Wink

Although ninjas should be silent and use stealth, Wink finds his enthusiasm gets him into trouble with his teacher until... (more)

Although ninjas should be silent and use stealth, Wink finds his enthusiasm gets him into trouble with his teacher until he finds the perfect way to express both traits. (less)

After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help h... (more)

After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school. (less)

After 22-year-old Jimmy Winkfield won his second consecutive Kentucky Derby in 1902, black jockeys were banned from Amer... (more)

After 22-year-old Jimmy Winkfield won his second consecutive Kentucky Derby in 1902, black jockeys were banned from American racing. Sick at heart, Winkfield began an odyssey that historian Ed Hotaling brings to life in this captivating biography. Finding success in Europe, Wink was a fabulously wealthy member of the Russian aristocracy until the Bolsheviks overthrew the czar in 1917. Leaving Moscow for Odessa with his Russian wife, Winkfield and others continued to race, and then, with the Bolsheviks advancing, marched 200 Thoroughbreds a thousand miles to Poland, surviving on horseflesh. By the late 1930s he was training horses on the expansive grounds of his villa outside Paris when German troops occupied his house and stables. After challenging a horse-beating Nazi with a pitchfork, he was forced to flee again. Wink died in Paris in 1974, still homesick at 94 for the Kentucky bluegrass of his boyhood. This vivid biography of a great jockey is a revelation. (less)

After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help h... (more)

After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school. (less)