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Henson, Heather.

Summary: Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEN

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Dr

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DRE

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Dreamer

Kubrick, Stanley

Summary: A group of criminals plot the perfect racetrack robbery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIL

Summary: Ken McLaughlin has a new horse, Crown Jewel, with whom he hopes to win enough money to help his father raise money for Goose Bar Ranch's financial crisis. Crown Jewel's heart is not in the race, since she is more captivated by the stallion Thunderhead.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GRE

Robards, Karen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2000

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROB

Michaels, Fern.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MIC

Michaels, Fern.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MIC

Morgan, C. E.

Summary: "Hellsmouth, a willful thoroughbred filly with the blood of Triple Crown winners flowing through her veins, has the legacy of the Forges riding on her. One of the oldest and proudest families in Kentucky, the Forge family is as mythic as the history of the South itself. Descended from one of the first settlers to brave the Gap, Henry Forge, through an act of naked ambition, is attempting to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Yolen, Jane

Summary: In 1930's rural Kentucky, Anna Mary, rhymes with library, and her horse, Sand, go from farm to farm to deliver books to the delight of both children and adults.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOL

Summary: "Alec Ramsay and Henry Daily return to the screen alongside their loyal companion "The Black," a smooth wild stallion and fastest racehorse in the world. Watch as this unbeatable team works to overcome adversity and solve all kinds of mysteries."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Entertainment Group 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RET

Summary: A young boy, unsure of what path to take in life, comes across a horse trainer who convinces him to train for the Derby Cup. Will he be able to convince his parents, beat the champion, and find the champion inside himself?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DER

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DER

Summary: An adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel, in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse. After surviving together, they develop a bond and begin training to race once they are rescued.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: DVD FAMILY BLA

Bagnold, Enid

Summary: In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Bagnold

Summary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEA

Summary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEA

Hamilton, Sable

Summary: Kellie, one of the girls at the Stardust stunt-riding stables, is working as a stunt double on a movie--but when the actress comes down with food poisoning she is called upon to step into the leading role.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAM

Berne, Emma Carlson

Summary: "Kaya is a Nez Perce girl who takes pride in helping out and supporting the tribe--and also in her beloved horse, Steps High. But when she chooses racing her horse over family responsibilities, Kaya has to prove herself to earn her tribe's respect. Kaya's story of adventure in the wilderness is sure to engage today's readers as they learn what it was like to be a Native American girl in 1764 in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BER

Brooks, Geraldine

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPE

Francis, Dick.

Summary: A computer wiz is dead, his body smashed at the bottom of a rocky cliff. The answer might lie in his latest project, a foolproof betting system designed to pick winners. Jocky Club investigator David Cleveland wants to know why.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audio 2001

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRA

Gordon, Jaimy

Summary: In the early 1970s, trainer Tommy Hansel attempts a horse racing scam at a small, backwoods track in West Virginia, but nothing goes according to his plan when the horses refuse to cooperate and nearly everyone at the track seems to know his scheme.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOR

Summary: The hit mystery drama series, set in a Dorset coastal town, returns for a second season.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Francis, Felix

Summary: Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

George, K. (Kallie)

Summary: High on the slopes of mighty Mount Olympus, among the sun-splashed meadows and sparkling waters, glide the winged horses of the ancient gods. Here up high is normally no place for a lost, parentless girl like Pippa. But once every hundred years, the gods and goddesses descend to the mortal realm to choose jockeys for their winged horse race--and Pippa is one of the lucky children chosen to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION GEO

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