Author : Jillian Dodd
Publisher : Love
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781946793188
Caught up in a firestorm of tabloid gossip, actress Ashlyn Roberts doesn't expect to end up in Vegas - or to wake up married to the sexy Cash Crawford.
Author : Nicholas Pileggi
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1504041623
The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A “riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled” (Kirkus Reviews). Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wiseguy—basis for the film Goodfellas—Nicholas Pileggi reveals how the pair worked together to oversee Las Vegas casino operations for the mob. He unearths how Teamster pension funds were used to take control of the Stardust and Tropicana and how Spilotro simultaneously ran a crew of jewel thieves nicknamed the “Hole in the Wall Gang.” For years, these gangsters kept a stranglehold on Sin City’s brightly lit nightspots, skimming millions in cash for their bosses. But the elaborate scheme began to crumble when Rosenthal’s disproportionate ambitions drove him to make mistakes. Spilotro made an error of his own, falling for his partner’s wife, a troubled showgirl named Geri. It would all lead to betrayal, a wide-ranging FBI investigation, multiple convictions, and the end of the Mafia’s longstanding grip on the multibillion-dollar gaming oasis in the midst of the Nevada desert. Casino is a journey into 1970s Las Vegas and a riveting nonfiction account of the world portrayed in the Martin Scorsese film of the same name, starring Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone. A story of adultery, murder, infighting, and revenge, this “fascinating true-crime Mob history” is a high-stakes page-turner (Booklist).
Author : Nicole Casey
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 2019-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781702059152
"This is your last chance to back out. You sure you're ready?" "Yes, I'm ready." "Then it's time for your first scene." Erin I let out a sigh when I see Greer smiling so happily in her wedding dress. Everyone seems to be getting their happily ever after, except me. At least, that's what I thought. Until I meet them. Two sexy, domineering, utterly irresistible alpha males. Ex-Marines. Best friends. Intimidating and powerful. Jackson and Caleb. The owners of the dungeon. One sets my body on fire. Charming, rugged, and rock-hard. The other makes me tremble. Dominant, intense, and damaged. When the elevator doors close, I know there's no coming back. They tell me something that makes me weak in the knees - they want to share me. Pleasure me. Together. Buckle up, let's head downstairs now and see what these two beasts will do to me... Reader's review: "The way it unfolds like a wet dream come to life is torching every nerve fiber of my being, making me warm moist and intoxicated from one eye popping ravenous page to the next. This story was definitely smoking hot with an intriguing storyline that kept me thirsty, excited and on edge." Nicole's Note: Happy Halloween! Two Billionaires in Vegas is an exciting and thrilling romance in my new Reverse Harem Romance series - Love by Numbers. It's the first book in the series, but it can be read as a standalone. I've also included a preview of the next book in the series for you. Happy reading!
Author : Vegas Tenold
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1568589956
The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the time, these groups were part of a disorganized counterculture that felt far from the mainstream. But since then, all that has changed. Racially-motivated violence has been on open display at rallies in Charlottesville, Berkeley, Pikesville, Phoenix, and Boston. Membership in white nationalist organizations is rising, and national politicians, including the president, are validating their perceived grievances. Everything You Love Will Burn offers a terrifying, sobering inside look at these newly empowered movements, from their conventions to backroom meetings with Republican operatives. Tenold introduces us to neo-Nazis in Brooklyn; a millennial Klanswoman in Tennessee; and a rising star in the movement, nicknamed the "Little Fü by the Southern Poverty Law Center, who understands political power and is organizing a grand coalition of far-right groups to bring them into the mainstream. Everything You Love Will Burn takes readers to the dark, paranoid underbelly of America, a world in which the white race is under threat and the enemy is everywhere.
Author : Vi Khi Nao
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948687423
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 : Hunter S. Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2003-04-07
Category : Experimental fiction
ISBN : 9780007161232
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.
Author : Suzanne Krauss
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780989452939
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 : Krista Wolf
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2021-02-11
Category :
ISBN :
A butterfly-inducing list of sinful exploits. Three gorgeous studs, looking to share. Can Payton win the ultimate wager? Or will love get in the way? When Payton takes a Corruption Quiz with her friend Kennedy, she scores abysmally low. So low she decides to spice up her life a bit - especially when the two friends place a bet as to who can most improve their score over the next thirty days. It starts with Jackson, the gruff, chiseled foreman in charge of renovating the Brooklyn apartment building Payton owns. It continues with Gabriel and Ethan - the sizzling hot guys in unit three. The men work both together and alone, competing hard to check off the many boxes on Payton's provocative bucket list. Bringing her to all new heights of overindulgence, along with Cameron, the big teddy bear who rounds out Payton's harem of strong, fiercely-competitive men. If there's a winner at all... it's certainly her. But the situation is not without obstacles, and forces may be aligning against Payton from within her own apartment building. Can her four beautiful saviors make everything right again? And will Payton push far enough into her own secret fantasies to beat out her friend at their fiery, sultry bet? THE WAGER is a scorching, stand-alone reverse harem love story filled with suspense, humor, romance, and smoldering bet-winning action hot enough to turn your kindle into a puddle of molten slag. HEA guaranteed!
Author : Krista Wolf
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781719973892
"You want to share me... as a girlfriend?" My stomach did a sexy backflip. "All three of you?" Broke and lonely, adjunct professor Claudia takes an on-campus renovation job to make ends meet. So when three gorgeous hunks show up, mistakenly assigned to the unfinished frat-house? Letting them live in the old Victorian in exchange for free labor seems like a no-brainer. But having three beautiful college athletes as roommates might be more than she bargained for. Especially when sexual tensions reach a fever pitch, and one of them breaks their only rule: no one goes after her... unless theyall do. As the house devolves into a powder keg of jealousy and restraint, the guys come up with an interesting idea: sharing her as a girlfriend. No secrets, no limitations, just three powerful ex-fraternity brothers acting as Claudia's three beautiful boyfriends... one by one, two on one... and more. Together they fix the house as they fix each other; Brandon, the sexy football star about to lose his scholarship. Colin, the lithe swimmer struggling to get past a dark betrayal. And Hunter, the charming, sometimes brooding alpha who harbors his own personal secret. Can Claudia satisfy the needs of three strapping college athletes who worship her as a goddess, mind, body, and soul? Or will the awakening of her own seemingly insatiable sexual appetite ultimately be their downfall? SHARED is a sexy, stand-alone reverse harem romance filled with fun, humor, and tremendous amounts of love. It also contains blistering hot MFMM menage sex, in single and multiple partner scenes so molten they're bound to melt your kindle! HEA guaranteed.
Author : Geoff Schumacher
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2021-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781944877507
