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By day, she is Lady Georgiana, sister to a duke, ruined before her first season in the worst kind of scandal. But the truth is far more shocking--in London's darkest corners, she is Chase, the mysterious, unknown founder of the city's most legendary gaming hell. For years, her double identity has gone undiscovered...until now. Brilliant, driven, handsome-as-sin Duncan West is intrigued by the beautiful, ruined woman who is somehow connected to a...
62) Iron Lake
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
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Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes.
63) Old Carver Ranch
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After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keene's sole legacy to his son is a Bible. With his father's passing, Tom Keene renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to try to teach others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another. Tom even gets a chance to demonstrate his new way...
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"Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that it's doubtful that anyone knows for sure what's real and what isn't in the miles of neon and scorching heat. Las Vegas is considered the ultimate player's destination, no matter what your game. Almost anything is available-- for a price, mind you-- and sometimes losers will walk away from the tables with...
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Inheritance games volume 4
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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"Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...
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Alexander Bruno travels the world playing high stakes backgammon and hunting for amateur "whales" who think they can challenge him. Lately he's had a run of bad luck, not helped by the blot that has emerged in his field of vision, forcing him to look at the board sideways. As the blot grows larger, his game worsens, until he passes out in the middle of a match and receives an alarming diagnosis. Out of money and out of friends, he turns to the only...
67) Texas cowboys
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Rance Cash westerns volume 4
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Rance Cash finds himself in Abilene, which has grown prosperous, attracting the likes of Jesse James and Marshal Bill Hickock. But there's no amount of money that will keep Rance from busting a friend out of jail.
68) Bush track
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Dude McQuinn had tried hard to give up the risky and dangerous life of an itinerant quarter horse racer, b ut a letter from a one-time partner, describing the success he was having in Kansas, was more than Dude could resist. Dude set out after his old pals and finally caught up with them just as they were fleeing an irate sheriff, furious at having lost a racing bet -- all the more because his friends had taken a few shady "precautions" to insure...
71) Sin city
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2002.
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Zack "Lucky" Riordan is anything but lucky. The illegitimate son of Howard Hughes, his mother was cast out of Las Vegas when Hughes learned of the pregnancy, only for Zack to return years later to make his fortune. He may not have luck but he does have an eye for a quick con. His skills soon allow him to climb the ladder as head of security for one of Glitter Gulch's most ruthless casinos, where cheating will get you jail, if you're not crippled by...
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The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness";...
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IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
74) Against the odds
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Sweet Valley High. Original series volume 51
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1989.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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When Ronnie Edwards' gambling gets him into big trouble, only his best friend Jeffrey can help him, but it may cost Jeffrey his future in college athletics.
75) Improbable
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Compulsive gambler David Caine uses his brilliant mathematical mind to outsmart the odds at Manhattan's underground poker clubs, but when he experiences a severe epileptic seizure at a key moment, he finds his life spinning out of control, and agrees to try an experimental treatment that soon causes more harm than good.
76) Point spread
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1980.
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A linebacker with a brilliant college record sees his hopes for a career in professional football totter and his teams's season threatened when he is implicated in a gambling scandal.
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[2014]
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As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle - "Lord Doyle" to his fellow players - descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually haunted by his past. Taking...
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[1998]
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IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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Ralph Ripoff comes up with a plan to bring gambling to Bear Country by turning his houseboat into a moving casino, and the Bear Scouts do their best to rid their community of this riverboat ripoff.
79) Nightwork
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In the room of a seedy hotel in New York where he works as night clerk, Grimes stumbles on a body and a tube stuffed with $100,000. Grimes, a gambler, takes the money and sets out on a wild tour of Europe.
80) West of penance
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Territory of New Mexico, 1875. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy needs money to complete the new cathedral he's building in Santa Fe. he comes to see Father Clement Grantaire, pastor of a small parish near the Texas border, for help. Father Grantaire has a checkered past, but he also has an idea: he can use his less-than-priestly skills to obtain money for the cathedral. After a night of gambling, Grantaire wins over a thousand dollars from a group of...
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