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Old 01-24-2006, 10:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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GP Book Club: Non-Fiction suggestions
Global Paw will be starting up a Book Club. Each month we will discuss a different book and we would love to have your suggestions on which books to read.
Suggest as many books as you would like, but keep in mind that we are an international group, and obscure or hard-to-find titles may not be available everywhere.
This thread is for suggestions of Non-Fiction books. They need to be dog related but can encompass many different areas, including but not restricted to: Training, Competition, Health Issues, etc.
Please submit your suggestions with as much as the following information as possible.

Title: Whole title
Author: Last, First
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Format: Paperback, hardcover...
Pages: ___pp
Pub. Date: Month, day, year
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Lowest Price found at: $__.__ at Amazon.com, Overstock.com, Abebooks.com, Border's, Barnes & Noble, etc
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Topics for discussion:
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Old 01-24-2006, 10:46 AM   #2 (permalink)
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What a great idea, and to be fair to everyone maybe we should first all sign up if we want to be on this book club. What would be fair too is list the breed/s of dogs we have including "mix" and then go by alphabetical order and let each owner (in that order) choose what book he or she chooses for that week. By the way, will this be weekly or by-weekly?
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Old 01-24-2006, 11:07 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I read this a while back and really liked it.

Title: Watchers
Author: Koontz, Dean
ISBN: 0425188809
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496 pp
Pub. Date: January, 2003
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Lowest Price found at: $1.00-$4.00 Abebooks.com (everywhere else is $7.99)
Brief discription of book: Thriller/Sci-fi/adventure, etc.
Topics for discussion: ??
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Old 01-24-2006, 12:00 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Title: Click to Calm; Healing the Aggressive Dog
Author: Parsons, Emma
ISBN: 1-890948-20-9
Format: Paperback
Pages: 181 pp
Pub. Date: 2005
Publisher: Sunshine Books, Waltham, MA
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Brief discription of book: It's a clicker book. I've used it to teach therapy classes because the principles are useful, even if not dealing with an aggressive dog.
Topics for discussion: Clickers, Canine Behavior, Calming Signals, Dog-Dog Aggression, Dog-Human Aggression, Positive Reinforcement
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I love Dean Koontz. I just read a couple of his I really liked

Title: Odd Thomas
Author: Dean Koontz
ISBN:0553584499
Format: paperback
Pages: 496 pages
Pub. Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: Bantam
Lowest Price: from 2.94 on Amazon
Description:Thriller/supernatural


Title: Forever Odd (sequal to Odd Thomas)
Author: Dean Koontz
ISBN: 0553804162
Format: Hardback
Pages: 352
Pub. Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Bantam
Lowest Price: from 4.45 on Amazon
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Old 01-25-2006, 06:41 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Ok, I'll be the first to submit a book...

Title: The World of Schnauzers, Standard, Giant, Miniature
Author: Johan Gallant
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 202 (not counting bibliography)
Publisher: Alpine Publications, Loveland, Colorado
Price: $34.95 @ Amazon, N/A @ Overstock, $36.70 @ Abebooks, N/A @ Barnes & Noble
Topics of Discussion: Compare American Giants with German Giants, the evolution of the breed and it's job....original vs today.
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Calgal, I'm not sure exactly what the time frame will be yet, we were thinking monthly, and the book club will rotate through fiction, non-fiction and breed specific books. The breed specific books will be a once in a while occurence, but since we all want to broaden our horizons, we did want to read some breed-specific books.
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I love Dean Koontz.
Me too!!!
I also read one about a clown or something and ..OH...It was calle Life expectancy and I really liked it. I have also read Hideaway and Icebound(??) by him aswell. These ones don't really have anything to do with dogs though, not even a dog in it.
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Title: The Lovely Bones
Author: Sebold, Alice
ISBN:0316666343
Format: available in both Hardcover and Paperback
Pages: 336 pages (hardcover)
Pub. Date: July 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Lowest Price found at: $17.56 @ Barnes & Noble
Brief discription of book: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...16666343&itm=1
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Title: The Colour of Magic
Author: Pratchett, Terry
ISBN:0061020710
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Pub. Date: 1983
Publisher: Colin Smythe, Corgi, Harper Collins
Lowest Price found at: $7.99 at Amazon.com, Overstock.com, Abebooks.com, Border's, Barnes & Noble, etc (not sure how much it is anywhere else overseas but in Australia it's $13 at Target, Kmart & Big W)
Brief discription of book: First book in the 'Discworld' series. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...Fencoding=UTF8

Title: Equal Rites
Author: Pratchett, Terry
ISBN:0061020699
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Pub. Date: Month, day, year
Publisher:Colin Smythe, Corgi, Harper Collins
Lowest Price found at: (same as 'Colour of Magic') $7.99 at Amazon.com, Overstock.com, Abebooks.com, Border's, Barnes & Noble, etc In Australia $13 at Target, Kmart & Big W.
Brief discription of book: Third book of the 'Discworld series' http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...lance&n=283155


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I also read one about a clown or something and ..OH...It was calle Life expectancy and I really liked it. I have also read Hideaway and Icebound(??) by him aswell. These ones don't really have anything to do with dogs though, not even a dog in it.
He has one book,(I will have to think for a bit about the name) where a group of dogs end up helping to save humans from anihlation by aliens. It was really good.

Oh, yeah. It is called "The Taken"
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Pub. Date: April 2005
Publisher: Bantam
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Title: Daughter of the Forest
Author: Marillier, Juliet
ISBN:0765343436
Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
Pub. Date: 2/18/02
Publisher: Tor Books
Lowest Price found at: $6.99 at Amazon.com, Overstock.com, Abebooks.com, Border's, Barnes & Noble, etc (no idea how much it is in Australia...this particular book was a given to me as a gift).
Brief discription of book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076...Fencoding=UTF8

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Title: The Shaman Bulldog, A Love Story
Author: Fischer, Renaldo
ISBN: 0446520292
Format: ?
Pages: 104pp
Pub. Date: 1996
Publisher: Warner Books
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Brief discription of book: I have not read it. It says it is about Bulldogs and human - animal interaction. Recommended to me highly.
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Title: Old Yeller
Author: Gipson, Fred
ISBN: 0064403823
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184pp
Pub. Date: 1990 (reissue)
Publisher: Harpercollins
Lowest Price found at: $.75 at Half.com
Brief discription of book: A faithful dog named Old Yeller helps a boy named Travis and his family survive life on the Texas frontier.
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Title: Savage Sam
Author: Gipson, Fred
ISBN: 0060803770
Format: Paperback
Pages: ? pp
Pub. Date: May 1976
Publisher: Harpercollins
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Title: Sounder
Author: Armstrong, William H
ISBN: 0060935480
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96pp
Pub. Date: 1969
Publisher: Harper & Row
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Brief discription of book: A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
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Title: Where the Red Fern Grows
Author: Rawls, Wilson
ISBN: 0553274295
Format: Paperback
Pages: ?pp
Pub. Date: 1989
Publisher: Harcourt
Lowest Price found at: $.75 at Half.com
Brief discription of book: A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters., This classic tells of a ten-year-old boy in the Ozarks during the depression who desperately wants and works for a pair of coon dogs. He finally saves enough to get them, and Old Dan and Little Ann become his inseparable companions in this fine novel of courage, hard work, and ultimate heartbreak.
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Title: Big Red
Author: Kjelgaard, Jim
ISBN: 0553151061
Format: Paperback
Pages: 231pp
Pub. Date: 1945
Publisher: Holiday House
Lowest Price found at: $.75 at Half.com
Brief discription of book: Seventeen-year-old Danny Pickett, living with his father in the woods on the Haggin Estate, is a born dog-handler. When he first sees Haggin's Irish setter, it's love at first sight for both of them. Haggin sees Danny's talents and lets him keep Red to train him as a hunter. Together the devoted dog and young man face many dangers in the wilderness they call home, but it is the savage killer, a bear called Old Majesty, who becomes the greatest test of their courage.
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Title: The mythology of dogs : canine legend and lore through the ages
Author: Hausman, Gerald.
ISBN: 0312151772
Format: Paperback
Pages: 278pp
Pub. Date: 1997
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Lowest Price found at: $4.50 at Half.com
Brief discription of book: Over 65 breeds are covered in this collection of dog stories.
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Title: The Plague Dogs
Author: Adams, Richard
ISBN: 0394422473
Format: Paperback
Pages: 390pp
Pub. Date: 1978
Publisher: Knopf
Lowest Price found at: $.75 at Half.com
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Title: All Creatures Great and Small
Author: Herriot, James
ISBN: 0312084986
Format: Paperback
Pages: 442pp
Pub. Date: 1972
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Lowest Price found at: $.75 at Half.com
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***This book has been chosen to read for February 2006***

I've heard that this one is excellent. It came out just this past October. Titled Marley and Me: Live and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan. Him and his wife got a purebred Labrador puppy thinking they would have a mellow, gentle and eager to please dog, but ended up with a 97 pounds of wild, uncontrollable exuberance, a major miscreant of a dog who plunged through screen doors, gouged holes in drywall, raided the trash and shredded the cushions on the sofa. It's a humorous and moving tribute to Marley.
Amazon has this book for $14.95 in paperback or hardcover for $12.99.

***This book has been chosen to read for February 2006***
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