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English
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In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by progress. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana with a huge task before her--a canyon "as...
2) Horse heaven
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of owners, trainers, jockeys, gamblers, and "track brats" on a two-year journey through the racing cycle.
3) Horse
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Language
English
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Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
4) Chrysalis
Author
Publisher
Wild Rose Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Mainstream General Edition, 2015.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Paige Fuller should have unlimited possibilities. Though a talented equestrian and musical prodigy, Paige's first romance left her brokenhearted. And despite her expertise in the show ring, she can't forget the riding accident that nearly disabled her. When handsome Harvard sports icon Morgan Cahill takes interest in her, Paige worries the glamorous girls surrounding him will eclipse her. But she's been secretly in love with Morgan since they met...
Author
Publisher
Farcountry Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 51), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than once she has traversed the Great Plains, the Southwest...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments away from stepping back into the saddle. For her, this is not just a riding lesson, but a last-ditch attempt to pull herself back from the brink even though riding is a relic from the past she walked away from. She hasn't been on or near a horse in over thirty years. Although Courtney does know what depression looks like, she finds herself refusing...
11) Legacy
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Series
Language
English
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Too late, Honor realizes she's fallen for a man whose only interest in her is for revenge against her father.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story -- sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed -- of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than ten thousand years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse.
Korda is a terrific...
13) Hot to trot
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Out of selfless concern for Charles, of course. When Agatha crashes their wedding, it ends in a public altercation. There's a scream from the stable-- and now Agatha and Charles are suspects in a murder. Clues lead to the competitive equestrian world, in...
14) Pony
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Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three menacing horsemen who take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared, and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool...who happens to be a ghost. When a pony shows up at his door, Silas makes the courageous decision to leave his home and embark on a perilous journey to find his father. Along the way, he will face his fears to unlock the secrets of his past and explore...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Fethering! Sleuthing neighbours Jude and Carole uncover secrets and lies in the horsing community in this quirky, light-hearted British cozy mystery.
When healer Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables one evening - to meet her unusually horse-shaped new client and his owner Sonia Dalrymple - she does not expect to stumble across a man lying in the darkness. Walter Fleet, co-owner of the stables, has been viciously stabbed to death.
Sleuthing...
16) In colt blood
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In North Carolina, reporter Nattie Gold investigates the murder of a lady horse breeder. Suspicion centers on a woman horse psychic who was having an affair with the lady's husband.
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
224 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the author's endeavor to throw away his life's to-do list and buy a racehorse, describing the horse who won his heart and the behind-the-scenes characters he encounters, as well as the history and tradition of the sport.
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the hills of Tennessee, Shane Carson, a gifted, nationally-recognized horseman, is living the good life. When a mysterious mustang shows up on his farm, Shane doesn't know how--or why--the horse appeared, but the horse's distinctive brand identifies her. She is one of the Spirit Horses, a rare, wild herd that runs free on the Shoshone reservation in Wyoming. Watched over for centuries in the tribe's ancestral valleys, these exquisite horses, according...
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (ca. 360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In 2003, Funny Cide became "the people's horse," an unheralded New York-bred gelding who, during a time of war and economic jitters, inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and their multimillionaire owners and sweeping to the brink of horseracing's Triple Crown
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