{"id":55472,"date":"2022-12-18T07:58:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=55472"},"modified":"2022-12-18T07:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:58:49","slug":"book-feature-liberty-biscuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/book-feature-liberty-biscuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Feature: Liberty Biscuit<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melanie Sue Bowles, Author<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Ever since she and her husband retired from firefighting and opened a sanctuary for horses, Melanie Sue Bowles has chronicled the stories of animals that have come into her life. Liberty Biscuit<\/em> is her first novel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe title character was inspired by two real-life donkeys who came to the sanctuary from different states,\u201d she says. \u201cBoth suffered abuse. One arrived on July 4th; we named him Liberty. The other was lured into our trailer with biscuits, and\u2014you guessed it\u2014we named him Biscuit. Those two bonded deeply and were together for 20 years. And, oh, the shenanigans they got into! Sadly, they are both gone now, but we cherish their memories and they\u2019re immortalized in Liberty Biscuit<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tale, for young adult readers or animal lovers of any age, introduces a young girl who finds a bedraggled donkey with one eye and a floppy ear. When her grandfather agrees to help foster the donkey, therein begins the unraveling of some family secrets and a fight to keep the animal from being returned to an abusive home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope whoever reads this story feels the importance of inclusion,\u201d says Bowles, \u201cthat we all belong. My protagonist Kip is interesting, smart and sort of quirky, just learning to accept herself for who she is and discovering she likes who she is. I think that\u2019s important, especially for young people navigating their teen years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liberty Biscuit, October, 2022, fiction, paperback, $12.95, by Melanie Sue Bowles, and published by Trafalgar Square Books, Pomfret, VT. To learn more about Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary and Bowles\u2019 other works, visit HorsesofProudSpirit.org<\/a>. Order the book at HorseandRiderBooks.com<\/a> or at regional bookstores.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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