A Reader's Map

Have you ever finished a book and not wanted it to end? I bet you have. Sometimes, when a book is so good, you want to visit places traveled in the book, both physical and metaphorical. A good book will make you want to travel to Italy, or read about making pasta, or sail the oceans with pirates of days past.

In our Reader's Map you will find books that lead you to undiscovered territories. But, like any good map, it will lead you back where you started so you can travel another path. The books on this map relate to many of the topics in Vicki Myron's book Dewey. You will find trails leading you to books about Animal-Human Relationships, Cats, Mothers and Daughters, or Small  towns.  This Reader's Map is brought to you by the librarians  of the Jefferson County Library Cooperative.

Animal-Human Relationships

• All Creatures Great and Small
  James Herriot
• Tell Me Where it Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
  Nick Trout
• If Only They Could Speak: Stories About Pets and Their People
  Nicholas H. Dodman
• Animals as Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflections
  Susan Chernak McElroy
• Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul: Stories about Pets as Teachers, Healers, Heroes, and Friends
  Jack Canfield
• The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
  Marc Bekoff
• Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
  Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
• The Cat Who Came for Christmas
  Cleveland Amory
• The Cat Who Went to Paris
  Peter Gethers
• Cats of Thistle Hill
  Roger A. Caras
• Dog Years: A Memoir
  Mark Doty
• The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind
  Ken Foster
• Faithful Friends : Dogs in Life and Literature
• From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
  by Jay Kopelman
• Good Dog, Stay
  Anna Quindlen
• Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog Ted Kerasote
• Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish
  Mark R. Levin
• Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Brontë
  Maureen B. Adams
• Shelter Dogs
  Peg Kehret
• A Three Dog Life
  Abigail Thomas
• Alex & Me
  Irene M. Pepperberg
• A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West
  Richard Dean Rosen
• Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir
  Susan Richards
• The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
  Sy Montgomery
• Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant that Ever Lived
  Ralph Helfer
• The Parrot Who Thought She Was A Dog
  Nancy Ellis-Bell
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend
  Laura Hillenbrand
• Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey through Autism
  Dawn Prince-Hughes
• Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
  Stacey O'Brien
• Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion that Ever Lived
  Ralph Helfer

Mother-Daughter Relationships

• And Sometimes Why
  Rebecca Johnson
• Every Last Cuckoo: A Novel
  Kate Maloy
• The Fiction Class
  Susan Breen
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir
  Jeannette Walls
• Olive Kitteridge
  Elizabeth Strout
• Paula
  Isabel Allende
• Things I Want My Daughters to Know
  Elizabeth Noble

Small Town Life

• A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana
  Haven Kimmel
• If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-town Alaska
  Heather Lende
• Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
  Mildred Armstrong Kalish
• My Dog Skip
  Willie Morris
• Population: 485, Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
  Michael Perry
• Storyville, USA
  Dale Peterson
• Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small-town America
  Bill Geist

Cats of Mystery

• The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
  Lillian Braun
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
  Joanne Fluke
• What the Cat Dragged In
  Gilbert Morris
• Wish You Were Here
  Rita Mae Brown

Libraries & Librarians in Fiction

• The Camel Bookmobile
  Masha Hamilton
• The Case of the Missing Books
  Ian Sansom
• I'm Your Girl
  J. J. Murray
• Mr. Dixon Disappears: A Mobile Library Mystery
  Ian Sansom
• Murder by the Book
  D.R. Meredith
• People of the Book: A Novel
  Geraldine Brooks
• The Uncommon Reader
  Alan Bennett

Movie Tie-Ins

• All Creatures Great & Small
  James Herriot
• Cats: Caressing the Tiger
• Shiloh

For Children

• The Christmas Day Kitten
  James Herriot
• Moses the Kitten
  James Herriot
• James Herriot's Treasury for Children
  James Herriot

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