The New York Times bestseller – of how six bonobo apes change the lives of three humans, from master storyteller Sara Gruen, author of the international bestseller, Water for Elephants. These bonobos are no ordinary apes....

Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob\"s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused....

A gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War. \"the only fault I can find with this book is that I\"ve already finished it\" - Jodi Picoult \"truly......

Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train-and inadvertently runs away with the circus. Thrown into the chaos of a second-rate traveling show, Jacob is adrift in a world of freaks, swindlers, and misfits....

After the extraordinary success of Water for Elephants, with 3 million copies shipped, Sara Gruen returns with another immensely charming, endlessly surprising, and engaging novel in which a family of apes teaches us what it means to be human. Sara......

The international phenomenon - with over 10 million copies sold, made into a film with Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson....

There's a reason why Water for Elephants has sold millions of copies, spent years on the New York Times bestseller list and been a book group favourite. It's phenomenal storytelling... In Depression-era America, everyone's running away from something. Some people join the circus to escape....

Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships—but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language....

Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships--but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language....

Twenty years after her competitive riding career died, Annemarie Zimmer worries that her relationship with the man she loves is off course, and fears that daughter Eva\'s own dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far from home ... and into harm\'s way....

Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer\'s days—the fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian daughter Eva\'s dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother... and into harm\'s way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make peace with her past....

Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob\'s life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds himself. The animals are mangy, underfed or fed rotten food, and abused....

Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants has become one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of our time. Now Gruen has moved from a circus elephant to family of bonobo apes. When the apes are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99....