Author: James Herriot
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312065676
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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The famous veterinarian tries to heal a stray dog and find him a home.

Author: James Herriot
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606054539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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The country vet takes in a mysterious stray dog until the pooch finds shelter and employment at the county jail

Author: James Herriot
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312349721
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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A collection of the author's stories most loved stories for children.

Author: Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815603221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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All Things Herriot is the first full-length book about this best-selling author, whose work, adapted for television, has swept through the world in one of the most popular and enduring series of all times: All Creatures Great and Small. Sternlicht offers a comprehensive, up-to-the-moment evaluation of the Herriot achievements, and it offers the most detailed biography of the real Herriot, James Alfred Wight, in print to date. He explores how this good-natured veterinarian came into existence and how he developed over the course of the series of books. How and why Herriot made the transition to television is examined as well as the effect the shows had on audiences. This is the story of the "creating" of James Herriot, how he captured the imagination of popular culture. This simple man, with his profound love for all creatures in his peaceable kingdom, has earned for himself a secure and enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and viewers alike.

Author: Elizabeth May
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430309377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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It was a time when a civilization that had survived for 350 years suddenly collapsed, almost overnight. Trade, government, education and the rule of law ceased. This was Britain at the beginning of the fifth century. Roman legions left to fight the Emperor's wars in Europe and raiders invaded Britain, devastating the land, burning crops, slaughtering young and old alike and taking the rest as slaves. Retired soldiers and their families find safety in an old cavalry fort after their farms have been destroyed. They take in refugees including a village elder and a brewer and his daughter escaping from a sacked city.They all know the raiders will return. To survive, they must resolve their differences, work together and fight back against their enemies.

Author: James Wight
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307790924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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No one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally bestselling author. Now, in this warm and poignant memoir, Jim Wight talks about his father--the beloved veterinarian whom his family had to share with half the world. Alf Wight (aka James Herriot) grew up in Glasgow, where he lived during a happy rough-and-tumble childhood and then through the challenging years of training at the Glasgow Veterinary College. The story of how the young vet later traveled to the small Yorkshire town of Thirsk, aka Darrowby, to take the job of assistant vet is one that is well known through James Herriot's internationally celebrated books and the popular All Creatures Great and Small television series. But Jim Wight's biography ventures beyond the trials and tribulations of his father's life as a veterinarian to reveal the man behind the stories--the private individual who refused to allow fame and wealth to interfere with his practice or his family. With access to all of his father's papers, correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs--and intimate remembrances of all the farmers, locals, and friends who populate the James Herriot books--only Jim Wight could write this definitive biography of the man who was not only his father but his best friend. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.

Author: Anita Silvey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395653807
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 862

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Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Enriched with dozens of color illustrations and the voices of authors and illustrators themselves, it is a cornucopia of delight. 23 color, 153 b&w illustrations.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780132502856
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Joan Johnston
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460305256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Society bachelor and former army sniper Ben Benedict moves between two worlds--from high-society Washington to the mean city streets, from tuxedos to Glocks. His powerful Virginia family wants him out of harm's way, but Ben stays on the job, determined to make amends for a past that haunts him. Dr. Anna Schuster is fighting demons of her own when she crosses paths with Agent Benedict. The two become adversaries--and lovers--as they search for an Al Qaeda operative bent on revenge. Ben must fight against time--and his own darkness--to rescue millions of innocents and the woman he loves from a virulent bioweapon in the hands of a dangerous enemy.

Author: Walter Montague Kerr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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