Giles, L. R. (Lamar R.)
Summary: Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GILSteel, Danielle
Summary: "A captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers. After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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Summary: Three female academics devote themselves to the study and design of daring games based on the history of Columbia University's neighborhood, but the games go too far when the mysterious brother of one of the girls gets involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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Summary: "Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school's basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do? Everything starts falling apart when Jack's mom is arrested for their family's ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family's chance to finally go straight, but Jack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2022
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Francis 2009Lethem, Jonathan
Summary: An international backgammon hustler, who has amassed a fortune through psychic tomfoolery, develops a large tumor on his face that compromises his vision and eventually threatens his life, forcing him to pursue an experimental surgery and contemplate existential questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books Large Print 2004
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Summary: "Vienna Mortenson isn't your typical gambler. She prefers to stay under the radar, using her poker winnings to support her family and her community, including the local search and rescue team, which she heads up. Out in the backcountry there's no time for hesitation when lives are on the line. Vienna prides herself on being tough and decisive. She's not the sort to make a fool of herself over a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Summary: Mired in scandal after his parents' mysterious deaths, notorious gambler Lord Jarret Sharpe agrees to tamely run the family brewery for a year if his Machiavellian grandmother rescinds her ultimatum that he marry. But the gambler in him can't resist when beguiling Annabel Lake proposes a wager. If she wins their card game, he must help save her family's foundering brewery. But if he wins, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Star Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFHamilton, Ian
Summary: Investigating the theft of fifty million dollars from one of the richest men in the Philippines, forensic accountant and martial arts master Ava Lee teams up with her Triad-connected partner, Uncle, to track leads to the illegal gambling dens of Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2013
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Summary: Bored with their jobs as senior staffers to a respected congressman, Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler become involved in the clandestine Zero Game, but when someone close to them turns up dead, they discover the sinister intent of the "game."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Fortuna Jane Belleweather just won in the lotto jackpot [with]...many reasons...for not coming forward to claim her prize...Jane is still a minor, and if anyone discovers she bought the ticket underage, she'll..have to forfeit the ticket...Let her hoarder mother cash it. The last thing Jane's mom needs is millions of dollars to buy more junk. Then...Jane's ex-boyfriend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PACPatterson, James
Summary: Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He is already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home. His best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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Summary: As bookie Ned Talbot counts his losses after a winning day for gamblers at the Royal Ascot Racecourse, a man comes to him, claiming to be his father. Ned, who's always been told that his parents died when he was a baby, has trouble accepting the man's claims. But when the man is stabbed in the abdomen in the racecourse's parking lot shortly thereafter, Ned rushes to his side. The man's last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRABelfoure, Charles
Summary: When his son racks up an impossible gambling debt to a notorious gang in nineteenth-century New York, John Cross uses his inside knowledge of high-society mansions and museums to craft a perfect heist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELRobbins, Harold
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBFeinstein, John.
Summary: After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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Summary: To solve Rhode Island's budget crisis, the state's colorful governor, Attila the Nun, wants to legalize sports gambling; but her plan has unexpected consequences. Organized crime, professional sports leagues, and others who have a lot to lose--or gain--if gambling is made legal flood the state with money to buy the votes of state legislators. Liam Mulligan, investigative reporter for The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DESIles, Greg.
Summary: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ILEAlgren, Nelson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 1999
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Summary: Former prosecutor and bestselling novelist Penn Cage is now serving as the mayor of Natchez, Miss., his hometown. Frustrated by his limited ability to change the system, Cage is plunged into a deadly duel of wits with some bad guys after a childhood friend, Tim Jessup, now a card dealer, alerts him to illegal dog fighting and sexual abuse connected with a floating casino. Before Jessup can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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Summary: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex ... and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009