Download or read book Ride the Wind written by Lucia St. Clair Robson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1985-11-12 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanche In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her family's settlement. She grew up with them, mastered their ways, and married one of their leaders. Except for her brilliant blue eyes and golden mane, Cynthia Ann Parker was in every way a Comanche woman. They called her Naduah—Keeps Warm With Us. She rode a horse named Wind. This is her story, the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever. It will thrill you, absorb you, touch your soul, and make you cry as you celebrate the beauty and mourn the end of the great Comanche nation.

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Download or read book Wind Rider written by P. C. Cast and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author of the House of Night series, P.C. Cast, brings us Wind Rider, an epic fantasy set in a world where humans, their animal allies, and the earth itself has been drastically changed. A world filled with beauty and danger and cruelty... A madman has driven Mari, Nik, and their Pack from the only home they have ever known. He will stop at nothing until they are obliterated from the earth. Mari knows their only chance of survival is to reach the plains of the Wind Riders, a legendary people known for their bond with their remarkable horses and their unmatched riding abilities. Driven by love and unshakable determination, Mari, and her Companion, Nik chart a perilous journey as they seek safety and sanctuary. The God of Death is looming closer and if the Pack is cast from the plains by the Wind Riders, they will not survive.

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Download or read book Wind written by Russell Stuart Irwin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview: Poyama is a vineyard keeper whose accidental convictions feed an affliction of pride propped loftily upon his success in the burgeoning nineteenth century wine industry. A Chilean immigrant, he brought to the United States an unrivaled appetite for work, a legacy of international winegrowing mastery, and a weakness his love of horses. Even a greater love, the love of his life, is afforded no pass through the bulwark of those preoccupations. But, there is trouble in the vineyard, and calamity approaches upon thundering hooves in fulfillment of a promise containing the power of new beginnings. Poyama: an American novel for the rugged individualist and the vineyard romantic.

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