6 must-read horses books like For the Love of the Horse: Looking Back, Looking Forward by Rashid Mark

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For the Love of the Horse: Looking Back, Looking Forward

By: Rashid Mark

4.79

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

A favorite storyteller sheds new light on the never-ending process of becoming better for the horse…

If you liked the horses plot in For the Love of the Horse: Looking Back, Looking Forward by Rashid Mark , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

By: Brené Brown

4.13

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we k… read more

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"Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"When we're suffering, may of us are better at causing pain than feeling it. We spread hurt rather than let it inside."

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

"(Quoting Viola Davis) I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in…"

-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

2. The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen

By: Buck Brannaman

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

Nearly every week of the year, Buck Brannaman is on the road, conducting horsemanship clinics in wh… read more

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3. Winter Solstice

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Her captivating bestseller of loss and the healing power of love now re-issued with a stunning new … read more

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4. The Highway (Highway Quartet, #2)

By: C.J. Box

3.93

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the New York Times bestselling author of Back of Beyond a… read more

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Cover of Hope . . . From the Heart of Horses: How Horses Teach Us About Presence, Strength, and Awareness by Linda Kohanov, Kathy Pike

5. Hope . . . From the Heart of Horses: How Horses Teach Us About Presence, Strength, and Awareness

By: Linda Kohanov , Kathy Pike

3.32

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hope . . . From the Heart of Horsesexplores and celebrates the relationship and bond possible betwe… read more

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6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

By: Betty Smith

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty S… read more

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7. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

A novel of unsentimental charm, humor, and profound insight into the thoughts and feelings we all b… read more

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8. The Stars Don't Lie

By: Boo Walker

4.14

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A man who thought he put his shattered past behind him embarks on a reflective journey home in a he… read more

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"One day you’ll realize you worked your whole life to get to a point where you can start living, and the one regret you’ll have is you could have been living all along."

-Boo Walker, The Stars Don't Lie

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9. Life, Loss, and Puffins

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.42

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An exhilarating and emotional novel about grief, hope, friendship, and taking life one beautiful an… read more

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10. The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

By: Charles Martin

4.41

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Combining heart-wrenching emotion with edge-of-your-seat tension, Charles Martin explores the true … read more

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"Stripped bare, the human soul has one real desire: to know and be known."

-Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

"...girls need their father. Period. And I couldn’t really tell you why other than it’s the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they’re just floating in the earth like that tooth. Burie…"

-Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

"There's a thing that happens when we start to believe the lies about ourselves, and when we think other people believe them too. Those lies become our prison. The bars we see through. They hold us ca…"

-Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

"While a deep need in each of us is to know and be known, there is one deeper. One that undergirds everything else. It's the stuff of us. Out of it, we breathe, or not. We wander the earth like shipwr…"

-Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

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11. The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

By: Charles Martin

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new story of heroism, heartache, and the power of love to heal all wounds. Murphy She… read more

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"Love is an amazing thing. It takes the brokenness, the scars, the pain, the darkness, everything, and makes it all new."

-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

"Belonging comes before identity. Ownership births purpose. Someone speaks whose we are, and out of that we become who we are. It's just the way the heart works."

-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

"...we wrestle and search. But regardless of where we search and how we try to answer the question or what we ingest, inject, or swallow to numb the nagging, only the Father gets to tell us who we are…"

-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

"...despite the mask we are all so good at wearing, we somehow manage to wake up every day hoping there's still a chance. That maybe, somehow, we can balance the debt ledger we carry in our hearts. Th…"

-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

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12. Just After Midnight

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.22

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an uplifting and poignant novel ab… read more

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"People make mistakes all the time. That’s more or less the definition of a person: we’re a bunch of walking, talking mistake-holders. When I make a mistake, if I was doing my best, I let myself off t…"

-Catherine Ryan Hyde, Just After Midnight

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13. Sacred Spaces: Communion with the horse through science and spirit

By: Susan Fay

4.61

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

Are there are silent, yet powerful, ingredients missing from current horse training, riding, and na… read more

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14. Listen Like A Horse: Relationships Without Dominance

By: Kerri Lake

4.37

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it possible to listen without judgment? Is it possible to be a human in a relationship that does… read more

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15. Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)

By: Demi Winters

4.40

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Silla Nordvig survived the Road of Bones. In the aftermath of her journey, her dreams of a simpl… read more

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"Because all the good people have died, yet still I breathe. I must honor them and their deaths. Make them mean something. --Reynir Galtung"

-Demi Winters, Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)

"In that moment, Silla made herself a vow. She would never allow another to know her true name. She would hold it so tightly she strangled it from this world."

-Demi Winters, Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)

"Wrath and judgment scraped across her skin. They watched her, waiting for her to shatter. Didn’t they know she was already broken? They’d taken her family, her castle, her kingdom, and now they’d tak…"

-Demi Winters, Kingdom of Claw (The Ashen, #2)

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16. The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)

By: Demi Winters

4.25

Format: 500 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman on the run. A crew of Viking mercenaries. A forbidden romance. And the secret which threate… read more

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"Why does he call you Ribs?"

-Demi Winters, The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)

"Your wits do not impress me thus far."

-Demi Winters, The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)

"The rabbit comes easily to the clever wolf who waits."

-Demi Winters, The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)

"I’m not a good man, Curls. But you make me feel as though I could be one."

-Demi Winters, The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1)

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17. Evidence-Based Horsemanship

By: Stephen Peters

4.21

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

Most horsemen agree that timing, feel, and balance are the holy trinity of horsemanship. They are a… read more

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Cover of Discovering The Work: How a stroke allowed me to discover a more symbiotic way of working with horses by Kathleen Lindley Beckham

18. Discovering The Work: How a stroke allowed me to discover a more symbiotic way of working with horses

By: Kathleen Lindley Beckham

4.26

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1994, when Kathleen Lindley Beckham was a mere 28 years old, a serious stroke derailed her eques… read more

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19. Three Steps Up to Mediocrity: A woman afraid, a tough little horse and the man who brought them together

By: Pamela Reband

4.61

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

“I couldn’t stop reading it. It is well written with good imagery and appeals to those of us who ha… read more

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20. For the Love of the Horse: Looking Back, Looking Forward

By: Mark Rashid

4.79

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A favorite storyteller sheds new light on the never-ending process of becoming better for the horse… read more

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21. My Animal, My Self: A Breakthrough Way to Understand How You and Your Animal Reflect Each Other

By: Marta Williams

3.83

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking book, animal communicator Marta Williams brings into focus an unexamined dyn… read more

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8 must-read nonfiction books like Sacred Spaces: Communion with the horse through science and spirit by Susan Fay

Transform Your Habits

Horsemanship Through Life

Mark Rashid , Shihan Eric Adams

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16

Moshe Kasher

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Horse Brain, Human Brain: The Neuroscience of Horsemanship

Janet Jones

4.51

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