What Victoria Swope is doing in town is a mystery, but they quickly find out and no one is pleased. When Greer demands to be home-schooled with Talia, the lessons at Bittersweet Farm arent restricted to dressage, cross-country and show jumping. If the half-sisters can't get along, one of them will be sent abroad to finish high school. Unable to bear leaving the farm's trainer, Lockie Malone, or her horse, CB, Talia grits her teeth and tries to move forward. It's soon obvious that everyone at the farm faces changes and challenges. Solving them is difficult and maybe impossible.
Life at Bittersweet Farm is one long challenge for Talia Margolin. Their trainer, Lockie Malone, believes she can become a dressage rider. But Talia is unconvinced, even with her talented new horse, Joyful Spirit. Her half-sister is easily switching to jumpers, her friends have unshared secrets and there's a hunter pace looming in the near future. Can life get more complicated? Yes, it can.
How much trouble can one girl find herself in? How about two girls? In Florida for the Winter Equestrian Festival, Greer finds that doing the right thing leads to complications. For Talia, doing the right thing has a cost. This is a time of changes for everyone. The direction they were going in on New Year's Day, is not where they are one month later. For some, that's a good thing. For some, it's not.
When a handsome new trainer arrives at Bittersweet Farm, the competition between half-sisters is no longer limited to the show ring. Talia Margolin's life has been marked by events completely beyond her control--her mother's death, her move to her father's horse farm, the retirement of her show horse. Now she faces the arrival of a new coach whose job is to get Talia's half-sister, Greer, qualified for the finals at the National Horse Show. Greer is brutal on trainers but Lockie Malone is different. Handsome, talented, and with a will of hardened steel, Lockie can be an immovable object. He also becomes the agent for change in the lives of everyone at Bittersweet Farm. For seventeen year old Talia, change has never meant anything but loss. Will this time be different?
Greer Swope has something to prove. But even she doesn't quite know what. Always believing that even if she was good enough for nothing else, she was good enough on a horse. History hasn't borne that out. Now Greer's left equitation and hunter classes behind for show jumping but it won't happen overnight. It might even take the help of a new trainer. Enter Cameron Rafferty whose horse is lame, who was fired from his last job and who wants the newest Bittersweet prospect. He's one of the top riders and he is a player. Can Greer handle her horse, Counterpoint, and Cam Rafferty, too? Talia can only look on at what might be the latest train wreck.
Following her parents' divorce, Renie experiences criminal companions, arrest, a new home, and mistreatment from her stepsister before she finally takes a stand against more trouble.
When her father is suddenly written out of the TV soap opera in which he's long been starring, seventeen-year-old Kate takes over as the family breadwinner by acting in the same soap.
There comes a time when the deepest secrets can't be kept any longer.Cam knew Greer's secret before anyone else. Even with their contentious connection always going flat out, Cam didn't need to be told. Greer isn't the only one with secrets left unsaid and Talia is left wondering if she's the only person at Bittersweet Farm with nothing to hide.
Oppressed by the restrictions and provincial standards of her conventional school and hometown, a gifted girl finds the incentive to seek her individuality through her relationship with a musically dedicated boy from a neighboring town.
Upset over her parents' divorce and her father's remarriage, Renie Lake deliberately courts trouble, dabbling in drugs and delinquency, until a handicapped boy convinces her to fight for her future.
Cherries have been grown since the time of the Assyrians and Babylonians. This book shows how to use them in a variety of dishes, from breakfast treats to desserts. The recipes include creamed cherries, cherry muffins, cherry-roasted pork, cherry chutney, cherry pie, and Hungarian fried cherries.
When her father is suddenly written out of the TV soap opera in which he's long been starring, seventeen-year-old Kate takes over as the family breadwinner by acting in the same soap.
International authority control will soon be a reality. Examine the projects that are moving the information science professions in that direction today! In Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information: Definition and International Experience, international experts examine the state of the art and explore new theoretical perspectives. This essential resource, which has its origins in the International Conference on Authority Control (Italy, 2003), addresses standards, exchange formats, and metadata—with sections on authority control for names, works, and subjects. Twenty fascinating case examples show how authority control is practiced at institutions in various nations around the world. Authority Control in Organizing and Accessing Information provides an essential definition of authority control and then begins its sharply focused examinations of essential aspects of authority control with a section entitled “State of the Art and New Theoretical Perspectives.” Here you’ll find chapters focusing on: the current state of the art—with suggestions for future developments the importance (and current lack) of teaching authority control as part of a library/information science curriculum the guidelines and methodology used in the creation of Italy’s SBN Authority File Next, “Standards, Exchange Formats, and Metadata” covers: Italy’s Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana UNIMARC database, which was created using authority control principles the past and present activities of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and an examination of IFLA’s Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR) metadata standards as a means for accomplishing authority control in digital libraries traditional international library standards for bibliographic and authority control the evolution and current status of authority control tools for art and material culture information the UNIMARC authorities format—what it is and how to work with it “Authority Control for Names and Works” brings you useful, current information on: changes and new features in the new edition of the International Standard Archival Authority Record (Corporate Bodies, Persons, Families) Encoded Archival Context (EAC)—and its role in enhancing access to and understanding of records, and how it enables repositories to share creator description the LEAF model for collection, harvesting, linking, and providing access to existing local/national name authority data national bibliographic control in China, Japan, and Korea, plus suggestions for future cooperation between bibliographic agencies in East Asia authority control of printers, publishers, and booksellers how to create up-to-date corporate name authority records authority control (and the lack of it) for works “Authority Control for Subjects” updates you on: subject gateways—with a look at the differences between the Program for Cooperative Cataloging’s SACO program and browsable online subject gateways MACS—a virtual authority file that crosses language barriers to provide multilingual access OCLC’s FAST project, which strives to retain the rich vocabulary of LCSH while making the schema easier to understand, control, apply, and use the efforts of Italy’s National Central Library toward semantic authority control the interrelationship of subject indexing languages and authority control—with a look at the “semantics vs. syntax” issue how subject indexing is done in Italy’s Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale “Authority Control Experiences and Proje
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