Richard Phibbs
For three years, fashion and portrait photographer Richard Phibbs has donated his services to the Humane Society of New York, making portraits of dogs up for adoption as part of the Manhattan shelter’s work to find them all forever homes. A portion of proceeds from this book benefit the HSNY.
Valerie Sicignano, Jane Sayre Denny
A delightful children’s book that teaches children about feral and stray cats, often referred to as “community cats”. Through conversation among the story’s characters, readers of all ages gain insight into a basic misconception about feral cats. 100% of the proceeds from this book support the HSNY's Feral Cat Program.
Bill Berloni
In Broadway Tails, Theatrical Animal Trainer Bill Berloni tells the backstage stories of the shelter dogs who have become superstars in television, film, and theater, including the 35th-anniversary Broadway production of Annie. Proceeds from this book benefit the HSNY.
Rachel Hale McKenna
Capturing both the atmosphere of the city and the personalities of its canine residents, Hale explores the life of the New York dog from many angles, showing dogs taking walks, riding in taxis, lounging in extravagant apartments, shopping in boutiques, visiting spas, dining in restaurants, and much more.
Cornelia Guest
Cornelia reveals the secrets of understated elegance while hoping to inspire readers to have fun experimenting with healthy alternatives and to change the way they think about food. Her favorite simple recipes are so delicious, even the most fervent carnivores do not miss the meat, and her tips on entertaining take the stress out of any event.
Cathleen Smith Bresciani
Readers of all ages will be charmed by Sassafrass Jones and the Search for a Forever Home - a whimsical tale of two plucky outsiders Sassafrass Jones, a perky Pekingese with a delicate eye condition and Madeline, a lonely fashionable milliner mouse of Habersham Forest who find each other and the courage to pursue their dreams. A portion of proceeds from this book support the HSNY.
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Kim Edge Ambler, Rell Ambler
With the help of a magic color mask, Blue the color-blind beagle travels the world trying to figure out if she is actually the color blue. This book encourages creativity and invites kids to experience colors in a new interactive way. Super Beagle includes: two Super Beagle masks and sketch pages. Super Beagle was inspired by the author's dog Angelina (pictured to left), who was adopted from the HSNY. A portion of proceeds from this book support the HSNY.
Gunna Dickson, Jon McIntosh
This lively book of cat tales follows brothers Angus and Edmond on a journey to trace their roots - from a shelter in New York City to the Highlands of Scotland. A feast of fun for animal lovers and children of all ages. Agnus and Edmond are two very special cats who were adopted from the HSNY.
Gunna Dickson, Jon McIntosh
Just back from the Highlands of Scotland, Angus and Edmond pack up their tartan gear and find themselves looking for beachwear. In this book of lively cat tales for pet parents and patriots, the Angora mix brothers receive a surprise invitation to Key West and set off on a road trip from their New York home. Agnus and Edmond are two very special cats who were adopted from the HSNY.
Gunna Dickson, Jon McIntosh
With the Highlands of Scotland and Key West, Florida, adventures behind them, Angora-mix brothers Angus and Edmond are resting up at home in New York City enjoying the easy life until they cross paths with a shady rodent and head for Italy. Agnus and Edmond are two very special cats who were adopted from the HSNY.
Gunna Dickson, Friends of Jon McIntosh
In this fourth book of lively cat tales, Angus and Edmond, the well-traveled, fashion-conscious and multi-lingual adopted Angora-mix littermates are back from their Italian Mystery adventure and busy working on a new one. Agnus and Edmond are two very special cats who were adopted from the HSNY.
Gunna Dickson, Suellen Crowley Weaver
Back again for another adventure the Angora mix littermates have landed in Budapest, where they are introduced to the Hungarian way of life and distinct culture. As is the norm with these two, however, trouble is not far away. Agnus and Edmond are two very special cats who were adopted from the HSNY.
Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt depicts the animals of East Africa with an intimacy and artistry unmatched by other photographers who choose wildlife as their subject. He creates these majestic sepia and blue-tone photos contrasting moments of quintessential stillness with bursts of dramatic action by engaging with these creatures on an exceptionally intimate level, without the customary use of a telephoto lens.
Nick Brandt
From the opening images in A Shadow Falls, of a verdant world filled with multitudes of animals, to the closing images of small bands of creatures moving across a parched, dusty earth, Brandt portrays a mythic Africa struggling against tragic forces. In years to come, we will look back at these powerful photographs and wonder why humanity did not do more to preserve this rare corner of earthly paradise.
Nick Brandt
On This Earth, A Shadow Falls collects the most memorable images from Brandt's first two books - Focusing on some of the world's last great populations of large mammals--elephants, giraffes, lions, gorillas and their kin.
Nick Brandt
Across the Ravaged Land is the third and final volume in Nick Brandt’s trilogy of books documenting the disappearing animals of eastern Africa. The book offers a darker vision of this world, still filled with a stunning beauty but now tragically tainted and fast disappearing at the hands of man.
Nick Brandt
In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt recorded the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erected a life-size panel of one of his portrait photographs--showing groups of elephants, rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebras--placing the displaced animals on sites of explosive urban development, new factories, wastelands, and quarries.
Nick Brandt
A collection of images by celebrated photographer Nick Brandt, whose epic, disturbingly beautiful panoramas address the escalating destruction of the natural world at the hands of man.
Nick Brandt
Photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, The Day May Break is the first part of a global series by acclaimed photographer Nick Brandt, portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.
Nick Brandt
Some of Nick Brandt’s subjects are humans, some are animals, but they all are creatures of equal and obvious personhood. The overwhelming sense in the photographer’s ongoing global series The Day May Break is that they are figuring out how to live in a new world. Each has arrived at the shoot at Senda Verde wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia through their own cascade of tragedy. Both extreme droughts and floods have destroyed people’s homes and livelihoods.
Joel Sartore
Joel Sartore is committed to documenting every animal in captivity--with a focus on the growing list of endangered species and those facing extinction--circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species.
Peter Singer
Now, for the first time since its original publication (1975), Singer returns to the major arguments and examples and brings us to the current moment. This edition, revised from top to bottom, covers important reforms in the European Union, and now in various U.S. states, but on the flip side, Singer shows us the impact of the huge expansion of factory farming due to the exploding demand for animal products in China. Further, meat consumption is taking a toll on the environment, and factory farms pose a profound risk for spreading new viruses even worse than COVID-19.
Edward O. Wilson
In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet.
Martin Usborne
This book portrays hunting dogs that have been rescued and sets them against the landscapes in Spain where they are typically abandoned. Shot in a style that references the tone and mood of Velázquez, who painted at a time when these dogs were treated with great respect, Martin Usborne's photographs show both the classical beauty of the animals and the ugliness of their modern situation.
Dame Daphne Sheldrick
In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of animal magical and the heartbreaking human love story between herself and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death.
Roberto Dutesco
The wild horses, named for the island they inhabit, abandoned there long ago or cast ashore from wrecks, are now the only terrestrial mammals on Sable Island. Roebrto Dutesco's twenty years' documentation of Sable Island comes to you as an unprecedented collection of extraordinary moments in a place uninhabited by humans, where the wild horses run free, unaware and unafraid of man.
Alexandra Morton
The story of how a renegade Whale Biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon. Alexandra Morton has been called “the Jane Goodall of Canada” because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia’s wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance.
Charlie Mackesy
Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book, following the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love. The shared adventures and important conversations between the four friends are full of life lessons that have connected with readers of all ages.
Wendell Berry
Since its publication in 1977, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land―from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
Ofir Droir, David McDannald
The Last Great Ape Organization (LAGA) is responsible for the first wildlife protection arrest in all of east Africa. Ofir Drori, a former Israeli soldier, visited Kenya prior to the start of his service in the Israeli army and became enchanted with the entire continent.
Carol C. Wilbourn
Cat therapist Carole Wilbourn spends her life helping owners understand their feline’s day to day needs, so that human and animal can relate in a way that promotes the well-being of both. Drawing on Wilbourn’s years of experience, The Complete Guide to Understanding & Caring for Your Cat presents her methods for treating the “total cat,” and nurturing it emotionally, behaviorally, and physically.
Kirby Larson, Mary Nethery, Jean Cassels
This remarkable true story of the devotion, friendship, and survival of two pets left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is a testament to the spirit that defined post-Katrina rescue missions.
Barbara Walsh, Jamie Wyeth
Sammy, the best hound dog in the whole wide world, loves his girl and she loves him. When illness cuts Sammy’s life short, the girl’s family keeps his spirit alive in this heartening and lovingly rendered story.
Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall
In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He took the bear from the fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England and and finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin. A #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
Adam Ravetech, Sarah Robertson
Nanu, a polar bear cub, and Seela, a young walrus, live and grow to maturity in the frozen wilderness of the North. Now Nanu, Seela and the rest of the Arctic's wildlife experience the diminishment of their environment, as global warming literally melts the ice beneath them. A National Geographic Society documentary film about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cubs, narrated by Queen Latifah.