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Author : Stefanie Moshammer
Publisher : Fotohof
ISBN 13 : 9783902993137
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Vegas and She written by Stefanie Moshammer and published by Fotohof. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Krauss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989452939
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book To Vegas and Back written by Suzanne Krauss and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TO VEGAS and BACK is Casino meets The Burning Bed, peppered with The Glass Castle. The story begins with a twenty-six-year-old woman living the American dream in the 1960s. She was a homemaker and mother of three in the beautiful suburbs of Philadelphia. At thirty-two she gets a divorce and trades brownies and carpools for pasties and feathers as a Showgirl in Las Vegas. In a nutshell, this woman leaves her husband in 1972 and is swooped up by a rich man who wants to make her a showgirl. He moves her to Vegas and shortly after, he is murdered. Distraught, she is visited by the FBI to learn her deceased friend was a crook and ran a Ponzi scheme. She then meets a Vegas mobster who introduces her into the world of sex, drugs and the underground workings of Vegas casinos. She realizes her dream when she nails an audition and becomes one of the most sought-after showgirls of her time in the Tropicana's famous Les Folies Bergere. Finally, this woman meets a man who wants to marry her and take in her children-a man who nearly destroys them with violence, alcohol and abuse over the course of six years. The author can tell this story firsthand, because this woman is her mother.
Author : Al W Moe
Publisher : Al W Moe
ISBN 13 : 1483955559
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Vegas and the Mob written by Al W Moe and published by Al W Moe. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success, and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun. This is the truth about the Mob's control of the casinos in Vegas like you've never heard it before, from start to finish. Two of the nation's most powerful crime family bosses went to prison in the 1930's: Al Capone and Lucky Luciano. Frank Nitti took over the Chicago Outfit, while Frank Costello ran things for the Luciano Family. Both men were influenced by their bosses from prison, and both sent enough gangsters into the streets to influence loan sharking, extortion, union control, and drug sales. Bugsy Siegel worked for both groups, handling a string of murders and opening up gaming on the west coast, and that included Las Vegas, an oasis of sin in the middle of the desert - and it was legal. Most of it. The FBI watched as the Mob took control of casino after casino, killed off the competition, and stole enough money to bribe their way to respectability back home. By the 1950's, nearly every major crime family had a stake in a Las Vegas casino. Some did better than others. Casino owners watched-over their profits while competing crime families eyed each other's success like jealous lovers. Murder often followed.
Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128839
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Desert Rose written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry writes novels set in the American heartland, but his real territory is the heart itself. His gift for writing about women—their love for reckless, hopeless men; their ability to see the good in losers; and their peculiar combination of emotional strength and sudden weakness—makes The Desert Rose the bittersweet, funny, and touching book that it is. Harmony is a Las Vegas showgirl with the best legs in town. At night she's a lead dancer in a gambling casino; during the day she raises peacocks. She throws her love away on second-rate men, but wakes up in the morning full of hope. She's one of a dying breed of dancers, faced with fewer and fewer jobs and an even bleaker future. Yet, she maintains a calm cheerfulness in that arid neon landscape of supermarkets, drive-in wedding chapels, and all-night casinos. While Harmony's star is fading, her beautiful, cynical daughter Pepper's is on the rise. But Harmony remains wistful and optimistic through it all. She is the unexpected blossom in the wasteland, the tough and tender desert rose. Hers is a loving portrait that only Larry McMurtry could render.
Author : Su Kim Chung
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1911670107
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Las Vegas Then and Now written by Su Kim Chung and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today.
Author : Fern Michaels
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781420106961
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Vegas Sunrise written by Fern Michaels and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing the dispersal of her children to the four corners of the planet, Las Vegas matriarch Fanny Thornton Reed places the management of Babylon, the fabulous family casino, in the hands of unscrupulous schemer Jeff, her late husband's illegitimate son. Reprint.
Author : Vi Khi Nao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948687423
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (874 download)
Download or read book The Vegas Dilemma written by Vi Khi Nao and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vegas Dilemma, a collection of twenty-seven short stories, weaves a vision of contemporary America through the eyes of its outcasts. Set largely in Las Vegas, featuring a recurring character of a footloose, morose woman who likes to eat Cheerios in grocery stores, each story takes up quotidian concerns-staying in Starbucks past closing time, a visit to Hoover Dam, falling in love over Instagram-and mines them for their political and existential undercurrents, which fly off the stories like sparks from a pinwheel. A cycle of stories-"Pulverized Oat Wheels," "Mother Nature is Belligerent", "Symmetry of Provocation", etc.-make use of a vignette style to suture seemingly disparate scenarios and emotions. Thus, in "Not Capable of Giving her Leprosy" we meet a sexually exploitative American professor at a South Korean University; a reading group who meet in Starbucks to discuss the ethics of eating meat while reading The Vegetarian; palm trees that are mistaken for armadillos; and Walmart identified as a nerve agent. Other stories, such as "Your Sadness is Salt on Salt" and "In My Youth My Father Is Short and Poor," use a sparse first-person voice for more poetic effect. Connected by themes of alienation, bad romance, and microaggressions, The Vegas Dilemma combines the inventiveness of fiction and the richness of everyday life to show that such American tragedies as Trump's ascendency and the Weinstein scandal aren't divorced from everyday interactions, but arise from them.
Author : Linda Chase
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423604881
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Picturing Las Vegas written by Linda Chase and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through colorful photogra phs and firsthand narrative detail, Picturing Las Vegas tells the story of a city whose history mirrors that of America itself: a tale of the frontier, of corruption and greed, of beauty and loss and ineffable hope. From its hardscrabble origins, to the Golden Age of the Rat Pack, to today's mind-blowing theme-park casinos, Las Vegas is the city that has it all. Mobsters. Mormons. Elvis and Wayne Newton, Siegfried and Roy. It's a place where change is the one constant, and where the pursuit of happiness is the only law. In the words of writer Chuck Palahniuk, it's the place that "looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night." Linda Chase is the author of Surfing Women of the Waves and grew up in Las Vegas. She lives in California. Explores the fascinating story of Sin City, from its origins as a desert outpost to today's eye-popping fantasyland
Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197299
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Leaving Las Vegas written by John O'Brien and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “brutal and unflinching” novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City). John O’Brien’s debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in the last great binge of his hopeless life. On the Strip, he picks up Sera, a prostitute, in what might have become another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead, their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as they form a bond that is as mysterious as it is immutable.
Author : Mike Weatherford
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 0929712714
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Cult Vegas written by Mike Weatherford and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Weatherford resurrects the mystique of Vegas's Golden Age--the '60s of history and legend--bringing the hipster legacy to new Vegasphiles. Meet '50s and '60s lounge greats the Treniers, the Mary Kaye Trio, and Louis Prima and Keely Smith; comedy legends Joe E. Lewis, Shecky Greene, and Don Rickles; and Vegas babes Vampira, Lili St. Cyr, Ann-Margret, and Tempest Storm. Weatherford also covers nearly every offbeat movie ever made about Las Vegas, as well as Elvis and Frank's impact on the town. This gorgeous entertainment retrospective is packed with showroom esoterica, descriptions of near-forgotten corners of Vegas cult musicology, odd trivia, and unsung heroes of a bygone era. Cult Vegas chronicles the major moments--the camp, the extreme, the awful--in short, the magic of Las Vegas' half-century run as an entertainment mecca.
Author : Joan Burkhart Whitely
Publisher : Stephens Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1932173323
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Young Las Vegas written by Joan Burkhart Whitely and published by Stephens Press, LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Las Vegas we know was conceived -- if anybody really conceived it -- in 1931, when Nevada liberalised its divorce and gambling laws, which would ultimately transform the city into America's playground for grown-ups. It was also the year an unprecedented engineering project began, that would turn the Colorado River from a wild killer stream to a wild reservoir that waters not only California vegetables but also sprawling Las Vegas suburbs. From 1905 to 1931, Las Vegas was still a tiny oasis in a big, dangerous desert. Its isolated people made their own swamp coolers, their own entertainment and sometimes their own whiskey. The author, Joan Burkhardt Whitely, enlisted older Las Vegans to help capture the memories of a Mojave Mayberry where neighbours took care of each other, not merely because no one else would, but because it was their hometown, and they cared.
Author : Piper Rayne
Publisher : Piper Rayne, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1987925904
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (879 download)
Download or read book My Vegas Groom written by Piper Rayne and published by Piper Rayne, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waking up next to a stranger wearing a wedding ring was not on the itinerary. I came to Las Vegas for a quick girl’s trip, but somehow ended up a married woman. What I thought would stay in Vegas followed me back to my small town of Sunrise Bay, Alaska. Of course, my new husband—MMA champion fighter, Logan Stone—couldn’t find me alone at my house to tell me he wants to give our impromptu nuptials a shot. He has to tell me in front of my entire family and half the town. The two of us couldn’t be more opposite, but he offers me a deal I can’t refuse which involves me pretending we’re happily married for three months. Yeah, a lot of things can change in that short amount of time, most importantly catching feelings for a man whose lifestyle I despise.
Author : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007596715
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ...”’
Author : Chelsea M Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781701164147
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Didn't Stay in Vegas written by Chelsea M Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn't stay there. Callyn Stott wakes up from a night-out at her friend Lara's Bachelorette party in Vegas with a hangover... and a wife. She's not really sure how she and her best friend Emma got hitched, only that they did and it's completely and totally legal. Callyn is used to getting in and out of scrapes, but this one takes the cake. Further complicating matters, Emma suggest that they stay married for "financial reasons" that don't really hold water. Not wanting to argue, Callyn agrees. The situation gets even more confusing when Callyn has to move out of her apartment, and where is she going to stay? With her fake wife, and best friend, of course. It's not like anything is going to happen. Things between the two of them have always been strictly platonic and best-friendy, right? Emma hasn't been secretly in love with Callyn her whole life and has just been waiting for Callyn to notice. No, surely not. Will Callyn get her head out of her ass and see what's right in front of her, or will she live the rest of her life oblivious that the one person she's always wanted is already there?
Author : Bessie M. David
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514493136
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book On a Pedestal written by Bessie M. David and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative fusion of truth and fiction fill the pages of this memoir. Annie Mae relives her life from innocence to a world of poverty, abuse, neglect, and alcoholism. On a not-so-pretty trip down memory lane, she travels across Texas panning for love, food, and shelter. The characters that come in and out of her life resemble members from a museum of oddities. She leaves no stone unturned with raw dialogue about her clandestine encounters, her unscrupulous family, and the faith that pulls her through.
Author : Renee Rose
Publisher : Burning Desires
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Vegas Underground Collection, Books 1-4 written by Renee Rose and published by Burning Desires. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KING OF DIAMONDS (Book 1) I WARNED HER. I told her not to set foot in my casino again. I told her to stay away. Because if I see her around my suite again, I’ll claim her as my own. And once I make her mine, I’m not gonna set her free. I’m king of the Vegas underground and I take what I want. MAFIA DADDY (Book 2 - Short Story) SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN MINE Don G gave me an order--find his daughter. Straighten her out. Bring her home. Sure--taking the mafia princess in hand will be my pleasure. JACK OF SPADES (Book 3) “YOU’RE AT MY MERCY NOW, AMORE.” Sorry, bella. You got dealt the losing hand. Witness to a crime, you’re my prisoner now. ACE OF HEARTS (Book 4) THE SWEET LITTLE SONGBIRD’S IN MY CAGE NOW. She owes the Family money. Big money. And I’m the guy they sent to put the squeeze on her. So now she’s playing at my casino. The steamy Vegas Underground series is complete. Each stand-alone dark mafia romance novel features a dominant and possessive hero who claims his woman for life. HEA guaranteed, no cliffhangers.
Author : Heather Skyler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151071085X
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Vegas Girls written by Heather Skyler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Fans of Julia Glass and Ann Hood, a Novel about How the Choices We Make Last a Lifetime Vegas Girls begins when three former high school friends, now in their mid-thirties, reunite in their hometown of Las Vegas—a city they vowed to escape as soon as they could—to celebrate their new lives and revisit old haunts. But what starts out as a week-long, sun-kissed reunion takes a strange turn as mysterious gifts appear, familiar faces pop up in unexpected places, and each woman reveals a secret, private quest. Ramona is searching for a son she gave up for adoption before their high-school graduation. Jane is trying to leave her husband of eleven years, even with her two kids in tow. And Ivy, who has a new baby, is haunted by the memory of her mother abandoning her twenty years ago—and she has begun spotting her everywhere. Add to this a darkly charismatic ex-boyfriend of Ivy’s who won’t give up hope of rekindling their romance, and a strange, new friend of Jane’s in need of help, and the week quickly begins to unravel. Set against desert heat, swimming pools, and casino lights, and told masterfully through five different points of view, Vegas Girls is about how we navigate the present while carrying the ghosts of our past; about growing up with one eye glued to the rearview mirror; and about what happens when the past you thought you left behind turns out to have been with you all along.
