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Author
Publisher
Bev Pettersen
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Pettersen's sweet cowboy romance challenges the notions of trust and forgiveness when those you love betray you...a well-written love story." Kirkus Reviews WINNER, Reader Views, Best Romance HOLT Medallion Finalist, 2015 Book Buyers' Best Finalist, OCCRWA 2015 PRISON CHANGES EVERYTHING.It's been two rough years since Dani Tattrie has seen her husband. She didn't plan on running their California ranch by herself, but she's scraped by. Now though,...
2) Derby Day
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Language
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...
4) Close call
Author
Series
Jack Doyle horseracing mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Ex-amateur boxer and failed advertising account executive Jack Doyle, hero of Blind Switch, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing at a suburban Chicago track in this new thriller by the author of award-winning Riders Down.
With the help of furrier-to-the-mob Moe Kellman, Doyle is hired as publicity director at Monee Park, a struggling suburban Chicago track owned by heiress Celia McCann. Celia is fighting to keep the business afloat while...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
My e-book looks at a specific era in the horse and dog racing industries, i.e. 1965-1976. The text discusses specific crimes committed during this time. The crimes were the work of a monopoly established by a Buffalo, New York concessionaire and its ties to the Mafia in major U.S. cities. Mobsters did the bidding on Emprise Corp. in Detroit, Phoenix, West Memphis, Arkansas, Chicago, Canandaigua, NY, Pensacola, Omaha and many other locations. The monopoly...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Robert "Big Bob" McCullough was a hit man for Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. Later he served as a policeman for several prominent race organizations. Specifically, these were the Miami Beach Kennel Club and the Sportsman's Park racetrack in Chicago. McCullough came under scrutiny following the murder of newspaper reporter and crime investigator William Drury. He was slain on September 25, 1950 while parking his Cadillac in the driveway of his northside...
Author
Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages)
Language
English
Description
Aborigines and the "Sport of Kings' is a celebration of the significant involvement and impact of Aboriginals in Australian horse racing history. Beginning with the remarkable history of Australian Aboriginal people's first contact with horses and how the European animals caused them bewilderment and terror, this book then discusses how, over time, they caught horses and taught themselves to ride and showed an uncanny affinity with horses. The work...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success...
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success...
11) Decider
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English
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Architect and family man Lee Morris never gave much thought to the shares he inherited of the Stratton Park racecourse, the multi-million dollar property owned by the powerful Stratton family. His mother had first received the shares to keep her quiet about the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her first husband, Keith Stratton. Now, much to Lee's chagrin, he is being drawn into the thick of the Stratton family squabbles as they wage a furious...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Her mother calls it "a breathtaking piece of folly," but fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown is determined: every night she prays to be the best rider in England, and every day she trains to win the world's most famous steeplechase, the Grand National. No woman has ever competed in the race, let alone won it. Velvet is skinny and frail, and her mount is a rough country horse that she won in a raffle. But she whispers her hopes and dreams into his ear,...
13) Dead heat
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English
Description
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.
14) Photo finish
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Series
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English
Description
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...
15) Stalking horse
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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...
16) Hands down
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Series
Dick Francis novels volume 11
Language
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....
17) Kentucky rich
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Series
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English
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First in the Kentucky trilogy from the #1 bestselling author. "Prose so natural that it seems you are witnessing a story rather than reading about it." —Los Angeles Sunday Times
The Colemans and Thorntons, the unforgettable American families of Fern Michaels' Texas and Vegas series, are back in an exciting trilogy that combines the heady thrills of Kentucky horse racing with strong, accomplished women who fight for...
The Colemans and Thorntons, the unforgettable American families of Fern Michaels' Texas and Vegas series, are back in an exciting trilogy that combines the heady thrills of Kentucky horse racing with strong, accomplished women who fight for...
18) Jockey club
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
1936
Physical Desc
1 online resource (8 min.).
Language
English
19) Come to grief
Author
Series
Sid Halley novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Retired jockey Sid Halley is stunned by a suicide that disrupts the racketeering trial in which he as about to testify.
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Language
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,...
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