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  • The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances

  • Written by: Ellen Cooney
  • Narrated by: Susie Berneis
  • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

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The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances

Written by: Ellen Cooney
Narrated by: Susie Berneis
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Publisher's Summary

Evie is stuck at The Inn, managed by the stern and mysterious Mrs. Auberchon, although she's supposed to join a training program at The Sanctuary. That's what she signed up for - never mind that she lied and doesn't know the first thing about animals. Once up on the mountain with staffers, volunteers, and her dog students, Evie takes notes on the new things she’s learning. Alpha. Forgiveness. Play. Rehabilitation. Like the racing greyhound who refuses to move, the golden retriever who returns every time he's adopted, and the rottweiler who's a hopeless candidate for search-and-rescue, Evie came from a troubled past. She writes: Rescue. Best. Verb. Ever. As she creates her own training manual, she may even write an entry on herself.
©2014 Ellen Cooney (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Women's Fiction Literary Fiction
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What the critics say

"The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances is both a joyful romp and a wise, engaging meditation on dogs, love, and recovery from pain. Come. Sit. Read!" - Lily King, author of The Pleasing Hour and Father of the Rain
"A young woman who knows she's lost, and an older woman who doesn't think she is, meet a slew of castaway dogs at a snowy, mountaintop sanctuary, and discover what they didn’t even know they were looking for. A charming novel about overcoming the past and finding meaning and purpose in the present." - Susan Richards, author of Chosen by a Horse
“The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances is a jubilant, wise celebration of love, reciprocal between human and canine, in ways profound, moving, and soul saving. Readers will long remember the central humans in this tale - Evie, Mrs. Auberchon, and Giant George - along with the exquisitely drawn cast of rescued dogs who, in their own delightful, mysterious, and silent ways, heal their rescuers wounds. Ellen Cooney has written a funny, joyous, and heartrending book that insists intelligence and kindness must win out over ignorance and cruelty. Exploring the human and canine hearts with equal doses of wisdom and wit, Mountaintop is surely a book to be read and reread preferably with your dog nestled by your side.” - Connie May Fowler, author of Remembering Blue

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