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Blackie Norton is a gambler with a big heart, and Father Tim Mullin is Blackie's childhood friend. Nob Hill snob Jack Burley, vies with Blackie for the attentions of beauty Mary Blake.

Little Nell and her grandfather are left destitute when the evil Quilp seizes their Old Curiosity Shop in payment for their overdue debts.

Seventeen-year-old Astrid Sullivan belongs to a family of compulsive gamblers, and now that her father has been laid off from his job in Detroit and lost all their money betting on the Titans, which are half-horse, half car, and race around impossible tracks, her family is falling apart--but when Astrid's new friends give her the chance to participate in this year's Titan races, she thinks she sees a way to win some money and keep her family together....

"After embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, an unscrupulous white banker in Minnesota is blackmailed by his boss into sabotaging the creation of a competing, Native American-owned bank. As the banker befriends the people he's trying to frame, he struggles to escape from his past and do the right thing" --

"The Color of Money" is a decades-later sequel to "The Hustler." 25 years on, Fast Eddie is now a nattily dressed, silver-haired liquor salesman working the Midwest in his white Cadillac. His neat mustache and smiling deviltry are also employed in his other profession--stake horse to up and coming pool hustlers. One night he sees a kid playing who is so good that Eddie's laboriously buried memories are stirred. Vincent and his girlfriend Carmen have...

The life and times of Bill Harrah told through photographs, interviews with employees, industry peers and entertainers.

"Harolds Club or Bust!" tells the life story of "Pappy" Smith who created Harolds Club in Reno, Nevada in the 1930s. From his struggles as a carney in Colorado to Chutes by the Sea, in San Francisco; as he takes a small "hole in the wall joint" in a Reno back alley to international prominence as one of the best known gambling establishments in the world, follow this fascinating tale of one man who always wanted to keep the "fun" in gaming.

Appointed an Aboriginal Issues reporter because of his half-Chee heritage, Leo Desroches struggles with a gambling addiction that threatens his family and career while covering the murder of a young native prostitute and triggering a violent chain of events.

"A hardcover omnibus volume containing the two novels by Peter Carey that have won the Booker Prize: Oscar and Lucinda (first published by Harper & Row in 1988) and True History of the Kelly Gang (first published by Knopf in 2000). With an introduction byPaul Giles and chronology of author's life and times"-- "Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who...