother. Panera enters the world three days after Christmas, then spends her earliest weeks in foster arrangements until...

Howard L. Dalton’s Four-Footed Sergeant is a beautiful account of a Marine armored unit officer and his fiercely loyal dog, Injector, who served beside him in the intense Pacific theater of World War II. Coming from a Texas farm background and holding a dairy science...

Always Here — When a Dog Dies by Jesse Kuhn is a helpful guide for anyone grieving the loss of their beloved dog. When one loses a pet, things change. Other people may not notice the change in routines, the nervous system trying to adjust...

Soft Obviousness by Alessandro Zanone is a heartbreaking memoir about loss and the process of coming to terms with what is left. Alessandro always loved his pet dogs. They gave him stability and comfort, and showed him a different perspective on relationships and connections. They...

Dogs are pretty smart. Though most of us dog owners already know that simple fact. In Bruce Miller’s The Science and Secrets of Dogs, dogs will reveal some of their clear-thinking methods, from sensing a chemical change in their owner’s body that might signify a...

J.P. Taylor’s The Story Behind the Eyes: Exploring the Interdependence of All Living Things tells readers that life on Earth survives through dependence, not independence. Taylor believes people have trained themselves to see all other life as separate pieces of existence when they actually function...

In Your Animal, Your Soul Mirror, Tammy Billups shares the connection between unresolved emotional pain in humans and behavioral reactions in animals. She argues that survival responses formed during early experiences continue shaping daily life long after the original harm disappears from conscious memory. Billups...

Rusty Blackwood’s Before the Grandeur: The Making of a Horsemaster is a gritty historical prequel about Cyril, a young Englishman who refuses to be limited by his meager beginnings. The story starts with his impoverished childhood in 1913 England and carries through the crushing weight...

SOAP Notes: Irreverent Confessions of a Veterinary Technician by Frannie O'Callaghan is a candid and, at times, surprisingly moving memoir from behind the scenes of a veterinary clinic. O'Callaghan is a licensed vet tech with over a decade of experience, and she holds nothing back:...

In Dance While the Fire Burns, Deborah Ann Lucas traces a life marked by repeated upheavals as her childhood moves give way to adult years shaped by almost every conceivable calamity, and the ongoing presence of horses and art as the only stable parts of...