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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prior-Palmer describes her journey to participating in the Mongol Derby--being the first woman to win the race and the youngest person ever to finish. The race is 1,000 kilometers across the steppe of Mongolia, on a series of 25 semiwild ponies over the course of ten days, a re-creation of the horse messenger system established by Genghis Khan. With some riding experience but no training at endurance events, 19-year-old Prior-Palmer entered the race...
2) Hot money
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Francis, an ex-jockey, has a sense of pace that would be the envy of most of his former colleagues....He throws in a doozy of a bonus surprise."
PEOPLE
Wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke has five ex-wives and nine chidren between them, all fighting among themselves. But when violent death strikes the least likable of his former spouses, Malcolm himself feels threatened, and he calls on his most capable son, Ian, the family jockey,...
PEOPLE
Wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke has five ex-wives and nine chidren between them, all fighting among themselves. But when violent death strikes the least likable of his former spouses, Malcolm himself feels threatened, and he calls on his most capable son, Ian, the family jockey,...
Author
Publisher
Focal Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxv, 238 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The Mobile DJ Handbook, Second Edition continues to be an excellent guide for novice and experienced DJs looking to build a successful career as the owner-operator of a mobile disc jockey service. Complete with practical tips, expert advice, and creative strategies, this book serves as the perfect guide on how to market and sell your services as well as develop and expand your business. This book contains information on becoming a professional, securing...
4) Silks
Author
Series
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.
6) Showdown
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Adored" comes a wickedly entertaining tale of love, seduction, and blinding ambition, set in the most glamorous horse racing capital of the world.
Author
Series
Kitty Norville series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kitty Norville, a DJ for a Denver radio station and a secret werewolf, accidentally launches a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged, she becomes the target of a werewolf hunter and several homicidal undead.
10) Iced
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
Language
English
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
Series
Kitty Norville series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother falls ill, Kitty, a radio host, returns to Denver and once again finds herself in the middle of the abusive pack of werewolves from whom she escaped a year earlier, a situation complicated by a war brewing between the city's two oldest vampires.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
320 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clare Balding grew up in a rather unusual household. Her father a champion trainer, she shared her life with more than 100 thoroughbred racehorses, mares, foals and ponies, as well as an ever-present pack of boxers and lurchers. As a toddler she would happily ride the legendary Mill Reef and take breakfast with the Queen. She and her younger brother came very low down the pecking order. Left to their own devices, they had to learn life's toughest...
15) The devil to pay
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
17) Freudian slip
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
By day, Mark Hunter is a painfully shy kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he's Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who are unaware of his real identity), Harry becomes a hero with his fiercely funny monologues on sex, love and rock and roll. But when he exposes the corrupt school principal, she calls in the FCC to shut Harry down.
Author
Series
Kitty Norville series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After getting caught turning wolf on national television, Kitty retreats to a mountain cabin to recover and write her memoirs. But this is Kitty, so trouble is never far behind, and instead of Walden Pond, she gets Evil Dead. When werewolf hunter Cormac shows up with an injured Ben O'Farrell, Kitty's lawyer, slung over his shoulder, and a wolf-like creature with glowing red eyes starts sniffing around the cabin, Kitty wonders if any of them will...
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