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"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...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set in the world of electronic music and Hollywood nightlife, an aspiring 23-year-old DJ named Cole spends his days scheming with his childhood friends and his nights working on the one track that will set the world on fire. All of this changes when he meets a charismatic but damaged older DJ named James, who takes him under his wing. Things get complicated, however, when Cole starts falling for James' much younger girlfriend, Sophie.
3) Silks
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Language
English
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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.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers -- flirting, cell phones and PlayStation -- they enter a world where the comfort of the horses comes before that of the human.
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English
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"Gabe has always identified as a boy, but he was born with a girl's body. With his new public access radio show gaining in popularity, Gabe struggles with romance, friendships, and parents--all while trying to come out as transgendered. An audition for astation in Minneapolis looks like his ticket to a better life in the big city. But his entire future is threatened when several violent guys find out Gabe, the popular DJ, is also Elizabeth from school"--...
6) Hyena
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Charles Bukowski, Augusten Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson is Jude Angelini, host of Sirius Radio's wildly popular "The All Out Show", and his collection of brutally honest and blackly comical autobiographical essays"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Facing her romantic prospects with skepticism after two disappointing relationships, successful DJ Berry Lambert, who believes bad things occur in threes, expects a rapid dissolution to her next love affair and is surprised by her attraction to an outspoken, commitment-minded rival.
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of two women who search for meaning in lost loves and missed chances. As one mother looks to her past to gain the strength to face the future, a daughter investigates the emotional wounds which have kept her from finding love. Their stories come together in surprising and deeply moving ways.
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Series
Kitty Norville series volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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.
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Series
Stay the distance volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
July Carter's world is perfect from the back of a horse. From the ground, everything is a complete mess: her jockey mom ran off for California years ago, her dad always seems more interested in the horses than in her, and the horse July wants for herself will never be hers. Even though the New York racing circuit has taught her not to get attached, July can't help connecting with Kali, a hopeless filly that refuses to run when it counts. When bankruptcy...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
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...
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