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FROM: Mary Dunn <[removed]@lacrosse.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 4/12/04, 1:55 PM

I have a homebound patron who loved Seabiscuit. He enjoyed the sense of
time that the book portrayed. I'm having a hard time trying to put
together a list of read alikes for him. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

--
Mary Dunn Voice: 608-789-7145
La Crosse Public Library Fax: 608-789-7106
800 Main St. [removed]@lacrosse.lib.wi.us
La Crosse WI 54601

FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@mtlib.org>
REC'D: 4/12/04, 2:06 PM

Hi. This might be stretching the parameters alittle:

If your patron will read a juvenile level book, Man O'War by Walter
Farley is a good read. (And it's about Seabiscuit's grandfather, if I
remember right.) It's a fictionalized biography as told from the
viewopoint of a stableboy that grew up with the racehorse. The
events are true; the stableboy is fiction.

BYE!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@mtlib.org

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FROM: Annette Sliwinski <[removed]@linc.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 4/12/04, 4:54 PM

Another biography about a horse with a lot going on
round it is
"And Miles to go :the biography of a great Arabian horse
Witez II
by Linell Nash Smith". We have it in the adult non-fiction
section,
but the subject cataloging says juvie. I read the back in
High School.

Annette Sliwinski
Franklin Park P.L.
Franklin Park, IL

FROM: JMicks <[removed]@toledolibrary.org>
REC'D: 4/13/04, 8:27 AM

Your patron might like :

The Longest Shot: Lil E. Tee and the Kentucky Derby by Eisenberg

It's the "underdog story of the horse Lil E. Tee, a 17 to 1 longshot who won
the Kentucky Derby in 1992." The horse was of mediocre stock, changed
owners several times as a yearling, and "became the Rocky of horse racing."
The book reads like fiction and I loved it.

Jeri Micks
Humanities Dept.
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library

FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@mtlib.org>
REC'D: 4/13/04, 9:23 AM

Thought of another "underdog" horse story:

Phar Lap by Geoff Armstrong.

Don't know if the writing style, etc. is similiar to Seabiscuit. But
the story line is similar in that Phar Lap was not very well thought
of, etc. Takes place in the 1930s, I believe.

BYE!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@mtlib.org

*************
For reason will convince us that what is necessary to be
performed in the heat of action should constantly be
practised in the leisure of peace.
Vegetius, EPITOMA REI MILITARIS

FROM: Tish Calhamer <[removed]@nsls.info>
REC'D: 4/13/04, 9:34 AM

If your patron is looking for books that evoke a strong sense of time
and place, are "non-fiction that reads like fiction," and aren't
necessarily about horses, then maybe these would work:
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan
A Thread Across the Ocean: the Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
Tulipomania: the Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the
Extraordinary Passions it Aroused by Mike Dash

A good "horse" book is Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley.

Tish Calhamer
Gail Borden Public Library
Elgin, IL 60120
[removed]@nsls.info

FROM: "Carney, Meghan" <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 4/13/04, 2:26 PM

I created a list of fiction for horselovers. Not really read alikes for
Seabiscuit, but maybe your patron would be interested in some of these
titles. It is:
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Barn Blind by Jane Smiley
Sweet William by John Hawkes
St. Mawr, a novella by D. H. Lawrence
Spine of Eclipse, a novella by Vicki Hearne
Winter Money by Andy Plattner
Horse People: Writers and Artists on the Horses They Love edited by Michael
J. Rosen
Saratoga Series by Stephen Dobyns
Dick Francis's Novels
Tip on a Dead Crab by William Murray
The Right Horse by William Murray
Traveller by Richard Adams
Horse Fantastic edited by Martin Greenberg featuring stories by Anne
McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey and other Sci-fi/Fantasy authors
Underlay by Barry Malzberg
Black Beauty and Other Horse Stories edited by Paul J. Horowitz and Lily
Owens
Doubting Thomas by Richard Reeves
At Risk by Kit Ehrman
Hex by Maggie Estep
Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown
All Hat by Brad Smith
Half in Love: Stories by Maile Meloy
Riding High by Emily Brooks
Horse of a Different Killer by Jody Jaffe
Chesnut Mare, Beware by Jody Jaffe
In Colt Blood by Jody Jaffe
Language of Light by Meg Waite Clayton
Love and Country by Christina Adam
Shoveling Smoke by Austin Davis
The Horse Hunters by Robert Newton Peck
Hugger Mugger by Robert B. Parker
Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman
Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Orchard by Larry Watson
In the Presence of Horses by Barbara Dimmick

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/14/04, 8:22 AM

Though the horses weren't Thoroughbreds, you might suggest "Tschiffely's
Ride." It's the story of a man who rode literally from one end of the
American continents to the other with a saddle and a pack horse.

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