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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Dogs Nobody Came For
A Hospice Nurse and the Strays She Couldn't Leave Behind
Verlag:
Bedrock Heritage Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36350695
EAN: 9781972179932
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Di, 13.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 22.40
Beschreibung
Along the red dirt roads of East Texas - where people go to leave the dogs nobody wants - one woman keeps pulling over. By day, she sits with the dying. She keeps company with people through their final hours, holding a hand when there is nothing left to do but stay. By evening, she is on those same back roads, and she cannot drive past a dog in trouble. She coaxes a starving mama out of a collapsed shed in an ice storm. She lifts a hundred-pound stray into her car with her own two hands. She feeds the ones who chase after her tires at dusk, because she is the only kindness they have ever known - and because someone has to be the one who comes. She cannot save them all. She loses far more than she keeps, and this book does not pretend otherwise. But still she shows up - for the dying patient whose only family is the dog at the foot of the bed, for the pit bull who appointed herself the guardian of the whole household, for the gentle giant nobody else would stop for, for the frightened, the abandoned, and the old. Told with warmth, unexpected humor, and an unflinching honesty about mercy and loss, THE DOGS NOBODY CAME FOR braids two lives that most people never see up close: the quiet work of sitting with the dying, and the messy, heartbreaking, joyful work of rescuing the dogs the world threw away. It is a story about faithful presence - about being the one who stays for the leaving, and the one who comes for the left behind. It will stay with anyone who has ever loved a rescue, sat beside someone in their final days, or believed that no life is ever too far gone to be worth coming for. A heartfelt story of rescue, faith, and second chances. Based on a true story.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Kay Hester
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 110