Author : Les Roberts
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1938441370
#17 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series. The sudden death of a former client leads Milan and his young assistant K.O. O'Bannion to look behind the scenes at a harness racing track. Investigating the backstretch (as insiders call the working side of the track) they find no shortage of colorful characters and suspicious activities.
Author : Andre Bruneau
Publisher : andre bruneau
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 1993-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569010563
Author : Lawrence Lariar
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504056477
It’s dead heat at the horse track for a thriller writer determined to solve a real-life murder case. Lawrence Lariar was one the most popular cartoonists of the twentieth century. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, he also crafted a line of lean and mean detective and mystery novels under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France. Lariar now gets his due as a leading artist in hardboiled crime fiction. Mystery author Dave West is working out the details of a new crime. This one’s personal. His uncle Jack, the best harness racer on the Long Island circuit, was shot dead after his last competition. Tabloid wags claim the lure of dirty money made him throw the race. And a chump in on a fix makes for an easy mark. It’s up to Dave to do what professional dicks can’t: clear his uncle’s name and find the killer. But that means infiltrating the moneyed world of horse-owners and ruthless gangsters. Not to mention the mercenary wives who have a secret or two all their own. Dave thinks he’s found one he can trust. At least he hopes so. Because he’s neck deep in a criminal conspiracy that’s yet to claim its last victim.
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1481428039
Nancy goes to the Kentucky Derby -- where death is the dark horse. When Carson Drew invests in a Derby entry called Pied Piper, Nancy and Bess fly to the big event. The favorite is Toot Sweet, but during a workout an accident nearly takes the horse's jockey out of the running. Later, while racing, the jockey takes a nasty spill, and Nancy is sure the real cause is foul play. The teen sleuth sets out to track a treacherous opponent at the world-famous Run for the Roses -- only to find she's a sure thing to hit the finish line dead last.
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780671716622
From forgetting names and numbers to whole conversations, memory loss is an inevitable part of growing older. By age 50, you generally remember 30% less than you did at age 20. But what if there was an entirely safe, natural pill that could reduce memory loss -- and the related stress and plummeting self esteem that usually accompanies it? Luckily, now there is. Phosphatidylserine -- PS for short -- combined with a revolutionary new diet outlined step-by-step in "The Memory Cure", can dramatically improve memory retention by supplementing the brain's natural structure to keep memory capacity strong. Backed by years of clinical research, and presented in an accessible manner, "The Memory Cure" will provide solace and relief to the millions who are concerned about the health of their most vital resource -- their memory.
Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780345324047
James Bond, secret agent 007, is pitted against ruthless, power-hungry industrialist Max Zorin, who has developed a mysterious device designed to affect the outcome of a horse race.
Author : Bruce Craven
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250301173
“When it comes to the most-anticipated business books of 2019, Win or Die: Leadership Secrets From Game of Thrones is the one to beat.”—Inc. A guide to leading without losing your head, inspired by the bestselling books and smash television series Game of Thrones. "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." —Cersei Lannister One of the great joys of Game of Thrones is strategizing what bold moves you'd make in this bloody, volatile world—from the comfort of your living room. And one of the great terrors of being a leader is knowing your real world can be just as brutal—and offices bring no comfort. Every day you're presented with opportunities and challenges, and must decide which roads to follow, which risks to confront, when to deny an opportunity and when to pursue the call to adventure. And you won't know whether you'll profit or fail while you're in the thick of it. In Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones, Bruce Craven brilliantly analyzes the journeys of the best and worst leaders in Westeros, so that leaders can create their own narratives of success. Craven considers beloved characters such as Ned Stark, Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and Tyrion Lannister as they make terrible decisions and fatal mistakes, but also achieve incredible victories and surprising successes, learning and growing along their (often bloody) ways. Readers will learn how to face conflict and build resilience, develop contextual and emotional intelligence, develop their vision, and more. This entertaining and accessible guide will show readers how to turn danger into opportunity, even when dragons threaten.
Author : Douglas Putnam
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476694443
This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers. From slugger Ed Delahanty's fatal plunge into the Niagara River in 1903 to the demise of Dwayne Haskins on a dark Florida highway in 2022, their untimely ends shocked and saddened millions of fans. Many died from injuries sustained in the course of competition. Others met their fate in airplane and motor vehicle crashes, by freak accident and through disease, drug overdose, drowning and suicide. Several were victims of cold-blooded murder. Regardless of how or why they perished, Dale Earnhardt, Len Bias, Thurman Munson, Flo Hyman, the Marshall Thundering Herd and all the rest faced the same merciless truth--there would be no next year.
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1439121680
STARTLING EVIDENCE GIVES NANCY A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE FINE ART OF MURDER. Nancy's spending Thanksgiving in Paris, the city of light, love.. .and mystery. Her neighbor is Ellen Mathieson, a professor whose study of painter Josephine Solo has suddenly taken a dark and disturbing turn. Ellen's research assistant is dead -- killed in an accident exactly like the one that took Solo's life six months before! Josephine Solo left a legacy of secrecy and scandal. . .even the possibility of a double life. But Nancy begins to suspect that some of the professor's students also have something to hide. Paris is full of powerful temptations -- forbidden romance, secret passions, financial greed -- any one of which could lead to a motive for murder.
Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 2004-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400077702
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. "An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. "A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." —Boston Globe "Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." —Los Angeles Times “A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —San Francisco Chronicle
