In the spirit of Nicholas Sparks comes If Wishes Were Horses. Author Robert Barclay has crafted a deeply moving story of love, hope, and forgiveness, as two damaged souls torn apart by a common tragedy slowly find a way to heal. Destined to be a much-beloved classic on a par with Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County, Barclay's If Wishes Were Horses is a story rich in emotion that will touch the heart of every reader who fervently believes in second chances at love.
Entertaining, beguiling and surprising in equal measure, this is the story of one girl's childhood obsession with ponies and the complex relationship that women have had with horses across the centuries.
I asked Julie whether she had had her own pony as a child. ... she said exracehorses were nutty, so I worked all the way down through the horses to the ponies until Princess Di's wedding day. Mum had everyone over because it was a big ...
Though I knewI'd get hell if I were caught, I tiptoed into their room, thinking I'd see photographs of Lily and Kap, photographs from when they were young, maybe fromtheir wedding, but whenI looked downat the book, whatI sawwere ...
Readers can really let their imaginations fly with this magical new series based on Breyer's beautifully-colored model horses, The Wind Dancers, four tiny horses with childlike personalities girls will readily identify with.
If Wishes Were Horses is the triumphant story of her struggle against hard work and self-doubt to become a practicing veterinarian.
Annie Boyd finds it difficult to fit in when her family moves from the city to the country and she tries to convince her parents that being part of the riding club and actually having her own horse would help.
On a hot, dusty day as Zeb is walking home from the general store, he wishes for a horse, but soon his one horse grows into a snorting, stamping herd.
But when I consider, it leaves me perplexed -- If wishes were animals, what could come next? If wishes were fishes, whose groups are called schools, I'd wish that the teacher would sink all the rules.
From the author of Shoeless Joe, the book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams.
During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own, but she does not expect either the tragic events that bring this ...