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"I'll bet you 20,000 pounds that I can travel around the world in 80 days!" said Phileas Fogg. The time is 1872, when trains and steamships are the fastest means of travel. Across egypt and India, through Hong Kong, Japan and America he goes, encountering wonders along the way and braving many dangers. He meets a beautiful Indian princess and is pursued by a detective with a warrant for arrest...Can they keep Phileas Fogg from winning his bet?
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When they first meet, Bailey and Charlie cannot stand one another, but when they met a year later as coworkers, Charlie secretly bets a colleague he can get Bailey to go out with him, and their relationship gets more complicated as they get closer and closer.
When Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see Charlie is a one of her coworkers. They met a year ago on a flight to Omaha after her parents' divorce, and...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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After being dumped by his girlfriend, Matt sleeps with every girl he meets. Finally, Matt decides the only way to stop his sex obsession is to go 40 days and 40 nights living in a world of total abstinence. Then Matt meets Erica and the betting begins to see how long Matt can hold out.
9) Uncut gems
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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A charismatic jeweler makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
10) Bet me
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2004.
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English
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Agreeing not to pursue a relationship after one date, unlikely lovers Min Dobbs and Cal Morrisey are thrown together again in the wake of such factors as a jealous ex-boyfriend, a determined psychologist, and a bizarrely intelligent cat.
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Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant), the bored heir of a rich family, is set the task of earning his own living for one year -- a challenge secured by a bet of 50,000 pounds. Then love, in the form of a penurious young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage (played by Mary Brian), tempts Bliss to abandon the bet.
12) The love wager
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Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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...
13) Tea for two
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Wealthy stage-struck Nan Carter strikes a bet that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she gets the $25,000 she needs to back a Broadway musical vehicle for herself. She's determined, even if it means saying "no" when the fellow she loves pops the question.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on his ability to seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable. For Katherine, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante by asking her to become his wife.
15) The rounders
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis are bronc riders. This pair of cowboys who will do any job, except for the one at hand. That job: Saddle a clever, ornery, blaze-faced roan named Old Fooler and make him as gentle as a milk-pen calf. They don't think it can be done, so they start thinking. Maybe they can make a dollar or two by wagering that no one at the rodeo can stay atop him either.
17) Taos lightning
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Series
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"When an accident seriously injures his father, fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick saddles his half broke mustang stallion to take his father's place in a horse race from Texas to New England offering $3,000 to the winner. He will discover what America can offer, both good and bad"--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Playboy Charles Thorpe, Viscount Lumley falls victim to his meddling grandmother's latest matchmaking scheme when she introduces him to her goddaughter, Daisy Montgomery, who needs his help to save her family castle.
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Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When she overhears hotshot lawyer Matthew Lyndon taking a bet to seduce her, wedding planner Courtney Wallace decides to play along in an attempt to beat him at his own game, but the tables soon turn as the stakes are raised by love.
20) The kissing game
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Rena Jackson is a diehard romantic, and she's had her eye on Axel Heller for a while. He's got the tall-brooding-and-handsome thing down pat, but he guards his heart well, and Rena is tired of waiting for him to notice her. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, she decides it's time to forget about Axel and find her own Mr. Right. But that's when Axel makes her a bet that involves the hottest kiss she's ever had.."--