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    Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her
    Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her
    Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her
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    Horses Never Lie About Love: The Heartwarming Story of a Remarkable Horse Who Changed the World Around Her

    Written by Jana Harris

    Narrated by Susanna Burney

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    Combining the drama of The God of Animals with the powerful realism of Chosen by a Horse, award-winning poet Jana Harris tells the inspiring story of her twenty-four-year relationship with a troubled but beautiful, blood-red feral mare who, in spite of her difficult past, has a talent for healing and helping every human and other being she comes into contact with.#160;#160;When True Colors arrived at Harris#8217; farm, she was in dire shape. She had survived a range fire that had scarred her head, ears, and lungs, and she was terrified of most people, especially men. True Colors sensed demons hiding in everything from the scent of fabric softener to a gate in a fence, and her will to escape was enormous. In Horses Never Lie About Love, Harris lyrically recounts how this wounded, implacable beast nevertheless held a magical influence over the other horses of the ranch and how she eased uncannily into the role of mother after having a foal. In time she became the heart of the ranch-now thirty-three years old, she is a matriarchal presence without whom the other horses cannot sleep at night, and whose quiet wisdom transmits strength of character that transcends the thin line between animals and the humans they love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781611746112
    Author

    Jana Harris

     Jana Harris is a poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist who teaches creative writing at the University of Washington and is a Washington State Governor’s Writers Award and Andres Berger Award winner, as well as a PEN West Center Award finalist. She won a Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2001 and is editor and founder of Switched-on Gutenberg, one of the first electronic global poetry journals. She lives in the Cascade Mountains with her husband, where they raise horses.

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    • 3/5
      The book was enjoyable, but it seemed to be more of the story of the author and her many special horses. I didn't see how there was one "remarkable horse" who was supposed to have changed everything.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent a must read I loved every moment and have read it twice already
    • 2/5
      This was basically just the story of how a couple inexplicably decided they wanted to breed horses with no real purpose, continuously bred their mares despite not wanting to sell any of the foals and not having any where to really put them, and no knowledge or skill of handling or training them, and spent buckets of money on breeding and buying horses left right and center without doing a whole lot of good for any of them. I don't see how this was at all "heartwarming". It's basically just a foolish wife and husband who dabble in horse breeding and don't really seem to know what they're doing or have any direction other than to create more horses than they know what to do with. From what's written in the book, none of the horses they bred were very good at much of anything and never amounted to much other than being pretty. Pretty dumb story in my opinion.
    • 5/5
      I have always loved horses so I was anxious to read this book. In this touching book the author shares the story of True Colors a Thoroughbred horse whom she purchased from The Rocking D Ranch in May 1986. The situation was less than ideal on the ranch, the horses were allowed to run on the range and had never really been handled and were afraid of people. There was one mare that stood out for Jana Harris because of the way the horse guarded her foal. That mare turned out to be a beautiful horse named True Colors. Ms. Harris purchases True Colors and her foal along with another foal that was yet to be born, to be delivered to her farm later. While the foals were delivered on time, the breeders kept putting her off regarding the delivery of True Colors. When True Colors was finally delivered to the farm, she didn't look like the same horse. Her face had been burned and she had a persistent cough because she had gotten to close to wildfires that were going on near the Rocking D ranch.The story the author shares in her book"Horses Never Lie About Love" is a touching story of how the author thru loving care and patience finally gained the trust of True Colors and how True Colors touched everyone around her. I really loved reading not only about True Colors but also the other horses on the Harris ranch. There was the two foals that she purchased named BeDazzeled which she nicknamed Miss Piggy and Abercrombie which she nicknamed Kermit as well as two older horses who were already on the ranch. Reading this story I couldn't help but fall in love with the horses on Ms. Harris' ranch. She easily allows the reader to see the individual personalities of her horses and takes us along while she gains their trust. The pictures that she includes really allowed me to connect with the horses. A heart touching, wonderfully well written memoir that I am certain that I will pick up and reread. Recommended