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Everyone who has ever gambled knows how even small bets can make the heart race. Gayle Mitchell understands because that's how she felt when she first walked into a Las Vegas casino nearly twenty years ago. Because her first experience was such a pulsating one, she committed herself to learn every game in the casino so that she could return the next time a better-educated gambler. Today, she is considered one of North America's leading experts on...
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Men of the Sisterhood volume 4
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"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...
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246 pages ; 22 cm
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"Something stinks to Paula Holliday, and it isn't just the corpse flower, titan arum, named for its off-putting fragrance. When Paula's friend Lucy asks her to tag along on an all-expense-paid junket to the Titans Hotel, it seems like a good idea. Paula even manages to squeeze a few bucks and a byline out of the local paper for writing an article on the titan arum, a rare flower that's just about to bloom and on display at the hotel. But when her...
7) Croupier
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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London's gambling world is the setting 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.
10) The house
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After Scott and Kate Johansen lose their daughter's college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank, they decide to start an illegal casino in his house.
11) Casino
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1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw -- Ace...
12) Bad girls
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
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"In this heart-pounding, starkly colored, and visually stunning graphic novel, three women have twelve hours to get out of Cuba with six-million dollars on the night of New Year's Eve 1958"--Publisher's website.
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257 pages ; 22 cm
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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...
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In sixteenth century Venice, the famed makers of Venetian glass faced death if they tried to leave the island... but one man schemes to outwit the enforcers of the edict. In 1958 Venice Beach, California, and in today's Venetian casino in Las Vegas, other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret. As the three stories weave together through time and space, the reader is drawn into a world of violence, and obsession.
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319 pages ; 22 cm
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"Set in Western mining and ranching country, Magic Lance is a novel of intrigue, romance, suspense and personal transformation. Conflicting dreams of Indian casino operator Lucky Joe, who is buying up ranches to create a Native American state, and the small-time rancher Lance Burnett, who refuses to sell, have unforeseen and violent consequences"--Provided by publisher.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Crisis looms on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation as undercover FBI agent Dash Bad Horse pursues evidence against Chief Red Crow for a brutal crime, Dash's psychopathic undercover rival Diesel prepares to get out of jail, and a mysterious killer watches his plan, set in motion years earlier, come to fruition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Dash Bad Horse is already in a rough position as an undercover FBI agent working to bring his own family's organized crime organization down, but when a mystery man with ties to Dash's past comes to the reservation, looking to swindle its casino, both halves of Dash's life are suddenly in jeopardy.
18) Owning Mahowny
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on real events that occurred in between 1980 and 1982. Dan Mahowny is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other accounts. As Dan's debts begin to grow into the seven figure...
19) Round midnight
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374 pages ; 24 cm
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From the author of We Are Called to Rise comes a novel about the interconnected lives of four women in Las Vegas, each of whom experiences a life-changing moment at a classic casino nightclub. Spanning the six decades when Las Vegas grew from a dusty gambling town into the melting pot metropolis it is today, 'Round Midnight is the story of four women -- one who falls in love, one who gets lucky, one whose heart is broken, and one who chooses happiness...
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