Let's learn about dogs! This title takes the popular canine breed Poodles and colorfully presents their facial features, body basics, personalities and more! This book also includes a checklist to help early to fluent readers decide what kind of dog is right for them. Illustrations reveal interesting details about the history and legends surrounding the Poodle. Readers both young and old will find this informative book fun and fascinating! Perky Poodles is excellent for school, library or at home use. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Stories filled with plaintive love for all living things. Kindness is intertwined with a unique wealth of information, and reading is not only interesting, but exciting and exemplary.Each character existed in real life. The reader gets a unique chance to get in touch with the facts, which only a few know about, and for the younger generation, such reading is a real school of nobility, an example of dedication and generosity.The one, genuine Georgy Vitsin, a school of sleuth dogs in pre-revolutionary Russia, real detective stories based on real events with historical facts. Weekdays of volunteers who give their hearts to dogs, cats, and all living things. Stories, tragic and having a happy ending. They all teach us to be human. To be a people with a capital P. I want to believe that books like this one will make the world cleaner and better, teach you to love our loved ones, in whatever guise they don’t exist side by side.

There’s peril at the Pumpkin Fest in this Maine-set mystery by the New York Times-bestselling author… Halloween is coming to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and local reporter Lucy Stone is covering the annual Giant Pumpkin Fest for the Pennysaver. There’s the pumpkin-boat regatta, the children’s Halloween party, the pumpkin weigh-in…even a contest where home-built catapults hurl pumpkins at an old Dodge! But not everything goes as planned. Lucy’s getting annoyed that her husband, Bill, and his friend Evan have been working seemingly nonstop on their potentially prize-winning pumpkin catapult. But on the day of the big contest, Evan is nowhere to be found…until a catapulted pumpkin busts open the trunk of the Dodge, revealing a deceased Evan. Bill’s on the hook for the Halloween homicide, so Lucy’s got some serious sleuthing to do. With each new lead pointing her in a different direction, Lucy learns that if she wants to spook the real killer, she’ll have to step into an old ghost story… “Series fans should be satisfied.” —Publishers Weekly “Reading a new Leslie Meier mystery is like catching up with a dear old friend.” —Kate Carlisle

A charity dog show has Jessica hitting the road with her faithful one-eyed Dalmatian, Lou, and her tailless Westie, Max, for the palatial summer estates of Long Island's fabled East End. When she arrives, the posh seaside community is crawling with stars eager to take best in show for their beloved pooches. But it's murder most tacky when a celebrity photographer is felled by a giant ice sculpture at a $500-a-plate fund-raiser. Unable to resis the scent of the hunt, Jess is soon investigating a casting director's dream of potential suspects. But if Jess isn't careful, she just might become the next victim of a killer determined to prove she's barking up the wrong tree.

A billion plastic bags a day. That’s how many bags Americans were throwing away in 2005 when Lisa D. Foster first switched to reusable bags. The impacts of all those bags on our environment and our taxes kept her up at night. It was wrong. Morally wrong. She believed that if American shoppers knew what she knew, they would switch to reusable bags too. So, she did what any good English teacher would do. She took the facts about bags and turned them into a story. Over the next 12 years, that story transformed Lisa into the Bag Lady, an eco-entrepreneur on a mission to save the world one reusable bag at a time. Because she was driven by purpose, she did a lot of things right. She sold a quarter of a million reusable bags her first year, 2 million her second year, and 8 million her third year. Each reusable bag had the potential to replace a thousand single-use bags, collectively eliminating billions of plastic bags. Lisa also did a lot of things wrong. One out of ten startups fail, and odds are worse for people like her with no business experience or training. In the end, she built a thriving company, disrupted the plastic bag industry and changed the way America shops. It was a wild ride.

The Poodle - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from a comprehensive range of books, many of them now rare and much sought-after works, all of them written by renowned breed experts of their day. These books are treasure troves of information about the breed - The physical points, temperaments, and special abilities are given; celebrated dogs are discussed and pictured; and the history of the breed and pedigrees of famous champions are also provided. The contents were well illustrated with numerous photographs of leading and famous dogs of that era and these are all reproduced to the highest quality. Books used include: My Dog And I by H. W. Huntington (1897), Dogs Of The World by Arthur Craven (1931), Hutchinson's Dog Encyclopaedia by Walter Hutchinson (1935) and many others.

What do you get when you blend Nancy Drew with a pair of wisecracking dogs? A hilarious and heartwarming cozy mystery for all ages. The Top Dog Detective Agency was on the brink of collapse until Detective Bill O'Brian hired a pair of canine buddies with specialized skills. The furry investigators had a nose for trouble and a knack for cracking cases even the police couldn't solve. But when Detective Bill falls ill, the dogs vow to keep the agency afloat. There's just one problem: potential clients can't understand them. With bankruptcy looming, salvation arrives in the form of a spunky teenage girl looking for summer work. To the dogs' delight, Kimberley West understands them perfectly. The three team up to save the agency. With Kim translating, they embark on their biggest cases yet. Can they solve the mysteries and keep the agency afloat? Find out in this heartwarming tale of unlikely heroes and unstoppable determination. Packed with humor and heart, The Poodle Who Sang Undercover provides a unique insight into human nature and is a must-read for anyone who loves a good whodunit with a furry, four-legged twist.