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1) Bluff
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"One-time socialite Maud Warner polishes up the rags of her once glittering existence and bluffs her way into a signature New York restaurant on a sunny October day. When she walks out again, a man will have been shot. Maud has grown accustomed to being underestimated and invisible, and she uses her ability to fly under the radar as she pursues celebrity accountant Burt Sklar, the man she believes stole her mother's fortune and left her family in...
2) Bluff
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Seventeen year-old Chelsea Knowles is your average teenager. But she's harboring a secret that very few people know: she and her dad can't pay the bills. Broken by his wife leaving, Chelsea's father ignores his parenting responsibilities. Between cheer costs, grocery bills, electricity, and other financial burdens, Chelsea knows it'll be up to her to keep the lights on. She manages to sneak into a casino, and her first big poker win sparks the
...3) Bluff
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Kriminalkomissar Nathan Duporc muss einen Mord in einem Zug aufklären. Ein unheimliche Allianz führt einen Schriftsteller,einen Bankier und einen Hoteldieb zusammen.
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Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
5) Angel Bluff
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Someone tried to kill her... too bad she can't remember why.
Morgan wakes in the hospital broken and confused, with no memory of the last four years. Dazed from the meds, she's stunned to learn that she's married to the sexy green-eyed man haunting her dreams. Just one look from this hot bad-boy causes her entire body to react. But who is this guy? What was their relationship like? Men like this don't usually fall for her. Did he have had something...
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Shunned by her fellow performers after a disastrous liaison with an older magician, card-trick prodigy Natalie Webb writes an article about the art of cheating at cards to supplement her meager income, only to be drawn into the world of a talented poker cheat who entices her to help orchestrate a lucrative trick.
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Tony Valentine mysteries volume 7
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A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world's largest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating expert Tony Valentine together with his son, Gerry, have been hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperate characters who will go to extremes-even cold-blooded murder-to ensure that the obnoxious DeMarco wins big. On opposite sides of a deadly game, father and son work their way through a colorful landscape of...
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JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WILDER THAN EVER.
Welcome to the Lost Coyote Saloon. Saddle up to the bar and order a whiskey. Play a few hands of poker. But don't make any trouble. The new owner is savage. Ben Savage. Once a Texas Ranger, he's always cocked and ready for some fool to come looking for payback...
EAT, DRINK, AND BE WARY
When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died-and left him his saloon-he's not sure what to think....
9) Malibu Bluff
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Malibu is the perfect playground for a new crew of seasonaires in the thrilling follow-up to last summer's must-read debut.
Every summer is curated as a dream for six twenty-something seasonaires handpicked by Lydon Wyld, the chic founder of her namesake clothing line. This summer takes these influential brand ambassadors to the West Coast. Mia, a resourceful young designer, is chosen to lead the pack-roped back into a second season by a deal she...
10) Call the Bluff
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It costs a lot to win. And even more to lose. Seven Corporations rule the former United States with seven codes of conduct based on their ideas of morality. Comply with the code of the Corporation that holds your Citizen Contract, or suffer the economic consequences. Or fight back. For sixty years the Democratic State Force has been fighting to return representative democracy to the country. Living in the no man's lands between cities and hanging...
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Raleigh Bishop's perfect life in rural St. Mary's County, Maryland, has just come to a shattering end. Her naval test pilot husband, Grant, has been killed in a flight accident, and Raleigh is left to pick up the brittle shards of that life. She prefers to stay hidden away in her grief but is unwillingly dragged out of it by the contents of her husband's will, which contain a shocking bequest. Grant has left her St. Clements Bluff, an old Bishop family...
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Romance author Kamaria Wilson came to Las Vegas with nothing to lose. A one-night stand with a hot guy is just the distraction she needs...until she realizes she wound up in the wrong man's bed.
And now they're stuck together.
After his hot one-night stand goes MIA, security specialist Jack Aldirisi is sure he'll never see her again. But when he's called in to the casino for an unexpected "special assignment," Lady Luck smiles down on Jack. For the...
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The Miners Title and Trust is typically dead quiet, having gone bankrupt. Then, late one evening, the bank's blind president, Blake Hadfield, plummets eight stories to his death in the building's lobby. The only witnesses are the security guard and Blake's estranged wife, who were both on the first floor. Blake's son, Seth, is found drunk and dazed on the eighth floor, making him the prime suspect in what the police believe to be murder. That's when...
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The hatred that Robert arouses in Mary against Kate helps him gain her trust. Mary plots against Kate and, using Coronation Street wittiness, delivers a mastermind plan to destroy Kate.
Mary, pretending to be Kate's friend, lowers her guard, which exposes Kate to her treachery and betrayal.
Mary and Robert decide that Kate offended them and committed a wrongdoing for which she deserves to be punished.
They stage a simple wrongdoing that the mob...
15) Gambian Bluff
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Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can just three members of the SAS quell a rebel uprising? July 1981: while Gambian President Jawara attends a royal wedding in London, Marxist rebels seize power. Fearing armed intervention from neighboring Senegal, they take hostages - including one of the president's wives and several of his children - and empty the prisons in a desperate search for allies in the coming struggle. As opposing factions of the...
16) Gambler's Bluff
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Lieutenant JG William (Bill) DeGeorge, star fighter pilot with a slight tendency to get into trouble...periodically. He is stranded on a planet his fleet was preparing for colonization during a battle with the opposing Bomitoc forces. The fleet retreats unaware Bill survived the battle.
After making repairs to his star fighter craft, Bill flies up to a derelict cruiser orbiting the planet and rescues with three female medics that all out rank him,...
17) The Bluff
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Two childhood friends, growing up in a small Oregon town, become reacquainted after a woman is abducted, while attending a genetics conference in San Diego, California. Sarah, now in her early 30s, works as an investigative journalist for a San Francisco newspaper. Ricki, after obtaining a Ph.D., realizes her dream of working in marine biology by heading up a molecular genetics lab at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in La Jolla,...
18) Hagon's Bluff
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With the lose of Angie Bradshaws husband she is now faced with a new challenge. She had to go to a town in West Virginia mountains for the reading of a will. Twins entered into her life that she knew nothing about, where they came from, or why they acted the way they do. When she finds out the children are beaten almost everyday she takes matters into her own hands and demands that she gets help. Her own two children accept these children and works...
19) Bluff City
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"That was my first lesson as a male prostitute. Prostitutes don't own things. There's only a rental agreement, no contract. One needs to get serious."
America is a nation in decline; that much is obvious. At what point did America go from splitting the atom to smashing statues, from Southern hospitality to apathetic vulgarity, from conquest and victory to dysfunction and defeat? There's a lot of ruin in a nation, and the best observer of that ruin...
20) Bastard's Bluff
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Burning crosses on lawns and swastikas on Jewish graves? These are outrages wildly out of place in neighborly Hercules, Wis. But when a rash of hate crimes strikes, villagers turn to ex-police chief Jim Otis for help. Trouble is, after a scandal over a high-school cheerleader, Jim's no longer a cop. The crimes spiral beyond the new police chief's control. Suspicion focuses on Norman Klinghofer, who lives quietly in a historic family compound atop...
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