Catalog Search Results
1) Even money
Author
Language
English
Description
Bookmaker Ned Talbot, dealing with having to pay out a large sum of money after the first day of Royal Ascot, is reunited with his father, who he believed was dead, only to see the man killed an hour later, leading Ned to race to uncover secrets in the man's past and the reason for his murder.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before-propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher-and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.
A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Eddie G., a pit boss at the Sands Casino in Las Vegas in 1960, puts his life on the line when he is unable to refuse a personal request from Frank Sinatra to use his considerable connections to learn who has been sending threatening letters to Dean Martin.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Wash-ington, D.C., with the story of an insider's game that turns deadly. Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine Zero Game. It starts out...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old gambling whiz Hallie Palmer, kicked off the soccer team for ditching class, gets the education of her life when she quits school and takes up residence in an outbuilding on the grounds of the Stockton home where she works as a yard person for the very eccentric, very wealthy family.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Previously published in the print anthology Parker Pine Investigates. Daphne St. John enlists Parker Pyne's aid. She must return a valuable diamond she stole to pay off gambling debts. Now, repenting her rash act, Daphne needs help to return the diamond without its owner being any the wiser.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Regina Moore and Karen Jackson, lifelong best friends, are living the kind of life most women only fantasize about. With beautiful homes, fulfilling careers, and two adoring husbands, their joy could not be greater, their worlds could not be richer. But suddenly, shattering truths about the loving men they thought they knew turn happiness into anguish and rage. For Karen and Regina, nothing they believed in or cherished can ever be the same as it...
Author
Publisher
Levellers Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"During the 1990s, two Connecticut Indian tribes built the world's two biggest gambling casinos in the southeastern corner of the state, resulting in what has been termed a "gambling Chernobyl". The novel is set against those events and begins in 1637 with the massacre of the Pequot Indians and a curse delivered by a Pequot sachem to the young English soldier who is about to kill him. The story then jumps 350 years as the soldier's thirteenth-generation...
Author
Publisher
Phocion Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Cincinnati Kid , first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark ("The Kid") who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game against the undisputed master ("The Man"). From the dust-jacket: "By the time he was twenty-one, he was a full rambling-gambling man, a three river man ... . From Jolly's Omaha Card Club on the Missouri, to Sprügi's...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
What a scoundrel wants, a scoundrel gets. . .
A decade ago, the Marquess of Bourne was cast from society with nothing but his title. Now a partner in London's most exclusive gaming hell, the cold, ruthless Bourne will do whatever it takes to regain his inheritance-including marrying perfect, proper Lady Penelope Marbury.
A broken engagement and years of disappointing courtships have left Penelope with little interest in a quiet, comfortable marriage,...
16) Luck Is No Lady
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"You should not have kissed me," she replied breathlessly. "I do a lot of things I shouldn't. It does not mean I won't do them again." Gently bred Emma Chadwick always assumed she'd live and die the daughter of a gentleman. But when her father's death reveals a world of staggering debt and dangerous moneylenders, she must risk her good name and put her talent for mathematics to use, taking a position as bookkeeper at London's most notorious gambling...
Author
Series
Hazards of Dukes volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A disinherited duke and a former lady are courting much more than business in the first novel in Megan Frampton's newest titillating series, Hazards of Dukes. Everything he had ever known was a lie ... Sebastian, Duke of Hasford, has a title, wealth, privilege, and plenty of rakish charm. Until he discovers the only thing that truly belongs to him is his charm. An accident of birth has turned him into plain Mr. de Silva. Now, Sebastian is flummoxed...
Author
Publisher
ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
I want to be swept away into a beautiful romantic world, where men are heros and there really is such a thing as true love. This book did that ... A Page turning sizzler packed full of fun! ~Cindy Fegan, Reader Lord Arcenbryght Malloren is done with love. If he marries it will be for money to invest in his favorite scheme -- canal building. Then he meets the impoverished Portia St. Claire, and is soon entangled in her and her family's ruinous affairs....
19) Pronto
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bookie, a United States marshal, and a trio of thugs from Miami's underworld pay a visit to Rapallo, on the Italian Riviera.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request