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Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...
3) Private
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Former CIA agent Jack Morgan inherits his father's elite Los Angeles detective agency and along with it such cases as an NFL gambling scandal, eighteen unsolved schoolgirl slayings, and the murder of his best friend's wife.
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Provides an inside look at professional poker and the seedy Las Vegas back rooms known only to the most dedicated gamblers. Don "The Matador" Everest is a champion poker-playing "king of the table." Facing off against the Matador is Eddie Towne, a hot-shot player driven by revenge, and Clark Marcellin, a young player out to de-throne the champ. Lee Nickel is a Midwestern sheriff looking for his brother's killer. Molloy is the head of a casino-owning...
5) Plum lucky
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself in over her head with a caper involving stolen money, a racehorse, a car chase, and a bad case of hives-- not to mention her grandmother playing the slots in Atlantic City and unknowingly using the stolen money! Meanwhile, the mysterious Diesel returns to once again turn Stephanie's world upside down.
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