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Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience? Example after example in this unique classic -- from "Strongheart" the actor-dog to "Freddie" the fly -- resounds with entertaining and inspiring proof that communication with animals is a wonderful, indisputable…
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I get really happy when I can say this about a book: “I’ve never read anything like it!” This book isn’t fiction—or at least the author insists it isn’t, but it’s one of the most compelling books I’ve read, possibly because I’m the kind of animal lover who, in one way or another, puts animals in all her stories.
J. Allen Boone spins mesmerizing tales about animal intelligence and animal communication, filling his pages with philosophy and observations about animal lives from his friend, the German Shepherd movie star Strongheart, to a common house fly named Freddie. It’s not a…
From Diane's list on read at once in a comfy chair with some wine.
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