Book four in a series about Ricki and her horse Diablo. Ricki sets out in the midst of a terrible storm in a search for her friend Kevin when his horse bolts. Ricki must trust Diablo's senses and hope for the best.
Will the grand opening of the new riding academy be a day of celebration ... or mourning? Ricki and her friends decide to help their friend Maggy by showing Maggy's dad that her horse isn't dangerous. But when the gentle Giaccomo throws his rider in a freak accident, guess who freaks out? While Maggy lies in a hospital bed, her father hires a vet to put her horse down. Now its up to Ricki and her friends, and they'll race all over town to save him in they have to!"--Page 4 of cover.
Ricki and her friends thought that a long weekend at a fabulous horse estate was going to be the trip of their lives. But a problem between horses Sunshine and Diablo upsets their plans, and nearly causes the death of Sunshine's colt Golden Star.
Ricki and her best friends are back at the fabulous Highland Farms Estate--to visit their friend Gwendolyn, tour the beautiful stud stables, and ride!. Shock sets in when they finally meet the most prized stallion of all, Garibaldi - he looks just like Ricki's gelding, Diablo! ...
It's winter vacation and Carlotta's Mercy Ranch for horses has opened! Young guests are arriving and Ricki and her friends have been invited to spend one week there with their horses, helping out. But soon, there's trouble: twelve-year-old Caitlin, angry over the death of her mother, alienates the other guests and then runs away just as a snowstorm hits. Lina, one of the helpers at the ranch, is crazy about Diabo and dreams of riding him - with or without Ricki's permission. And that leads to a dangerous incident ...
13 year-old Ricki, excited at the thought of moving with her family to a country farm where her beloved horse Diabolo will be close by, is stunned when Diabolo and three other horses suddenly go missing. She and her friends begin a desperate search.
The Western riding club's party could have been so much fun - if only Ricki's boyfriend Kevin hadn't gotten jealous! As she heads back home alone, she discovers a sad, neglected pony on a desolate farm. Now her wildest dreams can't prepare her for the problems that lie ahead!
Wow! A Message is a Bottle! or is it a treasure map! Whatever it is, its bobbing in the middle of Echo Lake. and it may hold the key to certain mysterious events. including the recent rash of burglaries. Could it have anything to do with Lillian's friends serious riding accident. One things for certain, the secret of Echo Lake is going to lead Ricki, her beloved horse Diablo, and their best friends once more down the path of high adventure."--Page 4 of cover
No presents! No friends! First Cathy ends up in the hospital - and then so does Ricki! Try as she might to convince herself that her 14th birthday is just a day like any other, Ricki can't help having big expectations.
When Beth's dad sells her horse Rondo without even consulting her and moves the family to a new town, it seems as if life can't get any worse. Fortunately, the first kids she meets in her new town are Ricki and her friends, and they're riders, just like she is. Hoping to cheer up their new friend, they take Beth to meet Carlotta and the rescue horses at Mercy Ranch. Too bad life's topsy-turvy there, too. It seems that a land developer, with the help of the town, is putting pressure on Carlotta to see the ranch so they can build a resort. Little do they all know that the developer is Beth's dad.--From publisher's description.
Beth has a crush on a new classmate, Logan, who has just moved to town. Ricki takes an instant dislike to him and one day sees him hit his horse. When bad things start happening at Mercy Ranch and Ricki's friend Cathy gets blamed Ricki must investigate to see who is behind the trouble.
A riding accident on her beautiful, beloved horse Diablo causes Ricki to go blind. There are so many questions, and no answers. Why is Ricki blind? Will she ever see again? Will Kevin want to stay with a girlfriend who can't see? And even if she does see something someday to be able to ride ... will her mother, who blames the whole accident on Diablo, let her?" -- back cover.
Times are tough at Mercy Ranch, Carlotta Mancini's stable for retired or abused horses. This means, unfortunately, that Carlotta has to sell a few horses, starting with Sheila, a beautiful Black Forest Shire mare. In doing so she's going to break the heart of Sheila's caretaker, Cheryl, and set off a chain reaction of events that will rock the world of all the kids and horses at Mercy Ranch. Will peace ever be restored? Once Ricki, Diablo and friends come to the rescue, hopes are high!
Green Acres, with its beautiful horses, pastures and riding trails, has been an idyllic place for Gemma and her siblings to grow up. But when a gang shows up in the neighborhood, suddenly property is vandalized and the horses are in danger! Are those bad boys to blame? Gemma doesn't want to believe it, especially when one of them helps her with the horses and becomes such a good friend. Yet somebody seems to be trying to drive Gemma and her family out of the neighborhood. Is it the boys, and if not, then who?
Every family has its eccentric uncle, and the Czerniaks are no exception. Kasimir Czerniak was an enigmatic Polish aristocrat whose passage into manhood at the age of twelve was determined by his ability to hold a heavy sword over the neck of a puppy without dropping it. He served in World War II as a spy, became a millionaire in England, and later retired to Switzerland, where he lived in comfort with his dog, Anna Karenina the third. And then, one day, he vanished without a trace. All that remained of his life was a mysterious old trunk full of his papers: mostly correspondence with family members in need of advice. The Wisdom of Uncle Kasimir presents these weird and wonderful findings, as compiled by Kasimir's grandniece and nephew. Uncle Kasimir's advice is never what you'd expect (his English is a little unreliable, and it's not uncommon for him to mistake a headache for a haddock) but it's always helpful-if hilariously unorthodox. He recommends elaborate Napoleonic military strategy for a nephew who is bullied out of his paper route, and he steers a shy would-be-ladies man to Stanislavksy's Method. In addition to his priceless correspondence, The Wisdom of Uncle Kasimir includes his ambitious attempts at fiction; his patents for absurd inventions; a baffling series of reviews of highway rest stops; and an inspired collection of common mistakes for non-native English speakers ("MARGARINE/ MARJORIE - Marjorie is very kind woman next door. MARGARINE one does put on toast. Do not confuse."). Funny, surprising, and irresistibly entertaining, The Wisdom of Uncle Kasimir is a book like no other.
A bitingly funny field guide to modern love from the woman who's dated them all. Through highly relatable anecdotes from a decade of dating, Twenty Guys You Date in Your Twenties dives into the joys, frustrations, and hilarity of swiping right on relationships. After a world-shattering breakup in her early twenties, comedian Gabi Conti logged thousands of hours on dating apps, conducting research and gathering intel on our behalf. Real and relatable, this dating guide is laugh-out-loud funny without being prescriptive or cynical. • Each chapter focuses on a different type of guy and offers advice on how to deal, from The Guy Who's Great on Paper to The Guy Who Texts "sup" at 2 a.m. • Includes charts, quizzes, and "Boy Bingo" • Captures the frustrations, heartache, and hilarity of Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, OkCupid, and all other online dating apps For the modern, app-using woman, this hilarious dating guide profiles 20 stereotypical men, from their physical appearance and dating style to red flags, tips, and success stories. Filled with charts and quizzes, hysterical anecdotes, and helpful insight from therapists and dating coaches, these pages offer advice and humor in equal measure. • Offers sincere advice to cope with dating app horror stories • Great for fans of How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson, Bye Felipe: Disses, Dick Pics, and Other Delights of Modern Dating by Alexandra Tweten and HEY, U UP? (For a Serious Relationship) by Emily Axford and Brian Murphy
I came for the recipes and stayed for the funny, personal writing. How could you not love a book with recipes like 'Fuck It, Let's Just Get Stoned Nachos' and 'All My Friends Are Married Mud Pie'? Surely there is not one among you who has not felt both sentiments. You could buy this book and enjoy it without ever taking out your oven mitts." --Mindy Kaling, from the foreword Decades ago, every young woman left home knowing how to cook, but now, well, not so much. And while they're happy times have changed, authors Gabi Moskowitz and Miranda Berman want to save millennials from the perils of takeout and take back the kitchen with their new book, HOT MESS KITCHEN. These ladies aren't serving caviar and champagne; they're making Quarter-Life Crisis Queso. They're not giving you a plan for the perfect dinner party, but suggesting How to Throw a Fabulous Dinner Party Without Having an Anxiety Attack. And they're going to be there each step of the way with easy, delicious recipes and personal stories that make it feel like they're right there in your kitchen with you, showing you which knife to use and wiping the mascara from your face as you cry from onion chopping. They're going to be your friends. Your kitchen friends, your HOT MESS KITCHEN friends. Your best friends? No, no, this isn't like a Her type of scenario. Have real friends. Read this book and all their stories, and let Gabi and Miranda show you how cooking has helped, or how it could have helped them, in their messiest moments!
A mesmerizing debut novel that spans a thousand years of European and Jewish history seen through the beguiling members of the Spinoza family Since the eleventh century, the Spinoza family has passed down, from father to son, a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality. Now, after thirty-six generations, the last descendant of this long and illustrious chain, Ari Spinoza, doesn’t have a son to whom to entrust the manuscript. From his deathbed, he begins his narrative, hoping to save his lineage from oblivion. Ari’s two main sources of his family’s history are a trunk of yellowing documents inherited from his grandfather, and his great-uncle Fernando’s tales that captivated him when he was a child. He chronicles the Spinozas’ involvement in some of Europe’s most formative cultural events with intertwining narratives that move through ages of tyranny, creativity, and social upheaval: into medieval Portugal, Grand inquisitor Torquemada’s Spain, Rembrandt’s Amsterdam, the French Revolution, Freud’s Vienna, and the horrors of both world wars. The Elixir of Immortality blends truth and fiction as it rewrites European history through comic, imaginative, scandalous, and tragic tales that prove “the only thing that can possibly give human beings immortality on this earth: our ability to remember.”
Free-spirited artist Stormy Jones-Smythe was raised by two talented Wizard fathers but never showed the slightest hint of magical abilities. Which is why she's totally surprised when three famous fairy godmothers show up at her door to tell her she's one of them. Surprised, and none too happy. The godmothers are fugitives, framed for treason, and the last thing the magical Council wants is another fairy godmother going rogue. Hence Stormy's new full-time Guard, Hunter Merrick. Stormy quickly realizes she's not going to escape Hunter's watch...and before long, she's not sure she wants to. But her freedom depends on her ability to expose the plot against the godmothers, and that means getting control of her magic. Despite the growing chemistry between them, Hunter is fiercely loyal to the Council—and duty-bound to keep Stormy from doing either of those things. But he didn't count on Stormy's irrepressible exuberance and passion for life. Before long, even Hunter isn't sure which side he's on, and he can't contain Stormy either way. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Who isn't familiar with the infamous "Inspector Chance", who always appears unannounced? Does the unexpected only seem like a coincidence because we are unaware of the complex order behind it? The question cannot be answered by a simple "yes" or "no". Instead, the author hopes to show that coincidence has two very different faces. One of them reveals the trivial side. The other, in contrast, is "coincidence of a higher order", which is no longer truly a coincidence. Rather, it is based on connections that science is just beginning to discover. To allow the reader to better understand the sections related to supernatural phenomena, the author has created two physicists to accompany the reader, they are Al and Zach. Whereas Al vehemently defends the "traditional side", Zach is among the avantgarde in his field, who does not view the phenomena represented here as taboo and who attempts to reconcile such phenomena using the discoveries of modern quantum physics. Let yourself be carried away - not only while reading these incredible stories of coincidence, but by the exciting discussion as well, which is free of prejudice and does not attempt to place mysticism on a scientific platform. Following his studies in chemistry, Dr. Rolf Froböse worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute, was division manager at technology magazine highTech and chief editor of the journals Chemie Industrie and Europa Chemie. Since 1995, he has worked as a freelance science and economic journalist, reporting on research and technology issues. He has also penned numerous popular non-fiction books, including The Secret Physics of Coincidence and Lust und Liebe - alles nur Chemie? (Lust and Love - Is it more than Chemistry), (Wiley-VCH, 2004). The latter was written in collaboration with his wife Gabriele and has been translated into English, Spanish, Danish and Korean.
Learn how a movement builds from one person to a billion in this A to Z environmental activism book. Readers count from 1 to 10 - and then in larger increments to a billion - as they learn new terms from "conservation" to "activism." Inset boxes provide easy-to-understand definitions of additional new vocabulary words."--
No presents! No friends! First Cathy ends up in the hospital - and then so does Ricki! Try as she might to convince herself that her 14th birthday is just a day like any other, Ricki can't help having big expectations.
Examines the Disney Channel's popular 'High School Musical' and offers guidance in finding the biblical principles represented in the TV movie's songs, characters, and storyline"--Provided by publisher.
In 19th century culture, Hispanomania creates Les Choses espagnoles; they exhibit themselves as themes and forms of appearance as well as structures and techniques. Hispanomania is a temporary fashion and functions as a metaphor; it reflects numerous sources which are arranged in a fantastic way. Hispanomania leaves traces in the materials of the performative arts i.e., in librettos, theories, and reviews. The book focuses on re-construction of several concepts and practices in ‘Spanish’ dancing: an overview of dance librettology is linked to the discussion of ‘staging Spanishness’; the connection between choreography and dance-theoretical discourse concerning the Spanish is pursued; performances of Otherness – especially as monsters and women – are discussed in their theatrical and cultural contexts – as is the investigation of dance criticism; the hitherto little acknowledged biography of the then popular and highly productive choreographer Henri Justamant is highlighted …
Ricki and her best friends are back at the fabulous Highland Farms Estate--to visit their friend Gwendolyn, tour the beautiful stud stables, and ride!. Shock sets in when they finally meet the most prized stallion of all, Garibaldi - he looks just like Ricki's gelding, Diablo! ...
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