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61) High stakes
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a betrayed race horse owner must get back his stolen thoroughbred(Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horse racing,...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horse racing,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.
“Few things are more convincing than Dick Francis at a full gallop.”—Chicago Tribune
With his remarkable blend of unrelenting suspense, finely tuned narrative, and lean, stylish prose, New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis proves that he is as much...
“Few things are more convincing than Dick Francis at a full gallop.”—Chicago Tribune
With his remarkable blend of unrelenting suspense, finely tuned narrative, and lean, stylish prose, New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis proves that he is as much...
63) Hugger mugger
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Series
Language
English
Description
Spenser is back and embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, hires him to find out who. Spenser goes to Georgia to protect Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, he takes the case. Despite the veneer of civility, Spenser encounters...
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Language
English
Description
A majestic story of speed and hunger, racism and justice, this novel is an astonishment from start to finish. A vital new voice, C.E. Morgan has crafted an American myth, a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure--or to rise above it with glory"--
65) The edge
Author
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Tor Kelsey, an undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, is assigned to protect guests on "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train," individuals whose safety is imperiled by real-life murder and mayhem.
66) Damage
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
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, Jeff bears witness to a bloody murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned in the first place--the administration of illegal drugs to his horses? Soon it's discovered that many more horses have tested positive for stimulants--and an unknown...
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Series
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English
Description
"Bianca Snowley looks after the horses at the neighboring estate. When she meets the new owner, she can't help but be intrigued - but romance is unfeasible when he proposes they help secure spouses for each other. Will they see everything they've wanted has been there all along?" --
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
A foal, born in the aftermath of a great storm, and her famous mother help raise money to repair the storm damage on Chincoteague Island and restore the herds of wild ponies on Assateague Island.
69) Hands down
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Series
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English
Description
"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
70) Kentucky rich
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Series
Language
English
Description
The return of Nealy Coleman to SunStar, the home she fled thirty years earlier with her illegitimate child Emmie, has serious repercussions for Nealy's brothers Pyne and Rhy, as well as all the other Thorntons and Colemans associated with the thoroughbred horse farm, including Nealy herself.
71) Dead certainty
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Series
Harry Radcliffe mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Having accepted a commission to ghost-write the autobiography of retiring racehorse trainer Elspeth Maudsley, it becomes increasingly clear to Harry Radcliffe that there are things Elspeth isn't telling him about her past. What's more, it seems that someone is determined to stop him writing this book - whatever it takes.
72) Showdown
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Language
English
Description
Inheriting a California ranch that he is unable to support financially, cowboy Bobby Cameron performs horse breaking services for wealthy clients and becomes involved in the life of millionaire's daughter Milly.
73) Second wind
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart finds his life in danger after the plane he is riding in on an adventure into the eye of a Class V hurricane is destroyed, stranding him on Trox Island where he discovers a notebook that contains very sensitive information.
74) Lord of misrule
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Language
English
Description
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,...
75) Stalking horse
Author
Series
Coley Killebrew mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
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Description
Raymond Starbuck ruined star jockey Coley Killebrew's reputation- so why is Coley cutting a deal with him? When Killebrew was barred from the track after a race-fixing scandal, he also lost his irresistible girlfriend, Francie Dorn. Starbuck says that if Coley can keep some unsavory cronies from muscling in on the old Magnolia Park track, he'll give Coley $10,000- and Francie's address. Is this the opportunity he's been waiting...
76) Close call
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Series
Jack Doyle horseracing mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Jack Doyle is hired as the publicity director at Monee Park, a struggling race track owned by Celia McCann, but Doyle soon discovers that Celia is being threatened by thugs who are pressuring her to sell the valuable property to real estate developers.
77) Willow King
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Katie, who is herself physically challenged, saves a crippled foal from euthanasia and nurses him back to health and eventual championships.
78) Driving force
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Series
Language
English
Description
Freddie Croft has retired as a steeplechase jockey and now runs a fleet of motor horseboxes transporting runners from their stables to the races. A rule is broken when a driver picks up a hitchhiker and when they reach base the passenger is dead.
Author
Series
Harriet Bean mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harriet helps her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate cheating at the racetrack by disguising herself as a jockey.
80) Gamble
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As one of the youngest-ever winners of the Grand National, Nick "Foxy" Foxton was enjoying his career as a world-class jockey. It was on perfect track-until a near-fatal accident cut his dream brutally short. When he returns to Aintree as a spectator years later, nothing can prepare him for what unfolds.
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