The next sure thing
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- ISBN: 1554699002 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781554699001 (trade pbk.) :
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Physical Description:
134 p. ; 19 cm.
print - Publisher: Victoria, B.C. : Orca Book Publishers, c2011.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Interurban Library | PS 8595 A43 N49 2011 (Text) | 26040003057888 | Readers | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Young blues musician Cree Thunderboy puts his career in the hands of mobster Win Hardy, who guarantees him a successful music career as long as Cree continues to pick winning horses for him to bet on at the track. - Baker & Taylor
"Cree Thunderboy has two things he does well: he plays a mean blues guitar, and he has a knack for picking winning horses at the track. Picking winners is just a means to an end; Cree's goal is to be the next great bluesman. When he meets Win Hardy, it looks like he might be able to parlay his special skill with the horses into a shot at the fame and fortune he seeks. So long as he can pick the next sure thing."--P. [4] of cover. - Orca Book Publishers
A young blues guitar player risks everything when he signs on to pick winning horses at the race track for a violent mobster. - Orca Book Publishers
Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree's knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour, as long as Cree can keep coming up with the hot tips at the track.
Things are looking good for Cree until he discovers Win's connections to the mob and his violent response to anything that doesn't go his way. And when things inevitably go bad, Cree discovers that in life and in gambling there is never really the next sure thing.