My Vegas Life
Author : Dominic Parisi
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780996841269
Las Vegas Life
Author : Phyllis Carver
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 166247010X
Book Description
After growing up in a rural area of Montana, I became an avid reader of 30 years plus! Retired in Las Vegas. Met Phyllis. Asked to read Book one of "Las Vegas Life" series. Read it in 3 days! Unlike any normal life read! Loved it! Entertaining, thrilling, informative, compelling, fun. A range of emotions! Great woman's book! Anxious for Book Two! --Norma DeVries, Business Entrepreneur I never knew of the exciting life of a Las Vegas cocktail waitress. Cece, who is "Las Vegas Life" Book One's main female character, is a strong and honest woman, who finds herself in the midst of many circumstances, including times of danger and corruption. She risks her life on a daily basis to help support her family, but always shares lessons of faith and honesty. The series of "Las Vegas Life" is exciting, fun, entertaining, and inspirational! --LAURA H. Casino life, the knowledge of Las Vegas, and the curiosity about the people living in Las Vegas have mesmerized worldwide tourists for many years. Gambling has been a part of Nevada's Wild West long before this "Silver State" joined the United States of America in 1864, yet gambling only became legal in Nevada in 1931. Book One, in the trilogy of the "Las Vegas Life" books, portrays the beginning of an exceptional lifelong love story of two, young, and beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada teenagers, Cece and Ian. Book One starts in the mid-1960s and on through their many years together in Las Vegas. The twists and turns throughout the trilogy are completely unexpected as each story continues on to unfold into the many exciting, thrilling, and emotional experiences in the couple's lives together, while continuously introducing you to their ever growing personalities, their happy and evolving love story, their futures, their family, their true friends, as well as other interesting, kind, and/or deceitful acquaintances along their life journeys in their casino environments and in their casino experiences. So sit back, relax, hold on, and enjoy!
Beneath the Neon
Author : Matthew O'Brien
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0929712390
Book Description
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.
Dark Days, Bright Nights
Author : Matthew O'Brien
Publisher : Central Recovery Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1949481433
Book Description
A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society. Are you aware that hundreds of people live underground in the flood channels of Las Vegas? Few people were until Matthew O'Brien grabbed a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton for protection and explored the storm-drain system in depth. This research resulted in his landmark book Beneath the Neon. Now the drains have been covered by CNN, Fox News, NPR, Dr. Phil, the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. They have even found their way on to popular TV shows, including CSI, Criminal Minds, and into mainstream movies. But the fact that several of these drug- and gambling-addicted tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned around their lives has received far less attention. Dark Days, Bright Nights shares their harrowing stories and provides a unique perspective on one of America's most fascinating cities. It also paints a larger picture of homelessness and recovery in America. These stories are the happy (though not Hollywood) ending to the infamous tunnel tale. The narrative is complemented by bios and stark, black-and-white images of the survivors, putting a scarred, knowing face to the unblinkingly honest accounts.
Burning the Tables in Las Vegas
Author : Ian Andersen
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2002-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0929712846
Book Description
In Burning the Tables in Las Vegas, Ian Andersen, author of the classic Turning the Tables on Las Vegas and one of the most successful high-stakes blackjack players of all time, shares his personal program for success at blackjack, poker, and life. This second edition contains three important new chapters: one on the use of the surrender option at blackjack as a camouflage technique, one on green-chip play for medium rollers; and one on understanding casino psychology. The "Crazy Surrender" chapter expands Andersen's Ultimate Gambit and adds another dimension to his technique of using elements of mathematics and psychology to remain below the casino radar. This new edition also contains a Foreword by blackjack legend Stanford Wong.
Cullotta
Author : Dennis N. Griffin
Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0929712455
Book Description
From burglary to armed robbery and murder, infamous bad guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all, in Cullotta he admits to it -- and in graphic detail. This no-holds-barred biography chronicles the life of a career criminal who started out as a thug on the streets of Chicago and became a trusted lieutenant in Tony Spilotro's gang of organised lawbreakers in Las Vegas. Cullotta's was a world of high-profile heists, street muscle, and information -- lots of it -- about many of the FBI's most wanted. In the end, that information was his ticket out of crime, as he turned government witness and became one of a handful of mob insiders to enter the Witness Protection Program.
My Vegas Groom
Author : Piper Rayne
Publisher : Piper Rayne, Inc.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1987925904
Book Description
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.
My Las Vegas
Author : Bobby Morris
Publisher : Hudson Music
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2019-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781540052018
Book Description
Miscellaneous Percussion Music - Mixed Levels
Super Casino
Author : Pete Earley
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307429733
Book Description
In this lively and probing book, award-winning author Pete Earley traces the extraordinary evolution of Las Vegas -- from the gaudy Mecca of the Rat Pack era to one of the country's top family vacation spots. He revisits the city's checkered history of moguls, mobsters, and entertainers, reveals the real stories of well-known power brokers like Steve Wynn and legends like Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel, and offers a fascinating portrait of the life, death, and fantastic rebirth of the Las Vegas Strip. Earley also documents the gripping tale of the entrepreneurs behind the rise and fall and rise again of one of the largest gaming corporations in the nation, Circus Circus -- to which he was given unique access. In his trademark you-are-there style, he takes us behind the scenes to meet the blackjack dealers and hookers, the heavy hitters and bit players, the security officers, cabbies, and showgirls who are caught up in the mercurial pace that pulses at the heart of this astounding city.
My Friend Nick the Greek
Author : Elaine Campbell
Publisher : WingSpan Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category :
ISBN : 1595943943
Book Description
NICK THE GREEK was both myth and legend in his time, a greater than life figure without whom Las Vegas in the '50s would not have been the same. His presence on the scene enhanced an entire city. The only memoir ever written about Nick (Dandolos) the Greek, and the only book written by a woman and someone who knew him, Nick is introduced as the "person" he was, apart from his gambling feats: what he was really like, how he acted, thought and felt, and the philosophy by which he lived his unique and one of a kind life.
