You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness
By Julie Klam
240 pages; Riverhead

A member of a dog rescue group, Julie Klam writes, "When I began to help give voice to these creatures ... I felt the balance come into my own life" (page 53). Her warm, often funny memoir, You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness, recalls the dogs she's helped save—and how they saved her. — Karen Holt