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1) Derby Day
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English
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Nominated for the Man Booker Prize, an exquisite tale of romance and rivalry, gambling and greed, from one of England's finest writers.
As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Down?high life and low life, society beauties and White chapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air? This is Derby Day.
For months people have been waiting...
2) Dead heat
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English
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With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton caters an exclusive luncheon at the Two Thousand Guineas horse race, a party devastated by a bomb blast that kills many of the guests.
3) Photo finish
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English
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Psychologist and Pittsburgh Police Department consultant Daniel Rinaldi has a new patient. Lisa Harland, a local girl, once made a splash in Playboy and the dubious side of Hollywood before bottoming out. Back home, down and out again, she married one of the city's richest and most ruthless tycoons. Lisa's challenge to Danny is that she intends to commit suicide by 7:00 PM. His therapist skills may buy some time-but, exiting, she's kidnapped right...
4) Iced
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Dick Francis novels volume 10
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English
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When Miles Pussett discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future, he begins a search for answers.
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Series
Coley Killebrew mysteries volume 1
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English
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Raymond Starbuck ruined star jockey Coley Killebrew's reputation- so why is Coley cutting a deal with him? When Killebrew was barred from the track after a race-fixing scandal, he also lost his irresistible girlfriend, Francie Dorn. Starbuck says that if Coley can keep some unsavory cronies from muscling in on the old Magnolia Park track, he'll give Coley $10,000- and Francie's address. Is this the opportunity he's been waiting...
7) Hands down
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Series
Dick Francis novels volume 11
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English
Description
"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
8) Born to trot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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As he learns about the famous Hambletonian, sire of the American trotter, young Gib White dreams of some day having his own filly become a champion trotter.
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English
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At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs,...
10) Close call
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Series
Jack Doyle horseracing mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (286 pages)
Language
English
Description
Jack Doyle is hired as the publicity director at Monee Park, a struggling race track owned by Celia McCann, but Doyle soon discovers that Celia is being threatened by thugs who are pressuring her to sell the valuable property to real estate developers.
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Series
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English
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"This story has great richness of voice and will take you on a fascinating journey. It is both an adventure and a colourful experience." -Calvert Markham, Treasurer of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London
Still wondering what Sherlock Holmes was doing between his reported death at Reichenbach and his reappearance in The Empty House? Only Dr. Watson knew the truth. From 1891 to 1894, Sherlock Holmes was dead to the world-and having the grandest adventures...
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Harriet Bean mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.
15) High stakes
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Publisher
Harper and Row
Pub. Date
c1975
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Steven Scott is relatively new to horses. A successful, wealthy inventor, he takes up horse racing as a hobby, a hobby that soon brings him winner after winner under the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds. Currently both their reputations are wrapped up in a beautiful black hurdler named Energise, but suspicions that Jody is padding the books leads Steven to sack him. And, Jody's revenge is both swift and deadly.
17) To the hilt
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Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
19) Hot money
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
20) Hugger mugger
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 27
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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