![]() ![]() Farley, a good trainer in a bad slump Buddy, a ruthless trainer who can't seem to lose even though he knows that his personal salvation depends upon it Roberto, an apprentice jockey who has "the hands" but is growing too big for his dream career with every passing day Leo the gambler and his earnest son, Jesse, who understands everything about his father's "system" except why it doesn't work Elizabeth, the 62-year-old theorist of sex and animal communication, and her best friend, Joy, the mare manager at the ranch at the center of the universe-all are woven together by the horses that pass among them: Two colts and two fillies who begin with the promise of talent and breeding, and now might or might not achieve stardom. This time, I mean it," and something does. Twenty-year-old Tiffany Morse, stuck in her job at Wal-Mart, prays, "Please make something happen here. Haunting, exquisite Rosalind Maybrick, wife of a billionaire owner, one day can't quite decide what it is she wants, and discovers too late that her whole life is transformed. ![]() "It's not true," says a character in Jane Smiley's funny, passionate, and brilliant new novel of horse racing, "that anything can happen at the racetrack," but many astonishing and affecting things do-and in Horse Heaven, we find them woven into a marvelous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed, and derring-do. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And often it’s the “best” poetry or the most decorated of poets that have me wondering just why it is that I don’t get it, why any sort of appreciation of what is being expressed eludes me, so I assume the lack is my own sensitivity, my own ability to understand or to accept a kinship with it. It makes me feel obtuse, uncomprehending. It’s too big for me, too delicate or too complicated, too deep. ![]() I appreciate that.īut often it seems that poetry is outside my ability to experience it, to connect with it. ![]() It speaks to that which often cannot otherwise find a voice. It’s an idiom that is unique, that uses the look and the cadence of language to enhance or encapsulate or simplify the ideas conveyed. I love poetry, or at least the idea of poetry. I’ll admit it – I often have problems reading poetry.ĭon’t get me wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her new riding stable was slap bang in the middle of Pinewood Studios, home of England’s movie industry. But all it took was the right instructor and the right horse and she was hooked for life. ![]() Maggie Dana took her first riding lesson at the age of five and hated it so much, she didn’t try again for another three years. Dana’s polished prose and insightful characters take readers along with Kate and Holly as they dive into a stormy summer filled with secrets and lies and impossible dreams. Filled with action and intrigue, this new series is a must read for savvy girls who love horses. The series includes four titles, previously published in print, but revived and now available as ebooks. Timber Ridge Stables is the home away from home of Kate McGregor, her best friend Holly Chapman, and their arch rival Angela Dean. ![]() Wednesday brings Maggie Dana into #litchat to discuss her Timber Ridge Riders line of fiction for young horse-lovers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rare Collections is a specialist book dealer based in Cape Town. If for some reason we have missed something we will provide a full refund We guarantee that books are as described and always provide clear photos of all our books. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. There are spaceship and dragons, time machines, new planets, and new science, but it is real people reacting in their personal human ways to the phenomena of a strange world that give these stories the haunting beauty that won critical acclaim for Bradburys books. Science fiction, fantasy, small town life and small town people are the materials from which Ray Bradbury weaves his unique and magical stories of the natural and the supernatural, the past, the present and the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roach joins Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Levitt in making a career of turning serious research on oddball subjects into bestsellers. If all fails, the military wants to correct the consequences with better prostheses and surgical reconstructions of mutilated or missing body parts. I have omitted whole disciplines of worthy endeavor.” Roach reveals many of these names, however, along with the stories of their quests to shield soldiers from harm and, if this fails, repair the often gruesome results. Traveling from proving ground to lab to expensive, realistic fake battle settings, the author recounts and often participates as researchers search for better ways to protect soldiers from bullets, burns, explosions, noise, heat, sharks, insomnia, drowning, and disease. The work I write about represents a fraction of a percent of all that goes on. “For every general and Medal of Honor winner,” writes the author, “there are a hundred military scientists whose names you’ll never hear. ![]() Readers encountering this esoteric project on the first page will settle back to enjoy another patented scientific romp, this one on battlefield research, by journalist Roach ( Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, 2013, etc.). A cannon fires grocery chickens at parked jets, testing ways to protect planes against bird strikes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liddy prodded her into sending it to Boldwood instead. As the girls chatted, she recalled having bought a valentine for little Teddy Coggan and proceeded to inscribe it with a verse. She was sure that everyone in the church had focused attention on Bathsheba except Boldwood, who sat in the same line of pews. ![]() "It was Wisdom in the abstract facing Folly in the concrete." After they went through the ritual with the key and Bible, Liddy asked of whom Bathsheba had been thinking, surmising that her mistress's mind might have been on Boldwood, as her own had been. Bathsheba turned to the Book of Ruth and, reading, she was a bit abashed. To while away Sunday afternoon, Bathsheba and the chatterbox Liddy, who, "like a little brook, though shallow was always rippling," practice an old superstition: divining one's future husband by consulting the Bible with a key. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also the story of the people who stay there-Rose, with all her secrets, her daughter, the nuns and the groundskeeper. ![]() The story is about the place almost as much as the people-a place where people come for a brief, but life-altering, time and then move on. The story of Rose, a habitual abandoner, who finds herself in a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. In 2012, Patchett was on the Time 100 list of most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. In 2010, when she found that her hometown of Nashville no longer had a good book store, she co-founded Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes the store opened in November 2011. ![]() It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. the stable window that opens out into the imagination." If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Patchett said she loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. ![]() She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Taking Shots is really the whole package. “Aleo melts the ice and hits it into the net with her Assassins series.” -Award-winning author Jami Davenport Praise for Toni Aleo’s Nashville Assassins romances No matter how skeptical she is, Shea knows they are meant to be together-if only he can convince Elli to put her insecurities aside before she misses out on a shot at love. After laying eyes on this feisty, witty, beautiful woman, he feels like he’s just taken the hardest hit of his life. ![]() But everything changes when he meets Elli. Before Elli knows what’s happening, the gorgeous Shea breaks the ice and shatters her world.Ī brilliant athlete inside the rink, Shea Adler is tired of the life he’s living outside of it: the women, the money, the drinking. ![]() Until, that is, she meets Shea Adler on a promotional shoot for the NHL’s Nashville Assassins. After enduring years of abuse at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, Elli has been drifting through life in a daze. ![]() No matter how hard she tries, Elleanor Fisher never thinks she’s good enough, from her job to her weight to her love life. In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Toni Aleo’s exhilarating Loveswept debut, the first in a series featuring the hockey hunks of the Nashville Assassins, a reformed bad boy helps a charming, willful woman face off against the demons of her past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Analyzes the final year of JFKs presidency and presents the thirty-fifth president as a ruthless politician who buried the truth and manipulated public opinion. ![]() ![]() The Politics of Deception is a fresh and revealing look at an iconic president and the way he attempted to manage public opinion and forge his legacy, sure to appeal to both history buffs and those who were alive during his presidency. Get FREE shipping on The Politics of Deception by Patrick J. Kennedy's last year in office, and his preparation for the election that never was. Kennedy's secret and fascinating dealings with Diem, General Curtis LeMay, King and Fidel Castro. The Politics of Deception Beneath the myths of Camelot lies the truth of the presidency of John F. Kennedy's secret behind-the-scenes deals to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis.The overthrow and assassination of President Diem.Kennedy's hostile interactions with and attempts to undermine Martin Luther King, Jr. Using recently released White House tape recordings and interviews with key inside players, The Politics of Deception reveals: Kennedy's presidency, his fateful involvement with Diem's assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Civil Rights Movement. Sloyan, a former member of the White House Press Corps, revisits the last years of John F. ![]() ![]() ![]() “People thought we had turned the corner.”īut the euphoric highs soon dissipated, as Zimbabweans, including herself, continued to line up for everything: fuel, groceries, cash. There, she caught the heady post-Mugabe days, when many Zimbabweans hoped the soaring inflation, unemployment, food shortages and human rights violations that defined his rule would finally come to an end. ![]() ![]() In 2017, when Mugabe was deposed, Bulawayo was teaching creative writing at Stanford University, but decided to return home weeks later. Bulawayo is her hometown, and Zimbabwe’s second largest city. In her Ndebele language, “no” means “with,” and Violet was the name of her mother, who died when she was 18 months old. She began writing using the pen name NoViolet Bulawayo as a student. in creative writing at Cornell University. Born Elizabeth Zandile Tshele in the Tsholotsho district, in southwest Zimbabwe, Bulawayo left her home country when she was 18 to pursue degrees in the United States, including an M.F.A. ![]() |