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1) Slow horses
Author
Series
Slough House volume 1
Language
English
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Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.
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Language
English
Description
"When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had--starting with horses. She signs them up for riding lessons at Rancho Santa Fe Equestrian, where horses are a lifestyle. Heather becomes a "Barn Mom," part of a group of wealthy women who hang at the stables, drink wine,...
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English
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"Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five, Brandi contracted bacterial meningitis, which almost took her life, leaving...
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Language
English
Description
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen leave home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother run a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remain a woman of indomitable spirit.
5) Horses!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"No other animal has captured people's imaginations or changed their lives as has the horse. Their grace, strength, and beauty have made horses sought after as well as useful. What would kings and queens, knights and conquistadores, cowboys and stagecoach drivers, or farmers have done without them? Breeding horses was Queen Elizabeth II's favorite hobby. In this informative book, Gail Gibbons relates some of the long history that horses and humans...
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Language
English
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"Trond's friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning was different. What began as a joy ride on "borrowed" horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day-an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys."--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For one little boy and his older sister, fights are always waiting to happen -- when he takes something without asking, jumps on her bed without asking, even wanders off without asking. And when they fight, they don't use words: it's all push, pull, hurt, hide. To cool off after, the boy retreats to his room to write and draw stories -- stories about terrible horses trampling and galloping, while he is a lone pony unable to compete or speak or sleep....
9) Wild horses
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A tribute, in text and photographs, to a real-life herd of wild horses running free in Arizona"--
"In beautiful poetry and vivid photographs, Melissa Marr shares her feelings of awe while watching a real-life herd of majestic wild horses in Arizona. When they appear, the wind itself seems to stand still. They are grand in their movements as they do all the things horses do--splash through rivers, care for young, stomp and whinny. It is clear they...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 39
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"--
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
For every young horse fan and any child who's ever dreamed of having his or her own pony, comes this illustrated guide to the amazing world of horses. Feature spreads provide details covering topics as diverse as famous horses in literature, heroic horses in battle, and stunt horses in Western movies.
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Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Veteran Kelton once again shows why he is considered to be one of the giants of the western genre. Andy Pickard, a young Texas Ranger, is assigned the job of bringing in Donley Bannister, a horse trader accused of murder. He tracks Bannister down pretty quickly, but he is thrown for a loop when Bannister, instead of turning tail and running when Andy is jumped by some thugs, actually saves Andy's life (and then disappears again). What follows is a...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Icelandic
Description
Against a breathtaking seaside landscape, a cast of hot-blooded characters struggle to connect with nature and each other. Among them, a pair of wistful human lovers are thwarted by equine libidos, sparking their tentative courtship into action. The lines between species blur seamlessly throughout these memorable tales, reflecting love, death, and the quirks of human and beast alike.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol Creek--where he grew up and first learned to ride--is a place he can no longer call home. So he sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies and rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive; and in a mine on another planet, the dust won't stop seeping in. In these stories, Brian Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary--the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know.
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her--a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar--the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's...
18) Becoming horses
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Was it always like this? What if your self portrait was a collection of weird shapes? Have you ever felt like an abstract painting? Do you ever simultaneously wish and worry that the boundaries of your body will melt away and you'll become a magnificent horse? Becoming Horses is a book about squinting hard and looking from the right angle to find that everything around you sparkles--just a little--and the shapes of things are not firm but fuzzy....
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