Beyond the Homestretch: What I've Learned from Saving Racehorses

7 best books like Beyond the Homestretch: What I've Learned from Saving Racehorses (Lynn Reardon): The Psychology of Time Travel, Life and Other Inconveniences, Deaf Republic: Poems, Ruffian: Burning From the Start, The Horse God Built, Jukebox Joyride, The Essential W.S. Merwin

The Psychology of Time Travel

Author	Kate Mascarenhas
ISBN	1683319443

In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world’s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project—and future of time travel—in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from...

Life and Other Inconveniences

Author

Kristan Higgins

From the New York Times bestselling author of Good Luck with That comes a new novel about a blue-blood grandmother and her black-sheep granddaughter who discover they are truly two sides of the same coin.

Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London....

Deaf Republic: Poems

Author	Ilya Kaminsky
ISBN	1555978312

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...

Ruffian: Burning From the Start

Author	Jane Schwartz
ISBN	0345450000

During two short seasons at the track, Ruffian was hailed as the greatest thoroughbred filly of all time. Unbeaten in her first ten starts, she shattered one record after another, dazzling crowds with both her beauty and her brilliant speed. Then tragedy struck on the afternoon of July 6, 1975. Ruffian...

The Horse God Built

Author	Lawrence Scanlan
ISBN	0312367244

He was the perfect horse, it was said . . . "the horse God built."

Most of us know the legend of Secretariat, the tall, handsome chestnut racehorse whose string of honors runs long and rich: the only two-year-old ever to win Horse of the Year, in 1972; winner in 1973 of the Triple Crown, his times...

Jukebox Joyride

Author

Jacob Stein

If you could go back in time to witness any concert from all of history, what would it be? Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock? Mozart in the Salzburg court? The Beatles’ rooftop farewell?

Jukebox Joyride follows 12-year-old twins Jules and George on a wild adventure through time. Their Uncle Bob,...

The Essential W.S. Merwin

Author	W.S. Merwin
ISBN	1556595131

“Merwin is one of the great poets of our age.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page; he has made for himself that most difficult of all creations, an accomplished style.”—Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books

“It is...