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The Horse and Tractor Wars: Letters & Lessons from an Old Horseman

by Dr. Milton C. Sernett

Published: 2011-01-20

Paperback: 160 pages

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Confined to a nursing home in Iowa in 1960, a time-worn horseman seeks to educate his grandson about the great transformation in American agriculture when horse power gave way to tractor power (1910-1950). Walt Decker spent nearly four decades as the chief national defender for the continued use of...

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The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son

by Rupert Isaacson

Published: 2009-04-14

Hardcover: 368 pages

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When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a crazy idea: why not t...

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The Horse Boy: A Memoir of Healing

by Rupert Isaacson

Published: 2010-04-02

Paperback: 400 pages

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When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a crazy idea: why not ...

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A Horse Named Sorrow

by Trebor Healey

Published: 2012-10-23

Hardcover: 284 pages

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Award-winning novelist Trebor Healey depicts San Francisco in the 1980s and ?90s in poetic prose that is both ribald and poignant, and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, and visionary.    When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the strong and self-pos...

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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

by Doug Stanton

Published: 2010-05-11

Paperback: 432 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way comes a true-life story of American soldiers overcoming great odds to achieve a stunning military victory.�Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan followin...

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The Horse Whisperer

by Nicholas Evans

Published: 1996-10-01

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A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will b...

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Horseback Riding For Dummies

by Audrey Pavia

Published: 2007-04-30

Paperback: 388 pages

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You?ve always dreamed of riding horses. So what are you waiting for? It's time you realized your equestrian dreams and learned to ride like a pro on the back of a noble steed. And Horseback Riding for Dummies shows you how.Don?t know a horse's head from its tail, a trot from a canter, with...

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The Horsecatcher (Bison Book)

by Mari Sandoz

Published: 1986-09-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.

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Horton Hears A Who!

Hardcover: 72 pages

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Illus. in color. Horton, the lovable elephant, tries to protect tiny creatures on a speck of dust. An easy reader with delightful verse and pictures. Surely among the most lovable of all Dr. Seuss creations, Horton the Elephant represents kindness, trustworthiness, and perseverance--all...

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Hose Monkey

by Tony Spinosa, Reed Farrel Coleman

Published: 2006-10

Hardcover: 2992 pages

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When former NYPD detective Joe Serpe hit bottom, he just kept on going. Having lost his career to charges of corruption, his family to divorce, his partner to suicide, and his fireman brother to the tragedy of 9/11, Serpe's world is nearly empty but for his cat, Mulligan. Living in a...