Horse Farm

Summoned home from college by her ailing father to take over the family’s struggling business, Lydia Merchant finds herself surrounded by strangers and expected to please them all. When Merchant Manufacturing’s books will not balance and every one of her employees seem to be working against her, Lydia must rely on her sixth sense and trust her zany instincts as never before. Those instincts are challenged even further when she finds herself the object of three men’s obsessions and she is forced to trust her heart to recognize love. As she uncovers the industrial espionage that ...

Ellie is a young woman, not so unlike any other young woman in today's world. She's in love, perhaps with the wrong man. She's self-supporting, if always being a week behind counts. She's kind and considerate, unless crossed. She's true to herself and others. She is the best of best friends, is attentive to her grandmother, and she loves horses. What is different about Ellie is the fact that she is followed through life by a flock of crows. Ellie's Crows depicts the last few weeks of her Grandma Betty's life in a nursing home; a very clean, antiseptic facility, with very little love to go ...

Fourteen years ago Leah Oliver passed away. Months later, she finally left Maple Dale Equestrian Center. Or did she? Bethann and the students wonder. When a small herd of hungry-looking deer show up at the barn one morning, the girls decide they should feed them. This sparks a series of events, resulting in their making the six o'clock news and having to find a permanent home for the deer quickly before they are killed by sharpshooters. Putting their pain and differences aside, three generations of women come together to follow a thread of hope linked to Leah Oliver that could potentially ...

Horse lovers,rejoice! When the MAPLE DALE Equestrian Center is sold to a developer, Leah as its headmistress is so determined to prevent its imminent destruction, not even death will stop her. Fiercely independent, but lost and alone, for the first time in her life she must rely on others, learn how to trust, and ultimately to forgive. Compelling and heartwarming, Maple Dale is the story of her relationship with her students and the family she never knew she had. A family as diverse and troubled as you've ever met, and yet who must come together in singular purpose, for Leah's sake. MaryAnn...

Maple Dale ~ My Forever Home ~ Book Three of the Maple Dale Series Trouble ahead. When Mindy’s horse-psychic friend Hillary elicits her help to steal a horse targeted for slaughter, they quickly learn that there are legitimate horse thieves in town and the sheriff’s department is out searching for all of them. Their partner in crime, dear sweet old Mrs. Butchling once again finds herself at the helm of this horse rescue, much like the deer herd that she, Bethann, and Mindy illegally transported across state lines not too long ago. Along the highway, Mindy meets Shane, a utility worker ...

Set over a 24-hour period, meet fighting stallions, cute foals, and nosy donkeys in this nonfiction book for kids about the coolest wild horses in the world. Race across prairies to follow the lives of horses and ponies as they whinny, neigh, and play their way through their day. Biology professor and horse owner Carly Anne York tells the story of the wild horses in the style of a nature documentary, including gentle science explanations perfect for future biologists.

A long running wild west show brings two women with rocky histories together in an all-out, shootout. Liz Ventura is a semi-retired saddle and tack shop owner who just wants to get out of the house, out among people. Friends in community theater convince her to try out for a part in the summer long Jackson Hole Shootout show and she makes the cut. She was even willing to play understudy to the show’s female lead. After all, she thinks, Trudy had been playing the role forever and relished it. What could possibly go wrong? Jessica ‘Jess’ Davenport is a six-year veteran of the show. ...

When the Forresters' favorite cow horse has a colt, everyone assumes he'll be a good cow pony just like his mother. But Billy isn't good at any sort of ranch work. He's silly, friendly, and lots of fun - but the Forresters can't afford to keep a horse who doesn't earn his keep. So Mr. Forrester keeps trying to find something Billy can be good at. Children's fiction.

'Can all animals talk?' Jack asked. 'Well, of course they can,' said Boadicea the Shetland Pony. 'We're not idiots, you know.' Jack has to live with his drippy aunt Violet, his smelly uncle Ted, and his evil cousin Kelly. But one day he accidentally runs away and, much to his surprise, finds himself on an adventure to free his mum from prison - with the help of rather a lot of talking animals!

Welcome to Maple Bay, a small town with heaps of heart—where family dinner is a must, and someone will always leave the light on for you. A small-town romance series enjoyed by fans of Debbie Macomber, Elana Johnson, and Susan Mallery. Winner of 2023 Readers-Choice Swoony Award for Best Novella. His best friend's widow needs his help... But he's afraid she's stealing his heart as well. It takes everything Lilah Davis has to be a single mom and run the animal rescue she started with her late husband. In fact, without Henry's parents and his best friend Trace checking in she's pretty sure ...

Fiona likes her job as counselor at the Women's Crisis Center and she loves training off-track thoroughbreds during the evenings at the show barn where she lives. Some would say for a horse-loving women's rights activist, she has a perfect life, so why all of a sudden this quest, this epiphany? In a week's time Fiona's world is turned upside down. A nostalgic search for her birth mother takes her down country roads to a forgotten coal-mining town in southern Ohio, where she uncovers decades-old secrets and long-lost relatives and comes face-to-face with a bully sheriff in this tug-at-your-heart magical adventure.

Barns, silos, sheds, and coops—farms have so many buildings! What are they all for? What animals live in them? Kids can get to know all about the different buildings on farms in this audiobook.

With a combination of insight and magical realism, author MaryAnn Myers propels her readers into the mysterious and provacative world of Anne Marie Light. The young woman's purchase of a second-hand prom dress initiates a chain of events during which strange, unfamiliar memories surface: a recurring song of longing, a teen pregnancy, and a dearly loved, but perhaps abandoned baby. When Anne Marie sets out to discover the source of these haunting thoughts, her journey leads to the streets of New Orleans for answers. Unforgettable characters along the way include the eccentric ex-circus ...

Shelby Simone is a horse-crazy kid living in the city with her parents. Despite having the best friends ever at the exclusive Metro School for Girls, she can’t help but feel something is missing from her life. When her parents break the news to her that they’re moving to a nearby rural community, Shelby is devastated… until her parents promise she can take riding lessons at Old Quarry Lake Farms, one of the best-known riding stables in the state! Shelby only has a month to say goodbye to city life and hello to a new world that includes horses.

Greta Rae and her sisters Lucy and Becky set out to find their father who they fear is gone forever, and along the way they find one another in what turns out to be an adventure of a lifetime. Even their long-deceased grandmother Babka, who was no fan of their father's, joins them for the ride. Come along, you won't be disappointed.

After her best friend, Annie, leaves for a fancy camp in New Hampshire, Ivy can’t imagine how she’s going to endure the long, hot Nevada summer with no one around but that pain-in-the-neck Billy Joe Butterworth next door and all those melancholy visitors to the Red Star Guest Ranch. Happily, an answer comes to Ivy in a flash of honey-colored topaz, and she cleverly hires herself out to take care of people’s farm animals or pets while they’re away. So begins a summer of discovery for tenderhearted but sensible Ivy....

Life can be hard when everyone around you expects you to be something you’re not. Whether you’re not good at it or simply don’t like it, we all want to follow our own dreams, not someone else’s. This is exactly what happened to Barney. He was a horse born so that people could achieve their dreams, but he had other plans. From home to home and trainer to trainer, it seems he will never be anything but a disappointment.

Unverhofft landet Gänserich Hugo auf dem Blümchenhof. Er ist von einem Transporter entkommen, der ihn mit Sicherheit an Koch und Kochtopf ausliefern wollte. Natürlich erhält er auf dem Blümchenhof Asyl und die Hühnerdamen sind hin und weg. Die Begeisterung der anderen Tiere flaut jedoch schon bald ab: Hugo weiß alles besser und ein bisschen eingebildet ist er auch. Außerdem spielt er sich als Bewacher des Blümchenhofes auf. Darüber ist Bruno entsetzt, denn er hat Angst, nicht mehr gebraucht zu werden.

The Spring Babies Library contains 5 level two readers from the popular "I Love Reading" series of books. Young readers will learn about puppies, kittens, kits (baby rabbits), foals and lambs. Each book is beautifully illustrated with bright, colorful photographs of each animal. Written by a former Kindergarten teacher and elementary school librarian, the "I Love Reading" series of leveled readers encourage early reading skills through high interest text and pictures. By bestselling children's author Cindy Bracken

Enjoy three amazing pony stories in this fantastic collection by the Amazon best-selling author of The Riverdale Pony Stories, Amanda Wills. This exciting edition contains "The Midnight Pony", "Juno’s Foal", and "The Pony of Tanglewood Farm".