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The Horses of Proud Spirit
by Melanie Sue
Bowles
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. the book for anyone that ever cared
about an abused animal . . .
There are approximately seven million horses in America. Each year, over seventy thousand
are abused, abandoned, and fated to slaughter by callous and irresponsible owners. With a heart as big as a pasture, author
Melanie Bowles takes some of these horses into her sanctuary called Proud Spirit. Here, horses that arrive listless and broken
find a home where they finally know safety.
The bond between horse and caretaker does not happen overnight. It hangs by a fine
thread of trust that the author earns with endless patience and a full commitment to the well-being of the horses in her care.
The horses, some of which have suffered severe abuse, astound her time and again with their ability to trust, return the love
they are given, and enjoy the companionship of other horses.
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About the Author
Melanie Bowles was born and raised in Michigan and moved to Florida in her early twenties.
After acquiring her first horse in 1992 and learning of the mistreatment endured by many horses, she set out to create what
would become Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, a fifty-acre facility in Myakka City, Florida, where she and husband Jim have provided
peace and shelter to about seventy horses. For over seventeen years, Ms. Bowles has worked alongside her husband as a firefighter/EMT.
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A Special Announcement
from Melanie Bowles ►
Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary
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Hi
Everybody…!
As most of
you know PBS filmed a documentary based on my book “The Horses of Proud Spirit”. The special was released regionally
in 2005 and aired only in the southeast. It received so much attention, however, (even winning an EMMY) that WEDU, the original
broadcasting station, decided to release the film nationally.
What this means: The documentary, entitled
“The Horses of Proud Spirit” (same as the book) has been made available to every PBS affiliate in the United States.
It is now in the national databank, where as before, it was only
in a few stations in the southeast.
If and/or
when it airs in your viewing area will be at the discretion of each individual Program Director. So check your local listings.
If you do not see “The Horses of Proud Spirit” in your PBS line-up, you may call your local PBS station to request
it.
In fact,
we are asking that you do call your individual stations…and please pass this along to others. The documentary has been
a terrific help with book sales, and as you know, that’s help for our horses.
Thanks!
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About the founders of Proud Spirit
Jim and Melanie Bowles, the founders of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, are deeply committed
to the horses in their care. “The new facility in Arkansas is the culmination of years of hard work, and all the dreams
and visions that we had for this sanctuary finally coming together,” says Melanie. One of those visions was to provide
as natural an environment for the horses as possible. “Domestication has created so many problems…founder, colic,
vices…problems that you never see in the wild. It was essential to Jim and to me that we place just as much emphasis
on the horses’ emotional well-being as we do their physical needs.” The horses at Proud Spirit are never stalled.
They function as a herd with no cross fencing, safe in the companionship of other horses…something they so desperately
need. They have room to move about, and to graze and roam… which they need to thrive. |
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Shadow
by Gordon Tucker
Mike Ryan, a man without memory, was found in a cave in North Korea. In a military hospital,
he learned that he was a much decorated infantry soldier who escaped from a North Korean POW camp. Searching for American
lines, he was shot by North Koreans and repelled by skittish front line GIs. Confused, he found sanctuary in a cave until
discovered and evacuated. His story emerges painfully, heroically, as he gets to know about the man he was. Then he learns
that his wife has remarried.
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About the Author
Gordon Tucker served during the Korean War (1951,) with Company C,
7th Cavalry (Infantry,) where he was wounded three times and awarded seven combat decorations. He lives in South Florida with
his wife, where he plays tennis, goes fishing, and writes. |
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Books Beyond Best Sellers
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The Spirit
of Whiskey River
by
Ray Ryder
A Spiritual Mystery? Yes! "Spirit
of Whiskey River" is an excellent read sure to satisfy the most ardent mystery fan while shrouding a philosophical revelation
between its lines! I loved the book and the author is a kind and humble talent so deserving of recognition!
The Spirit of Whiskey River
is a modern day love story wrapped in a century old murder mystery. Set in a rustic Alabama town (Whiskey River),
it takes place in both 1910 and the current day. The link between these two times is made with the help of an elderly
female Choctaw Indian by the name of Kalawih, who assists the main charcter (Jay Colebrook) in discovering the meaning of
a series of deja vu experiences that occur after he arrives in the small town by accident. |
About the Author
Ray Ryder began writing fiction in 2002. He is currently the author of two
novels: The Rockwater Mountain Murders, and The Spirit of Whiskey River,
both of which are available through Xlibris Publishers and all major on-line booksellers. He is currently working on a third
killerbook (untitled as of yet) and also has written a collection of short stories called Corridors
to Christmas. (Nobody gets killed here). In addition to writing he enjoys belonging
to the Sarasota Florida Fiction Writers, the Sarasota Authors Connection and the Florida Writers Association. |
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Crosshairs
A Novel of Suspense
by Russ Heitz
Life in Klinkton County -- a large, mountainous and sparsely populated area of north-central
Pennsylvania -- has always revolved around deer hunting, trout fishing, four-wheel-drive pickups, and the Grizzly Snowmobile
factory. It is a place where scope-mounted hunting rifles are as plentiful as trees, and shooting accidents are as common
as rattlesnakes. But this year, something new has been added -- Klinkton County’s first serial killer. Some of the victims
include a kerosene route salesman from Allentown, a political organizer from Philadelphia, and a local arts and crafts worker.
The person who must stop this killer is newly-elected Sheriff Jesse Eichenlaub. In addition to his own secret demons from
the past, however, Jesse already has three strikes against him. He doesn’t like guns. He has no law enforcement experience
at all. And the man he defeated in the election is now his boss. The central questions that Sheriff Jesse immediately faces
are -- who is the shooter? What connects the victims? And how will he cope with the expanding chaos that suddenly surrounds
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About the Author
Russ Heitz was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
and lived for a number of years in the area where Crosshairs takes place. He is a graduate of Temple University and
has been writing most of his life. After moving to Florida with his wife, Lee, he published dozens of suspense stories and
also worked as a publications specialist for local government. This is his first published novel.
"Carpé Diem -- Seize the Day"
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The
Sun Singer
by Malcolm R. Campbell
Whatever is the Ultimate Reality, traveling the journey with Robert has opened new horizons
of possibility and wonderment for me regardless the answer.
When Robert Adams sees the statue of the Sun Singer
in a lonely meadow he hears the song of the sun and receives the gift of prophecy. He excels as the Soothsayer of West Wood
Street until a psychic dream graphically foretells a the death too close to home.
Robert blames himself for a tragedy he cannot prevent
and shoves his bright talent into the dark shadows of the future where, he suspects, it will one day save him or kill him.
After blindly vowing to finish a task for his
dying avatar grandfather, Robert begins a personal quest into a hidden world at war where magic runs deeper than the mountain
rivers. In the alternate universe of Pyrrha he must resurrect his dangerous gift to fulfill his promise, resist a cruel temptation,
undo the deeds of his grandfather’s foul betrayer, subdue brutal enemy soldiers in battle, and survive the trip home. |
About the Author
I live in Georgia where I worked as a technical writer in the computer industry
for 20 years before writing a new age mountain adventure novel called The Sun Singer.
"The Sun Singer" is a hero path novel about a young man who travels to an unknown
mountain world to complete a dangerous mission begun years earlier by his avatar grandfather. He enters that world with a
gift that will either save his life or ensure he will never return from his quest. |
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Windrusher
by Victor DiGenti
. . . I adored this book and have already ordered the sequel. An absolute
must for every cat lover, especially, and animal lover in general. Kudos to Mr. DiGenti for capturing the soul of a cat .
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Travel along with this heroic cat as he undertakes an epic quest
to find his family. Windrusher will prove to you what you've always suspected -- that behind those enigmatic eyes, cats are
hiding deep, dark secrets.
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About the Author
Victor DiGenti spent more than thirty-five years working in
public broadcasting as a director, public affairs producer, head of a two-station corporate communications department, and
was responsible for special events, including producing the acclaimed Jacksonville Jazz Festival for eight years. During
that time, he won national, regional and local awards, produced documentaries, and was a freelance writer. Prior to that,
he worked as an announcer with a top 40 radio station, sold vacuum cleaners and attended the University of Florida.
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The Whitebridge Web
by Kathryn Van Heyningen
. . . Fans of spectral fiction
will be intrigued and impressed by this dark, convoluted tale spanning time and dimension . . .
Helping unravel the mystery is naive, local psychic, Emma Lange. Effervescent Emma is happier baking
brownies than finding murderers, yet she is compelled to discover how and why her sister-in-law, Piper Thornton's very existence
is threatened by Moriah.
Follow this tantalizing story as Emma wends her way through her fearful visions and dreams
to unravel the sticky web that threatens the life and sanity of her best friend and reveals Moriah's shocking secret.
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Kathryn is the daughter and wife of retired army. As such, she feels she’s
fortunate that she’s been blessed with the opportunity to travel, to meet new people, to adjust and adapt to an array
of environments and believes this background gave her a greater appreciation for other people’s cultures and point-of-view.
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Providence
by
Daniel Quinn
The
Story
of
a
Fifty
- Year
Vision
Quest
Quinn's novel Ishmael (LJ 12/91)
won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for fiction, which offers solutions for global problems.
Quinn's novel Ishmael, a cult favorite,
elaborated an ecologically sound mythology for our time and won a Ted Turner award for fiction that offers solutions to global
problems. In this windy, slow-moving memoir, Quinn summarizes Ishmael's vision of the universe, upholding the spirit-worship
practiced by animist peoples as a viable alternative to Christianity and Judaism, religions he views as largely irrelevant.
He tells how, as a 19-year-old Trappist novice in Kentucky, he received encouragement from a golden-headed guardian angel
but was then ordered to leave the Gethsemani monastery by Thomas Merton, his spiritual director. Then came psychoanalysis
in Chicago, a marriage whose failure he blamed on his sexual inadequacies, divorce and a successful career in educational
publishing. Quinn's trajectory from "fundamentalist Roman Catholic" to animist marks an unusual odyssey.
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About the Author Daniel
Quinn (1935- ) grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where he graduated from Creighton Prep in 1953. He studied at St. Louis University,
the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago, receiving a bachelor's degree in English, cum laude, in 1957.
During a twenty-year career in educational and consumer publishing in Chicago,
he served as Biography and Fine Arts editor at the American Peoples Encyclopedia, managing editor of the Greater Cleveland
Mathematics Program (Science Research Associates), head of the mathematics department at Encyclopedia Britannica Educational
Corporation, Executive Editor of Fuller & Dees Publishing (a division of the Times Mirror Corporation) and Editorial Director
of the Society for Visual Education (a division of the Singer Corporation).
Mr. Quinn is best known as the author of Ishmael, the novel
that in 1991 won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, established to encourage authors to seek "creative and
positive solutions to global problems." Ishmael has been in print continuously since its publication in 1992 and is currently
available in twenty languages. Throughout the U.S. and Canada and in other countries as well, Ishmael
is used as a text in a broad range of classes that include anthropology, ecology, history, literature, philosophy, ethics,
biology, and psychology, at age levels from middle school through graduate level. |
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Hooking the Reader:
Opening Lines that SELL –
– a compilation of original material from more than 100 authors, writing about their openings.
By Shara Rendell Smock
Fiction’s first sentences always intrigued me. For years when I found an interesting one, I jotted it
down., I began to wonder whether other readers would be interested in what grabs the reader. I asked authors what they thought
of somne of their first sentences to provide some of their own favorites and how they came up with them. Many volunteered
a page or a paragraph. This book is intended as a source of both amusement and serious contemplation—for readers, fans,
and writers. |
About the Author
has written Living with Big Cats and Hooking the Reader: Opening Lines that Sell. April 2007 brought How I Got
the Gig, a writer's handbook by experts, with a chapter by Shara.
Prior to writing fun books,
she wrote more than thirty computer software manuals and numerous features online and
for magazines, and newspapers, including a column for The Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
She presently is the secretary of the Florida Writers Association. With Kathryn Taromina,
Shara is working on the untitled humorous book of stories from garbage collectors. |
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