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    Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary

    Written by Samantha Glen

    Narrated by Juliette Parker

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    Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved, and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of Best Friends, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat, and Sparkles, the broken-down packhorse. Meet their rescuers: a famous symphony conductor, a successful architect, veterinarians, and others. Most of all, fall in love with the animals and people who share a special bond and whose often comic, sometimes poignant, always enchanting adventures together will touch your heart-and teach us all the true meaning of Best Friends.

    "For everyone who has ever loved a pet, this is a message of the universal love between animals and people."-Booklist 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 29, 2001
    ISBN9781415911068
    Author

    Samantha Glen

    SAMANTHA GLEN is the co-author, with Terri Crisp, of Out of Harm's Way. With Mary Pesaresi she has also written Family: Everyday Stories About The Miracle of Love, which the Family Channel honored with its Seal of Quality and voted best adult book of 1996, and Search and Rescue. She currently writes a bi-weekly column called "Animal Talk" for a Northern Nevada newspaper. She lives with her husband and four-legged family in Lake Tahoe.   MICHAEL MOUNTAIN, one of the founders of Best Friends, still works as their Outreach and Media director.

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    • 2/5
      I adore Best Friends Animal Sanctuary !! Love it, Love it, Love it!! But this book..... not so much. I found it to be choppy and slow and just felt very flat. Even some of the "emotional" parts didn't come across with any feeling. I'll read more about Best Friends because I can't wait to go there someday but this book just didn't do them justice.
    • 5/5
      This book relates the early history of a huge (the size of Manhattan) animal sanctuary in Utah, from choosing the place to becoming fully operational and solvent. The author presents both a sweeping picture and stories of individual animals and some people. Predictably, the narrative is in turn funny, moving and poignant, but always warm and interesting. The general tone is very uplifting and the book is mostly pleasant to read (if you're very sensitive toward animal suffering you might want to skip chapter 10 - I wish I had - but otherwise I didn't find it emotionally hard to read). It's a book whose "characters," both human and animal, will stay with you long after you finish it.
    • 5/5
      I've been to the Best Friends Sanctuary and it is truly a beautiful, spiritual place where animals of all kinds enjoy paradise here on Earth. On the 1-5 scale the book itself doesn't quite rate a 5, but the Best Friends organization rates at least a 10 so I'm bumping it up the book's star quotient to thank the author for bringing attention to their work. No animal lover would ever regret the purchase of this story.
    • 4/5
      A well written book about the beginnings of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Like many books of this topic, the names, people and places often times to blend together.