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From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: The mystery and insurmountable nature of Wild Horse Mesa had usurped many a thoughtful hour of Chane Weymer's lonely desert life in Utah. Every wandering rider had a strange story to tell about this vast tableland. But Chane had never before seen it from so lofty and commanding a height as this to which Toddy Nokin, the Piute, had led him; nor had there ever...
2) Wildfire
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Horse hunter Lin Sloan never wanted anything more than the wild stallion he called Wildfire. Lucy Bostil found the horse and the unconscious man who had roped him. She saved both their lives and took Sloan's heart in the process. Now another man wants Lucy and the horse--and will stop at nothing short of killing to get them.
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Sadie's Montana volume 2
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Good Books
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English
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Sadie must choose between Mark, who finds it hard to tell her the secrets of his past, and Daniel, a visitor from Lancaster County who's funny, well-mannered, and completely dedicated to his family. Meanwhile, there's horse trouble in Montana again - only this time, horses aren't being stolen, they're being shot by snipers in a blue pickup truck.
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Kentucky series (Fern Michaels) volume 3
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When it come to horses, Nealy is never satisfied. Nobody can measure up to her standards as a trainer, not even her daughter, Emmie, who now runs the family's famous stables, Blue Diamond Farms. But returning to Blue Diamond Farms for a family reunion sends Nealy reeling. Emmie has let the farm slide, and she has picked a small, gutsy colt to send to the Derby -- a nice horse, but clearly the wrong one. Suddenly Nealy is back in the game, ready to...
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The plot revolves around Lark Burrell, who grew up on a ranch in Idaho, her mother is a Nez Perce Indian. Lark loves wild horses. She is forced to leave there when her father dies and go live with the Wades, distant cousins. Her cousin Marigold is engaged to Stanley Weston, a college graduate like Marigold, but he soon discovers after returning home to run the ranch for his invalid father that he has more in common with Lark than he does with Marigold....
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Vintage Contemporaries
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2011, c2010
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In the early 1970s, trainer Tommy Hansel attempts a horse racing scam at a small, backwoods track in West Virginia, but nothing goes according to his plan when the horses refuse to cooperate and nearly everyone at the track seems to know his scheme.
10) Wild horses
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Sadie's Montana volume 1
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Good Books
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[2011]
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English
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The Miller family's move from Ohio to Montana was uneventful. But now, Sadie's close-knit family is falling apart. And who is this fascinating Mark who helps to rescue a dying horse and shows up at the Amish hymn sing though he is English? And what is the story behind the mysterious wild horse?
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris. Paras is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance...
12) Country strong
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Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart--a woman he hasn't seen in years--and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone... Shallie Fletcher...
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When he first arrived in the town of Lister, no one knew anything about him except that he didn't speak...that he was probably a deaf-mute. The man they decided to call Shannon bought supplies and ventured off into a secluded valley. Then one day Shannon came upon a horse that had been abused and was near death. He had a way with animals, so with patience and tender care, Shannon restored the horse to good health. When the outlaw Terry Shawn races...
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Mountain Press Pub. Co
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2004
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"Fourteen short stories capture the quirky and peculiar behavior of horses, both good and ornery. You'll meet buckers, tricksters, and trusted partners: Bearcat is "not just a plain crazy hardheaded bucker ... but a wise, cool-headed cross between a whirlwind and a ton of brick," Joker is "full of the old nick and plenty of snorts," and Little Eagle is the "seeing eye" for a blind cowboy. First published in 1940, Horses I've Known contains some of...
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"Coming soon as a major motion picture. Roughly, violently, in the dark and vacant Nevada night, cattle rancher Henry McBride has everything that means anything torn from him. Guilt-ridden, cast aside by his own heart, Henry staggers from town to town, job to job, and bar to bar, seeking only some way to momentarily silence the voices inside his head, to soothe the slow burn of his anguish. When he finds himself begging for work on a guest ranch,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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A mass-market paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a...
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"Many men had set out to capture a magnificent stallion named Parade but none had yet triumphed through the hardships to gain the ultimate prize. Silvertip was a dangerous cowboy who could rip out the heart of a mountain lion with his bare hands and when he hunted Parade, he took only a rope and raw courage. But trailing him, guns at their sides, were two killers who wanted the cowboy as badly as they wanted the horse!"--
18) Riding Lessons
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As a world-class equestrienne and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, her beloved and distinctively marked horse. Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenaged daughter to this place of pain and memory,...
19) The horses
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Journey of Jim Glass volume 3
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Jim Glass's long-sought peace is shattered when the ex-soldier and ex-Ranger discovers six of his corralled horses dead, their throats slit. Though he dreads doing so, he'll strap on his weapons and go hunting for the culprit because someone capable of such a foul, thoughtless killing is capable of anything.
20) Racing hearts
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2019
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Irene Polson was born and raised on and around Western American racetracks. Both her deceased parents had been track followers. When she was old enough, she became a jockey. A bad fall and the resulting injury caused her to lose her nerve, so now she was just a groom. She cared for racehorses, cleaning them and their stalls and seeing to their well-being. One of her charges was cruelly overworked earlier one morning, and it took hours to get IM Do...