 | Scared Money
Publication Date: September 7, 2006Scared Money takes readers on the inner journey that every successful horseplayer must make to overcome the cultural baggage that gets in the way of becoming a winner.It is not only the story of a horseplayer/musician learning to trust his judgment and intuitive skills at major racetracks in southern California, Maryland, and Europe, but anyone who finds themselves scorned by society because they have set the goal that is considered taboo, especially when they could have opted for a safer route. ...
 |  | Nine Coaches Waiting
Publication Date: June 1989A governess in a French château encounters an apparent plot against her young charge's life in this unforgettably haunting and beautifully written suspense novel. When lovely Linda Martin first arrives at Château Valmy as an English governess to the nine-year-old Count Philippe de Valmy, the opulence and history surrounding her seems like a wondrous, ecstatic dream. But a palpable terror is crouching in the shadows. Philippe's uncle, Leon de Valmy, is the epitome of charm, yet dynamic and arrogant—his paralysis little hindrance as he moves noiselessl...
|  | Titans
Publication Date: November 1, 1999Fresh off a championship season, New York Titans quarterback Hunter Logan is on the winning streak of his life. But when he places a bet that gets traced by the Mob he finds himself trapped in a scheme that will net millions for organised crime. ...
|  | Hometown Favorite: A Novel
Publication Date: September 2008Talented, handsome, and personable, Dewayne Jobe rose from humble beginnings in rural Mississippi to play college football in Southern California and beyond. One of the best wide receivers in college ball, Dewayne is assured a promising career in professional football and easily finds success both on and off the field. Not only is he a great player, he's got the wife, the kids, and the pristine white picket fence to boot.But catastrophe looms right around the corner and ultimately strikes with a crushing vengeance. Will Dewayne's faith and character stand the ...
|  | All the Dead Heroes: A Tsw Sheridan Mystery
Publication Date: March 1992Assigned to investigate the career of one of the first black major league players, Frank Wooley, free-lance reporter T.S.W. Sheridan finds that the rumors of wife beating and gambling are hiding an even ghastlier secret. ...
|  | The Greatest Course That Never Was: The Secret of Augusta National's Lost Course
Publication Date: May 1, 2001When a young lawyer comes across a half-baked caddie with an incredible story too good to pass up, hell soon find himself travelling across the country in hot pursuit of the truth. This story is bigger than Bobby Jones Impregnable Quadrilateral and Byron Nelsons consecutive victories. The question is, will his career as a lawyer be there for him when he comes back? ...
|  | Hounded to Death: A Novel
Release Date: September 30, 2008From New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown comes the latest novel in her enthralling series of foxhunting mysteries. Richly imagined and utterly engaging, Hounded to Death reveals the cutthroat world of competitive hound shows as both humans and animals alike try to solve a series of bizarre deaths. “Sister” Jane Arnold, esteemed master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, has traveled to Kentucky for one of the biggest events of the season: the Mid-South Hound Show, where foxhounds, bassets, and beagles gather to strut their champion bloodline s...
|  | Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology
Release Date: September 12, 2006From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime. Editors Maggie Estep (Diary of an Emotional Idiot; Flamethrower) and Jason Starr (Twisted City; Lights Out) have brought together original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved writers. Lee Child heads off the collection with a thrilling story about a hit man hired to knock off a horse mid-race. Laura Lippman contributes a vivid tale about a young man wh...
|  | Scooter
Release Date: August 23, 2005A powerfully moving new novel from Mick Foley, filled with the same heart and imagination that made Tietam Brown so distinctive (“It makes you laugh so hard sometimes it makes you cry” —Chicago Tribune).The time is 1969. Scooter Riley is a regular kid growing up in the Bronx, on Shakespeare Avenue, just north of Yankee Stadium.His father, Patrick Riley, is a New York City cop; his beat is Harlem, streets that are getting rougher by the day in the wake of the assassinations of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy.Riley’s Spartan code of ethics and un...
|  | The Fixer
Release Date: June 6, 2011Ray Lester is a fixer in the boxing business. He makes fights happen. He builds a bridge and guides boxers across to the negotiating table. Ray Lester is good at his job. One morning, a girl arrives at Ray's door and asks him for help finding her father, an old-school Vegas crooner called Eddie Lights. Ray travels with his questions to Sin City, along with 30,000 other Brits with their Union Jacks on the way to watch Hatton take on Mayweather. But the boys in leather jackets from back east are on his tail and Ray finds himself embroiled in a murderous plot. So begin...
|  | The Hunt (Hunt Country Suspense)
Publication Date: April 1, 2004| Series: Hunt Country Suspense The complex and romanticised lifestyle of elite fox hunters is revealed in this thrilling murder mystery. An attractive and wealthy lawyer and horseman, Doug Cummings personifies the old-money equine subculture of Middleburg, Virginia. Driven to succeed, Cummings's climb to the top is halted when he becomes the target of a twisted scheme to frame him for the murders of his former lover and horse groom. As Cummings attempts to find the true culprits, the conflicting forces of his community offer a revealing look at how vengeance, ...
|  | Lure of the Links: Great Golf Stories
Publication Date: March 2, 1999This handsome anthology of stories and essays profiles the great courses, the players, and the spirit of the game - appealing equally to the scratch aficionado and the weekend hack. Contributors include: Dave Anderson; Sarah Ballard; Ethan Canin; Marcia Chambers; Bernard Darwin; Dan Jenkins; Robert T. Hones, Jr.; Ward Just; James Kaplan; Stephen Leacock; Michael Murphy; Harvey Penick; George Plimpton; Gene Sarazen; John Updike; and Herbert Warren Wind. ...
|  | The Dick Francis Complete Treasury of Great Racing Stories
Publication Date: March 2004From his extensive experience as a Steeplechase rider, he and John Welcome—a fellow best-selling writer—have gathered 28 of the most classic horse racing stories around. The authors range from Arthur Conan Doyle and Beryl Markham to John Taintor Foote and Francis himself. Damon Runyon’s “Pick the Winner” introduces us to the unforgettable, ironically named Hot Horse Herbie and his ever-loving fiancée, Miss Cutie Singleton. In her “Pullinstown,” Molly Keane brilliantly evokes racing among the Anglo-Irish gentry....
|  | Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago
Publication Date: April 2001In the summer of 1919 three men (two white, one black) decide that the Chicago White Sox will be the first major league team in the twentieth century to sign a black player to a major league contract... Set before the broad shoulders of Chicago, Shadow Ball tells the story of Rube Foster, African American owner of the Chicago-American Giants; Charles Comiskey, the owner of the White Sox; and Sam Weiss, their silent go-between. Their plans are complicated by the eruption of the August 1919 race riot in Chicago, as seen and heard by Kid Douglas, a Mississippi blues ...
|  | Causing Havoc (SBC Fighters, Book 1)
Publication Date: August 2007Orphaned and torn from his sisters as a boy, sexy extreme wrestler Dean "Havoc" Conor gets a letter revealing how much his siblings want him back in Harmony, Kentucky. To stop his sister from marrying a sleazeball, Dean finds himself teaming up with her pretty-but-smart-mouthed friend Eve-who's heard of Havoc's reputation and doesn't need some hunk trampling on her heart. Now all Dean has to do is protect his sisters, win Eve over, and expose a devious criminal. And he thought winning the heavyweight belt was hard. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback ...
|  | 7,000 Clams: A Novel
Release Date: January 11, 2005Frank Hearn is a down-on-his-luck bootlegger and bruiser, looking for the big score in the heart of the Roaring Twenties. When he loses a shipment of top-quality booze to a double-crossing government thief, Frank hunts him down, roughs him up, and finds something that catches his eye. What at first appears to be a scrap of paper is actually a handwritten and unmistakably authentic IOU for $7,000, signed by Babe Ruth. Seven-thousand clams is a lot of money—and when Frank gets a tip that the Yankees are about to begin spring training in St. Petersburg, Flor...
|  | The Draft
Release Date: October 31, 2006"Wil Mara goes inside the NFL draft like never before. He details the personalities and complications that go into every draft decision, making for good reading and good drama."---John Clayton, NFL analyst and ESPN senior writer It's draft time in the National Football League. For high-ranking team executives, this means long days and sleepless nights, endless negotiations, and determining which young men deserve to become millionaires and which do not. Careers will be made with the stroke of a pen, but mistakes are costly. Baltimore Ravens General Man...
|  | Darwin's Race
Publication Date: May 1, 2009In this gripping novel, the world is watching as 12 hardened racers gather to compete in an event promoted as the most ambitious adventure race ever attempted. The contestants will advance into the deepest unexplored gorge on earth, and the first climber to ascend to the top of 22,000-foot Kuk Sur, one of the last remaining unclimbed Himalayan peaks, will claim a two million dollar prize. Among the climbers are Conner Michaels, haunted by his brother's mysterious death on Kuk Sur six years earlier; Preston Child, the millionaire financier of the race; and Child&#...
|  | Baseball Sleuth
Publication Date: August 26, 2000You buried the body in the yard?These words, spoken to a man named Bob, crackle from the baby monitor. Phillip strains to hear more through the static. A murder! No one will believe him unless he finds out who Bob is, and where Bob lives.Phillip Crafts loves baseball but he is a terrible player. He loves mysteries, but his teammates laugh at him when he sees crimes where they dont exist. Meanwhile, at home, his life is even worse. After twelve years of being an only child, Phillip's newborn sister has taken all of his mother's time, energy, and maybe even her...
|  | A Woman's Ring
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