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Author Torres, Tia, author.

Title My life among the underdogs : a memoir / Tia Torres.

Publication Info. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY TORRES    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY TORRES    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  636.7 TOR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  636.7 TOR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  636.7 TORRES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  636.7 TOR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  636.7 TORRES    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG TORRES, TIA    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  636.7 TOR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  636.7 TORRES    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 228 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Tatanka: buffalo girl -- A dog named L.A.: the princess and the pit -- Duke: the action hero -- Moose: the reluctant rock star -- Junkyard Joe: from delinquent to drug detector -- Monster: a dog and his boy -- Lucky: the one-woman dog -- Bluie: the knight in silver armor -- Taz: the little dog with nine lives -- About Villalobos.
Summary "From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life. Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls & Parolees, chronicles her roller-coaster life in this heartwarming memoir featuring some of her best-loved dogs. With inimitable honesty and characteristic brashness, Tia captures the spirit and heart of these intelligent and loving canines, while carrying us behind the scenes of her TV show, into the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans, onto the soundstages of Hollywood films, and even to the jungles of Sri Lanka. Tia has devoted her life to shattering the stereotype that pit bulls are dangerous, vicious predators. As the top dog at the Villalobos Rescue Center in New Orleans, the largest pit bull rescue in the United States, she and her team have rescued, rehabilitated, and rehomed hundreds of animals that might otherwise have been destroyed. As she puts it, 'Most of the stories in this book are about animals (and a few humans) that needed someone to believe in them and a purpose in order to show their true nobility.'"--Amazon.com summary.
Torres has devoted her life to shattering the stereotype that pit bulls are dangerous, vicious predators. Here she shares the harrowing but inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life. She captures the spirit and heart of these intelligent and loving canines, while carrying us behind the scenes of her TV show Pit Bulls & Parolees; into the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans; onto the soundstages of Hollywood films, and even to the jungles of Sri Lanka. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Torres, Tia.
Torres, Tia.
Dog rescue -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Television personalities -- United States -- Biography.
Dog rescue.
Resuce work -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Dogs.
Dog rescue. (OCoLC)fst00896204
Television personalities. (OCoLC)fst01146966
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Nonfiction.
Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Nonfiction.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780062419798 (hardcover)
006241979X (hardcover)
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