Wild Cow Christmas


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Sometimes the quietest moments are the loudest in your heart. Broken dreams, broken hearts, and even broken bones-God can fix it. A heartwarming Christmas story of faith, community, and finding true love. Now that Carli and Lank got past the roadblocks trying to keep them from marrying, a whole host of other issues pop up for the newlyweds. Carli is dead set on bringing back the Christmas traditions her grandparents set for the entire town of Dixon. But with her time being torn between various commitments, Lank isn't sure she can pull it all off. New resident Mandy Milam wants to move on past the heartache and poverty of her past, and provide a safe home for her unborn son. After everything she's gone through, she doesn't want another man to rule her life. However, she can't help but wonder what it would be like to have someone to share the joy of a new baby, and the Christmas season, with. Come on down to Dixon and enjoy a good old fashioned country Christmas with Carlie, Lank, Mandy, and the whole gang! Merry Christmas, everyone!




The Butter Cow Lady's Christmas


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The Butter Cow Lady from 1960 to 2008 Duffy Lyon was an indomitable force within the dairy industry as well as a talented artist who built a following amongst State Fair goers of the midwest with her life like sculptures of life sized cows, and topical vignettes capturing public attention. Duffy achieved all this whilst raising a large family, of nine children, as well as surviving the quite difficult years of dairy farming in Iowa throughout the late 20th century, the era known now to have eliminated most of the family farms.This book tells the stories and shares the old recipes of the Lyon family favorites, made traditional by years of cherished celebrations that Duffy Lyon, originally raised as a Southern Belle, transplanted into the midwestern prairie, created for her loved ones over many decades.Sweet, slightly historical and certainly joyous, The Butter Cow Lady's Christmas will give an insight to both the life and times of the young Duffy Lyon as well as the joy she brought to her home and family. This will be a wonderful present for all those State Fair devotees looking for that special gift that will mean so much.




All the Wild Horses


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Cowboy and photographer Dayton Hyde presents images of and describes his experiences with mustangs and other wild horses around the country, also covering wild breeds around the world, and discusses preservation.




Santa Cow Island


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Mounted on the flying Santa Cows, the Schwartzes travel to the South Seas for a New Year's vacation.




Maverick Heart


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FROM HORSE SHOWING IN GEORGIA TO RIDING THE RANGE IN TEXAS - A TALE OF COURAGE AND FINDING FAITH. Carli Jameson is used to being on her own - abandoned by her mother as an infant - all she's ever wanted is to feel like she belongs. She has had no choice except to be strong and independent, but now, can she learn to trust God to be her partner? Georgia girl, Carli Jameson, inherits a Texas cattle ranch from grandparents she never knew. After much thought, she makes the courageous decision to pack up her life and move to Texas to run the ranch. She forges ahead into a new life filled with uncertainty and along the way discovers a ranching community that becomes the family she never had. Can a fresh start erase the troubles of her past?




Born to be Wild


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A charmingly illustrated ode to increasingly threatened wildlife. The much-loved illustrations of Hannah Dale celebrate a new generation of wildlife around the world, including many endangered animals. Born to Be Wild features 50 charming portraits of new cubs, chicks and calves, some with the mother and father, some in their pride or tribe and some setting off on their own. Wildlife has never been under such threat from climate change, habitation loss and poachers and hunters. This book is a timely reminder of the beauty of the wild and the accompanying text explains how the parents undertake their role of nurturer in the wild. From orangutans to humpback whales, tigers to hedgehogs, penguins to elephants, and meerkats to koalas, Hannah Dale captures and preserves the essence of wildlife in this pocket sized book. A wonderful reference and beautiful little gift book for nature lovers.




Carolina Christmas


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A collection of holiday tales, poems, and recipes celebrating hearth and hunt in the South of yesteryear. Carolina Christmas collects for the first time holiday stories of Archibald Rutledge (1883–1973), one of the most prolific outdoor and nature writers of the twentieth century and the first poet laureate of South Carolina. Some of Rutledge's finest writing revolves around his vivid memories of hunt, hearth, and holidays. These memories are celebrated in this keepsake collection of enduring stories and poems, further augmented with traditional recipes and food lore associated with the season. Archibald Rutledge spent decades teaching at Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania. All the while he supplemented his income through his writings in order to support a growing family and restoration efforts at Hampton Plantation, his ancestral home in coastal South Carolina—now a state historic site. Each Christmas, Rutledge returned to his cherished Hampton Plantation for hunting, celebrations of the season, and renewal of his decidedly Southern soul. This annual migration home meant the opportunity to enjoy hunting and communion with nature—so vitally important to him—and to renew acquaintances with those living on neighboring plantations and with the African American community he immortalized in his book God's Children. Rutledge wrote dozens of stories and poems revolving around the Hampton Hunt, fellowship with family and friends, the serenity of the winter woods, and his appetite for seasonal Southern foodways. Edited by Jim Casada, this collection highlights the very best of Rutledge's holiday tales in a vibrant tapestry through which Christmas runs as a bright, sparkling thread. In these tales of Christmas past—each representative of the author's sterling literary reputation and continuing popularity—Rutledge guides us once more into a world of traditions now largely lost. But to tread those forgotten trails once more, to sample and savor the foods he loved, and to experience vicariously the sport he so enjoyed is to experience the wonder of yesteryear.




The Wild Robot Escapes


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The sequel to thebestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot,about what happens when nature and technology collide.




Christmas Parade


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A delightful Christmas board book filled with hilarious characters and dynamic art from the one and only Sandra Boynton BOOM biddy BOOM biddy BOOM BOOM BOOM What's that noise filling the room? From this rousing beginning unfolds Christmas Parade, a merry board book from Sandra Boynton. As the dynamic parade of spiffy and intent musicians marches by, young readers will see animals and their instruments in turn: chickens with bassoons, ducks with trombones, mice with piccolos, cow saxophonists, a tiny bird with a large tuba, a glockenspiel pig, even a Santa rhino with a sack full of presents--all underscored by marching snares (fifteen hippos, one cat) and one booming bass drum (an intrepid elephant). Written with the irresistible rhythm of a lively marching band and illustrated with Boynton's signature characters, Christmas Parade is a superb present for young children and families everywhere. Biddy BOOM.







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