Sight Hound

Sight Hound
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 0393058174
ISBN-13 : 9780393058178
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Sight Hound by : Pam Houston

From the bestselling author of "Cowboys Are My Weakness" comes a very special love story between a woman and her dog, a wolfhound who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear.

Only Angels: How to Raise and Train the Perfect Sighthound

Only Angels: How to Raise and Train the Perfect Sighthound
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Publisher : Fehrman Books
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 0984200126
ISBN-13 : 9780984200122
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Only Angels: How to Raise and Train the Perfect Sighthound by : Cherie Fehrman

Only Angels shows you how to train with the Affection Training Method developed specifically for sighthound breeds. Used for ten years with the hounds a STOLA Saluki Rescue - now for the first time covering all sighthounds. Includes concise information on health cae, emergency first aid, diet and nutrition, exercise - everything the hound needs for a long, healthy life.

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9780393285499
ISBN-13 : 0393285499
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by : Pam Houston

Winner of the 2020 Reading the West Advocacy Award Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction "This is a book for all of us, right now." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how “to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief… to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive.”

Sight Hound: A Novel

Sight Hound: A Novel
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 350
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780393343038
ISBN-13 : 0393343030
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Sight Hound: A Novel by : Pam Houston

The long-awaited novel; a very special love story; from the best-selling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness. This is the story of a woman, Rae, and her dog, Dante, a wolfhound who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear (the dog has always known this). Dante is the catalyst for change in other characters as well, and they step forward with their narratives: Rae's house-tender; her therapist; two veterinarians; and an anxiety-ridden actor, Howard, who turns out to be as stalwart as Dante himself. As the "seer" who hunts by sight rather than smell, Dante has some things to add, as does Rose, another dog who lives at Rae's heels, and Stanley the cat. Among and above these myriad voices, Rae voices her own challenges. With the wit and dead-on candor we've come to expect from Pam Houston, Sight Hound unfolds a story that illuminates the intangible covenant between loved ones. Here, dogs and humans are simply equal creatures, looking to connect and holding on for dear life when they do. Reading group guide included.

Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories

Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 9780393077537
ISBN-13 : 0393077535
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories by : Pam Houston

"Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars."—Washington Post Book World In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator in the collection’s title story. “But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West.” Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. They go where their cowboys go, they meet cowboys who don't look the part – and they have staunch friends who give them advice when the going gets rough. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women – together and apart.

The Book of Sight

The Book of Sight
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 0984762434
ISBN-13 : 9780984762439
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Sight by : Deborah Dunlevy

Book One in The Book of Sight Series A book can be a wonderful gift. When Alex received an unexpected package, she never dreamed the book it contained would change her life forever. After all, the words inside were gibberish. She had no idea the places that book would take her, the friends that book would help her make or the wonders that book would reveal. She had no clue the trouble that book would bring, either. A book can be a dangerous gift. When finished, continue the series with book two, The Broken Circle.

Gazehounds & Coursing

Gazehounds & Coursing
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Publisher : High Lonesome Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0944383491
ISBN-13 : 9780944383490
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Gazehounds & Coursing by : Maynard Hubbard Salmon

Leela's Book: A Novel

Leela's Book: A Novel
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : 9780393083491
ISBN-13 : 0393083497
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Leela's Book: A Novel by : Alice Albinia

"Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining." —The Times (London) In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that encompasses divine saga and familial discord and introduces an unforgettable heroine. Leela—alluring, taciturn, haunted—is moving from New York back to Delhi. Worldly and accomplished, she has been in self-imposed exile from India and her family for decades; twenty-two years earlier, her sister was seduced by the egotistical Vyasa, and the fallout from their relationship drove Leela away. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for his son’s marriage. But when Leela arrives for the wedding, she disrupts the careful choreography of the weekend, with its myriad attendees and their conflicting desires. Gleefully presiding over the drama is Ganesh—divine, elephant-headed scribe of the Mahabharata, India’s great epic. The family may think they have arranged the wedding for their own selfish ends, but according to Ganesh it is he who is directing events—in a bid to save Leela, his beloved heroine, from Vyasa. As the weekend progresses, secret online personas, maternal identities, and poetic authorships are all revealed; boundaries both religious and continental are crossed; and families are ripped apart and brought back together in this vibrant and brilliant celebration of family, love, and storytelling.

Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel

Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780393082920
ISBN-13 : 039308292X
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel by : Pam Houston

“An absorbing, generous, ravishing book by a high priestess of you-have-to-read-this prose." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild Pam Houston, an "early master of the art of rendering fiercely independent, brilliant women in love with the wrong men" (Sarah Norris, Barnes & Noble Review), delivers a novel that whisks us from one breathtaking precipice to the next. Along the way, we unravel the story of Pam (a character not unlike the author), a fearless traveler aiming to leave her metaphorical baggage behind as she seeks a comfort zone in the air. With the help of a loyal cast of friends, body workers, and a new partner who helps her to be at home, she finally finds something like ground under her feet.

The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel

The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 616
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ISBN-10 : 9780393080933
ISBN-13 : 0393080935
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel by : Brady Udall

A New York Times bestseller: "Udall masterfully portrays the hapless foibles and tragic yearnings of our fellow humans." —San Francisco Chronicle Golden Richards, husband to four wives, father to twenty-eight children, is having the mother of all midlife crises. His construction business is failing, his family has grown into an overpopulated mini-dukedom beset with insurrection and rivalry, and he is done in with grief: due to the accidental death of a daughter and the stillbirth of a son, he has come to doubt the capacity of his own heart. Brady Udall, one of our finest American fiction writers, tells a tragicomic story of a deeply faithful man who, crippled by grief and the demands of work and family, becomes entangled in an affair that threatens to destroy his family’s future. Like John Irving and Richard Yates, Udall creates characters that engage us to the fullest as they grapple with the nature of need, love, and belonging. Beautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American family—with its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedy—pushed to its outer limits.