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English
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Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk, Bruno arrives in Berlin after a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the chance encounter with his crass childhood acquaintance Keith Stolarsky and his smoldering girlfriend Tira Harpaz. Or perhaps it was...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lady Sabrina endured an abusive marriage, a miscarriage, and early widowhood to emerge as a smart, successful, confident woman who found a way to make her mark in a man's world. She has friends and purpose, but cannot hide from the emptiness she feels when the parties are over and the friends have gone home to families she will never have. Harry Stillman may be charming and handsome, but he's a gambler and a rake who has made a mockery of his privileges....
3) Uncut gems
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A New York City jeweler and gambler who struggles to pay his debts sees an opportunity to make a big score with a rare black opal.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seward City was in roughshod, chaotic Dakota Territory. The day he arrived by stage, Jud Parker looked impressive, physically a big man, dressed in the best clothing with a tall silk hat. Despite appearances, however, in his pocket he had less than one hundred dollars. Renting a dingy room for ten dollars a week seemed like a fortune to Jud. Yet there was a restlessness here that Jud had noticed imbued the entire countryside. Banker Heber Caldwell...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
393 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After years as a professional gambler--and a deadly shootout on a riverboat casino--Tom Calvert and his young protege, Asher Smith, have survived an arduous journey across the frontier to Friendly Field, Idaho. The bucolic Quaker community welcomes them with open arms, and soon Tom is courting a widow and learning, to his surprise, to enjoy the quiet life. Then an elder of Friendly Field is found murdered, and the townsfolk start whispering about...
6) Passionada
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celia is a beautiful woman who lost her husband, a fisherman, to an accident at sea. Years later her equally lovely daughter, Vicky, encourages her to start dating again. Unknown to Celia, Vicky goes to a local casino, where she meets a handsome Englishman named Charlie. Vicky urges Charlie to see Celia perform at a local nightclub, where she sings passionate Portuguese songs of the fado style. Charlie is immediately taken with Celia. In time, Charlie's...
7) So big
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010, c1983
Physical Desc
252, 26 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Rio Conchos (1964): In avenging himself against the Apache Indians who have massacred his family, ex-Confederate Army officer Lassiter (Richard Boone) recovers a stolen U.S. Army repeating rifle and finds himself arrested by the U.S. Army in connection with the stolen firearm. Lassiter is offered his freedom if he leads a small group into Mexico, consisting of an Army captain (Stuart Whitman), a Buffalo Soldier sergeant (Jim Brown, in his film debut),...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Omaha, Tom Calvert boards a riverboat to play high-stakes poker, but accusations of cheating cause some serious trouble, and a deadly gun battle ensues. Tom is injured and knows that his enemies will be looking for him, so he reluctantly accepts a bargain from young stowaway Asher. In exchange for Calvert teaching him gunslinging skills, Asher will guide them to a possibly mythical town of peace and plenty called Friendly Field. To get there,...
10) The card counter
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of an ex-military interrogator and gambler who sees an opportunity for redemption when he is approached by a young man seeking revenge on a military colonel.
Author
Series
Locket volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1850s, Hunter Bell, a former minister, had forsaken God after his wife died in childbirth, and tried to make a fortune in Utah's mining towns as a card shark.
12) Swing time
Series
Criterion collection volume 979
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
While trying to make $25,000 to convince his prospective father-in-law that he is capable enough to marry his daughter, gambler Lucky Garnett falls in love with a beautiful dance teacher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of living in a country wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we've been. In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly...
14) Doc Holliday
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the life story of Doc Holliday, the dentist who gave up his practice to be a gambler and gunslinger in the Wild West, eventually joining forces with lawman Wyatt Earp and taking part in the famous shoot-out at the O.K. Corral. Also includes a glossary and a further reading list.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
369 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is feeling flush, especially after a lucky streak at the poker table. But his good fortune earns him a dangerous enemy, notorious tinhorn gambler Hannibal Fisher, who is none too happy about being cleaned out. The innocent Coe starts the long ride back to Texas with big plans to buy his own ranch. All he needs now, he figures, is a wife. But his childhood love Josette is under the thumb of...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
Author
Series
Tony Valentine mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. Heś tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Las Vegas and Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldnt́ crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a body count. What started with a conmanś deathbed confession turns into a deadly Las Vegas grudge match during the worldś biggest poker tournament. While Gerry and his shady friends tangle with the Vegas...
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (4 hrs. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen year-old Nell Trent lives with her ailing grandfather in a run down London antique shop, unaware that her grandfather has a ruinous gambling addiction that has left them nearly penniless.
19) High stakes
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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 glamour 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 tow Russian mafia bosses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
617 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice knows when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em, and when to team up with master gunman Newt 'Widowmaker' Jones. She's betting on Jones to protect her--and her money--on a treasure hunt in the California desert. Legend has it that a shipwreck is buried in the Salton Sink. Some say it's a Spanish galleon that got stuck when the sea ran dry. Others say it's a Chinese junk full of pearls. Either way, a lot of mean...
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