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1. Poker face
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English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatches plans of their breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.
Publisher:
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
1 stars
Description:
Charlie Cale is a down-on-her-luck cocktail waitress with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth. After crossing a bloodthirsty mobster, Charlie hits the road in her trusty Plymouth Barracuda, encountering new friends, unsolved mysteries, and danger everywhere she turns. This 3-disc collection includes every thrilling episode and features amazing guest performances from Academy Award winner Adrien Brody, Judith Light, Chloe Sevigny, Nick Nolte,...
3. Poker Face
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Publisher:
TSJ Publications
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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Kenzie Dark is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas. As such, she discovers she has little time for personal relationships. Shaun Tyler is an executive in the marketing department of a new hotel in Las Vegas. Her task is to help a TV producer get a show on the air featuring female poker players. Her hotel also wants a female player to sponsor in order to get their logo in front of the camera in tournaments. Kenzie Dark is the woman they...
4. Poker Face
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Publisher:
Dreamspinner Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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A Stud Games Novel Surveillance, seduction, and extra-dirty politics. Christian Chatsworth-Brandeis has a problem. A huge one. The US senator he works for has run away with his latest mistress on the eve of a make-or-break fundraising event, and it's up to him to cover his irresponsible boss's tracks. Stone Jackson, Senator Lacey's new bodyguard, looks enough like him that, with some extensive grooming, he might pass for the senator. Christian and...
5. Poker Face
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Series:
Spotted Pony Casino Mystery volume 1
Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Dela Alvaro is a disabled veteran who grew up on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation. When an IED in Iraq ended her military career, she came home to reassess her life and landed a job in security at the Indian run casino on the reservation. Not even a year into being the assistant to the head of security, Dela is promoted on a trial basis. When one of the casino employees is found stabbed and stuffed in a laundry chute, she knows...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
How to Make Money in Open Face Chinese Poker (OFCP) is the first and only OFCP book on the market that teaches you how to win! It introduces the fundamental theorems for those who are just learning the game, and more importantly, transforms a regular player into an expert in the OFCP environment. Whether you are aiming to make some side income or have been playing poker throughout your career, this book will equip you with everything you need to crush...
Publisher:
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2008]
Language:
English
Description:
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy returns with an electrifying tale of friendship, betrayal, and shattering secrets that threaten to destroy a small Mississippi town.When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the political chaos in the nation's...
11. Casino royale
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In this ultimate, psychedelic, star-studded, secret-agent satire, British Intelligence is waning…in every possible way! When the diabolical SMERSH begins killing off Her Majesty's Secret Service, super-agent James Bond (David Niven) recruits six more "James Bonds" to confuse and conquer their enemies. But it won't be easy…they'll have to face an army of irresistibly sexy female operatives, exploding robotic fowl and germ that makes all women beautiful…but...
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It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias--the garden club in little Darling, Alabama--are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He--or she!--strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling's direction, while...
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Publisher:
Books on Tape
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book
“The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post
It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually...
“The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post
It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually...
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Publisher:
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
English
Description:
"As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, "Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and - like the wiry grass - seem as difficult to weed out and discard." But the true-life story of women's experiences in the Wild West is more gripping, heart-rending, and stirring than all the movies, novels, folk-legends, and ballads of popular imagination. Hard-drinking, hard-living...
18. Five easy pieces
Series:
Criterion collection volume 546
Publisher:
Criterion Collection
Language:
English
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Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever....
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"This wealthy rancher has placed his bet ... And it's winner takes all! No one gets under Jackson Cooper's skin like fellow ranch owner Cricket Maxfield. Now, facing off at a charity poker game, the stakes get personal. Jackson finds himself on the losing end ... And paying up means being the ranch hand at Cricket's beck and call. In close quarters, tempers flare--and the fire between them ignites into a passion that won't be ignored ..."--Amazon
20. The Yes Men
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English
Description:
With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed - hook, line and sinker - the Yes Men must up the satrical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights.