Catalog Search Results
81) About my mother: true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised...
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mini plans a magnificent Indian wedding--from their deceased mother's jewelry to a white wedding horse--for her older sister Vinnie, a medical resident, but a hurricane threatens to destroy it all.
84) Iced
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Shuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey but he now gets his adrenalin rush from hurling himself, head first, down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile long Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen lake, Miles gets talked into helping out with the horses. It is against his better judgement. Seven years...
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive guide to The Legend of Zelda series collects enemies and items, lore, concept art, screencaps, maps, main characters and how they relate, and languages, and includes an exclusive interview with series producer, Eiji Aonuma.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House--a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was the most fascinating American partnership since Nixon and Kissinger, an untested...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
During the last perilous months of the conflict, Vienna's famed Spanish Riding School is threatened by devastating bombing raids and indifferent Nazi commanders. Despite the dangers involved in evaculating the Lipizzan stallions, the school's director and a handful of heroic citizens attempt a daring plan to move the stallions away from the ravages of war and, keep the historic breed alive.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"They were proud Texans who returned in defeat from the Civil War, totally unaware that a new army of evil men were threatening to take over their beloved state. At first they thought the ambushing and scalping was being done by the fierce Apache and Comanche tribes that rode the Chisholm Trail. But telltale tracks showed them something different. These were shod horses ... the horses of white men"--Cover p. [4].
91) The Reivers
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures/ CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about a the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during an great adventure in the early 1900's South.
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the classic Disney tale, reawakens and expands through the first-person perspective of Snow White herself. More than a damsel in distress, Snow possesses a character that yearns for knowledge, love, and acceptance. Glimpse into the heart of the princess as she experiences love, betrayal, terror, hope, friendship, longing, and sadness&before her happily ever after.
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A tough-talking former GI comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; events turn out neither as planned nor at all well.
100) The white spell
Author
Series
Nine kingdoms volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling Nine Kingdoms Saga continues in a land where light and dark magic vie, and where a reluctant hero and seemingly defenseless stable maid must join forces against an encroaching evil. Acair of Ceangail, youngest bastard son of the worst black mage in history, has followed in his father's footsteps, wreaking havoc throughout the world and leaving powerful enemies in his wake. After a year of reparation, he owes a final...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request