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Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.

"Professional dog-walker Felicity Knight loves everything about New York--until her ex-husband starts working at her local vet clinic. She hasn't seen Seth Carlyle in ten years, but one glimpse of him--too gorgeous, and still too good for her--and Fliss's heart hurts like their whirlwind marriage ended yesterday. So when her grandmother in the Hamptons needs help for the summer, it seems the ideal way to escape her past"--Amazon.com.

The best-selling author of The Love Letter enchants readers again with a sweet and funny comedy of mannerscomplete with dogs. As anyone who has walked a dog in any city knows, dogs bring people together who would otherwise never meet. On one humble, rent-controlled block of Upper East Side Manhattan, neighbors become neighborly because of their dogs, and the canines are cupids for their sometimes lonely, often eccentric, and hopelessly romantic humans....

Seagate Island's centennial summer should be a huge celebration of beach traditions, but it is the rainiest summer on record and Remy, Micayla, Bennett, and the C Twins find that tempers are short, dogs are bored, and summer magic is hard to find.

Eleven-year-old Remy loves the traditions of Seagate, the island where her family spends every summer vacation, but after her grandmother and a special dog dies, and her relationships with best friends Bennett and Micayla change, Remy takes comfort in the company of Dog Beach--where she hatches a plan to bring her friends closer and recapture the Seagate magic.

"The best part of Kat's day? Walking her neighbor's irresitible pug, Meatball. So when Kat's parents insist that she join an extracurricular club this year, Kat decides to make her own, by turning her hobby into a business: a dog-walking business! Kat andher best friends, Taz and Lucy--plus the cute new boy, Declan--start Four Paws Dog Walking. But wrangling puppies and pleasing customers turns out to be a lot harder than they thought. Can Kat take...

Tom and his toy monkey, Pippo, go out for a walk and fall into a mud puddle.

Tea and Tomi go for a walk

A dog gives many good reasons it likes to go for a walk--to chase away the neighbor's cat, to greet people on the street, to watch guys shooting hoops, and to feel the wind lifting its ears.

"A family of turtles goes for a long, long walk that has an unexpected and very fun ending"--