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Funny farm : my unexpected life with 600 rescue animals / Laurie Zaleski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 244 pages, 16 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250272836
  • 1250272831
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 636.08/32092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • HV4716.Z35 A3 2021
Contents:
Runaways -- We Were the Joneses -- What Doesn't Kill You -- Accidentally Eden -- Going for Broke -- Mayonnaise Sandwiches -- The Facts of Life -- Jersey Devils -- Father Figure -- The Trespasser -- The Good Fight -- Crossroads -- Nightfall -- Homeward Bound -- Part III Oh Give Me a Home -- Moving Day -- A Pig Too Far -- Chucky -- Act Two -- No Fences -- Valentine's Day -- Epilogue/Someday.
Summary: "Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. Laurie had planned to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues-horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs-when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie's mission to save abused and neglected animals. Funny Farm is Laurie's story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It's the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued"--
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Book Fort Scott Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Fort Scott Public Library Adult Books 636.08 Zale (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 35326000541225
Book Mound City Library Adult Biography Mound City Library Adult Books B Zaleski (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 35332000225876
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Runaways -- We Were the Joneses -- What Doesn't Kill You -- Accidentally Eden -- Going for Broke -- Mayonnaise Sandwiches -- The Facts of Life -- Jersey Devils -- Father Figure -- The Trespasser -- The Good Fight -- Crossroads -- Nightfall -- Homeward Bound -- Part III Oh Give Me a Home -- Moving Day -- A Pig Too Far -- Chucky -- Act Two -- No Fences -- Valentine's Day -- Epilogue/Someday.

"Funny Farm is an inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. Laurie had planned to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues-horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs-when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie's mission to save abused and neglected animals. Funny Farm is Laurie's story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It's the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued"--

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