Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered a website devoted to "the world's longest, toughest horse race"--an annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twenty-five wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. Riders often spend years preparing to...
2) Silks
Author
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career-ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker, Herb Kovak, is murdered right in front of him and 60,000 other potential witnesses. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death, Foxton begins to question how well he knew his friend. Was the murder a case of mistaken identity or something more sinister?
4) Shattered
Author
Language
English
Description
After his friend is killed in a horse-racing accident, up-and-coming glass artisan Gerard Logan finds himself embroiled in a deadly search for a stolen videotape—a videotape that just might destroy his own life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this tantalizing sequel to Kitty and the Midnight Hour, celebrity werewolf and late-night radio host Kitty Norville returns to take on dirty politicians in America's capital.
Kitty Norville prefers to be heard and not seen. So when she's invited to testify at a Senate hearing on behalf of supernaturals, and her face gets plastered on national TV, she inherits a new set of friends.
She also inherits a new set of enemies,...
Kitty Norville prefers to be heard and not seen. So when she's invited to testify at a Senate hearing on behalf of supernaturals, and her face gets plastered on national TV, she inherits a new set of friends.
She also inherits a new set of enemies,...
6) Knockdown
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Under the commission of an affluent American, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham bids on a distinctive horse. But when a blow to the head immediately follows the auction, Dereham suspects another form of gambling might be at play.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this action-packed story of supernaturals, a werewolf talk show host for the supernaturally disadvantaged has bitten off way more than she can chew.
Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station. She's also a closeted werewolf.
Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it's Kitty who can use some help.
With a sexy werewolf-hunter on her tail — and...
Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station. She's also a closeted werewolf.
Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it's Kitty who can use some help.
With a sexy werewolf-hunter on her tail — and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Heidi Hawthorne, a FM radio DJ and recovering drug addict, is struggling with her newfound sobriety and creeping depression when she receives a myseriously shaped wooden box branded with a strange symbol. Inside the box is a promotional record for a band that identifies themselves only as The Lords. She decides to play it on her show as a joke, but when she does horrible things begin to happen. The strange music unleashes something evil in the town....
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Terry Wolfmeyer is a sharp-witted suburban wife who is left alone to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic around their house when Terry falls for her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball star turned local radio D.J. This leaves her daughters out on a limb because now they have to juggle their own romantic ups and downs as well as having to deal with the dilemmas of their mom.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From Moby, one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, comes a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success. It's about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, somehow, when you think it's over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating...
Author
Series
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...
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
If you love music and enjoy being the center of attention, you could be getting paid to party as a Disc Jockey. Veteran DJ Marty Augustine will show you what you need to know to start making money as a professional DJ entertainer for parties, weddings, nightclubs and other special events. Marty has been in the music business for more than two decades. With experience in radio, nightclubs and mobile events, Marty has found success in all aspects of...
20) Love radio
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At seventeen Prince Jones has his own segment on Detroit's popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, dishing out advice to the brokenhearted. He dreams of becoming a DJ and falling in love, but being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just that. Dani Ford is focused on her plan: ace senior year, score a scholarship, and move to New York City to become a famous author. Prince is...