Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Hardcover)

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• Format: Hardcover   Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Number of Pages: 304
• ISBN: 1416586288
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113294916
• Release Date: October 6, 2009
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #15636 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn''t fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen''s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham''s West with the Night. It will transfix readers everywhere.

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