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Cassie Claiborne's world is riddled with problems beyond her control: her hard-living father has another wife; her long-suffering mother is incapable of moving on; her sister Belle is a tempest of fragility and brilliance; her closest friends are adolescent harbingers of their own doomed futures. Frustrated by her inability to care deeply enough for so many troubled souls, Cassie finds in the local pool hall an oasis of green felt where she can mater...

"As Algy Temple, the deft pool player, sleuth, and Ivy League university lawyer, investigates the suspicious death of a retired professor, it coincides with his involvement in a high stakes pool tournament in Providence, where old world shadows hang heavily in the air. Unexpectedly, he finds himself on a path that leads him to Rome and the Boot of Italy where he confronts the dreaded 'Ndrangheta crime family and discovers a past haunted by vendetta...

"The Basics of Billiards is an easy to watch, easy to learn, self help video intended for newcomers interested in learning the rules, regulations, techniques, and terminologies of the game of pool. Targeted towards novices and amateurs interested in picking up pool as a new activity, viewers are educated on simply the basics of the sport. Viewers lean along with our on camera beginning pool players covering subjects such as: tools of the trade, table...