With age comes wisdom as well as a longing to turn back the hands of time and change the past. Charlie Couter is an old man who, on what he considers his last cattle drive, shares the stories of his life with the young drovers in his charge, in the hopes that they will learn from the events that has nearly destroyed his life. He is a young man full of dreams and ambitions. All too soon, his dreams become nightmares when his beloved young wife dies in a prairie fire along with their daughter and unborn child. The only reminders that Charlie has of her are her journal and a steel and diamond belt buckle that she had made for him. Losing himself in booze, women and cattle driving, he is beaten and left for dead; his precious belt buckle stolen from him. Charlie's quest begins: to find that belt buckle at all costs! His mentor is a mountain man named Buckknife, who also is on an elusive quest, seeking gold from the Black Hills. Through Couter's stories, his drovers learn what it is like to feel emptiness, bitterness and loss as well as maintain hope that somehow, dreams can become reality. This quest takes Couter from the booming lumber town of Stillwater, Minnesota and the rugged St. Croix River Valley in the 1850's to Kansas and the Black Hills of Dakota Territory during a turbulent time when the government was rounding up the native Sioux and Wild Bill Hickok was a well known reason to visit the card tables!

Trail Boss: The Quest

Literature & Fiction

Ganzer, Diane

St. Croix, Sammy

Genre Fiction

Avid Readers Pub Group

It wasn't Hope's fault that she was born, but her mother made her regret her existence every day during her childhood. Her cowardly father could only look aside as his wife wielded her poisonous words or worse, her severe punishments. Hope needed to deal with hunger, overwork, beatings and verbal abuse. She was isolated from friends, her only solace being the books she loved to read. There she was able to escape the pain that she grew up in. As she marked off the days on her calendar, she wondered what the future held for her, beginning to doubt in it's very existence. It takes a series of small miracles to convince her otherwise. As Hope grows up, she knows that somewhere there has to be a happier ending better than the life she is currently living.

Hope Survives

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Ricky is a young llama with a yearning to see what lies beyond the borders of his farm. With his animal friends, he decides to find out, de-spite what the wise owl and old ewe tell him, that he has a role to fulfill on the farm. It is during this adventure that a summer storm breaks out, nearly destroying the farm as he knows it. Lost on a river, it is Ricky's chance to prove that being an adventurer is less important than being respon-sible. Unfortunately, he learns this lesson the hard way, when his own life as well as the lives of his friends are in peril, and there looks to be no way out of his predicament. What will it take to bring Ricky home safe? In the aftermath of the tornado's fury, will there even be a home for him to return to?

Llama Tails: Ricky's Adventure

Children's Books

Animals

If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired... If your life is too uncomfortable to even look up... If you feel that no one has experienced the suffering that you have...think again! How low do you need to sink before it becomes time to change gaits? This inspirational story is a testimony to the work that Guy Kaufman and his horse, Shadow, are doing; changing lives- one person, one heart at a time, using horses as part of his therapy program. Taking the heart-wrenching experiences learned from his past, Guy puts into practice what he has been taught as a Certified Equine Specialist, giving those he works with a renewed reason to wake up each day, giving thanks to be able to live in the moment. It is a story of good versus evil, and how, through the grace of God and a little horse sense! goodness wins. Filled with bittersweet testimonials, Bible verses and words to live by, may this story become an epiphany for you and those you love.

Walking in God's Shadow Changing Gaits...Changing Lives!

Self-Help

Motivational

Avid Readers Publishing Group

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