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This "hugely entertaining, riveting page-turner" (Louise Penny) follows the complicated relationship between mother and daughter as they face off in the Olympics—and into a ride they can barely control.
Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another.Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris...
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One of two treaties on horsemanship by Xenophon, the famed Athenian historian, philosopher, and soldier, "The Art of Horsemanship" is a general work on the selection of horses and their subsequent care and training. Written in approximately 355 BC, Xenophon's treatise is the earliest surviving complete work on horsemanship and is a fascinating look into this ancient tradition. Xenophon informs the reader how to inspect both young and old horses for...
3) Horse riding
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"Provides comprehensive information on basic horse riding, English style, and Western style"--Provided by publisher.
4) The mare
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"...[T]he story of a Dominican girl, the Anglo woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her. Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York--Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul--who wonder what it will mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. The story illuminates their...
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"When you grandfather was a little boy, the world was full of horses: pulling fancy carriages, galloping in front of stage coaches, and charging into battle. But to keep you from feeling sand because the world is no longer full of horses, Dahlov Ipcar also shows you where they are this minute--because people love them. They can be found in the West being ridden by Cowboys, on racetracks being ridden by jockeys, and even on merry-go-rounds being ridden...
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Horses, by their very nature, are mythic creatures - they represent in our collective imagination aspects of the human journey at its greatest. In Riding into Your Mythic Life, therapeutic riding instructor Patricia Broersma invites readers on an experiential journey of transformation with these powerful creatures, offering ways to explore life's events as part of one's own mythic journey. Broersma has developed her theories over twenty years of working...
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In this fascinating best seller, Cherry Hill explores the way horses think and how it affects their behavior. Explaining why certain smells and sounds appeal to your horse's sensibility and what sets off his sudden movements, Hill stresses how recognizing the thought processes behind your horse's actions can help you communicate effectively and develop a trusting relationship based on mutual respect. Understanding how your horse thinks can help you...
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Marguerite Henry's Misty Inn volume 5
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When Willa is visited by a friend she hasn't seen in a year, she realizes that people change and aren't always the way they once were.
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Publisher Annotation: Lighter. Leaner. Faster. Rae is determined to do whatever it takes to win Nationals with her rodeo team, just like her mum did when she was Rae's age. But Rae feels the crushing weight of grief, having lost her mother to cancer, and the crushing weight to perfection to live up to her memory. But as Rae's training ramps up and the new girl in town falls into the same group of friends, she's not just terrified to eat, she's terrified...
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After her role in a family tragedy in the midst of the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Thea Atwell has been cast out of her Florida home to an equestrian boarding school for Southern debutantes; she must grapple with her responsibility for the events that led her to the school.
11) Rumor has it
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Fire meets ice when a Yankee heartthrob falls for a resistant proper Southern belle determined to guard her heart in this contemporary romance.
12) Fear of falling
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Vet volunteers volume 9
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Twelve-year-old David has conflicting feelings when his father, who taught him to ride the horses he loves so much, returns to spend Thanksgiving Day with the family after being gone for a year.
13) Taos lightning
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"When an accident seriously injures his father, fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick saddles his half broke mustang stallion to take his father's place in a horse race from Texas to New England offering $3,000 to the winner. He will discover what America can offer, both good and bad"--
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"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"--dust jacket....
15) Racing Savannah
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Hundred Oaks volume 4
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Working at a fancy farm that trains horses for the Kentucky Derby, Savannah tries to deflect the attention of the owner's son as she pursues her dream of becoming a jockey.
16) Therapy horses
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"Provides comprehensive information on how horses provide help to people with injuries and illnesses through therapy"--
17) The trail ride
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Meg, Jill, and Annie know a lot about riding their ponies, but they still have a lot to learn, as they go for a trail ride.
18) Out of my heart
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Out of my mind volume 2
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Because she loves horses but is scared of them, Melody wants to conquer her fears, so she hopes a summer camp will be the place to welcome someone with cerebral palsy who wants to learn to ride.
19) The wanderers
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West Country trilogy volume 2
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"The powerful second novel in Tim Pears's acclaimed West Country trilogy. Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in England before World War I. 1912. Leo Sercombe is on a journey. Aged thirteen and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood, he travels through Devon, grazing on berries and sleeping in the woods. Behind him lies the past, and before him the West Country, spread out like a tapestry. But a wanderer...
20) The horse dancer
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When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo -- hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London neighborhood -- she quietly trains in city's parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah must juggle horsemanship with school and hospital visits. Natasha, a young lawyer, is reeling after her failed marriage: her professional judgment is being...
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