Author: Steve Bodofsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960049301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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A line-by-line presentation of the Rainbow Bridge poem, with artists' renditions for each couplet.

Author: Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030745133X
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls? Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to disappear completely when they leave this world behind? Both scientists and religious authorities have long scoffed at the idea of animals in heaven. Yet the question endures. In this wise, immensely readable book, Ptolemy Tompkins embarks on a quest for the answer—taking us on a top-speed tour of the history of the animal soul. Equally at home with mainstream and alternative spiritual philosophies, Tompkins takes us from the savannas of Africa to the earth’s first cities to the early days of the great faith traditions of both East and West. Along the way, he shows that, despite what many of us have been taught, the world’s various spiritual traditions all have profoundly meaningful things to say about the animal soul, if we simply know where to look. Rescuing these ancient insights and blending them with vivid stories about animals today—from a dwarf rabbit named Angus to a manatee named Moose to a black bear named Little Bit—The Divine Life of Animals paints a gloriously inclusive picture of the cosmos as a place made up of both matter and spirit, in which animals are every bit as important, spiritually speaking, as the humans with whom they share the world. Though it is startlingly original, The Divine Life of Animals also feels strangely and instantly familiar, for it reveals truths that many of us have held in our hearts already, waiting only for someone to give fresh voice to one of the oldest and most trustworthy intuitions we possess. The Divine Life of Animals offers a compelling and timeless vision of the relationship between humans and animals that will have you looking at the animals in your life with new eyes.

Author: Hester Mundis
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 9781579540432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This heartwarming collection reveals the loyalty, companionship, sacrifice, and small miracles that define the depth and timelessness of the human-animal bond.

Author: William N. Britton
Publisher: Savannah Publishing
ISBN: 9780976472445
Category : Grief in children
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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"'The Legend of Rainbow Bridge' by William Britton ahas comforted the hearts and souls of countless animal lovers around the globe. Written for adults and children of all ages. My Britton's healing words offer solace and comfort to those left behind when their beloved companions journey to Rainbow Bridge. This book, beautifully illustrated by Dandi Palmer, is a must for all who share lives with animals of any kind."--Back cover.

Author: Adrian Raeside
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550179422
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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A gently humorous story that is a valuable fable for pet lovers of all ages.

Author: Eugene O'Neill
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805061703
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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A beautifully presentation of O'Neill's moving elegy to his dog Silverdene Emblem O'Neill (Blemie), illustrated with 25 color photos.

Author: Meghan Daum
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710066
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" (Slate) Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal essay with The Unspeakable, a powerful collection of ten new works. Where her previous collection explores what it is to be a struggling twenty-something urban dweller with an overdrawn bank account and oversized ambition, The Unspeakable contends with parental death, the decision not to have children, and more-a new set of challenges tackled by a writer at her best, investigated in the same uncompromising voice that made Daum one of the most engaging thinkers writing today. In The Unspeakable, Daum pushes back against the false sentimentality and shrink-wrapped platitudes that surround so much of the contemporary American experience. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the New Age search for the "Best Possible Experience," champions the merits of cream-of-mushroom-soup casserole, and gleefully recounts a quintessential "only-in-L.A." story of playing charades at a famous person's home. Combining the piercing insight of Joan Didion with humor reminiscent of Nora Ephron's, Daum dissects our culture's most dangerous illusions while retaining her own joy and compassion. Through it all, she dramatizes the search for an authentic self in a world where achieving an identity is never simple and never complete.

Author: Rene Agredano
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733468909
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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When their dog Jerry lost a leg to cancer, Jim & Rene set out to travel together in a new RV. Jerry led them around the country for two years. Be More Dog is more than a memoir about a three-legged dog on an epic road trip. It is a mantra to live by, and this book is the guide. With Foreword and original artwork by MUTTS creator Patrick McDonnell.

Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536217719
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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"Step back into a sweeping landscape of green glades and glaciers where dwarves, frost giants, and ghosts roam and where gods and goddesses work their magic for Middle Earth, sometimes crossing the great rainbow bridge to come to the aid of humans"--Amazon.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 0544313402
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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