Elizabeth Letts
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English
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"The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey. She had no relatives left, she'd lost her family farm to back taxes, and her doctor had just given her two years...
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"The Eighty-Dollar Champion tells the dramatic odyssey of a horse called Snowman, saved from the slaughterhouse by a young Dutch farmer named Harry. Together, Harry and Snowman went on to become America's show-jumping champions, winning first prize in Madison Square Garden. Set in the mid to late 1950s, this book captures the can-do spirit of a Cold War immigrant who believed--and triumphed"--
3) The perfect horse: the daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
"Traces the lesser-known efforts of Hitler to build a master race of the finest purebred horses and the heroic achievements of American soldiers to rescue imperiled stolen equines from a hidden Czechoslovakian farm during a 1945 battle between Third Reich and Allied forces,"--NoveList.
In the chaotic last days of World War II, a small troop of American soldiers captures a German spy and learns that on a secret farm behind enemy lines, Hitler has...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank's passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book-because she's the only one left who knows its secrets. But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of "Over...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the de Leyer family buy an eighty-dollar horse for their riding school, they are surprised to discover the gelding they named Snowman has an incredible talent for jumping--a gift that would eventually make him an internationally recognized show-jumping champion.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
American soldiers, aided by an Austrian colonel who was both an Olympian and a trainer of Lipizzaners, attempt to kidnap horses that had been taken by Nazis "for the glorification of the Third Reich" and smuggle them to safety.
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