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Serge Storms ; 20
Language
English
Description
"If you're loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own 'episodes' of your favorite classic television show, Route 66! With Coleman riding shotgun, Serge is rolling down the highway of his dreams in a vintage silver convertible Corvette just like the snazzy car Martin Milner drove. It doesn't matter that the actual Route 66 didn't pass through Florida, for Serge discovers that...
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English
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"Maddie's not impulsive. She's all about hard work and planning ahead. But one night, on a whim, she buys a lottery ticket. And then, to her astonishment -- She wins! In a flash, Maddie's life is unrecognizable. No more stressing about college scholarships. Suddenly, she's talking about renting a yacht. And being in the spotlight at school is fun ... until rumors start flying, and random people ask her for loans. Now, Maddie isn't sure who she can...
7) Windfall
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Language
English
Description
Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. On his eighteenth birthday she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes. As a kid, Alice's parents died just over a year apart from each other. And Teddy's father abandoned his family not long after that, leaving them to grapple with his gambling debts. Through it all, Teddy and Alice have leaned on each other....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The hot guy arrives first: he's in a crosswalk clutching a bag of groceries while a blonde in a Hummer is learning hard on her horn, sending the man's groceries and white cane flying. How has this woman missed that fact that the man is blind? From the curb, an outraged Allie jumps to his rescue, rebagging the groceries as well.The money is in the bag. Literally- Thomas Bennington III, for that's who the handsome guy proves to be, has bought a MondoMegaJackpot...
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English
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"What you don't see is what you get... When a sniper targets a blind man walking along the lagoon of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the bullet is a wake-up call aimed straight for Allie Harper and Tom Bennington, shattering their illusion that the Mondo Mega Jackpot Nightmare is over. On the day Allie--sassy, lonely, broke--met Tom--smart, hot, blind--he won five hundred and fifty million trying to show a kid that gambling doesn't pay. Romance--and...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In a graphic-novel adaptation of the classic spine-tingler, the grandson of the story's original author depicts the eerie town and their shocking ritual in detailed four-color panels that breathe new life into the iconic tale." --
11) Jackpot
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English
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"Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she--with some assistance from her popular and wildly rich classmate Zan--can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize. But what happens when have and have-nots...
12) The lottery
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When troubled, fifteen-year-old Sally wins the annual Shadow Council's lottery at her high school, she finds her ostracism by the rest of the student body difficult to bear.
Author
Series
Classroom 13 ; 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Unlucky teacher Ms. Linda LaCrosse wins the lottery and shares her winnings with her class. The students fulfill their dreams with their newfound wealth, but they soon learn that winning the lottery is not all that lucky"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"It's not just the murder that has Jake concerned. His girlfriend, Trudy, the crime scene expert with the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, who ought to be at the scene, is stuck in a snowdrift somewhere. The BCA is understaffed, the Rutherford PD could use more officers, and the corpse is being covered by snow."--Jacket.
20) Solar lottery
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2203, when a system of random selection chooses both public officeholders and the targets of political assassination, Ted Benteley challenges the system and becomes a pawn in a power struggle that changes the direction of history.
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