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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"When seventh-grader Mitch Sloan moves to Jonasburg, Indiana, he uses his exceptional skills in math, money, and sports statistics to make friends--but gets in over his head when he starts a football betting ring"--
Author
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Betsy Wilde is considering a duke's marriage proposal, but wants one more adventure before settling down, so she turns to the rakish Lord Jeremy Roden, who promises to help her if she wins a scandalous wager.
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-two original short crime and mystery stories includes the tales of a gambler who must win at the roulette table to stay alive and a courier who accepts a package with unexpected consequences.
Author
Series
The Shadow Game volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Books Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
New Reyens -- the City of Sin -- is no place for a proper young lady like Enne, who had to leave finishing school early to pursue her missing mother with only one name as a clue. When she finds Levi Glaisyer, however, he is not a proper gentleman but a street lord and con man who brings his own troubles and enemies to tangle with hers and catch them both in a dangerous gamble that could mean their lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
283, [5] p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Her heart pounding beneath the bright lights of London's most fashionable gambling club, Lady Caroline Copeland nervously steps out from behind the curtain. Eyes scanning the crowd, she's drawn to a devilish-looking gentleman glowering at her from the back of the room. The intensity of his gaze burns through her disguise, making her throat dry, her cheeks pink. Caro's gambled her reputation to be here, and can't risk letting anyone close enough to...
8) Even money
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the first day of Royal Ascot, small-time bookmaker Ned Talbot finds his life thrown into turmoil when a man claiming to be his father--whom he had long thought to be dead--becomes the victim of a stabbing at the race track and passes along a mysterious warning to Ned.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
545 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An eccentric uncle promises three noble brothers a lavish inheritance, but only if each marries-- thus redeeming-- a fallen woman. Fortune's whim placed Lady Serena Grantley in the control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her to lure men to his gambling tables. Serena dismissed her first love, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, at her stepfather's command. But when he attempts to force her into a liaison with a dissolute earl, it is to Sebastian...
Author
Series
Scandal and scoundrel volume 1
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (11 hr., 37 min., 28 sec.)) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 inch.
Language
English
Description
After stowing away in the Marquess of Eversley's carriage to escape London and scandal, Lady Sophie Talbot must convince the Marquess that she is not trying to trick him into marriage as they try to resist their mutual attraction.
11) On thin ice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally published in 1841, Victorian novelist Charles Dickens unfolds the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and moral young girl, who resides with her grandfather in London's The Old Curiosity Shop. When Grandfather looses all of his and Nell's money at gambling, the wicked Daniel Quilp evicts them both. A difficult and complex journey commences as Nell and Grandfather become beggars, and many ill-informed individuals pursue them, each with their...
13) Red on the river
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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...
14) Random
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. 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 facade....
15) High stakes
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamor hide a dark and violent past as an extractor-a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between two Russian mafia bosses over...
16) Fast and loose
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With the women of the Sisterhood away on a covert assignment, their significant others could be expected to kick back and enjoy a little drama-free downtime. But that's not the way Jack, Ted, Harry, Charles, and the rest of their comrades roll. An urgent call has come to the headquarters of their organization, BOLO Consultants. Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, suspects that Annie's deluxe casino, Babylon, is being stealthily...