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1) Croupier
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Everyone who has ever gambled knows how even small bets can make the heart race. Gayle Mitchell understands because that's how she felt when she first walked into a Las Vegas casino nearly twenty years ago. Because her first experience was such a pulsating one, she committed herself to learn every game in the casino so that she could return the next time a better-educated gambler. Today, she is considered one of North America's leading experts on...
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...
8) Casino
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The rise and fall of a crooked casino owner, his family and hoodlums due to drugs, sex, and betrayal.
Author
Series
Harlequin presents volume 3927
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"All protocol goes out the window when an innocent crown princess encounters a playboy ready to break all the rules in this royal romance from Clare Connelly!"
All protocol goes out the window when an innocent crown princess encounters a playboy ready to break all the rules in this royal romance from Clare Connelly. My deal with the billionaire just got complicated. As crown princess of Marlsdoven, I was taught honor, resilience, leadershipages.....
10) Casino Jack
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jack Abramoff, the real-life Washington power player, resorted to jaw-dropping levels of fraud and corruption. High-rolling excess and outrageous escapades are all in a day's work for Abramoff as he goes to outrageous lengths to promote the Indian gambling industry, earning him the nickname 'Casino Jack.' But when Jack and his womanizing protege Michael Scanlon enlist a dimwitted business partner for an illegal scheme, they find themselves ensnared...
11) The house
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Scott and Kate Johansen lose their daughter's college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank, they decide to start an illegal casino in his house.
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.
14) Round midnight
Author
Publisher
Touchstone, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
17) The good thief
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Bob is an aging American thief is living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the midst of an extended personal losing streak when he rescues a new girl in town named Anne from her pimp. When the opportunity to steal a fortune in rare paintings from a Monte Carlo casino comes along, Bob hopes for a score big enough to let him retire from his life of crime. His only hindrances are Anne's man troubles and his nemesis,...
18) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Aspiring doctor and MIT student Ben Campbell finds his education and life in jeopardy when he joins an underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system.
19) Stone cold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts"--Provided by the publisher.
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