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1) The Wager
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Don Giovanni was once the wealthiest and handsomest young man in Messina. Then a tidal wave changed everything. When a well-dressed stranger offers him a magical purse, he knows he shouldn't take it. Only the devil would offer a deal like this, and only a fool would accept.
Don Giovanni is no fool, but he is desperate. He takes the bet: he will not bathe for 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days. Beauty is a small price to pay for worldly wealth, isn't...
2) The Wager
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The bet romances (Rachel Van Dyken) volume 2
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English
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THE WAGER
Lose a bet, lose your heart...
What is it about a junior-high crush that can send an otherwise intelligent woman into a tailspin? TV reporter Char Lynn wishes she knew. Jake Titus is too rich, too handsome, too arrogant: a trifecta that once lured Char into the best night-and worst morning-after-of her life. Now they've been thrown together in a wedding party. It's awkward, but survivable . . . until Jake stops acting like a jerk, and...
3) The Wager
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The Princess-;New Orleans's most luxurious hotel. Sixty years ago, ownership of the hotel was lost to the powerful Jardine family in a wager that cost its matriarch her greatest love. Now, in a daring bid to keep the hotel, her legacy and her family together, she's made a new wager, betting everything on a granddaughter she's never met.
IT WAS A HIGH-STAKES GAME...;
After her mother's tragic death, Laura Harte learns her life has been a lie. All...
4) The Wager
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Amorica Hepburn was sent to London to find a husband. However, finding a man was the last item on her agenda. With her two cousins, Amorica wagers she can dissuade her suitor before the others. Despite her efforts she discovers a chemistry that cannot be denied. Suddenly she is the arrogant man's wife, pledged to a marriage neither desire. But swept off to his ancestral home above the Dover cliffs and into his strong embrace, Amorica is soon possessed...
5) The Wager
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Science Fiction Short Story -On a world strange yet disturbingly familiar, this is the simple story of a seemingly innocuous wager, which triggers the clash between a decorated starflyer and his planet's powerful ruler, that leads to startling events, which will have dire consequences across the galaxies.(4100 words, 11 typed pages)
6) The Wager
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Kek Huuygens novels volume 4
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English
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A reckless bet in a New York club draws Kek Huuygens into a deadly game. As rain pummels Manhattan, two men play blackjack in one of New York's most exclusive clubs. After an evening of comfortable low-stakes play, Kek Huuygens makes an outlandish bet: $10,000 on the next hand. He can afford it. The most accomplished smuggler in Europe, Huuygens never makes a bet unless he is sure to win. He is a lucky man, but his luck is about to be tested. In the...
7) The Wager
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A story of love and survival in 1788, Virginia. Abigail Stanton fears for her safety when her stepmother makes an offer no man would refuse. Widower, Carrick Chandler, determined to gallantly intercede, both helps and hurts them, catapulting Abigail and himself into a doomed future. When secrets, fears, and intrigues become part of daily life, Abigail must choose rather to wager body and soul for love, or surrender to a shattered unknown.
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
9) The wager
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Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The Wager unleashes spiritual paranormal twists and turns around every corner. Brucie loses his wager and is mysteriously jolted back in time to see life from the eyes of those he brutally hurt, an experience that will forever alter his broken life.
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"The Wager" is a simple story of a seemingly innocuous wager, which triggers the clash between a decorated starflyer and his planet's powerful ruler, that leads to startling events which will have dire consequences across the galaxy.Thus begins the saga of Jospar, the Starflyer, and Kasceto, the Ruler. Jospar is a starflyer, a space explorer of the first order. He is a discoverer of new worlds, but one world in particular intrigues him more than others....
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A kiss in the gardens. A ruined reputation. A wager without a winner.
Having been caught kissing an earl's heir in the gardens during a ball, Miss Lucy Fitzsimmons has been relegated to the company of potted palms and wallflowers at London entertainments. Despite behaving as a perfect young lady up until that fateful night, she knows time won't lessen the stain on her reputation. She'll rarely be asked to dance, nor does she expect to be courted...
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This is the astounding story of HMS Wager, driven ashore in foul weather onto the inhospitable coast of Patagonian Chile in 1741. Shipwreck was followed by murder, starvation, mutiny, and the fearful ordeal of 36 survivors out of about 140 men. Some were enslaved, some defected; many drowned. The captain shot one of his officers. There was an epic open-boat voyage of 2500 nautical miles through the world's most hostile seas, probably the greatest...
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The marriage gamble…
Guy, Lord Keating, laden with his father's debts, elopes with"heiress" Emily Duprey…only to discover she is as poor as he! Nowhis only hope of saving his family and dependents is a reluctantreturn to the gaming tables.Emily has to escape marriage to a gamester like her father. But sheneeds more money than she can win as Lady Keating-so she becomesLady Widow, a card-playing masked seductress! Then Guy recognizes thebeautiful...
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A Kasey Michaels Alphabet Regency Romance Classic.Beaumont Remington -- known only as "Fish" in The Haunted Miss Hampshire, is a man searching for revenge ... but what he finds with Rosalind Winslow, the sister of his enemy, is something much more satisfying:She was a pretty enough little thing, he granted to himself, and she would have brought out more of his protective tendencies if he didn't believe she could probably hold off an army on her own,...
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What If You Could Know...Who created the multiverse and why? The truth about Lucifer's Rebellion and how it effects Heaven and Earth? How the trial in Eternity's Supreme Court overflows into the affairs of men?
Are there ancient, powerful, and malevolent demons roaming Earth? Were did they come from and how do they influence mankind? What are the End of Days? How near to the Great Tribulation are we? What will be its impact on society and the world...
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Disclaimer: This is NOT the official book, but a summary & it does NOT accompany the official.
In "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder" by David Grann, readers are thrust into a thrilling narrative based on true events surrounding the shipwreck of His Majesty's Ship the Wager in the 1740s. On a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain, the Wager pursued a treasure-laden Spanish galleon before meeting its tragic fate off the...
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EXTENDED SUMMARY
THE WAGER
BASED ON THE BOOK BY DAVID GRANN
SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: QUICK READING LIBRARY
CONTENT
The Voyage Begins
Into the Storm
Shipwreck and Survival
Descent into Mutiny
The Island of Despair
The Escape Attempts
Return to Civilization
Court-Martial and Public Outcry
The Aftermath of Judgment
Analysis and Themes
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK
"The Wager" by David Grann tells the gripping true story of a British...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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An arranged marriage. A tormenting neighbor.
When Lydia's father tells her he's obtained a husband for her, Mr. Thornton, she doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. She'd only met the man once before, and he'd immediately left her stranded in a ballroom after asking her to dance. How could she marry a man who already deemed her forgettable?
Edward Thornton has succumbed to the allure of gambling one too many times, to the...
When Lydia's father tells her he's obtained a husband for her, Mr. Thornton, she doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. She'd only met the man once before, and he'd immediately left her stranded in a ballroom after asking her to dance. How could she marry a man who already deemed her forgettable?
Edward Thornton has succumbed to the allure of gambling one too many times, to the...
20) The love wager
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2023.
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"Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, author of Mr. Wrong Number. Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it's time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has...
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