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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
...5) High stakes
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"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...
6) Texas blue
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2011
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English
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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.
7) Wild Star
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Star quartet volume 3
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English
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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.
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Sunrise Lake volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Vienna Mortenson isn't your typical gambler. She prefers to stay under the radar, using her poker winnings to support her family and her community, including the local search and rescue team, which she heads up. Out in the backcountry there's no time for hesitation when lives are on the line. Vienna prides herself on being tough and decisive. She's not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy, especially one who left her high and dry without...
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Gambler of Craven's volume 2
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English
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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...
10) A killing winter
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Forge
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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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.
11) Sin city
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Forge
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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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.
13) Lucky stiff
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Mattie Winston mystery volume 4
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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When a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino jackpot dies in a house fire, all bets are off as deputy coroner Mattie Winston and detective Scott Hurley, convinced that he was murdered for his money, take a gamble on the wrong suspect.
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A Signet book
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2015.
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English
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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.
16) Belle Cora
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Doubleday
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[2014]
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English
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A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
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Slocum volume 363
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Jove Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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"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....
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Berkley
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"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...
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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...
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