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Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites

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The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4

Darby Conley · 128 pages

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Catch as Cat Can

Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown · 396 pages

Spring fever comes to the small town of Crozet, Virginia. As the annual Dogwood Festival approaches, postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen feels her own mating instincts stir. As for tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, feline intuition tells her there's more in the air than just pheromones. It begins with a case of stolen hubcaps and proceeds to the mysterious death of a dissolute young mechanic over a sob

CatsTalking AnimalsDogsAnimal Narrator
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Claws and Effect

Rita Mae Brown · 297 pages

CLAWS AND EFFECTWinter puts tiny Crozet, Virginia, in a deep freeze and everyone seems to be suffering from the winter blahs, including postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. So all are ripe for the juicy gossip coming out of Crozet Hospital--until the main source of that gossip turns up dead. It's not like Harry to resist a mystery, and she soon finds the hospital a hotbed of ego, jealousy,

CatsTalking AnimalsDogsAnimal Narrator
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Howliday Inn

James Howe · 195 pages

ACE ISBN 0380645432 (ISBN13: 9780380645435) Harold and Chester could hardly believe it. The Monroe family was going on vacation without them! Bunnicula, the family rabbit, would be boarded with a neighbor. But they, the family's loyal dog and cat, were to stay with strangers at the foreboding Chateau Bow-Wow... No sooner had Harold and Chester settled into their bungalows than Louise, a French p

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A Clan in Need

Erin Hunter, Dan Jolley · 92 pages

Ravenpaw and Barley have been driven away from their farm by a group of vicious cats. Now the two loners must turn to ThunderClan, led by Ravenpaw's friend Firestar, for shelter. Firestar takes them in and promises to help them take back their home as soon as possible, but ThunderClan is in great danger. BloodClan cats have been launching raids on ThunderClan's territory and attacking Clan patrols

Animal NarratorCatsTalking AnimalsGraphic Novel & Manga
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Bunnicula In-a-Box

James Howe, Deborah Howe · 472 pages

Animal NarratorCatsDogsTalking Animals
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Cat Breaking Free

Shirley Rousseau Murphy · 400 pages

The fur starts flying when a gang from L.A. comes up to tranquil Molena Point, California, and begins breaking into the village's quaint shops. The fur of Joe Grey, Feline P.I., that is. After all, Molena Point has been his home since he was a kitten eating scraps from the garbage behind the local delicatessen, and he doesn't take well to marauding strangers. Joe even wonders whether the blonde wh

Talking AnimalsCatsAnimal NarratorSmall Town
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Upchuck and the Rotten Willy

Bill Wallace · 112 pages

Animal NarratorCatsTalking AnimalsDogs
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The Underneath

Kathi Appelt · 320 pages

An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.

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The Lost Warrior

Dan Jolley · 96 pages

When the Twolegs destroy the warrior Clans' forest home, Graystripe—second in command of ThunderClan is captured trying to help his comrades escape! Trapped in the pampered life of a kittypet, Graystripe has all the food and shelter he needs from his affectionate Twoleg family, but this is not the way he wants to live. The forest is calling him, and he never stops longing to go home. When he makes

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The Book of Night with Moon

Diane Duane · 390 pages

Rhiow seems a typical New York City cat: pampered by her Upper East Side owners, permitted in good weather to lounge on the apartment balcony, never allowed to run free. Or so the humans think. Rhiow is much more than she appears. With her teammates Saash and Urruah, she works with human wizards, protecting the world from dark forces and helping to maintain the network of magical transport gates t

Animal NarratorCatsTalking AnimalsUrban Fantasy
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Rover Red Charlie

Garth Ennis · 160 pages

Animal NarratorDogsCatsGraphic Novel & Manga
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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 464 pages

**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all

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Abhorsen

Garth Nix · 394 pages

Book three in Garth Nix's internationally acclaimed Old Kingdom fantasy trilogy that began with Sabriel and Lirael.Beneath the earth, a malignant force lies waiting, greedy for freedom from its ancient prison. As the Old Kingdom falls once more into a realm of darkness and terror, the people look desperately to the Abhorsen, the scourge of the Dead, to save them. Yet Abhorsen Sabriel is lost, miss

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Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 176 pages

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

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The Trouble With Chickens

Doreen Cronin · 119 pages

A hard-bitten former search-and-rescue dog helps solve a complicated missing chicken case.

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Thunder and Shadow

Erin Hunter · 396 pages

It's been nearly a moon since Alderpaw returned from his quest, unsuccessful but not empty-pawed. The two kits he found, Twigkit and Violetkit, have been taken in by two Clans: ThunderClan and ShadowClan. There is little hope for a reunion, as tension between the Clans begins to rise in the face of a new threat. The same vicious group of rogues that drove out SkyClan has traced Alderpaw's path bac

Animal NarratorCatsTalking AnimalsSeries
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The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog

John R. Erickson · 144 pages

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B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 3: Russia

Mike Mignola, John Arcudi · 160 pages

A graveyard of mutated horror is uncovered deep inside a Russian mine. With Liz still missing and Abe Sapien lying on his deathbed, the newly international B.P.R.D. sends Kate and Johann to meet the Russian equivalent of the Bureau - which readers first saw in B.P.R.D.: 1946 - and face an exploding fungus monster at the Kremlin and a spreading contagion.

Supernatural HorrorGraphic Novel & MangaUrban FantasyHorror
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A Forest Divided

Erin Hunter, Wayne McLoughlin · 367 pages

Follow your hearts. They will lead you home. Leaf-bare has fallen once more, threatening all cats with hunger and cold. Meanwhile, the message from the spirit-cats remains the same: in order to survive, they must grow and spread like the Blazing Star. And they must hurry. Clear Sky is certain that the only way forward is for all cats to band together again, but few are willing to ally with

Animal NarratorTalking AnimalsCatsSeries
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The Good Dog

Avi · 243 pages

McKinley, a malamute, is a good dog -- he's reliable and trustworthy. Whether it's watching over the other dogs of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, or taking care of his human pup, Jack, McKinley never even thinks of letting anyone down -- until he meets Lupin. Lupin is a she-wolf and she's urging the dogs of Steamboat Springs to leave their domesticated lives and join her wild pack. And though she sc

DogsAnimal NarratorTalking AnimalsCharming
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Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

"All hell breaks loose when a fateful accident sets in motion a series of terrifying events that will threaten the town of Riverdale like never before! When the dead begin to rise, craving human flesh, it's up to Archie, Betty & Veronica, and the Gang to fight for their lives against the zombie hordes led by their former pal, Jughead."--Back cover of volume 1.

Supernatural HorrorGraphic Novel & MangaHorrorSmall Town
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Hellboy: Odder Jobs

Christopher Golden · 216 pages

Supernatural HorrorGraphic Novel & MangaHorrorUrban Fantasy

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