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2) Texas blue
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Determined to marry into a respectable family, gambler Lewton Paterson, sets his sights on Emily McMurray, one of the McMurray sisters. Unfortunately, Emily has no intention of ever getting married, especially to a man like Lewt.
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Language
English
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Description
Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop, an enchanting shop of odds and ends. Desperate to make a better life for his Nell, Grandfather secretly gambles and gets deeply into debt with the unscrupulous Quilp. When what little money they have is lost in a game of cards, Quilp claims The Old Curiosity Shop as payment for the loans
Released in installments from 1840 to 1841, Charles Dicken's The
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Series
Last Chance volume 8
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Mike Taggart has always been willing to take a gamble. But these stakes are just way too high--there's no way he's prepared to become a legal guardian to his five-year-old niece. His only option is to head from Las Vegas to Last Chance to sort things out as quickly as possible. Problem is, he arrives to find an inconsolable little girl, her sick cat, and a gorgeous veterinarian he can't get out of his mind. Charlene Polk has two talents: healing sick...
Author
Series
Slocum volume 363
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"If there's one thing John Slocum likes more than whiskey or women, it's winning big in poker. Until a cheater runs off with his money and is killed, getting Slocum arrested for murder. His neck is saved when a British beauty named Abigail Cheswick springs him from jail--and into the folds of her skirt. Soon, he's at the Cheswick camp and Abigail's brother, the arrogant Lord William, wants him to catch wild game worthy of mounting on his royal walls....
7) Wild Star
Author
Series
Star quartet volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Brent Hammond is a gambler who is handsome as sin, distrustful as only a betrayed man can be, and wilder than an unbroken stallion. Hammond meets the beautiful Byrony by chance in San Diego, and he can't help himself, he's charmed by her beauty and grace. But when he sees her again in San Francisco, he learns that she is the coddled wife of an older rich man.
8) Sin city
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by his father, Jack "Lucky" Riordan, an illegitimate son of Howard Hughes, returns to Las Vegas to work his way up as the head of security for one of Sin City's most notorious casinos.
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Series
Publisher
A Signet book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When he loses at the tables on the Delta Jack riverboat, professional gambler Abner Mason has one night to raise all the funds to pay off his debt to the most powerful man on the ship--if only he can stay alive long enough to do so.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Dealer's Choice" On the day after Easter, a woman enters Detective Marlow's office, determined to have his help in settling her brother's gambling troubles. It isn't long, however, before Marlow becomes quite sure that this woman is not who she first appeared to be.…
"Lily and the Sockeyes" Bestselling author Sara Paretsky uses professional baseball as the setting for this suspenseful mystery.
Author
Series
Season for scandal volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
He should have thrown her out. But when club owner Alexander Lavoie catches a mysterious blonde counting cards at his vingt-et-un table, he's more intrigued than angry. He has to see more of this beauty-in his club, in his office, in his bed. But first he'll have to devise a proposition she can't turn down. Gossip said he was an assassin. Common sense told her to stay away. But Angelique Archer was desperate, and Lavoie's club offered a surefire way...
12) Dreaming of you
Author
Series
Gambler of Craven's volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A prim, well-bred gentlewoman, Sara Fielding is a writer who puts pen to paper to create dreams. But now curiosity is luring her from the shelter of her country cottage into the dangerous world of Derek Craven, handsome, tough, tenacious, and the most exciting man Sara has ever met. Derek rose from poverty to become the wealthy lord of London's most exclusive gambling house. And now duty demands that he allow Sara Fielding to enter his perilous realm...
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Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings, Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it--but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet's working for the other, and to the...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog, a fierce, elegant, page-turning novel about race, money, and the American Dream JW is a small-town banker. His specialty: teaching other bankers in towns near Indian reservations how to profit from casino deposits without exposing themselves to risk. His problem: having lost his son in a car accident a year ago, JW is depressed, his wife is leaving him, and he can't stop gambling....
17) High stakes
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Language
English
Description
"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor -- a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between tow Russian mafia bosses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Omaha, Tom Calvert boards a riverboat to play high-stakes poker, but accusations of cheating cause some serious trouble, and a deadly gun battle ensues. Tom is injured and knows that his enemies will be looking for him, so he reluctantly accepts a bargain from young stowaway Asher. In exchange for Calvert teaching him gunslinging skills, Asher will guide them to a possibly mythical town of peace and plenty called Friendly Field. To get there they...
20) A killing winter
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Leo struggles to reconnect with his estranged son and fights his gambling addiction while becoming increasingly consumed by an undercover case involving a missing Native street kid who is found brutally murdered by gang members.
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