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 Beagles (Dogs Set II) - $19.72
An introduction to the smallest member of the hound family, which includes its history, development, uses, and care.
|  Life Span Effects of Ionizing Radiation in the Beagle Dog: A Summary Account of Four Decades of Research Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and - $52.50
|  Beagles Are the Best! (The Best Dogs Ever) - $22.76
What's that dog with the floppy ears, loving eyes, and friendly personality? It's the beagle! Beagles are loyal dogs with a gentle nature and plenty of curiosity. Their owners think they are the best dogs ever - and it's easy to see why. If you're a beagle fan, you'll want to learn all about this breed, from its amazing sense of smell and tendency to bay at other animals to its history as a hunting and tracking dog in England. You'll also want to find out how to care for the beagle. So check out this go-to guide for beagle lovers - and learn all about why beagles are the best breed there is!
|  Scent of Danger: A Dale Kinsall Mystery (Five Star Mystery Series) - $18.95
This is the second in the veterinarian Dale Kinsall series and after his last mystery he has moved to Arizona and is now renovating his clinic. As he does so, veterinarian Laura Nakai, who Dale is sweet on, and whom Dale wants to join his practice, tells him that her cousin Mary and Mary's son Robert are coming to stay with her because Robert has contracted the hanta virus and is going to be treated at a nearby hospital. This bothers Laura, and it is getting in the way of Dale's intentions; meanwhile, Dale is getting strange couplets from somebody. As the story meanders endlessly towards no noticeable goal Dale goes and visits Laura, finds that her air conditioner has been tampered with, that there is a mouse nest found inside it, and as Laura collapses and it is found that she has also contracted the hanta virus.
Dale begins to realize that there is something suspicious behind the doggerel that he's been receiving, the two cases of hanta virus in Laura's family, and a death in a near-by town. He brings his suspicions to the authorities but not much happens as Deputy Rena Wells who he contacts is being ostracized from the rest of the force because of her "relationship" with Dale, and because the authority's egos were bruised because of Dale's solving a headlining crime in the previous novel.
The basic problems with this novel are manifold. The first is the pacing; it is slow, damn near lapsing into a coma at times. The reader will end up going past the hundred page mark before we realize that a crime has been committed. One hundred plus pages out of a two hundred and fifty page novel is just way too long to kick start a mystery.
Another problem is the "Scent Of Danger"'s characters, they had no personality; I literally kept forgetting who was who and didn't much care. The only female that really stands out in the book is Sheri, his girl Friday. It seems that authors keep mistaking quirky with obnoxious. Sheri is one of those unquirky, but totally obnoxious characters that those uninitiated with this series will quickly pray be a murder victim and put us all out of our misery. No such luck. After every castration of a dog, she will steal the testicles and put string on them and put them, like fuzzy dice, on Dale's rear view mirror, put them on his pizza, or put them in his doughnuts.
This is funny? This is a doctor's office. Not only is this inexcusably unprofessional, and grotesque, it is horribly unsanitary as there is a contagious disease that seems to mysteriously spreading, and some "quirky" moron is pulling pranks like this? I suspect that behavior like this could in some places actually cause legal problems, and/or a suspension of somebody's license. This especially becomes unfunny when Dale almost eats one, and then feeds it to his dog. While some particularly backward people might find this behavior funny, in the real world, if she was working for me, she quickly wouldn't be working for me.
Then there is the problem of making Dale's beagle a major character. Having him interact with Dale in the way that he does is amusing at first, but his italicized sub-vocalizations soon become grindingly annoying, like having some particularly slow person constantly drool on you at random times just for effect. If this book was supposed to serve as propaganda for the beagle breed, it failed miserably.
But the most important problem "Scent Of Danger" had is that this book really does not stand alone. It acts as a true sequel. Not a chapter goes by where we are not treated to constant references to the first book in this series, yet the circumstances of the first book are never really explained. So we are constantly barraged with these almost cryptic comments and references to the circumstances that have happened in the first novel. After a while this becomes annoying, like listening to somebody randomly lapse into code for no concernable reason. To make "Scent Of Danger" seem more like a sequel to "Nose For Trouble" than a stand-alone series novel is that the ONLY reason that the crimes in "Scent Of Danger" were committed were BECAUSE of the events in "Nose For Trouble", which are never adequately explained. When you get to the ending and find out the reason for everything you just want to throw the book across the room and exclaim, "You have got to be kidding me!!!"
At a short two hundred and fifty pages this book became one of the hardest and longest slogs that I've done through a book in several years. And there is no call for it. Durgin is a good writer, her Kimmer Reed books are textbook examples of how to write a flawed, but likable and human female action characters, but "Scent Of Danger" is just a dull, innocuous five-finger exercise.
It should be noted that this book is now available as a low-cost paperback reprint from Harlequin's Worldwide imprint. There is also a native American character here (Laura), and the book's plot has a Native American slant to it, and that is the only interesting thing about this novel.
| Loudest Beagle on the Block (Pet Trouble) - $14.99
Ten-year-old Ella lives for music, and with the school talent show coming up, she doesn't have time for anything else. So when her aunt's beagle comes to live at her house, Ella doesn't think she has time for a dog -- especially when it turns out that every time the beagle hears music, she wants to sing along! And her voice is definitely NOT angelic. How is Ella supposed to win the talent show when all she can hear every time she rehearses is AAOOOWWAAAOOOOOO?
|  The Beagle (Wilcox, Charlotte. Learning About Dogs.) - $18.67
An introduction to the smallest member of the hound family, which includes its history, development, uses, and care.
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