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The exciting tale of a young gambler, a horse, and the bond that will change the both of them forever.
Hoping to make a man out of him, Alfred Larribee's father sends his son to live with his cousin's family out West. Alfred is lazy and listless, and spends his early days there drinking, gambling, and doing everything he can to avoid his share of work.
Everything changes with the appearance of Sky Blue, a magnificent stallion that seemingly can't...
2) Sucker bet
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Tony Valentine mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
7) Denver draw
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Gamblers volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
331 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
8) Barry Lyndon
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq..
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Tony Valentine mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 23 cm.
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A dramatic escape from a fire at a Las Vegas casino changes Ricky Smith's luck, transforming him into a major-league winner, until ex-cop Tony Valentine is hired by casino owners to prove that Ricky's winning streak is anything but kosher.
10) The dishwasher
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"It's winter in Montreal, 2002, when a graphic design student's gambling addiction starts to drag him under. In debt to the metal band that's commissioned him to draw their album cover and ensnared in lies to his friends and his cousin, he takes the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at La Trattoria, a high-end restaurant, where he finds himself thrust, on his first night, into a roiling world of characters."--
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Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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185 pages ; 21 cm
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Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling.
12) Belle Cora
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
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594 pages ; 25 cm
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A sweeping historical tale, based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant, finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin, before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
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358 pages ; 22 cm
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"After embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, an unscrupulous white banker in Minnesota is blackmailed by his boss into sabotaging the creation of a competing, Native American-owned bank. As the banker befriends the people he's trying to frame, he struggles to escape from his past and do the right thing"--
14) Dead Point
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Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date
2014
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304 p. ;
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Jack's mind is not fully on the job he's being paid to do: find Robbie Colburne, occasional barman. But when Jack does get serious, he finds that the drink-dispenser is of great interest to some powerful people, people with very bad habits and a distinct lack of respect for the criminal justice system. Any lapse in concentration could prove fatal.
The third novel in the iconic Jack Irish series, featuring Australia's favourite crime protagonist....
15) High stakes
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"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"--
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