High on the slopes of mighty Mount Olympus 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...
Horse racing
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Author:George, K.Summary: - Author:FRANCIS, DickSummary:
An entertaining story combining horse racing, detection, suspense and a sensitive study of human relationships. Ex-jockey, Sid Halley, is a victim of his own success, overworked and stretched to do all the jobs he is offered, even with...
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Author:Faber, FelizSummary:How can love between two men possibly be responsible for a horse’s death during the Kentucky Derby? Reporter Will Yeats wants to know the truth. Seventeen years ago, a love affair between a jockey and a horse trainer and a tragic...
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Author:McEvoy, JohnSummary:Seven lifelong friends and racing fans from their student days at the University of Wisconsin strike it lucky at Saratoga Race Track when they combine to win a plus million dollar Pick Six. They subsequently use some of those profits to...
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Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming...
- Author:George, KallieSummary:
Soar into adventure with Pippa, an orphaned girl in Ancient Greece, and her beloved winged horse, Zephyr, who head out on a daring adventure to save Mt. Olympus in the second book in the Wings of Olympus series by beloved, award-winning...
- Author:Simmins, MarjorieSummary:
It's November 2006 and Brent MacGrath, a car salesman from Nova Scotia, has just had his first glimpse of a gorgeous yearling at the Lexington Yearling Sale--and his heart skips a beat. He takes another look. Even this young, the...
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Author:Chandler, AnnSummary:On summer vacation in Siena, Angela befriends a fiery horse and trains him to race in the Palio, despite being written off by the horse's owners.
- Author:LA PLANTE, LyndaSummary:
To mastermind stealing of Koh-i-noor, the most valuable diamond in the world is not an easy task.
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Author:Pettersen, BevSummary:Rugged Scott Taylor can't stay away from the stunning Megan. But their sizzling attraction could compromise the search for her missing brother and put her in terrible danger. Can the pair survive treachery, betrayal, and their own...
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Author:McEvoy, JohnSummary:No one really notices that a fix may be in until Matt O’Connor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance. Kellmans question for Matt: Was the death of 92-year-...
- Author:Francis, DickSummary:
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Dick Francis' pacey thriller starring Nigel Havers. At the annual party celebrating the success of the racing season, everything is running well to form -- until a runaway horsebox ploughs into the...
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Author:McEvoy, JohnSummary:Chicago racetrack publicist Jack Doyle, former advertising man and amateur boxer, accepts the challenge of a new job in the world of thoroughbred horse racing—that of jockey’s agent. His client is a 17-year-old riding phenom from...
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Author:FRANCIS, DickSummary:John Kendall agrees to write the biography of a National Hunt racehorse trainer. He wishes he hadn't when it takes all his ingenuity to avoid ending up dead in the seemingly innocent training grounds of rural Berkshire.
- Author:Dick FrancisSummary:
Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million without making enemies. Nor did he expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home. When he finds his own life in danger,...
- Author:Francis, FelixSummary:
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...
- Author:Francis, FelixSummary:
Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing...
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Author:McEvoy, JohnSummary: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....
- Author:Thompson, VictoriaSummary:
When a day at the races reveals sabotage and subterfuge, Elizabeth Miles must use every ounce of her craftiness to even the score in this all-new Counterfeit Lady novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. Wealthy but...
- Author:FRANCIS, DickSummary:
About family relationships and about the use and abuse of power as champion jockey Kit Fielding seeks to defend his sister and her husband (a race horse trainer) from a spiteful newspaper campaign.
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