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The Sport of Kings
C E Morgan - Farrar
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Hailed by The New Yorker for its “remarkable achievements,” The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American,... |
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Horse Heaven
Jane Smiley - Knopf
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Haunting, exquisite Rosalind Maybrick, wife of a billionaire owner, one day can't quite decide what it is she wants, and discovers too late that her whole life is transformed. Twenty-year-old Tiffany Morse, stuck in her job at Wal-Mart, prays, "Please make something happen... |
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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
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In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes... |
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Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon - McPherson; 1st edition
Format: Book
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At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon... |
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The Last Wild Horses
Maja Lunde - HarperVia
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Mikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse, a journey that tests not only his physicality, but his heart. In 1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias... |
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Painted Horses
Malcolm Brooks - Grove Press; 1st edition
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In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates the untamed landscape of the West in the 1950s.
Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her. Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove... |
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Caleb's Crossing
Geraldine Brooks - Viking
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Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world... |
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On Swift Horses
Shannon Pufahl - Riverhead Books
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A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West.
Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang... |
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