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1) Last call
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Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers. Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his...
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"John Horton Slaughter fought on the blood-soaked battlefields of the Civil War. He drove thundering cattle across a dangerous frontier, and faced the deadliest outlaws as a Texas Ranger. Now, bestselling authors William and J.A. Johnstone tell the story of this towering historical figure-the man who tamed Tombstone, Arizona. A HERO AS BIG AND TOUGH AS TEXAS Enticed by the richest poker tournament the West has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless...
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Bridgeport Social Club volume 1
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English
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"Kurt moved to Bridgeport, Ohio, and started a landscaping business there to give his younger brother more opportunities--maybe even a college scholarship. But when Sam gets in trouble for fighting at school, Kurt isn't so sure it was the right decision until he meets Sam's English teacher"--
Kurt Holland moves to Bridgeport, Ohio so his younger brother Sam will have more opportunities, maybe even a scholarship to college. When Sam gets in trouble...
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Bridgeport Social Club volume 3
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English
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"Jackson Koch had already lost his wife to cancer when the town's coal mines shut down and his job was gone too. So, with a three-year-old daughter to care for and a broken heart to mend, he moved across the country to find a new life in Bridgeport, Ohio. Now he tends bar by night and tries to navigate life as a single dad by day. Luckily, his neighbor is happy to babysit while he works late nights. She's great with little Kate, beautiful, kind and...
5) No limit
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Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2012, c1998
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Denn finds himself alienating both friends and family when he becomes obsessed with playing high-stakes poker with adult gamblers.
6) All-in
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie Hart.
7) Big slick
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
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English
Description
Unable to resist the lure of poker but reluctant to admit his addiction, sixteen-year-old Andrew, a talented player who relies on his mathematical skills to plan game strategy, risks friendship and his parents' trust as he begins to take money from his father's business to finance his secret gambling activities.
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
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English
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Jimmy Spain, a professional poker player, has a wealthy cellmate in prison who asks him to mentor his only child Kat, in the game of Texas Hold'em. The pair battle their way to the World Poker Tour Championship in Las Vegas where a fellow player is found dead with a three-card "Picasso flop" in his pocket. With suspicion falling on Kat, Jimmy must prove her innocence.
9) Wrath
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Elizabeth Monroe volume 1
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English
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The first time evil walked across the old bridge in Mississippi was 1918.When forensic psychologist Elizabeth Monroe crosses the midpoint of the bridge in search of her daughter's killer, there is no turning back. After the murder case grows cold, Elizabeth begins the deadly hunt for her daughter's killer. With her innate ability to read people, Elizabeth uses her natural talents and professional training to track evil into some of the darkest places...
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Texas John Slaughter volume 2
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Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2014
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English
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Enticed by the richest poker tournament the west has ever seen, a horde of cheating and ruthless card players is gathering at Tombstone, Arizona. Lawman John Slaughter already has his hands full when a local Romeo takes off with a rancher's daughter and draws the ire of her father and a blood thirsty posse. Back in town, a murder shatters the poker tournament, with a beautiful Englishwomen as the prime suspect. John Horton Slaughter has been to hell...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from Huck's father while he's in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him no matter what it takes.
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Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Gun Fog: A penniless young cowboy named Jerry Knight, after losing in a big-money poker game, must work off his debt at the Circle F ranch where he is framed for murder.
Red raider: Old Dad Flint sets out to avenge his son's murder, but the confrontation takes place in the desert where the murderer is accompanied by a band of renegade Apaches.
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