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Riding Freedom

by Pam Munoz Ryan

Published: 1999-09-01

Paperback: 144 pages

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A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive new author treatment.In this fast-paced, courageous, and inspiring story, readers adventure with Charlotte Parkhurst as she first finds work as a stable hand, becomes a famous stage-coach driver (performing brave feats a...

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Riding Fury Home: A Memoir

by Chana Wilson

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 384 pages

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In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother held a rifle to her head and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. On her return, Chana became the caretaker of her heavily medicated, suicidal mother. It would be many years before she learned the s...

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Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good

by Beverly Donofrio

Published: 1992-01-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Denied college, Bev Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking and smoking, and rebelling against authority. She got married and divorced and finally ended up in an elite New England university, books in one arm, child in the other. A book about the compromise between...

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Riding Lessons: A Novel

by Sara Gruen

Published: 2016-11-01

Paperback: 387 pages

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As a world-class equestrian 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, the beautiful horse she cherished. Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming ...

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Riding the Bus with My Sister

by Rachel Simon

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 400 pages

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In the ten years since Rachel Simon first invited the world to board the bus with her and her sister, Cool Beth, readers across the globe have been moved by their story. Now, in an updated edition with fifty pages of new content, Rachel Simon reflects on changes in her life, Beth's life, a...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey

by Rachel Simon

Published: 2003-08-26

Paperback: 296 pages

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Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a tr...

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Riding with the Blue Moth

by Bill Hancock

Published: 2006-10-15

Paperback: 220 pages

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After the death of his son Will in the 2001 airplane crash that took the lives of nine additional members of the Oklahoma State basketball team and support staff, survival became a common word in Bill Hancock�'s vocabulary. For Hancock, the former director of the NCAA men�'s basketball tou...

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Riding with the Queen

by Jennie Shortridge

Published: 2003

Paperback: 331 pages

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From an exciting new voice comes a tale of a down-and-out rock-and-roll singer forced to return to the home she fled half a lifetime ago. But taking the long way home has left 34-year-old Tallie Beck looking to retrace some wrong turns--and figure out where she really wants to go.

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The Right Attitude to Rain

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2006

Hardcover: 251 pages

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3 Book Set By Alexander McCall Smith; the Sunday Philosophy Club; Friends, Lovers, Chocolate; the Right Attitude to Rain.

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The Right Decision: A Mathematician Reveals How the Secrets of Decision Theory

by James Stein

Published: 2009-11-20

Hardcover: 256 pages

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CAN YOU EVER BE SURE YOU'RE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION? Should you stay in a comfy job with little chance of advancement-or take a riskier one in which you could make lots of money but also wind up on the street? Should you listen to a doctor who advises surgery-or ...