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Summary: Jarvis offers a moving tale of friendship, kindness, and acceptance, softly touching on the subjects of illness or hardship in a way that young children can understand. Everyone likes David, the boy with flowers in his hair. He's sweet and gentle, just like his colorful petals. David and his best friend have a great time together, finding the good puddles, making up songs, and running away from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG JARFrancis, Dick.
Summary: As bookie Ned Talbot counts his losses after a winning day for gamblers at the Royal Ascot Racecourse, a man comes to him, claiming to be his father. Ned, who's always been told that his parents died when he was a baby, has trouble accepting the man's claims. But when the man is stabbed in the abdomen in the racecourse's parking lot shortly thereafter, Ned rushes to his side. The man's last...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call will set off a lethal chain of events, including the apparent suicide of the jockey and an attempt on Hinkley's own life. Never one to leave suspicious events...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
Summary: It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup day that really troubles supersleuth Sid Halley. Halley, a former champion jockey, knows all too well the perils of racing--but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest. Yet this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker, who only a few hours earlier won the coveted Triumph Hurdle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He'd been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game. He thought wrong. Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs Sid...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAGraves, Robert
Summary: Originally published in 1929, when the late British poet Robert Graves was in his 30s, Good-bye to All That is his personal account of the horrible and unseen side of the First World War.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: CSA Word 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GRAVES, ROBERT GRAAyoade, Richard
Summary: The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns). And this narrator should know. Iit's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FRAArvin, Reed.
Summary: A prosecutor's case becomes a lightning rod when a Sudanese refugee is accused of killing a white woman.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2005