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1	Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions more books like this by Ben Mezrich add to wishlist This true story recounts how a group of MIT students used their intellectual skills to beat the system at various casinos. Supplied with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash by several anonymous investors, the students used role-playing, verbal clues and tics, and card counting to win millions of dollars. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Deadly Gamble more books like this by Linda Lael Miller add to wishlist She's got an uncanny knack for winning at slots, but Mojo Sheepshanks hasn't quite figured out who she is or how to get on with her life. After she starts seeing ghosts and turning up clues into her real identity, she realizes she'll need all her savvy and strange new talents to keep someone from burying her for keeps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Old Curiosity Shop more books like this by Charles Dickens add to wishlist Dickens's novel--in its day, one of his most beloved--follows the career of the depraved dwarf Quilp, and introduces poor, innocent Little Nell, who is too good for this world. When Little Nell and her grandfather are forced to flee Quilp's evil clutches, various upright characters try to intervene and save them, but the frail and debilitated Nell ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Wild Star more books like this by Catherine Coulter add to wishlist Newly repackaged, the third novel of Coulter's Star saga introduces Brent Hammond, handsome as sin and wilder than an unbroken stallion. When Brent meets Byrony in San Diego, he's charmed. When he sees her again in San Francisco as the petted wife of an older rich man, he's chagrined. When her life is threatened, however, Brent discovers he's the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	21: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions more books like this by Ben Mezrich add to wishlist Follow an exclusive group of audacious MIT math geniuses who legally took Las Vegas casinos for over three million dollars--while still finding time for college keg parties, football games, and final exams--in this true story behind the soon-to-be-released film. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Almost a Bride more books like this by Jane Feather add to wishlist The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Wedding Game" returns with a spectacular new romance in which fate deals one stubbornly single young woman and one deceptively heartless man a shocking hand in a high-stakes bet. But is love in the cards? Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation more books like this by Michael Connelly (Editor) add to wishlist Edited by bestselling author Michael Connelly, this new anthology from the International Society of Crime Writers gathers 22 never-before-published crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground, Las Vegas, and what can happen behind the glitz and glamour. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Looking Glass more books like this by Richard Paul Evans add to wishlist Richard Paul Evans' fifth inspirational love story takes readers back to the founding years of Bethel, Utah, the gold mining town where Ethel Huish and her love, Thomas, made their home in THE LOCKET. This time, Hunter Bell, the founder of Bethel and a Presbyterian minister turned gambler, saves lonely, injured Irish immigrant Quaye McGandley from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Sucker Bet more books like this by James Swain add to wishlist Ex-cop turned private security consultant for casinos Tony Valentine returns in his third outing to look into a scam in the Everglades. It seems that the casino owners, the Micanopy Indians, don't like it when one man wins more than 80 hands of blackjack in a row, but no one can quite figure out how it was done. Tony soon uncovers a chain of cons ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Billy Phelan's Greatest Game more books like this by William Kennedy add to wishlist Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany political boss's son. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Grift Sense more books like this by James Swain add to wishlist Nick Nicocropolis, the owner of a Vegas casino that has seen better days, hires a consultant named Tony Valentine to study some surveillance tapes of a suspiciously lucky casino customer named Frank Fontaine who Nicocropolis is sure is up to some sophisticated scam--possibly with the aid of his dealer, Nola Briggs, who is Nick's ex-lover. Tony, a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Long Night of Winchell Dear more books like this by Robert James Waller add to wishlist The beloved storyteller and author of the international bestseller "The Bridges of Madison County" returns with a classic tale of greed, corruption, and redemption in the American West. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.79! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Dying Crapshooter's Blues more books like this by David Fulmer add to wishlist On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and a cache of jewels goes missing from a mansion in one of the best. Joe Rose - rambler, gambler, and professional thief - has just hit the city. He soon finds himself caught in a three-sided puzzle that involves a black ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Snakeskin Shamisen more books like this by Naomi Hirahara add to wishlist A battered snakeskin "shamisen" (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of a crime leads Mas Arai to a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A.--a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss more books like this by Frederick Barthelme, Steven Barthelme add to wishlist Novelists Frederick and Stephen Barthelme write candidly about their extremely destructive gambling addiction--which resulted in losses at Mississippi casinos of a quarter of a million dollars--and about the accusation made against them of cheating at the tables, a charge of which they were ultimately acquitted. A New York Times Notable Book for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Dead Point more books like this by Peter Temple, Michael Carman (Read by) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $8.20! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A Rake's Guide to Pleasure more books like this by Victoria Dahl add to wishlist Raised by a titled, yet degenerate, father, Emma Jensen never imagined the gambling lessons she learned as a child would one day serve her well. When she finds herself in dire need of money, she concocts the alias of Dowager Lady Denmore and sets off to bewitch London's noblemen by engaging them in games of chance. The fact that respectable ladies ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| signed copies \| SVS
18 view cover	Let Loose the Dogs more books like this by Maureen Jennings add to wishlist When his father is sentenced to death by hanging for murder, Detective William Murdoch is torn--on one hand, the man was a terrible father, dishing out beatings with alarming regularity, but on the other, though certainly guilty of other crimes, he may actually be innocent of this particular one. In this, his fourth case, Murdoch travels across ... see all copies from $4.39! new only from $9.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Tricky Business more books like this by Dave Barry add to wishlist This novel by humorist Dave Barry is about an offshore gambling ship, "The Extravaganza of the Seas," and the gamblers and other characters (including a band called Johnny and the Contusions) who are aboard when a devastating tropical storm strikes the Florida coast. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Going for Broke more books like this by Melanie Dobson add to wishlist A Christian woman hides a dirty little secret... How could she have sunk so low--and lost so much? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| SVS
21 view cover	Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman more books like this by Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell (Translator) add to wishlist The dramatic disappearance of the wife of a wealthy businessman from a small hotel on the French Riviera prompts a distinguished English widow to recount her fleeting encounter with a young aristocrat many years before in Monte Carlo. Impulsively following the broken man as he stumbles from the roulette table, she embarks on twenty-four hours of ... see all copies from $12.67! new only from $12.67!
22 view cover	The Man with the $100,000 Breasts and Other Gambling Stories more books like this by Michael Konik add to wishlist In 26 essays, Konik introduces readers to the quirky subculture of high rollers and hustlers as he profiles professional, compulsive, and possibly insane gamblers. 8-page photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Jackpot Ridge more books like this by Ralph Cotton add to wishlist Gambler Jack Bell is so good that Early Philpot wants him dead. But up in the mountains, Jack can outlast any lowlife posse Early can rustle up. And he's willing to put them all to the test. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.79! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Gambling man more books like this by Catherine Cookson add to wishlist A novel from the author of PARSON'S DAUGHTER, HAROLD, DINNER OF HERBS, GOODBYE HAMILTON, BLACK VELVET GOWN, INVISIBLE CORD, WHIP, MOTH, CULTURED HANDMAIDEN, HAMILTON and BILL BAILEY. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $56.66! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Sin City more books like this by Harold Robbins add to wishlist This posthumous Harold Robbins novel is set in Las Vegas and focuses on the illegitimate son of Howard Hughes who grows up to be security chief in a casino. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| first editions \| SVS

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