Books with author E. O'Donnell

Kylie is a therapy dog who thinks she's just like any other dog, but as she tells her story she discovers that therapy dogs have very special qualities that help them to help others. Living in a home where her owners continuously train Kylie to do therapy dog work is just part of the story Kylie shares. She describes what it is like when visiting schools, libraries, hospitals, and special events like safety programs for young children. Becoming qualified to be a therapy dog is not an easy process, but an important one. Kylie shares what she has to do to pass her "test" and what Molly, the other dog in her house, is doing to become a therapy dog. A question and answer page is included for readers who might want more details on therapy dog work and how to find therapy dogs to work in programs. This book is illustrated with photographs of Kylie doing her therapy dog work as well as a few pictures of her just being a regular dog.

Excerpt from Singing WheelsIf it had not been for the railing round the driver's seat, Lightning Joe would surely have tumbled from the coach and landed on the hard, rocky road.Forward over every bump in' the road went the flying horses. What did they care for bumps? The bugle call meant that the stage station, or stopping place, was not far ahead. There, other horses would be waiting to carry the heavy coach farther on its way. The tired horses, which had been pulling the stage for three long hours, would have a good dinner and a well-earned rest. N o wonder they pulled with all their might!Up and down over all the bumps went the two small front wheels and the two large back wheels of the stage. Forward and back between the wheels rocked the coach, for all the world like a big rock ing chair. Forward and back it rocked on thick leather straps which Were fastened beneath the coach and which served in place of springs.The yellow dust of the road rose like a cloud beneath the horses' feet: All at once, through the thick veil of dust, Lightning Joe saw a deep hollow at the side of the road. Could the wheels of the stage miss the hollow? If not, ten chances to one the coach would turn (over. But no stage was going to upset with Lightning Joe on the box.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Several years ago, bent on revisiting Perthshire, a locality which had great attractions for me as a boy, I answered an advertisement in a popular ladies' weekly. As far as I can recollect, it was somewhat to this effect: "Comfortable home offered to a gentleman (a bachelor) at moderate terms in an elderly Highland lady's house at Pitlochry. Must be a strict teetotaller and non-smoker. F.M., Box so-and-so."

Fifteen year old Orin Hutch came to StrifeCon to geek-out over his favorite online video game and own noobs on the PvP battlefield. Now, he’s running from the cops, searching for his brother and hunting a killer. Lincoln Rensk, notorious loot trader is found dead in the middle of the biggest gaming convention of the year. All clues point to Baz, Orin’s older brother and perpetual screw-up. When Baz disappears, it’s up to Orin to track down the killer and clear his brother’s name. With his gamer geek friends at his side, Orin delves deep into the dark side of gaming where gold farming and account hacking for imaginary treasure can lead to real riches. And real murder. Can Orin and his geek allies catch the killer before it’s game over for all of them? Award-winning children's author Liam O'Donnell gets his geek on with this first book in his new series: Geeked Out Mysteries. Packed with epic loot, dodgy gold farmers and lots of PvP action, Ganked is a Young Adult gamer geek mystery perfect for the videogamer in your life.

"I Love You All the Same" awakens children to literally experiencing different days of the beautifully changing seasons. They will never take a walk through a meadow, have a day at the beach, watch falling leaves or make snow angels quite the same way again. The words will transform for them each of the season's special characteristics, all the time never favoring one season over another, giving them a renewed appreciation for the seasons' differences, but loving each one of them impartially and all the same.

If human beings, with all their vices, have a future life, assuredly animals, who in character so often equal, nay, excel human beings, have a future life also.Those who in the Scriptures find a key to all things, can find nothing in them to confute this argument. There is no saying of Christ that justifies one in supposing that man is the only being, whose existence extends beyond the grave.Granted, however, merely for the sake of argument, that we have some ground for the denial of a future existence for animals, consider the injustice such a denial would involve. Take, for example, the case of the horse. Harming no one, and without thought of reward, it toils for man all its life, and when too old to work it is put to death without even the compensation of a well-earned rest. But if compensation be God's law,—as I, for one, believe it to be—and also the raison d'être of a hereafter, then surely the Creator, whose chief claim to our respect and veneration lies in the fact that He is just and merciful, will take good care that the horse—the gentle, patient, never-complaining horse—is well compensated—compensated in a golden hereafter.

A terrific list of varied and imaginative fun things for kids to do on the school holidays. And the best thing is it is written by those who really know what is fun to do while school’s out. On the first day of the summer holidays, 10-year olds Anna and Tessa sat down and wrote a list of 101 simple and fun things they wanted to try. The result is this invaluable book full of ideas and instructions on how to really have fun this holiday. Kids are happy, and mom and Dad are happy! It’s a win-win.