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3) Horse
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
5) Legends Lake
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
200l
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
277, 16 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Left homeless by the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson sets off with a racehorse, Lean on Pete, on a perilous trek from Portland, Oregon to Wyoming to find a distant aunt, hoping to regain stability in his life.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last Hundred Years Trilogy, a captivating, brilliantly imaginative story of three extraordinary animals--and a young boy--whose lives intersect in Paris Paras is a spirited racehorse at a racetrack west of Paris. At dusk, one afternoon she pushes open the door of her stall--she's a curious filly--and, after traveling through the night, arrives by chance...
Author
Series
Spenser collection volume 1
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hugger mugger: Spenser is approached by the president of Three Fillies Stables to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger. Potshot: Spenser heads west to the rich man's haven of Potshot, Arizona, where a local gang threatens the town.
11) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
153 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
Author
Publisher
McPherson & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Horseman Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing stable: He'll ship four unknown but ready horses to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claiming races at long odds, and then get out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-mile racetrack in the Northern Panhandle, everyone notices--veteran groom Medicine Ed, Kidstuff the blacksmith, old lady "gyp" Deucey Gifford, stall superintendent Suitcase Smithers,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
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