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Kentucky Sunrise $3.20 In Fern Michaels’s thrilling finale to the series that has reunited the Coleman and Thornton families, tough-as-nails horsewoman Nealy Coleman Diamond faces her greatest challenge… Nealy is happy with her new husband, lawyer Hatch Littletree… but when it comes to horses, she’s never satisfied. Nobody can measure up to her standards as a trainer, not even her daughter Emmie, who now runs the fa… |
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Headless Horsemen: A Tale of Chemical Colts, Subprime Sales Agents, and the Last Kentucky Derby on Steroids $2.94 “An insider’s stunning account of the corrupt practices that threaten both the horses and the game . . . an engrossing read.” —Minneapolis Star-TribuneJim Squires was in trouble. He was in the horse business, an enterprise seemingly intent on committing suicide, led over the cliff by visionless leaders. A clannish group called “the Dinnies” had long refused to share power, as vast overproduction… |
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete $23.95 From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their … |
