Download or read book Armadillo Rodeo written by Jan Brett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-09-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most armadillos are happy scratching sand and eating, but Bo longs for adventure. And adventure Bo gets, the day Harmony Jean breaks in her brand-new chili-pepper-red cowboy boots by the banks of Can Creek. Peering out across the creek bed, Bo is sure he's spotted a rip-roarin', rootin'-tootin', shiny red armadillo! Bo's off and running after his new friend--right down to the Curly H Rodeo. There Bo gets to do all the things he's dreamed of doing: he rides a bronc, eats red-hot chili peppers, and even tries the two-step. Bo is ready to follow his pal off into the sunset, but he is about to discover his new friend is no ordinary armadillo. Jan Brett turns her considerable storytelling talents toward the Texas countryside in this warm and funny story of an armadillo on his own. Luckily, Ma Armadillo and her boys are searching for Bo in the borders to bring him back home.

Download or read book A Rancher for Their Mom written by Leann Harris and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboy for Hire Cowboy Joel Kaye has ambitions as big as Texas. And after decades away, rodeo glory seems finally within reach. But when two little boys "hire" him to work on their ranch, Joel can't turn them down. He tells himself it's only for one week, but widow April Landers and her family soon begin to fill a void in the rodeo rider's scarred heart. April lives for her three kids--and the ranch she's fighting fiercely to keep. This determined mama's not looking for another wandering partner. Will this ready-made family inspire Joel to put down roots...for good?

Download or read book Let s Rodeo written by Tecumapese Morning Star and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Home on the Ranch Montana Rodeo Star written by Mary Sullivan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected match Life is pretty good for champion bull rider Dustin Lincoln. Every week is a different town, a new woman and a fierce competition. Until he takes a job organizing a rodeo and meets his new boss, rancher Maxine Porter. She’s brash, aggressive and wants to replace bull riding with a polo match. Working together won’t be easy—they don’t see eye to eye on anything! Yet Dusty can’t help admiring Max’s determination and commitment to those she loves, including her adorable eight-year-old son. For the first time in a long time someone is depending on Dusty, and he likes it. But that may change when Max finds out why he’s really in town…

Download or read book They Call Me Sid Rock written by Sid Steiner and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sid Steiner is a fourth-generation legend rodeo star in one of the fastest growing sports in the country; his autobiography covers his family history as well as his life from popular son of a star to becoming the 2002 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo Champion.

Download or read book Making the Team written by Laurie Cerny and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoebe O’Brien is glad to finally be starting middle school— for one main reason: she can try out for the school’s equestrian team. What she didn’t expect, however, was that making the team would drive a wedge between her and her BFF, Kallie. She also didn’t realize being a member of a team might also require a sacrifice that could possibly jeopardize her own performance at their first equestrian team meet. Follow Phoebe and her horse, Dakota, as they try out for the equestrian team, participate in team practices, and compete at their first meet. Practice and run the same showmanship and horsemanship patterns as they do. Experience her encounters, both good and bad, with the other girls on the team. And share in her validation that hard work pays off; maybe it’s even better than winning a blue ribbon!

Download or read book A Mother s Heart Book 1 3 written by Patricia Keelyn and published by Panther Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 1523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Beats Fiercely in a Mother’s Heart Three heart-warming romances about a woman’s love—romantic love as well as her love for her family. Keeping Katie Maura Anderson was out of options. Her adopted daughter, three-year-old Katie, is her entire world, and no heartless legal system was going to take her baby away. She did what any mother would do. She grabs Katie and runs. Sheriff Alan Parks believes in the law, following it and enforcing it to the letter. Then Maura Anderson shows up in his small, quiet town, and he knows she’s running from something. At first, he assumes she’s running from someone – an ex-husband or boyfriend – but when she won’t confide in him he starts wondering. Who is this woman who’s captured his heart, and what or who is she afraid of? When he finds the answers, however, a part of him wishes he’d never asked the question. Because how can he help her when he represents what she’s fleeing . . . the law. Once A Wife At seventeen, Sarah Colby had been scared and desperate. Her marriage to Reece Colby was faltering. They were nearly destitute and their infant son, Drew, needed on-going medical care they couldn’t afford. Sarah felt her world crumpling around her. Then her mother-in-law, Elizabeth, offered Sarah a solution. Elizabeth would make certain Drew got the medical attention he needed if Sarah would walk away from her husband and son. Believing she had no other option, Sarah accepted Elizabeth’s offer—though leaving them was the hardest thing she’d ever done. Now, twelve years later, Sarah still questions that decision. So when she learns that Drew’s in trouble, she knows it’s time to break her agreement with Elizabeth. Drew needs the mother he’s never known and Sarah needs to help her son. But how can she face Reece after deserting him? And what will happen when he finds out about Lyssa, the daughter he doesn’t know he has? Where the Heart Is She’d come home to put her life back together. With a broken engagement behind her and a baby on the way, Maddie Adams needs a safe place to have her baby and heal her broken heart. Then she runs into Nick Ryan, her once-best friend and first love, and her life once again becomes entwined with his. And though the sparks between them are as strong as ever, she does her best to ignore them. Nick had betrayed her once, and she can’t risk it happening again. Not now when she has another life to consider. Nick Ryan grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Back then, the only person who’d believed in him was Maddie Adams, a girl with everything going for her. Then he’d messed up and lost her. Despite that, he’d achieved his dream of becoming a doctor and returned home to practice medicine. But he’d made other mistakes along the way, mistakes that had cost him his wife and left him with an angry teenage son. With Maddie back in town, he’s hoping for a second chance. Can he undo the damage he’s done to his son? Can he heal the old hurt between him and Maddie? And can they put together a new family, one based on love rather than obligation?

Download or read book Cowboy Come Home written by Eve Gaddy and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bittersweet reunion. A second chance at happiness. The daughter who may never forgive them both. Champion bronc rider Jake Rollins never intended to go back to Happy, Texas and its memories of lost love. That changes when he meets Leigh and suspects she's his daughter. Jake arrives in Happy determined to get to know her and to find out the truth. Only problem is, Anna Connor, Leigh's mother, doesn't want him in their lives. At first she won't even admit he's Leigh's father. Sixteen years ago, Jake left Anna with a phone call telling her he'd married another woman. Devastated and pregnant, Anna married Jake's best friend, Carl Connor. Together they raised the daughter Jake never knew about. But Anna's a widow now and even more irresistible than she'd been as a girl. Will it be enough for Jake to tell Anna that leaving her was the worst mistake he ever made? Can he convince her he's changed? Jake and Anna fall in love again, but it's far from smooth sailing. Leigh's response to the news that Jake is her biological father is anything but good. Jake and Anna must decide between their love for each other and the future of the daughter they love.

Download or read book THE RETURN OF THE COWBOY written by Cheryl Biggs and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This cowboy is one worth waiting for!" —Rendezvous HIS CLEAR, STEADY GAZE…THE WAY HE GENTLED A HORSE…HIS STRONG, COMFORTING ARMS…THE PASSION THAT BURNED BETWEEN THEM… Laci James could never forget Brant Garrison, especially since she had only to look at her son—their son—to be reminded of the man she'd loved. But she also knew that Brant's reckless and single-minded goal to be the best "all-around cowboy" had destroyed any chance of a life together. And after seven years she'd nearly convinced herself that things were better that way. Then Brant came back to town, and Laci didn't know if she had the strength to see him again—or what he would do when he discovered his son….

Download or read book Black Cowboys of Rodeo written by Keith Ryan Cartwright and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the legacies of their pursuits intersect with those of America’s struggle for racial equality, human rights, and social justice. Keith Ryan Cartwright brings to life the stories of such pioneers as Cleo Hearn, the first Black cowboy to professionally rope in the Rodeo Cowboy Association; Myrtis Dightman, who became known as the Jackie Robinson of Rodeo after being the first Black cowboy to qualify for the National Finals Rodeo; and Tex Williams, the first Black cowboy to become a state high school rodeo champion in Texas. Black Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of one hundred years of stories, told by these revolutionary Black pioneers themselves and set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country.

Download or read book The City written by Dean Koontz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No.1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz is at the peak of his storytelling powers with this major new novel – a rich, multi-layered story that moves back and forth across decades and generations as a gifted musician relates the ‘terrible and wonderful’ events that began in his city in 1967, when he was ten.

Download or read book The Cowboy s Missing Memory written by Shannon Taylor Vannatter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can he reclaim his past…and build a future? He needs to remember. She’s his best hope… After a rodeo accident took away Clint Rawlins’s mobility and two years’ worth of memories, occupational therapist Lexie Parker is his only shot at recovering and regaining independence. Lexie is drawn to Clint…but she’s wary of the amnesiac’s all-too-vulnerable feelings. And with the possibility of him returning to his dangerous bull-riding side job, she refuses to risk her heart. But resisting her charming patient may be harder than she expected…

Download or read book A Blossom Promise written by Betsy Byars and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Newbery Medal winner, another high-spirited adventure starring this “gutsy, captivating family” (School Library Journal). It is a time of ups and downs for the Blossoms. Maggie is thrilled to be on the rodeo circuit . . . until she witnesses Mom kissing a handsome stranger. Back at home, the family has weathered the worst flood in the state’s history, and Vern and Michael can’t wait to test their homemade raft down at the flooded Snake Creek. Suddenly, Pap hears screams and runs to the rescue, but a heart attack strikes. As Pap clings to life, the Blossoms must rely on the strength of their family and pull together as never before. The Blossom spirit endures as the family confronts the frailty of human life in Newbery Award–winning author Betsy Byars’s fourth Blossom Family book.

Download or read book Rodeo Dreams written by Sarah M. Anderson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is one unpredictable ride Ride straight to the top of the rodeo circuit—that's June Spotted Elk's dream. Yes, bull-riding is a man's world, but she won't let anyone—not even a sexy, scarred stranger—get in her way. Seasoned bull rider Travis Younkin knows what it's like to make it to the top—and then hit the bottom. Back in the arena to resurrect his career, he can't afford a distraction like June. No matter how far he'll go to protect her from the danger. No matter how deeply the stubborn and beautiful rider gets to him…

Download or read book Smoke written by Mavis Jukes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Colton’s mom tells him that they’re moving from Idaho Falls to northern California, Colt is sad, but he takes it like a man. At least he’ll have one friend to keep him company – Smoke, the twenty-pound black Maine coon cat that Colt’s dad gave him when he was little. With his dad gone most of the year riding bulls on the rodeo circuit, sometimes it feels like Smoke is their only connection. So when Smoke doesn’t come home after Colt lets him out in the middle of the night, nothing else in Colt’s world seems to matter anymore. But on the dark and stormy evening when Colt sets off alone to find his missing cat, he’s in for more danger than even the son of a fearless bull rider could have dreamed of. A captivating look at cowboys, courage, and community, this is a tender tale about family and friends pulling together, and what it really means to be a man.

Download or read book The Murphy Five and the Guardian in the Woods written by Peri Weaks and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dustin's hands were over his ears to muffle the sound of the alarm going off. He was looking down to avoid the strobe lights. Mom rushed to him and grabbed him by the hand. 'Dustin!' she cried, yanking him off the floor. 'There's a fire! We've got to get outta here!' When the Murphy family moves from the big city to the country, Mr. and Mrs. Murphy hope for a better life for their children.The Murphy Five and the Guardian in the Woodsis a novel from author Peri Weaks, highlighting the fun and frivolity of the Murphy children—Justin, Alexa, April, Brandon, and Dustin. Living nearby a large luxury resort built as a family vacation and business meeting destination, the kids have lots of adventures while discovering what it really means to be a family. The five Murphy kids quickly get into one scrape after another, and when they find themselves in the scariest situation of all, they learn that they have a guardian watching over them.

Download or read book Fingernail Moon written by J. Laura Chandler and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle can never outrun her guilt. One irrational act when her emotions were at their most vulnerable has placed her on a collision course with not only the law and the lives of strangers but the hearts of those she loved. Belle realizes her old life has to be placed in the past and her new life lived in total dependence upon God one day at a time or she will ruin the life of her child. She would die for this child, so why shouldnt she live for him? She struggles to protect their privacy when recognition and publicity promote her son as a child star. He becomes known as the Ghost Rider on national rodeo circuits. As Belles life evolves and meshes with a new husband and a daughter of their own, the battles in her head torment her until that dreaded day when her son forces her to face the truth of the past, a past that will release him to choose a new life. From the dark alleys of drugs and crime to the boardrooms of business moguls, you will catch a glimpse of Gods sovereignty and his thread of mercy and grace woven throughout the characters you will come to love.