Joan Walker

Describes the physical traits, history, and behavior characteristics of Labrador Retrievers, along with advice on choosing a puppy, everyday care, grooming and exercise, nutrition and health care, and training. Includes over 100 photographs and bonus DVD.

"From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. With Malvern's daughter Alexis running away to the country after a terrible tragedy and refusing to return, James' ascent to head of the company seems...

Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. Even as a boy working in his father's market stall in Camden, he was determined to become a merchant prince. Through hard work and a single-minded determination, James rises quickly through the ranks, with a loving wife, devoted children, and a lofty...

"On her favorite day of the year, Elizabeth Davenport awakens in her cottage on the wild and windy Cornish coast, opens her front door, and discovers a precious gift: the small blue crocus and a note that begins I Wish ... They are not signed, but she knows they've been left by her first and truest love, Tom Hale. Each of these precious missives convey a simple wish for something they had missed, and the life they might have shared. She has kept them...

A pussycat has a very unusual tea party for a little dog.

Lucie visits the laundry of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, a hedgehog, and finds her lost handkerchiefs.

In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother and sisters in a house overrun with rats. When Tom Kitten stumbles into the home of a rat, Samuel Whiskers, and his wife Anna Maria, Tom Kitten faces the unsettling prospect of getting turned into a their dinner pudding. The thirteenth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers...

Benjamin Bunny is now married to his cousin Flopsy, and their six little bunnies get into all manner of mischief.

Timmy Tiptoes, a little fat, comfortable grey squirrel, runs into trouble with his fellow squirrels over the hoarding of nuts for the winter.