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2) Race day
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English
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Early readers can experience the excitement of race day through simple text and bright pictures.
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"Auto racing's best drivers have pushed speeds to thrilling levels for over 100 years. This title explores the achievements of auto racing's greats from Formula 1, NASCAR, IndyCar, and beyond. The title features exciting stories, engaging photographs, informative sidebars, honorable mentions, a glossary, and an index."--Amazon.com.
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Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
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[1999]
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English
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Race car driver Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) teams with a legendary crew chief (Robert Duvall) to race at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends his career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve to race, to win and to live.
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Little cars volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Big adventures ensue when Tony and friends enjoy snow and hot chocolate during the holidays, Chris gets to try out the races for herself, and Tony finds out how a surprise can change his beliefs!
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Digby O'Day volume 1
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2014.
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English
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Digby O'Day and Percy are best friends. This daring canine duo can find adventure anywhere -- even entering an All-Day Race! Digby is sure he can win, especially with Percy as his co-driver. But when the race starts and Digby and Percy are quickly left in the dust, it seems like they don't stand a chance. They meet peril after peril: a car that breaks down (and slides back to the edge of a cliff!), a near miss with an oncoming train, and worst of...
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2014.
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"Just before high noon on May 30th, 1964, the Indy 500 stopped for the first time in history. Seven cars had crashed in a fiery accident, killing two drivers, and threatening the very future of the 500. In this tight, fast-paced narrative, Art Garner expertly reconstructs the events, circumstances, and fatal decisions leading up to the sport's blackest day. Recalling a bygone era when drivers lived hard, raced hard, and at times died hard, Black Noon...
11) Sprint cars
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[2012]
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English
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Describes sprint cars, their design, parts, and where and how they are raced.
12) Dino-racing
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Illustrations and rhyming text follow dinosaurs as they race against each other in dragsters, then off-road vehicles, and finally stock cars.
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Little cars volume 4
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2011.
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English
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"Kombo meets a genie who shows him the value of friendship, Chris gets the hubcaps of her dreams, Kombo temporarily loses his memory, and the gang finds out whether Rusty Garden is really haunted or just filled with scrap."--Container.
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2020.
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"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
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Press start! volume 3
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2017.
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English
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Super Rabbit Boy is racing in the Super Grand Prix car race--but among the other racers is King Viking and his team of cheaters, and they will do anything to win.
17) Velocity
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Cassica and Shiara have grown up in Coppermouth, a dust-choked town in the Outback, but now they hope to use their skills as race driver and mechanic to take on the Widowmaker, an off-road rally through some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to win fame and fortune--provided they survive the race.
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They were the unlikeliest of heroes. René Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international race car circuit, had been banned from the best teams - and fastest cars - by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles Weiffenbach, head of the down-on-its-luck automaker Delahaye, was desperately trying to save his company as the world teetered at the brink. And Lucy Schell, the adventurous daughter of an American multi-millionaire, yearned to...
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