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Book Synopsis Vegas Was Her Name by : Jonathan Sturak
Download or read book Vegas Was Her Name written by Jonathan Sturak and published by Noir Nation Books. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the world's largest technology convention in Las Vegas, Michael Harris, CEO of a top engineering company, debuts Venus, a humanized computer brain that can predict human behavior. He attracts international attention, including the attention of Rachel, a steamy seducer who cons Michael by concealing a secret of her own. Melissa, Michael's wife, flies to Las Vegas to save her husband and her marriage as the events unfold in the shadows of the Las Vegas Strip.
Book Synopsis Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by : Hunter S. Thompson
Download or read book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of the novel inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.
Download or read book Empty Mansions written by Bill Dedman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world. Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic. Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette’s copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms. Praise for Empty Mansions “An amazing story of profligate wealth . . . an outsized tale of rags-to-riches prosperity.”—The New York Times “An evocative and rollicking read, part social history, part hothouse mystery, part grand guignol.”—The Daily Beast “Fascinating . . . [a] haunting true-life tale.”—People “One of those incredible stories that you didn’t even know existed. It filled a void.”—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show “Thrilling . . . deliciously scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Book Synopsis We Are Called to Rise by : Laura McBride
Download or read book We Are Called to Rise written by Laura McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, beautifully crafted and heartbreakingly topical novel about PTSI and the unseen effects of global conflict on ordinary lives. Beyond the bright lights and casinos lies the real Las Vegas, a forces town. In the predawn hours, a woman's marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across the city, Bashkim, the young son of an immigrant family, observes how they are struggling to get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away on the other side of the United States, a soldier, recently returned from active service in Iraq, wakes up in hospital with the feeling he's done something awful. In Laura McBride's heartbreaking and authentic novel, these disparate lives are brought together by one split-second choice; this is a story about families, the ones we are born to and the ones we choose to make. Faced with seemingly insurmountable loss, each person must decide whether to give in to despair, or to find the courage and resilience to rise. 'A powerful story of the way in which war detonates far from battlefields, exploding lives in a single irrevocable moment. We Are Called to Risereverberated long after I'd put it down. I can't stop thinking about it' Sarah Blake, The Postmistress 'A haunting and unforgettable debut' Marie Claire 'Compelling, emotional and heart-breaking' Sun 'Packs a raw, emotional power' Sunday Mirror 'Like Donna Tartt's… The Goldfinch, it strips a layer of gloss off the Las Vegas myth by moving to the families populating suburbia' Grazia
Download or read book A Gangster's Girl written by Chunichi and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, Chunichi penned the tale of Cezia, the good girl gone bad at the center of this hood classic. This will introduce new audiences to the Essence® bestseller’s debut novel, along with a new collectible cover for longtime fans. Meet Ceazia, a very attractive, very good girl who has just left the safety of her parents’ home and entered into the world of bad boys and fast money. Ceazia thinks the world belongs to her when she meets Vegas, one of the Tidewater, Virginia area’s most notorious drug dealers. Even though a relationship with Vegas goes against everything her parents taught her, she still can’t resist his bad-boy persona. He’s fine, sexy, and ready to give her anything her heart desires--just what the doctor ordered for a broke, wannabe diva. This might just end up being the biggest mistake of her life.
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.
Download or read book Vegas Rich written by Fern Michaels and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in Vegas stays in the family. Two dynasties merge in this trilogy debut from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Texas series. When Sallie Coleman abandons Texas to follow her dreams in Las Vegas, she never imagines she’ll win so soon—and so big. But a stroke of luck makes her the richest, most powerful businesswoman in Nevada, and in no time at all her transformation is complete—when she marries Philip Thornton and becomes Vegas’s most elegant first lady. Like her future mother-in-law before her, Pennsylvania beauty Fanny Logan makes her fortune in Vegas, building one of the city’s most successful clothing empires. Her wedding to Ash Thornton, the visionary behind the magnificent Babylon casino, is like a happy ending to their fairytale lives. But Ash’s greatest triumph may be his ultimate downfall . . . “[A] sweeping family saga reminiscent of her Texas series.” —Booklist “Through it all, Sallie remains a matriarch to be reckoned with, but her twin grandsons, Sage and Birch, appear to be the future of Vegas . . . for better or worse . . . if history doesn’t lie, Michaels won’t disappoint her fans.” —Kirkus Reviews “Her characters are well constructed.” —Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Winner Takes All by : Christina Binkley
Download or read book Winner Takes All written by Christina Binkley and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and culture critic Christina Binkley comes an updated edition of her New York Times bestselling account of sex, drugs, and the rise of Las Vegas. With a new prologue on the rise and fall of Steve Wynn. The Strip. Home to some of the world's grandest, flashiest, and most lucrative casino resorts, Las Vegas, with its multitude of attractions, draws millions of tourists from around the world every year. But Sin City hasn't always been booming: modern Vegas exists largely thanks to the extraordinary vision, and remarkable hubris, of three competing business moguls: Kirk Kerkorian, Dr. Gary Loveman, and Steve Wynn. And in the wake of #MeToo revelations, not all empires survive. Having had personal access to all three tycoons, Binkley explains how their audacious efforts to reach the top-and to top one another-shaped the city as it stands. She takes us inside their grandest schemes, their riskiest deals, and the personalities that drove them to their greatest successes, and their most painful defeats. In this updated edition, she reveals the inside story of how Steve Wynn, the winner who took all, ultimately lost everything-twice. Sharp, insightful, and revealing, Winner Takes All is the gripping story of how billions of dollars and the unparalleled drive for power turned dreams into larger-than-life reality. "It's a great drama on the greatest stage. . . Wynn, Kerkorian, and Loveman represent three opposing business personalities, three styles of achieving success. On the Vegas Strip, they're pitted against one another like gladiators, and we've got front-row seats. Kapow!" - bestselling author Po Bronson
Book Synopsis Murdered Under the Pools by : G. G. Rodriguez
Download or read book Murdered Under the Pools written by G. G. Rodriguez and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book about Kay Lytle's perseverance and her persistent search for her psychopathic murdering husband, Leonard Morgan. She and her personal body guard, Officer Cox, travel across the United States following clues that might lead to the arrest of Leonard who is always one step ahead of them.
Download or read book Checkmate a Killer written by Kyle Owens and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After chess master Wilson Hopkins is found dead, the police dismiss it as an accident, but his brother Bosco is convinced it was murder. Bosco hires Vegas to uncover the truth. With her sharp-witted mother Eleanor and the ever-loyal Bassett Hound, Buttermilk, by her side, Vegas dives into the world of competitive chess - only to discover it's more dangerous than it seems. Navigating through dark alleys, abandoned warehouses and a chess tournament filled with eccentric players, the case grows increasingly bizarre. Does Vegas have what it takes to outwit the killer? The stakes are high and the game is deadly in CHECKMATE A KILLER, the first book in Vegas Chantly Mysteries series by Kyle Owens.
Download or read book Alaska Traveler written by Dana Stabenow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Stabenow was born in Alaska before Statehood, grew up on and around fishing boats, and worked for an air taxi service, a cannery, and later, on the oilfields of the North Slope. Today, she's an Edgar Award-winning mystery writer with over 25 Alaska-based novels to her credit. Stabenow knows Alaska. Writing for Alaska Magazine, she revisits old haunts and explores new ones to capture the vital pioneering spirit of her home state. From cruising the Inner Passage to hiking the Chilkoot Trail, from bidding on bachelors at Talkeetna's Winterfest to a behind-the-scenes look at the Iditarod sled dog race, Alaska Traveler collects over 50 of Stabenow's columns about life on America's last frontier. It's Alaska in all seasons – not just the summer months – and in all its quirky, iconoclastic glory. Travellers planning a trip to Alaska will find much to inspire them, as will those just interested to read more about the state that residents call The Great Land.
Book Synopsis California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs by : California (State).
Download or read book California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Riddles & Riches written by Kyle Owens and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game of riddles turns into a race against time when Vegas Chantly is hired to find a lost treasure. But is the prize even real? The popular game, Riddles & Riches, promises a fortune for those clever enough to solve its clues. But when the game's creators lose track of the treasure's location, they turn to private investigator Vegas Chantly for help. Delving into the mystery, Vegas realizes she's not the only one that's after the prize. Joined by her resourceful mother, Vegas has to face off against an adversary willing to do anything to claim the fortune. A nail-biting mystery, RIDDLES & RICHES is the second book in the Vegas Chantly Mysteries series by Kyle Owens.
Book Synopsis Street Priest: The Alpha by : Randbiy Mitchell
Download or read book Street Priest: The Alpha written by Randbiy Mitchell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three brothers from another mother, Ja'Vari, Pierre and Lanny, get introduced to the drug game in Oakland, California with one mindset; more money, cars, clothes, and hoes. That mindset quickly changes as their lives become traumatized by the reality of living the life of a real drug dealer. Going in head first, they soon realize that it costs to be the boss and if you quit now, you'll never have any money. Ja'Vari leads you as he blindly quests for a new life in the streets. With confusion on how people perceive him and what he sees only from his eyes, he'll soon realize that he has a gift instead of a curse once he learns to contain. Are you lost yet? Good. Now read. :)
Book Synopsis Las Vegas, 1905-1965 by : Lynn M. Zook
Download or read book Las Vegas, 1905-1965 written by Lynn M. Zook and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone thinks they know the story of Las Vegas: the showgirls, the gambling, the mob. But Las Vegas has always been much more. Families have lived here since its founding in 1905. After 1931, legalized gaming became the big tourist draw, and following World War II, the town began to market itself as "America's Playground." That is when the famed Las Vegas Strip came into its own and downtown was dubbed "Glitter Gulch." These vintage postcards show how Las Vegas evolved from a dusty railroad town into the "Entertainment Capital of the World," while remaining a city filled with families and pioneering souls.
Download or read book Detained written by Luna Mason and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruthless mafia boss, and a determined NYPD detective play a dangerous and seductive game of cat and mouse, in this thrilling dark romance set amidst the brutal yet alluring underbelly of the New York City Mafia. Frankie I don’t have to hide behind a mask anymore. I rule New York. It’s time to finish what I started ten years ago—destroy the man who took my life. No one can get in my way. That is until I’m arrested for murder and have my first taste of Detective Zara O’Reilly. The woman is hell bent on ruining my plans. She thinks I don’t know she’s watching my every move, waiting to drag me back into that prison cell. She can pretend I’m the enemy all she likes. In reality, she craves me as much as I do her. No matter how much we fight it. My stalker becomes my obsession. She doesn’t realize the power she holds, not only over me, but the city. Together we will be unstoppable . . . if she lets me break her.
Download or read book Delusionary written by Dave Bern and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what you would do if you were struck down, knocked unconscious and when you awoke, discovered you had no recollection of your past life? Your name, family, occupation, as well as your entire past appear wiped out. Alone and befuddled you have no clues as to who you are and all you have in your pocket is a crumpled ten dollar bill. Eventually strangers come along and give you a ride. They take you into their world with their friends and then onto another state to a construction job site where they are scheduled to work. What about the family, friends, and job you left behind? Their lives are entangled with the police and their frustrations are immense. Your past family survives and through the years they start a new family. Delusionary is the story that will lead you into this maze through the years and unfold the journey both families undertake. This might happen to you
