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1) Private
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English
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Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed.
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Bored and disillusioned with their jobs as senior staffers to a respected congressman, Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler become involved in the clandestine Zero Game, but when someone close to them turns up dead, they discover the sinister intent of the "game" and realize that they are intended to become the game's next victims.
3) Even money
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English
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Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.
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English
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"After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties,...
Author
Series
Season for scandal volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A beautiful card counter and a handsome casino owner strike up a tenuous business deal but find it hard to keep their hands off each other.
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Disgraceful dukes volume 3
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English
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In order to honor his father's gambling debt--or lose the family estate--Lord Hatherly is forced to marry Miss Alice Tombs, an independent beauty who longs to explore the world on her own, and makes her an offer she cannot refuse--one summer to prove the legitimacy of their union, then she is free to travel.
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Series
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"One of my favorite new mystery series, perfect escapism."—Sarah Weinman, National Post
The first book of an electrifying new series, Ian Hamilton's The Disciple of Las Vegas introduces Ava Lee: a deadly martial artist with a taste for luxury and a mind like a steel trap.
Fifty million dollars has disappeared into thin air from the accounts of one of the richest men in the Philippines, Tommy Ordonez. His
9) Improbable
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
10) A wedding wager
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Series
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English
Description
Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fortune's whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables. Serena even dismissed her first love, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, at her stepfather's command. But when he attempts to force her into a liaison with a dissolute earl, Serena resolves to do his bidding no more. Sebastian is the only man who ever captured her heart, and...
12) The king's blood
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Series
Dagger and the coin volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
When an act of harrowing betrayal threatens to burn the cities, a courageous young woman becomes the world's only defender against a universal darkness in a confrontation that reverses the fortunes of powerful and oppressed people.
13) Signal to noise
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Publisher
HarperEdge
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
18) Sin city
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Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
19) Fever
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Nameless works to find a woman who doesn't want to be found for a man who doesn't seem to care very much about her fate-- except to prove that he didn't murder her.
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English
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"A decade ago, the Marquess of Bourne was cast from society with nothing but his title. Now a partner in London's most exclusive gaming hell, the cold, ruthless Bourne will do whatever it takes to regain his inheritance-including marrying perfect, proper Lady Penelope Marbury. A broken engagement and years of disappointing courtships have left Penelope with little interest in a quiet, comfortable marriage, and a longing for something more. How lucky...
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