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Roy Higgins: Australia's Favourite Jockey
Everyone loved Roy Higgins. A warm and genuine character with a great sense of humour, the boy from the bush was known as 'The Professor' for his freakish ability to read the track and his easy eloquence. Higgins' racing record was extraordinary. He rode Bart Cummings' first Melbourne Cup winner, Light Fingers, in 1965, and was one of a handful of jockeys to win the grand slam of racing: the Golden Slipper, Cox Plate, Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup. Over his 30-year career, Higgins clocked up 2312 wins, including 108 Group 1 races. All this, despite a never-ending battle with his weight. Roy Higgins died in March 2014, aged 75. His televised funeral took place in the mounting yard at Flemin...
A Collection of Canadian Plays
Marsh Hay, by Merrill Denison; The Unreasonable Act of Julian Waterman, by Ron Taylor; The Twisted Loaf & Soft Voices, by Aviva Ravel; Vicky, by Grahame Woods; The Vice President, by John Schull.
The Search for Snake
Rick Morgan is again called upon by Carl Peterson to solve a problem … a problem that could easily destroy the reputation of several key members of Congress and certainly jeopardize the office of the newly elected President. His assignment is to develop a strategy and execute a plan to locate Snake, the multi-million dollar Smart Sniper System, which mysteriously disappears during Operational Testing. As events unfold, the trail to Snake takes some very interesting turns, one that leads back to two well-known Congressmen, three Senators, and the office of the President. Who is actually behind the hijacking is a mystery that Rick Morgan and his team need to solve … and they need to solve it soon.
Legends of the Track
In Legends of the Track: Australia's champion jockeys and trainers, best-selling author Alan Whiticker tells the stories of 25 modern-era horse racing greats.This book celebrates the careers of champions trainers such as Bart Cummings, Tommy Smith, Colin Hayes, Gai Waterhouse, Lee Freedman and Chris Waller, and features interviews with the best jockeys of the modern era - Ron Quinton, Darren Beadman, Shane Dye, Hugh Bowman, Damien Oliver, Glen Boss and James McDonald.With full career statistics for each chapter and dozens of rare photos, Legends of the Track details the greatest achievements in a wonderful sporting era of Australian horse racing.
Lying Wonders
There was something else nagging at me. I didn't know diddly about this retreat—this Seven Trumpets. And I didn't like the thought of some nutcase harboring runaway teenagers in my county. Even if the teenagers were of age. Something smelled—and for a change it wasn't Johnny Mac's diaper. Milt Kovak, sheriff of Oklahoma's Prophesy County, has been missing from the bookshelves for too long a time. Readers who have developed a friendship with this down-to-earth hero will be delighted to find the lawman back at the old stand and, as Kirkus Reviews has described him, "ever more simpatico." Milt has married and has a toddler son. Then one day Milt receives a terrified phone call from Laura Jo...
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The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Vietnam veteran Tommy Starbuck teaches high school English in a small town in southern Ohio. But his comfortable middle-class reality comes to a screeching halt when his wife abruptly leaves him for an old boyfriend. Starbuck becomes obsessed with reclaiming some semblance of a normal life, but fate-or some mischievous god-has other plans for him. A series of bizarre events causes him to question his sanity, the world's sanity. As he descends further into a surreal Season of Madness, he blasts an air-raid siren with a rifle on the date of his wedding anniversary. Myron Laszlo, an unkempt, long-haired giant, thrusts himself into Starbuck's life, viewing a bullet-riddled siren as radical and antiestablishment: "Your act of seeming violence was in reality an act of love," he tells Starbuck who becomes his Hurdy Gurdy Man. Almost as suddenly as he came into Starbuck's life, Laszlo departs, leaving a display of destruction in his wake. Saddened at the loss of his friend, Starbuck reprioritizes his life and begins working on a novel. After realizing that normalcy can have many interpretations, he decides to meet the seeming madness of Life head-on.
