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22) Fallon
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fallon thinks all he needs is a gun, a deck of cards, and a fast horse until he finds himself ready to defend a reclaimed mining town that has become his home--even if it costs him his life.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ralph Ripoff comes up with a plan to bring gambling to Bear Country by turning his houseboat into a moving casino, and the Bear Scouts do their best to rid their community of this riverboat ripoff.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
At twenty-four, Josh Axelrad held down a respectable and ominously dull job on Wall Street. Adventure was a tuna fish sandwich instead of the usual turkey for lunch. Then one night, a stranger at a cocktail party persuaded him to leave the nine-to-five behind and pursue an unlikely dream: the jackpot. The stranger was a blackjack card counter, and he sold Axelrad on the vision of Vegas with all its intrigue, adventure- and cash.
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