The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels--A Love Story

by Ree Drummond

Overview

New York Times Bestseller

Wildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter to a cattle ranch in rural Oklahoma, and into the arms of her real-life Marlboro Man.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061997174
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	02/14/2012
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	85,263
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Ree Drummond is the author of six #1 New York Times bestselling cookbooks in the Pioneer Woman Cooks series, the New York Times bestsellers Frontier Follies and The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, and many bestselling children's books. Her award-winning website, The Pioneer Woman, was founded in 2006 and showcases her cooking, photography, and anecdotes about country life. Her top-rated cooking show, The Pioneer Woman, premiered on Food Network in 2011, and in the years to follow, Ree launched The Pioneer Woman magazine, a well-loved line of kitchen and home products, and a restaurant, store, and other businesses in her hometown of Pawhuska, Oklahoma. She lives on a working ranch with her family, horses, cows, and pups.

Hometown:

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Date of Birth:

January 6, 1969

Editorial Reviews

What happens when a nice University of Southern California city girl meets an irresistible cowboy? Ree Drummond spins the inevitable, yet simultaneously improbable tale in this sweet memoir adventure about her major life transition. What began as a blog and then a cookbook (The Pioneer Woman Cooks) became a reader favorite that has now graduated to trade paperback and NOOK Book editions.

— Edward Ash-Milby

#2 New York Times Bestseller — New York Times

#2 Wall Street Journal Bestseller — Wall Street Journal

“Fans of Drummond’s blog and cookbook will eat up this breathless blow-by-blow chronicle of falling in love with Marlboro Man, a.k.a. her husband, and adapting to life on his ranch. . . . Generous dollops of self-deprecating humor contribute a welcome tang.” — People

“Charming and bright, Drummond’s story will be an inspiration to those who despair of finding old-fashioned, lasting love.” — Booklist

“The Pioneer Woman is perfect reading for Valentine’s Day, whether you’re celebrating a lasting love or still looking for The One. Even the most cynical of readers will be charmed by Drummond’s hilarious story of being won over by a cowboy.” — BookPage

“An affecting new memoir . . . charming and romantic. Riotously funny . . . Drummond is . . . sure to have readers in tears and in stitches. In a word: delightful.” — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Charming and bright, Drummond’s story will be an inspiration to those who despair of finding old-fashioned, lasting love.

Booklist

Charming and bright, Drummond’s story will be an inspiration to those who despair of finding old-fashioned, lasting love.

Booklist

#2 Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Wall Street Journal

Fans of Drummond’s blog and cookbook will eat up this breathless blow-by-blow chronicle of falling in love with Marlboro Man, a.k.a. her husband, and adapting to life on his ranch. . . . Generous dollops of self-deprecating humor contribute a welcome tang.

People

"Fans of Drummond’s blog and cookbook will eat up this breathless blow-by-blow chronicle of falling in love with Marlboro Man, a.k.a. her husband, and adapting to life on his ranch. . . . Generous dollops of self-deprecating humor contribute a welcome tang."

People Magazine

#2 Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Wall Street Journal

#2 New York Times Bestseller

New York Times

The Pioneer Woman is perfect reading for Valentine’s Day, whether you’re celebrating a lasting love or still looking for The One. Even the most cynical of readers will be charmed by Drummond’s hilarious story of being won over by a cowboy.

BookPage

Drummond, a blogger and best-selling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, turns her popular blog chronicling her improbable city-girl-meets-rugged-cowboy saga into an affecting new memoir. Drummond deftly describes what happens when life takes a U-turn, taking readers from her chaste but steamy courtship with "Marlboro Man," to their subsequent wedding and Australian honeymoon, and into the first year of their marriage where the two decamped to Marlboro Man's isolated ranch (Drummond had been en route to a new life in Chicago when she met him). What emerges is a charming and romantic yet realistic tale of the forces that can test a new relationship—no matter how good it is. She presents a sometimes riotously funny, always strikingly real tale of love and life. Drummond is intensely likable and writes with the facile confidence of one who clearly knows herself well. Plenty of surprises lie along the way, such as her parents' divorce and an immediate pregnancy following the nuptials. She's sure to have readers in tears and in stitches as they share her adventure. In a word: delightful. Includes several recipes. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

In this follow-up to the No. 1 New York Times best-selling The Pioneer Woman Cooks (2009), Drummond expounds on the revelations she shared in her immensely popular Confessions of a Pioneer Woman blog to relate the complete account of her real-life storybook romance. Covering the years from when she first met her "Marlboro Man" love to the birth of their first child, Drummond takes listeners through the good, the bad, and the sweetness of her life. The relaxed prose and the chatty tone in which she reads it will make listeners feel as though they are catching up with a long-lost friend. It's easy to forget this delightful tale is not a work of fiction but rather a charming reminder that storybook romances can come true. Sure to be a hit among Drummond's fans, those enjoying the works of Lauraine Snelling and Janette Oke, and anyone who's ever wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder. [See Major Audio Releases, LJ 1/11; see also Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/10.—Ed.]—Donna Bachowski, Orange Cty. Lib. Syst., Orlando, FL

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