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1) Horses
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English
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What animal can run so fast its feet don't always touch the ground, weighs more than 2,000 pounds, senses people's emotions by their smell, and wears shoes? Why its'a horse, of course! Horses are some of the most fascinating and important creatures on earth. In fact, our world would not be what it is today if not for horses. Horses have carried medieval knights into battle, transported settlers to the American west, and hauled fire engines and...
2) Slow horses
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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.
3) Horses
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Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces horses to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
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English
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"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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Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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English
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Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
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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."--
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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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English
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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.
12) Sea horses
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to sea horses. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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Language
English
Description
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her life’s work, describing with wonder both the everyday and the unaffected beauty of nature.
Herons, sparrows, owls, and kingfishers flit across the page in meditations on love, artistry, and impermanence. Whether considering a bird’s nest, the seeming patience of oak trees, or the artworks of Franz Marc, Oliver reminds us of the transformative
...15) Sea horses
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Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of sea horse as well as efforts to protect them.
17) Wild horses
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Series
Publisher
Creative Education/Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A kindergarten-level introduction to wild horses, covering their growth process, behaviors, the wilderness they call home, and such defining features as their manes and tails"--
18) Wild horses
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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...
19) Sixteen horses
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A literary thriller from stunning new talent Greg Buchanan, Sixteen Horses is a story of enduring guilt, trauma, and punishment, set in a small seaside community the rest of the world has left behind. In Ilmarsh, England, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses' heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After Veterinary Forensics expert Cooper Allen travels to the scene, a pathogen is discovered...
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