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Africa has always been the habitat of all the wild animals that spark humans' attention and curiosity. Hunters from around the world would go to Africa to capture many of these wild animals and utilize them for many purposes. Two of the main reasons for exploiting these wild creatures are for the sole purpose of entertainment and profit.

Christmas used to be the happiest time of the year in the big house on the hill. But this year when the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Day, it will all be over. Can Sebastian, a wily Maine Coon cat, find a way to bring his people back home or will this holiday be their last?

Boston police officer Cooper Harrison never thought he'd go back to his hometown, Harmony Farms. But when his faithful K-9 partner Argos is killed in the line of duty, Cooper, caught in a spiral of trauma and grief, has nowhere else to turn. Jobless and on the verge of divorce, he accepts a offer for the position of dog officer in Harmony Farms, leaving the life he spent twenty years building behind. And so he finds himself back where he started. Where his father was once known as the town drunk and his brother outgrew juvenile delinquency to become a drug dealer.

Vor laufender Fernsehkamera bricht die Weinkönigin Monika I. bei einem Weinfest im badischen Irthingen tot zusammen. Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Tod aufgrund eines angeborenen Herzfehlers hin. Aber Monikas Freundin Stephanie kommt daran einiges merkwürdig vor. Sie bittet die Reisejournalistin Alexandra Berger um Hilfe, die bereits gemeinsam mit Kater Brown die Klostermorde in der Eifel aufklären konnte. Kater Brown, Alexandra und ihr Kollege Tobias, der wieder mit von der Partie ist, stoßen bei ihren Nachforschungen auf eine jahrzehntelange Fehde zwischen zwei benachbarten Weindörfern, jede Menge Lügen, Intrigen und Vorurteile. Und wer ist der geheimnisvolle Freund, dessen Namen Monika nicht verraten wollte?

Die weltbekannte Saga vom Exodus der Kaninchen: Der junge Fiver spürt, dass seinem Volk das Verderben droht. Nur seine engsten Freunde kann er überreden, mit ihm das Kaninchengehege zu verlassen und sich auf die Suche nach einer neuen Heimat zu machen. Was sie unterwegs durchleben, ist so beispielhaft wie fesselnd: zahllose Abenteuer, Meuterei, Treuebruch und Heldentum, Schlachten mit hohem Blutzoll - und schließlich der glückliche Einzug ins Land der Freiheit und des Friedens.

The Sunday Times best seller returns for a fourth book! Alfie and his mischievous kitten, George, are back for more adventures - this time taking them a long way from home.... Alfie and George just can't seem to keep out of trouble. So when they hear that their owners have got a new holiday home, they can't wait to visit it and enjoy some new adventures. But when they arrive, they don't find the comfort they're used to.

A likely tail. He was a stringy mongrel, wandering the streets of the city, driven by a ravenous hunger and hunting a quarry he could not define. But he was something more. Somewhere in the depths of his consciousness was memory clawing its way to the surface, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. The memory of what he once had been. James Herbert was one of Britain's greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction.

Vous rêvez d'une croisière de l'extrême ? Alors, c'est parti pour l'Antarctique ! Sur le navire, une globe-trotteuse septuagénaire répertorie les similitudes entre humains et animaux. Et elles ne manquent pas, grâce à une brochette de voyageurs bigarrés venus se frotter aux épaulards tueurs, albatros, pétrels et autres éléphants de mer. En route pour le bout du monde, Tomas file vers son objectif ultime : en finir avec les tracasseries de la vie, seul sur la glace.

"Il m'est venu l'envie d'écrire un livre doux. Pas vraiment sur les bêtes mais plutôt autour, à propos des rapports que nous avons avec certaines d'entre elles." Anny Duperey.

Single mom Skye Mitchell has sunk her last dime into a dream, owning the venerable, if run-down, LakeView Hotel in the Berkshire Hills. It's here where she believes she'll give her 14-year-old daughter, Cody, a better life. But being an innkeeper is more challenging than she imagined, and Cody still manages to fall in with the wrong crowd. In addition, Cody is keeping an earth-shattering secret that she's terrified to reveal.

The first novel in the heartwarming, countryside-set Hope Meadows series. Newly qualified vet Mandy Hope is leaving Leeds - and her boyfriend, Simon - to return to the Yorkshire village she grew up in, where she'll help out with animals of all shapes and sizes in her parents' surgery. But it's not all plain sailing: Mandy clashes with gruff local Jimmy Marsh, and some of the villagers won't accept a new vet. Meanwhile, Simon is determined that Mandy will rejoin him back in the city.

Out of Practice is based around a large country medical practice, which proves to be a hotbed of rivalry, resentment and romance - and that's just the doctors. Think James Herriot meets House.

While on a mission to bring his sister's killer to justice, bounty hunter Riley Martelli spots a missing FBI agent in a Colorado national park. When he calls in the tip, he's joined in his search by Special Agent Harper Prentiss. Harper, aided by her faithful German shepherd, is determined to locate the missing agent...without falling for the charms of the handsome bounty hunter. Working together is the best option to find their targets, but it also doubles the danger they're in.

Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter White Garden party at the newly renovated King Cotton Boutique Hotel. It's a dazzling success, until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through the door. Sarah Booth knew Sister in college, before Sister became a best-selling author and moved to New York, and fame and fortune don't seem to have tempered her arrogance and cruelty.

Despite his highly successful marketing career, Craig Williams' personal life is falling apart. The puppy he's surrendering to the local shelter is one sign of how messed up things have gotten due to a recent divorce plus the loss of a child. He thinks he'd best focus on his two surviving kids. When Craig shows up to Megan Anderson's no-kill animal shelter, the confrontation that ensues sets them on a path neither could have predicted.

To say that 15-year-old Cooper isn't thrilled about the idea of spending his entire summer with his grandfather at The Last Stop retirement home is the understatement of the century. The fact that he has to work there for the privilege of sleeping on his grandfather's couch only adds insult to injury. The folks at the retirement home aren't too sure about him, either. His hair is forever hanging in his eyes, for one, and he seems determined to go the entire summer without uttering a single word.

Kat McCarthy ist im Rodeozirkus aufgewachsen, doch erst jetzt hat sie die Chance, selbst zu zeigen, was sie kann. Ihr großer Traum: das Barrel Racing-Finale in Las Vegas zu gewinnen. Auf dem Weg zum nächsten Rodeo kommt ihr das Schicksal in Form eines entlaufenen Pferds entgegen. Als sie es der rechtmäßigen Besitzerin zurückbringt, trifft sie auf Ryder Carmichael. Sie will sich nicht zu ihm hingezogen fühlen. Auf keinen Fall.

These dogs aren't the only ones in need of rescue: For devoted no-kill shelter worker Kelsey Sutton, rehabbing a group of rescue dogs is a welcome challenge. Working with a sexy ex-military dog handler who needs some TLC himself? That's a different story. Kurt Crawford keeps his heart locked away from everyone. Well, everyone except the dogs who need his help...and always have his back. But as Kurt gets to know the compassionate, beautiful woman he's been assigned to work with, he can't help but feel a little puppy love....

Over the course of his legal career, Andy Carpenter has lost a few cases. But that doesn't mean he forgets his clients. Andy has always been convinced that Joey Desimone, a man convicted of murder nine years ago, was innocent and believes that Joey's family's connections to organized crime played a pivotal role in his conviction. While there isn't much Andy can do for him while he serves out his prison sentence, Joey suggests that he check up on Joey's elderly uncle.

When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: Dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time.