People react the same way about these pony books! Help me prove my sanity. :) The author is the English cartoonist Thelwell; his books about horses include Penelope, A Leg at each Corner, and Angels on Horseback. you solved my stumper! thanks so much. do you know offhand if the ...
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Suppose it is long, long ago...A sister and brother, are on a journey that will take them home. They have stopped for the night and are sleeping at a campsite in the woods. They have been riding on horseback, accompanied by two soldiers who are believed to be loyal to their father,...
It does verge on the romantic; but it is saved, and made, by being told in the practical words of Polly Wilkinson herself. Her gaffes on her various translations into the body of Lady Elizabeth, her suburbanisms, her anguish when she finds herself suddenly on horseback in the middle of t...
Librarians on horseback serving the communities in Appalachian Kentucky: moonshiners, coal miners, poverty, economic inequlity, and struggling families cut off from society in their far flung mountain cabins. We are introduced to women struggling for equality in a society that has firm expectations ...
In describing the book, one is at a loss for comparatives. One thinks of James Joyce, of Edgar Allen Poe, even of that fantastic play, “Beggar on Horseback.” None of them fits, although all of them suggest something of the truth.Seven Days Whippinghas certain qualities of Joycean intro...
2) Showed a little girl horseback riding. She wore a complete equestrian outfit and it showed her taking care of and riding the horse, 3) The little girl was a ballerina in a tu tu. There was a mirrored wall with a bar that she stretched at, I think some of the steps were shown ...
Before the crusaders arrived, Seljuk Turks infiltrated the Middle East from Central Asia, where they had long lived as nomadic herders and clashed with rivals on horseback. They fought for Abbasid caliphs and con- verted to Islam but preserved their Turkish language and customs. In 1055, a ...
One is the history of theLos Angeles Public Libraryfrom its origins to its current status as a city-serving librarysystem. Alongside that tale, Orlean also sketches the emergence of library science as a profession, using the succession of head librarians as a window into the profession’s evolu...
The distance between Rigdon's home in Ohio and Joseph's in New York was about 250 miles and could be traveled by horseback in five or six days. A gap in Rigdon's itinerary of even one month would allow ample opportunity for him to have conferred with Smith. An interesting conjecture...