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"Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school's basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do? Everything starts falling apart when Jack's mom is arrested for their family's ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family's chance to finally go straight, but Jack knows that something's not right. His mom was sold out,...
2) Crown jewel
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Simon Riske novels volume 2
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"Stolen sports cars, brilliant casino heists, and the brazen kidnapping of a prince: only the shadowy spy-for-hire Simon Riske can stop the mastermind behind it all"--
3) Casino
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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 falls...
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Sign of love novels volume 3
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"Grace Hamilton is the girl with a plan. She knows exactly where her life is going, and prides herself on always achieving her goals. She's never stepped outside the lines she draws for herself, and never considered what her heart truly wants. That is, until him. Carson Stinger doesn't play by any rules except his own. Working in the adult entertainment industry, he doesn't care what others think of his choices, and takes each day as it comes. No...
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Follows the elite Las Vegas surveillance team charged with maintaining the security of one of the city's largest resorts and casinos. Big Ed Deline is the newly appointed President of Operations and the head of the surveillance team for the Montecito Resort & Casino. His righthand man is Danny McCoy. They deal with card-counting cheaters, costly streaks of random luck and rival casinos stealing their big-money players.
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"Mayumi Dojima has just become the newest member of the Pretty Boy Detective Club when her first challenge as Mayumi the Seer literally falls into her lap: a suspicious businessman drops a wad of counterfeit bills on the sidewalk, and suddenly the games are afoot! At a shady casino operating out of their rival high school's gymnasium, the Pretty Boys encounter a fiendish new foil--leading to a nail-biting showdown between beauty and fraud... And just...
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"In the 1940s, a new genre, film noir, emerged from the world of 'hard-boiled' pulp magazines, paperback thrillers and sensational crime movies. These films, tough and unsentimental, depicted a black-and-white universe at once brutal, erotic and morally ambiguous. Now, Sony Pictures and The Film Foundation have brought five noir classics together in one collection, all restored and remastered"--Container.
The sniper: San Francisco delivery van driver...