Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307379744
Category : Dominican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Taken in by a near-alcoholic artist and a jaded academic, a young Dominican girl in Brooklyn's Fresh Air Fund program explores the contrasts between her inner-city life and her hosts' privileged world and finds her realities powerfully shaped by her relationship with a horse.
The Mare
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307379744
Category : Dominican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Taken in by a near-alcoholic artist and a jaded academic, a young Dominican girl in Brooklyn's Fresh Air Fund program explores the contrasts between her inner-city life and her hosts' privileged world and finds her realities powerfully shaped by her relationship with a horse.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307379744
Category : Dominican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Taken in by a near-alcoholic artist and a jaded academic, a young Dominican girl in Brooklyn's Fresh Air Fund program explores the contrasts between her inner-city life and her hosts' privileged world and finds her realities powerfully shaped by her relationship with a horse.
The Mare and the Mouse
Author: Martín Prechtel
Publisher: Stories of My Horses
ISBN: 9781682011171
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel's new book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala. First in the Stories of My Horses Series, The Mare and the Mouse is meant to be read aloud to crowds around campfires, especially to people who are mistaken that only rich people or rednecks ride horses, Prechtel credits both his own physical and spiritual survival in "modernity's mad rush to nowhere" with the sanity of riding and living with his natural-born Southwestern horses. Not raised for show, performance, status, or money, these little horses allowed a way of living that took him flying over ravines into deep-mountain Holy places, backwards over streams, and in general keeping alive a sparkier, older spirit in an age where horses have been grossly de-natured and sadly removed from our own everyday lives after three millennia as the closest companions of our ancestors' dreams and mythologies.
Publisher: Stories of My Horses
ISBN: 9781682011171
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel's new book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala. First in the Stories of My Horses Series, The Mare and the Mouse is meant to be read aloud to crowds around campfires, especially to people who are mistaken that only rich people or rednecks ride horses, Prechtel credits both his own physical and spiritual survival in "modernity's mad rush to nowhere" with the sanity of riding and living with his natural-born Southwestern horses. Not raised for show, performance, status, or money, these little horses allowed a way of living that took him flying over ravines into deep-mountain Holy places, backwards over streams, and in general keeping alive a sparkier, older spirit in an age where horses have been grossly de-natured and sadly removed from our own everyday lives after three millennia as the closest companions of our ancestors' dreams and mythologies.
Veronica
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly from present and past, casting a fierce yet compassionate eye on two eras and their fixations, the result is a work of timeless depth and moral power.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307833321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female friendship in the glittering 1980s. One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: One is a young model stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged office temp. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly from present and past, casting a fierce yet compassionate eye on two eras and their fixations, the result is a work of timeless depth and moral power.
Mare's War
Author: Tanita S. Davis
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375850775
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Meet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less than perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American Battalion of the Women's Army Corps. Now she is driving her granddaughters—two willful teenagers in their own rite—on a cross-country road trip. The girls are initially skeptical of Mare's flippy wigs and stilletos, but they soon find themselves entranced by the story she has to tell, and readers will be too. Told in alternating chapters, half of which follow Mare through her experiences as a WAC and half of which follow Mare and her granddaughters on the road in the present day, this novel introduces readers to a larger-than-life character and a fascinating chapter in African American history.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375850775
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Meet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less than perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American Battalion of the Women's Army Corps. Now she is driving her granddaughters—two willful teenagers in their own rite—on a cross-country road trip. The girls are initially skeptical of Mare's flippy wigs and stilletos, but they soon find themselves entranced by the story she has to tell, and readers will be too. Told in alternating chapters, half of which follow Mare through her experiences as a WAC and half of which follow Mare and her granddaughters on the road in the present day, this novel introduces readers to a larger-than-life character and a fascinating chapter in African American history.
Night Mare
Author: Piers Anthony
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345454359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The danger to Xanth was so great that only a night mare could offer hope! The Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth from the north, ravaging and destroying as they advanced. But Mare Imbrium had her own problems. Ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Now the night Stallion dismissed her, exiling her to the day world with a message for King Trent: Beware the Horseman! She had no idea what that meant. But that was the way with prophetic warnings—nobody could understand them until it was too late. Then she met the Horseman. And she discovered that one who would right a night mare was a master of a bit and spur, and not a man to surrender her. For the night mare, it all began to be a horrible nightmare!
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0345454359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The danger to Xanth was so great that only a night mare could offer hope! The Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth from the north, ravaging and destroying as they advanced. But Mare Imbrium had her own problems. Ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Now the night Stallion dismissed her, exiling her to the day world with a message for King Trent: Beware the Horseman! She had no idea what that meant. But that was the way with prophetic warnings—nobody could understand them until it was too late. Then she met the Horseman. And she discovered that one who would right a night mare was a master of a bit and spur, and not a man to surrender her. For the night mare, it all began to be a horrible nightmare!
Luna
Author: Dora Dillistone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578580883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A children's book for all ages that tells the true story of Luna, a horse with sky blue eyes. After being rescued from the Santa Fe Horse Shelter, the person that saved her had DNA tests run on the mare. She was discovered to be from the original genetic line of the oldest domesticated horses in the world that began in Turkmenistan.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578580883
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A children's book for all ages that tells the true story of Luna, a horse with sky blue eyes. After being rescued from the Santa Fe Horse Shelter, the person that saved her had DNA tests run on the mare. She was discovered to be from the original genetic line of the oldest domesticated horses in the world that began in Turkmenistan.
Shank's Mare
Author: Ikku Jippensha
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462902030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
This classic Japanese story of humor and adventure is available here for the first time in digital format. A pair of irrepressible scoundrels are the heroes of this madcap chronicle of adventure, full of earthy humor, along the great highway from Tokyo to Kyoto. The lusty tale of their disreputable doings is Japan's most celebrated comic novel. Shank's Mare was originally issued serially beginning in 1802, and was so successful that the author wrote numerous sequels, appearing year by year, until 1822. This novel portrays all the varied colors in Japan's Tokugawa era and its humor typifies the brash and devil-may-care attitude of the residents of Tokyo, both then and now.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462902030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
This classic Japanese story of humor and adventure is available here for the first time in digital format. A pair of irrepressible scoundrels are the heroes of this madcap chronicle of adventure, full of earthy humor, along the great highway from Tokyo to Kyoto. The lusty tale of their disreputable doings is Japan's most celebrated comic novel. Shank's Mare was originally issued serially beginning in 1802, and was so successful that the author wrote numerous sequels, appearing year by year, until 1822. This novel portrays all the varied colors in Japan's Tokugawa era and its humor typifies the brash and devil-may-care attitude of the residents of Tokyo, both then and now.
The Meek
Author: Der-shing Helmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998193700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Angora is an inexperienced young girl who has been sent on a quest to save the world.Since the last world war, tensions have increased between the recovering Northern Territories and the unapologetic southern lands of Caris. The world is overwhelmed with as much terror, crime, and disease as it is by those who yearn for peace. Now, a new war looms between the two countries, and mysterious, monstrous entities may be playing for much higher stakes than anyone realizes.Armed with only her instincts and an unexplainable power, Angora must journey through this world-- and perhaps decide once and for all if it is truly worth saving.The Meek Volume 1 collects the first three chapters from the epic online comic, which updates regularly at www.meekcomic.com
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998193700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Angora is an inexperienced young girl who has been sent on a quest to save the world.Since the last world war, tensions have increased between the recovering Northern Territories and the unapologetic southern lands of Caris. The world is overwhelmed with as much terror, crime, and disease as it is by those who yearn for peace. Now, a new war looms between the two countries, and mysterious, monstrous entities may be playing for much higher stakes than anyone realizes.Armed with only her instincts and an unexplainable power, Angora must journey through this world-- and perhaps decide once and for all if it is truly worth saving.The Meek Volume 1 collects the first three chapters from the epic online comic, which updates regularly at www.meekcomic.com
Reproductive Biology of the Mare
Author: O. J. Ginther
Publisher: Equiservices Publishing
ISBN: 9780964007215
Category : Horses
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
* An extensively revised & expanded text & reference book for research scientists, veterinarians, teachers, students & others needing in-depth information on the biologic & applied aspects of mare reproduction. * Biologic mechanisms are treated in detail, but sections or chapters usually culminate in a summary or diagrammed conceptual overview that seems most consistent with current knowledge. * Comprehension is aided by illustrative material including photographs, photomicrographs, drawings & original conceptual diagrams. All chapters include a listing of highlights & in most instances, a chronological list of milestones. * The applied ramifications of the biology covered in each chapter or section are discussed. In addition, the book includes a 64-page chapter on reproductive efficiency (e.g. pregnancy loss, twinning). * Considerable effort has been devoted to developing a realistic perspective of mare reproductive biology. Little is taken for granted; the appropriate experimental work is discussed in the development of conclusions & in the consideration of currently controversial matters. Research needs & project suggestions are noted throughout, as well as the potential for utilization of the mare as a research model. 107 colored photographs in 20 plates, 103 black-&-white photographs or plates, 207 graphs & tables, 55 drawings & conceptual diagrams, 1,875 references in a single bibliography. Order from: EQUISERVICES, 4343 Garfoot Road, Cross Plains, WI 53528 USA. $93.00 USA, $101.00 Outside USA.
Publisher: Equiservices Publishing
ISBN: 9780964007215
Category : Horses
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
* An extensively revised & expanded text & reference book for research scientists, veterinarians, teachers, students & others needing in-depth information on the biologic & applied aspects of mare reproduction. * Biologic mechanisms are treated in detail, but sections or chapters usually culminate in a summary or diagrammed conceptual overview that seems most consistent with current knowledge. * Comprehension is aided by illustrative material including photographs, photomicrographs, drawings & original conceptual diagrams. All chapters include a listing of highlights & in most instances, a chronological list of milestones. * The applied ramifications of the biology covered in each chapter or section are discussed. In addition, the book includes a 64-page chapter on reproductive efficiency (e.g. pregnancy loss, twinning). * Considerable effort has been devoted to developing a realistic perspective of mare reproductive biology. Little is taken for granted; the appropriate experimental work is discussed in the development of conclusions & in the consideration of currently controversial matters. Research needs & project suggestions are noted throughout, as well as the potential for utilization of the mare as a research model. 107 colored photographs in 20 plates, 103 black-&-white photographs or plates, 207 graphs & tables, 55 drawings & conceptual diagrams, 1,875 references in a single bibliography. Order from: EQUISERVICES, 4343 Garfoot Road, Cross Plains, WI 53528 USA. $93.00 USA, $101.00 Outside USA.
Bad Behavior
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451687079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of contemporary literature. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it “Pinteresque,” saying, “Ms. Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail, that she is able to make even the most extreme situations seem real…her reportorial candor, uncompromised by sentimentality or voyeuristic charm…underscores the strength of her debut.”
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451687079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
National Book Award finalist Mary Gaitskill’s debut collection, Bad Behavior—powerful stories about dislocation, longing, and desire which depict a disenchanted and rebellious urban fringe generation that is searching for human connection. Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically charged, and audaciously funny writing talents of contemporary literature. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it “Pinteresque,” saying, “Ms. Gaitskill writes with such authority, such radar-perfect detail, that she is able to make even the most extreme situations seem real…her reportorial candor, uncompromised by sentimentality or voyeuristic charm…underscores the strength of her debut.”