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Kentucky series (Fern Michaels) volume 3
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The edge-of-your-seat finale to the trilogy set in the bluegrass country horseracing world from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kentucky Heat.
The trilogy that has reunited the Coleman and Thornton families continues as horsewoman Nealy Coleman faces her greatest challenge—to produce another Derby winner and show the world that a determined woman never quits . . .
Nobody can measure...
The trilogy that has reunited the Coleman and Thornton families continues as horsewoman Nealy Coleman faces her greatest challenge—to produce another Derby winner and show the world that a determined woman never quits . . .
Nobody can measure...
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Josh Coleman left behind unfinished family business when he took to his deathbed at SunStar, the thoroughbred horse farm he'd built from nothing. But now that unfinished business cannot be ignored because his long-lost daughter has come back to settle an old score.
3) Horse heaven
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A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and "track brats" on a two-year journey through the racing cycle.
4) Derby Day
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Nominated for the Man Booker Prize, an exquisite tale of romance and rivalry, gambling and greed, from one of England's finest writers As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day. For months people
...5) Triple crown
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"Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country. 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...
6) Enquiry
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This New York Times bestselling author "captures our attention and holds us spellbound" with a mystery about a horse jockey accused of fixing a race (The New York Times).
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
A closed-door enquiry has found Kelly Hughes guilty of the lowest crime imaginable by a professional jockey, throwing a race for money. He's been framed,...
7) For kicks
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'For Kicks ' is a spy story. Faced with a threat to the whole sport of steeplechasing, the stewards decide that only an undercover operation can succeed in revealing the mystery. Daniel Roke, taking on the job light-heartedly, finds himself headed for deadly danger. Yet the worst of his troubles comes not from his enemies but from the two devastating daughters of October launch.
8) Forfeit
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From a New York Times bestseller, "a superb thriller . . . terrific" about a sportswriter who risks his own life investigating a suspicious death (San Francisco Chronicle).
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
When reporter Bert Chekov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone is suspicious. Chekov's column had recently recommended some 'can't-lose' horses,...
9) High stakes
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Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horse racing, yet with the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds, and the prowess of a beautiful black hurdler named Energise, he has brought home several wins. But his winning streak is about to come to a fast end when he discovers trouble in his own stables- trouble that could bring about his own termination if he doesn't watch his step.
10) Hands down
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"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....
11) Lord of misrule
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In the early 1970s, trainer Tommy Hansel attempts a horse racing scam at a small, backwoods track in West Virginia, but nothing goes according to his plan when the horses refuse to cooperate and nearly everyone at the track seems to know his scheme.
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Dick Francis novels volume 8
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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 that of the humans who attend to them. Can Harry solve...
13) Trial run
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Veteran horseman Randall Drew travels to Mosow to help the Russian royal family--but ends up caught in a world of jealousy, sabotage, and murder.
14) FLYING FINISH
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British aristocrat and amateur jockey Henry grey leaves his safe office post to take on a new job transporting racehorses by air, but when he stumbles upon some secret cargo, he finds himself the target of a ruthless killer out to silence him.
15) Blood sport
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"Reluctantly agreeing to locate a missing priceless breeding stallion for his employer, Gene Hawkins suddenly finds himself the target of millionaire Dave Teller's socialite wife, as he falls in love with his own boss's daughter and becomes the prey of a vicious gang of horse thieves"--NoveList.
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Men of T-FLAC. Wright Family volume 5
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Determined to win this year's iditarod race across Alaska, Lily Munroe matches skills with her chief competitor, Derek Wright, unaware that Derek is a counter-terrorism agent assigned to protect Lily in the wake of suspicious accidents threatening her life.
17) Kentucky heat
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Nealy Coleman Diamond struggles with her Kentucky horse farm and her estranged relationship with her two children. Into this mix comes Hatch Littletree, her ex-husband's law partner.
18) Iced
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Felix Francis' novels gallop along splendidly' Jilly Cooper 'From winning post to top of the bestseller lists' Sunday Times Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenalin rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen...
19) Photo finish
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Psychologist and Pittsburgh Police Department consultant Daniel Rinaldi has a new patient. Lisa Harland, a local girl, once made a splash in Playboy and the dubious side of Hollywood before bottoming out. Back home, down and out again, she married one of the city's richest and most ruthless tycoons. Lisa's challenge to Danny is that she intends to commit suicide by 7:00 PM. His therapist skills may buy some time-but, exiting, she's kidnapped right...
20) St. Dale
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While on a road trip dedicated to the memory of Dale Earnhardt with her sister and an odd assortment of friends and family, Bekasu Holifield unexpectedly finds her life changed by her eccentric traveling companions.
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