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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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#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...
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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...
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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,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Perestroika in Paris is an imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris. Parasis a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. One afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance in the City of Light. She's dazzled, and often mystified,by the sights, sounds and smells around her, but she isn't afraid. Soon she...
5) Secretariat
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Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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"In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history won the Triple Crown. He still holds the record for the fastest times in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. The tale of "Big Red" is an enduring classic, more than thirty years after its initial publication"--Back cover.
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English
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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
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English
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In this edge-of-the-seat finale to the trilogy that has reunited the Coleman and Thornton families, New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels sets our pulses pounding as horsewoman Nealy Coleman faces her greatest challenge--to produce another Derby winner and show the world that a determined woman never quits...
Kentucky Sunrise
When it comes to men, Nealy is very content with her new husband, lawyer Hatch Littletree. When it comes to horses,...
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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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Dick Francis novels volume 13
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English
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When a mysterious fire at a stable kills six thoroughbred horses as well as a human being that no one can account for, Harrison Foster investigates the Chadwick Family, a dysfunctional horse racing dynasty.
10) Secretariat
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Behind every legend lies an impossible dream. Witness the spectacular journey of an incredible horse named Secretariat and the moving story of his unlikely owner, a housewife who risked everything to make him a champion.
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A to Z mysteries. Main series volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the disappearance of a valuable racehorse that Dink's uncle and his friend, Forest Evans, have just bought and entered in a race at Saratoga.
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Senior sleuths volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While in Kentucky to sell her thoroughbred broodmare's offspring at a high-stakes yearling sale, rival sisters-in-law Peg and Rose discover something seems off about Six Oaks farm, and when the yearling manager with serious anger issues is murdered, the ladies enter the ring to expose the culprit.
13) Crossfire
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English
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Shell-shocked and missing a foot--lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan--Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather....
14) Dark horse
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in South Wales, a barmaid and her husband breed a racehorse with the help of their community.
16) Dream horse
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Experience the inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely racehorse bred by small-town bartender Jan Vokes. With little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to raise Dream and compete against the racing elites, becoming a beacon of hope in their struggling community as he rises through the ranks.
17) Race horses
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Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn what it takes to become a racehorse.
18) 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
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 51 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When America needed him most, Seabiscuit became the working man's hero and the most remarkable thoroughbred racehorse in history. This documentary includes real footage of Red Pollard's thrilling victory at the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap, the complete Seabiscuit/War Admiral "Match Race", and an exclusive interview with author Laura Hillenbrand.
20) Dreamer
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but today Ben's daughter, Cale, is at the track. Ben impulsively buys the horse, which causes him to lose his job. The rehabilitation process of the horse is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a modern economy, but the horse turns out to be a much-needed...
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