Sliver of Stone magazine presents its first volume of collected nonfiction. From the mouth of a Seattle whale to a Nordstrom’s swimsuit department, from an Idaho fundamentalist church to a fathomless Florida lake, the fifteen stories in ALL THAT GLITTERS recount lives and identities unsettled by impending doom. Also included are four remarkable interviews with award-winning nonfiction writers, including Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin. "Fresh, fierce, and enlightening, All That Glitters is a find. The talented nonfiction writers in this collection invite us along on the complicated, sometimes scary, but irresistible pursuit of truth." (Lynne Barrett, author of Magpies and The Secret Names of Women)

All That Glitters: A Sliver of Stone Nonfiction Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Cook, Rebecca

Fievre, M.J.

Jakiela, Lori

Lisicky, Paul

Moore, Dinty

Blankenbiller, Tabitha

Butterworth-McDermott, Christine

Becker, Jan

Dalton, Elizabeth M.

Davidow, Lisbeth

Literary

Lominy Books

A sort of Southern-fried Follain, Rebecca Cook, in I Will Not Give Over, has taken up the splendors of that often overlooked poet's Canisy, his fond and mysterious song of childhood that remains a touchstone (along with his Transparence of the World, and A World Rich in Anniversaries). Ms. Cook's memory is a thing of wonder—and finds its expression in these gorgeous poems, reminiscent of the master's elegance: the just-so detail, the evocative image. And, believe me, when I invoke Follain, something very good is going on here. —Danny Lawless, Editor of Plume The greatest quality of the prose poems in I Will Not Give Over is the one quality a writer can’t beg, borrow, or steal: they are genuine. They are disquieting, beautiful, upsetting, and exacting. Here, “Love shows up first dressed in fear.” These are poems playing for keeps. —Sue William Silverman, author of Hieroglyphics in Neon, Lovesick, and Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You

I Will Not Give Over

Poetry

Aldrich Press

Hippo is the Greek word for horse and Hippotherapy is therapy with the help of a horse. Sit back and enjoy learning about hippotherapy in Book One of the Brown Pony Series. Your journey begins with a touching and true vignette, one family’s experience of hippotherapy treatment with their child who has autism. Through this endearing children’s story, you’ll learn some of the amazing benefits when people with disabilities partner with horses in the therapy arena. Do you really know the differences between hippotherapy and therapeutic riding? Clearly learn why this is important and how to choose a program that meets a child’s needs. Were you aware that horse activities may be contraindicated for a person? The Achilles Heel is exposed! Book One finishes with a bonus discovery section on how to find out if insurance will cover your therapy. What books are available in the Brown Pony Series? Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy PLUS … Barn Rules: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - A teaching tool of basic barn rules in social stories and pictures for instructors, riders, parents, and volunteers. Tally Up: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Checklists created from a task analysis of showmanship and riding skills that can be used to improve understanding of a Judge’s class placing’s and to provide a foundation of skills to practice for competition. Also, a great breakdown of skills for an instructor to use in lesson planning. Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Increase awareness of common sense safety to implement when working around horses. Some of the tips may be inadvertently overlooked until there is an accident. Great for equine instructors, therapeutic riding volunteer training, and equine assisted activity and therapy programs. Incorporating Games in Hippotherapy: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Play is the “work” of the child (and the de-stressor of the adult). Play engages the whole person: imagination, emotion, cognition, and engagement, along with the physical skills components of the game activities. Games can build in a reason for completing various ring figures, speed changes, stops and starts. Learn ideas for layering on goal-oriented game activities in a hippotherapy session.

Brown Pony Series: Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy

Medical Books

Allied Health Professions

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Brown Pony Series Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy is written for therapists who dream of entering into the arena to combine horses in their professional treatment plan with clients. The book is laid out in a logical manner beginning with a section called "Common Practice", formatted as questions and answers about how other therapists offer hippotherapy. Section two introduces "Getting Started" in hippotherapy by presenting ideas on legal structure and limiting liability. Then practical advice is explored regarding the facility and the therapy horses. Many therapists have difficulty charging clients and the fourth section covers budgeting and fee setting. One caveat of offering treatment in a natural environment with multiple support staff and a living animal inevitably is the risk of therapy cancellations and this topic is presented with multiple years of statistics. Finally, dozens and dozens of business form samples are offered to you in the appendix. What books are available in the Brown Pony Series? Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy PLUS … Barn Rules: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - A teaching tool of basic barn rules in social stories and pictures for instructors, riders, parents, and volunteers. Tally Up: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Checklists created from a task analysis of showmanship and riding skills that can be used to improve understanding of a Judge’s class placing’s and to provide a foundation of skills to practice for competition. Also, a great breakdown of skills for an instructor to use in lesson planning. Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Increase awareness of common sense safety to implement when working around horses. Some of the tips may be inadvertently overlooked until there is an accident. Great for equine instructors, therapeutic riding volunteer training, and equine assisted activity and therapy programs. Incorporating Games in Hippotherapy: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Play is the “work” of the child (and the de-stressor of the adult). Play engages the whole person: imagination, emotion, cognition, and engagement, along with the physical skills components of the game activities. Games can build in a reason for completing various ring figures, speed changes, stops and starts. Learn ideas for layering on goal-oriented game activities in a hippotherapy session.

Brown Pony Series: Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Has anyone shown up in flip flops or shorts for riding? Do people run in the barn or yell to a friend and spook your horse? Has anyone given your horse a treat without your permission and you worried about them getting bitten? It can be frustrating. You think they should know better. You don't want to come across as mean or bossy but you also don't have the time it takes to explain the reason behind barn rules. That's why you need this book! Barn Rules is a companion booklet in the Brown Pony Series but was written with a much broader audience in mind: - Parents and grandparents desiring a safe horse experience for kids - 4-H leaders - Lesson instructors - Horse camps - Therapeutic equine assisted activity programs - Mental health professionals offering equine learning or psychotherapy - Therapists offering hippotherapy - Horse lovers - New horse owners The barn rules cover what to do, what not to do, and why. The first section of each chapter offers background information on the highlighted rule, then summarizes the information using Scripting (the author's form of Social StoriesTM), and finishes with an adorable original art poster depicting the rule with a YES icon or a NO icon and two or three sentences of explanation. There are rules that cover for example, what to wear and what not to wear, how to behave around horses, and to wait for permission for various horse activities. The book ends with two bonus pages of the entire art collection of rules and the print version can be cut out, laminated and used as Picture Communication Cards for horse games, as a visual aid during barn orientation, or for children with autism. This book is a great tool for riding instructors to use during the first visit with clients and for horse owners to share with friends and family who are interested in riding. The Brown Pony Series consists of 4 Guidebooks. Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy PLUS … Tally Up: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Checklists created from a task analysis of showmanship and riding skills that can be used to improve understanding of a Judge’s class placing’s and to provide a foundation of skills to practice for competition. Also, a great breakdown of skills for an instructor to use in lesson planning. Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Increase awareness of common sense safety to implement when working around horses. Some of the tips may be inadvertently overlooked until there is an accident. Great for equine instructors, therapeutic riding volunteer training, and equine assisted activity and therapy programs. Incorporating Games in Hippotherapy: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Play is the “work” of the child (and the de-stressor of the adult). Play engages the whole person: imagination, emotion, cognition, and engagement, along with the physical skills components of the game activities. Games can build in a reason for completing various ring figures, speed changes, stops and starts. Learn ideas for layering on goal-oriented game activities in a hippotherapy session.

Barn Rules: Companion to the Brown Pony Series

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Who cares about risk and safety in hippotherapy? There are many "stakeholders" who will find the information in this book helpful: those considering implementing hippotherapy, therapists in this field, students planning for a career utilizing the treatment strategy of hippotherapy, facility and horse owners partnering to offer hippotherapy, staff who assist with sessions, client families who participate in hippotherapy, the insurance industry, other researchers and the horse community in general. Brown Pony Series Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy, illuminates years of research both published and unpublished that has been completed by the author on safety and managing risks when combining horses and people with disabilities in a therapy milieu. NOTE: The Hippotherapy Safety Survey ended ten years of data collection in January of 2017. This book was updated on September 1, 2017 with a summary of the ten years of safety data in a newly added Appendix II.

Brown Pony Series: Book Two: Risk Management & Safety in Hippotherapy

If you compete against others, you become bitter, but if you compete with yourself, you become better.This book is not just about blue ribbons but creating a winning attitude in kids too!Tally Up was designed for youth riding instructors, 4-H horse leaders, parents, therapeutic riding instructors and those who teach equine skills in the areas of Showmanship and Horsemanship.It is comprised of ready made forms that you cut out and use for evaluating horse show performance in a practical and non-judgemental way. Scored forms are helpful to organize and communicate lesson planning and measure progress when you practice at home.Cut out pages of a book? YES! That is the design for this practical work. 55 scoring forms are included for your personal use!The ultimate goal of Tally Up is to empower kids to understand the steps of success and develop the life skill of becoming competitve with themselves as they strive towards excellence and earning their blue ribbons!A section on determining the level of independence of therapeutic riding clients is also included. This section was previously published by the author in a NARHA (now known as PATH Intl.) Instructor Voice Newsletter.What books are available in the Brown Pony Series? Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy PLUS ... Barn Rules: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - A teaching tool of basic barn rules in social stories and pictures for instructors, riders, parents, and volunteers. Tally Up: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Checklists created from a task analysis of showmanship and riding skills that can be used to improve understanding of a Judge's class placings and to provide a foundation of skills to practice for competition. Also, a great breakdown of skills for an instructor to use in lesson planning. Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Increase awareness of common sense safety to implement when working around horses. Some of the tips may be inadvertently overlooked until there is an accident. Great for equine instructors, therapeutic riding volunteer training, and equine assisted activity and therapy programs. Incorporating Games in Hippotherapy: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Play is the "work" of the child (and the de-stressor of the adult). Play engages the whole person: imagination, emotion, cognition, and engagement, along with the physical skills components of the game activities. Games can build in a reason for completing various ring figures, speed changes, stops and starts. Learn ideas for layering on goal-oriented game activities in a hippotherapy session.

Tally Up: Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series

You love horses and you love therapy ... is it possible to combine those two loves in a fulfilling career? Yes, it is!  The information in this book is geared towards high school and college students, as well as practicing therapists, who are considering a career involving hippotherapy. Learn from those who are on the path working towards this career and from the author who has worked for over 20 years incorporating hippotherapy into her occupational therapy treatments.  The book is organized into three sections ...  Section One has four chapters ranging from a junior high school student's questions about a career of this type, to two college students pursuing a therapy degree and then to a licensed therapist pursuing the addition of hippotherapy to her therapy practice.  Section Two contains 3 chapters all about horses, how do you choose and train a therapy horse, how do you fit saddles, and how do you prevent therapy horse burnout.  Section Three consists of 3 chapters with the therapist in mind - how to provide a therapy internship, demystifying how hippotherapy is integrated into treatment planning and finally a "reality check" describing why therapist's offer hippotherapy even though it costs more to provide and is physically demanding.  You won't want to miss the valuable and insightful information provided in each chapter.    What books are available in the Brown Pony Series?  Book One: Introduction to Hippotherapy  Book Two: Risk Management and Safety in Hippotherapy  Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans  Book Four: The Business of Hippotherapy  PLUS … Barn Rules: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - A teaching tool of basic barn rules in social stories and pictures for instructors, riders, parents, and volunteers.  Tally Up: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Checklists created from a task analysis of showmanship and riding skills that can be used to improve understanding of a Judge’s class placing’s and to provide a foundation of skills to practice for competition. Also, a great breakdown of skills for an instructor to use in lesson planning.  Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Increase awareness of common sense safety to implement when working around horses. Some of the tips may be inadvertently overlooked until there is an accident. Great for equine instructors, therapeutic riding volunteer training, and equine assisted activity and therapy programs.  Incorporating Games in Hippotherapy: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series - Play is the “work” of the child (and the de-stressor of the adult). Play engages the whole person: imagination, emotion, cognition, and engagement, along with the physical skills components of the game activities. Games can build in a reason for completing various ring figures, speed changes, stops and starts. Learn ideas for layering on goal-oriented game activities in a hippotherapy session.

Brown Pony Series: Book Three: Considering Hippotherapy in Your Career Plans

Saddle Fit Simplified is a concise resource that demystifies saddle fit ... it gives you the underlying body anatomy, the principles of saddle placement, and a summary of the science of saddle fit. This updated 2nd edition includes step-by-step instructions to measure your current saddle and how-to measure your horse. Then you simply combine the two sets of measurements to see how close your saddle matches your horse. Finally, I've included a section on three equine bodywork massage exercises to use with your horse. This will help you remove lingering body soreness in your horse from past saddle fitting problems .... problems that can be buried in your horse and show up even when you have a good fitting saddle. Why invest in a book on saddle fit and equine bodywork? Because you want to know the answers to questions that you haven’t gotten solutions to yet. Answers to … • Why your horse moves away when you bring the saddle out • Why he nips, stomps or swishes his tail when you girth up • Why your horse has mild lameness, stumbles, bucks, or spooks easily • Why your horse has trouble bending in turns • Why he’s holding his head high and hollowing his back when you are riding Saddle Fit Simplified will teach you how to become a detective and discover where those behaviors are coming from, because they can all be signs of body pain from saddle fitting problems. Whether you are in the market to buy a saddle or are wondering about your current saddle, this book offers simple and detailed step-by-step instructions to help you evaluate saddles, it gives you a guide to measure horses and saddles for saddle fit, and it outlines three short and effective bodywork routines designed to release tension caused by saddles and hard riding. Some people think a book of this price should be an encyclopedia ... but you already own those and they are mostly unread and gathering dust on a shelf somewhere; in other words, they aren’t quick or simple. Consider the cost of horse training, equine supplements, or vet lameness bills ... before you judge the size of Saddle Fit Simplified, get out in the barn and use it and you will notice positive change in your horse over time! This book may be small but it is an ACTIONABLE powerhouse! And when you apply the easy-to-understand information within Saddle Fit Simplified, you are not only investing in your horse's health and well-being, you are saving money in the long run by being proactive. But the best part is you reap the rich reward of a happy and satisfying partnership with your horse.

Saddle Fit Simplified: Saddle Evaluation Guide and Equine Bodywork Instructions

How do you create a deep connection with a different species where you do not share a common language? Safe Horse Handling, A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series offers you a unique view on communication using horse psychology for partnership, companionship, and leadership with horses. If you are age 8 to 98, love horses, want to be safe, have fun, AND are ready to learn how to “read” your horse in the moment, then you’ve got the right book in your hands! In this book, you will learn: • Why some horses buck while others spook • When to listen to your horse • When to give your horse a “time out” • The different reasons a horse will bite PLUS MORE! The author is not a horse trainer, she is a trainer of people to the benefit of the horse. Read on and you’ll become skilled at horse communication, being a stress detective, and developing leadership skills. Enjoy the ride! From the Author - FYI: People are drawn to a book by it's cover. This book has the same information as the other book titled under the same name but one has an adult themed cover and the other a children's themed cover. Which do you prefer?

Safe Horse Handling: A Companion Book to the Brown Pony Series

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