Titoli in Animali

When Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his partner, PI Bernie Little of the desert-based Little Detective Agency, arrive to a meeting with hydrologist Wendell Nero, they are in for a shocking sight - Wendell has come to a violent and mysterious end. What did the hydrologist want to see them about? Is his death a random robbery, or something more? Chet and Bernie, working for nothing more than an eight-pack of Slim Jims, are on the case. 

As a tabby cat with criminal tendencies, MacGyver is always a whisker away from trouble. But when he stumbles upon a litter of four motherless kittens, he really has his paws full. It's clear Mac has to take care of the cuddly little furballs, at least until he finds them each a human. That's not going to be easy though. Not when Mac's the prime suspect in a series of thefts at Storybook Court - and his loving but concerned owners, Jamie and David, have put him under house arrest. As if that could stop a clever cat like Mac....

Her serial killer brother's escaped-and it's single mom Zoe Sullivan who's under suspicion! Sgt. Linc Colson trusts two things: his instincts and his Rottweiler K-9 partner, Star - and certainly not the pretty face he's assigned to monitor. He's done everything to keep her from getting under his skin - now he must stop those who want to put her six feet under. 

Spencer Quinn's Heart of Barkness is the latest in the New York Times best-selling series that the Los Angeles Times called "nothing short of masterful". 

Vanessa has been rushed to hospital, having been found unconscious at the foot of the stairs. Was it an accident or something else? Now, smiling weakly, suffering from a head injury that has left her with complete amnesia about the fall, the events leading up to it, and even the people closest to her, here she is, back in their midst. Or is she? In fact, the real Vanessa is still in a coma. Her devoted twin brother Vance, superbly disguised as a woman, has taken her place! Vance joins the self-absorbed retinue, determined to discover whether one of them had tried to kill his sister.

Klädd i en svart skinnrock, stålhättade kängor, med snaggat hår och solglasögon rör sig Edvard genom Göteborg. Han är helt ointresserad av andra människor, och jagad av minnen från sitt förflutna. Hans kurator Eva gör upprepade försök att få honom att öppna upp sig och prova nya saker. I ett sista desperat försök ger hon honom en hund, som annars skulle ha avlivats, i ett försök att ge både hunden och Edvard en ny chans.

Christmas is just around the corner, and Sarah Booth and Tinkie are preparing for a festive holiday season. After a turbulent season of solving cases, they're ready for some holiday cheer. Sarah Booth and Sheriff Coleman Peters have finally gotten together, and this is the first holiday they're celebrating as a couple. Sarah Booth busies herself with decking the halls and daydreaming about romantic Christmas nights with Coleman. Then her friend Cece Dee Falcon shows up needing Sarah Booth's help.

Une nuit d'été, sur le plateau de Malefougasse, parmi "deux cents hommes et cent mille bêtes", Giono, l'imagination exaltée par des contes flottant au vent des collines, assiste stupéfait à un singulier spectacle, une véritable cérémonie secrète. À la lueur des feux, au son des harpes éoliennes et des flûtes à eau, une dizaine de bergers jouent un drame épique dans une langue tissée de visions, mêlant le provençal, le génois, le corse, le piémontais.

Despite his highly successful marketing career, Craig Williams' personal life is falling apart. The puppy he's surrendering to the local shelter is one sign of how messed up things have gotten due to a recent divorce plus the loss of a child. He thinks he'd best focus on his two surviving kids. When Craig shows up to Megan Anderson's no-kill animal shelter, the confrontation that ensues sets them on a path neither could have predicted.

In this 12th entry in the award-winning series, Carolyn Haines' intrepid PI Sarah Booth comes up against porn-star-turned-psychic Sherry Cameron, who runs a medium business from a haunted estate on the edge of town. After growing suspicious that Sherry might be exploiting her emotionally vulnerable - and extremely wealthy - clients, Sarah disguises herself as a maid and sneaks onto Sherry's estate. But what she discovers there is deadlier than she could have imagined.

Rich and flamboyant Honeybelle Hensley, the most colorful character in Mule Stop, Texas, dies a suspicious death and enrages the whole town by leaving her worldly fortune to the most undeserving recipient - her dog. The incorrigible Miss Ruffles is a Texas cattle cur, not a cuddly lapdog. But now Miss Ruffles is in danger, and it's up to Sunny McKillip, the unwilling dogsitter, to keep her safe.

Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter White Garden party at the newly renovated King Cotton Boutique Hotel. It's a dazzling success, until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through the door. Sarah Booth knew Sister in college, before Sister became a best-selling author and moved to New York, and fame and fortune don't seem to have tempered her arrogance and cruelty.

Chet and Bernie are contacted by a terribly scared young woman who seems to want their help. Before she can even tell them her name, she flees in panic. But in that brief meeting Chet sniffs out an important secret about her, a secret at the heart of the mystery he and Bernie set out to solve. It's a case with no client and no crime and yet great danger, with the duo facing a powerful politician who has a lot to lose. 

Hugo was a dog. He died. Now he's a kitten. As Hugo adjusts to his new body (not just a cat - a baby cat!), his new home (San Francisco), his new outside (Where are the mountains? Where is the lake?), and his sudden urge to sit in every box he sees, he wonders if he'll ever see Cassie or Jerry again.  

A little boy is missing, and it's up to search-and-rescue K-9 handler Ava Esposito and her dog to find him...before the Red Rose Killer does. FBI Special Agent Oliver Davison is hot on the trail of the escaped convict and joins forces with Ava. But when the killer turns his crosshairs on them, Oliver must protect them all before time runs out.

Returning home to England from New York, Margot finds her family in chaos. Her cousin Chloe is in prison awaiting trial for murdering her twin sister, Claudia, their mother has withdrawn into the imaginary world of her romance novels, Claudia’s 14-year-old daughter has regressed to early childhood and refuses to leave her bed, and to top it all off, the family cat has decided to live with the neighbors. As Chloe’s trial approaches, the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly fraught, and Margot begins to wonder whether someone else is responsible for Claudia’s death.

Después del éxito cosechado con la publicación de Un perro, Alejandro Palomas y el ilustrador Fernando Vicente se unen en un spin off de la historia que ya ha enamorado a miles de lectores (con tres ediciones y más de 14.000 ejemplares impresos). En lo que será el primer libro ilustrado de...

«Хроники странствующего кота» – бестселлер Хиро Арикавы , покоривший сердца миллионов читателей по всему миру. Это трогательная история дружбы кота со «счастливым» именем Нана, что означает по-японски «семь», и его хозяина Сатору. Вместе с тем это роман-путешествие, в котором герои перемещаются как в пространстве, так и во времени: Нана открывает для себя безбрежные морские просторы и красоту горы Фудзи, а Сатору как будто заново переживает события детства и юности.

Седрик Сапен-Дефур написал удивительно трогательную и в то же время полную иронии книгу о неожиданных встречах, подаренных судьбой, которые показывают нам, кто мы и каково наше представление о мире и любви. Эта история произошла на самом деле. Все началось с небольшого объявления в местной газете: двенадцать щенков бернского зенненхунда ищут дом. Так у Седрика, учителя физкультуры и альпиниста, появился новый друг, Убак. Отныне их общая жизнь наполнилась особой, безусловной любовью, какая бывает только у человека и его собаки.

Осенью 1958 года Джеральд Даррелл, к этому времени не менее известный писатель, чем его старший брат Лоуренс, на корабле "Звезда Англии" отправился в Аргентину. Как вспоминала его жена Джеки, побывать в Патагонии и своими глазами увидеть многотысячные колонии пингвинов, понаблюдать за жизнью котиков и морских слонов было давнишней мечтой Даррелла. Кроме того, он собирался привезти из экспедиции коллекцию южноамериканских животных для своего зоопарка. Тапир Клавдий, малышка Хуанита, попугай Бланко и др.