“”Saving Gracie” is heart-rending but also wonderfully stirring and empowering. The operators of puppy mills are arrogant, greedy, and cruel, but the people committed to putting them out of business make you want to cheer–and they restore your faith in humanity. Carol Bradley does a great service to dogs by telling this story.”
–Dean Koontz, “New York Times” bestselling author

“Carol Bradley seizes a national moment in “Saving Gracie.” With deft investigative skill and a loving heart, she tells the story of Gracie, and her sojourn from a puppy mill. If we are judged as human beings by the way we treat our animals, this is an eye-opening account, direct and informative, one you will not be able to put down.”
–Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of “Very Valentine and Big Stone Gap”

“”Saving Gracie” is one of those rare books that will at once disturb, inspire, and move you to action. Read this outstanding book about the enduring strength of the human-animal bond and share it widely. It is that important.”
–Marc Bekoff, author of “The Emotional Lives of Animals, Wild Justice, and The Animal Manifesto”

“In this book about the best and the worst of human behavior, we see that the best in both humans and canines prevails. Bradley’s cast of angels will fill your heart with joy and gratitude that such souls exist. This book is essential reading for anyone who loves dogs and thinks justice matters.”
–Susan Richards, author of the “New York Times” bestseller “Chosen by a Horse”

“”Saving Gracie” is a story told with verve, with compassion, with style, and with marvelous intelligence. Any dog lover will be happy to add this to the growing list of wonderful books about dogs.”
–Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, bestselling author of “Dogs Never Lie About Love” and “The Face on Your Plate”

What more can we say?!

Don’t miss Carol Bradley, author of Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills, and a journalist from Great Falls when she comes to the Country Bookshelf on Tuesday, July 20th at 7pm to share her new book.

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SAVING GRACIE (Howell Book House; Hardcover; $21.99; March 2010) chronicles how one little dog is transformed from a bedraggled animal worn out from bearing puppies into a loving, healthy member of her new family; and how her owner, Linda Jackson, is changed from a person who barely tolerated dogs to a woman passionately determined not only to save Gracie’s life, but also to get the word out about the millions of American puppy mill dogs who need our help.

Puppy mills have been around for decades and are one of America’s most shameful secrets. It is a hidden world of substandard kennels, where dogs are caged like chickens and forced to produce puppies over and over, until they can produce no more.

SAVING GRACIE traces this resilient dog’s journey out of a puppy mill, and tells the stories of the people who helped her along the way: from Cheryl Shaw, the humane society police officer who raided her kennel; to Lori Finnegan, the prosecutor who took Gracie’s breeder to court; to Pam Bair, who cared for Gracie in a shelter; and finally to Linda Jackson, the woman who gave her a permanent home.

SAVING GRACIE is:

• A touching story of survival and redemption
• Written by award-winning journalist Carol Bradley
• Newsworthy issues to call animal lovers to action

Join journalist Carol Bradley as she draws back the curtain on the world of illegal puppy production in SAVING GRACIE.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CAROL BRADLEY is an award-winning former newspaper reporter who spent 26 years covering the U.S. Congress and state legislatures in Tennessee and New York and writing features and investigative stories for the Great Falls Tribune in Montana. She studied Animal Law as a 2004 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She has written about many aspects of animal welfare, including horse slaughtering, rodeos, animal hoarding, and animal cruelty. Carol resides in Great Falls, Montana.

More information:

• Carol’s website: http://carolbradley.com/