Tails of a Suburban Cowgirl

Tails of a Suburban Cowgirl

Author: Debra Speakes

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-11-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1411616634

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"Tails" of a Suburban Cowgirl is the true story of a little girl growing up in the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, with a deep love of horses and a family who couldn't care less about them. Yet over the years, she not only achieved her dream of having horses while still living in the city, but she eventually found her way to country living in a town sympathetic to her love of horses. This wonderful book is a must-read for any would-be cowgirl or cowboy stuck living in the city but who dreams of living the cowboy life. It's also a trip down memory lane for others who traveled the same path, achieving the dream despite the numerous obstacles that arise on the unlikely journey from stick horses to stock horses, from model horses to Morgan horses, from stuffed ponies to cow ponies. For bulk purchases, please contact the author at [email protected].


Rollergirl

Rollergirl

Author: Melissa Joulwan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-04-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781416538554

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The 1950s phenomenon of Roller Derby is back in full force, and it's definitely not your grandma's game anymore. With leagues in more than one hundred cities across the country, a national tournament, and major sponsors, the new wave of the sport has gone mainstream. No one is better qualified to tell the story of Flat Track Derby's astronomic rise than Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan. As a founding member of the Texas Rollergirls -- the league that launched the sport and the reigning national champions -- she has helped redefine what it means to be stylish, sporty, and sexy. With her mouthy, tough-as-nails style, Melicious recounts her best tales from the track: her fierce rivalries with The Wrench and Ivanna S. Pankin, the scene at the annual national tournament, the thrill of a bout, and the infractions that so often bring her to the penalty box. From the minute she first laced up her skates and wrapped herself in her alter ego, Roller Derby has given her a confidence boost, and she shares the positive impact the sport has also had on girls -- young and not-so-young -- who tack posters of her on their bedroom walls and lace up their own skates. Complete with photos and suggestions on how to develop a Rollergirl name and persona, this unprecedented tell-all comes from the woman who's watched the sport evolve from an underground Friday-night event to a bona fide national phenomenon.


Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Author: Tom Robbins

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2003-06-17

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0553897896

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“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.


Chico's Challenge

Chico's Challenge

Author: Jessie Haas

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1466816066

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Set in Wyoming, Chico's Challenge follows a young buckskin quarter horse who is trade to Sierra, a teen who works her father's ranch and dreams of becoming a cutting horse champion. Chico seems to have the makings of a great cow horse, but...he has never seen a cow in his life! Can he and Sierra, both novices, learn to work together as a team?


Hoot

Hoot

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2004-05-11

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0375829164

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This Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestseller is a beloved modern classic. Hoot features a new kid and his new bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes. Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter? Welcome to Carl Hiaasen's Florida—where the creatures are wild and the people are wilder!


Foreign Exposure

Foreign Exposure

Author: Lauren Mechling

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2007-04-09

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0547349092

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After two glorious (though somewhat hectic) semesters with her dad in New York City, Mimi must make good on her promise to her parents: summer break with her mom. But it seems going back to her cozy old life in Houston isn’t in the cards. Instead, she’s dragged off to Berlin, where her mother’s been offered a fellowship. After a few weeks of a nightmare nanny job, it becomes clear that Mimi’s European vacation isn’t much of a vacation after all. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, she receives a call from Lily Morton, her friend from New York, who invites her to London, where an internship at a family friend’s magazine awaits. Soon Mimi is at it again—living it up with glamorous friends, pursuing a new crush, and chasing down celebrities at her very entertaining job. For a while, Mimi’s convinced she has it made. Never before has fitting in been so easy. If only it could stay that way. Mimi may have gotten a handle on the Empire State—but that’s nothing compared to the state of the empire!


Out of Range

Out of Range

Author: C. J. Box

Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0857891863

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A good friend and fellow game warden has killed himself, and Joe Pickett's been chosen to temporarily run his district. But Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring - and it doesn't help that now Joe feels compelled to investigate the circumstances surrounding his friend's suicide. But as he comes closer to the truth, the more his own life spirals out of control - and he realizes that if he isn't careful, he may be Jackson's next victim...


Gadsby

Gadsby

Author: Ernest Vincent Wright

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-28

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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Gadsby is a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright. A fading fictitious city known as Branton Hills is rejuvenated due to the efforts of central character John Gadsby and a youth organizer. A humorous read!


Let's Hear It for the Horses

Let's Hear It for the Horses

Author: Tricia Knoll

Publisher:

Published: 2022-02

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781956285031

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In Let's Hear It for the Horses, Tricia Knoll's poetry explores her lifelong fascination with these strong and sometimes symbolic creatures and shares stories and memories of her best rides.