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Successful female gambler Cheung Yin "Kelly" Sun painstakingly develops talent and obsession for payback into beating the system at their own game. With major casinos conspiring to bar her from their properties, Sun partners with the international "King of Poker" Phil Ivey in order to take down the system through subterfuge, ingenuity, and pure daring, resulting in one of the most ingenious legal gambling runs ever documented.

Rebecca Nichols Alonzo loses her parents when they stand up against evil within their church — a man obsessed with controlling the church who is determined to get rid of anyone who stands in his way.

From the 1930s to the present, five very different relationships are connected in surprising and unexpected ways by a diamond engagement ring.

A single mom juggles the demands of running a knitting store with raising her teen daughter. Her regular customers gather once a week to work on their latest projects and chat. When a tragedy occurs, the customers are forced to realize they've created more than just a knitting club.

Mothers become grandmothers and their daughters become mothers in their own right, as a new generation explores their own relationships with culture, heritage, love, womanhood and identity.

Chronically-ill Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a "nice Jewish girl" with a secret, loves Christmas. As the best-selling author of over twenty Christmas romance novels, and four made-for-TV movie spin-offs, she's kept her stellar career secret from her observant Jewish family for over a decade. But when Rachel's publishing house tells her they won't renew her contract unless she writes them a Hanukkah romance, she's desperate for inspiration. She finds it in the form of the Matzah Ball, a high-end Jewish music celebration scheduled for the last night of Hanukkah. There is only one problem: tickets are sold out and the only way to get one is direct from the ball's creator, who just happens to be Jacob Greenberg, her summer camp arch enemy.

True series of events from author Douglas Preston's life. Shortly after moving his family to Italy in 2000, Preston learned that an olive grove on their property had been the scene of a brutal murder. Teaming with Italian journalist Mario Spezi, Preston began investigating the crime, which was part of a series of eight double homicides between 1968-85.

Two orphans are raised by a CIA operative to be assassins, only to become targets themselves.

Set in a distant land after the king, queen and crown prince are murdered, a nobleman devises a plan to find someone to impersonate the king’s long-lost son and act as a puppet. An orphan finds himself chosen with three other boys in the running. But this is no mere competition -- with court intrigue and political conspiracies make it a contest to the death.

Described as a historical-based story about the Donner Party, one of the more spectacular and bizarre tragedies in American history.

Set in the 24th Century, a father explains the ground rules for "Jaunting," a form of teleportation the family will be using shortly to go to Mars. The key is that travelers must be under anesthesia for the short journey, or terrible things happen to the mind of those being jaunted around the solar system. Time stands still and one's brain implodes with too much time to think in an absence of external stimulation. Bad things happen.

A historical epic based on the true life story of Kamehameha, the founder and first ruler of the kingdom of Hawaii, uniting the warring islands.

Kvothe, a man gifted with magic, turns out to be the most notorious wizard in the world.

A California woman, Jonell McLain, buys a diamond necklace with a dozen other women with the goal of sharing it — leading to the jewelry being transformed from a symbol of exclusivity to one of inclusiveness.

A Brooklyn group called May Mothers meet up to socialize and relish a couple hours away from their babies. The evening takes a tragic turn when Winnie, the single mother of the group, learns that her six-week-old son, Midas, has been abducted from his crib. Over the course of thirteen days, three new moms go to increasingly desperate lengths to find Midas alive. In the process, damaging secrets are revealed, marriages are tested, and friendships are created and destroyed.

Set many years later, Jen and Kira are now king and queen, and must fight to save their kingdom when the crystal is once again split.

Dare Wright becomes well-known in the 1950s thanks to her best-selling children's book "The Lonely Doll." Wright lives a bizarre life of glamour and isolation, and she struggles to escape her painful childhood through her art. Wright passes away in 2001 at the age of 86.

The story revolves around a mute teenager who lives on a farm in Wisconsin with a family that’s raised a coveted breed of dog for generations. Edgar Sawtelle’s father dies mysteriously after his uncle comes to stay with the family, which sends the youth fleeing into the woods with three of his dogs.

Set in the 1970s, a scandal is caused by New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich when they admit to swapping wives with one another.