Author : Susan Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1575001748
Lady Las Vegas
Susan Berman
Lady Las Vegas
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Lady Luck's Map of Vegas
Barbara Samuel
Author : Barbara Samuel
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307486912
Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel Pdf
A successful Web designer, forty-year-old India has a fabulously hip life in Denver and a sexy Irish lover in New York who jets out to see her on bi-weekly visits. The long-distance romance suits India just fine: Though Jack is the only man who has ever made India feel truly alive, she doesn’t want things to get too serious. But then her father passes away, and India must honor the promise she made to him: to look after her mother when he’s gone. Suddenly India finds herself back in Colorado Springs with the woman who both intrigues and infuriates her. Eldora is sixty something and exquisitely gorgeous, but her larger-than-life personality can suck the air out of a room. True to form, Eldora throws India a curveball, insisting that they hit the road to look for India’s twin, Gypsy, a brilliant artist who lives a vagabond’s existence in the remote mountain towns of New Mexico. It looks like India can’t avoid her mother’s intensity any longer, especially after she discovers stunning secrets from Eldora’s past. Thirty years ago, Eldora regaled her twin girls with glamorous stories about her days as a Las Vegas showgirl– stories of martinis and music at the Sahara, back when Frank and Sammy ruled the town. But the story of how she really ended up in Sin City, and the unsavory life she’d run from with her daughters in tow, is full of details she’s never seen fit to share–until now. As mother and daughter sail down Route 66, the very road Eldora drove those many years ago, looking for Gypsy, while passing motels, diners, and souvenir shops, Eldora must relive a lifetime of memories that have tormented her before she can put them to rest once and for all. . . . Award-winning author Barbara Samuel brings us a heartfelt story of second chances and unexpected detours. As two women come to terms with themselves and each other, the past unravels and the future spreads out before them like the open road. From the Hardcover edition.
Lady Las Vegas
Susan Berman
Author : Susan Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000062174218
Lady Las Vegas by Susan Berman Pdf
Berman's Easy Street presented the classic memoir of growing up in Las Vegas. Now she offers a new personal narrative--the companion book to a four-hour A&E documentary series, Inside Straight: The Real Las Vegas--which captures the soul of Las Vegas through a riveting combination of never-before-seen photos and a gripping, personal narrative by the little girl who never left. Color photos & illustrations.
Helen J. Stewart
Sally Springmeyer Zanjani
Author : Sally Springmeyer Zanjani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nevada
ISBN : 1935043382
Helen J. Stewart by Sally Springmeyer Zanjani Pdf
Known as the mistress of the Mormon Trail, Helen J. Stewart not only paved the way for women in the west, but also was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the future of Las Vegas.Born in the Midwest in the mid-1800s, uprooted and transplanted as a young girl into the frenzied gold rush days in California, Helen J. Stewart experienced the rigors of pioneer life early. Married at nineteen, mother at twenty, widow at thirty with four children and pregnant with her fifth, she had no time to ponder her fate. Instead, she became a force to reckon with.Sally Zanjani and Carrie Townley Porter chronicle the extraordinary life of a woman dedicated to providing for her family and improving the lives of those around her, a woman ahead of her time who befriended Indians as well as congressmen, a woman who truly was the "First Lady of Las Vegas".
Las Vegas Girl
Leslie Wolfe
Author : Leslie Wolfe
Publisher : Baxter & Holt
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945302224
Las Vegas Girl by Leslie Wolfe Pdf
Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite: Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in United States. In the middle of city with 2 million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they¿re hunting for a killer. The crime: audaciousIn the middle of a glamorous Las Vegas hotel, in front of hundreds of witnesses and under the lenses of countless video surveillance cameras, a young girl is brutally murdered. What promises to be a quick and easy investigation soon becomes a nightmare. The most recorded crime in Vegas is missing one key protagonist, the killer.The forensics: stupefyingA crime-scene fingerprint unleashes dozens of unsettling questions instead of providing answers. Was this a murder for hire? In the politically-charged case, the scenario seems plausible; the victim¿s secret life could¿ve been the obstacle in an ambitious politician¿s path. As the investigation unspools the well-concealed secrets surrounding the victim¿s life, Baxter and Holt attract the attention of someone desperate to keep history¿s deadly secrets buried.The truth: shockingA testimony from beyond the grave turns into a death warrant for the two unrelenting detectives. While they expose a connection with the victim¿s distant past that could hold the key to catching her killer, they must learn to rely on each other to survive. Two mavericks don¿t make a team. Baxter and Holt trust each other with their lives, only not with their darkest secrets.
Divas Las Vegas
Belinda Jones
Author : Belinda Jones
Publisher : Random House
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446474235
Divas Las Vegas by Belinda Jones Pdf
This fast-paced, heart-warming and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from bestselling author Belinda Jones is perfect for fans of Jo Thomas, Lindsey Kelk, Sophie Kinsella and Paige Toon. 'Great characters...hilariously written...buy it!' - New Woman 'Perfect summer fun!' - SUN 'Top holiday reading!' - Closer 'Great, hilarious book full of drama and humour.' -- ***** Reader review 'Laugh out loud moments, brilliant writing' -- ***** Reader review 'Read it, you will not be disappointed'--***** Reader review ************************************************** ALL DREAMS COME TRUE IN LAS VEGAS, DON'T THEY...? Jamie and Izzy, friends for ever, have a dream: a spangly double wedding in Las Vegas. And, at twenty-seven, they decide they've had enough crap boyfriends and they're ready for crap husbands: all they have to do is find them. So where better than Las Vegas itself, where the air is 70% oxygen and 30% confetti? But as they abandon their increasingly complicated lives in sleepy Devon for the eye-popping brilliance of Las Vegas, their groom-grabbing plan starts to look less than foolproof. And those niggling problems they thought they'd left behind - like Izzy's fiancé and the alarming reappearance of Jamie's first love - just won't go away...
Vegas Girls
Heather Skyler
Author : Heather Skyler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781510710856
Vegas Girls by Heather Skyler Pdf
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.
The Little Old Lady Strikes Again
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Author : Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443439657
The Little Old Lady Strikes Again by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg Pdf
Martha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary old-age home in Stockholm and are headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas. This is their chance at a new lease on life, and they plan to make the most of it. But before long they are up to their old tricks, plotting to outwit the security system at one of the city's biggest casinos. However, they aren’t the only ones planning to steal bucketloads of cash, and soon they find themselves pitted against a gang of dangerous criminals. Can the group of elderly friends work together to outsmart the younger robbers and get away with their biggest heist yet? Or will this job be a step too far for the League of Pensioners?
Las Vegas Noir
Jarret Keene,Todd James Pierce
Author : Jarret Keene,Todd James Pierce
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933354491
Las Vegas Noir by Jarret Keene,Todd James Pierce Pdf
Launched by the summer '04 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. In this chilling portrait of America's Sin City, lady luck is just as likely to dispense cold hard cash as a cold-hearted killing. Brand-new stories by: John O'Brien, David Corbett, Scott Phillips, Nora Pierce, Bliss Esposito, Felicia Campbell, Jaq Greenspon, Jos Skinner, Pablo Medina, Christine McKellar, Lori Kozlowski, Vu Tran, Celeste Starr, Preston L. Allen, Tod Goldberg, and Janet Berliner. Las Vegas provides the classic sophistication and darkness necessary for a deadly noir story. Stylish, sultry, brimming with ambition and greed, the characters that populate this literary Las Vegas are pushed to the extremes of human experience. From the neon glitter of the Strip to the treacherous views of Red Rock Canyon and Boulder City, from the desperation of Naked City to the racial tensions of the Westside, no other location offers so many different avenues leading to serious trouble. Many legendary authors have turned their attention to Vegas to investigate the city's moods and mysteries. Now, the most recent crop of acclaimed writers explore the secret neighborhoods and byways of America's most sinful city, offering readers not only compelling noir tales but also an insider's understanding of this steamy oasis. These authors take readers beneath the surface flash of Freemont Street and the Strip and into the gritty multicultural environs of underground Vegas. Jarret Keene is author/editor of three books, including the poetry collection Monster Fashion, the alt-travel tome The Underground Guide to Las Vegas, and the unauthorized rock bio The Killers: Destiny Is Calling Me. He lives in Las Vegas. Todd James Pierce is the author of three books, including the novel A Woman of Stone and the short story collection Newsworld, which won the 2006 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. He is an assistant professor of English at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, California.
Witch
Glenn Puit
Author : Glenn Puit
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781448117499
Witch by Glenn Puit Pdf
Matvay looked inside and saw something so horrible, so gruesome...it startled even the veteran crime investigator. "There's a body in here," he said. "Another homicide!" From the first whiff of the pungent smell coming from the garbage can, the Las Vegas cops knew what they were dealing with. Someone was dead and the witchcraft books at the scene suggested they had died in a deeply sinister way. Witch is the disturbing true story of how and why a sweet-natured girl called Brookey Lee West become one of America's most notorious female killers.
Honey Girl
Morgan Rogers
Author : Morgan Rogers
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488077500
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers Pdf
Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Oprah Magazine * Marie Claire * Ms. Magazine * E! * Parade Magazine * Buzzfeed * Cosmo * The Rumpus * GoodReads * Autostraddle * Brit & Co * Refinery29 * Betches * BookRiot and others! A LibraryReads Pick “HONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it.” — Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal When becoming an adult means learning to love yourself first. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her parent’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New York, she’s able to ignore all the constant questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.
Leaving Las Vegas
John O'Brien
Author : John O'Brien
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197290
Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien Pdf
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.
What Happens in Vegas
Shana Gray
Author : Shana Gray
Publisher : Entangled: Amara
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640636408
What Happens in Vegas by Shana Gray Pdf
"Full of fun, friendship and romance - a real escapist treat." - NYT bestselling author Jill Shalvis In the first warm, funny and romantic novel in the Girls Weekend Away series, four best friends embark on the ultimate girls' getaway filled with hijinks and a sprinkling of romance. For any fan of Bridesmaids and Sex and the City and readers of Jo Watson, Lauren Layne, Joanna Bolouri and Cate Woods. When the cop... Tough-as-nails detective Bonni Connolly is on a girls' getaway in Vegas with her friends, when Lady Luck shines on her. Seizing the chance to treat them all, Bonni splurges on a little luxury including a VIP booth in an exclusive club. That's when she sees him. Meets the gambler... Professional poker player Quinn Bryant is in town for one of the largest tournaments of the year. Fortune smiles on him when he spots Bonni across the dance floor. But what starts as a holiday fling soon turns into something more, as Bonni learns to see the man behind the poker face. The stakes have never been higher. Even though Bonni's trip has an end date and there is another tournament calling Quinn's name, their strong connection surprises them both. And by the end of the weekend they start to wonder if what happens in Vegas doesn't have to stay there... Each book in the Girls Weekend Away series is STANDALONE: * What Happens in Vegas * Meet Me In San Francisco * The Nashville Bet * A Match Made in Monaco
Lady Luck's Map of Vegas
Barbara O'Neal
Author : Barbara O'Neal
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1662521391
Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara O'Neal Pdf
A road trip yields surprises and secrets in a poignant and exhilarating novel about mothers, daughters, and sisters by the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids. India Redding is juggling a web design career, a long-distance romance, and an exasperating promise she made to her late father: keep an eye on her vivacious mother, Eldora. A former Las Vegas showgirl, the flamboyant sixtysomething bombshell never lacks for curveballs. Her latest idea is that she and India hightail it out of Colorado Springs and hit the road for Sin City in her turquoise '57 Thunderbird. Eldora can revisit the neon strips of her youth, and together they can track down India's twin sister, Gypsy, a haunted vagabond artist prone to disappearing. As mother and daughter sail down Route 66--the Mother Road of souvenir shops, outlying motels, and roadside diners--a flood of memories returns for Eldora. So do the secrets of her past that she could never bring herself to share, until now. But India has her own secrets, too. Maybe she and her mother are getting to know each other, truly, for the first time. Whatever bumps lie ahead, it's going to be a life-changing ride to remember. Revised edition: This edition of Lady Luck's Map of Vegas includes editorial revisions.
Las Vegas
Thomas Ainlay,Judy Dixon Gabaldon
Author : Thomas Ainlay,Judy Dixon Gabaldon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0738524166
Las Vegas by Thomas Ainlay,Judy Dixon Gabaldon Pdf
Whether known as "The Entertainment Capital of the World" or Sin City, Glitter Gulch or even "Lost Wages" Nevada, the dazzling city of Las Vegas has undergone incredible transformation-from ancient watering hole to Mormon fort, from whistle stop to mob-run profit center-to become the fastest-growing urban community in the nation. Home to nearly 1.5 million residents, a melting pot of races and cultures, this great metropolis boasts a thrilling history of vices and virtues but, above all, a steadfast and uncompromising spirit.