Bow Wow Meow Book Club
Join fellow book enthusiasts in a book club discussion about an animal related book. The club reads a different book each month and then meets to discuss it on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 6pm in the Library at ARL Main.
RSVP is not required.
Upcoming Discussion Books...
May: Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations by Dinerstein
Some of the books read to date:
Secret Life of Your Cat (Vicky Halls)
Dog On It (Spencer Quinn)
Chosen by a Horse: How a Brocken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart (Susan Richards)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Secretariat (William Nack)
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
Bunnicula: A rabbit-tale of mystery (Deborah & James Howe)
Animals In Translation (Temple Grandin)
Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog (Steve Winn)
The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs (Jon Franklin)
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Myron)
All Creatures Great and Small (James Herriott)
Wesley the Owl (Stacey O'Brien)
Alex and Me (Irene Pepperberg)
Fluke (Christopher Moore)
Hope for Animals and Their World (Jane Goodall)
A Lion Called Christian (Bourke & Rendall)
Any [cat] mystery (Lillian Jackson Braun)
A Dog Named Christmas (Kincaid)
From Baghdad, With Love (Kopelman/Roth)
The Daily Coyote (Stockton)
For the Love of a Dog (McConnell)
The Soul of a Horse (Camp)
The Good Pig (Montgomery)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Stein)
Any Dick Francis mystery
Tell me where it hurts (Trout)
Water for Elephants (Gruen)
Homer's Odyssey: a fearless feline tale, or how I learned about love and life from a blind wonder cat (Cooper)
Animals Make Us Human (Temple Grandin)
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love (Larry Levin)
Hounding the pavement (Judi McCoy)
Rin Tin Tin: the life and the legend (Susan Orlean)
What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers (Amy Sutherland)
Cat on the Edge (Shirley Rousseau Murphy)
Frightful's Mountain (Jean Craighead George)
War Horse (Michael Morpurgo and Nick Stafford)
Paws and Effect: The Healing Power of Dogs (Sharon R. Sakson)
Dog is My Co-Pilot (by the editors of Bark magazine)
Dewey's Nine Lives: the legacy of the small-town library cat who inspired millions. (Vicki Myron, with Bret Witter)
Life of Pi (Yana Martel)
The Man Who Lives with Wolves (Ellis)
Under the Sea-Wind (Rachel Carson)
A Good Horse Is Never a Bad Color: Tales of Training Through Communication and Trust (Rashid)