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1) Bolt
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
After a number of horses are shot by someone using a weapon called a "humane killer," steeple chase jockey Kit Fielding vows to stop the killing.
Author
Series
Kitty Norville series volume 1
Language
English
Description
In this action-packed story of supernaturals, a werewolf talk show host for the supernaturally disadvantaged has bitten off way more than she can chew.
Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station. She's also a closeted werewolf.
Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it's Kitty who can use some help.
With a sexy werewolf-hunter on her tail — and...
Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station. She's also a closeted werewolf.
Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it's Kitty who can use some help.
With a sexy werewolf-hunter on her tail — and...
3) Hot money
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010, c1987
Language
English
Description
Jockey lan Pembroke tries to protect his wealthy, aging father, Malcolm, while investigating the murder of Malcolm's fifth wife--a difficult task, since the suspects include Malcolm's ex-wives and their odd assortment of offspring.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
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?
5) Jockey
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race"--an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. Riders often spend years preparing to...
7) Silks
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Geoffrey Mason is well known (as "Perry" Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchell's pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When Cookie Chanel lands a dream assignment of providing vintage hats for a high-society Kentucky Derby party, she's brimming with excitement. Leaving her mother and best friend to mind the store at It's Vintage Y'All, Cookie packs up her psychic cat and races to Kentucky. But before she can hang her hat, her enthusiasm is dampened when the rider of the potential Derby-winning horse is put out to pasture. Now she's saddled with the jockey's ghost,...
9) Love radio
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Language
English
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Description
Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Jockey Queen tells for the first time the legendary exploits of trailblazing female jockey Lillian Jenkinson Holder, who broke the unwritten rule that females could not be jockeys, no matter how low or high level the event"--
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In a fit of anger, radio DJ Jaye Jordan blows a snowman's head off with a Revolutionary War style musket. But the corpse that tumbles out is all too human. Jaye thought life would be quieter when she left New York City and bought a tiny Vermont radio station. But now, Edwin Anger -- the ranting and raving radio talk show host who Jaye recently fired -- lies dead in the snow. And the Edwin Anger fans who protested his dismissal are sure she killed...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career-ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker, Herb Kovak, is murdered right in front of him and 60,000 other potential witnesses. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death, Foxton begins to question how well he knew his friend. Was the murder a case of mistaken identity or something more sinister?
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program.
14) Ride like a girl
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The inspirational true story of Michelle Payne. As a little girl, Michelle dreamed of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup. However, a near-fatal fall threatens to end her hopes of competing in the race. With the love and support from her father and brother Stevie, she overcomes all odds to become the first female to win the Melbourne cup.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Features the widescreen version of the film. Extras include: how the movie came to be, actor improv, music of the movie, origin of the Good Morning Vietnam Sign-On, shooting in Thailand, an overview of the film a year later, and more.
16) Iced
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St. Moritz during the same weekend as White Turk, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks the musical interludes between verses longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx,...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Join the masterful DJs Dr. Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap, quirky news anchor Les Nessman and his more competent counterpart Bailey, hapless station manager Carlson, reliable program director Andy, unscrupulous advertising executive Herb, and voluptuous receptionist Jennifer for one last look at the radio station that brings fans all the music they love and the laughter they need.
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