James Herriot, Author St Martin's Press $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14631-3
Readers and viewers of the series All Creatures Great and Small will find old friends in this captivating collection of nine reprinted canine stories. Tricki Woo, the pampered Pekinese, appears in three of them with his mistress, Mrs. Pumphrey. ""Rag
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James Herriot, Author St. Martin's Press $7.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-95058-3
Herriot's many fans will not be disappointed by his latest, which picks up the story of his veterinary practice in Yorkshire after WW II. BOMC main selection and 22-week PW bestseller in cloth. (July)
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James Herriot, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-312-43968-2
This succinct, admiring biography views Harry Truman as a strong, decisive and much-underrated president. A British politician and author (Asquith, Jenkins stresses Truman's accomplishments in the world arena, where the failed haberdasher achieved...
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James Herriot, Author, Lesley Holmes, Illustrator St Martin's Press $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-11342-1
Viewers of Herriot's TV series All Creatures Great and Small will find themselves in familiar territory here. We meet Olly and Ginny, feral kittens who disdained indoor life. Frisks's ``spells'' were a puzzle until Herriot learned that the cat...
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James Herriot, Author, Ruth Brown, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-312-13407-5
The noted veterinarian and storyteller recalls a Christmas morning when he was summoned to the home of Mrs. Pickering. Usually he called on her Basset hounds, but this time the woman's concern was for a mother cat that was sick. The cat, a stray...
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James Herriot, Author, Ruth Brown, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $13 (32p) ISBN 978-0-312-01000-3
Old John Skipton tends his two aging cart horses well, even though they've been replaced by a tractor. He shows up at the Darrowby Fair with his grey horse, Bonny, as an entry in the Family Pets Class of showings. Both John and Bonny are dressed up...
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James Herriot, Author, Ruth Brown, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $13 (32p) ISBN 978-0-312-03397-2
Yorkshire veterinarian and bestselling author Herriot has come up with yet another winning tale about one of the many animals that crossed his path over the years. This time it's a dog, which he spies begging in the town square one market day. The...
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James Harriot, Author, James Herriot, Author, Peter Barrett, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $13 (32p) ISBN 978-0-312-58583-9
This is the British veterinarian's second book for children and surely destined to join all his stories on bestseller lists. Herriot's understated narrative stars Gyp and Sweep, sheepdog brothers with an extraordinary love for each other. Their...
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