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Calling all horse-lovers!!!!!
This is one of the best books I have ever read!Sally Lorimer age 10, wants a horse but doesn't have the room for one. The Lorimer family sees Kestrel but knows they could never afford it. Then Sally finds something that she feels is lucky.Then several days later an astonishing thing happens enough to let the family move to Kestrel Manor, a dream come true for Sally, now she can finally have her long-awaited horse. Then she meets Thalia and rides Tarquin, Thalia's horse has an embarrasing fall and vows to give up galloping all together. She soon finds out that buying a horse is much harder than she thought. Wiil sally ever find the right horse and find the courage to gallop again? Read it and find out!!!!!

Calling all horse-lovers!!!!!
This is one of the best books I have ever read!Sally Lorimer age 10, wants a horse but doesn't have the room for one. The Lorimer family sees Kestrel but knows they could never afford it. Then Sally finds something that she feels is lucky.Then several days later an astonishing thing happens enough to let the family move to Kestrel Manor, a dream come true for Sally, now she can finally have her long-awaited horse. Then she meets Thalia and rides Tarquin, Thalia's horse has an embarrasing fall and vows to give up galloping all together. She soon finds out that buying a horse is much harder than she thought. Wiil sally ever find the right horse and find the courage to gallop again? Read it and find out!!!!! ... Read more

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The story of Germany's most successful U-Boat commander, Otto Kretschmer. ... Read more

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2004 reprint of 1962 edition; a novel of the great Creek Nation, its last hero, and its fateful confrontation with Andrew Jackson's army at the battle of Horseshoe Bend ... Read more

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Horse book set
I read these books as a child and loved them. My daughter, who hates to read, has made it through 2 of them so far. She likes them and that's always a good thing.

Just as good the second time around!!
Our daughter read the Misty series when she was a child and recently we purchased them for our two Grand Daughters.Before sending them along to the Grand Daughters we again read the books; just as good the second time around!!

Wonderful Memories
I am 45 years old and still have fond and vivid memories from when I read this book as a young girl.I read it over and over again and eventually collected the series.My dearest wish back then was to have a horse and I recall babysitting and finally saving enough money to buy a pony when I was 13.

Wonderful horse classics!
I read most of Margerite Henry's books as a child and loved them very much!I remember the amazement at realizing that Chincoteague and Assateague were real places!I have yet to get to Chincoteague for the pony roundup but I have visited many times over the years.I am buying these for the family library and hope my son grows to love them as I have.He is a little young now at age 3 but I plan to start reading them to him as he gets a little older!

Bring back the old covers!
These were some of my favorite books when I was a child, but these glossy new covers just take me out of the moment! Bring back the beautiful watercolor covers by Wesley Dennis! No Marguerite Henry fan should settle for less. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 4693 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Attentional Patterns of Horseshoe Pitchers at Two Levels of Task Difficulty.
Author: Alan M. Prezuhy
Publication: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 72Issue: 3Page: 293

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1900. Extracts from the letters of Captain H.L. Herndon of the 21st U.S. Infantry, on duty in the Philippine Islands, and Lieutenant Lawrence Gill, A.D.C. to the Military Governor of Puerto Rico. With a Postscript by J. Sherman, Private, Co. D, 21st Infantry. From the Editor's Preface: As I read and read again the following correspondence between two inconspicuous actors in some of the stirring events that have marked the closing year, my impression that these letters constitute a document of history almost indispensable for the understanding of the new era, which began with the Treaty of Paris, grew into a settled conviction. Strong in this belief I spared no effort, and have at last been successful in overcoming the natural reluctance of those to whom the letters were addressed, to seeing words, which were written for the information and consolation of a narrow circle of family and friends, laid bare to the colder scrutiny of the greater public. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on March 22, 2001. The length of the article is 8556 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "The Horseshoe Nail": Structure and Contingency in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.
Author: Gene A. Brucker
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 54Issue: 1Page: 1

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus (Linnaeus), typically inhabits estuaries and coastal areas with pronounced semi-diurnal and diurnal tides that are used to synchronize the timing of spawning, larval hatching, and emergence. Horseshoe crabs spawn in the intertidal zone of sandy beaches and larval emergence occurs when the larvae exit the sediments and enter the plankton. However, L. polyphemus populations also occur in areas that lack significant tidal changes and associated synchronization cues. Endogenous activity rhythms that match predictable environmental cycles may enable larval horseshoe crabs to time swimming activity to prevent stranding on the beach. To determine if L. polyphemus larvae possess a circatidal rhythm in vertical swimming, larvae collected from beach nests and the plankton were placed under constant conditions and their activity monitored for 72 h. Time-series analyses of the activity records revealed a circatidal rhythm with a free-running period of ~12.5 h. Maximum swimming activity consistently occurred during the time of expected falling tides, which may serve to reduce the chance of larvae being stranded on the beach and aid in seaward transport by ebb currents (i.e., ebb-tide transport). To determine if agitation serves as the entrainment cue, larvae were shaken on a 12.4 h cycle to simulate conditions during high tide in areas with semi-diurnal tides. When placed under constant conditions, larval swimming increased near the expected times of agitation. Thus, endogenous rhythms of swimming activity of L. polyphemus larvae in both tidal and nontidal systems may help synchronize swimming activity with periods of high water and inundation. ... Read more