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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...
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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 BERSummary: "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 RETBagnold, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction BagnoldAlexander, Tamera
Summary: A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. An Irishman far from home, Cullen McGrath left a once prosperous life in England because of a horse racing scandal that nearly ruined him. He's come to Nashville hoping to buy land and begin farming, determined to stay as far away from thoroughbred racing as possible. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALEFrancis, 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 FRAFrancis, Felix
Summary: Harrison Foster is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. There is far more to the 'simple' fire than initially meets the eye. For one, human remains are found among the equestrian ones. Who is the mystery victim? Harry is thrust unwillingly into the world of thoroughbred racing where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
Summary: 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 just when Steven is winning at both women and horses, he discovers deceit in his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1995
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix
Summary: Bill Russell is acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick races when he confronts his worst nightmare---the violent death of his much-loved wife. But, the aftermath proves much worse when he is accused of killing her and then hounded mercilessly by the media. Losing his job and in danger of losing his home too, Bill's life begins to unravel completely. Even his best friends turn against him,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix
Summary: Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization--an informant who is passing on confidential information to those under suspicion in American racing. At the Kentucky Derby, Jeff joins the FACSA team in a raid on a horse trainer's barn at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAGrimes, Martha.
Summary: "Chew on this, " says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise. Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIFrancis, Felix
Summary: Asked by the U.S. FACSA to find a mole who has been passing on information to those under suspicion in American horse racing, British Horseracing Authority investigator Jeff Hinkley participates in a raid on a corrupt trainer's barn before three Kentucky Derby contenders become suspiciously ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2016