Media Barn – Book Review

Dingle Peggy: Further travels in Ireland on horseback   by Hilary Bradt Horses are perhaps unique in our animal-doting world. We love them, we try to bond with them and then we sell them on. A talented horse will have several owners during its 30-year lifetime, and goodness knows how …

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New Book and Trading Cards Featuring the Chincoteague Pony by Lois Szymanski   The newborn foal peered at Caroline from her computer screen. This was the foal she knew she had to buy. Caroline had worked hard and saved all her money to buy a wild Chincoteague pony foal and now …

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Women’s Fiction: Inspired, in Part, by an Incredible True Story by Catherine Madera   Set in the Pacific Northwest, Rain Shadow tells the tale of an abandoned, savagely wounded mare that forms a bond with a lonely young woman—Taylor—who struggles to rebuild her life after suffering devastating rejection and loss. …

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Measuring Your Horse’s Athletic Ability by Richard Shrake   Richard Shrake is an educator, not an entertainer. His knowledge is available to all those who insist upon a life-long, positive relationship with their horses. He teaches his Resistance Free® Riding & Training Methods, which are acknowledged by their success nationwide. Richard’s …

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New CD from Award-winning Country and Western Signer   Joni Harms is no stranger to success. She has been a winner of multiple Academy of Western Artists Awards, including top honor for Entertainer of the Year in 2002. In 2003, Harms was named Female Vocalist of the Year and accepted …

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Exploring Horse Sense, Science and Sentiment by Maddy Butcher Gray   A Rider’s Reader provides insight into the personal journey with horses. Like your journey, it has delightful and dreadful moments. Like your life with horses, it’s full of pain, work, love and learning. This book is not a memoir …

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  by Dr. Stephen Peters and Martin Black   Evidence-Based Horsemanship combines science and the understanding of brain function with an empirical understanding of the subtleties of a horse’s behaviors, reactions and chemical states. It is based on the Scientist-Practitioner model and involves assessing and integrating scientific findings to inform …

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The Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition   by Robert L. Woolery Unlike many texts on the subject, this valuable, revised and expanded second edition of the popular instruction manual for novice rawhide workers assumes no prior knowledge or experience. In over 180 drawings and photographs, the reader is shown every …

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My Time with God in the Saddle   Review by Laurie Lewis: Catherine Madera baited my curiosity when she said that she found my family’s photo somewhere and could not wait for me to see it. Two days later I opened Man on a Horse, going to page 95, as …

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An Irish Journey on Horseback by Hilary Bradt   Since her pony-obsessed childhood, explorer-publisher Hilary Bradt had dreamed of tackling a long distance ride. Short treks in Ethiopia and the Peruvian Andes proved to be mere dress rehearsals for the real thing—a thousand mile journey on horseback, solo, through the …

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