Champ and Major: First Dogs (Picture Book for Kids and Dog Lovers!)

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America has two new first dogs! Meet Champ and Major, the Biden family fur kids.

Champ is excited to go back to the White House. He got to visit it when his dad was the vice president, before the family adopted Major, and he knows about all the important work that happens there. Major is going to be the first shelter dog to live in the White House, and Champ can’t wait to show his little brother around.

This adorable dog book is currently the #1 Best Seller in Children’s Books on Amazon. Available in Hardcover, Kindle Edition and Audiobook. Go HERE to get a preview and order your own copy.

Dog Book Gift Idea: Doggie Language, A Dog Lover’s Guide to Understanding Your Best Friend

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With so many people quarantining and/or working from home, 2020 has been a BIG year for pet adoption! If you or someone you know has recently adopted a puppy or adult dog, there’s a new book we think you should know about. It’s Doggie Language: A Dog Lover’s Guide to Understanding Your Best Friend by Lili Chin.

If you’ve ever wondered what your dog is thinking, feeling or trying to tell you, then this adorable and informative book will help you answer those questions and more. It’s the perfect illustrated guide to seeing and understanding the subtle visual cues and interpreting the behaviors used by your beloved pup to express how they’re feeling. The more we notice and listen to what our dogs are trying to tell us, the more we can improve our relationship with our best friends, helping them to feel safe and happy.

The author, Lili Chin, is an artist best known for co-creating the Warner Bros hit animated series “Mucha Lucha” and for her globally popular dog art. The founder of Doggie Drawings, she provides custom illustration and a catalog of art products for sale. Her dog behavior infographics have become a popular tool for dog training professionals, veterinarians, behaviorists, and welfare groups who advocate for humane animal training methods. Her animal artwork has also been featured in art museums, on television, and in world-wide educational media campaigns, and her “Dogs of The World” poster series has been a viral hit. She lives in Los Angeles with her muse: her rescued, blue-eyed boston terrier, Boogie. [Read more…]

Here’s a look at the topics covered in Doggie Language plus a few sample pages:

Visit this page to read customer reviews, preview more pages and get the book for yourself and your favorite dog lover. It’s currently available in hardcopy for $11.99 and will ship in time for Christmas if you order soon!

$50 OFF Audible Deal + Audiobook Recommendations for Dog Lovers

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Prime Day is finally coming (Oct 13-14) but you don’t have to wait to claim some some epic deals!

If you are an Amazon Prime Member you can get $50 OFF an Audible membership NOW and get 12 audiobooks of your choice!

You get all 12 Audible credits up front rather than being limited to 1 per month. You own your entire Audible Library for life, even if you cancel your membership in the future.

If you aren’t already a Prime Member, go here to snag a FREE 30-Day trial membership now so you can take advantage of all the savings for the big event.

Learn more about Prime and sign up for a 30-Day Free Trial here.

An annual Audible membership is usually $149 but with this Prime Day Deal you’ll get a year of audiobooks for just $99.

I’m an audiobook fanatic and this is the BEST Audible discount I’ve seen in ages, so don’t miss it.

Use this link to claim your discounted Audible membership by 10/14.

 

Audiobook Suggestions for Dog Lovers

If you need some suggestions for which audiobooks to choose, here are some recommendations for dog lovers to get you started!

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Love Is All You Need: The Revolutionary Bond-Based Approach to Educating Your Dog

Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Want to find more great audiobooks? Visit this page to claim the $50 OFF Audible deal now and start listenting!

Book for Dog Lovers: The Dog Lady of Mexico

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been spending a LOT of time reading recently. I’ve always been a book-lover and avid reader, but since the coronavirus shutdown, I’ve been devouring just about every book I can get my hands on.

Most recently, I’ve been reading The Dog Lady of Mexico by Alison Sawyer Current. It’s a fictional novel, based on a true story. It’s heartwarming, inspiring, and sure to tug at the heartstrings of dog lovers and animal rescue supporters everywhere.

From the book’s back cover

Rose’s lifelong dream was to move to a tropical paradise and continue her work as an artist. She imagined waking up by the ocean, sipping her coffee on the beach and heading to her pottery studio. There she would spin sun-drenched inspirations while her husband would share his passion for food at his ocean side cantina. It was all coming together for Rose when a good deed changed her life forever. Little did she know that this small favor would gradually become an obsession that she could not ignore. Take a trip with The Dog Lady of Mexico – a fictional novel based on a true story. Follow this heart-wrenching journey of love, loss and survival while building an animal rescue on the tiny island of Isla Mujeres in Mexico.

Part of the book sale proceeds will go to support Isla Animals, the rescue organization Alison founded in Mexico in 2004.

The Dog Lady of Mexico is available in paperback here, and is also currently FREE to read with Kindle Unlimited.

If you haven’t done so already, you can sign up here for 2 months FREE of Kindle Unlimited ($19.98 value). You get unlimited access to over 1 million books, magazines, audio narration, and more. And you don’t need a Kindle device…read on any phone, tablet, PC or device using the Kindle app.

Always Eat After 7 PM Book Review Wrap Up

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Over the past several weeks, I’ve been trying out the diet plan in the book Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion.

If you missed the previous updates, you can read them here:

I’ve had several weeks to review the book, try out the plan and recipes since receiving my review copy, and overall I’m pleased. The plan is easy to follow and you can eat more carbs than some of my previous diets have allowed. I really enjoyed trying out some new recipes and there are still lots more that I’ve bookmarked. Braised Cuban Flank Steak is next on my list!

I’ve lost about 7 pounds so far which might seem slow to some of you, but is great for me. I find from experience that if I lose weight too quickly, I just put it back on again. I’ve been looking for something that I can stick to long-term. This book includes sample meal plans, menus and food lists along with the recipes, so there is plenty here to keep me going.

What makes this diet different than others is that we’ve been traditionally taught to avoid carbs, have an early dinner, and never eat before bed. But the fact is, the latest scientific research shows us this earlier model is not the most ideal.

In addition to not avoiding all carbs, a couple of things that make the diet do-able are: the overall variety of food choices, and that it doesn’t require eating breakfast (I don’t do breakfast, except for brunch on special occasion).

From the book:

 “Fact is, most diets are extremely narrow with regard to food choices and variety, and many even limit entire macronutrients altogether over the course of the entire program (think low-carb and low-fat diets). Three months with no carbs? No thanks. Such practices not only are entirely unnecessary, but make for a miserable, unsustainable experience.”

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“Those who ate breakfast ended up eating about 260 calories more a day, the review found. Those who skipped breakfast were about one pound lighter than those who ate breakfast. These findings led the researchers to conclude that eating breakfast isn’t necessarily a good strategy for losing weight. The science isn’t really there. Breakfast could very well be the least important meal of the day.”

The Always Eat After 7 PM plan consists of: The 14-day Acceleration Phase to kick-start the program and see rapid results, The Main Phase where you’ll learn exactly which foods to eat when in order to achieve your weight-loss goals, and The Lifestyle Phase to keep the weight off for good.

 

If you’d like to try it for yourself, Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion is now available to purchase. Learn more about the book and how to purchase here.