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Chloe Dalton was taking a winter walk near her farmhouse when she encountered it: a tiny baby hare — known as a leveret — lying huddled and alone in the middle of a narrow country lane.

What follows, as recounted in the new memoir, “Raising Hare,” was an unexpected experiment in coexistence. The book is part of a timely genre: true stories about people who open a window into ...