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81) Overturned
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
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 killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous...
82) Reality check
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
Author
Series
Burnt Boot Texas volume 4
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Brennans and the Gallaghers put aside their one-hundred-year feud every Tuesday for their weekly poker game. This week, the stakes are sky-high. Goaded to recklessness, Declan Brennan bets one thousand dollars that he can woo the next woman to walk into the saloon. A minute later, fiery-haired Betsy Gallagher pushes through the doors. If Declan can tame this wild Gallagher, he'll have earned every penny. Betsy can outshoot anybody in Burnt Boot...
84) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Looking for a way to pay his college tuition at M.I.T., a student joins a statistics professor and other students in learning the tricks to breaking the casinos in Las Vegas.
85) 7 días
Publisher
Moliere/Fidecine
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
A man decides to gamble a large sum of money to raise an even bigger sum--he wants to bring the world's biggest band, U2, to Mexico to play a concert.
Un promotor de recitales hace una apuesta con el capo mafioso para recaudar dinero para llevar al súper estelar conjunto U2 a su ciudad de Monterrey, y la pierde. Ahora tiene sólo siete días para pagar su deuda, pero a medida que se acerca el plazo, debe enfrentarse a una competencia implacable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A nobleman becomes infatuated with a professional gambler and proposes a wager: if she wins, she'll have enough money to secure her independence; if he wins, she has to spend a week with him, possibly ruining her reputation.
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Audio
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This political satire shows the town of Gammage, New York, in financial disrepair. The roads go unfixed, the schools are falling apart and garbage pickup is a luxury the town can barely afford. In order to solve their financial woes by building a casino, the town's citizens becomes recognized as Filaquonsett tribe. This does not go over easily, however, and the town of Gammage runs up against some competition.
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Avenging Angelo: Frankie is a tough-as-nails bodyguard who vows to protect the beautiful Jennifer, after her father, mafia kingpin Angelo is gunned down in cold blood. Now, with nowhere to turn, they must run for their lives, while being pursued by a murderous hit man determined to eliminate his target at all costs.
Eye see you: A brutal serial killer is targeting cops, and detective Malloy is on the trail. But now the killer is making it personal,...
90) King of fools
Author
Series
Shadow Game volume 2
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With bounties on their heads, Enne continues to play the role of both a lady and a street lord, while Levi begins a relationship with the son of a member of the Mafia." --
Saving Levi Glaisyer's life in the Shadow Game forced Enne Salta to assume the identity of Séance, a mysterious underworld figure. Now, with the Chancellor of the Republic dead and bounties on both their heads, she and Levi must play a dangerous game of crime and politics......
91) Croupier
Publisher
Shooting Gallery
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"London's gambling world is the setting for this complex thriller 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."
92) Brawler
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
High school champion wrestler Eddie MacIntyre does not mind his well-earned reputation as a loose cannon, but when he punches a referee he not only loses his chance at the state championships, he gets expelled from school--facing the strong possibility of joining his father in prison, he runs away and joins an illegal underground fighting ring, where he and a girl fighter named Khajee find themselves trapped in a violent world, run by bad men and...
93) Even money
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The lives of nine individuals fate begin to increasingly entwine in a web of addiction and gambling, culminating at one critical moment where their lives will be lost or reclaimed. Struggling writer Kate loses her family's savings at a casino; a washed-up Vegas performer tries to help Kate regain her money; Clyde owes so much money to his dangerous bookie that he asks his NBA-destined nephew to throw a game.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A stuffy British butler, Marmaduke Ruggles, is traded in a poker game from an English Duke to a wealthy and rowdy American, Egbert Floud. Ruggles' new home is Red Gap, Washington, where he is introduced by Egbert as "Colonel" Ruggles. The town ladies are quite taken by the sophisticated servant in disguise as he enamors them with fictitious stories of battles gone by. Ruggles proves his newfound patriotism in one of the best scenes of the film, his...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Bullitt: San Francisco cop Frank Bullitt is assigned to protect a mobster about to testify against his brother's crime organization. When his friend is shot and the witness is left at death's door by two hit men who seem to know exactly where the witness was hidden, Bullitt clandestinely moves the mobster while he tries to find out who is after the witness, and why it seems so easy for "them" to find him.
Papillon: Thrilling adventure of Henri Charrière's...
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the gambling episode in the ancient Hindu epic the Mahabharata, this rare classic of silent cinema tells of two kings who share a passion for reckless gambling, and for the same woman. A throw of dice is the third film in a pioneering trilogy of silent films made through a unique partnership between German director Franz Osten and Indian actor-producer Himansu Rai.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle - "Lord Doyle" to his fellow players - descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually haunted by his past. Taking...
100) A hellion in her bed
Author
Series
Hellions of Halstead Hall volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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 must spend a night in his bed. The outcome sets off a chain...
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