Baldacci, David
Summary: "Aloysius Archer travels to 1950s California to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent but immediately finds himself involved in a scandal"-
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2021
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BALKyles, Cedric
Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEDL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Though primarily known as a novelist, L'Amour wrote hundreds of short stories. This volume collects 35 of his Western stories, the genre for which he has received the most notice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAMRobbins, Harold
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBBarry, Dave.
Summary: On board the Extravaganza of the Seas, a casino cruise ship, a wildly diverse group of people find themselves in the middle of a tropical storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARAzzopardi, Trezza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AzzopAzzopardi, Trezza.
Summary: Dolores, the youngest of five sisters, watches as her family disintegrates in 1960s Cardiff, Wales, due to her father's gambling and her mother's mental decline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AZZSt. Aubyn, Edward
Summary: Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel--about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling. His novel is set on a train and involves a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAOtto, Shawn Lawrence.
Summary: "From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog, a fierce, elegant, page-turning novel about race, money, and the American Dream JW is a small-town banker. His specialty: teaching other bankers in towns near Indian reservations how to profit from casino deposits without exposing themselves to risk. His problem: having lost his son in a car accident a year ago, JW is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTTL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Macon 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAML'Amour, Louis
Summary: Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly -- a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe -- until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC L'AMReichert, Amy E.
Summary: Luck, Love & Lemon Pie delves into the complexities of marriage and what we're willing to do for the ones we love. When MJ Boudreaux notices her husband, Chris, seems more interested in the casino than her, she's bothered that she isn't more upset. She picks up poker as a way for them to spend more time together--and reignite their marital flame. Although the game doesn't give her the quality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC REIFeehan, Christine
Summary: Vienna Mortenson is tough, decisive, and not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy. Though Zale Vizzini's job puts him in harm's way, he wants something real with Vienna. But soon both of their lives are threatened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEMargulies, Phillip
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSwain, James.
Summary: When his ex-partner, Doyle Flanagan, is blown up by a car bomb, Tony Valentine joins the investigation to find his friend's killers and becomes embroiled in the multimillion-dollar blackjack scam that Flanagan had been trying to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWACoulter, Catherine.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COUEvans, Richard Paul.
Summary: Two broken people come together to make each other whole in 1850s Utah. He is a Presbyterian minister who turned gold prospector after the death of his wife, she is an Irish girl who was sold into slavery to an American during the potato famine. They meet in the wilds, she lying unconscious in the snow, having been abandoned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVALeigh, Eva
Summary: "Tabitha Seaton, to join a collective of the most brilliant, influential minds in London, needs a husband and believes a notorious, handsome gambler may be her best bet, but the stakes are higher than she could have imagined when love enters the game"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEIL'Amour, Louis
Summary: On the edge of the frontier, boomtowns like Confusion sprang up overnight. Here honest men came to work the mines, while thieves, gamblers and outlaws worked on them. But in Confusion there was more at stake than law and order-the mines themselves were the target of a violent plot. Matt Coburn had cleaned up tough towns before, but he wanted no part of Confusion. Too many enemies knew he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAMPronzini, Bill.
Summary: Caught up in events not of his making, Matthew Cape gets tangled up with a pair of con artists in a crooked poker game, and their trail of deceit leads him to Lake Tahoe and the redemption he seeks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PROWaller, Robert James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION WallerHirahara, Naomi
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIRL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Val Durrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly - a gentleman, a gambler and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the cities of Europe - until the day Reilly's luck ran out in a roar of gunfire. But it wasn't a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMMiller, Linda Lael.
Summary: Mojo Sheepshanks, surviving a mysterious tragedy, is seeing ghosts--the real, ectoplasmic kind--and turning up baffling clues to her real identity; she'll need all her savvy to keep someone from burying her for keeps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007