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Kate’s 2¢: “The horsewoman” by James Patterson and Mike Lupica
“The horsewoman” by James Patterson and Mike Lupica
Chloe Cannon did a good job of reading this story for the NLS. She brought the drama of Grandmother vs Mother vs daughter to its fullest. I would recommend this book to all horse-lovers.
I even liked the ending.
Chloe Cannon is a non-union multi-genre audiobook narrator living in the Mid-Hudson Valley region of New York. Audiobook narration seized her interest when reading aloud to local seniors, who informed her that her reading sounded “just like their audiobooks!”
Tantor Media – Chloe Cannon
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Michael Lupica ( / ˈluːpɪkə /; born May 11, 1952) is an author and former American newspaper columnist, best known for his provocative commentary on sports in the New York Daily News and his appearances on ESPN .
Lupica was born in Oneida, New York, where he spent his pre-adolescent years, having attended St. Patrick’s Elementary School through the sixth grade. In 1964, he moved with his family to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he attended middle school and subsequently Bishop Guertin High School, graduating in 1970. In 1974 he graduated from Boston College. He first came to prominence as a sportswriter in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Lupica wrote “The Sporting Life” column at Esquire magazine for ten years beginning in the late 1980s, and currently writes a regular column for Travel + Leisure Golf. He has also written for Golf Digest, Parade, ESPN The Magazine, and Men’s Journal, and has received numerous awards including, in 2003, the Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation.[1]
Daily News columnist
Lupica wrote several sports columns during the week for the Daily News, as well as a signature Sunday column, “Shooting from the Lip,” which featured a traditional column followed by a series of short, acerbic observations from the week in sports. Later in his career he began writing a regular political column entitled “Mondays with Mike,” which is strongly liberal in orientation. He left the Daily News in July 2018.[2]
Favorite Lupica targets include the New York Yankees, (and will often state their massive payroll in most of his articles) James L. Dolan, Isiah Thomas, Notre Dame football, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, former President George W. Bush, and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Lupica has also been a harsh critic of the new Yankee Stadium and was a vehement opponent of the proposed West Side Stadium. He has likewise been highly critical of the Atlantic Yards project and the attendant construction of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Author
Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells and collaborated with screenwriter William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year and Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away From the Fans and How We Get It Back. Lupica also wrote Summer of ’98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America, which detailed how the 1998 and the Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa home run chase had allowed him to share a love for baseball with his son. Lupica has been listed a vocal critic of the steroid era.[citation needed]
Lupica is also a novelist; his work includes mysteries involving fictional NYC television reporter Peter Finley. One of them, Dead Air, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Mystery and the 1987 Anthony Award in the same category; and was also adapted into a television movie called Money, Power, Murder.[1][3] He has written a novel for younger audiences called Travel Team. Lupica’s Bump and Run and Wild Pitch were best sellers. 2003 saw a sequel to Bump and Run, entitled Red Zone.In April 2006, his second children’s book, Heat, was published by Philomel. Heat is a fictional story based on the Danny Almonte scandal in the South Bronx Little League. In October 2006, Lupica’s third children’s novel, Miracle on 49th Street, was published. Summer Ball, a sequel to Travel Team, was released in 2007.
Television and radio work
Since 1988 Lupica has been one of the rotating pundits on The Sports Reporters on ESPN.[4] He also briefly hosted an unsuccessful television chat program, The Mike Lupica Show, on ESPN2, as well as a short-lived radio show on WFAN in New York City in the mid-1990s. He has been a recurring guest on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America, and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. Lupica has made frequent radio appearances on Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s.[5] Lupica hosted a daily radio show on WEPN-FM from May 9, 2011 until August 21, 2015.[6][7]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The horsewoman: a novel DB106198
Patterson, James; Lupica, Mike Reading time: 11 hours, 9 minutes.
Chloe Cannon
Suspense Fiction
Maggie Atwood and her daughter Becky McCabe, both champion horse riders, vowed never to go up against each other in competitions–until the ones leading to the Paris Olympics. Both share the same dream to be the best horsewoman in the world. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2022.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
“Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…
If you’re a Stephen King fan, this book won’t disappoint you.
From Wikipedia
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies,[2] and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 61 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books.[3] He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.[4][5]
King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.[6] He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.[7] In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature.[8] He has been described as the “King of Horror”, a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture.[9]
His other Pen names John Swithen, and Beryl Evans.
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Just after sunset: stories DB67854
King, Stephen. Reading time: 14 hours, 11 minutes.
Read by Don Hagen. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.
Short Stories
Suspense Fiction
Bestsellers
Thirteen suspenseful short stories. In “The Gingerbread Girl” a grieving woman whose baby has died retreats to the Florida Keys only to encounter a serial killer. In “The Things They Left Behind” a man finds items belonging to his murdered coworkers in his apartment. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2008.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The Forever Dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer ” by Rodney Habib; Karen Shaw Becker; Kristin Loberg
“The Forever Dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer ” by Rodney Habib; Karen Shaw Becker; Kristin Loberg
–Many people spend thousands of dollars searching for the solution, when the solution is to stop feeding their dog the wrong food.
–Metabolic stress can cause illness.
–By moving more (exercise) we lower the risk of early death, disease, depression, and anxiety, which is true for people and our dogs.
–Gut bacteria (biome) can influence brain activity and mood.
–The mor microbially rich and diverse your dog’s gut flora is, the healthier they will become.
–The power of poop; fecal transplants from a healthy dog to the sick dog.
–Environmental issues can be toxic and influence the health of our dogs and people
–food and medicines come from the same source; choose natural foods
–you and your dog need to get up and get moving for a healthier, longer life.
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rodneyhabib.com
Habib opened Planet Paws, his pet store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on October 15, 2011. In 2012, he posted a digital image and write-up on his Facebook page of all the separate ingredients that compose a typical bag of commercial dog food; the post received half a million shares overnight.[1]
One of his most popular posts was about rawhide chews and has been shared over 1 million times. It was followed by a video on how rawhide is made which has been viewed over 45 million times, and raised awareness of the chemicals and processes used in the creation of some rawhide chews. These video also resulted in one veterinarian, Patrick Mahaney, stating rawhide toys can be safe to use, and only chemical free rawhides should be considered.[4]
In 2014, Habib reportedly argued booster shots for pet vaccines increased risk of immune disorders, whereas medical experts cited large, long-term studies that show the benefit of vaccination outweighs the minimal risk of the adverse immune response.[5] He supports “core vaccinations” for young dogs and remains opposed to booster shots due to his belief that it could increase risk of immune disorders, though veterinary scientists continue to defend giving regular booster shots to maintain immunity.[6]
By 2015 Habib was recognized by Facebook for his successful use of his blog to promote his business[7] and was being sought around the world for advice on pet health.[8][9][4][10]
By March 2016, the Planet Paws Facebook page received national news coverage when an article in the National Post stated the page had over 860,000 likes and was reported to appear in 110 million newsfeeds every six days, and had deeper Facebook reach that Canadian corporations Tim Hortons, Canadian Tire, Air Canada, Cirque du Soleil and Shoppers Drug Mart.[1] By end of March 2016, the page was approaching 1 million likes,.[11] By July 2017 the page had exceeded 1.9 million followers, at which time Facebook administrators informed Habib that Planet Paws had become the most popular pet health page in the world.[12]
Karen Shaw Becker was born in Waterloo, Iowa, and grew up in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She graduated from Northern University High School in 1989. In 1990 she completed a raptor rehabilitation internship at the Raptor Center of Pueblo, Colorado. She interned at the Berlin Zoo in 1992.
Veterinary Career
Dr. Becker has been a practicing Veterinarian since 1997. In 2015 she co-founded the Companion Animal Nutrition and Wellness Institute (CANWI) with board-certified veterinary nutritionist Dr. Donna Raditicto fund independent, unbiased, university .
Kristin Loberg is the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling co-author of Grain Brain, A Short Look at a Long Life and others.
Loberg is a professional writer and book collaborator who specializes in transforming experts’ knowledge and ideas into engaging, reader-friendly works for general audiences. More than a dozen of her projects have spent weeks on the New best seller list.
She attended Cornell University and lives in L.A. with
her husband and two sons.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The forever dog: surprising new science to help your canine companion live younger, healthier, and longer DB105331
Habib, Rodney; Becker, Karen Shaw; Loberg, Kristin Reading time: 15 hours, 29 minutes.
Jean Ann Douglass
Animals and Wildlife
A veterinarian and an expert on pet health have gathered the best wisdom from top geneticists, microbiologists, and longevity researchers to delay aging and provide a longer, happier, healthier life for your dog. They also interviewed people whose dogs have lived into their 20s and even 30s. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.
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