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An enemies-to-lovers sparkling Regency romance from bestselling author Georgette Heyer, the queen of the genre
Beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt's elegant gaming house, must find a way to restore herself and her aunt to respectability, preferably without accepting either of two repugnant offers. One is from an older, very rich and rather corpulent lord whose reputation for licentious behavior disgusts her;
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Les Burchard owned the local gambling palace, half the town, and most of the surrounding territory, and Walt Devon's thousand-acre ranch would make him king of the land. The trouble was, Devon didn't want to sell. In a ruthless bid to claim the spread, Burchard tried everything from poker to murder. But Walt Devon was a betting man by nature, even when the stakes were his life. The way Devon figured, the odds were stacked against him. So he could...
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<div><div><p>First published serially in 1840–41 in Dickens' own magazine, <i>Master Humphrey's Clock</i>, and in book form in 1841, <i>The Old Curiosity Shop</i> was an immediate popular success. The heart-wrenching story of Little Nell and her doting grandfather offered a rich amalgam of misery and malice, goodness and generosity, love and loyalty — all with a pervading veneer of sentimentality...
7) Sin City
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Predators
For more than five decades, bestselling author Harold Robbins has thrilled millions of readers with tales heavy in action, ruthless characters, international intrigue, and the sexiest people ever captured in print.
Now in Sin City, he takes us to a town famous for all these, Las Vegas.
Jack "Lucky" Riordan is anything but lucky. The illegitimate son of Howard Hughes, he and his mother...
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Locket volume 2
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999]
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330 p. 19 cm.
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While chasing away hungry wolves during a blizzard, former minister-turned-prospector Hunter Bell discovers a lost and injured woman named Quaye McGandley and as he nurses her back to health he discovers that he is falling in love.
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Land rush dreams volume 1
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Shiloh Run Press
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[2015]
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315 pages ; 22 cm.
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A gambler seeking forgiveness for accidentally killing a man attempts to help the dead man's widow, but she wants nothing to do with him--no matter how badly she needs him.
Gambler Gabe Coulter's confrontation with a disgruntled cowboy leads to a family man dying in his arms. Even though it was self-defense, the only way Gabe knows to get rid of his guilt is to return the money he won to the man's wife. Lara Talbot sees Gabe as a derelict like her...
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The day Jingo rode into Tower Creek, the town was busy celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The big event of the festival was a high-stakes poker game in Joe Slade's saloon with Wally Rankin holding most of the chips. But it didn't take long for Jingo to figure out why: Rankin was cheating. And it would only take a couple of well-placed bullets to reveal it to the others in the room.
13) The Brannocks
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Three brothers coming from a defeated South, heading west to build new lives in the boom town of Denver. Earl Brannock, who would gamble on anything, be it a turn of a card or a woman's smile. Virgil Brannock, lusting for wealth and power. Clint Brannock, the loner, driven by a rage that only violence could satisfy.
14) Texas sheriff
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Thorndike Press
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2010.
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Large print edition.
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377 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Beautiful, mysterious Shirley Randolph stood at the faro table and gambled like a man. Watching her, Sheriff Curt Thompson suspected that she could also ride like a man, rob like a man, and shoot like a man. But he wondered whether she could also love like a woman. Curt was on the trail of the Trackless Bunch - phantom gun-slicks who killed for sheer sport. Did Shirley's slim white finger sometimes trigger those wanton guns? Was she devil or angel?...
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2014.
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"The astonishing story of Benny Binion-a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas. Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas backwater, Binion rose to prominence on a combination of vision, determination, and brutal expediency....
16) Texas blue
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Center Point
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2011.
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Center Point large print edition.
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382 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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Determined to marry into a respectable family, gambler Lewton Paterson, sets his sights on Emily McMurray, one of the McMurray sisters. Unfortunately, Emily has no intention of ever getting married, especially to a man like Lewt.
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Simon Riske novels volume 2
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Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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First edition.
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373 pages ; 25 cm.
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International spy Simon Riske connects a series of crimes in Monte Carlo's most lavish casinos to a brutal plot by an organization of criminal gamblers.
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What does it matter if Kate, Lady d'Allenay, has absolutely no marriage prospects? She has a castle to tend, an estate to run, and a sister to watch over, which means she is never, ever reckless. Until an accident brings a handsome, virile stranger to Bellecombe Castle, and Kate finds herself tempted to surrender to her houseguest's wicked kisses. Disowned by his aristocratic family, Lord Edward Quartermaine has turned his gifted mind to ruthless...
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Widowmaker Jones volume 4
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"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 sands. 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 or a Viking ship filled with...
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Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas...
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