Gambling in America

Gambling in America
Author: Earl L. Grinols
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2004-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1139450239

Gambling in America carefully breaks ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and often negative economic consequences, these factors are incorporated into the discussion. The book also shows how amenity benefits - for casinos, the benefit to consumers of closer proximity - enter the evaluation. Other topics include agent incentives and public decision making, conceptual clarifications about economic development, cost-benefit analysis, and net export multiplier models. Professor Grinols finds that, in considering all relevant factors, the social costs of casino gambling outweigh their social benefits.

To Gamble on an Earl

To Gamble on an Earl
Author: Diane Dario
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781796958966

To Gamble On An Earl is the much anticipated second story in Award- winning author Diane Dario's "Men Of Waterloo" series. Evan, The Earl Of Foxington, had only one mistress, Lady Luck. When she deserted him at the Battle Of Hougomont he was left scarred in more ways than one. Lady Phoebe Collins has loved Foxington since she and her best friend, his sister, dogged his footsteps as children. When she received a request from him for a tryst at a ball, what seemed to be the answer to her dreams turned out to be a nightmare.Will Evan be able to overcome the thrill of gambling to earn Phoebe's trust? Will Phoebe ever learn to feel safe enough to live again?

How To Train Your Earl

How To Train Your Earl
Author: Amelia Grey
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250218810

A roguish earl must fight using his honor and not his sword to win his lady’s hand in How To Train Your Earl, the third book in the First Comes Love trilogy from bestseller Amelia Grey. Brina Feld has settled into a life devoted to helping others since the sinking of the Salty Dove left her widowed. She has no need for a man in her contented life. But when the notorious and handsome Lord Blacknight returns and awakens her desires, her peace and serenity vanish. If she agrees to an alliance with him, she knows she will have to battle her heart to keep from being snared under his spell. Zane, the Earl of Blacknight, was never supposed to inherit the earldom, so he didn’t much care to lead a respectable life before then. Fistfights, card games, and drinking are the order of the day. Now he’s determined to change his rakish ways and he knows the proper lady who can help him. There’s just one problem: He's already bet he’ll win her hand before the Season is over. With her resolve to out-scheme him, how can he show her that his love is true?

The Earl's Wager

The Earl's Wager
Author: Rebecca Thomas
Publisher: Entangled: Scandalous
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1633757293

When straitlaced earl, Will Sutton, is challenged to turn the obstinate American ward of his friend into a biddable lady suitable for the Marriage Mart, he gladly takes the wager. Then has to decide whether the prize--a prime racing stud horse--is worth changing the impudent beauty's temperament he's come to enjoy. Greatly. One headstrong miss. One stuffy lord. One friendly wager. What could go wrong? Will Sutton, the Earl of Grandleigh, believes he can save the family’s impoverished estate by investing in a racehorse, but the price is too steep. His brother-in-law offers him a deal: tutor his American ward in proper English customs, so she’ll be marriage material, and Will can have one of his horses. Maybe Miss Georgia Duvall prefers being a jockey, is obstinate and high spirited, but once she’s cleaned up and presentable, he’ll have no trouble finding her a quality suitor. She might even be quite pretty beneath the racetrack dust. The last thing Georgia Duvall wants is to be married off to an English peer. But she won’t defy her father’s wishes, and sets her cap for the oldest lord she can find—a man who’ll die quickly and leave her alone to manage her inheritance. The Earl of Grandleigh might think he’ll teach her manners and marry her off to someone younger than eighty, but there hasn’t been an obstacle yet Georgia can’t overcome. Including a stuffy, overbearing English lord.

The Earl's Wager for a Lady

The Earl's Wager for a Lady
Author: Helen Dickson
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369729811

Enjoy this sparky Regency romance It started with a wager… Will it end with it too? Returning from the military, Lord Maxim Randall finds his new neighbor, Eve Lansbury, to be challenging, intriguing—and utterly captivating. Widowed with a young son, Eve is fiercely protective, and Maxim can’t help but fall for her. However, a foolish bet to seduce her is revealed and backfires, jeopardizng their bond. Eve’s heart is more guarded than ever—unless Maxim can convince her to trust him again… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Earl Scarface

Earl Scarface
Author: James Douglas Bozarth
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2020-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664145710

Lady Caroline Carol is thrown out of her father’s home for continuously insulting Daniel, the new Earl of Dalwood, who is the same man she had insulted ten years earlier about the scar on his cheek. To hide his shame, Daniel grows a beard. Angered by the new insult that forbids his wife’s burial on his old home, Dalwood, her father says Caroline has to go to a nunnery or with the first man through the door of the house. Caroline does not recognize Daniel without the beard he just shaved off as he enters the house. She has to go with him as a common woman because Daniel is incognito as a common man in order to find out why the Dalwood Estate is losing so much money. She now has to learn how to be a good common woman while the Earl investigates the crime. When Caroline learns how to be civilized, Daniel marries her, but still as a commoner. So why does someone shoot them both?

Hot Earl Summer

Hot Earl Summer
Author: Erica Ridley
Publisher: Forever
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538726165

Action adventure meets Regency romance in this feminist romp from New York Times Erica Ridley, perfect for fans of Manda Collins and Evie Dunmore. Bold, curvy Elizabeth Wynchester loves cuddling hedgehogs almost as much as she adores vanquishing villains with the sharp blade concealed inside her cane. Despite others’ opinions about her body and gender, nothing will stop her from seeing justice done. When her next mission drops her at the dastardly Earl of Densmore’s castle, she’s prepared to duel like gentlemen—only to be locked inside! Her trusty sword cannot defeat the castle’s hidden traps… or protect her heart from the devilishly handsome rogue guarding the keep. When reclusive inventor Stephen Lenox agreed to impersonate his cousin for a few days, he didn’t expect the earl to vanish altogether. Nor could Stephen predict mounting death threats… or the arrival of a beguiling, blade-wielding spinster who declares herself his new bodyguard. As the earl’s enemies lay siege to the castle, Stephen fights his way past Elizabeth’s defenses. She’ll share his bed, but when the adventure concludes, she vows to sever their affair. Unless he can somehow convince a swashbuckling siren to surrender her heart…

An Earl From India

An Earl From India
Author: Marina Oliver
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2016-09-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1326785923

How can a disgraced Earl make the most of his return from exile, especially when he is impersonating his half-brother, John, the real Earl? Silas, expects to find a flourishing estate at The Priory and marry an heiress when he returns from a twenty-year exile in India. He is attracted to Fanny, the heiress daughter of a wealthy trader he meets on the homeward-bound ship, but she dislikes him and her brother Gerard, who is to take over his dead father's business, rejects him. Then he meets his family, cousins Lucien and Amanda, and Aunt Charlotte, and finds his inheritance worthless. He needs to recoup his fortunes, reverting to his earlier career of gambling and worse.

THE IMPOSSIBLE EARL

THE IMPOSSIBLE EARL
Author: Sarah Westleigh
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1460361083

An unexpected inheritance… Leonora wanted him to leave: Having been reduced to working as a governess, she was left her uncle's fortune and fine town house in Bath. But she also inherited the most infuriating—and most handsome— resident, Blaise, Earl of Kelsey! Blaise refused to go: He had a lease and, by George, he was staying to run his popular gentlemen's club! Especially since Lady Leonora was such a captivating woman…. Leonora's hopes for a respectable life in Society and the possibility of marriage would come to ruin without a compromise, particularly when the Earl was so clearly not a candidate for marriage…or was he?

A Murdered Earl

A Murdered Earl
Author: Marina Oliver
Publisher: Regency Reads
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1947812459

Luke Peters, French aristocrat, has escaped from the guillotine to England, and needs to protect his sister from vicious revolutionaries while searching for the family jewels. Hoping the Earl of Redditch can help, he becomes the Earl's valet, then disaster strikes and he might be accused of murder.