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title: To Your Dog's Health! Canine Nutrition and Recent Trends Within the Pet Food Industry

author: Mark Poveromo

pages: 88

genre: non-fiction/pets

published: 2010

first line: It has taken me many years to compile the information found within this book, and I believe it will help you provide your pet with sound nutrition.




I found To Your Dog's Health! to be both helpful and enlightening.
This book is a great resource for dog owners.



With chapter titles like All Foods Are Not Created Equal and Be a Top Chef for Your Dog, author Mark Poveromo informs the reader on how to give their dog the best nutrition possible. Formerly a teacher, Mark is now an expert on animal nutrition as well as the owner of a dog and cat food store.



He is a holistic practitioner and has his own dogs on raw food diets as well as cooking for them at home himself. His own chocolate lab lived to be 17 years old.


There are healthy recipes included within the book as well as brands Mark recommends. He gives advice on picky eaters and on how to transition your dog from the food he is currently eating to a different diet.

He discusses several interesting topics including dogs with cancer and what foods help prevent it, as well as what foods they should be eating once, heaven forbid, they are diagnosed with the disease. Mark also tells you what to look for when you are reading labels.

I liked that there is a photo included at the start of each chapter. I thought that was a nice touch.





I will definitely be making sure that I am label reading when purchasing food and treats for my own furbaby, Diego. This book has been an eye opener when it comes to my dog's eating habits and the food that I chose to give him.





Special thanks to Lisa Roe for sending me a copy of this book.

title: The Handy Answer Book for Kids

author: Gina Misiroglu

genre: non fiction/ childrens

pages: 292

published: 2009

rated: 4 out of 5









Why do leaves change color in Autumn? Should I tell my parents I am being bullied?
How do airplanes fly? Why is the Grand Canyon unique?
These are just a few of the questions The Handy Answer Book for Kids answers. This book answers questions for kids around ages 4-12. Being a parent, I found this book to be a great resource for children. Sometimes children ask questions that need 'googling' or a dictionary to answer. The Handy Answer Book for Kids really answers alot of these questions, and the kids can simply pick up the book and find the answers themselves. The questions and answers range from science, politics, math and daily life to many other topics. What is a test tube baby? What causes a yawn? Who invented the alarm clock....



Special thanks to Lisa Roe for sending me a copy of this book to read and review.

title: Between Me and The River: Living Beyond Cancer: A Memoir

author: Carrie Host

genre: memoir/non fiction

pages: 298

published: 2009

first line: I hate having to stand by like a stranger in my own life.





In her memoir, Between Me and The River, Carrie Host tells her story about living with cancer. After being misdiagnosed with having Chrons Disease, she was officially diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, called Carcinoid Cancer, for which there is no cure since chemo therapy doesn't seem to work well it. The only hope she had was surviving surgery to get all the tumors out of her body, tumors that were the size of grains of rice and have spread throughout her organs.





Reading Carrie's memoir was very emotional for me. I started reading this book and could not put it down. Before I knew it, I was finished in two days. Carrie is an inspiration and her story is one full of hope.


Reading how she had to tell her young children that she had cancer made me cry. How does a mother tell her children the unimaginable? Another part that was very emotional was when Carrie was rushed to the ER with a high fever and it seemed she might not survive. Her mother was in the room with her, and was hugging her as if she might never see her daughter again.



All the while, Carrie never gives up hope and fights for her life, she wants to be there with her family and loved ones. Her husband, her family and friends are there with her throughout her ordeal, cheering her on and helping her. She meets doctors and nurses along the way who offer her support and hope.

Through all the painful tests, medications, operations and hospital stays, Carrie shows immense bravery and strength.
This book is emotional and heartrenching, you will need a box of tissues handy. Reading Carrie's story makes you realize how precious life is, and not to waste it.

Cancer will reveal many things to you. One of those is that the old life that you keep wishing you could go back to simple doesn't exist.

Do not underestimate your own desire to live. Hope is a powerful thing.

Cancer can be like that. It creates moments where you're so scared that you absolutely cannot breathe and you feel as if you are drowning. In the seconds that drag, while you are trying to come up for air, you become clear about wanting to live. This sets you up for the most beuatiful part of your life. Now you have taken that breath because you've wanted to.

About:


Carrie Host serves on the board of directors for the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation (www.caringforcarcinoid.org), which is the only not-for-profit foundation dedicated to discovering a cure for carcinoid and related neuroendocrine tumors. An accomplished public speaker, Host addresses cancer patients and the medical community at CFCF and other cancer-related fundraising events across the country. A third-generation Colorado native, she lives in Boulder with her husband and their three children: Chanel (19), Marco (17) and William (6).







Special thanks to Lisa Roe for sending me a copy of this book to read and review.

Lisa Roe over at Online Publicist was one of the first publicists online to send me a book to read and review here at my blog. She's got some interesting new titles, stop by her site to check those out. Happy reading.