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It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn! by Jason Tharp

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While It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn!  is a fun and quirky story, it has been done before. The theme of be yourself and being different is okay has saturated the market. There is nothing new to Jason Tharp’s book. However, if you are looking for a new book to flesh out your collection, have someone who likes unicorns or horses or if you like colorful, bold and frankly goofy illustrations, then you need Tharp’s book. Cornelius makes the most amazing hats. The Mayor (Mayor […]

“You don’t kick a dressage horse after a failed pas de deux.” – Ingrid de Forest

Grand Theft Horse by G. Neri

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Are you looking for a fascinating true story? Do you have conflicted feelings about the world of horse-racing? Do you like stories about brash women outwitting smarmy men? Would you do anything for your animal friend? Are you always rooting for the underdog? Are you a “horse girl”? Do you just want to read a damn good graphic novel?! If you answered yes to any of that, you should read this book next! Grand Theft Horse is by award-winning writer G. Neri whose books for youth […]

Some day your prince will come and he just might be a slobbery monster

Snow Pony by Christian Trimmer

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When you have high hopes for a book and it shatters your heart like your Grandmother’s Depression Glass, you are in bad shape. And yes, that is hyperbole, yet this whole book seems to be that extremeness of trying to be clever and only getting part way there. We know the story of the “Pretty Pony” and the “Not nice Pony” and we know the fact that there is a favorite girl who comes to see the Pretty Pony and one who is less than […]

An American Legend, Indeed

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

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CBR 10 Bingo Entry: The Book Was Better? I spent some time pondering what I’d like to read for the “Book Was Better” category for CBR  10 Bingo. With so many options, I was falling victim to decision paralysis, when a trip to my local library helped me solve the problem. While dropping off some books, I stopped into the Friends of the Library bookstore, not expecting to find anything. But then my eye was caught by a hardbound copy of Seabiscuit in excellent condition, […]

Come along for the ride

Saige (American Girl Today: Saige Book 1) by Jessie Haas

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This is my Home, Something, Home read. Jessie Haas is a Vermont author and a patron of the bookstore I work at. She and her husband, Michael Daley (also an amazing author), stopped by the store one day and I had the pleasure of becoming friendly with them both.   Saige is a very typical an American Girl story. This young girl is spunky, nervous, must deal with family and friends issues. Plus, she will grow and make mistakes along the way. She has interests […]



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