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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love or soulmates and a hopelessly romantic divorce attorney who does, are forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their messy breakup and who, during a charged exchange, make a bet on the outcome of five relationships--including their own--over the next five years with the winner to be declared the ultimate authority on true love"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To root out the card cheat responsible for her brother's death, Miss Delia Trevor spends her evenings dancing her way through high society balls, and her late nights disguised as a young man gambling her way through London's gaming hells. Then one night, handsome Warren Corry, the Marquess of Knightford, a notorious member of St. George's Club, recognizes her. When he threatens to reveal her secret, she's determined to keep him from ruining her plans,...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets... It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon--every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league, where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where capture the castle involves real castles and where hide-and seek takes place on the scale of a continent....
6) Palazzo
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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 four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties,...
7) Random
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he's inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby's prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower's façade....
Author
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Washington, 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...
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...
9) Private: #1
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He 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.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is a selfless academic like her, and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far too much before he left the Merriwell sisters practically destitute. Unfortunately, after a slew of romantic disappointments, there is still no sign of that prince at twenty-three and the only one true love of her life is the bursting-at-the-seams...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Mighty Muskrats are back with a chilly new mystery! Windy Lake First Nation is hosting the annual Trappers Festival, and the four Mighty Muskrats are excited about the dogsled races and the chance to visit with family and friends from far and wide. But during the Teen Dogsled Race, the lead dog is the victim of a frightening accident that may be more than it seems."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Della Danby is determined to prove she's more than just a flighty heiress riding on her parents' money to get through life. When her closest friend and business partner finds her hands full with a new baby, Della takes the opportunity to shoulder more responsibility at their ladies' gambling club and secure their financial stability, and she has the perfect idea: to drum up new business by adding their club to a popular guidebook of local attractions....
16) Fever: #32
Author
Publisher
Forge
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lummy Tullos, an unpretentious and sometimes mystical farmer, is forced to leave his home in Choctaw, Mississippi in search of his lifelong love, a young slave named Susannah. When she is taken by a rich gambler to Winn Parrish, Lousiana after her master loses her in a card game, Lummy has no choice but to follow... or lose her forever. Reaching the small town of Winnfield, Lummy reunites with his long lost brother, Ben, who works as foreman on the...
19) Red on the river
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 guy, especially one who left her high and dry without...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Brilliant mathematician Frankie Turner knos how to calculate the odds. So when her sister goes missing and all leads point to an exclusive gamblin hell, her best bet is to play governess-under-cover for London's most notorious gambler...who just happens to also be the town's most ineligible bachelor. When her snooping uncovers a sinister plot to entangle women the ton deems troublemakers, Frankie can't rely solely on her secret network of governess...

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