Okie is a happy go lucky puppy until she loses her best friend and pack leader, Kippy. Then suddenly, she has big paws to fill. She needs to learn how to travel and fly and do all the tricks that Kippy used to do to move the sheep and run the ranch. How fast can Okie learn these tricks? Can she really learn to fly and take care of Miss A? Can Okie learn how to run the ranch? What does she do when there is a break-in at the ranch? Can she protect Miss A from danger? Okie learns about antelope and prairie dogs and has a dreadful mis-adventure with a handsome skunk. Can she hold the cows back and save Miss A from their thundering hooves? The stories tell of Okie’s adventures far and wide as she travels to Las Vegas and then back home to try and work the ranch. Okie narrates her own humorous real life stories. Includes Readers Guide.

It’s the dead of winter, but Galleria and her Cheetah sisters aren’t feeling the chill. They’re in sunny Houston, where they just played the biggest show of their lives, and are feeling closer than ever to the record deal that will make them famous. But just because this concert is over doesn’t mean the Cheetahs are ready to pack up and head home. There’s a rodeo in town, and Galleria is gonna get the Cheetah Girls up on stage—if she has to rope a bull to do it! As if bucking broncos and tough-talking cowboys weren’t enough trouble, another band accuses the Cheetahs of the worst crime of all: stealing lyrics. But Galleria won’t back down. There’s gonna be a showdown at this rodeo—and the Cheetahs sing best at high noon.

In the Oklahoma Winds contains three novellas set in Swells, Oklahoma in the same storyverse as the Only an Okie Will Do series. Cowboy Kind of Bliss Wedding planner Valentine Hart has put together plenty of weddings, but after her last break-up, she doesn't have any prospects of her own. When her friend Todd Dayson proposes a wild idea of staging a wedding photoshoot to sell a package, their playful charade ignites unexpected feelings. When Val's ex steps back into the mix, Todd realizes he's got to seize the moment to prove he's the one Val's been waiting for. Cowboy Kind of Luck Westie Collins is determined to win the stallion of her dreams at an auction while avoiding Barrett Nash at all costs. However, fate has other plans after Nash outbids her. Her luck goes from bad to worse when she's forced to catch a ride on his private jet and it crashes in the wilderness. Stranded together, she discovers her companion is Beckett, Barrett's twin brother. As they set aside their differences and work together to survive, they discover an undeniable attraction amidst the chaos. But is their relationship circumstantial or can they build a solid foundation on love after everything? Cowboy Kind of Roots Back in Oklahoma to start an orchard, Felicity Nash is forced to confront her past and the rancher next door who fathered her child. Coy Beecher needs a wife to save his family ranch and when he learns Felicity's pregnant, their marriage is the perfect solution. As they navigate their arrangement, what looks good on paper blossoms into real love, but not everyone is thrilled with the marriage. As jealousy rears it's ugly head, Felicity and Coy will discover if those roots and the vows they made are strong enough to withstand the blaze of betrayal.

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Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015 * One of the Texas Observer’s “Five Books We Loved in 2015” * One of PRI’s “The World’s Five Books You Should Read in 2016” “Profound and wrenching…A deeply moving chronicle of one family’s collective devastation, full of remarkable wisdom and humor” (The New York Times Book Review) that follows the members of a wealthy Mexican family after their patriarch is kidnapped. On an unremarkable night, José Victoriano Arteaga—the head of a thriving Mexico City family—vanishes on his way home from work. The Arteagas find few answers; the full truth of what happened to Arteaga is lost to the shadows of Mexico’s vast underworld. But soon packages arrive to the family house, offering horrifying clues. Fear, guilt, and the prospect of financial ruin fracture the once-proud family and scatter them across the globe, yet delicate threads still hold them together: in a swimming pool in Palo Alto, Arteaga’s grandson struggles to make sense of the grief that has hobbled his family; in Mexico City, Arteaga’s mistress alternates between rage and heartbreak as she waits, in growing panic, for her lover’s return; in Austin, the Arteagas’ housekeeper tries to piece together a second life in an alienating new land; in Madrid, Arteaga’s son takes his dog through the hot and unforgiving streets, in search of his father’s ghost. A stunningly original exploration of the wages of a hidden war, Barefoot Dogs is a heartfelt elegy to the stolen innocence of every family struck by tragedy. Urgent and vital fiction, “these powerful stories are worthy of rereading in order to fully digest the far-reaching implications of one man’s disappearance…this singular book affords the reader the chance to step inside a world of privilege and loss, and understand how the two are inextricably intertwined” (San Francisco Chronicle).

For the fans of Eat, Pray, Love and Marley & Me, a heartwarming story of a 2,000-mile road trip taken by a woman and her dog. Bodie, mystery mix rescue pup, is on death row in a Los Angeles dog shelter, having been abandoned by his owner. Belinda, a heartbroken woman, is in a heap on the floor of her vintage apartment, having been dumped by the man of her dreams. Two lost souls ready to find a new life—together. Belinda falls in love with Bodie the moment he plants his furry butt on her bare, flip-flopped foot. Soon, the two embark on a 2,000-mile West Coast road trip, taking in spectacular Big Sur, a pack run in the wilds of Oregon, afternoon tea at Doris Day’s dog-loving hotel in Carmel, a fragrant encounter with the creator of Kennel No.5 furfume, and a bar stop in a small town near San Francisco where a dog was elected mayor and served for thirteen years . . . On their soul-searching adventure, Belinda and Bodie cruise along California State Route 1, one of the most iconic highways in America, heading towards Portland, Oregon—repeatedly voted one of the most dog-friendly cities in America. Join Belinda and Bodie on this feelgood road trip, and you, too, will feel the wind in your hair and a wag in your tail!

An outrageous memoir by a preposterous and passionate pitchman.