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Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and getting married to a new husband, thirty-three-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way.
Susan comes to believe that a puppy and working on ski patrol at the last great ski town in Colorado will improve her life. When she learns about avalanches that bury people without warning, she challenges herself: "What if I teach a dog to save lives?" This quest propels her to train the best possible...
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St. Martin's Press
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2019
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English
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"A beautiful photo book showcasing more than 50 heroic dogs "in uniform" and their stories, from photographer Liz Stavrinides and author John Schlimm. Extraordinary Dogs portrays more than fifty working dogs, along with the police officers, firefighters, veterans, and other trained volunteer handlers who serve side-by-side with them. Their moving stories and beautiful photographs are an unprecedented glimpse at Comfort Dogs and Search and Rescue Dogs,...
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Bloomsbury
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[2014]
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English
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"A dog's nose is 300 times more powerful than a human nose, so it's no wonder that dogs use their incredibly advanced sense of smell to do some very important jobs. Dorothy Hinshaw Patent explores the various ways specific dogs have put their super sniffing ability to use: from bedbug sniffers to explosive detectors to life-saving allergy detectors...and more. This dynamic photo-essay includes first-hand accounts from the people who work closely with...
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Dog's purpose (Juvenile) volume 1
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English
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Trained as a search-and-rescue dog since puppyhood, Ellie can track and find people who are physically lost, but it is her owners, widower Jakob and lonely Maya, who challenge her to find a way to save people who are lost in other ways.
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When Ryder Creed responds to a devastating mudslide in North Carolina, he knows the difference between finding survivors and the dead is time. Heedless of the dangers, Creed and his best search-and-rescue dog Bolo frantically wade through the chaos of twisted tree limbs, crumbled cement, and unrecognizable debris, when a second slide catches up with Ryder and he is buried alive. Bolo makes it out, though, and leads the heroic rescue of his master....
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New Horizon Press
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[2014]
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English
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The gripping true crime story of committed investigators from two countries and their cooperation in the relentless pursuit of a brutal murderer. From the moment David Tanasichuk reports his wife, Maria, missing, claiming they were having marital troubles and she had decided to take a break by leaving town, lie after lie unravels. David's reputation for violence and drug abuse makes investigators take his veiled threats against them seriously. Local...
9) Sniffer dogs
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[2014]
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English
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"Readers will discover how detection dogs are able to use their noses to find everything from people, both alive and dead, to explosives to . . . whale poop. These working dogs work to please, work to play, and work for love."--
10) Reckless creed
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Ryder Creed novels volume 3
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English
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"In the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Alex Kava, Ryder Creed, his K-9 search-and-rescue dogs, and FBI agent Maggie O'Dell find themselves at the center of a dire and mysterious case. In Chicago, a young man jumps from his thirtieth-story hotel room; along the Missouri river, a hunter and his son stumble upon a lake whose surface is littered with snow geese, all of them dead; and in southern Alabama, Ryder Creed...
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Dog's day volume 5
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Border collie Skye, a trained therapy dog now learning search and rescue in a national park in California, has her first opportunity to help when a sixteen-year-old boy goes missing. Includes information about border collies and working dogs.
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In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson's attention was caught by a newspaper photograph of a canine handler, his exhausted face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. Susannah, a dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team, plunging herself into an astonishing new world. While the team worked long hours for nonexistent pay and often...
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"Lacey Jefferson's search for her missing sister quickly turns into a murder investigation - thrusting Lacey and her search-and-rescue K-9, Scarlett, into a killer's sights. Now teaming up with her ex-boyfriend, Sheriff Creed Payne, is the only way to discover the murderer's identity. But can they survive long enough to dig up the truth?"--
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A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of "working dogs"-pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead-as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which The New York Times calls "a fascinating, deeply reported journey into the...amazing things dogs can do with their noses."
There are thousands of working dogs all over the US...
15) The search
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Eve Duncan novels volume 3
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English
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As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is like no other.
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"The incredible memoir of how Wilma Melville turned a band of shelter dogs into one of America's foremost disaster-response assets in catastrophes from 9/11 to Katrina. Ana and Hunter were failed service dogs. Recon was left for dead on the train tracks. Cody was returned to the shelter seven times before he turned two. To most, these dogs were unadoptable. Unsalvageable. Irredeemable. To retired gym teacher and grandma Wilma Melville, they were the...
17) Firefighter
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Scout (Jennifer Li Shotz) volume 2
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English
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"It's official: Scout is now a K-9 in the National Guard. But being a certified hero means Scout has his job cut out for him. He needs to work even harder to protect his country and his human best friend, Matt. When Matt's classmates get trapped in a raging wildfire, Matt knows that only Scout can track them down and bring them back safely. But when Matt's dad, a First Sergeant home on leave, gets wind of their plan, he insists on joining the rescue...
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Rocaeditorial
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©2011
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Español
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"Reconfortante, profunda y repleta de momentos de felicidad y risas, La razon de estar contigo no es tan solo la historia emotiva de las multiples vidas de un perro, es tambien la narracion de las relaciones de los humanos vistas desde los ojos de un perro y de los inquebrantables huesos que existen entre el hombre y su mejor amigo. Esta conmovedora historia nos ensenara que el amor nunca muere, que nuestros verdaderos amigos estaran siempre a nuestro...
19) Hidden Creed
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Ryder Creed novels volume 06
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Prairie Wind Publishing
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English
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"During a training exercise, Creed's scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave. The body was never meant to be found, hidden deep in an isolated part of Florida's Blackwater River State Forest. The remote area has no easy access in or out. The killer obviously hoped his secret would be scattered and swallowed up by the forces of nature. When Creed's dogs continue to find more remains, investigators quickly realize they're...
20) Lost creed
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Ryder Creed novels volume 4
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Prairie Wind Publishing
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English
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"Ryder Creed rescues abandoned dogs and turns them into heroes. But this time, it's Creed who may need rescuing when a madman leads him and FBI Agent Maggie O'Dell on a gut-wrenching scavenger hunt." --
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