Eleven different dog stores bring the reader to feel the emotions and do's and don't of pet ownership. Lost pets and abandoned pets cannot always find their way and in the stories, several caring persons help to get them where they belong or else to others who will care for them. Children as well as adults will enjoy and also get lost in the travels of reading the stories. Educational facts will tell the reader about aspects of each breed.

Dee and The Dog: Home at last is about a young girl, Dee, who loses her parents in a tragic automobile accident. The story reveals episodes of her life as she tries to adjust as an orphan. Her new family permits her to have a dog, a beautiful red Doberman, which she names Ignatius. Dee and Ignatius go through a period of loneliness together but eventually find solace and contentment in realizing that happiness is right in their own back yard.

ABOUT THE BOOK "WATEHICA..." is a book about life and death, a book of feelings and emotions...it is a book of wisdom shared by the elders of the author's youth. Some stories are very old...some are new...but all have insight into the Lakota soul...an insight that is not shown or shared by any writers...by any standards. Eya Mani will take you to the heights of your imagination. You will feel his pain and sorrow as he says goodbye to a nephew slain in the streets of Minneapolis by gang members...and you will laugh with him as he shares the humor of the Lakota people. You will learn many things unanswered before by any author...like the naming of persons and the songs of honor sung at pow wows and ceremonies, and you will learn the true meaning of love...and you will be kidnapped and abused. From the humor of grandma's dogs, the introduction of twins, and on to the slaying of a monster snake...you will want to share your adventures with those you love and care about...just as Eya Mani is sharing his experiences with you...after all...'we are all related...'"

In the third novel in the “entertaining” (Library Journal) Gin & Tonic mystery series, the stakes are raised when Ginny Mallard and Teddy Tonica stumble on an underground dog fighting ring with bloody consequences. Even though she’s unlicensed as an investigator, the infamously nosy Ginny Mallard has begun to make a name for herself as an unofficial champion of the tongue-tied. When a mysterious stranger comes to her with landlord trouble, she convinces her bartender friend Teddy Tonica to help her once more. Soon, they realize they might have got themselves tied up in an underground dogfighting ring. With the help of Ginny’s pet shar-pei puppy and Tonica’s tabby cat, they have to figure out what’s going on before someone else gets hurt. Will twelve legs really be better than four?

IN THIS UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR, author Granville Johnson recounts his roller-coaster life growing up in Chicago’s Westside ghetto in the 1950s and ’60s. Anchored by his mother’s love and his own ambition and self-assurance, Granville contends with constant trauma, including fluke accidents, illness, the death of loved ones, institutionalized racism, violent gangs, and repeated sexual assault. While the legacy of that sexual assault becomes the one nemesis that Granville never fully defeats, he uses the pages of this inspiring book to remind others who have experienced similar assaults that what was done to them does not define them. Traumatic experiences definitely leave their mark, but as Granville so eloquently articulates, positive experiences and influences —like his mother—do as well.

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships imbued with the traditional values so important to you: home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: ALASKAN HIDEAWAY A Northern Lights Novel by Beth Carpenter Family tragedy has Mac Macleod relocating to grieve alone, but his persistent new neighbor, Ursula Anderson, her orphaned goddaughter and his daughter’s dog conspire to bring love back into his life. IN LOVE WITH THE FIREFIGHTER Cape Pursuit Firefighters by Amie Denman Nicole Wheeler moves to the beachside town of Cape Pursuit, Virginia, for a fresh start, but she immediately falls for firefighter Kevin Ruggles—a man committed to the same job that killed her brother. FINDING HER FAMILY Hope Center Stories by Syndi Powell Page Kosinski is fighting cancer for the third time, but what she can’t fight is the spark she shares with local lawyer Mateo Lopez. Will Page be able to keep her heart open to all good things? A HOME FOR HER BABY Songs of the Sea by Eleanor Jones When his brother dies rescuing Ali Nicholas, Tom Roberts’s family blames her. But Tom doesn’t want Ali to leave their English seaside town. She needs a home—for herself…and her baby. Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!