Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist and shakily recovered alcoholic, and her academic husband, Paul, who wonder what it will mean to ?make a difference? in such a contrived situation. Gaitskill illuminates their shifting relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as Velvet?s encounter with the horses at the stable down the road?especially...

"Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show...from the author of Good Rich People When the nouveau riche Parker family moves to an exclusive community in the heart of Southern California, they believe it's their chance at a fresh start. Heather Parker is determined to give her daughters the life she never had-starting with horses. She signs...

Jealously investigating an ex's intended, Agatha Raisin crashes the wedding only to become implicated in the bride's murder, a situation that immerses Agatha in the cutthroat equestrian world. When Agatha Raisin learns that her friend and one-time lover Charles Fraith is to be married to socialite, Miss Mary Brown-Field, she sees it as her duty to find out what she can about the woman. Out of selfless concern for Charles, of course. When Agatha crashes...

A quintessential Jojo Moyes novel about a lost girl and her horse, the enduring strength of friendship, and how even the smallest choices can change everything When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London neighborhood ? she quietly trains in city's parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah...

Twenty years after a tragic accident destroyed her riding career, Annemarie Zimmer returns to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm with her troubled teenage daughter and encounters two men who could change her life.

Carole, Stevie and Lisa go on the Mountain Trail Overnight ride. They are having such a good time that a snobbish girl can't spoil their fun, until she causes a tragic accident. CAN YOU EVER LOVE SOMETHING TOO MUCH? The three members of the Saddle Club -- Carole, Lisa, and Stevie -- are the best of friends, bonded by their special love of horses. Now they're together on the long-awaited Mountain Trail Overnight, riding through the pine forests, swimming...

In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of Fire, by one of the leading Arabian Sheiks. The race soon...

While attending riding camp at Pine Hollow Stables, Lisa finds her two friends preoccupied with their own projects and not very interested in her ideas for a more organized Saddle Club.

Grace is paired with Fancy, a Welsh pony, on her first horseback riding lesson, and even though Fancy is small, she and Grace learn how to ride together and compete in a race.

Making friends with Roscoe the mouse and a young girl named Ivy has helped Happy Go Lucky enjoy his life at the Big Apple Barn riding school, but he still has trouble making friends with all of the other animals and adjusting to the differences among the children that ride him. Includes glossary.