Found Dogs

In this Hugo-winner from Connie Willis, when too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful—to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.

Maplewood Cove, Maine, looks like the kind of town where nothing ever happens. Then Megan Brown moved in. A former marketing professional turned dog walker, Megan expected a quieter life by the sea. Instead, her morning routes keep leading her straight to murder. With her sharp eye for patterns, a stubborn streak, and Biscuit—a beagle-corgi mix with an uncanny talent for finding things people would rather keep buried—Megan can't seem to stay out of trouble. From a body on a familiar walking trail and a decades-old secret at the lighthouse to human remains in a Victorian garden and a ...

It’s no secret that I desperately want a baby, but with everything going on at my mother-in-law’s dog kennel, I understand why my husband says we have to wait. What I don’t understand is why he’s being so secretive lately. Until I walk into the apartment he rented for another woman and find a nursery. It almost destroys me. But I don’t have time for that. Barry didn’t just cheat, lie to me, and get another woman pregnant. He also dropped the ball at Pine Nut Kennels, leaving me and his mother scrambling to clean up the mess. Barry thinks there’s an easier answer. He’s ...

"Daniel Henning is a great narrator for this quirky and theatrical audiobook...Henning revels in a cornucopia of characters, diving into nuanced voices and colorful moments with accents and growls, tone shifts and whispers...This is definitely a title for those who enjoy fantasy stories replete...

A steamy small-town romance between a straight-laced house renovator and the sexy landscaper determined to break down her walls, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Things We Left Behind. "Lucy Score always delivers on the laughs, expert storytelling, and full-body swoons." —Tessa...

The USA Today bestselling author of How to Eat a Cupcake and All the Summer Girls returns with an unforgettably poignant and funny tale of love and loss, confronting our fears, and moving on . . . with the help of a poodle, a mutt, and a Basset retriever named Seymour. As a pet bereavement...

A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes. Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played...

In this heartwarming work, we reunite with the lovable rescue dog and subject of the cherished book Arthur as he settles into his new life abroad. As we follow Arthur’s ups and downs with his owner, author Mikael Lindnord, we also meet 16 other rescue dogs, each with a surprising story of how they found their forever home. From Ecuador to America, Australia to the Yukon, and everywhere in between, remarkable canine encounters prove that dogs really are our best friends - and that their journeys to find love and acceptance are as compelling as our most famed human tales.

Kira no longer runs to the door when Gemma comes home. She lifts her head from the spot by the window where the afternoon sun pools on the hardwood, and her tail sweeps the floor in a slow arc, and that is enough. The veterinarian has been honest: months, not years. Good months. Let her have them. So Gemma does, learning what it means to grieve someone who is still there, to love a dog who is slowly releasing her grip on the world with the same patient grace she brought to everything else. Atticus is four months old. The cabin is full in a way it has never been. Marco’s coffee mug is ...

Ken Foster never intended to adopt an abandoned dog. But after bringing Brando home, he notices how many homeless strays there are in the city. Suddenly, he sees them everywhere and finds himself unable to resist taking them home. But what he gains from them in return is far richer than his own expense.

A forgotten quilt. A fatal fall. A mountain town stitched with secrets. When quilt-shop owner Alex Allin agrees to clear the attic of Aspen Ridge’s historic inn, she expects dust and forgotten fabric. Instead, she and her clever cavapoo, Saedie, uncover a cryptic quilt, a hidden box, and evidence that a local antique dealer’s fatal fall was no accident. With help from Aspen Ridge’s tea-fueled Granny Squad, Alex follows the quilt’s wandering stitches into a past someone has worked hard to bury. Old grudges and guarded secrets surround the inn, but the most troubling clues point ...

When you search for the past, you just might find yourself Cousins Ellie and Lucie set out to find buried treasure. Instead, they stumble into an unexpected journey—one that uncovers forgotten histories, rekindles family bonds, and digs deep into who they are becoming. Reuniting for the first...

Four psychological cozy mysteries. One small town on Cape Cod. And a dog who knows when something is wrong before anyone else does. Former psychotherapist Molly McBeal arrived in Blue Heron Bay with a dream, a coffee shop in the making, and Star — the mini Aussiedoodle who chose her at a Colorado shelter on the way across the country. What she didn't expect was to find herself reading micro-expressions across crime scenes instead of across her old therapy office, or to discover that twenty years of listening to people had prepared her for something she never asked for. Across these first ...

He wears dry-clean-only suits. I wear muddy cargo pants. I can save his designer loafers from his new PR-stunt rescue dog, but our romantic trainwreck derails as soon as he moves back to the city. Grant Whitaker arrives in Haven Falls in a bespoke suit with a plan: adopt a photogenic dog, impress his billionaire client, close the deal, leave. Instead he gets Scout, a seventy-pound Golden Retriever with separation anxiety, noise reactivity, and a talent for dragging corporate executives through mud puddles. I’m the local dog trainer he hires at an exorbitant fee. He brings a laminated ...

In thirteen years I have never once watched Tor Halvorsen ride. That's a rule. I built it. It has held. I'm the veterinarian for this county, which means I am on call for it, which means I am never actually anywhere. A body can stand in its own clinic at closing time and still be out on every road in the district at once. Fair week, a boy brings me a stray with forty-one porcupine quills in his face and nothing in his pocket. I tell him the county covers strays on fair days and hand him a form to sign so his hands have a job. There has never been such a line item. The form is a kibble order...

A fresh start. A stubborn beagle. And a murder behind the flower shop. After a painful divorce, Sierra Brooks moves to Briar Hollow, Oregon, to rebuild her life running Bloom & Whisper, a charming florist shop . She’s finally settling into small-town life, despite the gossip, and her chaos-loving beagle, Ruth—when ruthless property assessor Gerald Fitch is found dead in the garden behind her shop. Worse, Sierra discovers her building’s address circled inside the property file clutched in his hand. If Fitch’s zoning appeal survives his death, she could lose everything. As whispers ...

She came back to Cornwall to lick her wounds. She didn't expect to find a life. "A warm, witty, deeply observed debut about going home, growing into the right size, and the quiet courage of staying." At thirty-two, Sandra Cunningham has lost the lot — the London directorship, the long relationship, the version of herself who believed the whole point of a life was to climb. So she packs up her Clapham flat, takes the Night Riviera back to Falmouth, and settles for a too-small job at a too-small planning consultancy with a man who hands her a laminated induction pack on her first day. She's...

A fresh start. A magical salon. And one seriously bad hair day. Teri thought buying a small-town salon would be the perfect way to start over after her divorce. She got a great deal, a charming new home in Bramblewick, and a tiny dog named Electra with enough personality for both of them. Then Teri discovers she has a little something extra in her styling arsenal: magic. Unfortunately, her newfound powers are about as manageable as humidity in July. When a magical mishap turns an ordinary day at the salon into a hair-raising disaster—and a sudden storm rolls into town—Teri has more than...

Vera Marchetti went up that Ferris wheel alive. When she came back down, she was dead. Dixie Farrow has spent two years in Carraway being the loud one at the diner, telling stories nobody quite believes. Then a carnival rolls into Colter Park and sets up four hundred yards from her lawn chair — the same show she ran off from thirty-three years ago, with a bad name and a hundred dollars. The night it opens, eighty-nine-year-old Vera stands up at supper in front of the whole crew and says she knows who's been stealing from her. She'll give the name in the morning. She never gets a morning. ...

The highly anticipated follow up to Wish, which has spent six years on the New York Times bestseller list and is beloved by over two million readers. Dream follows a small town girl with big aspirations who discovers that anything is possible with your best friends and an adorable pup by your...