Leo: A Greyhound's Tale tells of a retired racing Greyhound who is adopted by a bankable film star married to a supermodel. The celebrity couple want him only for his fabulous looks. But Leo is deeply loved by their live-in housekeeper, Kim, who is putting herself through college. Leo is devastated when Kim is framed for a crime and fired after spurning her employer's advances. Although a worrier by nature, Leo decides he will do anything--even risk his life by revealing his supercanine abilities--to be reunited with Kim. His quest seems as impossible as his old dream of being a champion...
Leo: A Greyhound's Tale tells of a retired racing Greyhound who is adopted by a bankable film star married to a supermodel. The celebrity couple want ...
In this sequel to Leo: A Greyhound's Tale, a retired racer called Leo must exercise his wits to survive the ego-shattering and life-threatening challenges posed by a menacing Rottweiler, a disdainful Pekingese, a seeming reincarnation of Al Capone, a dream visit gone horribly awry, and the Curse of the Ming Vase. Worst of all is his self loathing when in a moment of extreme frustration he is unkind. Lee Livingood, author of Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies, said of Leo in China: "Leo is back. And I'm delighted. . . . It's been too long since we first met Leo, and I forgot how much I...
In this sequel to Leo: A Greyhound's Tale, a retired racer called Leo must exercise his wits to survive the ego-shattering and life-threatening challe...
Set in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, and California, the story opens with Holly Seashore Cooper asking herself why she is getting drunk in a Rapid City, South Dakota, hotel when she is supposed to be in Minneapolis as the lead in a play on opening night. The answer is that she could not say no to what may have been her mother's last request. On the same night, Holly encounters Michael Daniels, whom she jilted long ago after she went away to college. She hiccups. Her knees knock. Everything she says is stupid. Michael, coldly polite and seemingly uninterested, does not let on that...
Set in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, and California, the story opens with Holly Seashore Cooper asking herself why she is getting drunk i...
Annalise Tully, a teacher, artist, and marathoner, is running alongside Powers Lake to work off the stress of not being able to fulfill her widowed father's request to organize a family vacation, which no one else in the family wants. Obscuring this problem is a sudden t-storm and Annie seeing four teenage boys drinking beer. One is in the crotch of a tree, making him a likely target to be struck by lightning. Running to the boys, Annie trips over a snapping turtle they had turned on its back. After she berates them for this cruelty, all but one, the boy in the tree, grab and strip her and...
Annalise Tully, a teacher, artist, and marathoner, is running alongside Powers Lake to work off the stress of not being able to fulfill her widowed fa...
Leo, a retired racing Greyhound, who raced as Luv You Too Much, thinks he has a perfect life with his owner, Mike Dozer, until a phone call from Mike's friend and fellow Greyhound lover, Robin Eagle, turns his world upside-down. Leo now learns that he will be traded for a cat named Mr. Lily and a hairless rat called Harry. Feeling forsaken and unloved, Leo struggles to harden himself and not care that he will never be Mike's dog and devoted companion again. But as hard as he tries, his heart is breaking. If he'd only known he was going to live with a sick Greyhound who was deeply loved by a...
Leo, a retired racing Greyhound, who raced as Luv You Too Much, thinks he has a perfect life with his owner, Mike Dozer, until a phone call from Mike'...
Gary Frank, a veterinarian, recalls his childhood: The death of his mother in a car crash, his father going to Japan for a year and sending him to live with relatives he scarcely knows, and having to leave behind his German shepherd dog, Joey, and Chappie, the young handywoman next door, who is mute and whom he idolizes. Set in Long Beach, California; Keystone, South Dakota; and Minot, North Dakota, the story begins with Gary being terrified of dogs and his parents giving him a puppy on his sixth birthday. The dog, it turns out, has epilepsy. He also has healing powers, or so Gary believes....
Gary Frank, a veterinarian, recalls his childhood: The death of his mother in a car crash, his father going to Japan for a year and sending him to liv...
Kara Tolstoy, the second born of identical triplets, asks her mother why she can walk through closed doors when no one else can, and why her eyes change colors when she sees ghosts. Upset, her mother keeps this to herself. Knowing how shocked her mom was, Kara, now twenty, hasn't told anyone else Having passed the bar to be a lawyer, she saw through a window a silk dress so beautiful that she knew she was meant to be a fabric artist. After going to school again, her goal was to work for Worthington Fabrics, owned by Cliff Worthington. On the day of her appointment with him, she asked her cat,...
Kara Tolstoy, the second born of identical triplets, asks her mother why she can walk through closed doors when no one else can, and why her eyes chan...
Continuation of the Leo series in which Leo finds a new love and housemate from a shelter. She is called Teddy Bear, who can also talk--albeit at first in Italian.
Continuation of the Leo series in which Leo finds a new love and housemate from a shelter. She is called Teddy Bear, who can also talk--albeit at firs...
