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Author : John J. Morabito
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781608445684
Author : Anita Diamant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416556831
“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review). Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches.” Among the inhabitants of this hamlet are Black Ruth, who dresses as a man and works as a stonemason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age in her brothel; Oliver Younger, who survives a miserable childhood at the hands of his aunt; and Cornelius Finson, a freed slave. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, deeply lonely, who nonetheless builds a life for herself against all imaginable odds. Rendered in stunning, haunting detail, with Anita Diamant’s keen ear for language and profound compassion for her characters, The Last Days of Dogtown is an extraordinary retelling of a long-forgotten chapter of early American life.
Author : Eileen Day McGrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Dogtown Commons (Gloucester, Mass.)
ISBN : 0981933521
Author : Elyssa East
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416587187
The area known as Dogtown -- an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in storied seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts -- has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural sightings, pirates, former slaves, drifters, and the many dogs Revolutionary War widows kept for protection and for which the area was named. In 1984, a brutal murder took place there: a mentally disturbed local outcast crushed the skull of a beloved schoolteacher as she walked in the woods. Dogtown's peculiar atmosphere -- it is strewn with giant boulders and has been compared to Stonehenge -- and eerie past deepened the pall of this horrific event that continues to haunt Gloucester even today. In alternating chapters, Elyssa East interlaces the story of this grisly murder with the strange, dark history of this wilderness ghost town and explores the possibility that certain landscapes wield their own unique power. East knew nothing of Dogtown's bizarre past when she first became interested in the area. As an art student in the early 1990s, she fell in love with the celebrated Modernist painter Marsden Hartley's stark and arresting Dogtown landscapes. She also learned that in the 1930s, Dogtown saved Hartley from a paralyzing depression. Years later, struggling in her own life, East set out to find the mysterious setting that had changed Hartley's life, hoping that she too would find solace and renewal in Dogtown's odd beauty. Instead, she discovered a landscape steeped in intrigue and a community deeply ambivalent about the place: while many residents declare their passion for this profoundly affecting landscape, others avoid it out of a sense of foreboding. Throughout this richly braided first-person narrative, East brings Dogtown's enigmatic past to life. Losses sustained during the American Revolution dealt this once thriving community its final blow. Destitute war widows and former slaves took up shelter in its decaying homes until 1839, when the last inhabitant was taken to the poorhouse. He died seven days later. Dogtown has remained abandoned ever since, but continues to occupy many people's imaginations. In addition to Marsden Hartley, it inspired a Bible-thumping millionaire who carved the region's rocks with words to live by; the innovative and influential postmodernist poet Charles Olson, who based much of his epic Maximus Poems on Dogtown; an idiosyncratic octogenarian who vigilantly patrols the land to this day; and a murderer who claimed that the spirit of the woods called out to him. In luminous, insightful prose, Dogtown takes the reader into an unforgettable place brimming with tragedy, eccentricity, and fascinating lore, and examines the idea that some places can inspire both good and evil, poetry and murder.
Author : Katherine Applegate,Gennifer Choldenko
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250811615
From beloved authors Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko and with illustrations from Wallace West, Dogtown is at once an uplifting story and a page-turning adventure, sure to find a forever home in readers’ hearts. Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have outgrown them. Chance, a real dog, has been in Dogtown since her owners unwittingly left her with irresponsible dog-sitters who skipped town. Metal Head is a robot dog who dreams of being back in a real home. And Mouse is a mouse who has the run of Dogtown, pilfering kibble, and performing clever feats to protect the dogs he loves. When Chance and Metal Head embark on an adventure to find their forever homes, there is danger, cheese sandwiches, a charging station, and some unexpected kindnesses along the way.
Author : Stefan Bechtel
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781426206429
These compelling, winningly illustrated true stories, each uniquely moving and inspirational, draw upon the experience of veterinarians, trainers, and volunteers to probe a range of tough, touching cases that evoke both the joy and the occasional but inevitable heartbreak that accompanies this work. Each chapter follows a dog from the first day at Dogtown until he ultimately finds (or doesn't find) a permanent new home, focusing both on the relationship between the dog and the Dogtown staff and on the latest discoveries about animal health and behavior. We learn how dogs process information, how trauma affects their behavior, and how people can help them overcome their problems. In the end, we come to see that there are no "bad dogs" and that with patience, care, and compassion, people can help dogs to heal.
Author : Anita Diamant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743225748
Endeavoring to build a life for herself in a dying early nineteenth-century New England town, Judy Rhines struggles with feelings of profound loneliness and impacts the lives of Black Ruth, a freed slave who dresses as a man and works as a stone mason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam; and Oliver, who overcomes a painful childhood. By the author of The Red Tent. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.
Author : Josephine Cameron
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374306458
Josephine Cameron's A Dog-Friendly Town is a delightful middle-grade cozy caper sure to excite dog-lovers and gentle mystery readers alike! Twelve-year-old Epic McDade isn't ready for middle school. He'd rather help out at his family's dog-friendly bed n' breakfast all summer, or return to his alternative elementary school in the fall, where learning feels safe. But change comes in all shapes and fur colors. When Carmelito, California is named America's #1 Dog-Friendly Town, all the top dogs and their owners pour into Epic's sleepy seaside neighborhood for a week of celebration. The McDades are in dog heaven with all the new business until a famous dog's jewel-encrusted collar goes missing. Every guest is a suspect, and Epic will have to embrace new friends and new ideas to sniff out the culprit before the week is through.
Author : J.F. Englert
Publisher : Dell
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440336969
Meet Randolph. A dog like any other dog—but with a nose for murder . . . Harry is a man still mourning the loss of his beloved girlfriend, Imogen, who left him suddenly without a word. He’s also the owner of a plump, poetry-loving Lab, Randolph. Like most Manhattan dogs, Randolph spends his days sifting through a world of scents, his owner’s neuroses, and an overcrowded doggy run at the American Museum of Natural History. But now a bereft Harry has drifted into a circle of would-be occultists. Which might not be so bad if one of them wasn’t also a murderer. But which one? With 100,000 times the smelling power of a human being, Randolph can quickly detect the scents of guilt, anxiety, and avarice—and he has no lack of suspects, from a seductive con woman to an uncouth professor of the decorative arts. Now, to protect his hapless owner’s life, Randolph might have to do the unthinkable—and start training Harry to catch a killer. . . .
Author : Jodi Kendall
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062484581
Twelve-year-old Josie must find forever homes for seven rambunctious foster puppies in this heartwarming sequel to The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City, which the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books called “a compelling story that will appeal to the animal fans who loved The One and Only Ivan.” Anytime Josie Shilling’s large family gets too chaotic, volunteering at the local animal clinic is the one place she can escape—and she loves working with the animals. But when a box mysteriously appears on the clinic’s front steps, Josie suddenly becomes responsible for seven adorable puppies! Taking care of her pig, Hamlet, last fall was a bit harder than she thought. So how is she ever going to handle a whole litter of mischievous pups and find the right homes for them all? This summer will bring big changes for Josie as she learns about growing up, letting go, and loving your pack no matter what. Dog Days in the City is a heartwarming blend of coming-of-age and animal friendship story that is perfect for fans of Ann M. Martin’s Rain Reign, Joan Bauer’s Almost Home, and Barbara O'Connor’s Wish.
Author : Dominique Béchard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1554471958
"In her first book of poems, Dominique Béchard writes of the push-pull of departure and return, of our ability to take hopeful action while already inhabiting the dread of tomorrow's failure and relapse. In contemplating the inevitable unravelling of all efforts and the seductiveness of familiar poor choices, Béchard's speaker often seems mysterious to herself, probing her own impulses and memories but unable to 'account for why I end / the day undoing the day's paltry attempts / at poise.' Like an old-time bluegrass song, these poems are more often wearily resolute than wholly despairing, preoccupied with, but distrustful of, the beauty of change's possibilities, their speaker ever-renewing her plans to act--to get out, to get better, or to somehow get her shit together. Though the poems are situated in the anti-pastoral landscape and hard-living youth culture of northern Ontario--where 'balsam nearly touches roof,' and poverty, isolation, addiction and heartsickness loom both inevitable and foreboding--Béchard's focus is more introspective than sociological, pursuing 'the mind's paraphrase of days and nights spent alone.' Taking the form of reveries, nocturnes and elegies, these poems are often enveloped by various kinds of bounded space--rooms, relationships, letters, books, songs and states of mind. Though acute and unflinching in her description of the brutal realities of poverty and addiction, Béchard's speaker wavers with competing longings--for joy and pain, confrontation and withdrawal, memory and forgetting--wrestling with both her sense of isolation and her seemingly 'impossible proximity' to love and tragic loss. Vivid in its imagery, lyrical in its language, One Dog Town offers intimate poems of craving and thirst--for the momentary escape of excess, for some lasting truce with the world, and for affirmation and love" -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Ya-Ling Huang
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780711295346
Sing along to this catchy rhyme, set to "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush", and discover what the residents of Dogtown get up to in this delightful book of first experiences. This is the way we brush our teeth, brush our teeth, brush our teeth, This is the way we brush our teeth, early in the morning. See the dogs brushing their teeth, getting dressed, going to school, eating lunch, going swimming, and much more before the day is done and it's time for bed. This book's charming artwork, by talented illustrator Jade Huang, is rich with detail as it creates a whole town of dogs going about their days. Ending as night falls over dogtown and the dogs are bathed and in bed, this book's lilting rhymes make it perfect for a pre-bedtime read.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924007282647
Author : Sandy Rideout
Publisher : Sandy Rideout, Author
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
What if a dog you never met, a dog you never knew was the only dog for you? Isla McInnis flies across the country to Dorset Hills on a hunch that a sweet little rescue dog named Rio will change her life forever. But when she reaches the scenic town, the dog has already found a home. Bruce Duncan doesn't believe in whims or fate. The expert trainer is looking for reliable, local homes for his rescue dogs. Isla, an investigative reporter from L.A., may be pretty, persuasive and annoyingly persistent, but she doesn't tick any of the right boxes for a good owner in his eyes. When a quirky band of rescue rebels takes Isla under its wing and into the hills with Bruce to meet some available dogs, she has one day, one chance to prove she's worthy of a special Dorset Hills dog--even if Rio is no longer an option. By the time the sun sets, Isla questions whether adorable Rio was the true reason she was called to this quaint town in the first place. Is it possible that destiny comes wrapped in fur? If you love dogs, humor, romance and a little mystery, you’ll adore this short prequel to the Dog Town series! ❤ Get it Now! More about Dog Town... Dorset Hills is famous for being the most dog-friendly place in all of North America. People come from near and far to enjoy its beautiful landscape and unique charms. Naturally, when so many dogs and dog-lovers unite in one town, mischief and mayhem follow. Every visit to Dog Town is a heartwarming, hilarious romp with a glorious happily-ever-after. These standalone titles can be read in any order. If you want to travel the seasons with the residents of Dorset Hills, however, here’s the list: ‣ Ready or Not in Dog Town (Prequel) ◦ Bitter and Sweet in Dog Town (Labor Day) ‣ A Match Made in Dog Town (Thanksgiving) ◦ Lost and Found in Dog Town (Christmas) ‣ Calm and Bright in Dog Town (Christmas) ◦ Tried and True in Dog Town (New Year's) ‣ Yours and Mine in Dog Town (Valentine’s Day) ◦ Nine Lives in Dog Town (Easter) ‣ Bold and Blue in Dog Town (Coming Soon) ◦ Better or Worse in Dog Town (Coming Soon) ‣ The Dog Town Collection (Books 1-3 Boxed Set) ◦ The Dog Town Collection (Books 4-6 Boxed Set)
Author : Rhode Island
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Law
ISBN : NYPL:33433015315561
