The Faraway Horses
The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen
Buck Brannaman with William Reynolds
Real-life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman’s skills in the round pen are legendary. It’s been reported that after just five minutes with a wild horse, Buck can have the animal following him around like a dog. Buck’s own assessment of his unique talent has an appealing modesty and comes with an unexpected twist. “Rather than helping people with horse problems,” he says, “I’m helping horses with people problems.” It’s no surprise that the main character in Robert Redford's film “The Horse Whisperer” was based largely on him. Now the horse-whisperer’s life is being depicted in “Buck,” a moving new documentary that won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and hits theaters nationwide in June. To coincide with the film’s release, Globe Pequot Press is proud to issue a new paperback edition of Brannaman’s autobiography “The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America’s Most Renowned Horsemen.” Beginning with his early years growing up with an abusive father, dealing with his mother’s death, and moving into a foster home at age eleven, the book traces Brannaman’s journey through early adulthood, filled with adventure, a failed
marriage, and his many moving “life relationships” with horses. Also included are Brannaman’s reflections on his experiences on the set of “The Horse Whisperer,” for which he served as the director's technical adviser. “The Faraway Horses” is full of the wisdom and lessons Brannaman has gleaned after a lifetime of helping not just horses, but people, as he himself has learned to surmount his own troubles with discipline and character. “Your horse is a mirror to your soul,” Brannaman says. “Sometimes you might not like what you see. Sometimes you will.” View the movie trailer for “Buck” here.
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No Animals Were Harmed
The Controversial Line between Entertainment and Abuse
Peter Laufer, PhD
On Tuesday, October 20, sheriff’s deputies in Zaneville, Ohio, shot and killed dozens of roaming exotic animals—including 18 Bengal tigers and 16 lions, as well as black bears, grizzlies, mountain lions, wolves, and a baboon—after they were released from their enclosures by their owner. This tragic loss of wildlife stunned animal lovers around the world, renewing calls for tighter restrictions or a ban on private ownership of exotic animals. “Imagine the panic and terror experienced by the monkeys, bears, lions and leopards that ran loose in Ohio earlier this week as they were chased and then killed by the police,” writes author Peter Laufer in a New York Times op-ed piece following the animal slaughter. “Imagine the heartbreak of the police officers who were obliged to destroy the rambling menagerie. Officers are not trained to stalk big game and bring them in alive with tranquilizer darts.” Asks Laufer: “Why was there no law regulating the animal collection of Terry Thompson, who freed his animals and then apparently killed himself?” In hi
s latest book out from Lyons Press, No Animals Were Harmed: The Controversial Line Between Entertainment and Abuse, Laufer examines animal rights in terms of how animals have been used for sport and entertainment. “The more I read, the more I observed, the more animals—human and nonhuman—I met, the more it seemed to me that a possum was pointing me toward my conclusion,” Laufer writes in the prologue. “’We have met the enemy,’ Pogo taught us, ‘and he is us.’ Even the one thing I wanted to promise the reader as I embarked on this project—that no animals were harmed by me during the writing of this book—proved an impossible task.”
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Finding Uri
Sandy Munro
People’s Press Minds Wide Open People’s Press is an award-winning regional publisher based in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. People’s Press has more than 35 titles in its catalog, including histories, art and children’s books in addition to a full line of regional guidebooks. New titles are carefully considered by the editorial team and are selected based on exemplary content, strong storytelling and visual excellence. People’s Press is committed to narrating history through the people who cultivate community, a sense of place or a truly unique idea. These are the kind of books you curl up in an armchair in front of the fireplace to read, and are proud to display on your coffee table. www.peoplespress.org Publication proposals are reviewed quarterly. Send to submissions@peoplespress.org
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100 Alien Invaders
Animals and Plants that are Changing our World
Gill Williams
100 Alien Invaders exposes one of the greatest threats to the planet after climate change and overpopulation. Animals and plants are perfectly harmless in their native areas, but become a menace when they colonize new territories—often out-competing native species and, in some instances, drastically affecting the ecology. What's more, it is humankind that is largely responsible. Some species, such as killer bees and cane toads, are obvious terrors. Others, such as the water hyacinth, pose a more insidious threat. Read this book and you'll never look at house sparrows or hedgehogs in the same way again. 100 Alien Invaders is a warts-and-all exposé of 100 of the most destructive alien species on the planet. Excerpt The Pilgrim fathers probably bought cats to North America on ships such as the Mayflower, and the feisty felines have been behaving like environmental hooligans ever since. The number of cats in the US has leapt from 30 million in the 1970s to at least 70 million kept as pets today. Then there are the feral cats, anywhere between 40 and 60 million, according to the American Bird Conservancy (ABC). With its devastating hunting skills, the cat is a serious threat to the survival of some of the United States’ most vulnerable species. In Florida, the wildlife service estimates cats kill 271 million small mammals and 68 million birds every year, many of them endangered native species.
The feral cat, as wild and wily as any non-domestic predator, is a particular threat to hatchling green sea turtles, and rare endemic mammals such as the Lower Keys marsh rabbit. As few as 100 marsh rabbits survive, and the species is likely to disappear within 20 years if the current mortality rates continue. A study showed that feral cats were responsible for more than half the marsh rabbit deaths.
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Crazy Sexy Diet
Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!
Kris Carr, Foreword by Dean Ornish, MD, Preface by Rory Freedman
"Please note that nearly every person at the vegan cafe in Woodstock, N.Y., was looking at Kris Carr. The waiter was trembling a little. This has been happening to her a lot lately. In New York City, in Denver, in San Francisco, in Portland, Ore., she can’t get a green drink at an organic juice bar or pick up goji berries at the Whole Foods Market and remain incognito. Somebody will see the giant, slightly googly green eyes and the hair whipped into a folded-over ponytail with a trademark streak of hot pink, and that’s enough for the tweeting about another Kris Carr sighting to begin. " Continue reading the New York Times Magazine's August 14, 2011 profile of Kris Carr here.
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| Kerstin Lieff |
| Letters From Berlin |
May 21, 2013
High Plains Library, 400 Powers St.
Erie,
CO.
07:00 PM
Book Signing
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| Bruce Smith |
| Where Elk Roam |
May 23, 2013
Bozeman Public Library
Bozeman,
MT.
07:00 PM
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| Brian Boitano |
| What Would Brian Boitano Make? |
May 23, 2013
The Tyler Florence Shop
Mill Valley ,
CA.
06:00 PM to 08:00 PM
Other
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| Ted Reinstein |
| New England Notebook |
May 23, 2013
Boston Public Library, Copley Square
Boston,
MA.
07:00 PM
Speaking Engagement
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| C. B. Bernard |
| Chasing Alaska |
May 30, 2013
The Andover Bookstore
Andover,
MA.
07:00 PM
Book Signing
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