Kate’s 2¢: “The Forever Dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer ” by Rodney Habib; Karen Shaw Becker; Kristin Loberg

“The Forever Dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer ” by Rodney Habib; Karen Shaw Becker; Kristin Loberg

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

–Many people spend thousands of dollars searching for the solution, when the solution is to stop feeding their dog the wrong food.  

–Metabolic stress can cause illness.

–By moving more (exercise) we lower the risk of early death, disease, depression, and anxiety, which is true for people and our dogs.

–Gut bacteria (biome) can influence brain activity and mood.

–The mor microbially  rich and diverse your dog’s gut flora is, the healthier they will become.

–The power of poop; fecal transplants  from a healthy dog to the sick dog.

–Environmental issues can be toxic and influence the health of our dogs and people

–food and medicines come from the same source; choose natural foods

–you and your dog need to get up and get moving for a healthier, longer life.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Habib opened Planet Paws, his pet store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on October 15, 2011. In 2012, he posted a digital image and write-up on his Facebook page of all the separate ingredients that compose a typical bag of commercial dog food; the post received half a million shares overnight.[1]

One of his most popular posts was about rawhide chews and has been shared over 1 million times. It was followed by a video on how rawhide is made which has been viewed over 45 million times, and raised awareness of the chemicals and processes used in the creation of some rawhide chews. These video also resulted in one veterinarian, Patrick Mahaney, stating rawhide toys can be safe to use, and only chemical free rawhides should be considered.[4]

In 2014, Habib reportedly argued booster shots for pet vaccines increased risk of immune disorders, whereas medical experts cited large, long-term studies that show the benefit of vaccination outweighs the minimal risk of the adverse immune response.[5] He supports “core vaccinations” for young dogs and remains opposed to booster shots due to his belief that it could increase risk of immune disorders, though veterinary scientists continue to defend giving regular booster shots to maintain immunity.[6]

By 2015 Habib was recognized by Facebook for his successful use of his blog to promote his business[7] and was being sought around the world for advice on pet health.[8][9][4][10]

By March 2016, the Planet Paws Facebook page received national news coverage when an article in the National Post stated the page had over 860,000 likes and was reported to appear in 110 million newsfeeds every six days, and had deeper Facebook reach that Canadian corporations Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, Air Canada, Cirque du Soleil and Shoppers Drug Mart.[1] By end of March 2016, the page was approaching 1 million likes,.[11] By July 2017 the page had exceeded 1.9 million followers, at which time Facebook administrators informed Habib that Planet Paws had become the most popular pet health page in the world.[12]

Karen Shaw Becker was born in Waterloo, Iowa, and grew up in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She graduated from Northern University High School in 1989. In 1990 she completed a raptor rehabilitation internship at the Raptor Center of Pueblo, Colorado. She interned at the Berlin Zoo in 1992.

Veterinary Career

Dr. Becker has been a practicing Veterinarian since 1997. In 2015 she co-founded the Companion Animal Nutrition and Wellness Institute (CANWI) with board-certified veterinary nutritionist Dr. Donna Raditicto fund independent, unbiased, university .

Kristin Loberg is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling co-author of Grain Brain, A Short Look at a Long Life and others.

Loberg is a professional writer and book collaborator who specializes in transforming experts’ knowledge and ideas into engaging, reader-friendly works for general audiences. More than a dozen of her projects have spent weeks on the New  best seller list.

She attended Cornell University and lives in L.A. with

her husband and two sons.

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The forever dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer DB105331

Habib, Rodney; Becker, Karen Shaw; Loberg, Kristin Reading time: 15 hours, 29 minutes.

Jean Ann Douglass

Animals and Wildlife

A veterinarian and an expert on pet health have gathered the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers to delay aging and provide a longer, happier, healthier life for your dog. They also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Miss Julia Delivers the Goods” by Ann B. Ross

“Miss Julia Delivers the Goods” by Ann B. Ross

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   This book was published in 2009 and, as I read it, I thought it wouldn’t be published today in 2021. I suspect it would be criticized by the Black Lives Matter movement. I see Lilian as a main-stay for Julia, kind of the voice of reason, rather than a stereotyping of a person of color.

   During the beginning of the story, I thought Julia’s stream of consciousness was annoying. Toward the end of the book, I came to realize the humor in her ramblings. I liked the book, but would classify it as a ‘chicklette’.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ann B. Ross is the author of a series of New York Times bestsellers[1] set in her home state of North Carolina[2] that generally share a group of returning characters.[1] Comic by genre, the series features a central character, “Miss Julia,” whose name appears at the beginning of each title and from whose point of view the novels are written. She believes the universal truths are “that family and faith and doing what is right and proper make up the core of a healthy and happy life.”[2] However, “being well acquainted with the consequences of womanly submission,” by book two of the series, Miss Julia also believes that “a woman ought to take up for herself, if you ask me.”

   Ross completed an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1984,[3] while her children were also at university.[4] She earned a PhD in Old English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991.[5] In 2010 UNC-Asheville honored her as a “Distinguished Alumna” “for her notable career as a novelist.”[3] She has also been a teaching staff member there.

when Miss Julia just “came into her head.”[6] “For the first time in my life, I was no one’s daughter, niece, wife or mother. I was just Ann, and my identity came from my classroom performance alone. … It was absolutely liberating.”[2] A full-time writing career followed on from the success of her first Miss Julia book.”[7]

She is “the mother of two daughters and one son, and the grandmother of four grandsons (including twin boys) and two granddaughters, both of whom are her namesakes.”[4] One of her sons’ experiences working as a police officer in Atlanta inspired her to write a fictionalized version that she offered to a New York agent, but when the agency expressed interest she submitted her first Miss Julia novel instead.[8]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Miss Julia delivers the goods: a novel DB68898

Ross, Ann B. Reading time: 11 hours, 39 minutes.

Read by Mitzi Friedlander. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Humor

Human Relations

After breaking up with J.D. Pickens, Hazel Marie, the former mistress of Miss Julia’s late husband, discovers that she is expecting. While Miss Julia scrambles to reconcile Hazel Marie and J.D., someone breaks into the office of Miss Julia’s husband, lawyer Sam Murdoch, and steals his files. 2009.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Thin places: a natural history of healing and home” by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

“Thin places: a natural history of healing and home” by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

–Sacred places remain unmoved and and unchanged in their core

–Places where I feel hope like the beating of moth wings on my skin.

–I had no coping skills. I wouldn’t let people around me step in close to help. They wouldn’t understand how it would all fit together.

–In thin places, people say they feel being taken out of themselves; or nearer to God.

–We made our past and it has made us.

   I like listening to Gabriella Cavallero whenever she reads for NLS.

From the web:

ní Dochartaigh (born 1983) is a Northern Irish writer known for her nature writings.

Kerri ní Dochartaigh is the author of Thin Places. She has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, the BBC, Winter Papers, and others. She is from the North West of Ireland but now lives in the middle, in an old railway cottage with her partner and dog.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Thin places: a natural history of healing and home DB108589

Dochartaigh, Kerri ní. Reading time: 8 hours, 39 minutes.

Read by Gabriella Cavallero.

Biography

“Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of “two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose” (The Guardian). Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town—although for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were forced out of two homes. When she was eleven, a homemade bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like ní Dochartaigh’s, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape. In Thin Places, a luminous blend of memoir, history, and nature writing, ní Dochartaigh explores how nature kept her sa

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Empty Canoe” by Peter Georgas

“The Empty Canoe” by Peter Georgas

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   From the beginning, Meridith appears to be a big, cuddly, naïve fireman who thinks with his little head. However bamboozeled he becomes in this farce, he is true to his fireman code of commitment and solves the murders.

   For me, this story does not have a satisfying ending. The astute reader will guess the perp very early on in the story, so, despite the convoluted narrative arc, there are too many loose ends.

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WebJan 19, 2015 · Peter Georgas grew up in Waseca, a small town in southern Minnesota where his father owned the Crystal Café and Candy Kitchen. He earned a BA in …

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The Empty Canoe DBC27454

Georgas, Peter. Reading time: 10 hours, 5 minutes.

Read by Howard Cox.

Mystery and Detective Stories

An empty canoe bouncing off boulders on the shores of Lake Harriet is spotted early one morning by a Minneapolis firefighter on his daily jog. What starts out as a simple ID turns into a full-blown investigation, dragging the fireman on a harrowing journey involving a murdered banker, a beautiful woman, a kidnapped son, and a missing contractor who has left behind a mountain of debt. The twists and turns carry the reader at a dizzying pace from one continent to another only to return to the shores of Lake Harriet for a surprise ending. Adult. Strong language.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Lost Hours” by Karen White

“The Lost Hours” by Karen White

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   I enjoyed listening to Beth DeVries read this story.

   All too often, after it is too late, we realize how little we know someone. Young children and young adults never think to seriously interview their parents. Usually, it is when a problem or issue arises that they wish they could ask Mom… or Dad…or Grandma.

   Then again, when you go digging into the past, you might not like what you dig up.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

www.karen-white.com

White was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and during her childhood lived in numerous states and also in Venezuela and London, England, where she graduated from The American School in London.[citation needed] She attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Management.[1]

Most of White’s novels are based in the low-country of the southeastern United States. Her first book, In the Shadow of the Moon was a double finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.[2] The Girl on Legare Street reached The New York Times Best Seller list in November 2009.[3][4] On Folly Beach, published in May 2010, was also a NYT bestseller.[5] White has published 27 novels to date, with the latest book, The Attic on Queen Street, released in November 2021. In addition to her solo work, White has also has co-authored four novels with Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig; the most recent, The Lost Summers of Newport, was released in May 2022.

White is married to Timothy J. White, a US banker, with two children, and resides near Atlanta, Georgia.[6] White is currently published by Berkley, a division of Penguin Random House.[1]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The lost hours DB109836

White, Karen, (Karen S.). Reading time: 13 hours, 9 minutes.

Read by Beth DeVries.

Suspense Fiction

“When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched. Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Piper’s dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather’s death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn’t exist—or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace—and a newspaper article from 1929 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace’s charms tell the story of three friends during the 1920s— each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audioboo

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