The Horse Whisperer

Nicholas Evens

Romance

In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl is out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old grace Maclean and her horse, Pilgrim, survive. But the impact on their lives and the lives of those who love them is devastating.

Grace is the only child of a prominent New York magazine editor, Annie Graves, and her lawyer husband Robert. In a way which none of them at first understands, their destiny comes to depends on Pildrim's. So mutilated and traumatized is he that even the vet who saved his life now wishes he hadn't. Annie refuses to have him destroyed, sensing that if she does, something in Grace will die to.

She hears of a man in Montana, a 'whisperer' who is said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. Abandoning her job, Annie sets off accross the continent with Grace and Pilgrem to find him. The man's name is Tom Boker and he lives on the Rocky Mountain Front, a place of daunting beauty. Here, under the massive Montana sky, all their lives are changed forever.

Well worth the read at anytime, anywhere. Perfect for holidays!

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Childrens Fiction

Sara Crewe's world is tranformed when her wealthy, adoring father dies, leaving her penniless. She is suddenly forced to work as a servant at the boarding school she once attended. But Sara has a loving heart and a quick imagination, and she knows that with her enduring hope, she will persevere.

This is my favorite book and I just had to add it! Every little girl has to have it on her book shelf.

Busy Woman Seeks Wife

Annie Sanders
Romance

Alex Hill is a fiercely independent single career woman. Not surprisingly that her grip on domestic life is shaky - she's barely ever at home. So when her demanding mother - an ageing sixties style icon - has a fall and needs to move in with her indefinitely, Alex needs help . . . Fast!

Ella is desperate for any work that will pay the rent, but she's even less domesticated than Alex. Can she persuade her brother, resting actor, Frankie, to help on the quiet, and how will Alex react when she realises a man had been ironing her knickers? Then Alex discovers someone is sabotaging her work. She'll need more than a 'wife' to help her now!

This book is a good romp and a giggle!

Child of Tibet

By Soname Yangchen with Vicki Mackenzie
Autobiography

This is a very charming book about Soname’s flight from Chinese occupied Tibet. Soname had a carefree childhood running around on her family’s farm in the Tibetan Himalayas. Her parents then sent her to Lhasa for her safety but cruelly ended up as a child slave. At the age of sixteen, Soname joined a couple of Buddhist Monks for a six week trek across the Himalayas to join the Dalai Lama, at Dharemsala, in North India. Over several years, Soname made her way to England, though not without the pain of losing her child and not knowing where she was.

This is such a courageous and awe inspiring autobiography of one woman’s determined fight to find her daughter, herself and her own place in what can be a very scary and intimidating world. This small book is well worth the read.