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41) Croupier
Pub. Date
2004
Description
An aspiring writer takes a job as a croupier and gets involved with a seductive gambler, down on her luck
42) Casino
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The rise and fall of a crooked casino owner, his family and hoodlums due to drugs, sex, and betrayal.
43) Walking Tall
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
After completing his tour of duty, Chris Vaughn, a U.S. Army Special Forces operative, returns to his rural Northwest community, which is being ravaged by petty crime and widespread drug use. Upon learning that these depredations are byproducts of the outwardly glamorous casino run by his childhood buddy, Jay Hamilton, Chris ousts the corrupt sheriff and runs for office himself, declaring war on Hamilton and his minions after he wins the election....
44) Double up
Author
Series
Davis Way crime caper volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Fasten your seatbelts for non-stop action as stiff competition blows into town and the resulting turbulence threatens to take down the Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Super Secret Spy Davis Way Cole, who lives on the twenty-ninth floor of the hotel with her CEO husband and newborn twins, takes it hard. If the casino goes belly up, she won't be a stay-at-home mom because she won't have a home. Not to mention her husband won't...
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Ocean's eleven (1960): New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
Ocean's eleven(2001): Hollywood's A list stars come together to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
In sixteenth-century Venice, the city's famed glassmakers are secretly perfecting one of the Old World's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of fearful fascination, did it reflect simple reality, or reveal something more profound? The Venetian mirror was state-of-the-art technology, subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals throughout the world. And so the city's ruthless rulers, the Council of Ten, have handed down...
49) Havana
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Sent by the CIA to 1950s Cuba to eliminate young revolutionary Fidel Castro, ex-Marine hero Earl Swagger finds himself confronting outdated ideals about honor and duty as the world around him erupts into early Cold War violence
50) Owning Mahowny
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
Dan Mahowny is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other accounts. As Dan's debts begin to grow into the seven figure range, his dealings become harder to hide, both from the authorities...
51) Overturned
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Marcus Carrera instilled fear in friends and foes alike. But there was one woman who could see beyond the casino tycoon's Notorious reputation and imposing stature to the gruffly tender man inside. And their destinies collided when Jacobsville sweetheart Delia Mason was unexpectedly swept up in a tidal wave of trouble while on a tropical island holiday getaway. After Carrera rescued her from an unwelcome suitor, he claimed her trembling lips in a...
Author
Series
A-list volume 5
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The Hollywood girls make a getaway to the Palms Casino in Las Vegas where they put to the test the universal pact, whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
55) Intacto: Intact
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Considered "lucky" after surviving a plane crash, a thief is recruited into an underground gambling ring where death and luck intermingle. Sam is the ring leader of a gang who discovers the thief's luck and attempts to "steal" it from him.
57) Casino
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam "Ace" Rothstein is riding high as front man for the Mob's multi-billion-dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their "investment," the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro. It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle--until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna turns up the heat.
Author
Series
Dirty business mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"Something stinks to Paula Holliday, and it isn't just the corpse flower, titan arum, named for its off-putting fragrance. When Paula's friend Lucy asks her to tag along on an all-expense-paid junket to the Titans Hotel, it seems like a good idea. Paula even manages to squeeze a few bucks and a byline out of the local paper for writing an article on the titan arum, a rare flower that's just about to bloom and on display at the hotel. But when her...
60) Bugsy
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
During the 1940's, mobster Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is inspired by his mistress Virginia Hill to follow his dream and build the now-famous Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
