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"A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation lead her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino...and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every...
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Four original novellas bring to life the inhabitants and visitors of the mysterious casino city Canto Bight, featured in the film "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
In the mysterious casino city Canto Bight, one is free to revel in excess, untouched by the problems of a galaxy once again descending into chaos and war. There is a darkness obscured by all the glamour and luxury-- and in these four novellas, set across one fateful evening, the stakes have...
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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...
24) Vegas sunrise
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In Las Vegas, Fanny Thornton Reed's children turn against one another after she chooses her first husband's illegitimate son Jeff to run Babylon, the family's successful casino. The spellbinding conclusion to The Vegas Trilogy. Now, Fern Michaels brings the fortunes and destinies of the Thorntons full circle. When Fanny Thornton Reed, proud matriarch of the Thornton dynasty, chooses her first husband's illegitimate son to run the family's dazzling...
25) Bound by blood
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A Vampire's Love Is Eternal
Zack Ravenscroft loves women—all women—and they love him. The irresistibly seductive owner of the hottest casino in Nevada, Zack has tasted every wicked pleasure Sin City can offer. But never in his six hundred years as a vampire has he seen a morsel as delectable as Kaitlyn Sherrad, the mysterious young newcomer in town. Zack knows nothing about her—except that he craves her. . .
Kaitlyn...
Zack Ravenscroft loves women—all women—and they love him. The irresistibly seductive owner of the hottest casino in Nevada, Zack has tasted every wicked pleasure Sin City can offer. But never in his six hundred years as a vampire has he seen a morsel as delectable as Kaitlyn Sherrad, the mysterious young newcomer in town. Zack knows nothing about her—except that he craves her. . .
Kaitlyn...
26) Tishomingo blues
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Warned by the local Dixie underworld to keep silent after witnessing a murder, daredevil diver Dennis Lenahan is recruited by Detroit gangster Robert Taylor for a showdown that takes place during a Civil War reenactment.
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In Murder in Vegas, the International Association of Crime Writers and New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly have gathered twenty-two crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground and what can happen behind the glitz and glamour.
Las Vegas. Lost Wages. Sin City. An artificial oasis of pleasure, spectacle, and entertainment, the gambling capital of America has reinvented itself so many times that its
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The Winning Hand: "Darcy Wallace is on the run from her past, and from an ex-fiance who wouldn't take no for an answer. So when she spends her last three dollars at the hotel casino and wins the jackpot, her fortune takes a turn for the better. Upon meeting Darcy, all casino manager Robert MacGregor Blade wants to do is protect her. But something about the alluring woman is getting under his skin and playing havoc with his good intentions. Mac knows...
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A secret son. A lost love. A dangerous job. A frightening risk. A second chance at the happiness their hearts were once afraid to share. Thirteen years ago, alone and secretly pregnant, Helen Ketterling left her job as a school teacher on the Bad River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Her summer love affair with Reese Blue Sky had ended abruptly when he left the reservation to pursue his chance at a NBA career. Now her new position, a dangerous...
32) Two of hearts
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"Dakota Nakos has always been a resilient, strong-willed achiever. But when her father dies and she's entrusted with the family's casino, she feels vulnerable, scared, and more than a little emotional not exactly the best time to see an old lover she's never really gotten over. Dakota once meant the world to Shane Garrity. Then suddenly he left town to train as a U.S. Marshal, and their love for each other crashed into a memory. Now he's come home...
33) Dream on
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His Love Life Was A Nightmare...
Country singer Bradley Nelson always had big dreams. He's sure they're coming true until his debut album tanks, his record contract is cancelled, and his rock star girlfriend kicks him off her tour bus in Reno. Single and stranded, Bradley tracks down his IRS auditor-turned-casino-worker mom. But while he's looking for a shoulder to cry on, Mom's got problems of her own, namely a gang of thug casino owners who are...
34) Lucky break
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"With Christmas a few days away, Lucky O'Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas's premier Strip casino resort, is in a festive mood. The upcoming wedding of her assistant and her own engagement have Lucky in full holiday cheer. The only sour note is her former lover, Teddie. When she finds Teddie and her father standing over musician Holt Box's lifeless body Lucky must discover whether Teddie is a killer... and why...
35) High hand
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Six-foot tall Chainey (never addressed as Martha) is a former showgirl who transports money for criminal elements that operate casinos in Las Vegas. Casino managers Frankie Degault and his sister Victoria entrust Chainey to deliver seven million dollars to a posh home in California. Upon Chainey's arrival, masked shooters enter and pillage the house with gunfire. The Degaults suspect Chainey stole their money and give her three days to recover the...
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"Rome, 1934. Martin Fawley leaves the American secret service and is recruited by General Berati, the most feared man in fascist Italy, as a spy. After a brief encounter with a glamorous yet murderous Italian princess, Fawley's mission takes him undercover in Monaco. Suave and worldly, Fawley is quite at home in the casinos and golf courses at Monte Carlo--but he is soon entangled in a game with higher stakes. As the nations of Europe vie for power,...
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A startling novel by the leading writer of the new South Africa
As the novel opens Camugu, who left for America during apartheid, has returned to Johannesburg. Disillusioned by the problems of the new democracy, he follows his "famous lust" to Qolorha on the remote Eastern Cape. There in the nineteenth century a teenage prophetess named Nonqawuse commanded the Xhosa people to kill their cattle and burn their crops, promising that once they did so...
39) The heir
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"Helping Nicole Cruz discover who fathered her orphaned nephew draws ranch and casino owner Desmond Pierce into the cruel legacy of secrets he'd rather avoid. Also unavoidable: the red-hot attraction sizzling between them. But the faster Nicole gets the answers she came for, the sooner she'll leave Mesa Falls. And that's suddenly a prospect more daunting than any scandals they may uncover..." -- Page [4] cover.