"Loving Edie: How a Dog Afraid of Everything Taught Me to Be Brave" by Meredith May; Park Row Books (296 pages, $24.99)
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"Loving Edie" is the memoir of a journalist, her wife, and their freaked-out dog. Edie is a typical golden retriever in many ways: goofy, playful, a lover of people and other dogs. But she is terrified of the world at large. Everything scares her — loud noises, cars, shrieking children at play, a garage door opening, an airplane overhead. Her reaction to these fears is always to run.
