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Illustrations by Wendy Liddle

Fresh out of veterinary college, Dr. Dave Perrin has been in practice for two days in the Creston Valley, and already he's found trouble. He has encountered William, the aggressive billy goat, and Theo, the intrepid Doberman. (Theo has recently discovered the delight of chasing chickens on the neighbour's property.)
      "Sweet" William and Theo are just two of the fabulously entertaining characters that the country vet encounters. There are times he's not sure if he's in the right business, even though he's wanted to be a veterinarian since he was a kid growing up on a mountain farm near Trail, British Columbia. The fascinating human characters he befriends help him through his first year of practice.
      Don't Turn Your Back in the Barn focuses on the humorous incidents that inevitably happen in a rural practice that treats cows in the morning and kittens in the afternoon. He relies on Doris, his steadfast assistant, to help him in the surgery and to organize the daybook, but even she sometimes has trouble balancing his hectic schedule.
      This first volume of stories provides a real-life look at the rigours of practising veterinary medicine in a country setting. Pathos is a given as Dr. Perrin deals with his own emotions and those of his human clients, who must often make hard decisions about their beloved animals.
      The introduction to this best-selling collection says, "Dave Perrin is not afraid to display his emotion in his writing nor to reveal his own frailties. But the element that runs through each story is his passion—for his work, for his patients, and for the mountains and fertile flat lands that surround the Kootenay River."

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The country vet puts down roots in his second volume of hilarious stories from rural British Columbia. He has purchased a piece of property under the mountains south of Creston and has acquired some cattle with his realtor friend, Gordon. He dreams of developing the land and eventually living on it. Soon, however, he will discover his unpredictable neighbour. She has pigs. Will the animals be able to co-exist? More to the point: Will the determined country vet and the feisty farmer get along?
      At the moment, though, Dr. Dave's practice hasn't slowed down one iota. He's so busy he has to hire a second office assistant to help Doris with the dozens of dogs, cats, and piglets that come squealing through the door at all hours of the day or night. The doctor encounters situations they didn't discuss at veterinary college. There's the call to perform a Caesarian on a cow at forty below zero, and the invitation to help an inexperienced, wayward stallion "make it" with a reluctant mare. Somehow, Dave gets through it all, though not necessarily unscathed.
      He meets new loveable country characters—both animal and human—who more often than not follow their own agenda. Dr. Dave's advice may go unheeded, but his compassion and dedication to the job survive.
      Survival is indeed an issue in the final chapter when he gets himself into swift water on the Moyie River. He's signed himself up to participate in the Yahk Raft Race—an exciting finish to his second volume of adventures.

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Dr. Dave Perrin has been through the proverbial mill in his first two years as a country veterinarian, but his trials are only just beginning. This third volume of stories takes him to the dark side and back out into the light.
      He and his dairymen clients are fighting a deadly bacterium that is killing cows. The crisis is keeping the doctor awake as he mulls over the diagnostic dilemma. Daily, he is faced with new challenges. He performs a difficult, almost fatal, orthopedic surgery on a Border collie that has been hit by a car. He treats a cow with hardware but can't offer any help to the wife and children of the cow's abusive owner.
      In the midst of the chaos, however, humour comes in the form of the eccentric characters and situations the good doctor continues to encounter. One of his farm clients persuades him to perform artificial insemination on his turkeys. Dr. Dave's faithful dog, Lug, runs afoul of the next-door neighbour, and Doris sends her boss to the local House of Beauty for a trim and inevitable ribbing from the gay proprietors.
      Where Does It Hurt? finds the country vet searching for answers about love and loss. His life takes a surprising turn when he makes the decision to confront his demons.

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As he and his father wrangle over construction methods and almost everything else, Dave puts in overtime to deal with the medical concerns of his endearing patients. He meets some of the most improbable clients and frustrating cases of his career. His small animal practice thrives as snakes with indigestion, traumatized rabbits, and alcoholic dogs are deposited on his exam table.
     His large animal patients include horses with mysterious ailments, hogs that beep, heifers from hell, and goats that definitely have his number. They all provide the good doctor with challenge and excitement—enough to keep him from being bored in the backwoods of the Kootenays. His friend and assistant, Doris, figures prominently in keeping the anxious vet on the straight and narrow. As usual, his loving German shepherd, Lug, makes himself useful in desperate times.
     As reviewers say, "Dr. Perrin tells a good story." His first two books, Don't Turn Your Back in the Barn and Dr. Dave's Stallside Manner, have been international bestsellers. And here in Never Say Die he presents all-new adventures to tickle the reader's funnybone and leave us asking for more.

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After four Canadian bestsellers in his "Country Vet" series, Dr. David Perrin is back with more accounts of his adventures as a veterinarian in the backwoods of southeastern British Columbia.
      Construction on his dream home is progressing at a snail's pace, but everything else in Dr. Dave's complicated life is charging ahead full tilt. He's hired a recent graduate to assist with his practice and is moving to a new clinic. With faithful dog, Lug, at his side, Dave deals with a multitude of eccentric clients and unpredictable patients: Petunia, the housebroken calf; Skroopchuck, the cat from hell; Snowball, the cockatoo with a taste for blood; Greta Maletta, the family pet who doesn't know she's a chicken; and Coonie, a wayward raccoon who lays claim to the family farm.
      A Horse in distress brings Dr. Dave in touch with romance again when he meets the owner. Although people say he can work magic with animals, can his charm work on the human species? Meanwhile, the new vet has everyone convinced he alone can solve their problems. While mentoring his assistant, Dr. Dave learns a few things about himself—that not everyone responds to the rigours of practice as he does, and that his protégé appears to be leaning to the dark side...

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Winner of the 2005 Vancity Prize for the best book published in British Columbia on women's issues.

Best Selling Author, Dr. David Perrin, co-authored Keep Sweet with Debbie Palmer so that readers could understand what it would be like to be a young girl growing up in the polygamous Mormon community of Bountiful. The foreword was written by Jon Krakuer, author of Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, and Under the Banner of Heaven.
      Although the book is set in the early 50's and 60's, Debbie's experiences are representative of those that many children of polygamous groups are currently experiencing.
      Keep Sweet is non-fiction, but names have been changed to protect the safety and privacy of people mentioned. Based on Palmer's early memories, letters, and diaries, the memoir takes the reader inside the daily lives of children, sister-wives, husbands and leaders and provides an in-depth insight into the teachings of the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Palmer's story begins when her father takes her to the polygamous community near Creston, BC in 1957. We follow Debbie from age two as she struggles to integrate into a strange society and culture. At age fifteen she becomes the sixth wife to the community's fifty-five year old leader. Keep Sweet follows Debbie's trials until the death of her husband in 1974.
      Palmer remained in the community until 1988 when, pregnant with her seventh child, she managed to escape. Debbie currently lives in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan with some of her eight children. She has completed some College and University Studies. She is the author of various bodies of research, a human rights activist, community crime prevention educator and advocate. She has consulted with and been the topic of several documentaries on the topic of Polygamy in North America.

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