Book Description
Slocum's weakness for lovely ladies could win him a date with the gallows.
Author : Jake Logan
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780515118278
Slocum's weakness for lovely ladies could win him a date with the gallows.
Author : Leonard Raborn
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479775797
"Bob woke up from his nap and looked in surprise the girl lying on his bed. Then he recalled everything and smiled. Gingerly approaching the bed he came and lay done beside her and held her in his arms. He resolved that he would save closer intimacies for later and felt amazement that he had found someone other than the loose women that he usually was with". In what could either be fate or pure circumstance, Bob and Sarah meet in a casino; Bob is a gambler and businessman and Sarah is a church-going lady. In the course of their relationship, they change each other's lives, Sarah becomes more care free and Bob becomes more responsible and caring. They discover what it really means to love.
Author : Stacey Goodwin
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2021-04-16
Category :
ISBN :
The story of a young girls entrapment in gambling addiction. The true advert for problem gambling and how it controlled her every movement, her every thought and almost took her life. How the guilt and shame that go hand in hand with addiction stopped her from reaching out for help for 8 years as she didn't feel it was 'OK' for a young female to be a problem gambler. How she believed it was a male dominated problem. And how eventually, she did find the tools that enabled her to become free of her addiction.
Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : TwoDot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780762743711
AMERICAN HISTORY: C 1800 TO C 1900. Amidst the mining camps, cattle ranches, desolate landscapes, and gold mining towns of the Wild West were a succession of women who survived dangerous gambling games against ruthless men whose pride was staked on always having the upper hand."The Lady Was a Gambler" presents a collection of action-filled portraits of fifteen infamous women gamblers from the Old West.Among those profiled are "Poker" Alice Ivers, the finest player bar none from Deadwood to Tombstone; Eleanora Dumont, the West's hottest twenty-one dealer; and Lottie Deno, the beautiful faro dealer who gambled all the way from Texas to Alaska.
Author : J. Marvin Hunter
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781104834715
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Jackie T. Shirley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781499276022
Mary Brown was the wallflower of her high school graduating class, a shy young woman who eventually develops the confidence to face life head on. Mary moves to Las Vegas in the 1970s and becomes a skilled blackjack player, a fierce high stakes poker player, and an accomplished slot hustler. To her close friends, she's the Queen of Chance because she's in a class by herself. From the opening pages, the young woman from Indiana will delight you with her zest for life, never looking back as she climbs the ladder of success in the city of a thousand broken dreams.
Author : Andrew D. Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525537155
FINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY “Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” —Therese Anne Fowler, bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life—and became a pioneer in Russian literary history In the fall of 1866, a twenty-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina applied for a position with a writer she idolized: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A self-described “girl of the sixties,” Snitkina had come of age during Russia’s first feminist movement, and Dostoyevsky—a notorious radical turned acclaimed novelist—had impressed the young woman with his enlightened and visionary fiction. Yet in person she found the writer “terribly unhappy, broken, tormented,” weakened by epilepsy, and yoked to a ruinous gambling addiction. Alarmed by his condition, Anna became his trusted first reader and confidante, then his wife, and finally his business manager—launching one of literature’s most turbulent and fascinating marriages. The Gambler Wife offers a fresh and captivating portrait of Anna Dostoyevskaya, who reversed the novelist’s freefall and cleared the way for two of the most notable careers in Russian letters—her husband’s and her own. Drawing on diaries, letters, and other little-known archival sources, Andrew Kaufman reveals how Anna protected her family from creditors, demanding in-laws, and her greatest romantic rival, through years of penury and exile. We watch as she navigates the writer’s self-destructive binges in the casinos of Europe—even hazarding an audacious turn at roulette herself—until his addiction is conquered. And, finally, we watch as Anna frees her husband from predatory contracts by founding her own publishing house, making Anna the first solo female publisher in Russian history. The result is a story that challenges ideas of empowerment, sacrifice, and female agency in nineteenth-century Russia—and a welcome new appraisal of an indomitable woman whose legacy has been nearly lost to literary history.
Author : Callie Hutton
Publisher : Callie Hutton LLC
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This book is 100% created by the author. No AI was used. Should she live in fear, or turn to the man she once rejected? Lady Pamela Manning has happily made her home in Bath after several disastrous Seasons in London. Although she sings like an angel, Pamela cannot complete a full sentence without stuttering. The life of a social recluse with two friends whom she adores is fine with her, and she easily dismisses the attentions of Mr. Nicolas Smith, the owner of an exclusive gambling club in Bath. However, something strange is happening in the boarding house where she lives, and she is afraid she has accidentally stumbled into a dangerous situation. Who else can she turn to, except a man who grew up on the streets and the most likely person to help and protect her? The man she rejected, Mr. Nicolas Smith.
Author : none
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1952
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Bridgett M. Davis
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316558710
As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.