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2) High stakes
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English
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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...
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English
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When I started to write The Looking Glass, I intended to create a story about the healing power of hope and love. But as this story developed, a message began to emerge that I had not foreseen, a message about the distorted mirror in which we view ourselves, binding ourselves with shackles of self-doubt and fear. The Looking Glass is aptly named, for it is about seeing the reality of ourselves: to see a true reflection of who we are. It is the story...
4) The Cape Ann
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English
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A disarmingly involving portrait of a family struggling to stay together through the Great Depression, The Cape Ann is an unforgettable story of life from a child’s-eye view.
Lark Erhardt, the six-year-old narrator of The Cape Ann, and her fiercely independent mother dream of owning their own house; they have their hearts set on the Cape Ann, chosen from a house catalog. But when Lark’s father’s gambling...
Lark Erhardt, the six-year-old narrator of The Cape Ann, and her fiercely independent mother dream of owning their own house; they have their hearts set on the Cape Ann, chosen from a house catalog. But when Lark’s father’s gambling...
5) Fallon
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English
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Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while he prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he'd christened Red Horse. So when a band of vicious outlaws and a kid who fancied himself a gunslinger...
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English
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She's betting on a ghost. And taking a chance on love. Losing her memory in a mysterious tragedy years before left Mojo Sheepshanks not knowing who she is or how to get on with her life. Now the wisecracking Mojo, who hangs out at Bad-Ass Bert's Biker Saloon in Cave Creek, Arizona, suddenly begins seeing ghosts, and discovering clues to her real identity. Meanwhile, sexy cop Tucker Darroch has her heart racing and her passions revved up to maximum...
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English
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When his brother, Barse, pulled one of the biggest hold-ups Texas had ever seen, Bruce Lockheart took the blame for it, leaving Barse clear to marry the beautiful Trinity Spencer. Bruce takes to the fugitive trail for a crime he didn't commit and is hotly pursued by a relentless ranger and the woman who loves him, fighting to clear his name. If she failed, he would have to hide for the rest of his life--or die!
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"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...
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English
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"Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice knows when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em, and when to team up with master gunman Newt 'Widowmaker' Jones. She's betting on Jones to protect her--and her money--on a treasure hunt in the California desert. Legend has it that a shipwreck is buried in the Salton sands. Some say it's a Spanish galleon that got stuck when the sea ran dry. Others say it's a Chinese junk full of pearls or a Viking ship filled with...
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"The streets of Green Meadow, Oklahoma, are flowing red with blood. At the scene of every grisly murder is a threatening message: Get out! A mysterious villain known as the Fat Man wants the black gold hidden beneath the town, and he's willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two men serve up any protection for the endangered citizens: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. Against all odds,...
12) Almost a bride
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Pub. Date
2005
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English
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In this spectacular new romance from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather, fate deals one stubbornly single young woman and one deceptively heartless man a shocking hand in a high-stakes bet. But is love in the cards? Jack Fortescu gambles to win, and this time his prize is not only his rival's lavish mansion but everything in it-including the man's beautiful sister! But when it comes to games, Jack has met his match. Left homeless...
13) Texas blue
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
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.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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"He is first and foremost--at everything. A man who's made his own way through ruthless cunning and sheer force of will. A strong and imposing Scot who can turn on the charm but does not suffer fools. His title: Lord Chief Justice of the High Court. His name: Cassius Gerard Ramsay. His mission: To investigate the goings-on at London's most notorious gaming hell, owned and operated by one of the most intriguing and desirable women he's ever met." --...
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Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The owner of London's most popular gaming hell, wealthy and powerful Silas Masters, is feared by men and desired by women--except Mercy Kittinger. When the blackguard wins her family home in a game of cards, Mercy steals into Silas's rooms, intent on destroying the proof. But things don't go to plan... Caught in the act, Mercy must be bold to save herself...even if it means seducing the dangerous rogue and then disappearing with the dawn, debt voucher...
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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A kept woman in dire straits, Lydia, who has a sharp mind and a head for numbers, secretly gambles in hopes of winning her independence, but when she forms an alliance with Will Blackshear, who has his own daring agenda, all bets are off as passion flares between them.
17) An earl like you
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Hugh Deveraux discovers his newly inherited earldom is bankrupt, he sets about rebuilding the family fortune--in the gaming hells of London. But the most daring wager he takes isn't at cards. A wealthy tradesman makes a tantalizing offer: marry the man's spinster daughter and Hugh's debts will be paid and his fortune made. The only catch is that she must never know about their agreement...Heiress Eliza Cross has given up hope of marriage until...
18) The grand prize
Author
Series
Gunsmith volume 290
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Jove ed.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clint Adams tracks his stolen Colt to a makeshift "roving" town set up for illegal boxing matches. To get his treasured pistol back, he'll have to prove that he's just as tough with his bare fists as he is with his gun.
19) On thin ice
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Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but...
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Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Unbeknownst to almost all on board, the Mittie Stephens had been selected by the Army to transport in secret a payroll in gold that is being sought by a group of ex-Confederates who have worked out an elaborate strategy to seize the boat and its valuable cargo.