Animals
Our closest companions and most fascinating neighbors on Earth take center stage in these illuminating works about animal behavior, intelligence, and relationships. Whether exploring the complex social lives of primates, sharing heartwarming tales of beloved pets, or unlocking the secrets of animal minds, these books celebrate the remarkable creatures who share our world.
Animals Book Summaries
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
An elderly widower in the Amazon must hunt a killer ocelot. His only comfort: romance novels.
Literary Fiction
Classics
Literature
Novels
Contemporary
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
An elderly widower in the Amazon must hunt a killer ocelot. His only comfort: romance novels.
Literary Fiction
Classics
Literature
Novels
Contemporary
Pippi Longstocking
Alone at nine with impossible strength, a monkey, and a horse, Pippi Longstocking answers to nobody.
Classics
Children
Middle Grade
Fantasy
Humor
Pippi Longstocking
Alone at nine with impossible strength, a monkey, and a horse, Pippi Longstocking answers to nobody.
Classics
Children
Middle Grade
Fantasy
Humor
Ishmael
A gorilla places a newspaper ad seeking a pupil to teach the secret of humanity's self-destruction.
Philosophy
Spirituality
Classics
Fantasy
Environment
Ishmael
A gorilla places a newspaper ad seeking a pupil to teach the secret of humanity's self-destruction.
Philosophy
Spirituality
Classics
Fantasy
Environment
Lessons from a Sheep Dog
A rescued sheepdog refuses every kindness until she approaches the man who set her free.
Christian
Christianity
Religion
Memoir
Animals
Lessons from a Sheep Dog
A rescued sheepdog refuses every kindness until she approaches the man who set her free.
Christian
Christianity
Religion
Memoir
Animals
Big Panda & Tiny Dragon
A panda and a tiny dragon walk the seasons, learning stillness in the face of uncertainty.
Philosophy
Spirituality
Graphic Novels
Animals
Self Help
Big Panda & Tiny Dragon
A panda and a tiny dragon walk the seasons, learning stillness in the face of uncertainty.
Philosophy
Spirituality
Graphic Novels
Animals
Self Help
How to Age Disgracefully
A lonely seventy-year-old makes her first friends as their community center faces the wrecking ball.
Contemporary
Humor
Adult
Chick Lit
Women
How to Age Disgracefully
A lonely seventy-year-old makes her first friends as their community center faces the wrecking ball.
Contemporary
Humor
Adult
Chick Lit
Women
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
We tested animal minds as defective humans. Once we redesigned the tests, they stopped failing.
Science
Animals
Nature
Biology
Psychology
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
We tested animal minds as defective humans. Once we redesigned the tests, they stopped failing.
Science
Animals
Nature
Biology
Psychology
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
When their dog is stolen, a young islander chases the stranger into an emptied Britain.
Science Fiction
Dystopian
Post Apocalyptic
Adventure
Survival
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
When their dog is stolen, a young islander chases the stranger into an emptied Britain.
Science Fiction
Dystopian
Post Apocalyptic
Adventure
Survival
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
English and Sanskrit share an ancestor spoken by Bronze Age herders. Horse and wheel spread it.
History
Archaeology
Anthropology
Language
Science
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
English and Sanskrit share an ancestor spoken by Bronze Age herders. Horse and wheel spread it.
History
Archaeology
Anthropology
Language
Science
Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking
Read an animal's hunger and fear from soil, then discover how tracking becomes a spiritual practice.
Nature
Outdoors
Survival
Animals
Science
Tom Brown's Science and Art of Tracking
Read an animal's hunger and fear from soil, then discover how tracking becomes a spiritual practice.
Nature
Outdoors
Survival
Animals
Science
Animal Liberation Now
Suffering is suffering regardless of species. Everything else is bias we have learned not to see.
Philosophy
Animals
Vegan
Politics
Science
Animal Liberation Now
Suffering is suffering regardless of species. Everything else is bias we have learned not to see.
Philosophy
Animals
Vegan
Politics
Science
Climbing Mount Improbable
Eyes evolved from scratch forty times. Each time the path was a staircase, not a leap.
Science
Biology
Evolution
Nature
Natural History
Climbing Mount Improbable
Eyes evolved from scratch forty times. Each time the path was a staircase, not a leap.
Science
Biology
Evolution
Nature
Natural History
Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye
A timid mouse editor is thrust into a high-seas treasure hunt by his sister's mysterious map.
Children
Adventure
Mystery
Animals
Chapter Books
Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye
A timid mouse editor is thrust into a high-seas treasure hunt by his sister's mysterious map.
Children
Adventure
Mystery
Animals
Chapter Books
I Came Upon a Lighthouse
A young man wrote Ratan Tata about saving stray dogs. The reply began an unlikely friendship.
Memoir
Biography
India
Business
Inspirational
I Came Upon a Lighthouse
A young man wrote Ratan Tata about saving stray dogs. The reply began an unlikely friendship.
Memoir
Biography
India
Business
Inspirational
The Lost World
Behind Jurassic Park lies an island of wild dinosaurs that have been breeding unchecked for years.
Science Fiction
Thriller
Adventure
Suspense
Action
The Lost World
Behind Jurassic Park lies an island of wild dinosaurs that have been breeding unchecked for years.
Science Fiction
Thriller
Adventure
Suspense
Action
Watchers
A haunted veteran saves a golden retriever with unnatural intelligence as a monster hunts them both.
Horror
Thriller
Science Fiction
Suspense
Adult
Watchers
A haunted veteran saves a golden retriever with unnatural intelligence as a monster hunts them both.
Horror
Thriller
Science Fiction
Suspense
Adult
Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar
A cat vows to raise a seagull chick, then faces the impossible: teaching her to fly.
Children
Fantasy
Animals
Middle Grade
Classics
Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar
A cat vows to raise a seagull chick, then faces the impossible: teaching her to fly.
Children
Fantasy
Animals
Middle Grade
Classics
The Wind in the Willows
Mole and Rat's riverbank life is upended by Toad's motorcars and a hall full of weasels.
Classics
Children
Fantasy
Animals
Animal Fantasy
The Wind in the Willows
Mole and Rat's riverbank life is upended by Toad's motorcars and a hall full of weasels.
Classics
Children
Fantasy
Animals
Animal Fantasy
The Call of the Wild
Stolen to the Yukon, a house dog endures the sled whip and a wilderness that claims him.
Classics
Adventure
Animals
Historical Fiction
Survival
The Call of the Wild
Stolen to the Yukon, a house dog endures the sled whip and a wilderness that claims him.
Classics
Adventure
Animals
Historical Fiction
Survival
Think Like a Cat
Why your cat pees outside the box and scratches the sofa, and the fix that's not punishment.
Animals
Reference
Instructional
Psychology
Health
Think Like a Cat
Why your cat pees outside the box and scratches the sofa, and the fix that's not punishment.
Animals
Reference
Instructional
Psychology
Health
Echo Mountain
On a mountain in the Depression, Ellie believes the wild can wake her comatose father.
Historical Fiction
Middle Grade
Historical
Children
Family
Echo Mountain
On a mountain in the Depression, Ellie believes the wild can wake her comatose father.
Historical Fiction
Middle Grade
Historical
Children
Family
The Horse Whisperer
A mother drags her silent daughter and a ruined horse to Montana, betting on a healer's hands.
Romance
Contemporary
Animals
Adult
Family
The Horse Whisperer
A mother drags her silent daughter and a ruined horse to Montana, betting on a healer's hands.
Romance
Contemporary
Animals
Adult
Family
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Chimps console, capuchins reject unfair pay; morality was ancient before religion claimed it.
Science
Evolution
Biology
Psychology
Philosophy
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Chimps console, capuchins reject unfair pay; morality was ancient before religion claimed it.
Science
Evolution
Biology
Psychology
Philosophy
The Dark Secret
A NightWing dragonet expected power. Instead he finds starvation, cruel prisons, and a dying queen.
Fantasy
Dragons
Middle Grade
Adventure
Children's
The Dark Secret
A NightWing dragonet expected power. Instead he finds starvation, cruel prisons, and a dying queen.
Fantasy
Dragons
Middle Grade
Adventure
Children's
The Horse and His Boy
A foundling and a talking horse escape slavery, racing an invading army across the desert.
Fantasy
Classics
Children
Adventure
Young Adult
The Horse and His Boy
A foundling and a talking horse escape slavery, racing an invading army across the desert.
Fantasy
Classics
Children
Adventure
Young Adult
A Dog's Life
A stray dog spends her life losing everyone, wandering the countryside, always searching for home.
Animals
Middle Grade
Dog
Survival
Young Adult
A Dog's Life
A stray dog spends her life losing everyone, wandering the countryside, always searching for home.
Animals
Middle Grade
Dog
Survival
Young Adult
You Can Farm
No land? No problem. Three livestock enterprises turn a small farm profitable, stacked right.
Agriculture
Business
Entrepreneurship
Food
Reference
You Can Farm
No land? No problem. Three livestock enterprises turn a small farm profitable, stacked right.
Agriculture
Business
Entrepreneurship
Food
Reference
Cat Kid Comic Club
Cat Kid starts a comic club for frogs who have big imaginations and zero comic-making skills.
Graphic Novels
Children
Comics
Humor
Middle Grade
Cat Kid Comic Club
Cat Kid starts a comic club for frogs who have big imaginations and zero comic-making skills.
Graphic Novels
Children
Comics
Humor
Middle Grade
How to Stay Invisible
Abandoned, a boy and his dog survive in the woods behind his school, attending class.
Survival
Middle Grade
Adventure
Contemporary
Coming Of Age
How to Stay Invisible
Abandoned, a boy and his dog survive in the woods behind his school, attending class.
Survival
Middle Grade
Adventure
Contemporary
Coming Of Age
Your Inner Fish
Your wrist is a fish fin, your hiccup a gill. The body's 3.5-billion-year fossil record, decoded.
Science
Evolution
Nature
Animals
History
Your Inner Fish
Your wrist is a fish fin, your hiccup a gill. The body's 3.5-billion-year fossil record, decoded.
Science
Evolution
Nature
Animals
History
